Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4190137-20140622152313/@comment-1827503-20140821060251

Re: Micronesia F3

Micronesia was severely screwed by unusual eliminations. If we assume it was a 20-person season with a planned Final Three, and that both tribes were to have attended Tribal Council on Day 21, we're still one Tribal Council short, and we can't use the Cook Islands-style double elimination because the last pre-merge episode is already a double boot!

I assume there would have been a fifteenth episode, similar to All-Stars, but Micro didn't have a recap so that means we'd have seen either a six-day premiere like Gabon and Cagayan had. (March 27 was not a possible airdate for the hypothetical fifteenth episode, because CBS had committed to airing the third round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament on that day.)

Re: Sylvia and Michelle

Michelle was screwed by a merge fake-out, but she blew Tribal Council questioning and possibly could have escaped that mess. Sylvia was indeed screwed by production, for reasons that have been discussed earlier in this thread.