Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-2002887-20171126201524/@comment-2142533-20171127055722

I will say it was a pretty boring episode, but it did shine a bit on the potential dynamics that is going to happen, particularly with Devon & Mike, a pair I actually didn't think would be possible.

Think about it, we have these 4 castaways -- Chrissy, Ben, Devon & Ryan -- all now have one-to-one connections except for one. Chrissy has Ben from Heroes, and Ryan from Soko (not Devon). Ben has Chrissy from Heroes, and Devon as a recent connection (not Ryan). Devon has Ryan from Hustlers, and now Ben (not Chrissy). Ryan has Chrissy, and also Devon (not Ben). It's interesting how these 4 weave together creating this interesting dynamic that you don't know who will win-out if they are the F4.

Now, it seems Joe has umped his annoyance level, putting his Twitter game to perspective, haha. I get what he's doing short term, but you have to do a LOT of making up to get back to non-goat status after this. Mike meanwhile had an option -- vote out Cole and keep being under the radar with your idol, OR use your idol and do a bit of Kelly Wentworth (i.e. vote out a glue that can maybe shake the alliance a bit).

However, for some reason he did try to attract votes to himself and make his idol useful on paper, but then voted against Cole instead, who is a number for him! Now he loses an idol, Cole gets voted out, and people around him knows he can also find idols and is better at keep secret on it than Joe. He had a potential to sneak in to the majority alliance, but now I think he's in the chopping block over Joe. Should be interesting to see what his next move is.

For Cole, well I get why he was chosen over Joe. That 2nd challenge was quite close from him, and it took a great effort by The Rimmer to bump him out. That was a great challenge by the way, where the player must not undercook or overcook the strategy. I will say just watching that challenge makes my knee hurt a bit haha.

So, F9 -- this is the time where coalitions/"trust clusters" feels like they need to do a preemptive strike. 4 Heroes are left, which means they could all vote together if they want to at F8 and have some control. Ryan has Chrissy, Devon has Ashley (and Ben) & Lauren has Ben. Will JP be the victim in a potential blindside?