These days, most of the contestants are recruited. Cook Islands (season 13) had 17 out of 20 contestants recruited, and Fiji (season 14) had 18 out of 19 recruited. It really lowers the quality of the show when you have all these players who not only don’t know the game, but also often play to get as much screen time as possible, as opposed to playing to win.
/rant over
I’m surprised that Bob was recruited, though. He doesn’t seem that type.
I knew there was a lot of recruiting going on - I just hadn’t realized it was that many people for each season. Cook Islands doesn’t surprise me - wasn’t that the one with the tribes based on race?
I find it hard to believe that with all of the thousands of entries they get each year, they have to go out recruiting. I’d rather have real people than wannabe actors. They have the same problem on Amazing Race. Too many recuited Mactors (model/actor)
No! The rant is not over. I wish they would go back to real people. Why recruit when there are thousands who want to play? And if the HAVE to recruit, why not find better people?
Geez........