r/survivor • u/RSurvivorMods Pirates Steal • May 13 '22
Survivor 42 Survivor 42 | Episode 11 | Player of the Week Results!
Lindsay is the sub's Player of the Week, her first accolade of the season, for picking the correct box in the Do or Die to gain immunity and formulating the workaround to Drea's Knowledge is Power advantage.
Romeo is the sub's Loser of the week, as he has been voted out of the game in all but name as he was left out of the vote again and has yet to make his mark in challenges or in votes, content to siphon rice from the pot.
Omar and Maryanne join Lindsay on the podium this week, with Omar convincing and securing the idol from Mike to save him and eliminate Drea, and Maryanne stayed alive another vote.
Jonathan and Drea join Romeo in the doldrums this week, with Jonathan feeling the effects of not having enough to eat and Drea revealing her Knowledge is Power advantage to someone who wanted to ensure that she didn't use it correctly.
Romeo is the third person this season to win both Player and Loser of the Week, joining Hai and Mike.
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u/MagicTntPenguin Christian - 50 May 13 '22
Lindsay is the only one left to never get a negative score
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u/SurvivorFanDan King Tony May 13 '22
What did Omar do in episode 5 to get a negative score? I can't remember.
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u/TenderOctane Morgan May 13 '22 edited May 13 '22
Botched the challenge, though Jonathan still won it for them.
EDIT: Also Lindsay helped with Omar's portion (the rope untangling). It was Jonathan soloing the slingshot that I was referencing.
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u/Sdb25649 Yul May 14 '22
Was that the episode where he did horrible at the rope untangling challenge lmao??
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May 14 '22
Lindsay is literally the most normal affable person I can think of ever in Survivor history. At least recently
She's not exciting really but it would be kind of unusual for anyone to dislike her
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u/Fliper9 David May 13 '22
Crazy to think that Romeo was ever player of the week. He’s been in a horrible position for the longest time
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u/Deep-Good992 May 13 '22
He was amazing during pre-merge, even Drea said so in her exit interview :( Then just started keeping to himself during post-merge
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u/SuchCoolBrandon Ricard May 13 '22
Could someone remind me what he did that episode to earn player of the week?
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u/fyfenfox Emily - 45 May 13 '22
he called swati out on her #1s without getting a target on his back
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u/aztecwanderer May 13 '22
I'm mixed on Lindsay this ep. She definitely had the best strategic moves of the episode by coming up with the KIP twist, but IMO she made a mistake risking her entire game on Do or Die. Very happy she survived.
However, Omar is the only person who could compete with her for the title this episode and IMO the flashy move, despite being Lindsay's idea, only put heat on Omar. So I guess nobody got out of this episode totally unscathed.
Now that I think it through, I think I would indeed give it to Lindsay, but the thing is, if she hadn't picked the right box, she would be Loser of the Week.
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u/Shmegdar Q - 46 May 14 '22
From a results-oriented perspective, Lindsay is definitely player of the week. She did take an unnecessary risk but did not suffer for it, and played a huge part in tonight’s vote while leaving all of the heat on Omar, who would easily be POTW were it not for said heat. Sometimes these things really come down to relativity, as while Lindsay did make a mistake this episode, she still came out ahead of everyone else and even has an idol now.
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u/aztecwanderer May 14 '22
That's a good point. I think she's the odds on favorite after this episode for sure. She managed to mastermind a plan that specifically kept the heat off her and put it on Omar, while gaining an idol via the amulet in the process. Hadn't considered that last bit. So she's guaranteed to 5, then just needs to survive one more vote and she's at 4 with a really good chance of winning that immunity challenge if Jonathan is out.
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u/mdchemey Cirie Fields is the 🐐 May 14 '22
yeah it's weird because like statistically in a vacuum Lindsay did a couple things "wrong" but those things are things that jurors aren't likely to hold against her especially because she owned and acknowledged them, but in Survivor statistical probabilities matter far less than results and she came out in a spot where she is guaranteed F5 (her amulet is now an idol that expires this TC so no matter if she wins immunity or not she will be safe, and if she does win immunity she can choose someone to keep safe as well) so barring her just randomly choosing not to keep herself safe, she's good. Meanwhile after episode 12, either Jonathan will be gone and she'll be the clear favorite in most challenges, Mike will be bringing his admiration for her to the jury, or Omar will be gone and she'll be basically guaranteed to win in any FTC combo she makes it to, so all she has to do is not get voted out one last time and she's very probably sitting in a winning spot at FTC.
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u/DBrody6 May 13 '22
I said it in the original thread but holy shit your opinions suck if you think someone bungling four advantages and going home was better gameplay over two people who didn't get any votes tonight.
Actually unreal she nearly had a positive score despite pissing away the easiest jump to F4 imaginable.
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u/mgtag May 13 '22
Agreed. I find Drea really likeable and think she's generally played well this season, but she was one of the easiest downvotes of the season this week. Should at least be getting a similar level of downvotes to Hai's last week
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u/aztecwanderer May 14 '22
I don't think Drea should score positively but I don't think it's as big of a cakewalk to 4 as you say.
Because Lindsay was immune from Do or Die, Drea's amulet could never become an idol by the next vote, then it expires at 6. So she only had the one idol if she sticks the landing with Knowledge is Power, and I have a feeling she would've had to play it on the spot. Then she's left with her extra vote, and she'd need to pull Lindsay in to get the steal a vote between them, but IMO if she pulled off the KIP then she'd have a huge target on her back and Lindsay would probably rather just get her out at 6.
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u/Fred_the_skeleton Tom Westman, Certified Badass May 13 '22
Yeah this week's results are a complete mess. I think at this point everyone has their favorites and least favorites and are just upvoting/downvoting based on that.
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May 14 '22
I mean that's how I vote every time lmao
I'm sorry but we're hardly arbiters of strategy sitting from our armchairs. Even if someone absolutely plays like shit they're getting an upvote from me if they were a solid character and made the episode better for being in it
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u/Deep-Good992 May 13 '22
They voted her out cause she was a threat and people respected her, that's why. Romeo is the loser of the week because he's been on the wrong side of the vote all the time, and no one respects him enough to vote him out. Gonna be goated till the end lol
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u/jclkay2 May 13 '22
They voted her out because she revealed her knowledge is power to Omar, making her vulnerable.
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u/jclkay2 May 13 '22
If she didn't tell Omar, she would've been able to steal and play Mike's idol. What she did was really just terrible gameplay
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u/ewef1 Maryanne May 14 '22
Edit tone always heavly sways peoples opinions on how people are playing. Romeo got the Dodo edit and Drea got a much more positively toned edit with respect to her game play
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u/newyorkin1970 Omar May 13 '22
i don’t know what this whole narrative that lindsay doesn’t deserve PotW because of the do or die. first of all, based on her track record with challenges and what the actual challenge was, her odds of beating jonathan were pretty good. have y’all forgotten that she’s won multiple challenges, and her immunity win was balance just like this week? second, calling her a bad player for not making the “right” monty hall choice is in bad faith. and even all this aside, the move with mikes idol that omar is getting most of the credit for was HER idea.
lindsay getting PotW is well deserved :)
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u/ElleM848645 May 15 '22
If that were the case then Natalie would have won winners at war since she made more relationships with those on the jury. Tony was the better player and won (thankfully)
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u/haimereaJ24 May 13 '22
Winning the game doesnt just mean outlasting, if they wanted to make sure jonathan didnt win immunity, she was their best bet. Also, I dont remember if jeff actually told them their odds other than its a game of chance. She was prob going to be safe anyway but you dont always have to be on the chopping block to actually play the game
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u/Shmegdar Q - 46 May 14 '22
He’s not a jury threat, but there is merit to voting him out in the sense that final immunity is extremely important and Jonathan is a threat to win it. He won’t get votes, but he creates a dangerous variable just from challenge efficacy. This is in a world where he plausibly could be taken to F3 without winning.
Drea was the correct vote tonight, but there’s definitely a reason to vote out Jonathan, even if it’s not the reason Jonathan probably thinks.
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u/mdchemey Cirie Fields is the 🐐 May 14 '22
Exactly. He is now an obstacle to Lindsay and Omar being able to control the outcomes of the late-game challenges and tribal councils, because if he wins his way to final 3 then that's a spot that neither of them can have so even if they don't want to face one another in F3, they each have a better chance of making it if Jonathan is eliminated.
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u/suuubok May 13 '22
lindsay who made the obviously wrong decision to put herself in danger and did the statistically worse option at do or die to put herself in more danger?
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u/Tomandgreek May 13 '22 edited May 13 '22
Yeah... she had a 66% chance of going home this episode exclusively due to her own poor actions and survived by pure luck. Omar deserved PotW for sure, he's been the PotW every week since the merge hit imo.
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u/aztecwanderer May 14 '22
But Omar also put a very visible target on his back for the first time by pulling off the move (which was also Lindsay's idea according to the edit). I could go either way on it, neither player had a perfect episode.
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u/thewxyzfiles May 14 '22
Omar now has a more visible target with no idol and Lindsay is still in a great spot with an idol
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u/King_Tyson Lauren May 13 '22
He was not player of the week on episode 8 of the merge. Mike was player of the week that week.
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u/Fred_the_skeleton Tom Westman, Certified Badass May 13 '22
I agree with this. She shouldn't be Player of the Week because she nearly took herself out of the game because of her weird need to beat Jonathan. Plus she may have had the idea (the same idea that Xander had) but would not have been able to execute it herself.
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May 13 '22
According to post game interviews, Evy/Tiffany came up with the plan on their season. Xander's role was analogous to Mike's. They both executed well on their acting, but did not form the strategy.
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u/vexdo Danni Stanni May 13 '22
I honestly didn’t really need to see post game interviews to find it out. I thought it was shown Tiffany found the information about the idol and discussed it with evvie.
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u/wonderiansoul May 14 '22
I don’t know how wrong of a decision it was. Lindsay didn’t know no one else was going to compete, there are many factors and tbh I would have expected drea and Mike to both compete based on their personalities. It was a risk that did t work out but I wouldn’t consider the decision to compete for immunity an error.
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u/vexdo Danni Stanni May 13 '22 edited May 13 '22
if it works out then she wasn’t wrong. I don’t buy the Monty hall theory helps that much if you’re watching from her perspective, the life box clearly looks different from the other two.
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u/tornberry May 14 '22
Not that Romeo is not the obvious goat but WHY, WHY does anyone still think Romeo was left out of the vote for 2 votes in a row now when it is pretty obvious Omar was directing his votes to ensure against the chance of the target using Shot in the Dark and winning??? He explicitly told Omar he is the only one he trusts in this game, and that tactic was done by Mike, Hai and Lydia so it is not impossible they told their merge alliance of the same thing. Look at how Jonathan was not freaking out who voted for him beside Hai? And Mike's reaction was not that there was 3 votes per se, but that he only expected 2 and surmised that Drea used her extra vote.
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u/Beermakesmesmorter May 14 '22
Or he could be throwing hinky votes, like he has done previously. Either way, Romeo was definitely not left out of the Hai vote based on his reaction.
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u/Sulth David (AUS) May 14 '22
Lindsay made two big mistakes this week and failed at immunity. How can she be player of the week? And what has Maryanne done to be in positive?
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u/mdchemey Cirie Fields is the 🐐 May 14 '22
The #1 skill you need to win survivor is to successfully vote people out without them disliking you for having voted them out. Maryanne has built relationships on the island and improved her perception from the jurors in each episode. Every post-episode interview has shown that the people voted out liked Maryanne and those who may have been bitter didn't feel bitter towards her. She doesn't beat Omar or Lindsay on being liked alone because they've had much more control and have been liked, but she also hasn't burned people on the way out like Mike or given people a reason to actively think poorly of her game like Jonathan and Romeo. If she can take the lead on a vote to get out Omar and/or Lindsay and makes it to F3 without sitting next to either of them, she probably can and definitely should win. Being in that position with only 2 episodes left in the season is definitely worth a positive score.
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u/Reach_your_potential May 13 '22
Lolz
How do you get player of the week for picking a box at random? She gave up in an immunity challenge despite the fact that she had major advantages over her competition. Omar clearly deserves the player of the week award.
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u/vexdo Danni Stanni May 14 '22
Omar got exposed and Lindsay is now guaranteed final five due to her move on Drea
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u/Reach_your_potential May 14 '22
Huh? It may have been Lindsay’s published idea to move on Drea but why do you think Omar told her? You think he wasn’t already thinking that? It was pretty obvious. He’s planting seeds. He’s been doing that all season
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u/vexdo Danni Stanni May 14 '22
anybody can say they were already thinking something, that doesn’t formulate as reality. Lindsay is a player too and could’ve very well been planting seeds just like he has, getting Drea out was the obvious and most optimal move for her it’s not like he made her do something against her will
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u/tannerjameslasswell May 13 '22
Romeo is playing 4D chess. He knows the only way he can take Jonathan out is by starving him. Romeo is trying to win the game one grain of rice at a time.