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Special Note: Has Brandon run out of fish yet?

The DAWS

Te Tuna (yellow) tribe
AD Albert Destrade (Upolu)
BH Brandon Hantz (Upolu)
CW "Coach" Ben Wade (Upolu)
RN Rick Nelson (Upolu)
SC Sophie "Софи" Clark (Upolu)

Redemption Island
Exile 9: OL Oscar "Ozzy" Lusth (Savaii, exile 7, Te Tuna)
Exile 14: EM Edna Ma (Upolu, Te Tuna)

The Jury
ep 10. Jim Rice (Savaii, Te Tuna, exile 10)
ep 10. Keith Tollefson (Savaii, Te Tuna, exile 8)
recap. ho-hum.
ep 11. Dawn Meehan (Savaii, Te Tuna, exile 11)
ep 11. Whitney Duncan (Savaii, Te Tuna, exile 12)
ep 12. John Cochran (Savaii, Te Tuna, exile 13)

Eliminated
ep3. Semhar Tadesse (Savaii, exile 1)
ep4. Mark Anthony "Papa Bear" Caruso (Savaii, exile 3)
ep5. Stacey Powell (Upolu, exile 4)
ep6. Elyse Umemoto (Savaii, exile 5)
ep7. Mikayla Wingle (Upolu, exile 6)
ep8. Christine Shields Markoski (Upolu, exile 2)

The Rules

1a. Put the name of your choice for this week's boot in the subject heading.

This is easy, just erase where it says "Re: SurvivorBlowsTribe, Time to Vote..." and replace with your vote on which player will get the boot, e.g., "Sophie." Or, if you think this will be a two-boot week: "Sophie and Coach." It doesn't matter which order you put them in unless it matters to you.

This makes it easier to tally votes quickly and accurately. Nicknames are tougher to tally unless they are really obvious without actually reading your post. Other things you want to vote on, who wins what challenge, will someone fget back in the game, who gets to eat rewards, how many times the word "name" gets repeated in prayer, these should go in your post not in your subject line.

("Boot" defines as voted out of a tribe, either exiled to Redemption Island or, when Redemption Island is no longer a factor in the game, eliminated from the game. Quitters are also regarded as boots though whether they would be exiled or eliminated/disqualified is unknown. It is assumed that medical evacuees would be eliminated/disqualified without prejudice.)

1b. The process for voting on which Exile on Redemption Island will be eliminated from the game.

Place your elimination vote anywhere in the subject line with the boot vote. Place an "X" in front of the name of the exile you think will lose the duel and be eliminated from the game, as in X-Edna or X-Ozzy.

1c. Returnees.

This section is to note that it is absurdly probable for a player to be returned to the game immediately after a duel and subsequently be voted out again all within one episode.

2a. Reply only to this post.

We like to keep our vote threads nice and straight, thank you.

EXCEPTION TO RULE 2! VOTE CHANGES!

2b. But to change your vote (or add additional votes) reply to your own previous vote post.

Your new post heading should read, for example, "VOTE CHANGE: Rcik." Or perhaps "VOTE CHANGE: Rick and Brandon" if you think it will be a two-boot week. Should you wish to cast a vote for boot but think about it some more before casting a vote for which exile will be eliminated, or vice versa, please use this same process.

3. This is not a discussion thread, do not treat it as such.

There are plenty of places on the forum to debate the merits of people's arguments, have discussions, have civil and polite disagreements, and you can always start a thread if it isn't redundant.

Please feel free to discuss your votes in your own post, cast all the extra votes you want, make jokes, contemplate the poor closed caption guys trying to make sense of this stuff, we are all interested in what you have to say.

4. No graphics.

If you must have a graphic please make it pertinent to something, thank you.

5. Have fun!

• Brandon X Edna,Round Robin, 01:55 AM, 12-13-11
• Brandon's gone at long last; sadly, Edna's on the jury,Belle Book, 12:00 PM, 12-13-11
• Brandon X Edna,kingfish, 02:36 PM, 12-13-11
• Brandon X Edna,martinigirl, 10:21 PM, 12-13-11
• Brandon X-Edna,dabo, 01:59 AM, 12-14-11
• Brandon, xEdna,Blind Freddy, 12:34 PM, 12-14-11
• Brandon x-Ozzy,esquire, 06:41 PM, 12-14-11
• aBandon - X Deadna,tribephyl, 06:48 PM, 12-14-11
• Brandon XEdna,Flowerpower, 08:42 PM, 12-14-11

Don't much matter to me who goes and who doesn't at this point. This is one of the $hittiest casts and most overhyped seasons in Survivor history. The preseason hype was complete bull$hit.

You got it right here -- whether Brandon decides to quit and hand over Immunity to Albert or whether he's voted out right away, he's going to Redemption Island.

Sadly, Ozzy will be waiting there for Brandon, as Edna will lose the Redemption Island duel and be sent packing.

So far the TC votes have been excruciatingly predictable, no matter how hard I tried for them to not be so. So Brandon gets kicked to RI, I suppose. I capitulate.

And per the vidcaps Ozzy loses the RI challenge, but per the heavy heavy editing bias toward Ozzy, Edna should lose. I guess I'll go with the editing. The vidcaps are probably misleading.

Waiting to watch the last (hopefully) Brandon meltdown.

I don't care if he quits, breaks both legs getting thrown from a horse, gets tricked into giving immunity to Grendel in return for shiny things and joining the ranks of heroes in Valhalla, it gets scripted into a repeat of Ozzy the Messiah plan the Lesser, or his head explodes. Good riddance to Brandon and the dead body of the Hantz family name he's been dragging behind his chariot.

Shame about Edna, for a bit there after last episode's promo I thought she might pull off an upset, but later evidence indicates she doesn't.

Suggested Alternate Episode Title: 'Instant Insanity'

Duel - Edna is Rubik-ed to Jury duty at LL

IC13 - Brandon ascends his demon rope to open Pandora's box and then...

TC13 - Brandon ...abseils into dementia on Dr. Moreau's Redemption island...but not before baptizing Albert with Immunity.

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Wow. super-suckiest survivors ever get their dues this week. Yeah, for our side!

Brandon....what a troll! Please don't send anymore Hantz' for Survivor!