Not just because it will be the eighth straight season filmed in Fiji.
And not just because all the players have competed and won on the show before.
But all the reward and immunity challenges taking place will also be blasts from the past.
However, there will be a bit of mix and match at play as well.
Weve switched up, as we sometimes do.
A different classic front end with a different classic back end.
So that pop in of stuff.
But its classics that youve seen.
It will be more likeGame Changers,when it was only if some sort of big story happened.
So if there was some sort of big story that happened, then well hit on it.
But were prepared to tell Jeff the entire history of these players in the challenges.
We want to go with just the best challenges.
And we thought, Okay, you know what?
Weve got to get rid of one.
So we dont want to stack the deck in anyones favor.
Somebody new whos good at puzzles will come in and just smash you.
If anything, in the tribe challenge section, they might have some better insight for their tribe.
Hey, confirm we dig instead of lift.
Or that kind of thing.
You guys always want to go big.
You always want your challenges to look beautiful and to look epic.
Is there something for 40 though, like, Hey, this is a cool challenge.
but its a little too quiet.
What about a challenge at night?
You guys have done it a few times.
And you did one at Tribal Council inAmazon.
What about doing more challenges at night?KIRHOFFER:InSecond Chancewe did that.
Right, Folklore.KIRHOFFER:And it looks great.
Yeah, I love that.
I just watched that not too long ago.
And she goes to B, she grabs the thing, runs out.
And he goes, Thats D. And he grabs it and sent her off.
Another thing that we dont have at this particular location is, there are a lot of fields.
If youve watched the last four years or so, its a lot of fields.
We dont have long winding trails that go up into the jungle.
We just dont have it here.
Wed love to do things with long winding fields.
Thats an extra couple of challenges, plus all the things that they do out on Edge of Extinction.
There just isnt time, you know?
So that happens quite a bit too.
Its fire making at the final four.
KIRHOFFER:Well, there you go.
And I remember onGhost Islandwhen Chris Noble went there.
And it was just naturally lit by all the fire.MARCHAND:Yeah, Chris Noble at the merge.
KIRHOFFER:You might see that again.
Because we love the look of a night challenge.
Do you remember in Season 15,China?
In season 14,Fiji, we shot flaming balls at targets, and it was kind of dopey.
But we had those metal balls that you fill up with a wicking and kerosene.
And so we had those and it was like, Lets do something at night.
So we did giant chopsticks picking up these flaming, I dont know, flaming sushis?
Im not sure what it was.
Night challenge: Write it down on your ideas board and make it happen.
I was like at the Hall of Fame game, you know?
And all these amazing players.
MARCHAND:Did you cry?
KIRHOFFER:I waited until I got home.
But of course I cried.
You guys basically do the same thing here, only in the water this time.
Thats why we dont do any of those kinds of challenges on land.
In the water, its so much more forgiving.
And so that was a part of the impetus.
