
On Sunday the 20th winner of Survivor will be crowned. This season of Heroes vs Villians has been an instant classic with great gameplay, horrible blunders, memorable moments, and big personalities. Our pre-season predictions of a Hero dominated game ended up being horribly wrong, with predicted favorites leaving early and predicted dogs going deep into [...]

Game Play
Jerri has never been the biggest strategic threat on Survivor, and both of us were dismissive of her being included on this season, predicting at best a Jury finish for her. But here we are with the Final 5 going into the Sunday finale and here Jerri is, not only surviving in the game, [...]

Gameplay
Of the five players left in the game, Russell Hantz has probably had the largest impact on the game and the fate of the other participants. Russell’s read on the weakness of Tyson and the planting of his ‘Russell seed’, got Tyson to vote himself off of the island, and set the stage for a sweeping [...]

Tonight Survivor resumes after an off-week for the first week of the NCAA men’s tournament. It’s been an interesting season thus far, with some preconceptions getting stood on their head, and now is as good a time as any to look back at my initial projections for the season and see how those projections stood [...]
Well, another season of Survivor will soon be upon us and it’s a special one to boot. “Heroes vs. Villians” will be the 20th cycle of Survivor and the 3rd to feature all-star players coming back for another crack at the money and the title of “Sole Survivor”. 3 in 20 cycles sound about right [...]
I think that it’s hard to get people to stand up and say ‘Yes I’m a villain, I’ll be on this season’, which leads to some weird casting decisions. Amanda and Cirie are Heroes, but Parvati, Courtney, and Danielle who in different seasons were allied with one or both of them are villains. Sandra, who [...]

