Favorites did actually cheat in the first challenge. Dalton Ross wrote about it in one of his articles. They tried to sabotage the fans carts. they had to stop the challenge and asses a time penalty to the favorites. The drama over making fire could have simply been when yau man used his glasses to make a fire. Jonny fairplays leave did change a l0ot of strategies. They had to go for cirie now
But T4K said he was referring to Ozzy starting the fire with a lighter that he snuck into the game. We saw no evidence of that having ever happened. And as far as I could tell, JFP leaving didn't change anyone's strategies. They were presumably trying to woo Cirie since the beginning. They didn't just start doing that because JFP left.