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Merge week!

The DAWs

BIKAL2 TRIBE
Corinne Kaplan (Bikal)
Dawn Meehan (Bikal)
John "Cochran" Cochran (Bikal)
Michael Snow (Gota)
Phillip Sheppard (Bikal)

GOTA2 TRIBE
Andrea Boehlke (Bikal)
Brenda Lowe (Bikal)
Edward "Eddie" Fox (Gota)
Erik Reichenbach (Bikal)
Malcolm Freeberg (Bikal)
Reynold Toepfer (Gota)
Sherri Biethman (Gota)

ELIMINATED
Julia Landauer (Gota, Bikal2)
Matt Bischoff (Gota, Bikal2)
Brandon Hantz (Bikal) intervention
Laura Alexander (Gota)
Shamar Thomas (Gota) medical evacuation
Hope Driskill (Gota)
Alexandra "Allie" Pohevitz (Gota)
Francesca Hogi (Bikal)

The Rules

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

This is easy, just erase the bit where it says "Re: SurvivorBlowsTribe, Time to Vote..." and replace with your vote, e.g., "Reynold." Or, if you think this will be a two-boot week: "Reynold & Eddie." 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.

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• Eddie,kingfish, 01:02 PM, 04-02-13
• Corinne,Murphy3126, 01:40 PM, 04-02-13
• Corrine,tribephyl, 02:26 PM, 04-02-13
• Corrine,Arnold_Lorax2, 02:31 PM, 04-02-13
• Bye-bye, Corinne!,Belle Book, 07:43 PM, 04-02-13
• Corinne,michel, 07:58 PM, 04-02-13
• Corinne,Bebo, 08:23 PM, 04-02-13
• Corinne,dabo, 09:44 PM, 04-02-13
• Corinne,ASurvivorFan, 02:09 AM, 04-03-13
• HEY CORINNE...,Round Robin, 03:43 AM, 04-03-13

LAST EDITED ON 04-03-13 AT 08:57 AM (EST)

Considering that the tribes will merge this week and compete for IC, this is a hard week for us dedicated non-spoiled speculators, but OldFavs will surely continue pagonging OldFans, so either Sherri, Mike, Reynold, or Eddie will be led to the slaughter at TC.

That being the case, Michael could be sweet meat, but may have achieved some bonding with a couple of NuBikal mates. Reynold seems to have something going with Malcolm that might protect him, and Sherri also seems to be have found allies in the Fav's camp, so that leaves Eddie as the odd OldFan out.

LAST EDITED ON 04-03-13 AT 10:03 AM (EST)

GOTA2, sans Sherri, are the cool kids, ages 23 - 30, & have more in common with GOTA2 than Favs on BIKAL2. They have the #'s & will want a BIKAL2 to go. Michael would be the obvious choice, but not on "Corrine's Watch", which costs her. Phillip would be the next logical choice, but nobody likes him & he can be taken out any time. Phillip also had support from Andrea, who also wants Corrine out. Dawn & Cochran not perceived as threats yet. Corrine's "Time for Blindside" will be one of the historic Survivor foot-in-mouth quotes.

This will be the 3rd time I vote for Corrine to go and the third time is the charm. Her bootation has been in the set-up stage for WEEKS and finally comes to fruition, but only after Corrine admits that it is Blindside Time.

I believe that she will be blindsided by votes from Cochran Dawn Andrea Philip Sherri Erik and Brenda

Philip will get votes from Corrine Michael Malcom Reynolds and Eddie

The blindside will be that Corrines side is convinced that they have Brenda and Eriks votes against Philip and will be shocked when they realize that they do not. That is my guess.

This time, I think Corinne is the one going.

To think they didn't vote her out last week because it would be hard to explain it! Somehow "Sorry Malcolm, we didn't want to boot Corinne behind your back so we do it right in front of you" won't feel that much better.

Phillip wants her gone and will work on Stealth R Us to go along with his plan. Malcolm and the Alpha Males will be on board with anyone other than them being targeted. Corinne showed her physical strength in last ep's RC and could be targeted as a female IC threat.

I'm guessing Sherri wins II. She shows up in random spots in the promos, some have her competing in the IC and seeming to do better than others who are shown, in the web promo she pops up to say: "I'm fighting hard to stay in this game. I'm willing to make a really big move." (same day as the merge I think). Don't know what kind of franchise she has but she may just be accustomed to being around some gawdawful food.

Time for Corinne to get blindsided. Title of the episode comes from her. She tries to make her move against Phillip, but Phillip and Andrea set in motion "operation thunder dome" to get rid of her. Where do the chips fall?

Voting with Corinne: Malcolm, Reynold, Eddie, Michael.

Voting with Phillip: Andrea, Cochran, Dawn, Brenda, Sherri, and Erik (who doesn't want to risk a tie or be on the wrong side of the numbers, bumps Malcolm out of Stealth).

No idols played.

At least she made the jury

...it's time for you to go!