TotallyGruntledSurvivor

Rank: Returnee #10 Season # 26 Title:  Survivor: San Juan Del Sur:  Blood vs. Water Location: Caramoan, Phillippines  Broadcast: Spring 2013 New Players:  10 Returning Players: 10  Days: 39 Winner:  John Cochran Final Tribal Council:  3 Players 8 Jury Initial Tribes: Bikal (Favorites), Gota (Fans) Swap at 14 Merge: at 12 Enil Edam (Madeline spelled backwards) Jury: at 11  Premise:  Pit a tribe of newbies against a tribe of Favorites? for the 2nd time. You can see my opinions of the favorites  here .  Unlike the first Fv.F in Micronesia, this band of Favorites weren't very exciting.   We also had a band of "Fans" some of whom acted like they never had seen Survivor.   Shamar wanted fire right away over building shelter.  He was successful in getting the fire started, but then started conserving energy coming off as lazy before being medically evacuated because of an eye injury on Day 10.   Reynold c...

Rank: Original #23 Season # 29 Title:  Survivor: Gabon--Earth's Last Eden Location: Wonga-Wonge Presidential Reserve, Estuaire, Gabon Broadcast: Fall, 2008 New Players:  18 Returning Players: 0 Days: 39 Winner:  Bob Crowley Final Tribal Council:  3 Players 7 Jury Initial Tribes: Fang, Kota 1st Swap at 15 2nd Swap at 10 Merge: at 9 Nobag (Gabon spelled backwards) Jury: at 10 Premise:  Tribes were chosen by the Eldest players (Gillian and Bob) without regard to gender and the person chosen chose next.  This resulted in Gillian's tribe being weaker than Bob's  Also included Exile Island giving the player an option of a Hidden Immunity Idol clue or comfort. First reward was to race to the top of the hill for individual immunity at first tribal.  First complete tribe to make it up the hill, gets an extra bag of food.   Marcus, and G.C. won the immunity idols.  Bob's tribe--Kota won the food.  Back at camps, Ken and Michelle had a bu...

Rank: Original #20 Season # 19 Title:  Survivor Samoa Location: Upolu, Samoa Broadcast: Fall, 2009 New Players:  20 Returning Players: 0 Days: 39 Winner:  Natalie White Final Tribal Council:  3 Players 9 Jury Initial Tribes: Foa Foa, Galu Merge: at 12 Aiga Jury: at 12  Premise:  Members of winning tribe are sent to the losing tribe as observers. This is the start of the infamous Hantz infatuation of Survivor Producers, as Russell or Brandon would appear in 4 of the next 5 and 5 of  8 seasons.   From the start, the edit became the Russell Hantz show.  He forms the "Dumb-Ass Girls" Alliance and then empties the canteens and burns Jaison's socks.   He then votes out his "Dumb-Ass Girls" except for Natalie, prior to the merge as he contributed to 5 of 6 immunity losses.  A medical evacuation on both sides brings the merge to an 8-4 Galu advantage.   Betsy the cop early on seems to be on to Russell, and others are war...

Rank: Returnee #11 Season # 27 Title:  Survivor:  Blood vs. Water Location: Palaui Island, Phillipines Broadcast: Fall, 2013 New Players:  10  (Relatives of the Originals) Returning Players: 10 (Rupert, Colton, Candice, Kat, Laura M, Aras, Tina, Gervase, Monica, Tyson) Days: 40 Winner:  Tyson Apostal Final Tribal Council:  3 Players 8 Jury Initial Tribes: Tadhana (New), Galang (Returnees) Swap at 18 2nd Swap at 14 Merge: at 12 Kasama Jury: at 11  Premise:  Players came in pairs of loved ones, one on each tribe.  The day before the game started the pairs spent the night together.  Also included Redemption Island where players would duel to return to the game.  Also two players were voted out immediately after the game started.    Blood vs. Water was very twisted from the start.  After spending a night together in the jungle as pairs they were brought in to the opening mat.  After being told they were playing again...