LAST EDITED ON 11-04-11 AT 10:02 PM (EST)

Ok Scarlett. I'll bite.

Let me ask you this. If you knew you had a 1-in-8 chance of pulling out a purple rock and you also knew you had a lower chance of winning a duel against Christine (let's say 1-in-4 chance), why would Cochran volunteer to go to Redemption Island? Of course he's not going to volunteer to go as he knows his best shot is to stay in the game and take his chances with a purple rock or with switching. Voluntarily going to RI is game suicide for him as he knows his limitations and he knows that Christine would probably kick his azz. Let the tribe vote him out, but why volunteer to go? I wouldn't volunteer no matter what, and I consider myself a potentially good challenge player if I ever went on Survivor. Nope. Anyone else here on Spoilers forum would willingly go? If so, I'd love to play against you in a real Survivor game, then.

And why shouldn't he switch? Dawn said in the Insider that the tribe wasn't nice to Cochran - she was there so she knows how Cochran was treated. Ozzy mocked Cochran. Keith wasn't nice to Cochran. So you think Cochran should show loyalty to a tribe that had several of its members not being nice to him? You call it betrayal, I call it trying to save himself in the game and feeling hurt by how he was treated by his tribemates. None of his tribemates bothered to work with him to secure his vote -- the Upolus did. The Upolus were rewarded by having Cochran join them. Wouldn't you switch?

Knowing you're sixth of six members on Savai'i and knowing that most of your tribe doesn't like you ... or knowing that there's a possibility of being in a F4 alliance and having the Upolus give you the time of the day without putting you down? Which would you pick, Scarlett? Forget that there's an Ozzy or a Coach there, just look at the options. You know what you'd pick -- a sure 6th place finish on a tribe that dislikes you or the potential for a top 4 finish on a tribe that at least gives you the time of the day? Not a tough decision at all for me. I'd jump under these circumstances as well.

Ozzy is an idiot, plain and simple. Anyone could have predicted that Christine (assuming she beats Cochran) would be more likely to go to the Savaiis rather than to her old tribe (and Christine pretty much confirmed this in her RTVW interview). They would have been in decent enough shape with Christine joining them instead of Cochran. Read below or on the other thread why it wasn't a good idea to give Cochran the HII as you seem to believe it would have been better to give it to him instead of Whitney. It would have done *nothing* at all to give it to Cochran.