I had posted maybe a week ago a working theory, which up til EP 6 was doing just fine. It involved the opening credits..not the order, but that some are shown with one shot kind of surrounded by a black border (at least the corners of the screen). But Mike wasn't up to go on EP 6, so it's shot.Here's the opening credit order, though:
Colby
Maralyn - 3
Keith
Mitchell - 4
Jerri
Kel - 2
Amber
Tina
Michael - 6
Alicia
Rodger
Elizabeth
Kimmi - 5
Nick
Deb - 1
Jeff
Now, my theory was working like this. On even weeks (2&4) the person voted off DID have the black border surrounding one of their shots. These people were:
Colby
Keith
Mitchell - 4
Kel - 2
Amber
Tina
Elizabeth
Jeff
Weeks 1, 3, & 5 the person voted off did NOT have a border in one of their shots:
Maralyn - 3
Jerri
Michael - 6
Alicia
Rodger
Kimmi - 5
Nick
Deb - 1
Like the rest of you guys, I didn't think this was the week Mike burnt his hands, and didn't think the injured had to leave, so I went with this theory and picked Jeff. Obviously bad.
I will track it for a few more weeks, on the iffy chance that since Michael didn't get voted off, it kinda jumps, and the next person actually voted off comes from the black border having group, and week 8 it's from the black border lacking group.
I think the reason I started tracking this is there wasn't a rhyme or reason on how the bordered shots went. 6 borders in Ogakor and only 2 in Kucha, and there didn't seem to be any pattern to speak of that I could find.
If it starts to look promising again (like after EP 8) I'll bring it up again, just as food for thought.