User blog comment:Tiernan420/Survivor: Caracol Q&A/@comment-25201371-20180110023747/@comment-4975295-20180110024111

I brought Jay, Chelsea, and Pete back because a few months before I started drafting and writing the season, I remember there was a pretty popular rumor for S36, it was gonna be an 18 person season with three 3 vets as tribe captains. When 36 was revealed to be Ghost Island, the idea was still in my head and I thought I would write out my own version of the rumored twist. I brought them back because Jay was one of the most popular people in MvGX, Chelsea was already been considered quite a few times to come back so realistically, she would be one of the returnees, and Pete...well he's one of the more memorable non winning males in the past 5 years (I wanted to keep it one person per season)