Snewser has proven to be the most reliable and consistent source of insider “sourced” Survivor information. He protects his source, and reveals the weekly picks in a fair and consistent way, without disrupting the other games and spoiling activities of the spoiling community. He has earned our respect.

His Survivor spoiling game has become a fixture in the spoiling community and attracts the best of the spoiling community’s spoilers, who play the game to compete for bragging rights at the end of the season. This season it’s called “Jump the Shark”.

The questions Snewser writes for the game are based on a combination of information obtained from his “source”, and his knowledge of the current state of the spoiling gathered from the various spoiling boards. He apparently compares what he knows will happen, to what is being speculated, and arrives at a set of questions that focus on that which is still unclear. Additionally, he assigns point values to the questions that reflect his assessment of their difficulty.

Analyzing the questions being asked, and the point values assigned, will often provide some insights into what Snewser knows, and what he thinks the spoiling community doesn’t know… another opportunity for “spoiling the spoiler”.

The EP1 questions are a particularly good example, because at the time the questions were posted, the spoiling community was way off track with respect to Jeff Wilson, who most had speculated (thanks to MSN.com) would be eliminated by the “pick ‘em” along with Wanda.

Snewser asks:

“Not counting Wanda, which other player will leave the game before the first challenge?” 20 points.

In hindsight this question is an indication that the “obvious” Jeff Wilson, who most had concluded to be the other player eliminated, was the wrong answer, otherwise Snewser would not have assigned the high value of 20 points to this question. Snewser obviously knew most of us had it wrong, as indicated by his comments on the scorecard…”(What? Almost everyone getting the first Episode wrong? hehehe)”

Snewser also asks:

“What tribe will Jeff end up on?” 5 points.
“What tribe will Katie end up on?” 5 points.

Katie was one of the last players to be placed on a tribe and her tribe status was still unknown at the time Snewser posted his questions. In hindsight again, we should have recognized his question about Jeff’s tribe, as an indication that Snewser knew Jeff was not the other player eliminated with Wanda.

While Snewser usually knows who’s going each week by Thursday morning, it’s unclear how much other advanced knowledge he gets each week about the details of the show. This week we caught a good glimpse of Snewser’s advanced knowledge with respect to Jeff, Wanda and Jonathan.

Snewser gets advanced information; just how much we don’t know, but taking a close look at the questions asked each week in the “Jump the Shark” game offers us a clue. It’s a potential spoiling tool we should add to our arsenal, if we’re not already using it, as we continue in our effort to "spoil the spoilers".

Krautboy