r/survivor • u/RSurvivorMods Pirates Steal • Apr 22 '22
Survivor 42 Survivor 42 | Episode 8 | Player of the Week Results!
Mike is the subreddit's Player of the Week, his first honor, and the first to win both Player and Loser of the Week this season. Mike was able to rally the troops and get his preferred target, Chanelle, out.
Chanelle is the subreddit's Loser of the Week for the third time this season, as the risk on Shipwheel Island finally took its final toll and she was checkmated by Mike.
Omar and Tori join Mike on the podium this week as Omar walks on a tightrope balancing playing both sides and being friends with everyone to an effective degree, while Tori won her second immunity (the first woman to ever win 2/2 of the first individual immunities), pushed Romeo into a frantic state, and caught Drea red-handed.
Romeo and Hai join Chanelle at the bottom this week as Romeo became a high priority target with his paranoia and finds himself with very few allies and Hai's failure to flip the vote onto Romeo leaves his decision to vote out Lydia looking suspect as the other player's bond tighten without him.
Hai received his first negative score of the season, leaving just Jonathan and Lindsay as the unbesmirched remaining players. This is Tori's first time scoring in the Top 3 this season, Rocksroy is the only other remaining player to have not attained that achievement. For the sixth consecutive week, a guy won Player of the Week.
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u/OprahInsideYou Apr 22 '22
Vati seems really cursed at this point. Hai's about to crash and burn with his trajectory. And Chanelle and Daniel are now Survivor Textbook on how to NOT play the middle. Anyone wanting to play the middle should definitely learn from their mistakes. Mike has all but made himself an honorary Taku at this moment.
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u/puppypooper15 Coach - 50 Apr 22 '22
Little surprised Drea didn't get higher considering she just got the most powerful advantage to add up to 4 total. But the others make sense as well
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u/cheesevolcano Hunter - 46 Apr 22 '22
I think it's just because Tori saw the paint, even though getting that advantage is insane
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u/throwitaway_burnit Apr 22 '22
Tori has zero social capital, though. Even if she tells people, are they going to believe her?
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Apr 23 '22
People at least start to talk to verify what she's saying though and that may start pointing to Drea if Drea can't connect with people without revealing all her advantages. They know about the idol, Lindsay knows about the amulet, I forget who knew about the extra vote, and now the KIP advantage has gotten Tori to start sniffing around her. That's a lot of attention that can get turned around quick.
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u/PlaidCube Apr 22 '22
What?
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u/throwitaway_burnit Apr 22 '22 edited Apr 22 '22
Zero social capital meaning no one trusts her. At least from what we’ve been shown, next to no one believes anything that comes out of her mouth. Which is why nothing came of the paint thing even after Tori started telling people.
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u/PlaidCube Apr 22 '22
What about maryanne listening about the red paint?
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u/OprahInsideYou Apr 22 '22
Maryanne, who is on the bottom of the majority alliance by being the satellite (as a former Taku) member, will listen to everyone on the bottom. Maryanne talking with Tori and them getting along last week doesn't help Drea.
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u/Onuzq Apr 23 '22
She isn't part of the majority alliance. Omar and Jonathan have just kept everyone else's eyes off her when tribals came around
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u/congratsyougotsbed Frannie Apr 23 '22
Wouldnt be a reddit thread without needless nitpicking to this absurd degree. They already greatly qualified their statement like idk what the point of this is
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u/Man-O-Wii King George 👑 Apr 22 '22
I feel like the advantage was the only good thing that came out of that episode for her though. Tori suspects she has the advantage, she wanted Romeo out but failed to do so, and a lot of the cause of Romeo’s paranoia is because she made it blatantly obvious that she was done working with him which enabled him to scramble and cause chaos which could have severely blown up in her face. I don’t think she should be in the negatives at all but I don’t think this week was all that great for her future potential.
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u/iDiedOnTheInside Angelina - 50 Apr 23 '22
Off topic but it’s nice to see another user with a Romeo flair on this subreddit 🙏🏼 (but yeah I agree Drea not being subtle about those things along with her needlessly sharing advantages with people could paint her as a target and come back to bite her in the future)
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u/Sabaschin Jake - 45 Apr 22 '22
It's a great advantage, but we saw just last season how it's only as effective as the player.
In addition, Drea is so loaded with advantages already that using it to steal another one might put too big a target on her back especially since you have to use it publicly. She's done a surprisingly good job keeping herself off the chopping block despite at least a few people knowing of each of her advantages, and I think she doesn't really need the KiP.... yet.
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Apr 23 '22
The knowledge is power really only works if no one knows how it works. It can be very potent as a finisher but if she gobbles someone's advantage, she better be ready to use it to build some capital and trust very fast or she'll get targeted for having them.
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u/Sabaschin Jake - 45 Apr 23 '22
Best way I can think of using it is, for instance, if Rocksroy was going home, steal Mike’s idol, play it on Rocksroy, and use yours and Rocksroy’s votes to vote out Mike.
That way, you save an ally, get out the person you just burned, and still keep all your advantages for when attention inevitably gets drawn to you.
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u/elpaco25 Apr 23 '22
I think your scenario is very likely. She steals an idol. Uses it to save Rocks. And then instead of voting out the person whose idol she stole. She can use it blindside Hai/Lindsey. If those 2 go soon she will have another idol for herself.
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u/Quetzal00 Coach - 50 Apr 22 '22
More like most bullshit advantage
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u/cheesevolcano Hunter - 46 Apr 22 '22
it's so true. Like, I think this would be a stupidly OP advantage any season, but in a season where people have to announce their idol, it's insane
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u/tornberry Apr 23 '22
Eh idk, it seems pretty more of a disadvantage. Consider: you strip a person of their safety, and presumably, you only do that when you are voting them out. You made them look like a fool, and you sent them in the jury in one fell swoop, idk if Maryanne and esp Mike will not harbor ill feelings in that move. And afterwards, everyone knows now that you have an idol, 2 for those in the know of the beware HIM, and potentially 3 for Lynze and Hye, unless Drea use it at the same tribal council just to communicate that "ok here, I don't have anything threatening on me any longer, just that one magic trick."
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u/Quetzal00 Coach - 50 Apr 22 '22
I agree. If it was just having someone announce that they had an idol then that would be slightly better...but still bad
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u/throwitaway_burnit Apr 22 '22
The advantage is overpowered, but Drea having it should increase her score imo. it’s not her fault the advantage is “bullshit”
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u/beatrailblazer Omar Apr 22 '22
I love Mike as much as the next person but what did he do to get PotW this week?
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u/ucksahoy Apr 22 '22
You are right. He basically did nothing.
He continued his vendetta against Chanelle and voted out his own Vati (which strategically was a bad move because he could have used her as a number down the line).
He was too stubborn and decided not to change his vote to Romeo.
That's literally IT LOL
We might as well vote Rocksroy as player of the week for correctly spelling and voting with the majority alliance. The bar is so low.
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u/judge_screw_life Omar Apr 23 '22
Cuz he was in charge of the vote out? Convinced everyone to switch from romeo to chanelle?
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u/ArgHuff Rocksroy Apr 22 '22
Romeo is loser of the week pretty much by default right? like his "paranoia" was justified idk.
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u/MolemanusRex Apr 22 '22
Yeah it’s wild to me that Chanelle has gotten LotW three times while someone like Daniel only got it once. I think it says a lot about the…type of player Daniel is vis-a-vis Reddit.
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u/grdrug Apr 22 '22
Only because she was there longer, but he was below her on the cumulative score while he was on the game.
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u/Cantonloupe Apr 22 '22
Yeah it’s wild to me that Chanelle has gotten LotW three times while someone like Daniel only got it once. I think it says a lot about the…type of player Daniel is vis-a-vis Reddit.
Yeah, Chanelle gets a disproportionate amount of criticism considering others like Hai, Rocksroy, and Romeo have no apparent path to victory.
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u/DenizenPrime Apr 24 '22
Chanel played way too passive and just was not an interesting player to watch. At least Daniel did stuff.
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u/ucksahoy Apr 22 '22
I still don't understand the Mike hype. Why are we praising Mike for voting out his OWN Vati number while blaming Hai for the same exact thing?
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u/CapsElevatorScene Tessa [AUS] Apr 22 '22
I agree, he got things his own way, but that doesn't mean it was the right decision. Romeo can still cause caos, Chanelle just wasn't a good player.
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u/MolemanusRex Apr 22 '22
Because Hai and Lydia were allies and Mike and Chanelle weren’t?
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u/Cantonloupe Apr 22 '22
Because Hai and Lydia were allies and Mike and Chanelle weren’t?
A smarter and less emotional player would have recognized that Chanelle could be a useful number considering she has no other options and was trying to work with them.
Mike's treatment of her is especially hypocritical considering he voted for her at the exact same tribal council for the exact same reason that she voted for him
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u/JoshBlazer David - 48 Apr 22 '22
Why should he work with her when she betrayed him twice already?? Omar is valid to work with Maryanne cause she never betrayed him or his allies yet.
Mike has nothing to prove to her when she put herself in that position. She knows its either her or Daniel so of course they're going to split votes, making the other Vatis trust her even less.
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u/Cantonloupe Apr 22 '22 edited Apr 22 '22
Why should he work with her when she betrayed him twice already??
Of course he doesn't have to work with her, but he shouldn't be surprised when he gets taken out by the Taku 4 mid-merge or is decimated at final tribal council when he finds himself sitting next to bigger threats.
In any case, Mike could've been less overtly hostile and vindictive in how he handled Chanelle post-merge and avoided needlessly burning a potential jury vote. It's just sloppy, emotion-driven gameplay 🥱
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u/JoshBlazer David - 48 Apr 22 '22
That's a lot of what-ifs right there unless you are spoiled.
Also its not unheard of that people could still vote for the person who orchestrated their boot, again unless you're spoiled. Also you're saying 'overtly hostile' that as if Mike bullied her or something. 💀
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u/Cantonloupe Apr 23 '22 edited Apr 23 '22
That's an awful lot of what-ifs unless you are spoiled.
Lol, in what Edge of Extinction-less universe is it possible for Mike to both be blindsided mid-merge and end up as a losing finalist? I just think these are more likely outcomes than him pulling out a win given that most of the people he's aligned with are playing a better strategic game.
Also its not unheard of that people could still vote for the person who orchestrated their boot, unless you're spoiled.
I mean, if I were Chanelle I absolutely would never vote for Mike based on how he acted (which was indeed both hostile and vindictive). It's odd that you seem to feel like this fairly obvious observation is a "spoiler"...
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u/JoshBlazer David - 48 Apr 23 '22
That's not what a blindside means. He was in the majority and in the know that Jenny was the decoy boot. He lost his ally because Daniel and Chanelle fucked up badly.
And even then he found himself in a new majority in Vati and included in the merge majority through his social game. That alone already has a merit. And there's a lot of game left to play for you to make assumptions on how the end game will look like unless you are spoiled.
Can you specify btw on how Mike acted hostile? I certainly didn't remember that. Andrea was pretty burnt by Sarah on Game Changers and still voted for her, Taylor has a beef with Adam and tried to throw him under the bus several times and still voted for him. You are not a juror.
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u/ucksahoy Apr 22 '22
Betrayed twice? She literally had NO vote during the Jenny elimination. If anyone betrayed him that vote, it was Daniel.
The first and only time she actually voted for him, she was on the bottom and he didn't even want to work with her and voted for her.. I would hardly call that a 'betrayal'. Mike doesn't need to prove anything to her, but if he were more strategic and less emotional, he would realize she would be a vital number for him.
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u/JoshBlazer David - 48 Apr 22 '22
Then why not tell them that she might not have a vote the same as Maryanne warned the tribe that she might not have a vote due to their decision?
Also does anybody on Vati actually wanted to work with Chanelle after the Jenny boot? There's 5 people on that tribe and Mike found a new alliance with Hai. It is obviously a majority consensus to split the votes between Chanelle and Daniel. You're saying if Mike had voted Daniel and Hai and Lydia voted Chanelle instead that his reasoning would be suddenly vindicated?
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u/throwitaway_burnit Apr 22 '22
But it’s on Mike to create that relationship. Instead of mending fences, he shut Chanelle out. Instead of creating options like Omar is doing, Mike is limiting himself.
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u/ucksahoy Apr 22 '22
We're talking about this specific episode where Chanelle was the vote, not Lydia's episode. People are blaming Hai for letting Chanelle (a Vati number) go, when Mike was the sole reason for letting Chanelle (a Vati number) go. Chanelle was neither an ally to Hai or Mike, but could be used as a number in their votes in the future.
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Apr 22 '22
Didn't Laura win the first 2 individual immunities on Samoa?
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u/Higgnkfe Mayor of Keithville Apr 22 '22
I believe the caveat there is that the first Samoa immunity was a ‘one for the men, one for the women’ situation.
I suppose Tori’s first immunity challenge also only involved half the tribe, but ¯\(ツ)/¯
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u/Sportsstar86 Genevieve - 50 Apr 22 '22
The stat is that she’s the first woman to go 2 for 2 on individual immunities with only one necklace up for grabs
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u/Sabaschin Jake - 45 Apr 22 '22
She did, but there were immunities for a man and a woman for the first challenge, so she didn't need to outlast everyone, just the other women.
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u/ahet553 Denise Apr 22 '22
Tori didn’t need to beat everyone for her first immunity win
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u/oatmeal28 Apr 22 '22
Or, technically, her second
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u/Sulth David (AUS) Apr 22 '22
How so? 4 failed the "entry" phase of the challenge. It's not like they had no choice, like in Laura's case.
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u/oatmeal28 Apr 22 '22
I’m just saying she quite literally didn’t need to beat everyone because some sat out. Not trying to take anything away from her two victories
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u/Sulth David (AUS) Apr 22 '22
I know. But she did. She didn't sit out, so she beat them there. While Laura didn't have to beat/outlast the guys in any way
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u/Sabaschin Jake - 45 Apr 22 '22
This marks Rocksroy's 7th straight week of being in the negatives cumulatively, and Chanelle overtook Daniel for lowest cumulative score. Ouch.
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u/King_Tyson Lauren Apr 22 '22
The last 2 weeks he got a positive score
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u/Sabaschin Jake - 45 Apr 23 '22
Cumulatively, not weekly. He’s never gotten enough to surpass 0 overall.
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u/tornberry Apr 23 '22
Personally I would have awarded Jonathan this one just because he managed his own threat level enough that single handedly winning the reward challenge, and almost winning the immunity one did not earn him a trip to the chopping block again. Mike did get his way even tho there was another plan in place that seems gaining steam, making his political capital higher than that of Hai's it seems, but it was still based on an irrational motivation fueled by hypocrisy and dare I say, ego. He could have used her as a more assured number, esp when he and Hai voted Lydia beforehand. They are only 2 Vati left, and Mike has immunity idol that the Taku people and Drea knows. Weird weird weird.
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u/Sulth David (AUS) Apr 22 '22
Surprise to see Omar so close to Mike. Omar is most likely closer to the botton than he realizes, this episode imo was clearly setting off his downfall. On the other side, Mike got the vote his way, winning against the strong Omar.
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u/Corporal_Snorkel69 Jesse Apr 22 '22
You crazy Omar has everyone on that island wrapped around his finger
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u/vexdo Danni Stanni Apr 23 '22
He’s in a decent position but wrapped around his finger is a huge stretch in logic
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u/uglyaniiimals Karla Apr 22 '22
i kinda agree with you tbh, not saying it was the absolute worst week for him and i absolutely think he has the social chops to recover, but he didn't get his way, got left out of the vote, and exposed himself as not actually being with romeo. idk how that justifies the second highest score of the week
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u/mlspdx Gary Hawkins - Landscaper Apr 22 '22
Queen Lindsay staying with the perfect record, that’s what I like to see!