If you were on Survivor...

[bobistheowl]

If you were on Survivor, how would you play? Which players would you be most like, and least like? With which players would you most want to ally yourself, and whom would you want out of the game, as quickly as possible? who would you most want to blind side at tribal council? Which player would you most want to have sex with, during the game? Where would you most and least want to play? What would you do, if you found a hidden immunity idol?

Most like: Robert "Bob" Crowley:

He's the physics teacher from Maine, that made a fake immunity idol, from things he salvaged around camp, and at challenges.Bob won Survivor: Gabon in fall, 2008.He was the teacher of Julie Berry:



who was in Survivor: Vanuatu in fall, 2004, and dated host Jeff Probst for a while.

Least Like: Colton Cumbie, from One World and Blood vs. Water



He's that pissy gay guy that pretended to have appendicitis, and thought he was king of the world, because someone gave him a hidden immunity idol.

Colton's "fiancé" Caleb Bankston,



died last June, when he was crushed between two train cars. He was a decent guy, I have no idea what he saw in Colton, who appears to me to have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Ally with: Parvati Shallow

I'd have a secret alliance with Parvati, from day 1, but would not be part of any formal alliance. I'd pick out immediately that Parvati had the physical and social skills to last deep into the game. I would offer her my vote at the final tribal council, if she is a finalist, and if I made it to the Jury. I would give her my assurance that I would not attempt to vote her out of the game,in any vote. I'd ask for nothing in return. I'd expect Parvati to understand the advantage of not sharing the existence of that secret alliance with anyone.

I'd make myself useful to the tribe, like Rupert, in that I would spend a lot of time doing heavy lifting, and gathering food, and I would entertain the tribe with funny stories. I'd keep a low profile, early on, and try to not give multiple people a reason to want to vote me out early. If there was discussion like that, I'd count on Parvati to direct the bullseye to someone else's forehead.

At challenges, I'd be the puzzle solver, and the guy who would eat anything, and a strong competitor in events that relied on stamina, rather than speed. I'd volunteer to sit out events that required fast running speed. I would be the guy who directed blindfolded teammates. I wouldn't be seen as a phyical threat to the younger strong men, but they would see me as a steady and reliable team mate.

Rather than ally with any group faction, I'd remain as an independent, and hope that there was always someone else that the majority would rather see out of the game.

At tribal councils, I would say whom I was going to vote for, and why, and most of the time, my vote wouldn't count towards the majority decision.

I'd be loosely affiliated with players like Yau-Man Chan, James, the grave digger, that ate bats, Rudy Boesch, the old Navy Seal,

Roberta R.C. St Amour:

Terry Deitz, the Navy pilot that won 5 of seven individual challenges in Survivor: Panama, and similar players who would look to vote out "the weakest link", rather than the person who is the biggest threat to them. I wouldn't want to win by being "the least of the worst remaining".

If I was in the final three, and had immunity, I'd vote for myself, knowing that the vote wouldn't count, and would create a tie. If that strategy was questioned, I would say that it was a secret ballot, and no rule prevents a player from voting for themself. They'd change the rule, AFTER I played, not during the game. The other two in the final three would have to have a race to create fire, and I would get the vote from the person who lost, because I had given them a fighting chance to be part of the final two, rather than side with one, or the other.

Most want to vote out early: Jonny Fairplay

Most like to blindside: Russell Hantz

Most want to have in-game sex with: Julie Berry

Would most like to play in: Australian Outback. I could handle hot and try weathermuch better than most, but constant rain and high humidity would be hard for me to endure.

If I found a hidden immunity idol: I wouldn't tell anyone, and I'd bury it under the seats, at tribal council. When leaving tribal council after a vote, I'd pretend to have forgotten something, go back, bury the idol, and catch up to the group. No one would know I had it, until I dug it up, but I would not necessarily use it for myself. I wouldn't want to use it, until there were six players or fewer, unless I had reason to believe that I was on the chopping block, in which case, I would hope most of the other people would vote for me, and I would use my vote to blindside their leader.

 

[papasmerf]

I would take out the production crew first.

Then contestants would begin to disappear.

 

[bobistheowl]

Once again, papasmerf lays claim to someone else' thread, like an ad before a YouTube video.

I'm not going to read what he wrote, but from past experience, it's likely nothing that needed to be said, it's probably brief, and it probably has an emoticon. He probably thought what he was saying was funny, but no one else will. I'm probably right about all of that.

 

[papasmerf]

Once again, papasmerf lays claim to someone else' thread, like an ad before a YouTube video.

I'm not going to read what he wrote, but from past experience, it's likely nothing that needed to be said, it's probably brief, and it probably has an emoticon. He probably thought what he was saying was funny, but no one else will. I'm probably right about all of that.

Actually Bob I just posted what I would do on survivor.

I thought maybe you wanted people to post what their strategies would be.

 

[Lorenzo]

I would say to close the contest.

 

[McGuinty]

Don't watch the show but she is a 10.

 

[oldguyzer]

Once again, papasmerf lays claim to someone else' thread, like an ad before a YouTube video.

I'm not going to read what he wrote, but from past experience, it's likely nothing that needed to be said, it's probably brief, and it probably has an emoticon. He probably thought what he was saying was funny, but no one else will. I'm probably right about all of that.

Why don't you stop being a dickhead, Bob?

 

[Reverse]

This would be me, especially in attitude. Body is similar but I would have a much better cleavage.

 

[JessieJames]

I'm more like Jeff the host than a cast member.

 

[User-E]

I've never watched the show.


Never.




Not a single episode.



Ever.

 

[papasmerf]

I've never watched the show.


Never.




Not a single episode.



Ever.

to be honest I watched the first season.
Found it to be to staged for my liking.
Well that and no unexplained disappearances disappointed me.

 

[Analme]

Julie Berry is absolutely stunning. If there are any SP's that resemble this young lady please do tell.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=Juli...h=454#tbm=isch&q=julie+berry+survivor+vanuatu

 

[RED]

I've never watched the show.


Never.




Not a single episode.



Ever.

Neither have I.

 

[Madman]

Great thread B i T o....and this one is easy. I'm a cross between Russel and Rupert but BETTER LOOKING!!!

 

[bobistheowl]

This would be me, especially in attitude. Body is similar but I would have a much better cleavage.

Reverse, if I was on Survivor with you, but Parvati was not a contestant, I would likely seek a secret alliance with you, for the same reasons stated in post #1, and with the same terms. That's Parvati in the picture you posted.

I would probably also look for sea sponges, if we were on an island, so my ass would smell better than the asses of the other male players in the game. That could not possibly be detrimental to me at camp, or at tribal council, because the guys wouldn't notice something like that, but the women would. If you want to vote out a guy, and you don't care which guy it is, the guy with the smelliest ass is a good enough reason.

Parvati has the body type to do well in the individual challenges late in the game, that often involve a combination of strength and endurance. She's not as physically strong as the stronger men who started the game, but most of them would have been eliminated in earlier rounds. She is, however, much lighter, which makes a huge difference, in a 'handicapped' game, where contestants may have to hold onto something, equivalent to their body weight, or similar. She was a kick boxer, so she doesn't have excess weight, and requires fewer calories of food, to maintain her lean muscle mass than a man with bulkier muscles would need. A large muscular arm is also heavier, and harder to hold in the air longer than anyone else.

I agree with your additional comment; I, too, prefer your cleavage to Parvati's, but Parvati does have an atrractive A cup, that will probably pass the pencil test, for the rest of her life. If a woman has an A Cup, and cannot pass the pencil test, her breasts could not possibly look good, even in dim light. Not to me, anyway.

If I was a guy in the game, I'd want the hotter women to stay in the game as long as possible, even if they won, instead of me. I wouldn't enjoy the game as much, if the remaining female players were unattractive, covered in insect bites, and hadn't bathed in weeks.

There are some exceptions; there was a crazy blonde girl from Brazil named Abi in Survivor: Phillipines that was relatively hot, but completely Looney Tunes. I wouldn't want to play with her very long, not when I'd need to sleep, from time to time, and there was a machete around camp.

She had Loreena Bobbitt written all over her face, and made decisions based on hearsay and gossip, so I'd rather play with an unattractive woman with a functional brain, than someone like that. I wouldn't want to play with the crazy women, who dump bags of rice into the fire, because it seemed like the right thing to do, at the time. The player who would be most dangerous to me in the game wouldn't be the person strongest at challenges, it would be the player whose behavior was impossible to predict, because they don't know themselves what they're going to do next.

A guy I'd want out of the game early would be Tony, the cop who won a couple of series' ago:

He's a guy who speaks in a louder voice whenever someone else is saying something he doesn't want to hear, or something he doesn't want someone else to hear, but he's not as smart as he thinks he is. I'd have tried to blind side him, early on, when he had an immunity idol, but didn't think he'd need to use it. It would be difficult to arrange something like that, because he liked to eavesdrop on other people's conversations, so someone would need to occupy him, while someone else arranged his demise. That's where a secret alliance with one person would come in handy; I'd go fishing, or collect cocoanuts with Tony, while my secret alliance partner arranged the voting block against him. My secret ally would be smart enough to only tell people who wouldn't tell Tony.

If I had a hidden immunity idol, however, I'd want my secret ally to try to convince everyone to vote for me, and I'd play my idol in that round, and my vote against Tony would be the only vote that would count, and no one would suspect that my secret ally had orchestrated that, on my behalf.

I might even use an idol found by Tony, but stolen from him. He's the type of guy who would return to the place he hid his idol, to make sure it's still there, but he'd just check to see if the bag was there, he wouldn't take the extra time to open the bag. I'd steal his idol, but leave the bag, with something else in it, of the same size, shape, and weight. That would fool a cop.

 

[User-E]

I'm finding that a lot of the people who are into shows like Survivor and Big Brother are control freaks online, and probably wish they could vote people off the island or out of the house in real life, but live vicariously through these shows instead.

 

[bobistheowl]

I'm more like Jeff the host than a cast member.

Jessie James, a few weeks ago, I was interested in creating a Survivior game on this board. I attempted to interest someone here in assisting me with the organization through a private message, but that person refused to read the message.

As intended, the game would have involved members of HUBGFE applying to play in the game, and if more people wanted to play than were needed, the players chosen would be randomly selected, so there would be no advantage given to those who applied first, unless only as many people wanted to play, as were needed. I had planned to be 'one of the Jeffs', along with additional people helping me organize. We would create the challenges, and a few scenarios, like sending a player a private message that says: "You have found a hidden immunity idol. Tell at least one person in your tribe. Your idol becomes active when someone in your tribe tells me they know you have it".

The organizers would have had no vested interest in the outcome, and neither would the other members who were not in the game. They would just be interested in seeing how things played out.

The initial tribes would have been randomly chosen, so that board friends and foes could end up on the same team initially, or later. One thread would have been exclusively for players still in the game, but every other thread in the board would matter, for strategy, and personal opinions, and players could communicate by private message to form alliances, or to deceive opponents.

I decided to not pursue this idea, because I didn't have faith that the people who were not in the game, or those who had been voted out, would be able to stay out of the game thread. I may try that on another board instead, but not here. There are too many people here who would want something like that to fail, for me to be willing to make the time commitment to try to make something like that work here. Someone else might have more luck with this idea than I would, if they start the thread, instead of me.

 

[bobistheowl]

I like Survivor because it's a chronicle of the evolution of political correctness.

In the first season, no one knew how to play, except Richard Hatch. Initially, it was 'survival of the fittest', the players voted out were the people who were least likely to help win challenges, or they were being punished for causing the tribe to lose a challenge, or they were the person that everyone liked the least. Richard invented the voting alliance. Richard allied with people who would be loyal to him, and people who could not win challenges, but say the advantage of self preservation, in acting as a group, against selected individuals. He didn't ally with people he liked, he allied with people he could beat, when there were only two contenders left.

In the second survivor, the two initial tribes didn't form new alliances after the merge, and a freak accident in which Michael burned his hands in the fire pit swayed the game in favour of one group, who picked off the rival group, one at a time, but they couldn't take out Colby, because they couldn't beat him in individual challenges, so eventually they had to begin eating their own. Colby had no chance to win, however, because most of the jury were Tina's former tribe mates.

In a few of the early seasons, the winner was the person the other players liked the most. As the game progressed from series to series, the strongest players tended to be the first ones voted out, because they were the biggest threat to the weaker players, who had greater numbers. The player who usually wins in current series is the one who does the best job of subjugating people who will be obedient, or the one who is best at herding sheep. The people with the least chance to win on even terms get rid of the ones who have superior skills, as quickly as possible, so that the voting at the end is often for the person the jury members dislike the least, or for the person who was upfront in their ruthlessness, as opposed to the person surfing in their wake.

I prefer to observe this kind of behavior, rather than participate in it. I much preferred The Mole, for reality show elimination competitions. In The Mole, players were eliminated if they had the lowest score in the test at the end of each round, concerning their knowledge of which one of their 'team mates' was the saboteur, trying to prevent the prize pool from growing. People didn't vote for the winner, the winner just outscored at least one other player in every round, including the round when only two players were left.

The first two seasons of the USA version of The Mole were great. The two seasons of Celebrity Mole were horrible, and the last season gave away the identity of the mole very easily, in a clue published before the series started, so it was a letdown. Anderson Cooper from CNN hosted the first two seasons, as the "Jeff Probst". He was great as host. He's the son of Gloria Vanderbilt,

The Vanderbilt's were one of the weathiest 'old money' families in the USA, until the mid 20th century, They were rich when New York still belonged to the Dutch, and their dynasty lasted for about 300 years, before turning south, economically. They were one of the 'blue blood' families who did not become wealthy through slave labour, and, in hindsight, they were perhaps overly generous in their philanthropy, and insufficiently diversified in their business holdings. They were rich socialites, who didn't control necessities, like food and energy, that people need, even if they can't afford anything else, and they didn't get involved in banking. They had too many of their eggs in the wrong baskets, and eventually their fortunes and influence declined, because they had been insufficiently selfish, to weather changing market demands.

 

[papasmerf]

People would be disappearing sometimes two or three a day

 

[Raiden]

I'd be Boston Rob but with a little friend and Dickhead who would definitely get into a lot of trouble on an island with women wearing next to nothing.