Surprisingly enough that’s Aras & Vytas’ only option, really, so they very well might.
And yep, Vytas was putting addict manipulation on full display. It was a thing to behold.
Yeah, the 3 remaining girls will automatically pick up Sierra, and if they get the two brothers, then they can pick off the remaining guys, and then hope to turn on the brothers later. Had they voted out Vytas, they would have had 1 additional person instead of 2. Maybe that was a smart move, but it depends on which way the brothers go after the merge. Aras will want to stick with the guys, so it’s still rolling the dice.
Right, and so fellow SDMBers, take another look at that, in case you don’t know what we’re talking about. If you get someone pulling this on you- RUN AWAY!
Pretty much everyone left in the game is united in the thought that Aras and Vytas need to be eliminated ASAP. It is the inevitable “Vote out the strong after the merge” gameplay compounded by their relationship.
I see it going like this: Tyson, who sees himself as the puppet master, and Gervais, who is committed to “play the game” this time, go to Monica and Tina and her daughter Katie, four of the remaining members of their original alliance, and say they want to go to the final five with them. They can also count on Katie for a six person voting block. They target Aras, and if he wins immunity, then Vytas. They can easily pull in Caleb and Hayden, who are already on board with the move.
The only problem they have is if one of the brothers goes on an immunity run, but you can’t play against that. It is also less likely with Hayden and possibly John in the game.
Regarding the “tri-el” at RI next week…
Not so good for the guy, since it’s a “how long can you hold yourself up on a pole with tiny slits for your feet to fit into” challenge.
Agreed regarding the spoiler.
When the season started I looked up the word for a 3-man “duel” to rag on Survivor about “duels” being between TWO people, not three. It’s right there in the word! (Dual)
As it turns out, “duel” is the proper word for a 3-man duel. The root of the word has nothing to do with “two.” There has been an attempt to popularize “truel” for 3-man duels, but I find it inelegant.
They did the only sensible thing tonight. Nobody flaked out, which often happens when the merge happens. Tina looks in previews that she may freak out back at camp, but she is a dead woman walking now anyway. It appears that she does not know that Laura and Ciera flipped as well.
Tyson and Gervace appear to be running the show right now, but I am not sure who their “true” alliance-mates are. Monica is the odd man out regardless as she has no tight ally and is a bit flaky. Maybe Vytas could get her to flip but he’d still need one more to make it an even split.
Aras went back to Redemption Island so that part of the game is not over.
It pretty much means that Vytas is next to go. Having them both at Redemption Island is the only way to make sure that one of them is gone for good.
I’m probably misreading the situation, but it seems to me that their true alliance is Hayden, Caleb and Sierra. Plus Laura only for as long as she gives them the majority; I seem them all cutting Laura loose sooner rather than later, even her own daughter. heh.
I get the feeling that both Tyson and Gervaise are of the same mind about using those three rookies to get to final five and then cutting all three loose and bringing each other to final 2. (Or if it’s a final 3, either Sierra or Caleb. I imagine Hayden would be the first to go in final five.)
Are they still doing RI? Somehow I missed that.
I really thought Vytas was going to give Aras his IN. He had to have been pretty clueless not to think that Aras was in jeopardy.
Will someone places tell me why people are throwing the HII clues I the fire?
Because they’re paranoid that, if people see they have the clue, then people will think they have the idol, and they’ll get voted out.
Here’s a question: the producers will know that Tyson found the HI. So, after next week’s challenge will they:
A) offer a clue to the location of the HI that’s already been found?
B) not offer a clue at all?
C) offer a clue to the location of ANOTHER HI?
It seems to me B is the most likely, but wouldn’t that be the same as announcing that someone has the HI?
Oh, I just realized that the HI clues were offered to the winner of the RI Duels. And with only Aras at RI, there can’t be a duel.
IIRC, historically, they keep giving out clues. HII paranoia works much better when nobody is SURE that someone has the HII. Not giving out a clue is equivalent to saying “Someone found it, guys…don’t bother”.
Although you are correct…there won’t be a duel next week because Aras is the only one in Exile.
Continuing to give out HII clues for the same HII location allows players the opportunity to make fake HII’s, which has played out to hilarious results more than once.
What I have wondered logistically is how production could have an HII for both beaches but only have one clue at Redemption Island. It’s pretty clear that the clues that John received from Candace (and eventually made it to Tyson) were specific for the Tadhana beach, as they had references to a specific tree and a waterfall.
What did production do with the clues when John started sending the clues to Monica (who was on Galang)? Did production have two clues prepared for every RI challenge and offer the appropriate one to the contestant after the choice was made?
Vytas is out as soon as he loses an immunity challenge, they can’t risk Aras getting back in the game and having him still there.
Tina is kind of funny, only 4 people voted the way her alliance thought they were supposed to, I wonder who the 5th jury vote Tyson supposedly lost is. I wonder if she still thinks either Monica or Gervase is on her side.
I hope the Tyson/Gervase duo stays strong and that others continue to think they’re in better with them than they think others are. I would love to see the two of them as 2/3 of the final three.
I suspect that taking Monica along might be their best bet from the point of winning a million. Then all three of them are in the same place of screwing over the “original” alliance.
Jeff was the one who handed the clues to the contestants so it would have been quite easy to hand the appropriate clue to the chosen contestant.
There’s also the target-on-your-back factor if people know you’ve found it.
Nobody wants to be a target; ergo, they each toss the clue into the fire.
Thanks–I somehow forgot that Jeff (and not the duel winner) hands the clue over.
It wouldn’t be hard to find 2 serpentine trees one the way to the waterfall in two locations. But then again it also wouldn’t be too hard to swap out the clue before they open it on camera. If the clues we read were for the other beach and they worked on this beach, then yeah, it’s two different trees.
Poor Aras didn’t see it coming. Do we think that if he loses the first RI challenge that he’ll be the first member of the jury?