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The font color is always based on what tribe the stupidity occurred on. It was the same for the smartest moves list, but between the two of them, I may have messed up at some point or another.

ETA: That's what I was thinking, Will, but Quid said otherwise, so idk.

Ken, Quid, and JSB all got one right, each.





20. The Koror women fail to boot Tom.
"We can't get a female alliance together because Caryn sucks."
-Katie Gallagher

After Ulong had been completely conquered and decimated by Koror, Steph was the lone survivor of the failure tribe, and she joined the Korors in a "merge" at the F9. This meant she had an immediate target on her head, but she still perservered as Coby imploded (see entry #58) and Janu quit. It really looked like there might be a few switch-a-roos, when it came to who had the power at the F7. There was the Koror 5 alliance, which had pretty much dominated the whole game, and it consisted of Tom, Katie, Ian, Jenn, and Gergg. However, the ladies of this alliance soon realized that they would need to make a move to prevent one of the men from winning. Steph, Kaite, and Jenn got together and talked about the possibiliy of blindsiding Tom, who was by far the biggest threat in the game. Caryn, who was in the minority with Steph, was the fourth lady who could have sealed Tom's fate once he actually lost immunity. But no. She decided to go back to Tom and blab about this plan, which pretty much cemented any chance of a women's alliance in Palau, and HUGE props to Tom for forming this "relationship" with her (which was, ironically, number 20 on the smartest moves list). Somehow Tom managed to convince Caryn to settle for a "friendship" instead of something that could have probably been better for her. Caryn easily gets most of the blame for this, but how the girls couldn't get her to take out the biggest threat BY FAR in the game...iiam.



























19. Jonathan mutinees with Candice and then turns back.
"It makes me the guy who betrayed every single person in the game at one time or another."
-Jonathan Penner

Oh Jonathan...this was not smart. When he first mutineed, he thought that he was Candice's number one, and that she would choose him over Adam and Parvati...wrong. Candice was actually shocked that he mutineed with her, apparently, and it put a huge target on him within the tribe because he wasn't as protected as she was. Now if I were Candice, I may have waited until the merge to flip, but at least she seemed to be in a decent position until a HORRIBLE seires of twists ended up screwing her royally (rigged?). Jonathan, though...he was right up there with Yul and Becky at the top of Aitu's pecking order. Flipping may have been a mistake for him then, but I can't say for sure because who expected the HORRIBLE series of twists to follow? We don't know how the game would have played out without them.

Then at the merge, despite those HORRIBLE twists, Raro still had a 5-4 majority, and even with Yul's idol, Raro could still go into the next round 4-4. At this point in the game, Jonathan was actually doing okay. The Aitus seemed to like him more than Candice, but his position on Raro wasn't...as good as it could have been. Still, by flipping back to Aitu, he made himself completely disposable at F7, which is exactly what happened. Had he stuck with the Raros then Nate goes at F9, and then there's a tie. What could have happened then? I don't know, and I don't think any of us should pretend to know, but if the Aitus did vote for him then (and the TB was the PRoD) then Jonathan would actually be in the F7, anyways, and there's a chance that he's still a crucial member of a majority. It's a case of playing it safe vs. knowing that if you don't take a chance then you won't get there anyways, but part of the reason I rank this as high as I do is because he pretty much killed his chances of winning a jury vote simultaneously.























18. Stacy and Dreamz can't keep their mouths shut about blindsiding Yau-Man when they know he has an idol.
"I think the vote will be...split."
-Stacy Kimball

There's a simple lesson to be learned from this, people: BLINDSIDE, BLINDSIDE, and BLINDSIDE MORE, as convincingly as you can. Any time there's even the slightest, most miniscule chance possible that an idol can be inolved in a vote, do NOT under any circumstances, let the person you want to vote out think they have even a 0.1% chance of getting voted out. Stacy clearly didn't learn this because when Yau-Man is expecting her to go home in a unanimous vote, she announced at TC that the vote would probalby be split. Naturally, Yau-Man was not expecting this, got scared and idol'd her out of the game. I don't remember exactly what Dreamz said, but I think he mentioned something along the lines of how this would be a crucial/significant/important/revealing/etc. With Yau-Man thinking that it was just the number six person of a six member alliance getting the boot...well, that's not too significant, so that was a tip off too. Not much else to say except Stacy gets my vote for the biggest case of someone getting him or herself booted.



























17. Terry fails to use the HII to lure any of the Casaya members onto his side.
"Our group of four would like to offer you and Shane the opportunity to take the burden of tribal council off your shoulders for the next two weeks."
-Terry Dietz

Wow, Terry was really an awful strategist. In the quote above, he's talking to Cirie right before the F10 immunity challenge. Think about this for a second. Terry is in the minoirty, keeping his idol a complete secret, and trying to offer one of the best positioned people in the game safety for two weeks... . Terry didn't have to use his idol at the F10. In fact, it may have been stupid to have. As he continued to win immunity and his allies fall to the Casayalliance, he then had a few opportunities to turn things around. With his over-powered idol, he could pretty much go one of two ways. The first would be to flip people over to his side, especially once the Casayalliance had to turn on itself. If he uses his idol to lure the bottom of the pecking order onto his side and to get a majority, then there's a good chance that he could make the finals, where he would probably slaughter anyone. The other option is to rely on immunity and use the idol to survive only one more round, which is really what ended up happening. Even though he still almost won, he picked the wrong choice. He had an option at the F6 to either throw the IC to Courtney, thus protecting his number one ally and giving him a chance to pick up Shane, whether in this round or the next (as a viewer, I'm SO thankful he didn't do this). That's just one example of something he could have done which probably would have landed him a majority. There are other things he could have done to get to the F3 with people who may have been stupid enough to take him. Imagine for a second that he got there with Courtney, who could defintiely win that challenge and was definitely stupid enough to take him. I'm not going to go into specifics, but yeah, he did NOT play it right.































16. The fans screw up their post-merge Exile Island picks.
"Erik is very naïve, so I definitely think I can manipulate his mind into sending Parvati to Exile."
-Amanda Kimmel

To clarify, this refers to Natalie/Alexis/Erik sending Jason/Amanda/Parvati to exile, respectively. I'm not gonna talk that much about Natalie because she actually managed to correct her error, although some (myself included) would argue that the way she did it was not the best move for her. But as for Alexis and Erik...wow, that's all. Apparently the girls all agreed that they would send Amanda to Exile Island after the coconut chop challenge. Then, knowing that there was a HII on exile because Jason was blindsided it, and knowing that Amanda had two days to look for it, Alexis (and Natalie, to be fair) decided to target Amanda. What's worse is that they didn't even try to hide it. It would have been great for the fans if they all voted for Parvati at the F6 and used Cirie's own 3-2-1 strategy against her, but no. The fans openly targeted the girl they sent to exile, who beautifully idol'd the favorites into a majority.

Less than 24 hours after Alexis' boot, Erik made a very similar error. Natalie approached Erik on day 34 saying that they had to get the other exiled in order for them to have a shot at winning. Well, she was right about that. Amanda went to Erik and proposed a complete bullshit challenge whore alliance, and Erik sent Parvati, Amanda's closest ally, to exile instead. This led to Natalie's "smack him like his mother" line, and it's part of what got all of the girls ready to chop his balls off. It's not directly related to his epic blindside (which will show up later on this ranking), but there's definitely a correlation. Sending Natalie to exile could have really fucked up the favorites' game if she found the idol, but he made a poor choice.



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