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urrent Methods
Re-vote
The first method of resolving a tie is a re-vote. However, there is an additional rule to this vote. The only possibilities of whom a contestant can vote for are the those who received the tied votes. Example: A and B received 3 votes each, C received 2. Only A and B can be voted for in the re-vote, and C is now safe. Since this tie usually occurs between two people, those two do not vote (because their votes would automatically be for each other).
Survivors eliminated by this method:
Angie (Palau)
James (Palau)
Purple Rock of Death (PRoD)
If the vote is still deadlocked after the re-vote, and it's not F4 or a tribe of 2, the elimination is decided by the Purple Rock of Death. A bag of stones, all the same color save one, is held for the contestants. They all blindly draw a stone from the bag. Once all are drawn, the stones are revealed. The contestant holding the odd-colored stone is then eliminated.
Because the PRoD is fair, the person with individual immunity does not have to draw a stone. But because the PRoD loves irony, the people with the deadlocked tie votes become immune and are also exempt from drawing stones. Thus the danger of being eliminated is shifted from the people receiving votes to the people voting for them. Fear of facing the PRoD has prevented many tie votes.
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