I wasn’t referring to Sandra giving away her Immunity to get immediately voted out, I meant that Denise played immunity for Jeremy as her sole ally, after he had voted for her. Must have been awkward around the fire later.
Maybe the survivors filled their pockets with rice while they were opening the bag.
Remember the Piranha Challenge where you had to rip pieces of meat off a roast with your teeth, then carry them to a scale in your mouth. Whichever team had the most meat after a certain time won. In addition to immunity, you won all the meat you had transported. Mm, meat that’s been in someone else’s mouth.
I think Parvati may have had a slim shot if, during the discussion with Wendell to say a name, she took a long look at Yul, and then a long look at Nick, and told them that if they were nervous it was only because the guy who admitted that he was willing to stab someone in the face was contemplating stabbing someone in the face. Then say that rather than spending two fire tokens for Wendell’s vote, she would name Wendell as the target and offer Yul and Nick a fire token each, but only if they BOTH voted for Wendell. Probably wouldn’t have worked, but she didn’t have much to work with. And I wasn’t paying attention, did she actually have two tokens?
I’m not sure “Denise played immunity for Jeremy as her sole ally”. I think Denise knew Jeremy would vote for her. She only did it to prevent the tie in case Sandra voted for Jeremy.
Yup. She wanted to make sure that her vote was the decisive vote. The only way to do that was to play an idol for both herself and Jeremy. She knew that they were all either voting for her or Jeremy (with Jeremy voting for her either way).
I’m still shocked that Sandra didn’t vote for Jeremy. I can’t see any reason for her not to do that other than hubris. She could always tell him that she did it in case Denise had an idol without revealing that the idol came from her.
LOL, yeah. And more fundamentally: what on earth was she thinking to purposely set up a dynamic where Denise had the sole power to choose who went home? (Or not “home”, but the Edge.)
I’m really curious as to why Wendell was saying all that stuff. Unless it was completely cooked up with his alliance as a total act, it makes him look weaselly and untrustworthy.
Sandra play was really bizzarre… I still dont understand why people give idols to other players willingly in this game??
She had an idol and it had to be used this time. Because of the numbers a new merge is likely coming so I rather use the idol and stay in the game to fight another day.
Instead she gives it to an adversary… it was truly an idiotic move.
Better than using fake rice that would pollute the island? <shrug>
I really enjoyed the wheeling and dealing with the fire tokens. They finally seem to be mattering. Sandra did get Denise to agree not to vote her off. The fact that Denise reneged doesn’t make it a dumb move, IMHO. Sandra just misjudged what Denise would do, that’s part of Survivor.
Sandra couldn’t really vote for Jeremy as a backup. The tribe was split 3-2. It ended up being a 4-1 vote for Denise because Jeremy threw the vote on her to save himself, but the other three couldn’t be sure on that. If Sandra votes for Jeremy then the vote would be 2-2-1, Denise’s 2 would be idol’ed, and whoever Denise/Jeremy vote for goes home anyways.
Yeah, agreed. So the only real reason for Denise to play an idol on Jeremy is if Sandra’s intel was really just a decoy, a faint. Sandra’s real error was in telling Denise everyone was voting for her *and *giving her an idol, thus letting her control who goes home.
My guess is that sand wouldn’t have worked as well for the challenge (either being more difficult to squeeze through the hole when wet, or stab with the knife to find the ball). They’ve used sandbags plenty before.
But I think on the range of likely outcomes Jeremy voting to save himself is a lot more bankable than Denise going along with the “vote whoever you like, but not me” craziness. But of course since Sandra came up with the plan she probably thought it was as sure thing. Either way, it was an inexplicable and completely unnecessary plan that rightly blew up in her face.
It does seem like some players (the more famous ones, basically) have decided that some winners are “better” than others, and are underestimating folks like Ben, Sophie, Denise, and Michele (and maybe, somehow, Yul?).
Yeah, it’s annoying–and weird that Sandra would say it out loud in front of everyone. Very arrogant, which is her style. It doesn’t strike me as the best way to play the game, which makes it pretty hard to understand how she won the first two times she played (if I were her, BTW, I would have retired undefeated after that second time, and only come back for gimmicks like the deal with Rob last season).
:smack: I know how to spell “feint”, but my iPhone does not and I didn’t catch it.
But she already lost on her third try, so she is no longer undefeated anyway. I suspect the reason she agreed to participate in this season had more to do with the prospect of her not being the only player with multiple wins.
Barring the highly unlikely event that Sandra gets back in the game and wins, there will be a second two-time winner, and that person will have won $3 million to her $2 million. It will surely be a blow to her ego.