No Sumo at Sea for you!
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There have been a lot of changes onSurvivorover the years.
No big gong to hit upon entering Tribal Council.
Jeff Probst, Joe Hunter, Kyle Fraser, Shauhin Davari, Eva Erickson, Saiounia “Sai” Hughley, Mary Zheng and Kamilla Karthigesu on ‘Survivor 48’.Credit:Robert Voets/CBS
No trunk of cash just sort of awkwardly sitting there.
Thirty-nine days is dunzo.
Would you consider bringing challenges like these back to increase the chances of personal vendettas and moments of heroism?
Candice Woodcock and Parvati Shallow on ‘Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains’.Bill Inoshita/CBS
It’s a really fair question, Probst says on the podcast.
We just took a different approach.
It hasn’t been run since.
Of course, injuries do sometimes happen, the host says.
But for the most part, anybody can run these challenges.
You may fall, you may get scraped up, but you’re not going to break a bone.
That was one of the ones that made this shift happen, Probst reveals.
There was something we noticed, he continues.
In the end, the host is looking for the spirit of hard-fought competition without anything approaching actual fighting.
Jeff Probst and Rachel LaMont on ‘Survivor 47’.CBS
That’s just not the show we’re looking for.
Attack Zone fromSurvivor: Thailand.)
Jeff Probst on ‘Survivor 48’.Robert Voets/CBS
