It wasn’t how the producers have designed it to be, but a great percentage of Survivor winners fall under this mantra. Survival of the weakest.
Competition should be about pitting tough players against each other instead of taking out the so-called threats early on in the game, leaving the “weaker” players to battle it out amongst themselves. This is how most of the seasons in Survivor have been played out, and I tell you, it isn’t exciting to watch strong players go out one at a time, leaving the weaklings rejoice in their victory.
Hopefully, Survivor: Tocantins (click here for the official cast) will be a totally different tale. As what one castaway said during the initial interviews, he promises to take the strong competitors with him and fight it off to the end, sort of your monumental “may the best (wo)man win” scenario. Let’s hope on that.
Jeff Probst, host of the reality TV series, promises Survivor: Toncantins will be a lot different from Gabon. Now that the cast has been officially revealed, it’s time to focus on first impressions. To be quite honest though, this is not the most exciting batch of castaways I have seen from 18 seasons past. But, who knows? Even Probst himself insist that impressions are a huge part of this game, with emphasis on this upcoming season. This is also reverberated by the contestants themselves who have their own individual assessments and impressions on their tribemates while also keeping those judgments to themselves as to the possibility of being deceived by that very impression.
Spencer Duhm, at 19 is the youngest Survivor castaway ever, and he had to give up an entire semester just to have the chance to compete. With all optimism, Spencer hopes to make Survivor history by being the youngest winner ever after Bob Crowley made such feat in Survivor: Gabon, only the opposite – being the oldest Survivor winner ever.
“I believe I am the youngest Survivor to ever be a part of this show. So I’m going to be the answer to a trivia question, pretty soon,” says Spencer Duhm
To keep things interactive, I need to gather information from my readers based on their own assessments as to how this season will spell out.
As early as now, this is all a wait-and-see matter.
