Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-33554905-20171221065515/@comment-2142533-20171222094617

Sinjoh wrote:

Second, he lack of foresight with Chrissy, Devon, and Ryan that you'd think they bumblefucked their way into the Final 5. Despite Chrissy and Ryan claiming to be "students" of this game, they of all people should know that idols are in play until the Final 5, meaning that if they didn't want Ben to find a potential third idol, they and their allies should've been following Ben in order to preemptively strike before Ben got his hand on a third idol. Devon's here for a different reason. While he did think to throwaway a vote, he should've fucking practiced making fire before Tribal Council. Devon's going up a marine and someone who camps, i.e. someone who should know to make fire. You can't just go, "I broke the flint, guess I better do nothing, as I have this in the bag", up against someone like Ben.

In past seasons, having an idol to be found after F7 is SO rare. The most recent example of a late rehidden idol was F6 with MvGX with Adam finding one at F5, but even then there were annoyance about it thinking it was planted to help Adam continue his story or something (which I don't believe). I do agree though that the moment Ben found an idol at F6, that the others should've been on high alert.

That being said, maybe they did try their best, and remember that Ryan and Mike found idols before, so surely they probably made an effort. There are some conspiracy theories out there in how the idols were hidden in favor of Ben which you can read on Survivor Reddit I think.