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CSCin3D wrote:

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Can we make this thread about what the original formats for each season were? Cause thinking about it, it's really starting to bother me.
Tainted seasons:
Fiji
Micronesia
Samoa

This interests me. So, all the seasons with quitters/medevacs...

Australia
Mike left in Ep6, so they just considered that the completion of the cycle. Only difference is there was one IC that we never got to see. Anyone know what it was?

Pearl Islands
Osten quit, but it was at TC so no changes, no harm, no foul.

All-Stars
Jenna left on Day9, and the planned IC was re-used in the next round, so that means there's most likely another IC we never got to see. Still on schedule though. Then, Sue left on Day17 before what would have been a reward challenge, and there probably would've been an elimination on Day18 had she not quit. Then Colby and Ethan were voted out on Day19 and Day21, respectively. Chances are, if Sue didn't leave early, the Reward/IC on Day19 would've just been a reward followed by TC for both tribes. Three boots in six days meant they only needed to do one more double boot, which happened when Alicia/Kathy were both booted in a period of three days. My only question: why the fuck did they plan it for Kathy's boot episode to only have one challenge and happen in one day? It was such a slow episode, but idk what else they might've had planned. The OTHER possibility though is that the IC when Colby was voted out would have been the IC had Sue not quit. All of a sudden, those three two-day rounds would have instead been two three-day rounds leaving us with an extra person. What would they have done with that?

Palau
Janu left at TC, no harm, no foul. Now, let's say that the did actually plan to merge at ten instead of nine. That means they had two tribal challenges which would have otherwise been individual. The last two were a get-puzzle-from-the-water thing and eating balut.

Exile Island
Bruce left on Day26, so there was an IC we've never seen. And, the next cycle when Courtney was booted lasted four days to compensate. Only bizarre thing about EI is that Misty's boot episode was two days and Dan's was one day (same six episode schedule as CI, interestingly enough), to give them an extra day for an RC at the final three? Waste. If Bruce wasn't medevac-ed, would there still have been an RC at final three during that extra day, or was it just leftovers from Bruce leaving before the IC.

Fiji
This one's tougher to understand. Sylvia's boot in Ep3 was only two days. Gary left in Ep4 which lasted three days. Ep6 and Ep8 (right after the switch and right before the merge) were each two days long. So, chances are (?) if Gary didn't leave, instead of them doing three two-day cycles as they did, one of the cycles would revert to a three-day cycle, and the other would be a one-day cycle with a double boot.

Micronesia
Obviously, James leaving caused them to go from a F3 to a F2. When Penner and Kathy both left in the middle of three day cycles, that means two planned double boots could revert to single boots. Ep3 was only a two day cycle, and Ami's boot in Ep8 right before the merge was a one day cycle. So, Ep8 being a double boot would have been compensated for by Penner leaving, but Kathy leaving means there would have needed to be another double boot. Bottle twist, perhaps?

Tocanshit
Joe left on Day20, after the immunity challenge, rendering Tyson's immunity useless. The next episode was then a four day cycle, much like they did in EI.

Samoa
Russell leaving fucked up the double boot. They compensated for this by making the recent double boot episode and probably just switching an RC to an IC. However, they still needed two un-planned tribal challenges out of thin air for the episode where Liz would have been booted. Presumably from the other post-merge round that would have existed but was replaced with half of the recent double boot. The two challenges in the Liz boot round were a memory game and the fish puzzle. So, the fish puzzle could have been a team reward challenge, and memory immunity? Or they both could've been reward, and the two IC's we saw in the double boot recently were both planned as IC's.