Last night during the Samburu Tribal Council Brandy Boy was bragging that the GXA was FOUR strong and would stay that way.

Host Jeff said: "Yes, but what if Samburu goes into the Merge four-alliance with one more person not so "IN"...and BORAN comes into the Merge with a strong FIVE person alliance? Won't you be at a disadvantage then?"

This CLEARLY indicates MB intends to boot in E-5; boot in E-6 and MERGE in E-7 with TEN people as usual.

Theories about the "TWIST":

1.) In S-1 MB had tropical storms that swept through the tribes. In S-2 MB had the river flood and wash out a campsite.

In S-3 all MB has is "wild animals" to work with. I noticed the episodes started off with "nice" animals like Giraffes. Then in each proceeding episode the animals got more threatening (i.e. the lions roaming around in E-3 and the encounter with the Cape Buffalo in E-4).
Also, MB threw in quite a few extra clips of baboons, zebra herds and elephants during E-4.
So, what if the "Twist" is a herd of elephants or whatever stampede one of the camps; thereby causing chaos and threatening friendships and survival? (JOKE: Say Frank saves Lindsey from charging elephants and she changes into his dedicated follower!)

2.) The fact that MB has used "swap a tribe mate" for his European versions lends credibility to it having been included in the rules for S-3 (even if the viewers had no idea).

But if you really want a "Twist" --- instead of Samburu and Boran picking the person THEY want to be given to the other tribe. Turn that on it's head and have Samburu pick the Boran member they want to join them and have Boran pick the Samburu member that they want!!!

That way the Tribes would have NO CONTROL over which person goes or stays because the other tribe would be doing the choosing.

OK, that's it; any responses?

Dalton