Episode 31.7

With a record number of players apparently entering the merge, you might be wondering who all is in danger and who has the best chances going into it. Now here are my thoughts on the players still in the game thus far. These thoughts will mostly be based on their edits. Kimmi is getting a mostly negative and invisible edit. I’m not sure that I have high hopes for her, but she could prove to be a threat down the road. Ciera looks like a hidden threat who could turn the game around for other players. I’m not sure that she has much on her own though. Why not take out Andrew when she had the chance too? Joe has been made to be seen as a threat, although we really haven’t seen how much yet. Kelley Wentworth has been made to look like a villain and has been getting mixed edits.

Andrew could be heading for a fall, although it might not happen. Keith has been ignored for far too long for him to make it to the end. Kass is all over the place and I don’t think she’ll make it as far as she wants to. Abi is almost certainly not going to win, although she may make it to the end. Kelly Wiglesworth has been ignored so long that if you do see her, then you’ll know who gets voted out. Tasha has been given a villain edit, but not a bad one that could turn against her, although it might. Stephen seems to not be getting a good edit at first, although that might change in the future. Jeremy might be having a good game, but it’s hard to tell for sure. Spencer may have a goodish edit, but he seemed to have barely squeaked by two tribal councils and is clearly a threat to others going ahead. So it seems clear to me that I have no way of knowing who has the best odds when nearly everyone has bad enough edits to be the next one voted out or #blindsided.

Joe Anglim Worlds Apart Vytas Baskauskas Blood vs. Water Spencer Bledsoe Cagayan Jeremy Collins San Juan del Sur Teresa "T-Bird" Cooper Africa Max Dawson Worlds Apart Terry Deitz Panama Ciera Eastin Blood vs. Water Stephen Fishbach Tocantins Latasha "Tasha" Fox Cagayan Abi-Maria Gomes Philippines Mike Holloway Worlds Apart Yung "Woo" Hwang Cagayan Kimmi Kappenberg The Australian Outback Peih-Gee Law China Kassandra "Kass" McQuillen Cagayan Keith Nale San Juan del Sur Shirin Oskooi Worlds Apart Monica Padilla Samoa Troy "Troyzan" Robertson One World Andrew Savage Pearl Islands Natalie Tenerelli Redemption Island Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo Mikayla Wingle South Pacific

There are rumors or possibly just guesses that there will be a final two this season. I don’t know why people would think that. Too many people have complained in the past that final twos have prevented good people from winning the game. That’s why I’m pretty sure that they wouldn’t use that in a second chance season. But that’s just my thoughts on the matter, at least.

Speaking of rumors, I have no idea why a person was talking about Monica being a finalist, but it was weird. It happened in a facebook Survivor group that I’m in. I was talking about how all the finalists that made the cast this season were from final two seasons. He said that I had forgot to mention Monica. Now Monica didn’t make the end of Samoa and that wasn’t a final two season. So I don’t know if that person was high or something, but I do find it weird. I’m not sure why I’m mentioning this.

Terry’s situation was weird. He was removed from the game. Some people have classified it as medical evacuation of sorts. This would mark the first time that a healthy person was evacuated due to a family emergency. I’m guessing that he’ll probably be back for another season, although I’m not sure about this. This leads to my next set of medically evacuated players.

Since Philippines happened, I’ve been putting various medically evacuated players in groups of three (or just two when not possible to have three in every group) provided that these players have not played since they were evacuated. Now, I seem to have three perfect groups of three, for now at least. There are the questionable evacuations which some fans actually debate as medical evacuations. That group would have Terry from this season, Gary from Fiji, and Dana from Philippines.  There are the postmerge evacuations that consist of Bruce from Panama, Joe from Tocantins, and Erik from Caramoan. Then there are the other, premerge evacuations that consist of Mike Borassi from Samoa, Kourtney from One World, and Shamar from Caramoan. Those are my sets for the moment.

I have decided that since things are working well, I’m going to live tweet today’s episode. This could mean that my blog will suffer in quality as this tends to happen. I’ll probably not be on twitter as much as I used to. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Andrew is surprised about what happened at tribal council. Spencer talks about relaying on Kass. There are unidentified confessionals that I’m missing. I don’t know why Andrew is making such a big deal about the merge. He made the merge in his last season. Maybe he just wants his fate to change, hopefully unlike how it changed for him last time.

In the second segment of the show, the contestants are all surprised by the early merge. I’m guessing that it’s at 13 in a second chance season so enough people will enter it. Kelley Wentworth is glad that she’s made it as far as she has so far. There is fun at the merge feast but others are waiting for stuff to unravel soon afterwards.

In the third segment of the show, Andrew tries to get his feel on the new tribe. Will things fall apart for him? It could, because there’s never such a thing as a well laid plan on Survivor. Unfortunately, we’ll probably see a great player voted out tonight. Tasha says BS to Kass in order to not let any valuable information be passed. Kass sees right through this.

In the fourth segment of the show, Tasha and Kass talk some more about various things in the game. Tasha is refusing to bury the hatchet which could turn out badly for her. A lot of drama happens at camp live before we get to the immunity challenge. Joe wins the challenge.

In the fifth segment of the show, Andrew is talking about what he wants to do and if he’ll be able to do it. Will he turn on a former ally? People discuss who they want to vote out. Jeremy considers an idol being in play. The target is supposed to be Kass, but she could easily screw up the game. If that does happen, then Alex Gomory Keisler was right. We get to tribal council, the first for Joe and Keith this season. Jeff forgets that the tribal council from This is the Man Test was the biggest, although I guess this is a tie with that, actually. Kass is voted out of the game and becomes the first member of the jury. So will this be either the largest jury ever or the first season with more than three finalists?

On the next Survivor, “everyone is worried about big moves… and the only question is, who will strike first?” That summary perfectly describes what could be ensuing chaos of the rest of this season. It’s just what I’ve come to expect.

Total confessional count: Ciera- 6, Stephen- 10, Andrew- 21, Tasha- 11, Abi- 14, Kelley Wentworth- 13, Kimmi- 4, Joe- 10, Kelly Wiglesworth- 3, Spencer- 23, Kass- 15, Jeremy- 9, Keith- 4.

New confessionals this episode: Keith- 1, Ciera- 1, Stephen- 1, Andrew- 6, Tasha- 1, Abi- 0, Kelley Wentworth- 3, Kimmi- 0, Joe- 4, Kelly Wiglesworth- 0, Spencer- 4, Kass- 5, Jeremy- 1.

Poor Kelly Wigleworth is proving very irrelevant to this season. She has the lowest confessional fount with 3 and will probably only get a higher number if she gets voted out. Remember that Survivor history will happen if that happens. I’ll explain how again if you want me to. Anyways, Spencer has the highest confessional count with 23. Andrew is above 20 with 21. Stephen and Joe both have 10 confessionals. Kelley Wentworth has 13. Kass had 5 in this episode and 15 altogether. Meanwhile, I’ll talk about some craziness in future blog posts. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.