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Cook Islands finale detailed Jury Vote spoilers/
speculation |
The
final three of Yul, Becky and Ozzy will
face the enlarged, nine-member jury. That means two more
chances for exciting, pick-a-number-type questions, and tears
of betrayal. Well, not really, since only two of the nine
ever even voted with the final three. But in concept, more "drama." In
practice... well, you'll see.
So the real question is thus: who do all those crazy
people vote for? We're no clearer on that than you. Although, as always, we're
free to guess. Below is our occasionally-updated compendium of such speculation.
Most likely votes are highlighted in green.
We should also point out that
while a Yul win seems logical, it would break the time-honored
tradition of the winner not being shown in the water in the
opening credits. Ozzy is shown on dry land, for his part,
so if he wins, it would keep that streak alive.
On the other hand, the editors have been a bit over-the-top
in the past few episodes in their "hints" that Ozzy wins,
even going so far as to have Yul voice reasons why that would
happen in the penultimate episode. Not that those aren't,
of course, logical reasons why that might happen (i.e. voting
against the "mastermind" as a proxy for registering your
complaint that Aitutaki decimated Rarotonga). Either way,
the vote should be very, very close. In fact, too close to
call.
So who is it? SuperDolphinBoy,
or the Mastermind? Read on...
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Why should I vote for... |
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Unlikely, but original tribemates. |
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No obvious reason. |
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Original tribemates; respect for Yul's intelligence,
strategy; had an alliance with Yul. |
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No obvious reason. |
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Views herself as an athlete, and Ozzy was good
in all those challenges. |
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May respect Yul's gameplay, although the other four
people in her "alliance" are Ozzy voters. |
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Original tribemates. |
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No obvious reason, except he's not Becky or Yul. |
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Original tribemates. |
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No obvious reason. |
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Got along well with Ozzy, although seems a bit angry
that Ozzy still booted him. |
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Respects Yul's gameplay. |
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Bonded with Becky temporarily over their shared lack
of use for camp labor. |
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Kicked her butt in challenges. |
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Directly responsible for Jonathan flipping, and ending
her game. But respects his strategy. |
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No obvious reasons. |
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No obvious reasons. |
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Seems to like Yul, who should win respect for bringing Jonathan in on
the idol play. |
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No obvious reasons, although they seem friendly. |
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No obvious reasons, although they later become friendly. |
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No obvious reasons. Although he is, like, brilliant. |
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No obvious reasons. |
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May respect Ozzy's athleticism, loner-ism. |
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Unlikely, but may respect Yul's gameplay. |
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Bonded with Becky. |
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May vote for Ozzy's fellow underdog survival abilities. |
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Yul's "protection" with the hidden idol only brought
her so far. |
Projected
totals: Becky - 0; Ozzy - 5?: Yul - 4?
Projected winner: Ozzy? |
To sum up, it should be a 5-4 vote, with
either Ozzy or Yul winning, depending on how Rebecca votes.
Will she respect Yul's strategic and social game, or Ozzy's
purely physical one? Will she vote with the more rational,
mature voters, and pick Yul, or the younger, more emotional voters
(all of whom were in what she viewed as her "alliance"),
and vote Ozzy? In a way, it's also a gender-neutral recasting
of the Australian
Outback vote
as well. Does Rebecca
think Colby should have won? If so, chalk up a victory for
Ozzy. Or was she happy with Tina's win? (As her coworker,
Elisabeth, was). If so, Yul is your winner.
We really don't know which way it will
go.
We'd like to think Rebecca voted for Yul. But we don't know
that, and would not be terribly surprised if she voted for
Ozzy, instead. prometheus seems
to think Rebecca may have voted for the porn star,
in which case, Ozzy
wins.
And VolcanicGlass at Survivor Phoenix has presented a thorough,
editing-based analysis of signs that this appears to be the
case. Still, either way, the outcome is acceptable. We'd
marginally prefer Yul, but the smart guy never wins. At least
Ozzy has good taste in literature.
Whew! With that out of the way, there's naught to do, save
leave you with the words of Colin Meloy, which make as
fine an epitaph for Survivor spoiling as we can
come up with:
Take up your arms, sons and daughters
We will arise from the bunkers
By land, by sea, by dirigible
We'll leave our tracks untraceable
Hear all the bombs, they fade away
Hear all the bombs, they fade away... |
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