yfnomo wrote:

So it turns out that if they'd let Craig and Liz do the uphill battle the pot would've gained $35,000!!! ... or they would've taken the taxi, gotten exemptions and the pot would still be richer by $30,000. Fat folks do have their uses.


There are 2 things wrong with that. Even if Craig and Liz did the challenge, if they took the taxi to the top and got the exemptions, NO money would have been added to the pot. In addition, had they taken the cab, the $5,000 would not have came from the $35,000 possible for the challenge, it would have came from the money already in the pot from previous challenges.