You could be right, heck you probaly are, but i hope i am right because that could spoil whether or not rich goes early. I can't wait for the first episode so we can get a better feel for the way it is really going to go.where is the info that says rich goes with tina, rudy and rob c?

Should find the answers to some of your questions here...
http://community.realitytvworld.com/boards/cgi-bin/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=4601&forum=DCForumID2&omm=0

Krautboy

About the TV Guide cover, there are several versions of the cover with Lex being featured on only one of them. Just saw a huge TV Guide display yesterday with, I think, three different covers featuring different players. Can't remember who on the others but I definitely noticed it as my subscription version had the Lex cover.

It looks like there's one for each tribe.

The GREEN tribe cover features Lex and Rich with Kathy, Shii Ann, Colby & Jenna M. in 4 small circles down the right side of the cover.

The YELLOW tribe cover features Jerri and Rupert with Rudy, Ethan, Tina & Jenna L. down the side.

The RED tribe cover shows Alicia's abs and Sue, and Tom, Rob C., Rob M. & Amber fill in the 4 circles on the right.

If you really want to, you can see them on the TV Guide site. http://www.tvguide.com/

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UDG

thanks! i didn't realize that there were three covers. do you think it means anything? example.. who goes first and who stays or is it just random?

It had to do with who would sell the most covers. I think they also did one villian and one "good guy" as the focus for each cover. So, you end up with Rupert & Jerri on one.

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UDG

Well, Jerri and Rupert, sure--good/bad, plus they are the two best-known ex-Survivors besides Dicque.

But, well--Lex and Rich? Kathy and Colby the "good" Survivors in that group. Lex and Rich are both evil, and Lex isn't a particularly popular ASS, either (especially compared to Kathy or Colby). I don't know what they were thinking with him as a featured cover person.

Maybe controversial or interesting is a better way of looking at it. Not everyone loved Rupert but he sure was interesting. And some of us loved Lex and hated Kathy. But then, I'm one of those disappointed that Porno Brian isn't in there. I'm contrary that way. Kathy and Colby may be the "good" guys, but are not viewed by TV Guide as particularly "interesting" enough to create just the discussion we are having and that is what sells magazines.

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Well... let's look at the covers.

Rich and Lex, Jerri and Rupert, Sue and Alicia. I saw it more as being done as two boys, two girls, and one mixed pairing. I think that was the original purpose. Why they didn't choose someone like Rich and Colby, who knows? But I think they purposely went for the covers with 2 men, 2 women, and a mixed cover shot.

Now that it's looking like Tina is the first boot, this thread becomes an important tool for spoiling the next two or three boots.

Tina's early departure leave us with the possibility that the next three boots are one contestant from each original tribe:

Rudy (Saboga)
Rob C. (Chapera)
Richard (Mogo-Mogo)

If we figure out which tribe goes to TC, we have our primary boot candidates predetermined for us...

Krautboy

Just playing Devil's Advocate here, but do you think there's a chance they alternated the locales? First boot to Argentina, second to Mexico, etc.

I was wondering the same thing. In one thread they are saying that Ethan is second - so that would fit the every other.

I tended to think it was unlikely because then the first and second boots would have no other players to keep them company at their respective locations for six whole days. It would also require arranging for a lot more flights.

But we can't rule it out. It's also possible he sent them off in pairs, so even if two Argentina boots go first we have to be careful.

And MB would have had to make plans for 9 boots including Jenna, so her untimely departure could have caused him to alter whatever scenario was originally planned.