Cirie's plan to have Amanda and Parv kick him over the edge at TC was in fact quite brilliant....

J: So Parvarti, how was Exile Island?
P: It was great to get away from Erik lying ...

Immediate attack spin, for the entire TC and quite frankly it worked.

Didn't Tom do the basically the same to Ian and got him to step out of the challenge? If you can't Outplay, you need to Outwit to Outlast.

Erik would have won.

As far as the editing the show early on it Survivor, I believe we all were telling SEG that we wanted to see the interactions/interdynamics of the alliances. They were hell bent to edit the show to keep this away from us. IMO, challenges are basically bull shit, focus on the Survivors... Watching Survivor is so much better when they reveal an Episode like tonight!