Schoolyard Pick

A schoolyard pick is often used in Survivor for choosing tribes or teams for challenges. Jeff Probst will pick the first two people, based on a performance in a challenge, by nomination from a group, or another attribute such as age; and they will each pick one person. The person they selected will then choose the next person, and so on.

Occurrences

 * This was first used in  at the start of the game for the contestants to choose their tribes.
 * This was also used in . The first two people to swim to the beach and retrieve an immunity necklace would select the two tribes the following day. The last two people not selected for a tribe were eliminated.
 * In  Sylvia Kwan was nominated as the leader of the initial group of 19 contestants. She divided the tribes and was sent to Exile Island before joining the losing tribe of the first immunity challenge.
 * In ' and ' the contestants chose tribes based solely on the looks of each other.