If you don’t know, two Survivor “alternates” ended up competing on season 49 of the hit series, which airs on Wednesday nights on CBS.

Well, the show’s host Jeff Probst , actually explained the rule that was broken by the two original contestants that caused them to be exiled from the game before it even started.

If you don’t know, ahead of the start of the grueling reality competition TV show, production flies out all of their chosen contestants, as well as two alternate contestants. The two alternates will only play in exceptional circumstances, like illness in an original contestant. In this case, in season 49, two contestants broke a major rule in pre-game and were kicked out.

“So the way it works is in the days leading up to the beginning of the game, all the players are to

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