Well, kiddos, it finally happened. We broke Jeff. He’s like a windup doll. He can only say so many things: “Come on in,” “That is how you do it on Survivor,” “Dig deep,” “I got nothing for ya,” and, of course, “Balls.” At the immunity challenge, he surely said all of those things at least once (and as with any challenge, there was more talk about balls than at a live lottery drawing or gay-porn rehearsal), but then Jeff started to cry. The first time ever! It’s my usual default mode to make fun of Jeff or to tell him how wrong he is, but not this time. I was sobbing too, my friend. (My friend is you, dear reader. Not Jeff.)
What happened with the vote floored me, but not in a good way. We have a tribal where everyone talks about how Bianca is either the easy vote because she’s the only one without a partner, or she’s the swing vote, choosing between two sides, but she’s kind of neither because she has no vote of her own. When Jeff reads the votes, it’s one for Sai, one for Chrissy, and two for Bianca, who is eliminated.
What the …??? This is the kind of Survivor move that I hate, because it is an unexpected blindside, yes, but we missed who flipped and why. The shock of it happening is upended by the audience being totally confused. As Bianca is walking toward Jeff, whose eyes are still a little puffy with tears, Chrissy points out to a stunned Sai that there were only four votes, that Bianca lost her vote. Mitch, who voted for Sai, also seems to not know what is going on.
It’s a little hard for us to figure out, too. It seems like Cedrek told Chrissy that Bianca lost her vote, and those two decided to vote her out together. Sai was clearly not told, and maybe Mitch wasn’t either. Maybe they had Mitch still vote for Sai in case Bianca was playing some diabolical game and had an immunity idol, too, and then at least it would have been a tie between Chrissy and Sai, and on the revote, they could have gone with Sai. We have no idea because we haven’t seen any of it, not even a hint that Cedrek would have talked to Chrissy and/or Mitch and what might have motivated his switch against Bianca.
What we do know is that Cedrek is messier than a dorm bathroom after Taco Tuesday. Now Sai will really not trust him because not only did he vote for her, but he further alienated her by not telling her that Bianca lost her vote. He voted out Bianca, who was so willing to work with him that he is the only one she told about losing the vote. He’s left with Chrissy and Mitch, who have little allegiance to him. I can’t wait for Cedrek to go, and I just know that Jeff won’t shed a tear as he sends him packing.
Bianca voted out eliminating surferguy!
belsarius - Shauhin // Charity
dino7c - Stephanie // Mary
EldrickOnIce - Cedrek // Kyle
Cheese - Joe - Kamilla
KootenayFlamesFan - Kevin Leung//Star
csnarpy - Saiounia // Mitch
trackercowe - Justin Pioppi // Thomas Krottinger
Fuzz - Eva Erickson // David Kinne
ChuckieNZ - Kamilla // Saiounia
transplant99 - Chrissy Sarnowski/Cedric
surferguy - Bianca/Bianca (assuming)
Barnes - Star // Justin Pioppi
WhiteTiger - Charity Nelms // Stephanie Berger
SportsJunky - Mitch Guerra // Chrissy Sarnowski
jg13 -Thomas Krottinger // Joe
savardandjokinen - Kyle Fraser // Shauhin
mikephoen - Mary Zheng // Kevin Leung
jroc - David Kinne // Eva Erickson
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