There’s a lot of factors that can make the early days of Survivor feel downright grueling. The starvation, the bugs, the big personalities. While the show’s 18 new castaways are surely in for the ride of their lives, Season 49 won’t be a walk in the park. This crew is going to have work hard, battle it out and put in a lot of sweat — literally — if they want to make it to the end.

“This was the hottest season I can remember, maybe with the exception of Cambodia , when we had three players go down at once,” host Jeff Probst tells TVLine. “That doesn’t sound like much, but I felt it. And in fact, I asked the editors to leave it in — when I’m tired, when I’m exhausted, when I stumble with a name, when you see the sweat through my shirt — because I want the audience to understand, it

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