“Survivor” castaway Stephanie Berger agrees with among the on-line sentiment from viewers that the Season 48 tribes will not be “evenly matched.”
After the 38-year-old tech product lead from Brooklyn was voted out throughout Wednesday’s two-hour premiere, the Publish requested her if she thinks her Vula tribe was outgunned bodily by the 2 different tribes.
“There are quite a few college athletes on my season, and I am not one of them,” Berger stated. “To my knowledge, nor are any of the members of Vula. It is a tough tribe.”
“And look, you can always make up time on the puzzle,” she continued. “The puzzle is the great equalizer. But Kevin and I are doing the puzzle, and Kevin’s dislocated his shoulder, and we’ve only got three arms on that puzzle. And it is a heavy, big puzzle that you’re trying to wedge pieces in. So it really requires two hands.”
“So were we evenly matched? That’s a production decision,” Berger stated. “They decide what even looks like.”
Berger acknowledged that a lot of the sturdy individuals on the season had been positioned on the Lagi and Civa tribes.
“I’m standing there being like, there’s a chick who could bench press me,” she stated. “Eva [Erickson] could put me over her shoulder, and I’ve got, like, six inches on her.”
“I’m looking for David, he’s doing the pull-ups,” she added of stunt performer David Kinne.
Berger revealed that she’s rooting towards her 4 tribemates — Saiounia Hughley, Kevin Leung, Cedrek McFadden and Justin Pioppi — who despatched her dwelling.
“I’m not rooting for anyone that voted against me,” she stated. “But it’s nothing but love from me for them in terms of people. They’re playing a game. They’re having fun. They’re doing the best they can.”
Berger additionally confirmed that she determined to play her Shot within the Darkish earlier than tribal council.
“I spent some time doing some math before going out there. I had run Monte Carlo simulations to figure out the good times to play and not to play your Shot in the Dark,” stated Berger. “The best time to play it is more people voting, more of a reasonable likelihood that you think votes are coming your way, then the Shot in the Dark has more equity and is worth giving up your vote because your vote has less influence on the overall vote and it’s a good idea to play it.”
“So I took that as in the context of Vula, where there’s six of us, this is the best time to play it if I feel confident votes are coming towards me,” she defined. “I had a good conversation with my girl Mary. Mary and I looked at each other and I was like, ‘I think it’s me. I’m worried.’ And Mary’s like, ‘Play it. I support you. If you need to do this for yourself, I support you.’”
Berger’s Shot within the Darkish in the end didn’t hit and he or she was the primary individual voted out of the season.
“Survivor 48” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
