User blog:Tanglefrost/Con Dao Cast Selection Announcement

I've finalised the Con Dao cast, so I'm going to announce them now because I'm just bursting with excitement! Firstly, I want to say thank you so much to everyone who took the time to submit a character. Your submissions were incredible and it was really hard to pick the final cast. I swapped a few people in and out, and I think I've picked a great cast!

A question I heard quite a few times was, "How are you going to pick just seven?" To that, I say... I picked more. Your submissions were so great that I swapped out a couple of my own characters to include more of yours. These characters will be redistributed to season 9 (Survivor: Bioko) and season 10 (''Survivor: San Vincente). ''Let's see, first, who has been swapped out and what season they'll be playing on!

That now means there are spaces for four men and eight women submitted by you guys. I can tell you now that I picked four men and seven women from the applicant pool, so the winner of the prediction game will be able to submit the final woman. Since there are less men than women, I'm going to announce the men first. Keeping in mind that I was limiting it to one castaway per person, I took the male applicant list down to seven semi-finalists. These were:
 * Daniel Dole (UnderAPineapple)
 * Brian Chung (Surferdude)
 * Nic Redmont (LogChi)
 * Scott Tymchyshyn (Uke)
 * James Ryan (CSIPizzaGuy)
 * Enrique Salvador (MattDB)
 * Owen Fleur (Tiernan420)

The four who made it were the following:


 * Daniel Dole
 * James Ryan
 * Nic Redmont
 * Scott Tymchyshyn 

Congratulations! As I said, this was really hard to pick, but I found these four were the most unique, interesting characters with a lot of story potential!

Now, for the women. This one was a lot harder to pick. I actually had ten semi-finalists and had to get it down to seven somehow! The following people made it to the semi finals:
 * Kelty Barrett (DuskEars)
 * Daremyth Cook (JakeToby)
 * Taylor Cakir (Courierthekid)
 * Evie de Santos (ProudAndBitter)
 * Clara Alcott (EeveeFan)
 * Tassandra Huggins (Artiemac)
 * Tamiciea Davis (RTV)
 * Heeyoung Kim (PvZ)
 * Laelle Harkin (AJ)
 * Scarlet Williams (KLS)

The following seven made it in:

Thank you once again for the amazing pool of female cast members! I actually had such a tough time picking the women that I swapped two people in and out multiple times. Scarlet and Daremyth were swapped for the last spot over and over until I finally settled on Daremyth as she had what I was looking for.

Thank you so, so, much to all the applicants who put in so much effort! I'm sorry I couldn't pick everyone. There were just so many applications that were such good quality.