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Announcer: Survivor just wouldn't be Survivor
without the complex and physical challenges.
John Kirhoffer (Survivor Challenges Producer):
Basically we're coming up with a big opening obstacle
course. Here we are back in Samoa.
It's a South Pacific theme so nothing works as well with
a South Pacific theme as coconuts.
Announcer: To get the team ready for competition,
John and his team hold practice challenges. This
works out the kinks.
Kirhoffer: 23 seasons later you'd think we
would figure it out.
Announcer: They do at least when it comes to
some obstacles.
Kirhoffer: The wall is the most iconic quintessential
teamwork obstacle because it takes an entire tribe to
get over that wall. You really have to be working
together, strategizing who's going to go up first.
Who's going to stay on the bottom and help people
up. Who is going to be the last person to get up
the wall because they have to be fit. And then
getting off the wall, there's a pretty good jump on the
back. We also added a few different lines in
and out of the coconut curtain. Where you run
through all the coconuts, we put a few lower lines and
higher lines to try to motivate people to go up and
down. They just kind of barrel through them.
The last leg, they chop through the ropes releasing a
torrent of coconuts. I was envisioning a thousand
coconuts, raining coconuts. We had 250 coconuts
which is pretty good. And instead of a puzzle
which was one of our few opening challenges in recent
history that didn't have a puzzle.
Announcer: So how will it all come
together? Here's your exclusive look as the
contestants make their way through the Coconut
Conundrum.
Jeff Probst: Season 23, first Immunity
Challenge, here we go.
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