Three part preview


Emily, still an idiot



Devens gives Ozzy a taste of his own medicine and I love it





Aubry, the antithesis of dirty island hot Stephenie

CharleyKerfeld said:

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Three part preview


Emily, still an idiot



Devens gives Ozzy a taste of his own medicine and I love it





Aubry, the antithesis of dirty island hot Stephenie

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I think that is the second time someone has referenced Rizgod BAYBEE has played around with idols. Their season absolutely got leaked to the other players.

Wtf is happening

That was fun, but you could tell by the timestamps how it was gonna end.

Rigs said:

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That was fun, but you could tell by the timestamps how it was gonna end.

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I was about to post this.

But it was a great challenge.

Hate the celebrity factor on this season.

So we're at 9 people left, with 7 days to go.

Some sht is still going down somewhere in between.

(Plus a Billie Eillsh commercial next week.)

SURVIVOR PICKEM UPDATE

Well kids, I won't sugarcoat it. if you had Stephenie on your picks and you didn't also have Rick Devens, you got your teeth kicked in tonight as my long-time Survivor crush racked up a horrific -10 points, scrambling the standings and suddenly turning the top of the leaderboard into a whole lot of people still being very alive for $50 of my hard-earned money. So much for that winner's edit, yikes.

Top Scorers of the Week: Only 3 people got double-digit points this week. Give it up the Immaculate Picker Johnsy3 (14.5) who STILL has all 5 of his originals in the game; MrsDoItBest (11.5), and Big Al 1992 (10.5).

Picker of the week: Despite those high scores, my picker of the week is tx1c, who ran the full gamut of the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat as their three remaining players - Cirie, Devens, and Stephenie - combined for 0 points.

Best Stat of the Season: DoItBest got -6.5 points for this episode, and took over the lead.

Episode Recap:

Auction:
Cirie gets sick at the auction eating too much food and throws up: -2
I know Jonathan also threw up, but certainly not from eating too much

Immunity Challenge:
Stephenie first out: -2
Tiffany wins: +5/5.5

Tribal:
I looked over the rules and made some decisions on Devens' unique experience at tribal and this is what I came up with.
+5 for the coin flip victory, because it's the equivalent of winning immunity.
+3 for getting the immunity idol - not hidden, but works the same.

Voting:
Stephenie misspells Aubrey's name twice: -2
Joe, in what is a disturbing trend, gets his fourth point of the season taken away for a misspell, going with "Steff" - which I don't think anyone has ever spelled it like that before for -1
Stephenie plays an advantage and it doesn't alter who goe home: -3
Stephenie voted out post-merge: -3
Everyone else lives to see another day: +1/1.5 = Aubry, Cirie, Emily, Joe, Jonathan, Ozzy, Rick, Rizo, Tiffany

New Contest Standings

100s
DoItBest 108
Eso si 107
Johnsy3 102
agsquirrel97 101.5
CharleyKerfeld 101.5
Mozart 100.5

90s
caleblyn 97
Saxsoon 97
TriumphForks 96.5
Mrs DoItBest 96
wangus12 93
cwpaggie07 93
double aught 91.5
gravy975 91


80s
CheeseSndwch 87
Big Al 1992 86
rwhitlock3 84
Roll the Bones 83
Ag87H2O 82


70s
blackgoldag11 77.5
Quinn 76.5
AggieJ2002 75.5
HTown98 75.5
rhutton125 74
SZ 71.5

60s
7yrplan 67.5
veryfuller 62.5
tx1c 62
Rudyjax 62

50s
Counterpoint 51.5

Progress is his middle name
Goldie Wilson 8

Got my teeth kicked in this round

Can't believe how big of a misstep that was by Jeff and Production. They had a mad dash and an amazing tribal, then Jeff barfs all over it by crediting Jimmy Beast instead of the great players that they brought back. So ridiculous and emblematic of how embarrassing Jeff has been about celebrities this season.

They're flushing Devens idol out next ep. Which he knows. And means he's playing it on someone else. Likely Aubry at this point.

Same thing happened with that country singer guy. I think they're told to drool all over them. At least MrBeast brought another $million

veryfuller said:

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This definitely felt like the dumbest vote out of the season for a lot of these people. I get it was chaos, but for most of these people, in what world is it better for them to keep Ozzy or Cirie in the game over Stephanie? Cirie has been masterful this season (as always) at making people do wha she wants and all of these seeming smart strategists (Aubry, Emily, Devens) are just playing right along with it.

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People said the cast was brain dead in 49 but there has to be two shared brain cells in this cast to not get rid of Cirie

TexAgs91 said:

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Same thing happened with that country singer guy. I think they're told to drool all over them. At least MrBeast brought another $million

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I'm sure all the celebrities definitely paid their way into the show in some form or fashion.

Ex Ex Officio Director said:

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I guess I'm the only person in the world who has never heard of Mr. Beast.

I forgot his name, and when they were talking about the Mr. Beast Advantage or whatever it was, I thought they had named if after Jonathan because he won.

I do not love all the gratuitous celebs on this season.

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I know his name, but I've never seen him or watched any of his videos. But I also couldn't have recognized Zac Bryan. I guess it's possible the players who don't know him are just faking it.

My question from the auction is: Did Joe just see this as a way to pocket an easy $500 or did they just edit him out on bidding for stuff?

Second question: When did it hit Stephenie that she went home because of $20? If she or anyone else in her alliance doesn't agree to put $20 in for the big reward, Devens is done.

Tiff continues to be a world-beater in contest points

Through 10 episodes:
Tiff: 44
Joe: 31
Ozzy: 24.5
Jonathan: 22.5
Aubry: 21
Rick: 20.5
Cirie: 16.5
Rizzo: 16.5
Emily: 11.5

Tiffany is the only contestant to never get negative points in any episode. Her points are 2,2,1,4,2,11,3,9,4,6.


Some further nerding

Total number of players left by entry
Two left: 5
Three left: 18
Four left: 6
Five left: 2


Total number of original players left by entry
One left: 5
Two left: 13
Three left: 10
Four left: 2
Five left: 1


Before Steph's -10 last night, the worst outings were Angelina's -7 in Episode 5 when when she got eliminated and Savannah's -7 in Episode 2.

Ironically, Stephenie also has the single-highest point total for an episode with 14 back in Episode 6..

wangus12 said:

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TexAgs91 said:

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Same thing happened with that country singer guy. I think they're told to drool all over them. At least MrBeast brought another $million

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I'm sure all the celebrities definitely paid their way into the show in some form or fashion.

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Towards the prize money for the contestants? I don't think so

Ex Ex Officio Director said:

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I guess I'm the only person in the world who has never heard of Mr. Beast.

I forgot his name, and when they were talking about the Mr. Beast Advantage or whatever it was, I thought they had named if after Jonathan because he won.

I do not love all the gratuitous celebs on this season.

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MrBeast has his own BeastGames show. He had a Survivor crossover there. For one of the "side contests", a few select players got to compete to win one of the small survivor islands worth $1.8 million, so it went both ways.

All I know is that Rick Devens singlehandedly saved me from having a really bad night last night. Every one of my other players spit the bit.

I was ecstatic when Stephanie decided to use her steal a vote, only to see her mispell Aubrey twice. Even using her steal a vote advantage cost me an extra point.

It was a great episode, but by the end this was me

Not knowing who Mr Beast is, is mostly generational. I'm almost 50 and wouldn't have known who he was except that I have a 5th grade son. For the past 5 years+ he's one of, if not the most, popular online guys for kids/young-adults. Pretty much every kid between the ages of 5 and 15 (maybe older) know who he is and what he does, even if they don't view his stuff regularly.


As far as "Steph losing the vote because of $20"....I fast forwarded through the letter readings so I must have missed it, but how did her spending the $20 cost her? I thought she just caught the blowback from the attempted move on Ozzy, when in fact it was Jonathan that initiated that attempt?

The Beast Games reality show on Prime isn't terrible..... he throws around a ton of money. I had never heard of him until I watched that, and then realized the dude is huge.

CharleyKerfeld said:

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Also, I'd be remiss to not mention the ultimate Survivor 50 gift. Tribal Council Dee.

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We were deprived when she won her season