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Ok, with that out of the way, I wanted to start a thread to combine some of the “inside insights” and try to make some sense of it. I’m no KB, and won’t pretend to. I just always thought his “Spoiling the spoilers” had a nice ring to it.

Beatlebum79 (4/23/12): “Also, please take my spoilers with a grain of salt. They might or might not be true.” Very refreshing to read and important to remember.
Beatlebum79 (5/6/12):
“Matsing’s color is yellow. Tandang’s color is red. Kalabaw’s color is blue.
The merge tribe consisted of 6 Matsing, 2 Tandang, and 4 Kalabaw.”

Clearly beatlebum got all the colors and tribe names early on, but -as we know now- they were incorrectly matched up on 5/6/12. No big deal, obviously, but we might consider his merge tribe spoiler based on colors as:
Merge tribe: 6 yellow, 2 red, 4 blue.
Meaning:
All of (Mike, Abi-Maria, Lisa, RC, Artis, Pete)
2 of (Jonathan, Dana, Katie, Sarah/Dawson, Carter, Jeff)
4 of (Russell, Angie, Denise, Roxy, Malcolm, Zane)

Tullfan posted here on 8/3/12 that Missyae has spoiled the final 7:
7. Pete
6. Penner
5. Abi-Maria
4. Malcolm
Final 3: Skupin, Lisa, Denise Marie

Note Arnold_Lorax spoiled Malcolm to finish in 4th as well. Furthermore, beatlebum had a Brazilian female in the F5 - which matches with Abi-Maria

Putting all of this together, the merge would be:
Mike F3, Lisa F3, Abi-Maria F5, Pete F7, RC, Artis
Jonathan F6 + 1 of (Dana, Katie, Sarah/Dawson, Carter, Jeff)
Denise F3, Malcolm F4 + 2 of (Russell, Angie, Roxy, Zane)

Another spoiler by beatlebum was “The top 5 castaways are part of a 6-person allicance.” That smells like #6 (Penner) was not, while possibly #7 was. So, one possibility here is a 6-person alliance of 4 yellow (Mike, Lisa, Abi-Maria, Pete) and 2 blue (Denise, Malcolm). If there are only 2 blues in a merge tribe of 10, it would make sense for the 2 blues to seek numbers. Likewise, for others, it could make sense to pick up 2 stragglers.

I might actually watch this show again…

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