Rizo Velovic

49 humbled me in that aspect that I'm not that good.

So I wanted to come back in 50 and do a little bit better.

And I would say like marginally, I was like 10% better.

I didn't go out first in everything that I did, but I was just focused on getting my body right.

getting the weight, spending time with family, and figuring out who I was playing against.

I wasn't too much focused on puzzles or making fires.

So I will say I do have a little bit of an excuse when it comes to my survivor career because I have never, ever gone to tribal council without an idol in my pocket.

So I kind of always had that background safety net.

So I will say...

survivor 49, there was a lot of endurance challenges, a lot of lower body.

And I'm going against Savannah who does Pilates and who's like a beast in these things.

So a lot of the reason why I did so bad, granted, I was never going to win those.

I'm not defending myself, being starving, being hungry.

And as somebody that didn't eat the coconuts out there that didn't eat the fruits that are on the trees, I literally was going six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11 days without consuming anything.

So my energy levels were already super, super low, but

when I realized that, Oh my God, I'm about to go against Savannah and Steven Ram in an endurance competition.

I am not winning in this.

So why exert all this energy if I'm not going to win?

So I'm going to try, but I'm not going to give it my Riz God all.

And then obviously I always go out first.