A few questions about procedures on the show.
Every episode a pair of contestants pick up the messages. It’s always two people and there doesn’t seem to be any pattern to who the pair are. Did the show give them a schedule to follow?
Does anyone know how long Jeff Probst’s unedited question period goes on at the tribal councils? Now that contestants are being voted off, these question and answer periods seem to be their only new source of information on what’s going on and how their former rivals are acting. It seems an awful small amount of information to give people who will be deciding who gets a million dollar prize. I also wonder if the show discourages or encourages the contestants who’ve been voted off from trying to influence the votes of the other judges.
If a contestant brought a luxury item that the other contestants were using (say a deck of cards for example) and was voted off, would he or she get to decide whether or not to take or leave their item behind?
Can a contestant just decide to quit? Suppose someone decided the stress wasn’t worth the potential prize. I’m sure no one would be held against their will, but would someone leaving like this count as that week’s vote off? Would that person still have a vote in the final episode?
We see how the contestants all voted at the end of each episode. Do the contestants see this at any point before the episodes air? Did they know who voted against them when they were making their own decisons? Or could a contestant lie and tell two different people he voted against the other one, hoping that both would vote in his favor and neither would know the truth until it was too late?