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Sorry I haven't been able to update in a while. I'm on vacation now, and I don't have as much internet time as I would like.

As for why I put Yul booting Jonathan for Adam's jury vote...I wasn't crediting Adam for using his jury vote as a weapon, rather Yul using Jonathan as a bargaining chip. At that point in the game, Jonathan had zero use to anyone because the Aitu 4 had the majority, the Raros hated him, and no one was going to budge, anyways. So I credit Yul for actually doing something about the fact that Jonathan was a disposable vote, and what he did won him the game.


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32. Aras leads the Casaya tribe and stays alive by convincing them he is a threat.
Quote: "I didn't come here to make friends with 24-year-olds. They haven't made it easy for me. The target's been on my back. I've been the underdog the whole time."
-Terry Deitz

I'm sure many people will disagree with this, and that's fine, but at least hear me out. I think most of us will agree that Aras was the unofficial leader of the Casaya Clusterfuck. As the leader, Aras helped focus the entire tribe (though this would have happened naturally) against Terry. Of course, Terry, being the immunity whore that he was, needed to be stopped in order for a Casaya to win the game. Actually, one of the most important moves in stopping Terry will be addressed much later on this list (I'm sure you can all guess what it is). And although this wasn't exactly a specific "move" or "decision," Aras convincing the tribe that he was the only one who could stop Terry ensured his survival as Terry continued to win immunity. This meant that the only way Aras would get votes was if a Casaya member joined up with Terry, which happened only once. Aras focused the group on beating Terry and set himself up as the only one who could do so, and I give him a lot of credit for that.

Reasons not higher: As with most of these entries, I just liked others more.

































31. Boston Rob sets up a fight between Rupert and Tom.
Quote: "Did you or did you not tell me we needed to get Rob off?"
-Rupert Boneham

I'll say it flat out here, this is the only thing from ASS that will appear on this list. I could have included other moves, but most of them seemed to involve previous friendships/connections, thus spoiling the degree of "smartness" of them. But this one was brilliant. Even on the ASS commentery towards the end of Shii Ann's boot episode, the first four jurors start talking about how smart this was. At the F5 of ASS, the survivors were in one of those difficult situations where there were two obvious pairs and one swing vote, much like Marquesas/Vanuatu's F5s. Romber seemed to be in control since they had an alliance with Rupert and Jenna and with Big Tom, but when the latter group and Big Tom started scheming, Rob created a bogus story about how Tom and Rupert talked about booting him. This resulted in Tom and Rupert arguing about who wanted to defend Rob more. Pretty ironic, I think. It turned out to be irrelevent since Rob won immunity, but Tom, Rupert, and Jenna could have easily taken out Amber and Rob next. This move essentially won the game for Romber.

Reasons not higher: Same as above.

kenc333 wrote:

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Aras <333

So underrated.

The Rupert/Tom fight was a good move, but it came one season after the Darrah vs. Lil fight that Fairplay set up to save himself, so I'm guessing that'll show up too..

I agree. Aras had his faults, but I still <3 him.

Oh, and

Quiddity wrote:

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31 definately was a good defensive move from Rob, but at the same time he and Amber made an extremely moronic move by voting out Tom instead of Rupert. If anyone but Amber wins immunity at F4, Romber is in big trouble because Jenna won't vote out Rob (he's the only one she could beat), would force a tie if immune, and would be forced to vote for one of Romber if Rupert won immunity. After all the hard work Rob did throughout the game to get that majority, he nearly threw it away to a tiebreaker by voting out Tom before Rupert. And no, I don't buy this "we were pissing off one person rather than two" crap, because the fact remains that in a Rob & Amber F2, they have to vote for one of you.

I don't see why it would have been bad for Romber at the F4 if Rob won immunity. I still think Jenna would have voted out Rupert because she knew she had no shot of beating him, and he was a huge immunity threat. Don't forget that he came in second in the one endurance challenge of the season. The fact is that Jenna wanted to win and didn't want to force a PROD (and all of the survivors were under the false impression that it was the tiebreaker).

Voting off Tom over Rupert or Jenna was MUCH worse for Amber than for Rob because it results in a net loss of a jury vote for her. I think it's safe to say that whichever alliance Romber stuck with would have voted for Rob over Amber on the jury, so I don't fault Rob for this as much as Amber. All of this said, though, I'm only creding Rob for starting the fight between Rupert and Tom, not for voting off Tom over Jenna.

survivorisdabest wrote:

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aras shouldnt be on this list ever

The aras entry was proof why he sucks. he did NOT convince casaya to keep him around, they actually didnt bother to split the votes with the knowledge that aras would go if the idol was played. they talked about it at like 3 tribals.

Seeing as Terry won every immunity until the F4 and was not going to give up the idol, how exactly would a split vote have done anything? Terry had "double-immunity" and all a split vote does is cause completely avoidable tension within the Casaya alliance.

And sorry I can't come up with a better reason, PT. Consider things that appear higher on the list more impressive in my mind. A bunch of these entries don't have obvious reasons why they should be lower or higher, so I just have to go with what's the most impressive.