Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-33554905-20171221065515/@comment-2002887-20171221230401

Stephen Fishbach said it best: the final 4 twist wasn't rigged for Ben, HOWEVER, the implementation of this twist helps out players LIKE Ben. At least with changing the final 2 to the final 3, it still made every vote prior to Day 39 the same in principle. But this format change essentially gets rid of the vote. It makes the final 4 a Total Drama type challenge that auto eliminates a player like what happened to Duncan in season 1.

However, what annoys me the most aside from 5 people in the jury (specifically Cole, Joe, JP, and Lauren who I thought would vote for Chrissy to win given her FTC and their relationships with Ben) rewarding someone who needed twists to stay alive from final 7 onwards is that Jeff Probst doesn't mention a format change bigger than tiebreaker rules, Exile Island, or Redemption Island prior to the first challenge of the season. If Probst mentioned that, then no one would claim this season was rigged.

This will be a bottom 5-10 season for sure but I hope this doesn't sway intelligent Survivor fans such as yourselves to think the series as a whole is tainted or rigged. Let's just hope Ghost Island was better and that Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers isn't the beginning of a second Survivor dark ages or the beginning of a completely different game.