Russell's The Real Player on Survivor Samoa

I love survivor series especially this latest season, Survivor Samoa. Of course my favourite cast is Russell Hantz from Texas. Seriously folks, I think he is the only one who really knows how to play the game, period!...yeah, although being still rather evil and sneaky. You can’t believe that someone actually has the brain power to find an idol without any clues??? He was 100% right when he logically stated that it has to be hidden next to, beside, with, inside, on top of something. Can you imagine that? I believed that Russell was just that good.

But since he has found the immunity idol for the 3rd time, I was thinking maybe Russell was tipped off by someone on the crew because the idol has often been buried in the sand and the only way to find it was to dig all day or actually follow the clue, not as easy as the way Russell has used. Perhaps, the idea that it ‘has to be hidden by something’ is absurd. Somehow I just read what Jeff Probst (Survivor Host) said on his blog :

Of course the idol has to be somewhere that is somewhat easy to find, because we want it to found. If we hid it in the middle of nowhere people wouldn’t find it even with 20 clues. We just have never had anybody take the initiative to start looking without the clue. It’s really quite brilliant. Like it or not, the pirate with the missing tooth continues to reinvent the game.
by Jeff Probst

Yeah, it does make sense. They don’t want it to be too hard because they want the idol to be in play, that’s when it’s actually interesting and mixes the game up. Last two episodes have been two of the best ever….total blindside two weeks in a row, gotta give Russel credit this week, and Natalie last week. Glad Russell is still there, or else it would be dead boring and predictable lol.