Long ago, there was a website called Survivorfire.com, one of many covering the groundbreaking CBS game show Survivor. Survivor is still on the air and is about to air its fiftieth season (wow!) And I've watched all of them.

Survivorfire.com is long gone, but I happened to contact them in 2002 after enjoying their various perspective columns for Survivor: Marquesas.  I pitched myself to provide "The Gamer's Perspective" for Season 5, and they made me a columnist.  (Need I add it was unpaid?)

Survivor: Thailand wound up being one of the least popular seasons in retrospect, partly because it had a runaway winner who also turned out to be sa slimeball.  But I enjoyed watching while it was on the air!  So here are my columns.  I later wrote a couple of columns for Season 6, but those have been lost to entropy.

The opinions I express here are over two decades old and may not line up with my current opinions!
 

Episode 1: Selecting teams and sliding blocks Episode 2: Awkward games Episode 3: Jam-packed with fun Episode 4: Strategy emerges! Episode 5: What could have been Episode 6: Every skateboarder has his day Episode 7: Chuay Jai was a stupid name anyway Episode 8: A very personal episode Episode 9: They went and called the tribe Chuay Jai anyway!! Episode 10: Snakes and Pennies have only tails. Episode 11: When one door closes, another opens. Episode 12: Tangled threesomes. Episode 13: Champion of disappointment. Return

SCORES:   Brian: 17 Ken: 7 Helen: 4 Ted: 3 Jake: 3 Jed: 2 Clay: 1 John: 0 Shii Ann: -1 Tanya: -2 Robb: -3 Erin: -3 Penny: -4 Ghandia: -6 Jan: -9 Stephanie: -9 KEY: 3 points for each Best Gamer 2 points for each 2nd Best Gamer -2 points for each 2nd Worst Gamer -3 points for each Worst Gamer Italics signify a contestant who has been removed from the game.