Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-1294345-20171102085403/@comment-2002887-20171103183202

I don't think we are just getting Ryan's perspective since we've been hearing from other players too, but since Ryan has attended and survived more Tribal Councils than anyone else in the final 12, plus he was a swing vote in many of them, he gets a lot of screentime even if he wasn't the type of player Probst typically fawns over. But because he is, I can see the frustrations people have toward him. That being said, he has done well to get through 4 pre merge tribal councils without a single vote considering how badly he performed in a few of these challenges.

The editing fooled me, I thought JP was going for sure, they were giving me a lot of negative/dumb types of confessionals and tribal council moments. Ali got a pretty good edit for a 13th place finisher, arguably more focused than Michelle got in her 8 episodes on Millennials vs Gen X. And I prefer this type of edit blindside than the rushedness of Michaela's boot last season.

I agree that idols need to be hid differently in different camps every season from this point forward. It's become easy for Tai, Dave, and Joe to find multiple pre merge idols. Hide them in challenges, make clues publicly known rewards for reward challenges, put some more effort in.

This is a good group we have left even if dud JP managed to make the merge. I agree with some others that I expect an 8 person jury so the next boot could be in danger of missing out on some form of day 39 participation. I hope it's a 9 person jury with a final 3 but Survivor One World was a long time ago now (feel old yet)? I hope things are more interesting than Hustlers and Heroes pagonging the 5 remaining Healers, thought Joe and Mike's idols could interrupt that plan.

A few stats.

Jessica, Mike, and Cole join the Tandang 6, Joe Anglim, Keith Nale, Michele Fitzgerald, Nick Maiorano, and Cirie Fields as players who have avoided all pre merge Tribal Councils. There is a disadvantage that comes to reaching the merge untested by Tribal, but honestly more often than not you'd prefer to be in that situation as opposed to the opposite.

Tribals survived by each of the remaining players

4: Ryan

3: Chrissy, Devon, JP

2: Ashley, Lauren

1: Ben, Desi, Joe

0: Cole, Jessica, Mike

However, if you count Joe using his idol to survive his one Tribal Council, that means Desi is the only Healer to go through a Tribal Council without immunity and survive a vote.