Survivor 50 FOUR WORD GAME

 We have a new season of Survivor, the most anticipated since Winners at War, and with that, I have to do a new Four Word Game.  If you're new, it's where I (in the past) would talk about a player's game in four words, such as "Needs to find idol".  I would elaborate on it, however, in case the four words were not clear enough.  

For 50, I decided to only do Four Word Games for each tribe rather than each player.  It would be a lot to do it for each player each week.  I will do two word games for each tribe, and I'll try to mention each player at least once.  I will also continue to do four word games for each player who leaves the game.  And, I will go back to going over each player once we get to the merge episode, even if we merge at 15 players or so. 

And, after this, I will indeed rank all remaining players, even when there are 20+ left in the game.  So, without further ado...

AFTER EPISODE ONE FOUR WORD GAME

Cila: Nerd alliance is amazing / Lines not fully clear
The Cila tribe, the one we saw go to Tribal Council, had some interesting groupings.  First off, was what I'm calling the "nerd alliance" of Christian, Devens, and Emily.  It was too perfect.  Plus, seeing Christian and Devens fawn over each other was TV gold.  I live for that bromance.  But other than that, the alliance lines on this tribe are not fully clear, since the Jenna vote off was unanimous.  It seemed like potentially Joe and Savannah were with her, but it appears they decided not to go down sinking with her.  So to me, we have the nerd alliance, Joe and Savanah, and Ozzy and Cirie.  Which group will be targeted next?  Also, I wanted to throw out there, there were two subtle hints to Ozzy possibly hurting his back during the supplies challenge, so that's something to keep an eye on.

Kalo: Cohesion not clear yet / Girls group in trouble
We didn't see too much cohesion in this tribe, with the most notable grouping being the girls alliance, which also happens to be the three minorities on the tribe in Kamilla, Dee, and Tiff.  If they're too tight, they could be in huge trouble.  We saw Coach bond with Jonathan and Chrissy, Mike bond with the girls, so it'll be interesting to see how the groups shake out once they go to tribal, because with how many boots we need to get through, they are definitely going to tribal council.  If the girls can bring in Mike and maybe Charlie, they can run this tribe.

Vatu: Rotten luck for most / Great together, not individually
Vatu is the most interesting tribe to me.  Somehow, the five-person alliance of Colby, Steph, Kyle, Q, and Genevieve went from having five votes to two votes in the span of one episode--without EVER having gone to tribal council.  Crazy!  That's just rotten luck.  Colby and Q lost votes, and Kyle got medevaced.  Colby will have to bring in Rizo, but their first tribal should be interesting.  They seem to be doing very well at the tribe challenges, but individually, they are terrible, with Q and Colby each losing their respective "journeys".  

And to our departed players...

Jenna: Too hard too fast
Jenna played too hard too fast, throwing out Cirie's name before they had even competed in an immunity challenge.  She should've slow played her game, built bonds with other people than Cirie, and Cirie is a possible first boot.  It's a shame the Borneo representative is gone first, but someone had to be.

Kyle: Was positioned so well
It's a shame for Kyle.  A lot of fans pegged the winners as early boots, but Kyle was positioned so well on his tribe and did tremendously at the start.  I didn't see too much of a sentiment to get winners out, so Kyle was possibly going to be golden.  It's a shame what happened to his Achilles.  Let's hope he gets a third shot a few years from now.  

And now my rankings!  So, I didn't officially rank all 24 players before the season started, so I won't have any "movement" from them.  But I will say some players have already made jumps for me while others have fallen.

22. Q
21. Rizo
20. Savannah
19. Angelina
18. Chrissy
17. Mike
16. Jonathan
15. Ozzy
14. Coach
13. Stephenie
12. Dee
11. Cirie
10. Charlie
9. Colby
8. Kamilla
7. Tiffany
6. Aubry
5. Joe
4. Devens
3. Emily
2. Christian
1. Genevieve

"What about Genevieve?!"  I started with Aubry was my #1, but Genevieve is now my new #1.  It worries me she already lost a close ally in Kyle, but I bet she will recover.  The nerd alliance makes up the rest of my Top 4.  Aubry falls to 6 for me.  I think she had a pretty bad premiere episode.  Ozzy and Coach aren't too high--I worry about them both physically.  There's Ozzy's back, and there was a snippet in the preview for Episode 2 showing Coach struggling.