survivor first and foremost is a television show and of course the whole point of all tv shows is
to make money this puts a ton of pressure on the producers to make the product as good as possible
also production spends so much time with the survivor players and watch their games 24 7
so it's only natural that they start to develop favoritism towards certain players so when you
combine making a great season storyline along with helping or hurting certain players sometimes
survivor can't help itself in attempts to rig certain parts of the game what's going on guys i'm
flip masters and today we'll be looking at some of the most famous instances and claims of rigging in
survivor now none of these moments are for sure confirmed but there is a ton of speculation and
a lot of these moments do make you question the integrity of survivor before we begin don't rig my
channel and hit that like and subscribe button if you enjoyed these videos with all that said let's
get controversial and look at some rigged survivor moments the first instance of rigging and survivor
resulted in a court case when stacy stillman sued the show for rigging her elimination in
survivor borneo yes it took a mere three episodes of the show before the producers got involved at
the final 14 of borneo the alliances were clear on the taki tribe the trio of rudy rich and sue were
all older and hard workers and really respected each other while the young girls of kelly and
stacey were tight as they were against rudy's bossy attitude you then have your two goofballs
of dirk and shawn as a pair which leads us to the third tribal council of the season rich rudy and
sue planned to vote for stacy while stacey and kelly were voting for rudy which left shawn and
dirk as the swing votes the reason why stacey sued the show was due to her believing that production
heavily influenced dirk and sean's decision to vote out stacy instead of rudy now none of us
are in stacy's shoes and we don't know for sure how much production truly got involved but i'd be
lying if i said i don't think there was some truth here in stacy's rigged elimination first of all
rudy was absolute comedy gold and the producers knew they were likely in danger of losing an
all-time great character very early in the season secondly the first two eliminations of the season
were 63 year old sonia and 64 year old bibi if rudy would have been the third boot here that
means the first three eliminations of the season would have been old players which would have been
a terrible look for the show as the whole point of survivor early on was that anyone could win
this game and lastly it's not like stacey was making crazy claims in her case she specifically
mentioned production pursuing sean and dirk and let's face it you would think that sean and dirk
would join the younger woman of stacy and kelly as opposed to the older and more serious group
now do i think production specifically told dirk and sean to vote for stacy no but i definitely
think production made certain types of comments during their confessionals that persuaded them
to save rudy which let's face it would turn out to be a game changer for the show as rudy went
from third boot to final three becoming an absolute legend of survivor in the process
you know he's fat but he's he's good but anyway me and richard got to be pretty good friends
not in a homosexual way that's for sure speaking of legends survivor all-stars gave us some of the
biggest legends the game had ever seen up until that point with pretty much every big name from
the first seven seasons coming back to battle each other so the producers were probably devastated
when the best of the best were taken out in the pre-merge and by the time the final 10 came around
it looked like robin amber two of the lesser known all-stars would dominate the season but at
the final 10 which was the usual time to merge an old school survivor there was a third tribe swap
and it just so happened that the tribes remained exactly the same with the only person switching to
being amber who also just so happened to swap into the tribe that had lost the past three immunity
challenges the belief here is that the producers wanted to break up robin amber by intentionally
screwing over the less entertaining of the two in amber at the tribe swap it's believed that the
players were put into a specific order to pick the buffs with the buffs being placed on top of each
other giving the players no choice but to grab the next buff in line this is one of those too
suspicious to look past moments as yes while may have just simply been a massive coincidence what
are the odds that the person most screwed over is the person who is arguably the least deserving
all-star in a showmance and had a real good shot of winning this all-star season over all the other
big names of course amber will be saved by rob's last fleet of lex and robin amber would go on to
dominate the season anyway but i can assure you that amber winning all-stars was probably worst
case scenario for the producers and unfortunately i can see this tribe swap being a legit rigging
against amber i definitely feel like i'm the one who got screwed in this whole situation
in the cook islands we have one of the more infamous moments of possible rigging in survivor
at the final 11 the i-24 were in the minority against the seven rail members and of course the
reason for this was due to jonathan and canada's jumping ship to the railroad tribe before the
final 11 immediate challenge jeff introduced the bottle twist and said that the losing tribe would
open the bottle at tribal council rail would end up losing immunity and after they vote out
rebecca they expected to open the bottle telling them to go to itunes camp for a merge however
you've just voted out one member of your tribe you will now vote out another that's not fun
definitely not a merge while the bottom twist is definitely bs it's not exactly rigging per se
but some survivor fans think there are two different bottles and if i2 lost the challenge
their bottle would have in fact been a merged note or at the very least something different than
voting two people out it's rumored that there are two bottles that the producers got to choose from
and once rarel lost the challenge they were given the second but off twist bottle peridium
has talked about this before and i 100 take a side on this and that there was only one bottle
and the producers were willing to risk it because honestly survivor had to take a risk at that point
as a white winner this season could have possibly ended the show especially if the four white
players made up the final four production likely knew that the team with ozzy would always win
the challenge which is why they put this twist in hoping the i24 would win this immunity and
make the numbers 5-4 in favor of rairo instead of 6-4 which likely would have resulted in a pogong
this of course would now mean the i24 would just need one person to flip and at worst they would
be guaranteed even numbers at the final eight due to yule super idol neglecting the votes at
the final nine to be honest the whole season of the cook islands seemed like one big rig show
to ensure we had a diverse end game but again i truly don't think survivor would still be on
if adam fricken gentry won the cook islands so i can understand why the producers did what
they had to do this season so we just got done talking about how production tried to rig amber's
elimination in survivor all-stars well after she ended up beating rob survivor tried to make up
for their failed efforts in an attempt to give their golden boy one million dollars in survival
redemption island the two legends of russell and rob were brought back as captains for their tribe
and let's face it as much of a draw russell was for survivor production would 100 out of 100 times
want rob to win over russell and people speculate production did as much as they could to help both
the returnees but specifically rob to win that season first of all just look at the theme of the
season redemption island for the first time ever players knew that once their torch was snuffed
their games weren't over as they would have a second chance to re-enter the game through duels
pretty ironic this twist is introduced on a season where rob and russ are captains two very worthy
challenge competitors but the main reason why people think this season was more so aimed for rob
was due to the tribe dynamics and once again suspicious buff draw rob went first and ended
up drawing the omatepi buff i mean the alma teppy tribe may be bigger fans of rob than jeff himself
okay maybe that's a stretch but still you get the point the tribe consisted of three extremely young
and pretty ladies and andrea ashley natalie who of course would fall for rob you then have grant
a former nfl player who was all about loyalty and then of course philip the definition of a goat as
philip ludy admitted to riding rob's coattails to the end you compared this to russell's tribe where
it consisted of more older players who wouldn't be as memorized by the legend and it just seems
too suspicious fans once again believed that production put the omatepe buff in a certain spot
and had rob draw first with some people even speculating that jeff gave him a certain look
to cue him which buff to grab then at the final redemption island duel rob basically had the game
wrapped up the only thing that could stop him was to challenge beasts winning their way to the end
so in a challenge consistent on matt grant mike and andrea the least physically threatening of the
four and andrea won her way back in with many people thinking this challenge was much more
geared for a weaker female to win while there's not one specific thing that's obviously rigged
this season let's be real redemption island was clearly designed for russell or rob to win with
rob having the upper hand leading to arguably the easiest win in survivor history and i can
say that i wouldn't be sitting here right now if it wasn't for boston rob i thank him for that
boston rob his true name is the mastermind he came up with the total concept of how we should
go forward and i implemented it and so i feel that's what got me here today and maintaining
my loyalty to boston rob in survivor kaguyan we saw one of the most dysfunctional tribes in
survivor history and luzon take center stage in the pre-merge as it features some of the worst
players in all survivors some of those players include david samson who literally openly targeted
the biggest threat in the game leading to him being the first boot garrett was built like a
brick wall yet he was blindsided over a woman who dumped out the tribe's rice and speaking of that
woman of course there's tatia one of the worst challenge performers of all time and acted like
a cycle lady at certain points during the game yet despite her terrible gameplay she was in the
majority with cass and tasha with spencer being on the outside spencer was a student of the game
and was basically carrying the brains on his shoulders during the challenges after garrett's
blindside but due to his previous association with garrett spencer was a target for the brains
heading into their third tribal council but tasha and cass decided to spare their challenge threat
and eliminate to tia however it's been confirmed by cass that jeff basically berated the two for
over an hour on how stupid they would be if they kept to tia over spencer now chaos cass isn't the
most reliable source in the world but i'm sure there was some truth here jeff gave spencer no
chance coming into the season and to see him be in trouble despite playing so well and giving it his
all had to drive jeff crazy especially considering it was the terrible gameplay of garrett and jatia
that put spencer in a bad position whether jeff made a comment or two about how spencer was a
better asset or went full on bias mode for spencer that night can you really blame him for wanting
to spare spencer over jtf after seeing firsthand how the season had played out up until that point
speaking of spencer he said himself in a recent ama that production talked him out of blindsiding
jeremy at the final five in survivor second chance now spencer has gone a bit crazy recently
but still production influence is very normal in survivor and while we don't know the full extent
of their persuasion i think this officially confirms the fact that whether fair or not
production does try to influence certain decisions even when it could possibly be a million dollar
decision let's now talk about the most recent case of rigging in survivor and potentially the
most obvious as well we all know the story of ben and why many people think he's the worst winner as
not only do you need a bunch of idols and twists to get to the end but most if not all survivor
fans think these idols and of course the force fire making challenge was rigged in ben's favor
so what's my stance on this well i agree with most fans when it comes to the idols the first two he
found were legitimate but that third one come on putting it right next to where he sleeps at
night is a bit too much now to be fair i think the rest of the castaway should have literally
followed ben all night to ensure he didn't find the idol i mean they were so convinced ben would
fall for chrissy's fake idol that they all pretty much stopped paying attention to ben at that point
so while i do think production absolutely rigged this third idol it's not like the other four
players did much to stop ben but then the big one the force fire making challenge yes i get
it this twist just happened to be introduced when a former marine had no more idols to save himself
the suspicion is obvious but i truly believe this twist was coming no matter what this season
i mean just look at the falling angels of the past couple seasons players like wentworth david and ty
were basically all but done the second they lost the final immunity challenge and you know that
must have drove jeff and production crazy at the very least this twist was coming as soon
as production's favorite was in trouble which just so happened to be ben and while that's definitely
still rigging in a way i don't think this concept was created at the last second with the sole
purpose to save ben like many people claim but even though i am higher on ben than most people
it's still really hard to not think of ben as the most rigged winner in survivor history so those
are the big cases and survivor of rigging let's now talk about a few smaller ones it's believed
that edge of extinction was rigged for joe to win and as crazy as it is to believe he was a couple
inches away from re-entering the game and possibly winning people also think that producers put all
the weak players on the lesson tribe to take the target off of david and wentworth the fake merge
of thailand was believed to benefit nyc police officer ken as it looked like shien was going
to flip on sujai with ken possibly being the merged boot so production held off on the merge
in hopes of suit chai winning the next two challenges which at that point will protect
all of sukjai from xi'an flipping and given that thailand aired a year after 9 11 it made sense
that the producers did everything they could to help out ken as him winning thailand would have
been an amazing look for the show production has also scrapped planets at the last second so things
play out more to their liking for example it's believed that palau is gonna have a tribe swap
as that was starting to become the norm but due to oolong's losing streak survivor wanted to see just
how bad it would get at the final antenna survivor gabon survivor threw in a tribe swap at the last
second to shake things up as the onion alliance looked to dominate the post-merge in fact the
final 10 challenge ended up being an individual challenge despite there still being two teams
making it all that more believable that production wanted to screw over the onion alliance i mean
yeah crystal sugar and kenny made for better tv over the likes of bob marcus and charlie but man
we really were robbed of randy possibly having a legit shot to be a survivor winner i left the
auction broke full half drunk and pissed off i got a little room left for one big cookie so i'm
gonna burn this house down in the next day or so so there you have it guys the main instances of
rigging and survivor once again if you like this video then be sure to smash like the subscribe
button and let me know down in the comments what you think the most rigged moment in survivor was
with all that said thanks once again guys and remember never ever trust a reality tv producer