Talk:Survivor: Philippines/@comment-2142533-20121106123305

I wonder if the 11-Castaway merge is planned or it was just done because of Dana's mediquit (Quit Due to Medical Reasons).

I am thinking that if it was planned as a F12 merge, wonder why they didn't just let the Immunity Challenge be another Reward Challenge where the reward can either be a luxury or an incentive in the upcoming merge (say that both Tandang & Kalabaw would go to Tribal and the incentive announced during TC and say that they would merge), cause usually if there is a medievac there is no one to vote out? On one hand I wonder why not let Katie be the 1st Jury member even in pre-merge as past seasons have done it, if it's F12 planned merge (9 Jury, Final 3)?

I actually thought that they would make it a F10 merge but I guess seeing that 3 Kalabaws are consecutively eliminated (all from the K-Female alliance) having a merge a 10 with another Kalabawan possibly eliminated making it 7-3 makes the F11 merge the right time (where Mal-ise alliance, K-Male alliance, Tandang all still intact).