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Ok, here's my edgic ratings for this episode.

Brent: INV1 (180 says Brent, his only line all episode! What a complete 180 from his 'peak' in visibility last episode)
Dave: MOR3 (He was just there when needed for Shambo and Russell's stories)
Jaison: MORP3 (P for stepping up and winning immunity for his team)
John: CPN4 (N SPV from multiple people, Monica & Russell, means N tone)
Mick: UTR3 (Mick may have been a 3 visibility, but he was not memorable at all. I mean seriously, the guy got a confessional and TCQ, and after watching the episode 3 times I barely remember what his confessional about (having just watched it 30 minutes ago), but I still can't remember what his TCQ was about. When the visibility chart says you're a 3, and someone else (Natalie) is a 1, but I remember a lot more of what the 1 visibility person did/said then the 3 visibility person, then that means the 3 visibility person was UTR)
Monica: UTR1 (I think she got a confessional about John, then disappeared)
Natalie: UTRP2 (Challenge visibility at the IC pushes her to a 2)
Russell: CP4 (A quiet episode by Russell standards)
Shambo: OTTN5 (She was shown as delusional and totally unaware of anything going on in the game, before I was wondering if she could be a F2/F3 loser, now I'm starting think maybe not after some of the stuff they showed at TC, unless the jury brings it up to bash her)

Winner: Russell

Got to say I'm a bit surprised to see as much agreement as I have about my suggestion that Mick was UTR3, I expected someone to accuse me of trying to sabatoge Mick's chances based on his edgic ratings by continuing the "Mick has been UTR every merge episode" narrative. That's the reason I didn't mention thinking Mick was UTR till my first rewatch earlier today.

Kitty Pryde1 wrote:

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As someone who thinks Mick ISN'T our winner, I still believe he was MOR. He got the scene of buying the hamburger, which was emphasized. He gave the narrated confessional about voting Dave. And he had the scene with Jaison. He had plenty of content. He's just boring. He's MOR3, not UTR3.

But even some of those scenes like the hamburger one show why he's UTR. The burger scene went like this.

Jeff: Next item, a big cheese burger.
Mick: $500!
Jeff: Just like that Mick shuts down the bidding with one bid.
*Mick gets his food, Jaison moans a bit*
Jeff: Any regrets about buying that immunity advantage now Jaison?
Jaison: Oh yeah I'm having 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th thoughts, I want that burger *cut to shot of Mick taking a bite of the burger*

The burger scene had Jaison at the front and doing most of the talking, not Mick.

I don't remember enough of the other Mick scenes to argue that he was UTR there to without rewatching them, and I'm not doing that.
I disagree with your confessional requirement for an UTR3, lots of people have gotten an UTR1 and UTR2 who had a confessional or two, so why does a confessional push an UTR3 person to a MOR? I won't argue with you on tone though, tone for UTR's is quite rare as it is, I can see the argument that tone can push someone into MOR at times.

getting real wrote:

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Yet more evidence that this is a very unusually produced (and, by extension, edited) season:


It took 84 days of actual screening time to eliminate 12 people.

It will take just 10 days to sort through the remaining 8.

That unusually scheduled, not produced. But I agree with your point, they shouldn't have moved back the double boot episode so far after black Russell got med evaced. I guess they were worried about having an episode where no one got voted out after two people got forced out of the game for medical reasons in one season. It seems like medical evacs are becoming more common lately on survivor. No wonder why we barely even know some of the people still left at the F8 with just 3 episodes to go.

@KMKinCB: no surprise a casual viewer might turn on Shambo after this episode, her N moments far overpowered the P ones this episodes, and she got N SPV from multiple people this episode, including Jeff Probst. Her TC scene was a classic example of what OTT is, in this case an OTTN.