On Splitting the Votes

While I have a lot of planned top tens for the future, I have no idea if you will be seeing them at all since I need to come up with good things for them for you to see them. Now I’m going to talk about the now famous and often used vote splitting strategy.

How many times have they used splitting the votes thus far? It has happened 85 times thus far. That’s a lot. At 85 different tribal councils, a group of contestants attempted in some way to split the votes and it has be one of the most well known parts of Survivor today.

Someone on twitter once claimed that splitting the votes is never a good strategy. But it has been used to successfully get rid of 64 people. One of the two targets, be it the primary one or the secondary one, was successfully voted out because of it. Of course, it can be confusing with all of it being used and it may seem like someone wasn’t supposed to go when it became the secondary one instead, but the info that I have seems to point to that many times it had worked. 

Of course, that would mean that it failed to work right 21 planned times. One of them was confusing since it was Vince’s elimination in Worlds Apart and he was one of the two targets. But I think that I do agree with fandom in that it was a failure that time. It’s interesting how a failed split vote first happened at the fan’s tribal council in the first fans versus favorite season, Micronesia. They made history.

So this strategy has worked around 80% of the time. It is hard to know for sure what all this is like in the future as this will continue to be used over and over again. It don’t think that it is a bad strategy at all. I think that we will continue to see it a lot in the future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.