by David Bloomberg -- 09/20/2007

  Over the course of the past 14 seasons of Survivor, it should be obvious that contestants need to learn certain rules to play by. Sure, sometimes the rules are broken and a person still succeeds, but more often they work more or less perfectly, as they did for the likes of Brian, Chris, and Yul. Building on all 14 series to date, here is a newly updated look at what the China Survivors should have learned if they have been paying attention.

This is the 14th edition of an article looking ahead to what Survivor contestants should have known before they set foot on the airplane that would take them away from the life they knew and to the life given to them by Mark Burnett. Each time, players have more history to draw on as far as how they should play the game – and how they shouldn't – and thus this article gets modified appropriately.

In any case, it's time to bring us all up to date and take a look at what the contestants on Survivor: Fiji should have learned by the time they got there.

Since this is the 15th time around, players should definitely know by now what they can expect and how they need to play the game – if they did their homework. There are some things players should have known since all the way back in the second edition, such as that this is a game, not a search for friendship. That much should have been clear even when Colby decided that his friendship with Tina was worth more than a million dollars (a decision that earned him a Reality TV Hall of Shame Moment). But as we saw a few seasons ago in Palau – this time with a Hall of Shame Moment for Ian – some people still just don’t get it. This game is about winning a million dollars, period. People should certainly know that by now.

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