Tonight's episode is titled "Double the Fun, Double the Demise." We know from the preview that they're asked to divide into pairs. There's speculation online that this sounds similar to a twist Survivor South
Africa did that was called "Tied Destinies." In that twist, whatever happened to your partner happened to you. For example, if an idol was
played on your partner it was also played on you. It also meant if your partner was voted out so were you. The vote was done as normal, i.e.,
you voted for an individual player, not a pair. The fact that there's
still 13 players left means the twist for S50 will not be a clone of
what SSA did.
More later.
On 4/15/2026 6:57 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Double the Fun, Double the Demise." We
know from the preview that they're asked to divide into pairs. There's
speculation online that this sounds similar to a twist Survivor South
Africa did that was called "Tied Destinies." In that twist, whatever
happened to your partner happened to you. For example, if an idol was
played on your partner it was also played on you. It also meant if
your partner was voted out so were you. The vote was done as normal,
i.e., you voted for an individual player, not a pair. The fact that
there's still 13 players left means the twist for S50 will not be a
clone of what SSA did.
More later.
I remember that twist from South Africa at final 10 (post merge) and absolutely hated it because the pairs were randomly chosen by rocks and
two people were voted out even though only one of the pair received votes.-a-a The other, Amy, had to leave the game without ever having received any votes cast against her.-a It was terrible, and I'm a little surprised the US version is repeating the twist since it was so poorly received.-a The only way to maybe make it tenable is if the players can choose their own pairs.-a The randomness of the SA version was what made
it so awful.-a It's similar in a way but much worse than being swap screwed.
Tonight's episode is titled "Double the Fun, Double the Demise." We know from the preview that they're asked to divide into pairs. There's speculation online that this sounds similar to a twist Survivor South
Africa did that was called "Tied Destinies." In that twist, whatever happened to your partner happened to you. For example, if an idol was
played on your partner it was also played on you. It also meant if your partner was voted out so were you. The vote was done as normal, i.e.,
you voted for an individual player, not a pair. The fact that there's
still 13 players left means the twist for S50 will not be a clone of
what SSA did.
More later.
On 4/15/2026 4:57 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Double the Fun, Double the Demise." We know
from the preview that they're asked to divide into pairs. There's
speculation online that this sounds similar to a twist Survivor South
Africa did that was called "Tied Destinies." In that twist, whatever
happened to your partner happened to you. For example, if an idol was
played on your partner it was also played on you. It also meant if your
partner was voted out so were you. The vote was done as normal, i.e.,
you voted for an individual player, not a pair. The fact that there's
still 13 players left means the twist for S50 will not be a clone of
what SSA did.
More later.
That wasn't as brutal as the South Africa twist but still pretty bad.
Some comments:
--Knowing that the twist had a bad side to it, everyone should have
tried their best to avoid partnering with Coach. How did Chrissy end up
with him?
--What happened to Rizo and Emily in the IC? They were doing great and
then ended up way behind. Possibly last. Did Rizo choke again?
--Tiff and Joe worked well together in the IC. When they were partnering
up it looked like he went to her. Was that because he felt guilty for
voting for her last TC?
--Aubry's gullible. Did she actually believe him when he said the fake
idol has to be played next round?
--This was a great episode for Cirie. She totally lucked out avoiding
having to partner up and even more so when it came to finding the
"phoenix" coconut on Exile Island so she could keep her vote. She did a
good job steering the vote toward Chrissy and Coach.
--WTH was Jonathan wearing at TC and where did it come from? It looked
like a very fancy bathrobe.
--I'm glad that Chrissy and Coach got booted. She brought nothing to the >season as far as I'm concerned, and he was just joking around.
Now we're down to F11. No one is sticking out as a winner to me. Cirie
and Ozzy are getting good edits but not winner edits. Jonathan is
looking like someone who might make the finale. Aubrey keeps skating by >which scares me. Despite a vote tonight, Emily appears to have no
enemies. I wonder if social game will decide this season. It sure won't
be strategic game with all of the randomness.
On 4/15/2026 4:57 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Double the Fun, Double the Demise." We
know from the preview that they're asked to divide into pairs. There's
speculation online that this sounds similar to a twist Survivor South
Africa did that was called "Tied Destinies." In that twist, whatever
happened to your partner happened to you. For example, if an idol was
played on your partner it was also played on you. It also meant if
your partner was voted out so were you. The vote was done as normal,
i.e., you voted for an individual player, not a pair. The fact that
there's still 13 players left means the twist for S50 will not be a
clone of what SSA did.
More later.
That wasn't as brutal as the South Africa twist but still pretty bad.
Some comments:
--Knowing that the twist had a bad side to it, everyone should have
tried their best to avoid partnering with Coach. How did Chrissy end up
with him?
--What happened to Rizo and Emily in the IC? They were doing great and
then ended up way behind. Possibly last. Did Rizo choke again?
--Tiff and Joe worked well together in the IC. When they were partnering
up it looked like he went to her. Was that because he felt guilty for
voting for her last TC?
--Aubry's gullible. Did she actually believe him when he said the fake
idol has to be played next round?
--This was a great episode for Cirie. She totally lucked out avoiding
having to partner up and even more so when it came to finding the
"phoenix" coconut on Exile Island so she could keep her vote. She did a
good job steering the vote toward Chrissy and Coach.
--WTH was Jonathan wearing at TC and where did it come from? It looked
like a very fancy bathrobe.
--I'm glad that Chrissy and Coach got booted. She brought nothing to the season as far as I'm concerned, and he was just joking around.
Now we're down to F11. No one is sticking out as a winner to me. Cirie
and Ozzy are getting good edits but not winner edits. Jonathan is
looking like someone who might make the finale. Aubrey keeps skating by which scares me. Despite a vote tonight, Emily appears to have no
enemies. I wonder if social game will decide this season. It sure won't
be strategic game with all of the randomness.
On 4/15/2026 10:39 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 4/15/2026 4:57 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Double the Fun, Double the Demise." We
know from the preview that they're asked to divide into pairs.
There's speculation online that this sounds similar to a twist
Survivor South Africa did that was called "Tied Destinies." In that
twist, whatever happened to your partner happened to you. For
example, if an idol was played on your partner it was also played on
you. It also meant if your partner was voted out so were you. The
vote was done as normal, i.e., you voted for an individual player,
not a pair. The fact that there's still 13 players left means the
twist for S50 will not be a clone of what SSA did.
More later.
That wasn't as brutal as the South Africa twist but still pretty bad.
I noticed another significant difference from the South African version.
-aOn SA, the players voted for one person at TC as normal, writing just
one name on the ballot, and then both that person and the person they
were teamed with were eliminated.-a On SA, the team-mate, Amy, never received any votes which made it really seem unfair that she had to leave.
On the US version, it appears the players were told to vote for the team they wanted out, so both names had to be written down.-a So effectively, Coach and Crissie received the same number of votes, even if, say,
Coach, was the person most people wanted out.-a It also seemed that some people only wrote one name initially and then were perhaps told to go
back and add the second name in, because on some ballots it looked like
one name had been written down taking up the normal amount of space and
then the other name was crammed in. Look at the way Rizzo, Joe, Jonathan and, to a lesser extent, Steph wrote their ballots with one larger name
and then another seemingly added as an afterthought.
Some comments:
--Knowing that the twist had a bad side to it, everyone should have
tried their best to avoid partnering with Coach. How did Chrissy end
up with him?
Crissie liked Coach and probably thought they could work well together.
On paper, at least, Coach should be good in physically based challenges.
-aAlso, I'm not sure Crissie really got the point at first that both players could be voted out together.
--What happened to Rizo and Emily in the IC? They were doing great and
then ended up way behind. Possibly last. Did Rizo choke again?
--Tiff and Joe worked well together in the IC. When they were
partnering up it looked like he went to her. Was that because he felt
guilty for voting for her last TC?
I think they weirdly seem to have good chemistry.-a Joe is very honest
and straightforward, and Tiff comes across that way too.-a I kind of like then together as a team.
--Aubry's gullible. Did she actually believe him when he said the fake
idol has to be played next round?
Doubt it.-a I kind of think she and others are already sniffing this out
as fake, especially when he didn't want to show it to anyone.
--This was a great episode for Cirie. She totally lucked out avoiding
having to partner up and even more so when it came to finding the
"phoenix" coconut on Exile Island so she could keep her vote. She did
a good job steering the vote toward Chrissy and Coach.
She definitely orchestrated the vote and showed her smarts.-a She has
this aura of being the older, wise person with extensive game experience
and the other players instinctively trust her.-a She was also very smart
to be among the first (along with Rick, I think) to immediately
volunteer to be the odd person out in the challenge.-a I think she knew there was a good person she would be protected at TC.
--WTH was Jonathan wearing at TC and where did it come from? It looked
like a very fancy bathrobe.
I thought the same thing!-a I wondered if he had brought that with him or perhaps he inherited it from a player voted out.
--I'm glad that Chrissy and Coach got booted. She brought nothing to
the season as far as I'm concerned, and he was just joking around.
It was also good to see some old era players gone since it seems most of
the eliminated players have been New Era.-a By my count, the only New Era players still in the game are Jonathan, Tiff, Emily, Joe and Rizzo, and Jonathan and Joe barely count since they are both more old style in
their thinking and game play.
Now we're down to F11. No one is sticking out as a winner to me. Cirie
and Ozzy are getting good edits but not winner edits. Jonathan is
looking like someone who might make the finale. Aubrey keeps skating
by which scares me. Despite a vote tonight, Emily appears to have no
enemies. I wonder if social game will decide this season. It sure
won't be strategic game with all of the randomness.
Really hard to say who is getting the best edit.-a Emily and Rizo are getting a lot of air time among the new era players.-a So is Jonathan,
who doesn't act New Era, but I don't think his edit is all that great.
He's been shown as a bit bossy and condescending, especially toward Dee
in that one episode. Of the old-time players I actually wonder if Stef
might go far.-a She's been in every episode and seems to be sliding by.
So far it has been an interesting and hard-to-predict season.-a I just
worry with all the double-eliminations that someone might get caught in
the crossfire as Crissie did (not that I ever liked Crissie - I'm also
glad to see her gone).-a If we somehow got a Rizo-Emily-Stefanie finale,
I think I would be good with that.
On 4/16/2026 9:14 AM, Rick wrote:
On 4/15/2026 10:39 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 4/15/2026 4:57 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Double the Fun, Double the Demise." We
know from the preview that they're asked to divide into pairs.
There's speculation online that this sounds similar to a twist
Survivor South Africa did that was called "Tied Destinies." In that
twist, whatever happened to your partner happened to you. For
example, if an idol was played on your partner it was also played on
you. It also meant if your partner was voted out so were you. The
vote was done as normal, i.e., you voted for an individual player,
not a pair. The fact that there's still 13 players left means the
twist for S50 will not be a clone of what SSA did.
More later.
That wasn't as brutal as the South Africa twist but still pretty bad.
I noticed another significant difference from the South African
version. -a-aOn SA, the players voted for one person at TC as normal,
writing just one name on the ballot, and then both that person and the
person they were teamed with were eliminated.-a On SA, the team-mate,
Amy, never received any votes which made it really seem unfair that
she had to leave.
On the US version, it appears the players were told to vote for the
team they wanted out, so both names had to be written down.-a So
effectively, Coach and Crissie received the same number of votes, even
if, say, Coach, was the person most people wanted out.-a It also seemed
that some people only wrote one name initially and then were perhaps
told to go back and add the second name in, because on some ballots it
looked like one name had been written down taking up the normal amount
of space and then the other name was crammed in. Look at the way
Rizzo, Joe, Jonathan and, to a lesser extent, Steph wrote their
ballots with one larger name and then another seemingly added as an
afterthought.
They were definitely told they would be voting individually but had to
vote for a pair. They were told this at the IC and it was discussed
during TC. Christian said it was essentially a F6 vote.
The way some people wrote the names on the parchment was to send a
message and/or to make it clear who they wanted out. Jonathan wanted
Devens gone, not Aubry. Chrissy wanted Rizo gone more than she did
Emily. Emily made it clear she wanted Coach gone by writing: COACH! + CHRISSY. I'm pretty sure no one forgot they had to write down two names.
Some comments:
--Knowing that the twist had a bad side to it, everyone should have
tried their best to avoid partnering with Coach. How did Chrissy end
up with him?
Crissie liked Coach and probably thought they could work well
together. On paper, at least, Coach should be good in physically based
challenges. -a-aAlso, I'm not sure Crissie really got the point at first
that both players could be voted out together.
She probably didn't. I was confused at the end of TC when she didn't
play her SITD to double their chances of being safe. She had to have
known they were the main target of nearly everyone else.
On a bit of a tangent, if Coach's SITD had worked for them, I wonder how
the revote would have gone. Would Deven's hand been forced concerning
the fake idol and that would have been the end for him and Aubry?
--What happened to Rizo and Emily in the IC? They were doing great
and then ended up way behind. Possibly last. Did Rizo choke again?
--Tiff and Joe worked well together in the IC. When they were
partnering up it looked like he went to her. Was that because he felt
guilty for voting for her last TC?
I think they weirdly seem to have good chemistry.-a Joe is very honest
and straightforward, and Tiff comes across that way too.-a I kind of
like then together as a team.
They are a good match but she can be too volatile. I'm not sure if he
could calm her down or if she would want him to even try. They have good chemistry but not the tight organic bond Joe and Eva had.
--Aubry's gullible. Did she actually believe him when he said the
fake idol has to be played next round?
Doubt it.-a I kind of think she and others are already sniffing this
out as fake, especially when he didn't want to show it to anyone.
--This was a great episode for Cirie. She totally lucked out avoiding
having to partner up and even more so when it came to finding the
"phoenix" coconut on Exile Island so she could keep her vote. She did
a good job steering the vote toward Chrissy and Coach.
She definitely orchestrated the vote and showed her smarts.-a She has
this aura of being the older, wise person with extensive game
experience and the other players instinctively trust her.-a She was
also very smart to be among the first (along with Rick, I think) to
immediately volunteer to be the odd person out in the challenge.-a I
think she knew there was a good person she would be protected at TC.
Cirie must have watched S47 and so the importance of not giving away a potential advantage.
--WTH was Jonathan wearing at TC and where did it come from? It
looked like a very fancy bathrobe.
I thought the same thing!-a I wondered if he had brought that with him
or perhaps he inherited it from a player voted out.
The robe was huge so I doubt he inherited it. Maybe something happened
to his clothes and he had the robe at Ponderosa.
--I'm glad that Chrissy and Coach got booted. She brought nothing to
the season as far as I'm concerned, and he was just joking around.
It was also good to see some old era players gone since it seems most
of the eliminated players have been New Era.-a By my count, the only
New Era players still in the game are Jonathan, Tiff, Emily, Joe and
Rizzo, and Jonathan and Joe barely count since they are both more old
style in their thinking and game play.
Coach is saying he was purposely targeting New Era players. He didn't
want a 26 day player to win S50. That seems to be the case for a lot of them.
Now we're down to F11. No one is sticking out as a winner to me.
Cirie and Ozzy are getting good edits but not winner edits. Jonathan
is looking like someone who might make the finale. Aubrey keeps
skating by which scares me. Despite a vote tonight, Emily appears to
have no enemies. I wonder if social game will decide this season. It
sure won't be strategic game with all of the randomness.
Really hard to say who is getting the best edit.-a Emily and Rizo are
getting a lot of air time among the new era players.-a So is Jonathan,
who doesn't act New Era, but I don't think his edit is all that great.
He's been shown as a bit bossy and condescending, especially toward
Dee in that one episode. Of the old-time players I actually wonder if
Stef might go far.-a She's been in every episode and seems to be
sliding by.
Steph has really surprised me. Preseason, I thought she'd be an early
boot. Jonathan's getting an edit of someone who goes deep into the game. Other than sucking up to Coach, what has he done? Could he be the zero
vote finalist? Rizo and Emily are getting a lot of screentime. It would
be funny if they along with Ozzy and Cirie are F4 and Rizo gets taken
out at that point again.
So far it has been an interesting and hard-to-predict season.-a I just
worry with all the double-eliminations that someone might get caught
in the crossfire as Crissie did (not that I ever liked Crissie - I'm
also glad to see her gone).-a If we somehow got a Rizo-Emily-Stefanie
finale, I think I would be good with that.
That would be a F3 I'm sure now one predicted and probably result in a
win for Steph due to vote splitting.
On 4/17/2026 5:19 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 4/16/2026 9:14 AM, Rick wrote:
On 4/15/2026 10:39 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 4/15/2026 4:57 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Double the Fun, Double the Demise." We >>>>> know from the preview that they're asked to divide into pairs.
There's speculation online that this sounds similar to a twist
Survivor South Africa did that was called "Tied Destinies." In that >>>>> twist, whatever happened to your partner happened to you. For
example, if an idol was played on your partner it was also played
on you. It also meant if your partner was voted out so were you.
The vote was done as normal, i.e., you voted for an individual
player, not a pair. The fact that there's still 13 players left
means the twist for S50 will not be a clone of what SSA did.
More later.
That wasn't as brutal as the South Africa twist but still pretty bad.
I noticed another significant difference from the South African
version. -a-aOn SA, the players voted for one person at TC as normal,
writing just one name on the ballot, and then both that person and
the person they were teamed with were eliminated.-a On SA, the team-
mate, Amy, never received any votes which made it really seem unfair
that she had to leave.
On the US version, it appears the players were told to vote for the
team they wanted out, so both names had to be written down.-a So
effectively, Coach and Crissie received the same number of votes,
even if, say, Coach, was the person most people wanted out.-a It also
seemed that some people only wrote one name initially and then were
perhaps told to go back and add the second name in, because on some
ballots it looked like one name had been written down taking up the
normal amount of space and then the other name was crammed in. Look
at the way Rizzo, Joe, Jonathan and, to a lesser extent, Steph wrote
their ballots with one larger name and then another seemingly added
as an afterthought.
They were definitely told they would be voting individually but had to
vote for a pair. They were told this at the IC and it was discussed
during TC. Christian said it was essentially a F6 vote.
The way some people wrote the names on the parchment was to send a
message and/or to make it clear who they wanted out. Jonathan wanted
Devens gone, not Aubry. Chrissy wanted Rizo gone more than she did
Emily. Emily made it clear she wanted Coach gone by writing: COACH! +
CHRISSY. I'm pretty sure no one forgot they had to write down two names.
Maybe.-a It just seemed odd to me that some names took up the whole
ballot and looked like the other name was written as an afterthought and squeezed in.
Some comments:
--Knowing that the twist had a bad side to it, everyone should have
tried their best to avoid partnering with Coach. How did Chrissy end
up with him?
Crissie liked Coach and probably thought they could work well
together. On paper, at least, Coach should be good in physically
based challenges. -a-aAlso, I'm not sure Crissie really got the point
at first that both players could be voted out together.
She probably didn't. I was confused at the end of TC when she didn't
play her SITD to double their chances of being safe. She had to have
known they were the main target of nearly everyone else.
Maybe because it would have meant they would lose two votes if neither hit.-a Had the vote been close, losing two votes would be hard to overcome.
On a bit of a tangent, if Coach's SITD had worked for them, I wonder
how the revote would have gone. Would Deven's hand been forced
concerning the fake idol and that would have been the end for him and
Aubry?
He already told Aubry when Jeff asked if anyone wanted play an idol that
he supposedly couldn't use it until the following TC.
--What happened to Rizo and Emily in the IC? They were doing great
and then ended up way behind. Possibly last. Did Rizo choke again?
--Tiff and Joe worked well together in the IC. When they were
partnering up it looked like he went to her. Was that because he
felt guilty for voting for her last TC?
I think they weirdly seem to have good chemistry.-a Joe is very honest
and straightforward, and Tiff comes across that way too.-a I kind of
like then together as a team.
They are a good match but she can be too volatile. I'm not sure if he
could calm her down or if she would want him to even try. They have
good chemistry but not the tight organic bond Joe and Eva had.
Yeah, but Joe's got to take what he can get. Especially with Coach and Crissie gone.
--Aubry's gullible. Did she actually believe him when he said the
fake idol has to be played next round?
Doubt it.-a I kind of think she and others are already sniffing this
out as fake, especially when he didn't want to show it to anyone.
--This was a great episode for Cirie. She totally lucked out
avoiding having to partner up and even more so when it came to
finding the "phoenix" coconut on Exile Island so she could keep her
vote. She did a good job steering the vote toward Chrissy and Coach.
She definitely orchestrated the vote and showed her smarts.-a She has
this aura of being the older, wise person with extensive game
experience and the other players instinctively trust her.-a She was
also very smart to be among the first (along with Rick, I think) to
immediately volunteer to be the odd person out in the challenge.-a I
think she knew there was a good person she would be protected at TC.
Cirie must have watched S47 and so the importance of not giving away a
potential advantage.
I really don't like Cirie and think Jenna was right on target when she
went after her first episode.-a But I have to admit Cirie is playing a
very smart game and has positioned herself in a way I have never seen
her do on previous seasons.
--WTH was Jonathan wearing at TC and where did it come from? It
looked like a very fancy bathrobe.
I thought the same thing!-a I wondered if he had brought that with him
or perhaps he inherited it from a player voted out.
The robe was huge so I doubt he inherited it. Maybe something happened
to his clothes and he had the robe at Ponderosa.
--I'm glad that Chrissy and Coach got booted. She brought nothing to
the season as far as I'm concerned, and he was just joking around.
It was also good to see some old era players gone since it seems most
of the eliminated players have been New Era.-a By my count, the only
New Era players still in the game are Jonathan, Tiff, Emily, Joe and
Rizzo, and Jonathan and Joe barely count since they are both more old
style in their thinking and game play.
Coach is saying he was purposely targeting New Era players. He didn't
want a 26 day player to win S50. That seems to be the case for a lot
of them.
Now we're down to F11. No one is sticking out as a winner to me.
Cirie and Ozzy are getting good edits but not winner edits. Jonathan
is looking like someone who might make the finale. Aubrey keeps
skating by which scares me. Despite a vote tonight, Emily appears to
have no enemies. I wonder if social game will decide this season. It
sure won't be strategic game with all of the randomness.
Really hard to say who is getting the best edit.-a Emily and Rizo are
getting a lot of air time among the new era players.-a So is Jonathan,
who doesn't act New Era, but I don't think his edit is all that
great. He's been shown as a bit bossy and condescending, especially
toward Dee in that one episode. Of the old-time players I actually
wonder if Stef might go far.-a She's been in every episode and seems
to be sliding by.
Steph has really surprised me. Preseason, I thought she'd be an early
boot. Jonathan's getting an edit of someone who goes deep into the
game. Other than sucking up to Coach, what has he done? Could he be
the zero vote finalist? Rizo and Emily are getting a lot of
screentime. It would be funny if they along with Ozzy and Cirie are F4
and Rizo gets taken out at that point again.
Steph has probably been gone from the game longer than any player still
in the game but, like Cirie, she is older and wiser than when she first played and I think she has learned a lot.
On 4/17/2026 6:35 PM, Rick wrote:
On 4/17/2026 5:19 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 4/16/2026 9:14 AM, Rick wrote:
On 4/15/2026 10:39 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 4/15/2026 4:57 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Double the Fun, Double the Demise."
We know from the preview that they're asked to divide into pairs. >>>>>> There's speculation online that this sounds similar to a twist
Survivor South Africa did that was called "Tied Destinies." In
that twist, whatever happened to your partner happened to you. For >>>>>> example, if an idol was played on your partner it was also played >>>>>> on you. It also meant if your partner was voted out so were you.
The vote was done as normal, i.e., you voted for an individual
player, not a pair. The fact that there's still 13 players left
means the twist for S50 will not be a clone of what SSA did.
More later.
That wasn't as brutal as the South Africa twist but still pretty bad. >>>>>
I noticed another significant difference from the South African
version. -a-aOn SA, the players voted for one person at TC as normal, >>>> writing just one name on the ballot, and then both that person and
the person they were teamed with were eliminated.-a On SA, the team-
mate, Amy, never received any votes which made it really seem unfair
that she had to leave.
On the US version, it appears the players were told to vote for the
team they wanted out, so both names had to be written down.-a So
effectively, Coach and Crissie received the same number of votes,
even if, say, Coach, was the person most people wanted out.-a It also >>>> seemed that some people only wrote one name initially and then were
perhaps told to go back and add the second name in, because on some
ballots it looked like one name had been written down taking up the
normal amount of space and then the other name was crammed in. Look
at the way Rizzo, Joe, Jonathan and, to a lesser extent, Steph wrote
their ballots with one larger name and then another seemingly added
as an afterthought.
They were definitely told they would be voting individually but had
to vote for a pair. They were told this at the IC and it was
discussed during TC. Christian said it was essentially a F6 vote.
The way some people wrote the names on the parchment was to send a
message and/or to make it clear who they wanted out. Jonathan wanted
Devens gone, not Aubry. Chrissy wanted Rizo gone more than she did
Emily. Emily made it clear she wanted Coach gone by writing: COACH! +
CHRISSY. I'm pretty sure no one forgot they had to write down two names. >>>
Maybe.-a It just seemed odd to me that some names took up the whole
ballot and looked like the other name was written as an afterthought
and squeezed in.
Some comments:
--Knowing that the twist had a bad side to it, everyone should have >>>>> tried their best to avoid partnering with Coach. How did Chrissy
end up with him?
Crissie liked Coach and probably thought they could work well
together. On paper, at least, Coach should be good in physically
based challenges. -a-aAlso, I'm not sure Crissie really got the point >>>> at first that both players could be voted out together.
She probably didn't. I was confused at the end of TC when she didn't
play her SITD to double their chances of being safe. She had to have
known they were the main target of nearly everyone else.
Maybe because it would have meant they would lose two votes if neither
hit.-a Had the vote been close, losing two votes would be hard to
overcome.
With 13 people voting and nearly everyone against them, they needed to gamble as much as possible.
On a bit of a tangent, if Coach's SITD had worked for them, I wonder
how the revote would have gone. Would Deven's hand been forced
concerning the fake idol and that would have been the end for him and
Aubry?
He already told Aubry when Jeff asked if anyone wanted play an idol
that he supposedly couldn't use it until the following TC.
True. I'm just saying people such as Steph would press him more and when
it was clear he was lying that would have been it for them.
--What happened to Rizo and Emily in the IC? They were doing great
and then ended up way behind. Possibly last. Did Rizo choke again?
--Tiff and Joe worked well together in the IC. When they were
partnering up it looked like he went to her. Was that because he
felt guilty for voting for her last TC?
I think they weirdly seem to have good chemistry.-a Joe is very
honest and straightforward, and Tiff comes across that way too.-a I
kind of like then together as a team.
They are a good match but she can be too volatile. I'm not sure if he
could calm her down or if she would want him to even try. They have
good chemistry but not the tight organic bond Joe and Eva had.
Yeah, but Joe's got to take what he can get. Especially with Coach and
Crissie gone.
True. It's kind of strange how limited Joe's bonds are with the other
New Era players. I wonder if he did any pregaming?
--Aubry's gullible. Did she actually believe him when he said the
fake idol has to be played next round?
Doubt it.-a I kind of think she and others are already sniffing this
out as fake, especially when he didn't want to show it to anyone.
--This was a great episode for Cirie. She totally lucked out
avoiding having to partner up and even more so when it came to
finding the "phoenix" coconut on Exile Island so she could keep her >>>>> vote. She did a good job steering the vote toward Chrissy and Coach. >>>>>
She definitely orchestrated the vote and showed her smarts.-a She has >>>> this aura of being the older, wise person with extensive game
experience and the other players instinctively trust her.-a She was
also very smart to be among the first (along with Rick, I think) to
immediately volunteer to be the odd person out in the challenge.-a I
think she knew there was a good person she would be protected at TC.
Cirie must have watched S47 and so the importance of not giving away
a potential advantage.
I really don't like Cirie and think Jenna was right on target when she
went after her first episode.-a But I have to admit Cirie is playing a
very smart game and has positioned herself in a way I have never seen
her do on previous seasons.
Ozzy deferring to her as if this was his first time playing is something
I did not expect to see. Rizo is also basically worshiping her. Cirie
has this cast wrapped around her finger just like Boston Rob did in the season he won. The one exception might be Emily who does not appear to
be starstruck at all with any of the old schoolers.
--WTH was Jonathan wearing at TC and where did it come from? It
looked like a very fancy bathrobe.
I thought the same thing!-a I wondered if he had brought that with
him or perhaps he inherited it from a player voted out.
The robe was huge so I doubt he inherited it. Maybe something
happened to his clothes and he had the robe at Ponderosa.
--I'm glad that Chrissy and Coach got booted. She brought nothing
to the season as far as I'm concerned, and he was just joking around. >>>>>
It was also good to see some old era players gone since it seems
most of the eliminated players have been New Era.-a By my count, the
only New Era players still in the game are Jonathan, Tiff, Emily,
Joe and Rizzo, and Jonathan and Joe barely count since they are both
more old style in their thinking and game play.
Coach is saying he was purposely targeting New Era players. He didn't
want a 26 day player to win S50. That seems to be the case for a lot
of them.
Now we're down to F11. No one is sticking out as a winner to me.
Cirie and Ozzy are getting good edits but not winner edits.
Jonathan is looking like someone who might make the finale. Aubrey
keeps skating by which scares me. Despite a vote tonight, Emily
appears to have no enemies. I wonder if social game will decide
this season. It sure won't be strategic game with all of the
randomness.
Really hard to say who is getting the best edit.-a Emily and Rizo are >>>> getting a lot of air time among the new era players.-a So is
Jonathan, who doesn't act New Era, but I don't think his edit is all
that great. He's been shown as a bit bossy and condescending,
especially toward Dee in that one episode. Of the old-time players I
actually wonder if Stef might go far.-a She's been in every episode
and seems to be sliding by.
Steph has really surprised me. Preseason, I thought she'd be an early
boot. Jonathan's getting an edit of someone who goes deep into the
game. Other than sucking up to Coach, what has he done? Could he be
the zero vote finalist? Rizo and Emily are getting a lot of
screentime. It would be funny if they along with Ozzy and Cirie are
F4 and Rizo gets taken out at that point again.
Steph has probably been gone from the game longer than any player
still in the game but, like Cirie, she is older and wiser than when
she first played and I think she has learned a lot.
She also has something to prove. IIRC, Heroes vs. Villains was her last season and she was unfortunately out very early that season.
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