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Heh. according to the Stats page on Inside Survivor, "In the last four seasons with an auction, the player that won the margarita was voted out in the same episode." Jefra (Cagayan), Jenn (Worlds Apart), Kellie (45), and now Sierra. Margarita Curse! Don't drink and Survivor, I guess.

She basically bluffed with the SITD. If the others had had big reactions, she would've known she was the target and presumably played the idol. Since everybody's response was more muted, she figured she was likely safe. The other thing—and IDK if she was thinking this far ahead or it's just a corollary benefit—is that by removing herself from the voting pool, she didn't get the blood of a fellow Gata on her hands. Tidy little jury move.

What an odd season. Most of the cast didn't pop as individuals, but we got entertaining chaos anyway, thanks in part to TPTB coming up with a new twist that actually worked. What's the saying? Oh yeah, Expect the Unexpected. Thanks as always to the feed watchers. And now I can happily delete the spellings of Chelsie and (especially) Makensy's names from my hard drive.

I'm surprised they don't, if only for budgetary reasons*. Once they get down to F5, they should really wrap things up within 10 days. I don't see any reason, gaming-wise or feeds-wise, to drag things out longer than that, especially with the F3 finale model. *I understand not wanting to short the crew a week of work, but they could just add a pre-jury buyback or something.

December is usually the moment of sweet relief where I look back and realize I've forgotten at least half the cast, thanks to Survivor overwriting the show in my brain. This year will be interesting, because I'm not sure I'll retain anyone other than chaos monkeys Tucker and Angela; there was nobody for me to crush on, and even someone like Quinn, who was one of the bigger personalities (relatively) and a chronic fuck-up hasn't left that strong an impression as BB players go. In Friends terms, I'll probably just remember this season as The One With All the Vetos.

Let the record show I made it through 75% of the season without pulling this one out.

I've decided I'm okay if Chelsie romps to a win at this point, just because the prospect of a Cam/Makensy F2 is…uninspiring. Certainly not as objectionable as a Paul/Josh F2, but I'd hate for such an entertainingly chaotic season to end with the two blankest slates in the cast. So just out of curiosity, I looked up the page counts for the feed discussion threads of the last several seasons. I think the word "precipitous" applies here: 20: 502 21: 336 22: 247 23: 128 24: 174 25: 111 Doesn't look like we'll be breaking three digits this year, either. At least it's a lot easier to keep up these days? LOL

Well, when there's no risk of hitting brain...

Interesting. The DE is usually at F7, so maybe they've finally figured out that going from seven to five is deadly for the feeds and decided to push it closer to the end. Or they want to maximize this cast's potential for flip-flopping while they have the numbers to do so. Or both. Jerry O'Connell, huh? Kind of hoping he does all the Chenbot-isms so the hamsters think they're being deepfaked on live TV.

Y'all don't know what I look like, so just imagine a middle-aged Asian dude doubled over with laughter at his desk right now. For me the beauty of this cast is that nobody's been likable or impressive enough as a player that I've gotten overinvested in anybody's game fate. Tucker admittedly won my heart with the silly Steve Irwin narration, but he totally earned his exit and, more importantly, the chaos has continued perfectly well without him. Chaos. That's all I want, really. Messy, messy chaos.

I'm trying to think what value Quinn could have for anyone now besides being a less annoying goat than Angela. Comic relief? That's all I got.

This season in a nutshell.

Don't worry, I was right there with you, at least initially. I feel like Michael's had this in the bag since his first win. Maybe I'm jinxing him, but Adam's been up and down and everybody else has had a more flawed edit, so.

Man, I don’t know what I want now. Rubina: An all-female F6 would be cool, but she provides the least game/entertainment value of these three. Kimo: The only one on the block who’s really done anything in the game, but he lost most/all of his paths forward as soon as T’kor jumped up Chelsie’s ass. Joseph: Brings the delusional hilarity, but him going on Quinn’s HoH would be fantastic and the perfect capper to last night’s episode. I guess Rubina FTW and doomed Kimo for the boot? That way the Mustache’s wins remain zero and we get another week of Chelsie DRing about him.

I have to say, this is one reason I don't think I could go on the show—of many reasons, even though I'd check several demographic boxes they might find handy. I'd fill out the player questionnaire claiming I'll be Dan in the house and Britney in the DR. But then once I'm in there, my fear is that I'd turn out to be Quinn in the house and...Quinn in the DR. And fall off the wall like Jessica. ETA: I'd forgotten how it's even funnier at 0.25 playback speed.