It would be in addition to your rule.
So to recap our combined suggestion:
2 captains, every pick results in your pick on your team, and their loved on on the other team. Each pick must alternate between vet and loved one.
(I’m having a hard time saying that I don’t mean each pick must alternate. Capt A picks a vet first, and Capt B could also pick a vet, but their individual picks must alternate going forward)
All this to result in 2 teams with 5 Vets and 5 Loved ones and no Loved Ones on the same team as their Vet.
Oh, and while I don’t want to see Tina or Laura B go yet, one of them should probably have been the boot tonight. How do you completely forget to get the thing you need to get? How long before had the rules of the challenge been told to them? How does that even happen? It doesn’t even make LOGICAL sense…why would the challenge to be just to release the gate?
Yeah. At the very least, the bags should have been randomized instead of being sequential. You should have to get all four bags before you can start the puzzle.
Yeah, that RI puzzle was pretty dang toothless. Put the onus on the balance beam portion of it, which of course Laura, being a short woman, won easily.
And jeez, Kat is so dumb. SO DUMB. I think the last couple seasons they’ve really tried to pick veterans with major flaws (who are still entertaining) because the veterans always smash the newbies. Not that that’s helped or actually happened, but I think that’s the thought behind it.
Also, I think one of the big Survivor meta strategies I’m learning is don’t blab to the older women. They seem to be more likely to repeat it to other people and throw you under the bus than anyone else.
I dunno; I didn’t think the RI challenge was all that lame - I saw it as more of a dexterity challenge than a mental one, though it did bug me that Probst referred to the final tile arrangement as a “puzzle”. It’s a blindingly simple concept, but arranging all those tiles in the proper order and orientation under a tremendous amount of pressure doesn’t seem like it would be as easy as it sounds.
Current count of family vs vets is 6 family/5 vets. I need to learn the team names now but former vets team has Tina and Monica on the vets side with Laura, Katie and Vytas representing family.
Former family team is balanced with Tyson, Gervase and Aras representing the vets and Hayden, Caleb and Ciera on the family side.
Interestingly we’re now down to only two pairs of vet/family left in the game. Tina/Katie and Aras/Vytas. I suspect the target on Aras just got even larger, I wonder if it’s large enough for Gerv and Tyson to consider throwing the challenge?
Also, go Gervase! Holy cow his swimming really improved. He’s clearly been working on it at camp.
I’m not sure, but that may have been me, but I don’t know Aras, just know a friend of his who was at the LA bar when the CBS casting director came to their table and asked for everyone’s phone number. I forget how many went on shows, but 2 of them won shows (BB and Survivor). CBS.com showed Aras at home watching his winning season (A clip) and my friend was in it. </rehashing someone else’s memories>
I’m not sure it was a rule but the RI challenge seems to require them to place the pieces down in sequence. It seems you couldn’t put the 10 at the top right until you had 1-9 already placed. Otherwise why weren’t they using 2 tiles at a time? Maybe they were just trying to be careful.
I’m so glad there aren’t any real ‘jerks’ left in the game. Maybe Tyson, but only sometimes. No one is trying to bring a hate-able player with them to the end. It’s refreshing.
I keep thinking that Russel Hantz must be at home screaming, “I never needed no clue to find immunity!”
What was I doing with my time?