As a longtime Survivor fan, Christian already knows what you're thinking: he reminds you of Survivor champion John Cochran. It's not a newsflash. After all, the man does own a mirror.

"I know people are going to compare me to Cochran, if it hasn't already happened. People are going to say, 'That guy looks like Cochran,'" he says. "It's weird, because when you look at yourself in the mirror every day, you don't think, 'I look like that guy from Survivor!' But then I sent in my casting photo, which was just a selfie of myself against a blackboard ... and I looked at it and went, 'You know? That does kind of look like Cochran!'"

In terms of how Christian views the game, the word "gamebot" comes to mind, not the least of which is due to his role as someone who works with robots for a living. Christian has spent hours of his life analyzing the show and engaging in ancillary material, including podcasts designed to dissect the show's strategy. We'll close our preview of Christian with one of his takeaways from observing the two players at the heart of the Survivor Know-It-Alls show on Rob Has a Podcast.

"I see Survivor as a state of matter," he says of his strategic outlook. "You have solids, you have liquids and you have gases. In an old-school Survivor game, like Thailand, you have rigid structures. Imagine you have this block that's cracked when an alliance cracks; a rogue element like Rob Cesternino comes in, and cracks it again. When everyone is a free radical, one of these rogue agents, it all starts to flow, like a gas in the air. It's almost like a phase change; you have boiled the game, and suddenly there are completely different dynamics. When [two-time player Stephen Fishbach] is talking about voting blocs, to me, what I'm hearing is that the state of the game has fundamentally changed, not that the strategy of any individual player is necessarily different. He described it as a coherence between different players. The trait of an alliance was, 'Yeah, we'll vote together, but you better not vote with anyone else.' But if that second element of the equation is gone? Suddenly you have all these molecules that are unbonded and can do whatever they want — i.e., voting blocs. That's my take."

Here's how some of the other David tribe members view Christian...

Gabby: "That's my fellow nerd! Obviously I have to say what's up to the guy wearing glasses. I hope he's a super fan and we can talk about strategy together."

Carl: "That's today's Cochran, which can be very fucking scary, because Cochran was one hell of a smart guy. He's one of those guys who I'm watching, floating along nonchalant. He literally puts his head down and bounces around Ponderosa. We'll have to see. Looks can fool you. We'll have to test it out and see."

Jessica: "He's kind of like the new Cochran, right? He's the type of guy who should definitely be here on Survivor. I'd want to keep him around, because whenever we get to individual immunities, he might not have as good of a chance as I will."

Nick: "I'm scared of him. I know I'm being a Benedict Arnold or a Theon Greyjoy, but I want to see the super fans go home early. I'm scared to death of them. Look at the past few seasons: Adam, David, Hannah… they were all at the end, and they all could have gone home early so easily. Ryan made it to the final three. These are all huge threats, because they know the game."