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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its really funny because watching the show first of all you notice a bit of an ease up on physical challenges after the merge.
Some of them are still tough but for the most part they go to the stand here and hold onto something for as long as you can, or run through some simple obstacles and assemble this puzzle or throw a ball through these things.
I wonder how much they had to dial back their challenges after they had people collapsing a few years ago.
Maybe I'm imagining it but there were some really brutal challenges in the first year that were designed to really break people.
I remember they had one where people were diving off of cliffs. There was another where they were stacking people with weighted sandbags until they collapsed ( I remember Micheal the guy who fell into the fire and is now going to prison) absolutely monstering that challenge.
I also remember a bigger emphasis on food arguments, I still remember one tribe running out of food and Jeff taking away all of their luxury items in exchange for rice and beans.
Maybe they eased up on the challenges to put more emphasis on the social games.
But I would love to see a season where they bring back all of the best challenge monsters, like Culpepper and Ozzy and Malcolm, and put them up against an all star team of true game players, and then change the rules slightly to allow in game advantages in challenges so the nerds could compete before the merger.
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Equally you seem to have forgotten the general area trivia, who can fly a kite the longest, who can make the nicest SOS sign, who can arrange these numbered tiles in order, and chop the rope of the person you don't like challenges. Individual immunity needs to be fairly balanced to not favour a certain type of player over another and we don't really see the real stinkers of challenges anymore. They are probably ordered in a way in which the type of player that should be voted out at that point in the game is more favoured to win at certain points as well.
They definitely emphasize the strategy and tribal counsel portions on the US show though. People are still hungry though but this probably also depends on the location. These last two seasons plus Australian Survivor were all in Fiji and food seemed to be everywhere. Aubry mentioned that she was starving more on day 2 in Game Changers then any point during Kaoh Rong.
For people who want to see more of the camp life, this current season of Survivor New Zealand shows way too much at camp and its a real chore to watch sometimes. They also were given a tonne of stuff. You see them applying sunscreen, playing with cards and writing in journals. They also store their clothes in ziplock bags.
Australian Survivor last year was probably the best in terms of showing the entire Survivor experience. Production quality was on par with the US version but the players emphasized honesty and friendship way too much that the gameplay became predictable.