Premiering Thursday, February 8 at 8pm et/pt
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Well we have one week (OK, OK! A week and a day!) until the premier of Survivor: Fiji and the following is the latest collection of “stuff” from the spoiler websites, vidcaps and Jeff Probst interviews regarding the “splitting up of the tribes,” the Hidden Immunity Idols, and the Coup in Fiji.
So as usual, if you don’t want to read these spoilers, close this post now and read no further!
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Let’s get started, shall we?
It appears that Mark Burnett wasn’t satisfied with splitting the tribes up by ethnicity to prove his “diversity”. He had to top himself with this new season. And he did so by splitting the tribes by social status. In other words, a “rich” tribe (the “haves”) verses a “poor” tribe (the “have-nots”).
As I said above, I’ve cobbled together the pertinent facts from a couple of Jeff Probst interviews, vidcaps from previews and a couple of spoilers. Here is the scoop regarding the splitting up of the tribes, the Hidden Immunity Idols and the Coup in Fiji.
The start of the game and the splitting up the tribes:
The game starts with all 19 players paddling to shore in a double-outrigger. Once they arrive at their camp location, Jeff Probst supplies them with instructions on building “the most elaborate shelter Survivor has ever seen.” They are provided with blueprints, a building plan, a map to find lumber and tools. They are given all sorts of luxuries, like a sink, a kitchen, and a couch. All kinds of stuff to build a very elaborate shelter. They are also given flint for fire, and told that once the shelter is built, the game “can continue”.
On day three, after they have finish building this great shelter, Jeff shows up again and tells them they are now going to be split into two tribes. The players will select one member who will split the other 18 into two tribes. Sylvia is picked and she splits the players as follows:
The MOTO tribe (green buffs): Alex, Boo, Cassandra, Dre, Edgardo, Gary, Liliana, Lisi and Stacy.
The RAVU tribe (orange buffs): Anthony, Earl, Erica, James, Jessica, Michelle, Mookie, Rita and Yau-Man.
Jeff then informs Sylvia that she is the first player to be sent to Exile Island, while the two tribes compete in the first Immunity Challenge. Later at Tribal Council, Sylvia will then become a member of the losing tribe. (My guess is she takes the place of the first player booted.)
Jeff then informs them that the tribe that wins the first challenge goes back to the elaborate shelter where they will find additional luxury items. Such as hammocks, umbrellas, bottles, decanters , silverware, plates and china and a bush shower.
The losing tribe however, will be sent to a new beach where all they will be given is a machete, a pot and a water source. They will have a cave they can “kind of get under, but it’s miserable.” He also reminds them, that they will need to boil the water, but they will not have a flint.
Jeff comments: “What was really interesting was how quickly you started to see the attitude change where the winning tribe starts to have this sense of entitlement. It was fascinating to watch the rich tribe get lazy and entitled and the poor tribe get desperate and resentful.”
Regarding the Hidden Immunity Idols (Yes I said Idols!)
Jeff says that there are two Hidden Immunity Idols and they defiantly get used.
“The very first time we introduced it, you had to play it before anybody voted. Then the second time we introduced it, you could play it after the votes had been made and read. So it was an absolute get-out-of-jail-free card.
This season, I think we found the happy medium. You must play the Idol after the votes have been cast but before I read them. Before the votes, I say, "How confident are you? Do you want to take a chance? Or should you play your Idol?" That made a dramatic difference. The Idols get played. Nobody is sitting on their Idol until the end and taking it home as a souvenir.”
And finally, Jeff has this to say, regarding the Coup in Fiji
The coup was a discussion almost the entire time we were out there. We kept hearing, "OK. It's gonna happen next Saturday." And then it wouldn't happen. Then we'd hear, "OK. It's gonna happen next Tuesday." We have quite an investment in Fiji. We had people with the government that were keeping us abreast and keeping an eye out for us. People told us, at least initially, it won't be violent. It wasn't. It ended up happening during our last few days. It impacted us in terms of supplies. We have people that shop over in the mainland for stuff we need for challenges or food for our catering, stuff like that. It was difficult because they kicked all of us out of there and wouldn't let us have our stuff. But when you consider what's happening to the people who live there, the impact on us was negligible.
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