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Originally Posted by catangod
I don't understand Aubry's thinking. She floats an idea of Her + Victoria + Wendy voting off a man. Wendy stares back at her blankly. This should be warning signs for her. She is a total moron but should be jumping at this opportunity to form the 3 girls alliance. Then Aubry just assumes "lol Wendy" and predicts a 4-1 vote off. Underestimated her tribemates. Gotta give some credit to Victoria, she did a great sell job, great plays.
I don't think she necessarily underestimated, she overestimated Wendy. Aubry should 100% have realized that Wendy not willing to commit is weird. I think Wendy didn't want to lie/backstab someone. This might not be true, but it seems like Aubry did not even consider this. Stupid move, though I think people itt are being too harsh. She should have used her idol, but you can make a fair case on why not using it was good, too.
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Originally Posted by Soncy
Victoria obviously awesome. Thread seems to approve. Woman hating thread theory debunked.
Now can we say we find Reem and Wendy annoying without getting attacked, or do we need to also throw Keith and Wardog in there for equality's sake?
Also, lol at the tribe who decided it would be a good idea to vote Chris off going on a challenge losing streak and complaining about it. That wasn't foreseeable?
To be fair I kind of enjoyed Wendy this episode when you just think of her as someone who is there to do everything except for play the game. I also liked her reaction when given the choice to play further.
(She still is one of my least favorite players ever for the stupid chicken crap)
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Originally Posted by Double Down
So even though I think the 4 of them played it well last night, making the read that the other 3 wouldn't put their game on the line for Wendy, they may have done some damage to themselves for the rest of the game. Here's why:
They're going to be at an 8-4 disadvantage at the merge. Usually when one team is at such a disadvantage, they have two options: 1. (The more favorable option) Try to find cracks within the majority and bring some of them over. If this doesn't seem like it's going to work and the writing is on the wall, then: 2. Be willing to turn against their own.
By holding so strong together at tribal last night, it's going to be hard to convince anyone in the majority alliance to flip over because the majority will know that the 4 are so tight that whoever joins them will be on the bottom of that tribe. I could potentially see Joe being tempted but it seems like he's preferring to stay strong with his originals. I suppose if Aubrey hadn't gone home, it would be enticing for her and Joe to flip over some there are two vulnerable returnees on the other side. But if it's just him, not enough incentive.
If I'm in the majority 8, I'm letting my tribe mates know that after that display of loyalty last night, it's imperative to just pagong them out of the game, perhaps sparing whichever one is left as a decoy to blindside Joe or other threats on my own team.
I'm not saying they should have played it differently, just that that display of loyalty for each other might come back to bite them in the ass. The irony is that they're not that loyal to each other. Possibly if they had gotten rid of one of their own last night, the members of the other tribe would be more open to working with them post merge.
Of course, anything goes after the merge and we suddenly see people make all kinds of moves, so it's not like they're dead in the water at all.
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Meh this makes a lot of assumptions. You make a fair point if Wendy was not part of any core group and disliked by everyone. I see the revote more as a choice between "going to rocks to drag along a goat" or "voting out Wendy."
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Originally Posted by Mojo56
The guy that calls himself 'Wardog' is an athletic embarrassment. To say that he threw 'like a girl' would be a disservice to females everywhere. Lauren showed him how to do it until she ran out of gas. I would have liked to Wentworth step up but 'Wardog' jumped in front of her. What a douche. Too bad the merge is coming because it seems like the tribe is finally coming to the realization that 'Wardog' is a poser who needs to get the boot.
He's Tony lacking everything that made Tony awesome. I wanted to like him but I've given up this week. He's useless and I'm going to guess post-merge he's going to be voted out quickly for being too bossy.
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Originally Posted by Symbioticse
He's good at one aspect of the game but not really good socially at convincing people to do stuff nor strategically. There was a stat I saw on twitter, dude has literally not voted someone out of this game since his first season.
David and Wentworth are better and no don't think David is intentionally bad at challenges he's just awful generally but that makes his survival of 5/6 of the first few tribals that much more impressive contrast that to Joe who should be more useful to any tribe who would've been voted out.
I agree but imo he's really improved this season and he has been trying stuff that he didn't before, and could have helped him a lot in hist 1st run.
He might have been terrible before, but you got to realize he is in the most difficult position out of everyone this season wrt playing the social/strategic game.
