5 Strange Misunderstood Moves in Survivor 

The most misunderstood move is the entirety of Gabon.

So, Dr. Sean was a game changer - his alphabet strategy probably convinced Survivor production to mix up tribes better.

For a second video, you can talk about Erik giving the idol to Andrea in Survivor FvF2. People thought it was weird (since it is Erik after all), but he found it with other people, so he would’ve had a target on his back. Giving it to Andrea lessen any target he could’ve had, and it was useful since the majority alliance blindsided Andrea with the idol.

My #1 misunderstood moment is actually a different one from Palau: Ian's decision to jump off the final immunity challenge in exchange for his honor. A lot of people can't make sense of an aspect of the early seasons where a not-insignificant amount of players were out there for other reasons than the money or even to win. Ian didn't say it directly, but he definitely struck me as a "adventure of a lifetime" type contestant. And while I'm sure these people wanted to win too, I think we could clearly see that Ian was not someone cut out for playing the actual, ruthless game of survivor. He had a litany of inherent skills that made him fantastic at physically thriving on an isolated island. But by the end he seemed close to a complete breakdown from what had gone on mentally in the previous few episodes. He reacted extremely poorly to the pressure cooker that is Survivor and we saw it with terrible moves like taking Tom on the car reward or refusal to lie about potentially writing Tom's name down. I think it's more than fair to say he felt what was best for him as a person was to get the hell out of there, rebuild the friendships he made (that supposedly still stand), and not get crumpled up by the shit storm that would have ensued if he won and had to pick between Tom and Katie. And even though it's a dumb GAME decision, I think most reasonable people should be able to see why it would be someone's optimal PERSONAL decision.

Willard looking like the immunity idol 💀

Awesome video!! For a second one, I think an option could be explaining Kass’s decision to flip on the brains in Cagayan, though I still waffle between the positives and negatives of that decision lol

It's nice to see Caryn get her flowers with the Willard move. She's not a very good player, of course, but that's a very underrated move.

Tai not using the idol on Scott is something you could talk about because there are two reasons Tai did not use it and the second reason is never talked about. 1: Aubrey convinced Tai to flip. 2: If Tai uses the idol, it is a tied vote and he would go out on the revote. He would literally get voted out if he used the idol on Scott.

Marty was an arrogant ass but he really doesn’t get the recognition he deserves for how strategically smart he was

Lol, I thought you were going to say people dogged on Peih-Gee and Jamie for **not** throwing the second challenge lmao. That was the dumb part. How on earth do people think throwing the first challenge was a bad move? It was pretty clearly great.

It still shocks me to my little Northern Irish core that we still haven't seen Marty back for a second time

Hey Peridiam!!! I just wanted to say that I love your channel so much. Great survivor content! 🤗

Can you reiterate that line about how small the online Survivor community is, please? Because, holy crap, does the online Survivor community sure love to talk as if they're the overwhelming majority of the fandom.

zhan hu chose to take james and aaron for the same reason mogo mogo chose to take ethan and jerri when saboga dissolved. mogo mogo finished first in that dissolve challenge and chapera for once only finished second, and so mogo mogo had control of the schoolyard picks. they chose ethan over rupert specifically because that meant they had control over how long ethan stayed around, even knowing chapera would take the obvious choice of rupert. mm then chose jerri for the same reason, so they could control her fate.

I never thought I’d hear Caryn and ‘pretty smart’ in the same sentence.

Nice video! I'm happy I finally watched one where I had seen every season discussed!

“I’m good at sudoku!” 😂

You could say that Williard was Karen's "vegan shield".

Have you done a video about tribes that go into the merge with lower numbers than the other tribe/tribes? I feel like it is actually really good, especially with three tribes. At least it is working with Tika on 44. I would love to see a video about how common that is

I know Dr. Sean does bring up the Tagi members being later in the alphabet, but my major question mark with the theory that he's actual being intelligent about his strategy is just how adamant he is **even in confessionals, when there is no reason to be coy,** that his votes won't matter because there's no alliance. We even see his realization moment about 4 episodes too late that there MAY be one. Does this person really have the wherewithal to orchestrate something to the extent proposed here? Eh, I'm doubtful. I think he really was just super air headed about the game.

Thank you for posting the video. Love your channel.

Caryn is literally Jeremy Collins. Meat shield strategy, all the way in season 10. Wow. Survivor

lol I somehow never realized James says “fuck sudoku! Pay attention”

What would Survivor be without Peridiam? Definitely need a healthy intake of Peridiam in your Survivor diet 😎

“i’M gOoD aT sUdOkU!” 😂😂😂

Thank you for explaining the Michelle vote to me. Finally, I can stop being salty at Dreamz: not for keeping the truck, and the immunity idol at final four, but for voting Michelle out and thus getting himself to final three. That is why I need RU-vidrs like you to explain a certain move to me that the edit doesn’t. 😊😅

Caryn Groedel strategic icon thats RIGHT !!!

16:37 JEFF'S FACE is hilarious!!!!!!!!!

Throwing challenges in today's era where tribal lines don't matter nearly as much does not make nearly as much sense as it did back then.

Love you P Been with you forever Your videos never get old

feel like jaime and lauren voting for heidi could be on here in the future

Jeffs considers any move that targets his favorites stupid

I still can’t believe that Willard was the only person voted off on that tribe in Palau. Caryn really did make the right decision, unless Jonathon would have made it so that the tribe never lost. The Stephanie tribe looked stacked if you’d look at both tribes from a visual perspective, but it was anything but.

I understand why Peih-Gee threw the challenge. The reason I'd call it a dumb move is they made it so obvious it allienated James completely. Regardless of if they planned on losing the next challenge, you should wait until the challenge is thrown successfully to reveal your hand. At the very least, that leaves open options later on post-merge. Instead they basically painted themselves into a dead end street.

In the intro: “Skip S because of reasons!” Sandra would wanna know your location!!

WANDAAAAAAAAA the uncrowned GOAT

Can you please do a video on times there were final 3 female players? I'm curious how many times this has been done and the road to each one. Was this intentional or did it just turn out that way like Natalie, Jackie & Missy?

I Looove when Dreamz gets the recognition he deserves!

L MEN O P LOL

HEy Peridiam!!! Can you do a video on the most Meme-y survivor players? (there was probably a way better of saying that). Another video idea; Have you done a video on fallen angels? I can't remember.

peridiam, can you make a video about jury management

Leave it to Marty to play 4D Chess.

Is it just me or does Jonathon look like Chris from Ghost Island

Another on this topic, please

In "moves that people don't get enough flack for," I nominate the reverse of the move you spoke of in China. Todd knows there's an idol in both camps and where it is. Why did he give James the idol from his camp instead of just telling James where the one was where James was at? No matter what, even if everything worked perfectly, James still would be entering the merge with the lone idol still left.

I played an ORG with Caryn 🤩🤩

I’m sorry, I still don’t buy Sean having an actual strategy. Even in his confessionals he seemed just as clueless. And outside of the alphabet strategy, he came off as unaware of how others perceived him, like with Superpole. I think he was in way over his head, and tried his strategy to avoid making people dislike him, which ironically led to everyone disliking him.

You seemed to imply that Jamie and PG were still trying to throw the Gross Food eating challenge? The show tries to tell us they had a change of heart and that only James was trying to throw it not them. Do you have some inside information or is it just speculation on your part?

Here’s a hypothetical I’ve been thinking on recently: if you could choose one cast member to take from one season and implant into another that you think they’d win, which player would it be and which season? Alternatively this could just be a hypothetical for additions to a season that you think would make the season better, but the winner angle is more fun. Some rules: -if you choose a cast member who has returned in later seasons, you get the original version of that player (only Pearl Island Sandra, no HvV Sandra) -you can sub your cast member in for a pre-merge boot only, no easy sweeps by removing Kim from One World with someone who is also competent (for the cheaters out there no post merge Redemption Island or Edge returnees, just to cover that edge case) -you can choose to put someone in Borneo, but only on Pagong (but really any modern player on Borneo is a whole can of worms in itself where they are so above rate they may just cycle back to being bad for all their ‘strategy’ and get voted out for that) -preferably choose castaways who haven’t won before, the goal is finding someone who stands more of a chance in a different season than they did in their own. Idk I was thinking that early players like Rob C. would have been fun to watch in an immunity idol season, maybe one like Panama. I also think it’d be fun to see how a modern player would try to deal with a super idol; in the seasons it was live the player with the idol just got a free shot to final 5, basically, but I think someone with enough knowhow today could figure out a way to flush it, or even pull off a blindside (they do still need to bring it to tribal, after all). Most older players do suffer from ‘what the hell is going on’-itis that makes most seasons after 35-ish pretty hard to jump into if you aren’t already a fan/returnee, but I think its still worth considering who might do well even in spite of that.

why skip s? is it he who shall not be named?

i think youre giving sean a liittle too much credit. he only mentioned that the pagong tribe members were early in the alphabet atter he started doing it. bro was just as aloof strategically as pagong was and let himself get taken advantage of by the tagi 4 only for them to cut him when it came down to the end. and i dont think dreamz move is that misunderstood since people just seem to be more annoyed at the twist that took michelle out.

You're giving Dreamz WAY too much credit for his moves. The guy torpedoed his own game week after week.

C should have been Chris surely

I really want to know what others think about Gabi move in s37 when she decided that she will blinside Christian

Erik giving up immunity deserves a little more understanding. People view it as Erik being a complete idiot. Erik is assuming the jury was gonna be made of 7 people. He knew he was gonna be sitting likely with Amanda, Cirie or Parvati if he made it to the end. Amanda was gonna get Ozzy's vote. James he likely thinks votes for Amanda or maybe Parvati. The Blackwidow alliance were likely voting for themselves since so many were mad at Erik. From Erik's perspective he was looking at getting Jason and Eliza's votes which wouldnt be enough to win. However, if he gets Natalie to vote for him, he wins the game. Still a dumb move but his logic is very misunderstood. To him he needed to do something to earn at least 1 more vote to win

Y not S! Sandra

The first survivor was the best!!!!!!

I don't understand why they didn't just vote out Kelly B on the first vote?

Keep Angie ditch dufus- what happens then? Stephanie and Angie were good at challenges but had a weak team of weak men.

I thought it was obvious that Karen picking Willard was her optimal move.

I’ve decided I dislike the play of people I just don’t like 😂😂😂😂😂

wow 90 % of these are not full hd

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