chapera rocks wrote:
12. Tyson Apostol
Survivor Tocantins - Episode 9
Vote Tally: 5-3
Blindsided: Tyson, Debbie, Coach
Key Player(s): Erinn, Stephen, J.T.
This was classic. Tyson, thought he was running the game. He didn't realize Jalapao was playing the game, and so he did everything he could to make Sierra miserable. To top it off, everyone hated Sierra because she was being so damn miserable. And Sierra almost won immunity (very fittingly took out two of Tyson's puck). But at the last second, Erinn brought up his name (and CBS gave Stephen the credit), and JT and Stephen decided it needed to happen. It was epic because of the hilarity that was tribal council. "Lets see, love JT, love Stephen, love Debbie, love Coach, Taj, Erinn ... Brendan *wink*".
The reason CBS gave me the credit was because I had been talking about voting off Tyson if he lost for two days. Basically all I ranted about on Exile was how if Tyson lost immunity, we would vote him off. Then we get back from the IC, and Erinn says, "You know who doesn't have immunity...." before I got the chance to bring it up. That's why I said something weird, like, "I think we should vote off Tyson" rather than, "Yeah, that's a great idea!" I panicked that Erinn was going to get credit for this idea that I had been talking about for days!
The thing about Survivor strategy is, anybody can have an idea. We sit around with nothing to do for days on end, so basically all you can think about is the different possible people to vote off. It's not hard to come up with, "Oh, the strongest physical competitor just lost. Maybe we should vote him out." The challenge is having the social relationships to pull it off without them finding out about it.
ETA - Sorry I marked this months ago as something I wanted to respond to. Clearly this thread has moved on....
