Big changes are indeed coming to the all-new "Survivor" 34 "Game Changers" that might dramatically change the castaways' game strategy. Once again, host Jeff Probst recently teased a new set of rules regarding the Tribal Council votation. The revote stage has been eliminated, making the chance of survival for the castaways even shorter. Will alliances work for the contenders of the "Game Changers" season?
Long-standing rules are being changed by the "Survivor" game masters. After the new guidelines on the Hidden Idol were dropped last week, it is time for host Jeff Probst to explain how the Tribal Council will affect the results of the new season. "Survivor" commenced in 2000 following the same Tribal Council rules including the revote process in the event of a tie vote. Probst has however informed that the mid process of breaking a tie is now officially discarded.
"Survivor" 34 "Game Changers" will automatically lead the contestants into a tiebreaker instead of doing a re-vote. Alliances then might not have much of an ability to save a castaway from being eliminated. The participants will go directly into a discussion which of the contenders should they send home. Fans also know that once the group comes up to a unanimous decision, everyone at the council will be at risk of going home when they draw rocks.
Avid fans might recall that drawing rocks has been done only three times in the whole "Survivor" history. The first rock drawing went down at the Final 4 of "Survivor: Marquesas", the Final 6 of "Survivor: Blood vs. Water" and the Final 10 in "Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X." While it was recently revealed that there will be an abundance of Hidden Idols this season, the elimination of the revote system might not make the immunity item that useful after all.
In the previous seasons of "Survivor," castaways used the revote to flush out the Idols or protect themselves from a minority alliance. The majority alliance has always strategized to split votes between castaways and attack a single person whom they really want out by casting all of their votes against such contender.
"I realized last season that they're getting this free look into the future," Probst explaining the new revote rule to Parade. "They want to know if somebody has an idol, and we have enough people in our alliance that we can actually split the votes for free and change them on the re-vote, he added. "If you want to know if somebody has an idol, you're going to have to be willing to risk the consequence that if you don't, you might find yourself in a tie-breaker and you might go home," Probst explaining how castaways should change their strategy this season.
"Survivor: Game Changers" will premiere next week on Wednesday, March 8 at 8 p.m. on CBS.
