Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-1294345-20160415023130/@comment-27638357-20160415220021

I think a lot of people here made stupid moves. Really, the only one that didn't make blatantly obvious mistakes was Tai. I'll go on a bit of a rant here, but bear with me:
 * First, there's the obviously ironic strategy here. Aubry and Cydney want Debbie out for trusting Julia too much with the vote, so obviously the right move is to trust Julia with the vote in blindsiding Debbie. Absolutely perfect gameplay.
 * Tai is doing great and I appreciated his moral dilemma. Siding with Scot and Jason is amazingly great for his gameplay; no one's going to give Scot and Jason the vote. No one knows Tai put out the fire, as well, so it's strategically good. I like his arc from likable guy and how he's slowly transforming to the strategy and dark side. Overall, I agree with Turbofrog and Clay Thompson.
 * I don't care what Debbie says in her exit interview, because A) it's not canon, B) If she thinks she's like Coach, she's as delirious in her interviews. She got blindsided and she didn't know anything the television said she didn't, end of story.
 * How would Aubry get the votes to eliminated Julia in the first place? We were led to believe that she needed immunity, but how is she gonna get the votes? Debbie and Joe are not on board, so that's two lost votes. Obviously, Julia can't vote for herself. Even if you say Michele agrees with the plan, which I doubt, that's 3 votes. No way are they going to be able to get the Tai/Jason/Scot crew on board. Best case scenario, it's a 3-3-3 tie, and on the revote Julia realizes they're trying to blindside her and flips to the Tai/Jason/Scot alliance and Cydney gets eliminated.
 * I do think Scot and Jason's acts of "psychological warfare" succeeded. Debbie was more firm than she would've been on getting Scot and Jason out, and it infuriates Aubry and Cydney probably more than it would have ever been.
 * I think Aubry was on a high horse in this episode. Even though last week she was in danger of being voted out, now all of a sudden she's dictating voting plans and targeting Julia when they're already low on numbers. It's a bad play imo.
 * Julia did not play that team switch properly. What she should've done is told the girls that she was going to join the guys and try to throw the challenge. Since Scot, Jason, and Tai looked like they were pretty good at the challenge already, it could've been easy for Julia to pass it off as a failed attempt to throw the challenge. Or, better yet, they lose the challenge and are still isolated from everyone else, which gives Julia room to talk strategy.
 * I've already moaned about the irony of the Debbie vote, so I'll stop that.
 * Scot and Jason's charade at Tribal Council was terrible. Keep in mind, no one else knows that the two idols can be combined to form a super idol. With that type of charade and flashiness, it's obvious they're not going to play their idols.
 * The correct play (except for Cydney, maybe) was for the girls' alliance to do a 4-2 split. Julia, and, let's say Debbie would vote for Jason, while the other 4 vote for Scot. Even if Julia flips, it's a 4-4-1 tie, and Debbie will join them in voting for Scot. There is risk because Scot could play an idol, but since they know Tai has one, the chances that the other idol lands on Scot is at most 50-50. But the whole "rock-paper-scissors" thing is just bogus to begin with, and I don't thinK Jason would give his idol to Scot, so that was the correct play.