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  1. 6 minutes ago, riprock said:

    there were 9 votes, and they revealed 2 Sophie, 2 Denise, 4 Tyson. Have to presume the unseen vote was also a Tyson. So had Kim picked Tyson for immunity, that’s a revote or rocks, depending upon whatever rule set is in effect now. 
     

    I knew by the non-reaction of Sophie's group that Kim had played her idol for the wrong person. Of course, had she picked Tyson, there's still Sophie's immunity idol to play. 
     

    I think the last remaining advantage is Michele's 50-50 coin.

    In that case, they would revote, and Sophie can't play her idol. Denise goes home.

    Sophie still has an idol.

  2. Sarah's group has 6 votes (5 people + stolen vote) and Kim's group only has 3 votes. Sarah's group could have split 3-3 and guranateed someone from Kim's group go home on a revote. I don't understand why they didn't do that, as it wasn't;t a tie.

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, tracyscott76 said:

    Two possibilities:

    1. Perhaps Yul/Sophie/Wendell knew the Tyson vote was in the bag and didn't feel the need to put more votes on Kim, but let Nick do it since his neck was on the block.

    2. Perhaps Yul/Sophie/Wendell weren't sure the Tyson vote was in the bag and didn't want to dilute the Tyson vote with Kim votes, but let Nick do it since his neck was on the block.

    I didn't say it made sense, just that it was the reason Nick gave for his Kim vote XD

    It could be both, plus that Sophie knows that Tyson doesn't have an idol (because she and Kim have it) so no need to split the vote. But she doesn't want Nick to know she has it.

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Rachel RSL said:

    I do not understand that vote at all. They want to weaken Rob and Parvati so they vote out Ethan. Ok fine but why not just vote out Rob or Parvati??

    I can understand the reason for voting out Ethan. Rob and Parvati have no allies now and it's only week four so there will be plenty of time to go after them. They will always be the biggest target unlike Ethan who can go far if left in the game.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Eolivet said:

    Because there were lots of idols and advantages in the seasons Michele and Sarah won, and they still managed to win. Why? No fire-making at F4.

    Actually, the season Michele won there was fire-making at F4. Aubrey beat Cydney. 

    Let's run through the scenarios for last 5 seasons if the F4 fire-making was not thing:

    S35: Ben voted out at 4. I say it's 50-50 either a Christy or Devon win. Christy arguably played a better game but a lot of jury member hated her.

    S36: Wendall voted out at 4. Domenick won 10-0.

    S37: Kara voted out 3-1 or it's 2-2 and Kara and Mike make fire.  Either way the result would have been the same.

    S38: Rick voted out at 4. Result would have been the same.

    S39: Lauren voted out at 4.  Result would have been the same.

    I can't see how fire-making favors male winners. It's a gender neutral skill, and the only woman who might have been screwed out of a win is Christy.

     

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  6. According to the internet, Sia is worth about $20-25M.

    Last season she also had two tiers of prizes: Rick Devens got 100K, and Joe and Aurora got 15K each. Joe and Aurora money was given after the show.

    I kind of like that this is a "thing". All the recipients are generally popular and I like to see them get all excited.  Never thought this could be a problem. 

    Edit because BigRedCheese just said the same thing at the same time and did it much better

     

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  7. 6 minutes ago, PaperTree said:

    Yes.  Does she have an idol?

    Yes. This is the last time she can play it. So she might think that she doesn't need to win IC, not knowing there is an idol nullifier.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Bryce Lynch said:

    I have very badly not wanted Tommy to win because of how arrogant he is.  But, after last night's episode, I am more disgusted by all the other idiots kissing his ass and not even considering the idea of voting him out.  

    I think Tommy somehow convinced people that he's really not a threat and everyone else thinks they can beat him. On paper he hasn't really done anything. He never won immunity, never had an idol or advantage, never really made a big move at TC. He's also not a big jury threat the level of Elaine or Janet. He was only targeted last week because Lauren won immunity, so Lauren was always considered more dangerous than Tommy.

    I'd be impressed if he can win without ever having individual immunity or idol. Not many people have done that.

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  9. 7 hours ago, scrb said:

    Yeah the UK team should have had way more than a 5 minute lead.

    Team US got a 10 minute penalty (probably should have been more) and then they finished stage 1 well behind the UK.

    But for state 2, they only had to give a 5-minute penalty?  

    Last week TJ said: "the team that wins stage 1 will get an advantage at the next stage." which is the five minute head start.

    Team US's 10 minute penalty had no impact because they had already lost stage 1.   

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  10. 4 minutes ago, LadyChatts said:

    But Survivor being what it is, no way we'll have an all female final 4.  That's happened what, once? 

    It has happened twice.

    FYI, we have never had an all male final 4.

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  11. 4 minutes ago, MrsR said:

    Cook Island had an all minority final 4.

    Was Yau Man a final 4 in Fiji?

    Yes. Both Cook Island and Fiji had 75% minority players, which gives you 28% chance of an all minority final 4. Amazingly it happened both times.

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  12. 45 minutes ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

    1 all black final 3 out of 39 seasons?  You think that proves that the contestants of this show DON'T vote out minorities and women first?

    Having one all black final 3 in 39 seasons is pretty amazing.

    Assuming each season has 20 players and 5 of them are black (they often have 3 or 4), and the final 3 are completely random. The probability of an all black final 3 is 0.0087 ( 1 in 114 seasons). 

    Also assuming that 50% of the players are women, we will have all women final 3 in about once in 10 seasons. I think it happened three times (16,24,29) so not very different from the expected value. Now we have 6 females and 3 males left, there is 24% chance we will have all-female final 3 this season. 

    Interestingly, there has only been one all-male final 3.  

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  13. 53 minutes ago, fishcakes said:

    Also strange was Missy and Aaron going out at dawn to look for an idol and one of them saying something like, "he said it was in a crevice." I don't particularly want to watch the episode again to see if I'm getting that right, but if I am than who is the "he" they're talking about? It's obviously not Jamal, Tommy, or Dean, and I'm not a tin-foil hatter, so I'd like to know what that was all about.

    "He" is probably Jamal, who had found an idol on the same beach, and everyone knew he had one.

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  14. 13 hours ago, Nashville said:

    Ok, then, let me please rephrase my question: other than the bloody abortion of an insult to the core concept of Survivor which was last season, when was the last time Jury selection started before the Merge?

    Heroes vs Villains. Coach and Courtney were out pre-merge and the first two jury members.  

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  15. 6 hours ago, Nashville said:

    When was the last season Jury selection started before the Merge?

    Last season the jury started with Reem, the first person voted out.

    5 hours ago, Bryce Lynch said:

    Her reward was that she didn't lose her vote.  Also, while I strongly agreed with her decision, there wasn't really a right or wrong answer.  

    Not to mention that if she played and lost her vote she would have been exposed, as it was one of the tribal councils where all the voted were read.

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  16. 15 hours ago, peachmangosteen said:

    Has that ever happened on Survivor? I don't recall it but I pretty much forget a season the second it ends. 

    Most recently, Terry Dietz was told that his son had a heart condition on second chances.

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  17. 3 hours ago, Melina22 said:

    I like that Unpopular Opinions (of which I have several - for example, I didn't hate Paul!) are welcome here.

    You are not alone. I did not hate Paul. A lot of people liked him. In fact he's Nicole's favorite player:

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    Which past Big Brother cast member did you like most? 
    The Big Brother Houseguest that I liked the most was Paul Abrahamian. He was authentically himself, didn't take BS from anyone, and ran that house while most everyone else mindlessly followed. I admire his ability to stay true to himself and not feel the need to apologize or explain his reasons. He played the game and played it well. 

    FYI, Jackson and Christie listed him as one of their favorites as well.

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