Survivor: San Juan Del Sur

Amidst the general excitement of Wednesday's finale and reunion show, Jeff announced that season 29 of Survivor will return to Nicaragua, and will feature all new players on a Blood vs. Water season.

All this we already knew, thanks to the great spoilers out there, and I posted about it last week. The new information that Jeff gave us was the season's logo and name: San Juan Del Sur (which is a municipality and town in Nicaragua).

I actually really like this name, even though some people are complaining that it's too long. Well, just call it San Juan. It's better than Survivor: Mesoamerica or Survivor: Central America.

I like the logo as well, although the people on Survivor Sucks generally do not. It is very similar in color and design to the Guatemala logo, but still very nice...hopefully we get some interesting buff colors this year as well.

We don't know about the cast at all yet, which is only to be expected considering they're all new players. Stay tuned over the summer, because we'll likely start spoiling the cast when they return to social media (in July or late June, maybe?).

The other tidbits of information we have about San Juan Del Sur (ok, that is a mouthful) is from Dalton Ross's interview with Jeff Probst on the season:

“We have another twist that’s going to happen regarding duels at Redemption Island, a little different from last year, so I’m curious to see how that plays out and if we can get some story from that.”

Yes, Redemption Island is back, as we expected...I'm hoping that the twist is that Redemption Island leaves once the merge occurs, because it was fine before then. Or it may just be a return to two-person duels.

“The one thing I kept asking our scouting crew for was updates on how the water situation was looking, and between our art department and our challenge department, they’ve got it under control. We’re going to have a lot more water challenges and be in the water more —and really that’s the only concern we had about Nicaragua, is that it was a little dry last time.” 

This is a good sign, because the lack of suitable beaches led to a dearth of water challenges and an unsatisfying pool was the solution. Hopefully this time they've found a better beach.

Jeff also revealed (intentionally or unintentionally) that the loved ones will be separated once again, like season 27:

We just have to do a very good job in how we tell those stories, when you cut from one person on one beach, then cut to their significant other on the other beach. 

That's really all we have for now; check back soon for more updates, as well as for our summer coverage of Amazing Race Canada, Big Brother U.S., and more! Ethan and I want to watch some of the old Survivor seasons this summer, and you can help us decide which; there's a poll on the sidebar.

The Cagayan finale podcast should be up sometime tomorrow (Saturday), so stay tuned.