Yesterday, I went through the men of Survivor: Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers and I gave my way too early assessment on their chances in the game. Today, it’s time to do the same for the women of season 35 to see how badly I can get everything wrong given the sliver of information we have available to us. Make sure to save all of this for later when you can tweet me about all my terrible predictions when the season begins.

If I’m being honest, while the guys all seem like perfectly fine people, the women really seem like the cream of this cast’s crop. Obviously a lot remains to be seen but I get some great vibes from a lot of these women and I can easily see another female winner off the back of Sarah Lacina’s Game Changers win.

Alexandra “Ali” Elliott, 24, Personal Assistant

Tribe: Hustlers

Ali lives in Hollywood and studied in radio and television. I am not going to outright say she is a complete recruit but if the stars align so well… it’s a pretty safe prediction to make. There is no stigma, in my eyes, in not knowing Survivor prior to going on and it may in fact be a blessing in disguise if the person is predisposed to doing well in a social game.

Update: like I said, I wouldn’t outright say she is a recruit because I would have been very stupid. She is likely a fan, having watched since childhood with her family as per this article by the always fantastic Josh Wiggler. I hadn’t seen it until now and it was brought up to me by redditor DJM97 so thank you for that!

Having played soccer at Auburn, Ali is definitely going to be able to keep up physically and that can be especially important for women. Having strong women is often the difference between winning and losing challenges, especially the physical ones that divide players among gender lines. Ali should be fine to ingratiate herself to her tribe as long as she is willing to do work at camp.

Social media insights:

She loves selfies but what 24 year old with a Twitter or Instagram doesn’t? I won’t fault her for that. From Twitter, I can gather that she is an NBA fan which gets a lot of points from me. She also seems to enjoy a variety of different music and has gone to a few different music festivals in the last year. She tweets a decent amount but doesn’t get a lot of response considering she only has 800 and some followers. It’s crazy to me that she has so few followers and in a few weeks, she is going to have more than she bargained for.

Her Instagram is mostly more of the same. She has one photo with the caption “find your tribe. Luckily I’m related to mine” which is just a picture of her and two other ladies but the wording is obviously interesting considering the game she played. I don’t think it tells anything, just a subtle hint as to what she did to her friends and followers.

There’s also a YouTube channel with two videos on it. One is Ali’s bridesmaid toast to her sister. The toast is at best a C+ or B- toast. She spends way too much time talking about herself and only mentions her sister’s husband for like 20 seconds but maybe she is one of those people who isn’t great with public speaking. If that is the case, she may have studied in the wrong field. The other video is a 14 minute hair curling video which… no thank you. Sorry Ali.

Expectations:

I think she has the physical attributes to do very well. She is attractive, fit and probably one of the stronger women on her cast. She also seems fairly intelligent and nice enough. My hope is that she isn’t too conceited which is a vibe I am getting off of her after sifting through her social media.

Ashley Nolan, 26, Lifeguard Captain

Tribe: Heroes

Do we have a female Ozzy Lusth on our hands? If Ashley is a lifeguard, she has to be a very strong swimmer. She has also previously played in the Lingerie Football League which, despite its obvious misogynistic flaws, requires actual athletic ability to take part in. She had to stop that when she tore her ACL which might impact her a bit on the island if she still feels uncertain about her knee.

Social media insights:

Ashley tweets very rarely and all of her tweets so far have just been links to one of her Instagram posts. It’ something I will never understand, using one social media to link to another. Oh well… as of now, Ashley only has 32 followers and does not seem to be very invested in her Twitter account.

As for her Instagram, it’s way livelier. She has made a very small appearance in the movie version of Baywatch and seems to love being at the beach. Makes sense considering her life’s work. From her pictures, I can tell that she is very obviously physically fit and may actually intimidate a lot of players with her physique. Much like Christmas in the current season of Big Brother until she blew up her foot.

One final thing, on her Facebook, she lists Survivor as her favorite television show. Now, I have no way of telling if this was before or after her stint on the show but I am going to take it as a good omen that she has that up there considering this cast seems high on people who don’t really watch the show.

Expectations:

I am very high on Ashley. I think she has a lot of tools that could take her very far and maybe all the way to the end. As of right now, she is on my short list of people I think might win the game.

Christine “Chrissy” Hofbeck, 46, Actuary

Tribe: Heroes

Full confession of my end: I had to Google what an actuary did. Upon Googling, I understand a bit more but still don’t really get it. Anyways… Christine is one of the older women on her cast since there are two 46 year old ladies. As part of the heroes tribe that has a lot of muscle and youth, I am not sure how well that is going to fly. I will give Chrissy a lot of credit in that she does not look 46 from her pictures whatsoever so maybe she can still blend in.

Social media insights:

Looking at her Twitter account, it is still very new. It was only created on June 4, 2017. She is very active on twitter. Obviously her kids are a huge part of her life and she posts pictures of them a lot. One of her sons is college-aged, another is a 6”4 16 year old basketball player and she has a daughter that is 14. They love to watch Prison Break and cook together. All of this is pretty much innocuous. Chrissy has also tweeted about Big Brother 19 and retweeted the article that came out recently about the differences between Survivor and Big Brother. This gives me a sign of hope that she is coming in as someone who watches these shows from their very beginning. In fact, one of her tweets is her mother, herself and her daughter captioned “3 generation of reality TV junkies eagerly awaiting the premiere of #BB19”. This is very promising.

Chrissy loses major points for tweeting about Twilight and her enjoyment of the series. She also chooses to be Team Edward, which let’s be honest, is the worst of two teams. Not that I know anything about that series.

Looking at Instagram tells me that she was part of a documentary on National Geographic. It doesn’t tell me much else that I couldn’t already decipher from twitter.

Expectations:

Chrissy is clearly intelligent and successful already. She is one of these people who doesn’t need Survivor and is likely going on for the experience. This is doubly true if she is indeed a fan of the game who happened to make it through casting. I don’t think she is going to have everything needed to win but I do like her from what I’ve seen and hope she can put together a nice run on the show.

Desiree “Desi” Williams, 27, Physical Therapist/Professor

Tribe: Healer

God damn! Desi makes me feel incredibly unaccomplished in life being her age and having done approximately 0% of the things she has done so far. She’s a registered physical therapist as well as being an assistant professor at Hampton University. That is also where she got her degree in Health and Physical Education and her DPT. She’s co-published a book, is a certified yoga instructor and has been Miss Virginia twice and has competed in Miss America.

If Desi doesn’t do well in the game, I will be disappointed because she really seems like somebody who just succeeds at whatever she tries. Also she’s stunningly beautiful on top of it all.

I can’t be the only one who sees Ashley from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air when I look at her, right?