Pre-season: Playing in back-to-back seasons
Published: January 5, 2026
With Survivor 49 now complete and Savannah and Rizo headed right back out to play in Survivor 50, Damnbueno looks at how contestants have fared historically playing in back-to-back seasons, then tries to assess the S49 alums' chances in the context of their starting tribes.
Pre-season: Survivor 50 cast preview, Part 3: The New Erans
Published: July 21, 2025
Damnbueno returns to his Survivor 50 previewing with the second group of contestants, chronologically, those who first appeared in seasons 35-38. Or the non-New Era players who have only played once before.
Pre-season: Survivor 50 cast preview, Part 2: The thirties
Published: July 15, 2025
Damnbueno returns to his Survivor 50 previewing with the second group of contestants, chronologically, those who first appeared in seasons 35-38. Or the non-New Era players who have only played once before.
Pre-season: Survivor 50 cast preview, Part 1: The returning returnees
Published: July 7, 2025
It's done filming and won't air until 2026, but Damnbueno is already recapping Survivor 50! In this case, he's reviewing the previous games of the first group of contestants, chronologically - those who first appeared in seasons 1-32, all of who have already played Survivor at least twice. These are the returning returnees.
Damnbueno
got his nickname in 8th grade Spanish class when his friend
shouted out "You're pretty damn good at Spanish." The
teacher insisted he say it in Spanish, so the friend said
"Esto es damn bueno en Espanol." The nickname stuck. These
days, when he's not forgetting his 8th grade Spanish,
Damnbueno is indulging his obsession with all things
Survivor. Reach him in the comments section here at True
Dork Times.