Hey Michel...not surprisingly I must disagree with your well thought-out rebuttal...

>- Putting 3 votes on Susie at the previous Kota TC was dumb.

I don't believe Marcus unilaterally ordered the weaklings to vote for Dan. No way he knew for sure if Dan had the idol or not. Randy would have known better as an original Fang member so I feel more of the "dumbness" rested with him. Either way...the Anti-Darwin Syndrome was going to play out with or without Marcus. Casting simply put him in the minority.

>- Showing you have so much control on the game that you can throw away an idol was dumb.

I couldn't disagree with you more on this one. With the HII clue known by all 10 players here is the scenario...Everyone goes on a scavenger hunt which gives Marcus a 10% chance of finding the HII; or throwing out the HII and have 100% that no one possesses it. Math was never my strong subject, but I would go with 100% over 10% anyday! Also with the result of the scavenger hunt it was Randy who ultimately possessed the HII and made the ultimate choice to toss it. Marcus never had his hands on it.

>- Sitting between Randy and Corinne at the feast instead of
>mingling with Fang was dumb.

It would have been smarter to blend in with everyone, but I wouldn't go so far to say it was "dumb". Having a 6-4 Kota advantage put him in the majority. By socializing with Fang you don't want to give your Kota allies any reason to suspect you might flip.

>- Making a deal with Crystal to vote out her ally
>instead of Susie was dumb.

I may have to gravitate toward some agreement on this one...but still wouldn't call it "dumb". Had that coincidental "relationship" between Marcus an Crystal not surfaced I truly don't believe Marcus says anything to Crystal about voting out Ken.

>- Waiting for a challenge loss to reassure Susie she was
>F3 was dumb.

So you make a promise you know you probably won't keep BEFORE you have to??? Rob M did that with Alicia in All-Stars. When he figured Amb"a" would be gone after a tribal switch he felt inclined to strike a deal with Alicia he knew he would never keep. As it turned out, Lex spared Amb"a" and he broke his deal with Alicia. This resulted in Alicia casting the fatal vote against Rob at Final TC and costing him the win.

>- Talking about keeping the new Kota tribe strong when the
>vote depended on the weak Susie was dumb.

If your original tribe has the numeric advantge, why not talk about keeping that advantage strong? The fact it depended on a weak Susie was not Marcus' doing as perfectly stated by gracor when this thread was stated. It was circumstantially created by CBS. How sad...How pathetic.