I know you said you like tallying the points up yourself but there is also this website a group of friends and I use that does it all automatically.

https://tribal-council.com/rules

jdgilberg said:

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I know you said you like tallying the points up yourself but there is also this website a group of friends and I use that does it all automatically.

https://tribal-council.com/rules

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Machines take the fun out of things.

New Standings after 9 episodes

The triple digits

SZ - 122.5
cwpaggie07 - 116.5
HTownAg98 - 102.5

SZ is now the one to beat with 4 players active, and 3 pre-merge; nobody else has more than 2 pre-merge. SZ racked up an episode high 23.5 points tonight.

Lurking on the perimeter

Saxsoon - 93

Lost Alex and MC in back to back tribals, a double whammy.

The bell curve crew
DO Bettor - 82.5
counterpoint - 81
Rudyjax - 80.5
texas_ute - 78
gravy97 - 74.5
rwhitlock - 70.5

The best battle of the season
double_aught - 55
ntouch - 54

Double_aught's first time out of last all year

Choosing to get your ass kicked by your wife on an Internet forum

Mrs. Do It Best - 33
DoitBest - 21



The Points Recap

Reward Challenge
Kristina +3
Sophie +3
Alex +3
Savannah +3

Kristina gave up her spot in the actual reward to Jawan, but her team won it so she gets the +3


Immunity Challenge:
Rizo first out: -1
Savannah +5
Steven +5

Rizo might be the least physical threat out there. Trash-talking Savannah takes the hot up another half a point.


Tribal Council:
Alex voted off: -2

Tribal Survival:
Kristina +1
Sophie +1
Savannah +1
Rizo +1
Steven +1
Jawan +1
Soph: +1
Sage: +1


Episode totals:
Savannah +9/10.5
Steven: +6/7
Kristina +4/5
Sophie +4/5
Alex: +1/1.5
Soph: +1/1.5
Sage: +1/1.5
Jawan: +1/1.5
Rizo: 0/0.5

It's interesting because there doesn't seem to be any main alliance after looking like it was going to be a tribe war headed into the merge.

Ag87H2O said:

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Sage and Jawan screwed up big by voting Alex out. Could have taken Rizzo out and neutered Savannah and Sophie, plus picked up an ally with Alex. Could very well end up costing one of them the game.

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You really have to hand it to Yellow Sophie - she's finished first, second, second at Individual Immunity challenges, she was clearly the popular choice to go home last week, and this week she didn't get a single vote.

The rest just seem too scared to flush Rizo's idol because none of them are confident what the secondary target would be.

Do you think Soph has considered she could play the all-time baller move of using the Knowledge is Power advantage ON RIZO at a Tribal and taking the idol from him?

or even more interesting, using it before they vote and taking it from him, prompting the rest to vote him out, but then playing it for him and destroying the other alliance?


Those are pretty out there. I would predict that now that Soph has two votes, Sage will try to "win her trust back" by revealing that Kristina has the other immunity idol, and then Soph takes Kristina's idol with her advantage.

On the Podcast today, Probst said his Mount Rushmore of all-time players is Boston Rob, Sandra (Blech), Parvati (si senor), and Tony, and remarked that all 4 were villains on their season.

Jeremy Collins, the guest host this year, is very impressed with Rizo saying he's not even playing for the money at this point, he just wants to play the game as hard and smart as he can. He was very complimentary of him "dropping little nuggets" about Alex to different people at different times.

Jeremy also told a funny story of how he tuned everything else out in immunity challenges, especially Jeff talking. At some challenge on the Fire & Blood season, halfway through a challenge, Jeff activated some mechanism that could give you a later advantage, and Jeremy wasn't listening and had no idea what was happening when the other contestants started abandoning the challenge and jumping in the water to retrieve the advantage.

My 4 are the final 4.

Quinn said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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Ag87H2O said:

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Sage and Jawan screwed up big by voting Alex out. Could have taken Rizzo out and neutered Savannah and Sophie, plus picked up an ally with Alex. Could very well end up costing one of them the game.

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You really have to hand it to Yellow Sophie - she's finished first, second, second at Individual Immunity challenges, she was clearly the popular choice to go home last week, and this week she didn't get a single vote.

The rest just seem too scared to flush Rizo's idol because none of them are confident what the secondary target would be.

Do you think Soph has considered she could play the all-time baller move of using the Knowledge is Power advantage ON RIZO at a Tribal and taking the idol from him?

or even more interesting, using it before they vote and taking it from him, prompting the rest to vote him out, but then playing it for him and destroying the other alliance?


Those are pretty out there. I would predict that now that Soph has two votes, Sage will try to "win her trust back" by revealing that Kristina has the other immunity idol, and then Soph takes Kristina's idol with her advantage.

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Now that would be a sick move

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That would go down as an all time greatest Survivor move if it happened

Rizo had another great episode and is clearly not the idiot he was earlier portrayed as

With Stranger Things Vol 1 coming out tomorrow night, I probably won't watch the next episode until Thursday morning and then update the standing before I gorge myself. A shame, it seems like a big ball dropping episode is upcoming.

But Vecna calls.

You're going to abandon Survivor for Stranger Things?? Spoiler Alert: the entire series was the boys playing D&D the whole time. Now you can watch Survivor instead.

Quinn said:

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You're going to abandon Survivor for Stranger Things?? Spoiler Alert: the entire series was the boys playing D&D the whole time. Now you can watch Survivor instead.

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I've got kids who are possibly more excited for tonight than anything in my entire life and I've got my Hellfire T-shirt.

But honestly, who am I kidding? I'm sure I'll have Survivor on at 1 AM and post the updates in the middle of the night for an audience of no one.

Are they not allowed to dive off those platforms? You'd think that would be much faster.

That was a great Tribal Council. Rizo trolling them all with a fake idol to gauge their reactions was awesome

Everybody at home but me is sick, so they wussed out after 2 episodes of Stranger Things.

As Saxsoon said, brilliant move by Rizo to see who was very excited to see him play the idol. Kristina had a huge smile on her face, I hope he noted that and figures out she voted for him.

SZ slaughtered the rest of us again tonight and is starting to run away with the pick'em game.

New overall standings:

SZ 143.5
cwpaggie07 127
HTownAg98 109

RudyJax 96.5
Saxsoon 96

DO bettor 89.5
gravy97 86.5
Counterpoint 84
rwhitlock3 83.5

texas_ute 77.5 - the unfortunate distinction of a -0.5 week.
n_touch 71
double aught 70

Mrs. DoitBest 39
DoitBest 24

The Breakdown

Sophie, Soph, Sage and Steven all get +3 for the reward challenge
Sophie +5 for Immunity challenge
There is no detraction of points for playing your idol for something and it doesn't effect anything, might have to make that something for 50.
Jawan: -2
Everyone else: +1 for surviving TC

Episode point totals
Sophie: 9/10.5
Soph: 4/5
Steven: 4/5
Sage: 4/5
Rizo: 1/1.5
Savannah: 1/1.5
Kristina: 1/1.5
Jawan: -2

I feel very good about my 4 making it to the final four.