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chidelta wrote:

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Why is it that noone at Galu comments on the stupidity of sending your biggest outcast over to the enemy camp, more than once?

The chip on Shambo's shoulder is big enough that if she wants to go to Foa Foa, she probably would even if she barely knew them. Sweet talk at the merge would be all it would take. Sending her there, since it's what most of the tribe wants and isn't going to really alienate someone who already alienated herself so much, isn't a bad idea.

I think the big mistake will be sending Laura, since she has at least one or two solid allies and that's what Foa Foa would need to swing at the merge.

James, I agree that there is less downside to sending Shambo if they have truly already written her off as a potential flip-flopper, but they don't seem to be treating her that way yet, so I don't see the benefit at all of sending her multiple times. My point above is that the Galu members are putting their own desire to be more comfortable or to further alienate Shambo ahead of the tribe's interest, or their own personal interest, in advancing further in the game. If I'm a tribe leader, and I have an opportunity to send a spy to the other side, my goals would be: 1) to gather intelligence from the other side regarding tribe dynamics, voting history, camp life, etc.; 2) to search for a hidden immunity idol, in order to help someone in my tribe (or me) outwit the other team or a counter-alliance; and 3) to start making inroads into possible future sub-alliances or individual votes that will help my game in the future. At this stage of the game, alienating a tribe member or following what my tribe wants is much lower on the priority list. So with those goals in mind, it seems much more logical to me to send myself or someone in my inner circle. The fact that Russell didn't see the possible ramifications of sending the malcontent tells me that either he didn't know this game and didn't have the ability to think long-term, or maybe he didn't really have an inner circle. It's also possible that if he sent himself, he would not have overworked himself at camp and wouldn't have been so dehydrated (but that's speculative hindsight, obviously).