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The Marquesan Godfather wrote:

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The only person he should of told was James to counter the side deal the girls have with Cirie. When he told Parv and Amanda, that's when it became foolish, further cementing the fact that James and Ozzy are pawns of the girls.

Exactly.

It was very interesting Ozzy said "James" first as the person he can trust, but he "thought" he could trust Amanda. The fact that Ozzy mentioned James first and not Amanda shows there is no real Romber II this season. The only ones complaining about Cirie pushing Yau Man were James/Ozzy, not Parvati/Amanda. Also, notice Amanda's disappointment that Parvati was on the other tribe. Despite the fun they are having a couples. the real alliances underneath the couples foursome are James/Ozzy and Parvati/Amanda-w/Cirie. We all know which one wins out in the end.

I have to laugh that everyone keeps underestimating Cirie.

The story of the season is women outwitting the men and the men outwitting themselves. It never occurred to "superpowers" Ozzy and Joel that the real powerbrokers on the tribe were two "weak" women Cirie and to a lesser extent Tracy. Hysterical.

What's fascinating is that the weak band together and are stronger than the strong. It always amazes the dominant players when the weak or the pawns don't settle for 5th or 6th place on the tribe.

It just never occurred to Joel that the actual powerbroker on the tribe wasn't Ozzy, it was the "weak" women Cirie and Tracy. Both he and would be king Mikey B are now on loser-tour with other early pre-jurors because they missed what was going on around them. They only thought about what was best for them. What happened to Rob C.'s advice that that you need to know where you stand, where everyone else thinks they stand, where everyone else thinks everyone else stands, and where everyone thinks that everyone else thinks everyone else stands? People who are that self-involved in this game that it doesn't occur that other people might want to win too, even the "weak" or less "deserving" drop like flies in this game.

What I love about Cirie (and Tracy this season) is that she plays the game for herself. Cirie does what is best for her, not for the people with a sense of entitlement to "use" her until they expend her. EVERYONE except Jonathan underrates and underestimates her. She get's rid of Yau Man because that's in HER best interest. She's not afraid to turn conventional Survivor strategy on its head if she needs to do that. The conventional strategy is that you vote out the weak, then the strong pre-merge. Well, if that doesn't work for you when you are considered "weak", then you either band together to play the "strong" off each other or you help people redefine what is "weak" and what is "strong". In S11, the conventional strategy says you scheme to get to the final 2 with your best goat, meaning you pick the goat. However, Cirie assumes probably correctly that she cannot count on winning a final IC and needs to be the best goat standing and available. While everyone else worries about Terry and Aras, Cirie is focuses on eliminating more attractive goats Courtney and Shane.

I love it when people stretch the game into a new way of thinking about it. Cirie does what's best for her. Tracy has those same instincts. The arrogant end up falling in this game over and over again because they forget that other people might, just might, want to win themselves.

Couldn't have just been he saw James first and told him first then the girls? I mean he told everyone in his alliance i don't think the order he told them really matters to be honest.

More important than the order he told them is how he talked about telling them and the order in which he discussed telling them in his confessional. If there was really a RomberII happening, he would have mentioned Amanda first, period. And he said, I "think" I can trust Amanda.