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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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Once again, sorry for the late posting, but today's been a day full of last-minute pre-holiday things

Reward Challenge

Given the vidcaps, it looks like it could be an auction-style event, however given the "loved ones" flight plan spoilers, it likely believed to involve the "loved ones." We finally hear the big lie, and Jon is still the most likely to be at the center of it, and combined with the vidcaps that seem to indicate his absense as the castaways return from the challenge, Jon appears to be the winner.

REWARD CHALLENGE WINNER: JON

Immunity Challenge

Some type of word scramble appears to be involved -- at least at some point in the challenge. Apparently someone is declared the winner but then disqualified for some reason... since Sandra and Christa seem to personally like word games, it's assumed they might have an advantage in the challenge, but who knows. Christa seems as good a pick as anyone else.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE WINNER: Christa

Bootee

The talk of the female alliance just suddenly disappeared. Plus we know that alliances revealed do not tend to last. Combine them together, and it doesn't bode well for Lil, Burton, Jon, Tijuana, and Darrah holding together for very long. Given all the sub-alliances and lack of trust the exist within the Alliance Of Five, the booting of one of the five should be considered no more surprising than a booting of Sandra or Christa (the two remaining "non-alliance members."

If the women are smart, assuming Burton doesn't win immunity, they should take him out, otherwise, given both his physical strength and the mental and nutritional advantages of having been out of the game for several days (no matter how much Mark Burnett might like to claim otherwise), he's an enormous threat to run the table in the remaining challenges.

Therefore BURTON is the logical pick to go and therefore our pick to be booted. As far as the alternate pick goes, given that there are late-breaking claims that Tijuana somehow gets booted, we'll go with her as our alternate -- perhaps Jon and Burton realign with Sandra and Christa and team to boot one of the remaining "true Morgans" -- however given that Tijuana clearly is not a physical threat and that the long-term spoilers still point to the inclusion of both Lillian and Darrah advancing further in the game, any such a re-alliance would seem to be short-lived.

BOOTEE: Burton... with TIJUANA as the alternate