Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-1294345-20170325054650/@comment-2142533-20170329105116

Crazy Tribal Council is crazy, but even though the Joint Tribal Council is making a good pre-merge game counter-intuitive, I will say it could be an interesting way to reward someone that was swap screwed after they survived their first tribal. Hali Ford survived the first one being kept over Caleb Reynolds, and was sort of given a reprieve by having more power in this vote. She's still doomed probably in the next Tribal Council goes, but at least she's given a bit of a wiggle room now...which frankly didn't use because the majority now knows that she's willing to mix up with her old tribe as seen with J.T. Thomas.

Speak of which, I think J.T. genuinely thought that Malcolm Freberg would side with him in voting out Sandra Diaz-Twine. That is why he asked Malcolm's advise, and he thought Malcolm was AGAINST original Mana. But it seems Malcolm thought J.T. just wants to make his ally in the old tribe secure, to feel J.T. secure, but it was disastrous for Malcolm and old as it revealed who are they targeting.

I think the moment Hali said "I think we should focus on physical threats", I think it later dawned on J.T. that they were going to side with her over him, then later tried to fix it by getting back on his tribe and try to divert the target to someone else (which he didn't really say why to his fellow new tribemates), but the old Mana didn't listen.

Talking about didn't listen, it seems after hearing that Sierra was the target, Hali probably didn't want to sacrifice her probably only ally on new Mana, which means she had to try and divert the target to someone else like Brad. But when Sandra and co. said no to a new huddle, it was the nail on their coffin as Hali decided to stick with her new tribe instead, as Hali's warning did come true, as targeting Sierra was new Nuku's downfall.

I agree the tribe could have done better -- find the idol harder (although exit interviews said they did, so maybe it was a challenge idol for them) and control all information they could have (i.e. preventing J.T. to talk to the other tribe and listening to what Hali was saying) -- but with a new twist like this it is hard to actually ready your brain on creating a fool-proof plan.

For the twist, I agree they shouldn't do it too much. I also think tribe members should converge on one camp before the vote, that way the minority members could try to strategize round it. Malcolm said he does better when he talks to people first and it seems hard to do on the more contained Tribal Council. I think J.T. is 99% doomed if Nuku goes to Tribal Council next, although I do wonder if Mana will keep Debbie over Hali now due to the possible blowout that may happen (for whatever reason).