Well, I thought the whole day on it(why did I bother to do that!!) and my younger brother(who just turned 13) made a good thought on it.

We know Brad is the first jury and 11 left.
So it's 9 jury and F3 or 10 jury and F2 which can cause a tie.

And there was tons of F3 contestants who deserved to win(out of those three) but was not taken to F2.

So here is what I think.

There will be 9 jury and when it comes to F3 the juries voteout 1 of them who they think does not deserve a chance to get million dollars. And then they will vote for the Sole Survivor out of the left 2 and one voted out of F3 does not get a chance to vote as a jury.

It might sound a little complecated but I think it can really work!!!

I had posted this opinion in other community and someone over there gave me ans reply about it. He/she said that in Reward Challenge to decode a sentence in Episode 4 the answer was "LAST CASTAWAYS BACK CAST ONE AWAY". And so this answer caused people to think(perhaps a misdirection) about OUTKASTS in Pearl Island though doubted by almost everyone. So that sentence may refer to what I was thinking of.

Just my thoughts.

Talk about an unfair option, to make it all the way to the final 3 and then not even get a vote? I highly doubt that would happen. I think that of all the options, the one with the message offering one of the two boots a cash prize to step off the jury would be the best of them all. Then we get back to a jury of 9 and a final 2.

But the press release says two get voted out..I know that may not be controlling but I'm not sure about the $ to go scenario.

If it is..who takes the bait?

Rebecca the exhausted one?

or

Jenny--who has to know she ain't winning this thing...

Bc of the misdirection quote about someone being checked out which I think is Nate talking about Rebecca...remember she had the insider talk about not giving up etc.

I think if $$ is offered Jenny takes it. She has never said anything about not quitting (like Rebecca and Sundra ftm)

if jenny indeed was offered money and took it in exchange for leaving the game, that would make her comment about hoping brad was concerned with the team rather than himself a few episodes back QUITE ironic.

i don't think jenny knows she isn't going to win. it's easier for us to say that given spoilers having her entire tribe wiped out by the final 4. there have been plenty of survivors in precarious positions before the merge that have gained significantly from it. chances are she sees her chances increased after jon/candice left aitu...

I think $$$ thing won't work. Let say two(Rebecca and Jenny) are voted out. And Jeff gives an offer. If I'm one of them I'll sure will take the offer. If both of them wants to take the offer, who will take it? Another booooooooooooring fire challenge for it? No way.

If $$$ thing will take place, It should be done after one is voted out(perhaps Rebecca)and the bottle is opened which describes they are offered to step down the show for $$$(only the first one can do it). And Jenny takes that offer after knowing she is in the bottom of the pole through Rebecca's departure(5-2 votes perhaps, 2 for Jonathan by Rebecca and Jenny).

I'm not sure but neither this nor jury voting out one of F3 seems fair, though the second one is my idea. But Survivor isn't about fairness, right?

I really don't see the "$ to go" thing happenning. What purpose would it serve? It seems like a lame idea, since we already think it's lame that Brad made the jury, having not even met all the players.

I don't think the message in the bottle has anything to do with the jury. My first thought was, it reveals the identity of the person with the immunity idol to whoever wins the bottle.

I still don't know what to think about the jury, though some good theories have been brought up here.

I'm leaning towards the easiest solution is usually right - it's a ten member jury, and they've devised some lame tie breaker should it be necessary, which I really hope isn't a home viewer vote - as I've said elsewhere, if players thought they had to play up to the home audience for a vote, we'd never see a real confessional again.

>I really don't see the "$ to go" thing happenning.

Agreed!!

>it's lame that Brad made the jury, having not even met all the players.

100% agreed!

>I really hope isn't a home viewer vote - as I've said elsewhere, if players thought they had to play up to the home audience for a vote, we'd never see a real confessional again.

Again, 200% agreed!

But as I've posted I really don't think there will be a tie. It will be 9jury and F2, though I'm not sure what way they'll dismiss one jury.

1. As i've posted, when it comes down to F3 the 9jury will first vote a person out and then vote for winner in F2.

or

2. One of F2 will be given a power to dismiss one of jury's vote. Maybe there will be F2 challenge for the first time, or has it got to do something wit F3 challenge.

My personal theory is that it's going to be a whole different twist. Something like if you're voted off in the F5, you get to replace a jury member. That would keep things as a 7-member jury, and give some advantage to the people placed 3-5 (since presumably, they won't be replaced on the jury) vs. 6-12.

That said, in this scenario, I see this happening:

Pavarti replaces Jenny, 2 members of Aitu replace Jonathan/Candace. It would be sweet, sweet revenge.

The Jury members will vote at F3 to pick the last person booted.

I think I've got the answer...

Given that a ten person jury could result in a tie, MB must have something up his sleeve to avoid that, RIGHT?

So I'm guessing that each jury member will get a number of votes in accordance with their voted-out-order. Meaning, Brad will get one vote, jury member #2 gets 2 votes, Jury # 3 get s 3 votes and so on until the F3 bootee will get 10 votes. If this works out, I like it because it means that the players that were a bigger part of the game get more say in the outcome, while relatively meaningless Brad gets little say. It will also require the winner to be very diplomatic with those last few boots.

The numbers will work out because it will result in 55 total votes, so there must be a winner. A 7 or 8 member jury would not have worked using this method, because there would be an even number of total votes, though 9 would've been OK.

One question that I am still mulling over is whether MB will allow split votes (F3 bootee can split their votes 5-5 if they want) or if they must give all teir votes to one F2 tribe member.

So what do you think?

I like the premise, but how about something a little easier: The F3 person gets two votes (and has to apply them to one person only), all the others get 1 vote. This would make 11 votes total and no chance for a tie, plus the person that chooses who to take to F2 would have to choose super wisely.

I like this idea, K O'B. It is relatively simple, it influences the final immunity winner to choose wisely, and it avoids a tie.

It still seems strange though - why couldn't MB just start the jury one person later and avoid all this?

This weighed scheme would be even more of an incentive to lose the final challenge. We've already had Richard, Ethan and Matt that didn't compete. Even Vee and Aras prefered to make deals. You don't need more incentive to reward the loser of the challenge that is brought to the jury.

Putting the F3 immunity winner's name on the first parchement means there would be 11 ballots in the urn and it really encourages those last 3 players to fight it out.

That is a really good idea, Michel. So what I understand you are saying is every person voted out from now on will be on the jury, leading to F2, meaning 10 jury votes. But one extra vote will be put into the urn right up front and that will be the name of the F3 immunity challenge winner.

This plan is simple, it encourages a true fight for the F3 immunity challenge, it keeps the numbers of votes odd, keeps the F2 (rather than F3) concept, and it does not require any future evictees to miss being on the jury from this point forward.

It seems perfect!

it encourages a true fight for the F3 immunity challenge

It might encourage future contestants who've watched S13, but it wouldn't have any effect on this final 3 unless they are told about it before the challenge.

Blowin' the blues away, courtesy of tribephyl