Survivor Challenges
For the past 9 Survivor series the challenges have, for the most part, been a recast of old challenges. This is particularly true this year, series 10, when most of the challenges have been as inventive as me cooking dinner. But last week they actually had two challenges that were unique and really good. The first challenge gave each team some building material and tools and they were told to build a bathroom with a shower and toilet. The winner had the ?Survivor? construction crew build them a kick-ass shelter. It was like watching Gilligan?s Island because both bathrooms were actually pretty good. And the reward was never done before. The second challenge was a Star Trek-esk battle on a platform that pitted one person from one team against one person from the other team. They each had a hard pillow with two handles and had to knock the other person off the platform without taking their hands off the pillow handles. It was kind of cool because it got pretty physical. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if the platform was perched 50 feet above an outcropping of rocks instead of 2 feet above chest-high water. But a boy can dream.