There’s all the time some mild hypothesis and predictions based mostly on promo supplies from actually hardcore followers earlier than new seasons of Survivor, however for probably the most half, a majority of viewers don’t actually begin guessing the way it would possibly play out till just a few episodes have aired. That’s not the case with returning seasons, and it’s particularly not the case with milestone returning seasons.
Social media didn’t actually work in the identical manner when Heroes Vs Villains got here out, however there was loads of hypothesis forward of Winners at Battle. Not surprisingly, there’s loads of hypothesis about Survivor 50, and proper now, it’s centered round who’s more than likely to get booted first.
Each participant on the upcoming solid has not less than made the merge earlier than (supplied there’s not any weirdness with Season 49); so, there’s not likely any slam dunk apparent candidates to go first. For those who learn sufficient posts and hearken to sufficient speculative podcasts, nonetheless, there are some selections that appear to be arising much more typically than others. For probably the most half, it’s much less in regards to the particular person gamers themselves and extra about sure teams of gamers which might be prone to wrestle.
The primary of these teams is the previous winners. For a very long time, many followers assumed there wouldn’t be any former winners within the solid. Season 40 was solely devoted to winners, and because it appeared apparent Jeff Probst and firm needed to herald lots of non-winners for 50, most of us assumed they only wouldn’t do any winners in any respect. It seems that’s not the case.
The present bizarrely determined to incorporate two current winners in Kyle and Dee however not any of the OG legends. I already complained about that in my response to the solid, principally as a result of it’s going to make them apparent targets. It the present needed to herald winners, they need to have given us a whole tribe of winners or, at minimal, two winners on each tribe.
Not surprisingly, many individuals are selecting Dee and Kyle because the more than likely boots below this put up on social asking followers for his or her first exit predictions. They’ve additionally been a recurring subject on lots of the Season 50 preview podcasts. The Survivor Specialists talked extensively of their video analyzing every participant’s winner probabilities about Kyle and Dee and put each within the longshots class.
The opposite hottest group speculated for the primary boot has been the Season 49 gamers we don’t know but. It’s not a shock followers can be much less invested in gamers they’ve by no means seen earlier than, however there’s additionally a robust chance the identical factor could possibly be stated for the opposite gamers. There are two very sensible causes for that.
First, Survivor is a small group the place lots of gamers on completely different seasons have met and attended occasions collectively. A lot of them have gone on to grow to be legit mates in actual life. It’s not all the time the connections you’d anticipate both. For instance, Charlie just lately launched his Season 50 co-star Coach at a music occasion as a result of they’re each buddies with fellow Survivor participant Ben Katzman. There are a ton of random connections like that along with the extra apparent ones for gamers who’ve already been on the identical seasons.
Second, Survivor gamers are all the time apprehensive about gamers they’ve by no means seen play earlier than. Everybody on the seashore is aware of Cirie and has a way of how she performs the sport, having watched her so many instances, however nobody is aware of something about Rizz God. When Heroes vs Villains was filmed, for example, nobody had seen Russell Hantz play Survivor earlier than, they usually possible would have handled him otherwise if they’d. I don’t assume fashionable gamers will make that very same mistake.
Who finally ends up going first is all the time the byproduct of a bunch of various elements, and this season that’s going to be very true. Given the massive variety of gamers and the chance that we’re going to get the fashionable variety of days, we’re most likely going to get just one tribe immune after every pre-merge immunity problem. Which means, except there’s a change in format for Survivor 50, a ton of gamers are going to go residence in a short time earlier than the merge. Count on not less than just a few of the folks in these classes to be amongst them, although I anticipate not less than one will shock us and make a deep run.