re: Surviving Barstool

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Gets Hank out of the game. It was clear from his tribe that Hank was the target when they would go to tribal. If he's 100% confident in the vote, then why not get out who you consider your biggest threat on the tribe to flip against you before the merge occurs?

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Yeah but why risk misreading the situation to get Hank out when he could guarantee his safety and watch one of Hank's potential allies get voted out. Not to mention Kirk would need allies of his own to make this plan work. You don't throw a challenge unless you know that you have the votes to get Hank out because performing badly in a challenge puts a target on your back. And I refuse to believe that Kirk made these plans to back stab Hank and the editors of the show just didn't include that storyline.

There was no need for some elaborate plan to throw the challenge to get Hank out, Hank put a target on his own back all by himself. He fricked himself from the beginning by not fully engraining himself on his tribe. He also stopped looking for the idol which made him look suspicious.

The icing on the cake is that even Hank admitted to the confessional camera that he had no idea if Kirk threw the challenge but it was his angle he was gonna push to try to save himself.