re: Survivor Season 49 - Premieres 9/24

Agreed.

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She was also the captain of her challenge team and picked the team. Nate was the only POC not on her team. Hmmm…

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They kinda mentioned the team captains thing in passing, definately seemed masked

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I’m surprised they targeted Nate when this was the perfect opportunity to blindside a dangerous player like Savannah. Christina seemed like the one to push for Nate. Christina has no chance of winning if she’s going to play safe.

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I was thinking about this too, but I think playing it safe is the right play if you think you can keep your alliance together. They know Rizgod has an idol. Yes, you had good intel that he would not play it, but he could change his mind. Savannah seems like a sneaky player who could have some sort of advantage. It seemed clear that Nate had nothing. If you keep taking the safe route, you may get to a point where you can nullify advantages by splitting votes. You can't really do that at this point. If you take a chance and an idol is played, it will cost your alliance a member.

I thought last night's episode (11/13) was the best yet in terms of strategy for Tribal Council. They had a plan to whack Rizzo until Sophie ran her mouth to MC, who of course tells Juwan. Juwan tells Sage who goes back to Sophie. In the meantime, Savannah arrives to cast her vote or save it for a later council. 4 of the original 5 that lost succeeded in convincing Rizzo not to play his idol. After Sophie realized Juwan knew about her plan, they all should have gone back to the strategy of voting off Rizzo. In my mind if there were 4 votes against Rizzo and he plays his idol, no harm no foul, at least he no longer has immunity.

Then out of nowhere the TC everyone votes for MC.

I don't get why MC got kicked off. She isn't a threat yet and has seemingly gotten along with everyone. I really enjoyed this episode until they counted the votes. They had Rizzo by the balls and let him off the hook. Now he has his idol and the self proclaimed "hot grim reaper" has a banked vote.

Master class by the Riz and Savanah. That was awesome, finally something interesting.

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They had a plan to whack Rizzo until Sophie ran her mouth to MC, who of course tells Juwan. Juwan tells Sage who goes back to Sophie.

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Can't tell if this is good or bad game play. Or simply them not paying attention. Obviously you need to include "some" people in your plan. But, it has to be the right people.

"hot" is relative, I guess? Compared to the others she's kind of attractive. walking through the quad she's invisible.

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They had Rizzo by the balls

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I'm still kind of pulling for him. I hated him in the beginning but, he seems to be playing a good game. The editing makes him look clueless at times and then tribal comes up and I'm like play the idol! play the idol!. he doesn't play it and he's safe.

Jeff really needs to ban the whisper scrambling during tribal. It's bad television. We can't hear what they are saying, and because of that , there's no payoff in the end. This time, in particular, was a huge waste of airtime because it didn't seem to change anything.

Me too

things should get interesting now, i don't there are any more "floaters" playing the middle now.

A lot will depend on the next immunity challenge.

Kudos to Christina for her unselfish act.

Savannah definitely has more endurance than I would have thought. But, she needs to stfu sometimes.

oh and, Survivor is racist.

I do respect Alex for immediately admitting he knew why he was gone. Rizzo can have all the ice water he wants. He keeps holding that idol and they will eventually put together enough votes to get him.