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Looks like I've been wrong about the jacket Nick was wearing all along. I was very confident in it being John's with it being leather and having zippers as seen in his (John's) promo images and some of his confessionals but the zippers are going in the wrong direction and Nick posted on his Instagram that it's Dan's jacket:

It was from an interview he had last week (posted by someone in last week's thread - sorry can't remember who) where he discussed the vote steal and some of the game up to that point. Article can be read here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/survivor-david-goliath-nick-wilson-dan-rengering-john-hennigan-blindsides-1163630 Here's the snippet about the alliances he had formed to that point and their names. I don't think some of these were shown on TV and I'm thinking some were very nonchalant type of alliances as they weren't together all that long - him and John since the merge etc.:

Big leather jacket with zippers... he's a "heel" after all and had to look the part.

I've read through mostly 3 of the 4 pages and haven't seen this answered correct yet. It was John's jacket, the same one Davie had on start of last week's episode. Nick and John had a wrestling tag team alliance so I'm assuming he's inherited the jacket after Davie had his fun with it... or it's probably the jacket big enough to fit everyone so they're all sharing.

Production wants the idols/advantages to be found. That's why they're in the game. That's why this year the majority come wrapped or tied with coloured string to make them even more obvious and stand out. The idols/advantages have ways to make the game more interested and gives the alliance down in numbers a chance to turn things around instead of just sitting back and getting voted out. It's to make for more interesting TV. Looking in many locations quickly over looking at one super indepth more than likely isn't anything new but with Christian's super nerd persona that's just how he knows to explain things so it helps build his character more. I would have said "yeah I looked at all the places really quickly" whereas he goes in to depth about the breadth-first search and what it means and how to do it. Production can't tell other players what you say in your confessional that's why they're confessionals. That would be production interference in to the integrity of the game and there would be ramifications from that (think lawsuits etc). It would be similar to someone getting all of the answers to the questions on Jeopardy (or would that be questions to the answers) before the show. In your confessional production will ask you about the game, who you're aligned with, what you're thinking so that they can build the story and have those talking head segments tell the story for the viewers at home. Without them we get no real information on the game - the players on the island don't get that information unless it's directly shared with them by the players they're aligned with.

It's more of a computer scientist term then "techie" but maybe we're the same ;) There's breadth-first and depth-first as the two main type of algorithms (let's say ideas) for searches. As Christian mentioned a breadth-first would be the quicker look at everything across the search area. Depth-first would drill down deep in to each individual area until you hit the bottom then start at the next area. So in Survivor terms let's say you're on the island and break it down to the main areas of the island (like the sectors Christian did). We have camp, the beach, the forest, the rocks. For Breadth-first you'd take a quick look at all 4, anything you can quickly see at camp, the beach, the forest, the rocks. Then you'd go back and dive in a bit deeper at each one. The easily accessible but maybe hidden spots. At camp get on your knees and look under the shelter. Open the bucket of rice and check the bottom of the lid etc. Then move to the next area - if the beach flip over any logs that were easy to turn, etc. And keep going to the area. Then start back again and go deeper in to the areas and the hard to reach places. For depth-first you'd look completely at one of the areas. So if you're at camp you'd look overall, then under the shelter, in the rice, in the water, all the storage things, crawl under the shelter, empty the rice out and exhaust all possible areas then move on to your next area of the search - the beach, etc. Hope that somewhat makes sense.

#brochachoblindside I just hope this doesn't mean Christian completes the 3-peat next week. Also watching Davie with John's jacket at the start all I could think of was an Amazing Race final challenge but for Survivor home viewers at the finale. "Hey home viewers, your chance to win $10K, in order list who's jacket was most talked about in each episode!"

At 7-5 (Goliath-David) split it's hard to split the votes. They go 4-3 on someone then Davids can pick off anyone with a non-split or it'd end in a tie with last nights vote and go from there. They go 5-2 best case they tie the Davids, worst case what happened last night would still happen. The Davids split 3-2 (John-Angela) and John would still go home with the 3 votes.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not THAT Brochacho! Okay now that I have that out of my system after they got to tribal I was worried and saw it coming. There were breadcrumbs dropped throughout the episode that get you there and the editing is nicely done. The previews for this episode had the talk of the "hashtag Brochacho Blindside" and all the talk about Christian which is clue #1 that Christian isn't going anywhere. So when that plan was still the plan going to tribal I was fairly confident Christian was safe. We also get a replay of John saying "hastag Brochacho Blindside". Dan wins immunity. Dan safe. Christian safe (because they wouldn't give the boot away in the previews). Add that you hear one of the David's (forget who exactly) say something along the lines of "who will hurt Dan the most" and there's a giant arrow pointing at John. You want to think it's Kara and she's a solid option for reasoning there but John and Dan are the head Brochacho's. With John cut from the alliance Dan also becomes the strongest physical guy left as well making him a larger target. I had the small bit of hope when we saw Angelina doing the begging for the idol and Dan hesitating that we had "jacket gate v2" but that didn't play out. Even without playing the idol John was gone with the 3-2 split. The Davids knew the Goliaths told them Angelina and the Goliaths assumed they'd run with that so much so that Angelina believed it, begged and flushed the idol on her own. Someone else mentioned up above that the Goliaths planned to ditch Angelina anyway so the idol play - if Dan thought she was getting majority of the votes - was a wasted play and it definitely is. Heading to the next tribal 6-6 (if you think you're still split and based on that vote if it was all Angelina opposed to the John vote) with Dan's two idols puts you in a very powerful position even with the Davids knowing you have the one. They can make the fake target and you can protect 2 people and hope a Goliath has immunity. Thus 50% of your tribe is protected. They don't know about the Davids other advantages at all so that's where that line of thinking could get screwy but we have to base it on what they know and not what we know. John took it well. Angelina walking towards Jeff still begging for an idol to be played would have been TV gold though.

Found this over on Reddit. It's a pic of the Feast congratulations poster as well as a location on the island that was seen in the episode. Putting it as a link so you can click if you want to see or not: https://imgur.com/a/sm7lUME

Sorry to confuse you. That's a fake statement from Angelina ;).

Looks like Angelina is back on the releasing statement trail trying to spin last nights events again: "My husband and I are aware that he's in the Marines and I am not. But we're one. So while he's deployed I watch highlights of great moments of military history on YouTube and Netflix. While it is unfortunate that Elizabeth can't handle the truth she was the vote I made a misstep when my brain felt the need, the need for speed and overreacted when I told her she was going to be the boot. It still confounds me when all of the General Goliaths went against me, Sergeant Major, in their efforts of saving Private Christian." *EDIT: not an actual statement from Angela... just making a spoof of her original statement from "showmance gate" and I did a similar one on "jacket gate" thread ;)

This just in.... Angelina has released another statement, this time about jackets... "My husband and I are aware of the warmth of jackets. While we do not always wear jackets my comfort is greater with a jacket, I am surprised no one felt compelled to give me all the jackets. I think all of this really comes down to one fundamental Survivor truth: if you jacket on you can't jacket off, especially if you're a Goliath like me."

We just won't know if he got the job until the reunion show because John doesn't have access to his website to read over Christian's application.

He's a pretty well known wrestler to those who watch more than WWE (WWF) as he last wrestled there about 7 years ago. Although he won numerous championships there including the Intercontinental and the rebranded ECW Championship and the tag championships. He's been mostly in promotions not "mainstream" in the US mainly Lucha Underground (US) and AAA (Mexico) where he's been at the top of both of those promotions as well. He's currently in the US again fighting at Impact which is considered the second tier promotion behind WWE (along with ROH depending who you talk to). So for those who follow wrestling he's a known figure but he's not a guy who has been popular outside of the wrestling world and made the transition over - aka The Rock - Dwayne Johnson. Probably now known more for movies/TV then being a wrestler. Am I the only one who wants Christian and John to end up on the same tribe after the swap mainly to see Christian confront John about the thesis you know he's written in his head about Slamtown and see if his hypothesis is true?