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NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE THREAD WHERE THE MESSAGE BOARD POSTERS VOTE FOR THEIR 'OFFICIAL' PICK. THAT THREAD IS HERE
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We'll make things short this week. Brandon is obviously the key vote. Lex seems too obvious a pick. Given the title of this week's episode ("Dinner, Movie, and a Betrayal") we're not convinced this plan of Brandon's to re-join with the remaining Samburu and target Tom or Lex is going to "come together" in the classic "A-Team" fashion. Psycho Frank might be a good parallel for Murdock, however we'd have to pity the fool who sees Brandon in the same league with grand chessmaster Hannibal Smith.

Mark Burnett isn't so stupid as to give away the plotline to the next four episodes in the Ep8 Survivor Insider clips. Logic says that SOMETHING happens. Therefore FRANK goes.

...of course the only problem with LOGIC is that so far, this show has been anything but LOGICAL! Therfore we'll go with TOM as our alternate (hey, maybe Brandon isn't a complete fool after all.)

As far as the Immunity Challange and Reward Challenge winners go, well, come on -- after last week, who could argue with ETHAN to win one of both of them (which is what we initially predicted in Ep7 when the individual challenges started. Who knew we'd only be off by a week? Anyways, this week we've stopped trying to handicap the individual challenges, let's face it, ETHAN will be a top threat to always win them for as long as he remains in the game.

-SB