The Amazing Race vs. Survivor

Have you ever watched my favorite shows? They are Survivor and The Amazing Race. If you haven’t seen them, Survivor is a show where players are put into tribes with other people you’ve never met in your whole life and have to work together to complete challenges. The challenges in Survivor are usually physical activities/races or puzzles. All challenges are outdoors. The team that loses the immunity challenge has to go to tribal council where someone will be voted off by their own tribe. They are with their tribe until there are only around ten people left. Then they merge tribes and are all one big tribe but are against each other in individual challenges. People make alliances with each other to make it interesting. Another important part of Survivor is that there is a hidden immunity idol at your camp that you find that will save you if you’re about to get voted out. Survivor is a game of strategy. Lots of people backstab and lie so they can get closer to getting the prize which is $1,000,000!
The Amazing Race is a race where all teams travel to different cities and countries around the world. First you are in teams of two, usually with a family member or a friend who you have met before. You have to complete difficult challenges that may get the teammates mad at each other, which other teams will take advantage of and complete the series of challenges quicker. Each task the teams are asked to perform are all drastically different. The last team to get the challenges done may be eliminated. If you don’t get eliminated then you continue on to the next set of challenges on the next day. If you don’t get eliminated but end up in last place, then you do the same difficult challenges but they would have an extra task to complete and try to beat the other teams. If you are caught cheating or forgot to do something in the race you either get a certain time penalty or you have to go back and do the task over again. The winner of The Amazing Race also wins $1,000,000. Which one do you think sounds more exciting?
Survivor and The Amazing Race are similar because the participants are divided into teams. Both of the prizes for winning are $1,000,000. They both are reality TV shows. Contestants’ are selected by the producers of the shows based on audition tapes. Both shows have challenges the players have to complete to move on in the game. You need to use teamwork if you want to go far in each game. Contestant(s) that are out can’t just choose if you want to stay in or not. They both have different seasons, hosts are both guys, and take place outside the U.S. Contestants on the shows are usually over the age of eighteen and range up to grandparents age.
These shows are both action-packed and exciting, which is why they are two of my favorites. If these shows interest you, Survivor is on at 7:00 pm on Thursday, and The Amazing Race is on at 7:00 pm on Sunday. You should watch them. I bet one of them will become one of your favorite shows. Tell me which show is your favorite and compare them. You will be surprised at how many similarities there are between them, I know I was.