I'm shocked the brains tribe wasn't mentioned as part of this strategy as Tasha, Spencer and Kass all made it deep into the game.

I was surprised you didn't mention Cook Islands, arguably the most successful tribe who entered an alliance at a significant disadvantage and yet all four of them outlasted the rest of the post-merge tribe.

In Australian Survivor 2016, Vavau entered the merge at a disadvantage of 10-3 against Saanapu. After two people from Vavau were eliminated the jury began with Vavau down 10-1. The only person from Vavau became the Sole Survivor, Kristie Bennett.

"I'm playing chess the best way I know how, and hopefully Imma king me" 2:20 wrong board game buddy.

Favorite underdog alliance from survivor is the Aitu 4

This was attempted by Scott in Total Drama

I feel like the problem with this strategy is that you have to throw every comp. If you throw every comp eventually your tribe will catch on and definitely vote you out.

I like your gameplay analysis. You can stay away from top 10's for a bit and do more of these. They're more enjoyable for fans who closely follow the game.

I loved your video here are my thoughts. In order for an "Intentional Matsing" to work a few things must happen: 1. You have to lose challenges. (of course if you plan to lose challenges you must be secure in where you stand in your tribe, you have to be in the majority alliance of the losing tribe) 2. Make it to the pre-merge. (this is more of elaboration on #1 your alliance will be weak in numbers, so the people you bring have to be the ones you trust the most) 3. Find those cracks post-merge. ( there are always crack in the dominate alliance tribe, exploit those divisions between people or if you have to create them) 4. Create cracks in dominate alliance post-merge. (if you look at all the unintentional Matsings' that happen it was because cracks were present and the Matsing players took advantage of them) (if these cracks are not there you need to create them thru lies and mind games) 5. Be willing to lose what is left of your original tribe. (you need somebody in the jury lobbying for you be willing to let them go to the jury and do this for you) 6. Bring the Goats. ( find the goats in the dominate tribe and bring them to the end)

I can't believe a person is going for this strategy after you made this video

Russell Hantz's gameplay in Samoa sort of, kind of, almost brushed up against this strategy. He certainly took steps to tank his tribe, even if tanking that hard wasn't his end goal, and he seemed not to be very invested in whether or not Foa Foa won immunities.

I think the intentional matsing would be wayyyy to risky. It's so uncertain what could happen.

Hope you guys enjoy this strategy talk vid! A little different but still really fun to consider. Next week is gonna be about a similar concept to this video, except I've only ever seen it brought up once.. ever. I'm so hype! :D

It is funny how Matsing in the Philippines means primates.

Maybe Top 10 worst Survivor Tribes (By performance)

I've never watched a single episode of survivor but I've watched maybe 12 of your videos. Great descriptive language and energy. I'll be around for many more👍

Also please continue making videos like these Peridiam. It's like the only channel I've seen giving Survivor strategies an in depth look and I love it :D

You should do a ranking of survivor best themes!!!, btw I love your vids!!!

I have thought of this strategy forever I didn’t know it was a thing

"I'm gon' King me" -- best line in the show, ever.

I always look foward to your videos, they are amazing! Thanks!

Love your vids Peridiam and I thought I was a die hard Survivor fan you come in with all things that go so over my head.

This video came up in my recommended for some reason. Glad it did! Just subscribed and am about to watch your other videos. Thanks for a good insight.

You should make a how to win survivor video

I like the strategy video. Seriously, really liked it. I love see how these random strategies work out. And how they translate to the real world. Very cool stuff.

Play chess the best way I know how.... "king me" You don't play chess much then.

Love the strategy video more than the top tens, but also love the top fives or tens! Love everything you put up!

Denise was awesome!

Wow! This is one of my favorite videos. Have watched it upwards as 10 times (I'm just low balling it here)

Great vid I love your vids so much you have the best Survivor channel on KZfaq u sould do a top ten best and worst Survivor players

In Big Brother, people intentionally lose all the time. They do it to avoid having to make moves and show their cards.

Everything you described as intentional matsing reminds me so much of Natalie Anderson. After rewatching the show, I appreciated her game more cause she did so many moves that changed the dynamics of the game with also keeping other targets bigger than hers

The best example of this is with Aganoa in Survivor AU. They lost 5 people pre-merge, and the 3 that made the merge made the final 3.

Hey man! I love your videos. I think an interesting idea for one would be the effectiveness of intentionally losing challenges as a strategy and how well it has paid off for those who have used it.

I love this video! Great content!

Boston Robb's 2nd chance was awesome to see. It was one of those where it was like 'how can you not vote for this guy?' He put in so much work, and made a lot of smart moves. Plus he's a good salesman

I love your videos. Greetings from Spain!

Yayy new video! Love your work Peridiam. When is the next BB video coming up?

Enjoyed this! Pls do more strategy vids!

Only certain people should even consider this strategy. People likely booted early (ie older folks) should not as they will not be around to take advantage of it. Likewise, big, strong, athletic types who are obvious post-merge threats should not as those players will need allies. But if you are a Rob Cesternino type with charisma for days, just enough physicality to not an early boot, and the smarts to realize how to turn allies against each other, this is probably the road map to victory.

"I'm talking to God lord, I mean Jeff"

Watching brad try to do math is one of the funniest moments in survivor history and you cannot change my mind

4:22 “lots of people who’ve won have been in the minority at the merge” SPOILER FOR EOE One winner didn’t even make it to the merge!

honestly I don't know shit about survivor but I watched the video

Lol man you're Billy Giese. I watch your vids haha! Kinda recognized the voice. Followed you on twittah!

I don't think someone's gonna intentionally use this strategy, as you said it's too risky. love your videos, by the way. and great to have your Instagram account.

Intentional Matsing is a good idea if you can see the future, but in practice it's just too risky. For example, if I was playing, I would never IM because I know my abilities and I know that if I did do it, I would never make it to a position where I am the last one or two people left. If your a strong person in competitions it might be a good idea, but with that as the exception, I have just never thought that you can intentionally do it and have it work. Yes Russell did it in Samoa, but if he did not have all of those idols, it would not have worked, and since the finding of idols can't be done intentionally, this is more of an outlier.

Russell's sabotage strategy in Samoa I think definitely counts as an intentional Matsing but I don't think he had the social chops to actually succeed with it post-merge. Natalie, I feel, was the mastermind behind getting them all to the end despite getting Koror'd earlier on.

Analysing strategies of survivor? Damn this platform always suprises me^^.

I love your videos about survivor. You are doing great work Kristie from season 3 of australian survivor is propably the closest we are ever going to get to an intentional matsing strategy. If you haven't watched australian survivor I would recommend watching it or watching the 30 minute great video by the youtube user wheredidmarycomefrom (a great micronesia reference in the username). The video I'm talking about is "the journey of kristie bennett - australian survivor"

I've been watching survivor since is four and one always told myself that this would be one of my serious strategies to play with. Where you flip back and forth between the numbers after the merge

More videos like this please!

Amazing vid!! :) I've got a situation, would you consider this as "intestional matsing"? I hope it is not too confusing, I used random names :D It is final 5, before tribal council The majority: Susy, Dan and Hannah The minority: Joe, Lizzy -Joe, who is in the minority, the biggest threat but has an idol which nobody knows about, has one ally, Lizzy -The majority has one idol, it is in Dans and Susy's hand, they trust Hannah less -Joe feels like Susy is the biggest threat to him from that four since she can beat him in individual immunity. -Hannah won immunity -Joe tries to convince Hannah and Susy to vote with him, bc Dan is the biggest threat, could win in the end, they are crazy to keep him, he is the mastermind, how cannot they see??? etc, knowing that they wouldn't listen but hoping if the majority do have an idol they would use it on Dan. -At tribal: Joe is making statements again against Dan, than plays his idol; the majority stick with the plan, vote for Joe but just for safety, Dan plays the idol (even before Joe played his) just to make sure everything if Hannah flipped or Joe plays an idol( which he does right after). But they have no doubt at all, that Joe is voting Susy, that's how convincing he is!!! - 3 votes are for sure for Joe, AND Joe voted for Susy, since that was his plan all along... Just wanted to make sure they didn't play an idol on her... And Lizzy's vote is either for Dan, or for Susy if Joe trusted her or even for Joe if she flipped, it depends... But the main thing is that Joe made the all circus about Dan being the biggest threat to avoid an idol on Susy and succeed! So what do you think??? :D

Wonderful video.

You should check out the french Survivor "Koh Lanta" and its edition "Koh Lanta: la guerre des chefs" where they started with 3 teams. The red team came into the merge 6-5-3 down I believe and was the target of all the majority votes. Then when it was 6-5-2, the team of 5 went to blindside a member of the 6 with the help of the minority 2 and it completely shifted the dinamic of the game. Out of these 2 I've been mentioning, one went out on a rock draw at the final 6 (Cyril) which is the last tribal of the game and the other one (Maud) won the game.

Watching Shan and Ricard set themselves up to cruise to the end of 41 and thought of this video. Perception is going to start changing and just two people coming into a merge from one tribe are going to be the new threat going forward rather than underdogs.

Wardog references this video in a podcast!!

“I’m playing chess the best I know how, so king me” .. sigh ..

Great videos! Really enjoy your commentary. I would say this strategy would be so difficult to pull off mainly because to do so players from the minority alliance would sit pretty come final jury time as they haven't had to backstab a majority alliance, and would anyone want to risk a bitter jury?

honestly, u have to get a good read on your opposition and exploit cracks. it’s pretty brilliant as people would see you non threatening a potential tag along if you’re appearing weak from other teams but it takes alot to try not getting caught.

This was great!

I'd like to hear what you think about the Survivor Gabon feast - Moreso, the group throwing away the idol. Is there ever a situation in the game where it's best to take that idol, whether it be a Gabon scenario, another castaways position at the merge, or just any hypothetical scenario 🙂

You should do a video ranking all of the survivor winners seasons and season themes

I LOVE this channel

The Healers should’ve done this to a certain extent. Going into the merge with 5 Healers was stupid.

I'm earting while watching this, but this was amazing

I would never go into the game with this strategy, but I think if I was on a tribe (like Matsing) that lost continuously, and I was noticing that there would be no way of catching up to the other tribes, then I would make that my strategy. It just depends on how many members are still on my tribe before the predictable tribe swap occurs.

I’d never consider doing an intentional matsing. It’s risky. I think being on the side with the numbers is the safe strategy. Doesn’t make for good tv, but chances of getting to the end are better imo. Love the vids! I get excited when a new survivor vid is out. My favorite show of all time.

You deserve more subscribers

Can you make a video ranking the survivor seasons? I'm kind of getting back into watching Survivor and would like to know the must-see seasons. Spoilers are not a problem for me.

After 5 tribals of W@W, swap is coming and Rob seems to be playing the intentional Matsing...

i agree that the INTENTIONAL Matsing doesn't work.....I DO think that when your tribe is initially decimated before the merge....the remaining members form aan enduring bond, that serves them through the rest of the game. I feel tat anyone who attempts the Intentional Matsing is full blown NPD ......and eventually destroys himself and everyone else around him ( lmao ) I also think that CBS is very adept at picking personalities and serves as an exstention of Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment

This is about to make a return

I'm a simple guy, I see a new Peridiam video, I hit Like.

How do you intentionally throw challenges pre-merge without your tribe wanting to immediately vote you out? Alliances in the beginning of the game almost always agree to vote out the weak challenge performers in the name of "keeping the tribe strong." That phrase is brought almost every season. So for this to work intentionally, you would have to 1. throw challenges by squandering a large enough part of each challenge to actually lose, or by convincing members of your tribe to throw challenges (nearly impossible) 2. Not seem like you are throwing the challenges or your tribe would turn on you to "keep the tribe strong," 3. Join a larger alliance after the merge that is willing to let you work with them without the suspicion that you would swing between larger alliances. Not to mention, seasons nowadays usually do tribe swaps after like two episodes. So I have strong doubts that this "strategy" could ever go well, and it wouldn't leave you in any better of a position as forming a very tight alliance among a larger alliance in a tribe that performed well pre-merge.

I'd love to see bunch of stats on Survivors. By now we should have a decent amount of data to be able to look at survivor more broadly. E:Oh, Right after me writing this comment you mentioned data (~ 4:13) :)

I just don't think an intentional Matsing would work simply based on the fact that it requires throwing challenges and voting people out until there's a small number of the people on that tribe left. I can't imagine throwing so many challenges would go un-sniffed by the rest of said tribe. It would be kind of inevitable for the rest of the tribe to realize what was going on, and just have them voted out for trying to intentionally lose. Especially being that poor performance often leads to being sent home. Say two people on a tribe purposely lose continuously--the odds that they are the first to get sent packing are high. Idk it would have to be the perfect scenario and the perfect cast for this to work in my opinion. Another important thing to say about Matsings (this also goes for Pagongings) is that tribal lines don't play much of a role in Survivor anymore. This new idea of voting blocks combined with tribe swaps and other craziness completely rules out tribal alliances surviving the entire game. Moreover, everyone on the show plays hard--meaning they all have their own agenda and are willing to do whatever it takes to get to the end. This being said, when a season gets to the final tribal, no one's pitch for themself to win the game is "my tribal alliance had a numbers disadvantage going into the merge and I still won" anymore. For those reasons I find it quite unlikely.

I would like your thought about nick from dvg, mike and nick were in power and they decided to vote out Lycra, giving the Goliaths the numbers creating this story of nick being the David and do u think mike lost the game there for never being without the numbers? I look back and I think that might have been where nick won the game

Thanks , now i know what i should do in survivor.

Wait why didn't you mention Chris in Vanuatu that was the best underdog story I think

You should do top 10 best and worst Survivor players.

Your vids are great

I look at this like a piano competition. I find when I play perfectly, I lose spectacularly. But, when I screw up and recover, I usually win!

I think this is a really good strategy as a contingency plan, for when everything goes wrong that there is a strategy to get yourself back in the game

One of the unintentionally funny moments in Survivor: watching Culpepper try do simple math.

“I’m gonna play chess the best way I know how, and hopefully Imma king me” Gold 😂😂

Did you know that “Matsing” is the tagalog term for monkey? So it literally translate as “intentional monkey”. Tandang is the tagalog term for “rooster” Kalabaw is the tagalog term for “buffalo”. Specifically, water buffalo. I’m from the Philippines and I like your channel. Why am I only seeing this now?! 😊🤙

also you should do a video about final tribal speeches or the best characters

If I ever play, I’ll do this

Sure, i would consider it.

I wish I was brave enough to try this! Very bold and very risky.

Is it just me or do ulonged tribes have an overwhelming tendency to be blue or yellow

I *LOVE* Survivor so much! I wouldn't have ever predicted that anyone would go to every tribal council in a season and win!!! =)

You forgot about the legendary Aitu 4 from Cook Islands.

I don't see the intentional matsing working because I think intentionally becoming an underdog would feel so unnatural and I think someone from the majority would be smart enough to see right through it. Theres a big difference between feeling hopeless from having no one and purposely putting yourself in that position. What you said about how important knowing how other people perceive you is is so true. Remember they use to have reward challenges back in the day where survivors had to answer questions about others based on what the majority would say. Its always been apart of the game and that's why this is a social/psychological game above all.

do more big brother videos too I loved the Jess and cody discussion

I don't remember when, but there was a season where a tribe directly forfeit an immunity challenge to out someone. Fans v favorites I think? The favorites opted to forfeit to out someone. Having said that, they had a 3 or 4 player advantage, so it likely didn't damage them much in the long run

I don't think that I would adopt this strategy out the gate because there are stronger plays that you can do with numbers and self-awareness of perceptions, but if you are in a position where you go down in numbers, I think it makes sense to ride the wave. That being said, it really depends on the season whether or not this would be successful.

Season 19 with Russell is exactly what you described

It is a good idea for a back up plan. Basically you try to make a big alliance but then if it fails and you lose you play up the matsing.