re: No Survivor Thread? OFFICIAL SURVIVOR THREAD!!1!

Ben went straight to Tony to let them know Kim was organizing a future blindside against him. That definitely led to Kim's demise.

I'm confused though as to why Ben told him before tribal since he wanted Jeremy out so badly. He could have simply told Tony after so Kim would be the next target.

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Man that was pretty ballsy by Jeremy too. But he trusted Tony, who is absolutely running shite.

Glad Denise got shite on her face after that interaction before the votes

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I had no idea how that would turn out but I felt Kim would be voted out. Ben has no one to blame but himself. Tony would’ve been stupid to give his idol
up. That target is huge on him right now.

Denise, bad move for sure.

Ben is the ultimate wild card at this point, but somehow despite the animosity between him and Jeremy they have stuck with Tony the whole way. I guess they are all confident enough to think they can win in the end, but based on the jury's reactions there's no one that can beat Tony.

I wonder if Sarah is going to realize that and eventually turn on him or if she's going to be this season's Woo and stick with him to the end no matter what?

Denise can still win, but she has to eliminate Tony and Jeremy. Even though Jeremy has been hanging on to Tony's coattails for dear life the last few weeks he's going to win over the jury against Denise.

Nick and Michele just seem to be afterthoughts right now. I don't know that either of them can win unless it's the two of them and the extinction returnee at the end.

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Its going to be bad if the outcome of the final 3 end up being how Jeremy's coin flip goes. But he may have to give it back to the pretty girl after today??

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It would be a dick move to keep it. He would also be smart to keep it. It's not like Michele is going to be getting any votes anytime soon.

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Why those others didn’t go after Ben is baffling and I still can’t figure out Ben’s game.

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Ben is awful, and for a past winner, is playing a terrible game. His only saving grace is that he is aligned with Tony, albeit weakly. If he doesn't find that idol last night, he's dead meat. Finding it with Tony, only makes him slightly less dead meat.
His wishy-washiness will be his demise.

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Don't undervalue how strong the bonds that they make on edge of extinction are. Talk about a shared experience without the game element.

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That definitely happened last time there was the Extinction twist... but I don't know if it will this time around with all winners.

Also depends on who is the returnee and who are the other two.

Yeah, if Rob gets back in and goes against Michele and Nick, it probably would be Rob.

If Wendell or Adam gets back in... doubtful.

Tony is a few more elimination wins or idols away from playing the perfect game.

I was really hoping his spy nest would come more into play.

Yeah, I think had Tony not won elimination then Nick would have stuck with Kim, Denise, and Michele to try to get Tony out. They would have still needed Ben's wishy washy arse to get in line or it could have been a tie.


And that's assuming Tony doesn't sniff it out and play his idol.

I think once Tony won elimination and plan A was gone, it all went to shite.

ETA: And Tony won (well, he might have won anyway) because Nick gave up to get a fire token and some food!

Sarah was mentioned at tribal, to the point where Tony was considering using his idol. Ben still has never really come up as a target, somehow.

Smart thing would have been to keep all the attention on Jeremy to distract Tony, then blindside Sarah. They would have had to either keep Ben in on it, or pull Jeremy in, though. And both know that voting Sarah out is going to break any alliance they have with Tony.

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Once Nick told Kim that Ben told Tony, she should’ve flipped the vote. That was idiotiic. He has no allies, and Jeremy would’ve been on board. That’s five votes for Ben, and he’s gone. I doubt he would’ve played the idol either. Kim and her three would’ve been able to pick the others off with ease.

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I liked Kim as a player and thought she played a good game up until this episode. She made 3 big mistakes on this episode:

1. Why start orchestrating a plan to vote someone out prior to the immunity challenge? All it can do is hurt you if word gets out ans your target can win immunity making it a totally worthless risk.

2. Stepping down from an immunity challenge for food.

3. Not flipping the vote to target Ben after he showed his loyalty was with Tony. (Ben has an immunity idol but they don’t know that)

Tony should win. They need him to be vulnerable two weeks in a row now so they can make him feel the need to play the idol one week and then get him out the next - before he finds another idol.