We quite literally just saw Boston Rob, but the circumstances surrounding Survivor: Winners at War will be a bit different from his experience just one season prior. For one, his wife will be playing the game with him. And this time, Rob won’t be reduced to shelter-building and mentor duty.
No one has played as many times as Boston Rob, who will be competing for the fifth time in 40 seasons. After being a pre-juror in the fourth season, Marquesas, Rob returned to All-Stars, engineering a blindside of strategic mastermind Rob Cesternino, breaking up a friendship with Lex van den Berghe and tricking Big Tom so he could sit at the end with his future wife, Amber Mariano (née Brkich). His heartless style of play led to an Amber victory, which worked out fine for Rob, who now shares four daughters with the All-Stars winner. After falling to the Russell Hantz régime in a pre-merge vote out in Heroes vs. Villains, Rob returned two seasons later to play one of the most dominant winner games in Survivor history, deceiving his alliance into believing he had no chance of winning in the end. Eighteen seasons later, what are the odds Rob wins again?
Why Boston Rob will win
Few Survivors, if any, understand this game as well as Boston Rob. In addition to his wife, he is well-connected to many players on the Winners at War cast. He has played with several of them before, including Sandra Diaz-Twine, who he just spent nearly 39 days with on Island of the Idols. Some of the more recent Survivors who don’t know him as well may treat him with reverence since he’s become such a strong face of the franchise, similar to the way his tribe on Redemption Island beckoned his every call.
Why Rob won’t win
Being the face of the franchise is good is you’re Tom Brady. It’s not great if you’re a Survivor player competing in an era when being any semblance of a threat is an immediate death wish. Even with this cast of all winners, Boston Rob’s star shines brightest. He is a great white shark in a pool of piranhas, and the other players would be wise to cut him loose before he devours them all.
Prediction: 16th place: Boston Rob will be a useful commodity in the first few days, as few Survivors are as skilled as he is in making fire and building shelter. After those basic survival needs are set up, however, all eyes will turn to the only man whose spouse is on the other side waiting for him. Boston Rob is as well-equipped as anyone with the tools needed to win this game. The only problem is that everyone he’s playing with has been given ample time to rummage around his toolbox and see what’s inside.
Survivor premieres Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. EST on CBS.
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