Holy gullible survivor thread.

Based on posts he made here a couple years ago and Albert's cast interview, if they're not the same person they certainly have a lot in common.

so albert, did you win?

he has a post from about 2 years ago saying he was a dating coach just like the cast bio says

cook islands was my favorite season of survivor ever. i love ozzy personally and i will be rooting for him

2 year level imo

From here: http://www.realitytvcalendar.com/sho...os/albert.html

story checking out I think.

Pretty awesome to have one of the players itt along for the ride.

Just noticed on facebook that it is the Survivor Thread General's birthday...

Happy Birthday Kos!

Thank you, sir! All I want for my birthday is a Coach win. New avatar coming as soon as I pick out a worthy gif.

Hi Albert, welcome to our thread.

To get things started it would be great if you could answer some questions.

Since I don't want you to get any trouble I keep the questions general and I'm not asking about details and specifics about the upcoming season.
Maybe when the season is over you can give us a couple more details and insider information about what actually happened and what's not shown on TV.

How did you prepare for the show?
Did you train you fire building skills?
Did you sharpen your puzzle making skills?
Did you maybe even try some of the most common challenges or thought about the best strategies for them?
Did you do some survival-related research?
Did you prepare a guideline for yourself for a possible final tribal council speech?
Did you re-watch any seasons specifically to prepare for this show?
Did you watch every season or only specific ones?
What was your favorite season? (I thought about asking you, who your favorite survivor is but I think it might spoil something about the way you approach the game and I wanna be surprised.)

How specific are the rules about this game? What I mean by that, do you get something like a rule book which specifically states what's allowed and what's prohibited, i.e. are you allowed to go through other players personal property, are you allowed to even steal or destroy other players property, what are the exact rules about the immunity idols, what's happening to it in case of a merge when you don't get to go back to the old camp to retrieve it?

have a great night

A+ post slanche

I really don't see how CI can be anyone's favorite season. There is little to no post-merge strategy discussion as the game was decided after Nate was booted at F9. On top of that there are so few funny or interesting people on the season.

wat

Yul
Ozzy
Parvati
Cao Boi
Penner
****ing Billy Garcia

Candace, Ozzy, Parv, Penner were invited back for all-star seasons.

I'll give you that Yul's idol made the season a bit stale strategy-wise but this was my first season of Survivor and I thought it was really fun to watch.

I think the hate for CI comes from the fact that many people didn't really like Yul and his minions. Combined with the too powerful II it has some major flaws.
But if you only look at the cast, I think it was one of the better ones they had over the years.

I'll give you Billy and Cao Boi.

Parvati was a complete nothing on CI and people who say that she made CI better are only revising history based on FvF and HvV.

Yul was completely boring on CI. He is a fantastic game player, but the overpowered HII made it too tough to tell if he's that good or not, and he didn't really add any entertainment value.

Candace is also pretty damn boring. What did she do other than go to Exile Island a bunch, cry a lot, and make out with Adam?

I agree that Candace was boring. But I still thought Yul was amusing simply for his dominance/solid play. He had quite a few good observations/lines in there too.

Yul was dominant at getting 2nd in challenges and being handed a way too powerful idol.

[/QUOTE] Slanche,

I am not at liberty to answer all of your questions but I will do my best with the ones that I can....

Strategically
Well I went back and watched a few select seasons. I tried to watch ones from which I thought I could gleam the most strategic insight possible. I started with S18 Tocantins. That season the Jalapao tribe went into the merge down in numbers but still managed to have two members reach the F2. I went on to study S19-22 (Samoa, HvV, Nicaragua and RI) chronologically. As well as China, Thailand and Gabon.

Physically
I was in the gym 5x a week and tried to combine a bit of weight gaining with strength buliding and endurance training.


Yes I did actually. I practiced a couple of the challenges that I had the resources to recreate. Funny thing is that one of the challenges that I literally practiced at home, ended up being on my season.


I did. I found a couple websites that offer memory games and different puzzle games. I even had my roommate (who knew I was involved in the process because he was my Amazing Race partner) setup word puzzle challenges in the apartment. We did one where I searched blindfolded for small pieces of paper scattered through the apartment. Each one had a letter on it. I had to listen to him call out where they were and retrieve them blindfolded. Then once I had them all, I took off the blindfold and solved a word puzzle.


Yes. I got a copy of the US Army Survival Manual.


I did.



I really liked Tocantins. Maybe because it was the first one I watched when I got back into "Survivor' mode, maybe bc there were great characters. Also the fact that Jalapao had the better strategists IMO and were able to "suck out" on Timbura was pretty interesting to watch.

I was an applicant. I originally applied for "The Amazing Race" with one of my roommates who also lived in our Vegas poker house last summer. I was then filtered into the application process for Survivor as they are both CBS vehicles.

I was a huge fan of the early seasons but then wasnt able to watch a lot of the recent ones bc of my work schedule. Once I found out I might be on I delved back into the show hardcore and watched 7 seasons in about a month.

Albert, you just became my #1 on the Power Rankings... don't let me down...

In all seriousness, it's very cool to have you here. I am sure there will be tons of questions for you. I appreciate any question you answer and will be rooting for you this season.

So you're saying you made the merge?

I noticed you said you coached baseball. Was it disheartening to find out that you weren't the alpha COACH of the tribe, once you realized COACH BEN WADE was there?

Was the DRAGON SLAYER as intimidating in real life as he seems on TV?