Survivor

I finally got caught up on season 46. After stumbling on a discussion on /r/survivor about generational^1^ participation and play styles I decided to waste a whole bunch of time and pulled together some data^2^. I thought it was interesting and thought I’d share.

Number of contestants by generation by season

First Season a generation appeared in

Last season a generation appeared in (so far)

First season of plurality

Number of seasons participated in

Total participants

Miscellaneous

• Only Gen X has appeared in every season
• Only Season 32 had a representative from all 5 Generations
• Seasons 3, 28, 35, and 40 only had 2 Generations represented
• Season 33 was "Gen X vs Millennials" but had a Boomer and a Zoomer (by USC Standards)

^1^ Generations are arbitrary, inconsistent, and ill defined. I used USCs definitions ^3^ for no particular reason other than I had to pick something

^2^ A contestant is counted for each appearance in a season at the age of their appearance in each season. Contestant’s generation was determined by minus . Age and Filming dates were sourced from Wikipedia

^3^ https://libguides.usc.edu/busdem/age

What a great season! What did you think of the finale? Should Jalinsky have made it to the final three? Did Hunter's Grin break your TV screen? Is Jeff using the cushion?

Warning reader... Spoilers ahead

This sloppy bash script generates the above html players table from this site:

https://ew.com/survivor-46-cast-contestants-revealed-8557071

Maybe this can be expanded to track player eliminations.

Hopefully this code posts correctly...

#!/bin/bash
#
# List Survivor Season 46 Players
#
#

URL=https://ew.com/survivor-46-cast-contestants-revealed-8557071

cat <
DONE


wget $URL -O - \
    | grep -A 5 "mntl-sc-block-heading__text" \
    | sed 's/.*__text"> /<div><div>/g' \
    | sed 's/&lt;\/span.*/<br>/g' \
    | sed 's/&lt;\/img>&lt;\/div>/g' \
    | sed '/^\-\-$/d' \
    | sed '/^$/d' 


echo "</div>"

This is a long shot. Probably no one is here but hopefully people might search and find this one day and join the community. I'll be here in the thread if anyone wants to chat about tonight's episode.

We are enjoying the finale so far! Pretty good season but not as many silly people as season 44. Poor Jake has had a hard time. I was so happy when he succeeded at fire making.

I wanted to wait a little so it wasn't a spoiler for anyone but dang am I glad they brought the auction back. It was always a favorite and the new rules make it better than ever.

The first episode of Survivor UK is airing in a bit, very excited to see what they have in stock.

Based on interviews it's going to be a lot like Australian Survivor 2016, very light but still modern in terms of strategic gameplay and idols and stuff.

SPOILERS last nights tribal.

Like seriously if you want to go home, just go home. Don’t make me think you are going to be part of some big move, then try to win the Oscar at tribal for crying about it.

It wasn't surprising to see Brandon go last night and I think Emily is finally starting to play better but Drew was the standout for me.

I get the feeling this guy can play a strategic, cutthroat game but has better sense than playing that too soon. Coming clean to the tribe was perfect, it built trust with his alliance and everyone is so skeptical after the one-person excursions that even telling the truth can look like a lie. I think he'll go far in the game.

Is Sifu the next Dragon Slayer? He just seems like such a joke though he is entertaining to watch.

That poor dude does not seem to have what it takes to play Survivor. He is always gassed out and crying. The only time he wasn't crying is when he was playing therapist to Hannah. Any chance he can turn it around or is he just dead weight until he's voted off?

New season, I'm pretty stoked. What do you think of the cast?

Sadly it won't air until tomorrow for Paramount+ subscribers. Someone grab the popcorn 🍿