If I were playing Survivor, my goal would be to WIN the game.

In Palau how did Caryn control the game at F6????

Tom and Ian controlled it at F6 on two counts.

1) They made a deal before the IC that they would be willing to play the "colored stone" tie-breaker at TC should the vote be 3-3. That spooked Caryn to be their fourth vote.

2) Tom and Ian feared that Katie might flip, so they agreed that whomever was booted the other would make sure Katie would not advance as her "punishment" for flipping. Tom explained that to Katie on the beach and with Tom and Ian dominating the ICs, it was threat she had to take seriously.

Now THAT'S control!

This is what I meant when I said that Tom had a good alliance to assure his victory. For some reason you seemed to twist it around and insinuate the Korer assured Tom's victory. I never said that. What Koror "assured" to do was eliminate every "So-Long" tribe member. When that was achieved, then the F6 Tom/Ian control as explained above kicked in.

Cirie didn't need a goat??? If she was sitting next to Terry in the Finals she sure would have wished she had a "goat". She'd be making the same wish if she as sitting next to Aras. She would have won next to Danielle, but that's not insight; that's blatently obvious.