Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-1294345-20160922075848/@comment-2142533-20161105111619

Also, I really love what they did in going from 2 tribes, to 3 tribes, to 1. It is probably the best type of switch, because it first creates an "us vs. them" mentality, then going into 3 tribes applies that within each of those tribes, OR creates new relations. 3 tribes are concentrated which makes it harder to just ride into numbers.

If they do create cross-tribal alliances, merging it to 3 makes it a more complicated dynamic, because if you do have a cross-tribal alliance, you will not only face 1, but 2 factions that may be against your or one helping you over the other. Add that to the original alliances and you have such an unpredictable outcome that you see in Cambodia with flip-flopping all over the place because of the multiple alliances they created during the pre-Merge.