[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Survivor Season 48 Episode 3, “Committing to the Bit.”]
Survivor 48’s third episode resulted in an historic tribal council the place a impasse vote and a uncommon Shot within the Darkish success led to only one participant voting on this week’s elimination. This got here after an episode filled with squabbling between rivals Sai and Mary on the Vula tribe, the season’s odd couple that have been hooked up on the hip on this installment whether or not they appreciated it or not. Jeff Probst reacted to the unprecedented tribal council within the On Hearth podcast, the official Survivor aftershow (take heed to the episode under).
Mary did job of convincing Sai that she wasn’t going to play her Shot within the Darkish. Her confidence wasn’t convincing sufficient to make Sai absolutely consider her story, but it surely was sufficient to sow doubt. And generally that’s all you want. Shockingly, Mary’s Shot within the Darkish play truly labored. Sai and Cedrek every voted for Mary, however all votes towards her didn’t depend. Justin misplaced his vote and instructed nobody, resulting in a tie within the second spherical of voting.
The third spherical resulted in a tie as effectively, resulting in a impasse. This compelled Probst to take a seat again down and reset the voting. The sport guidelines said that due to how the votes went earlier than — and due to Justin’s lack of a vote — Cedrek was the one individual capable of vote. He had voted for Sai within the different rounds, which made her really feel betrayed as she had been forthcoming with data with him for the entire recreation to this point. Justin, in the meantime, didn’t inform the individual he claimed to be his closest ally that he had misplaced his vote.
Cedrek needed Sai out to finish the chaos between her and Mary, which he believed was stopping their tribe from working as a time and resulting in consecutive problem losses. Sai gave a greater argument than Justin earlier than Cedrek voted, nevertheless. Cedrek despatched Justin house on the situation that Sai and Mary work issues out for good. They agreed.
As Probst explains in On Hearth, the impasse vote meant that “voting is over” and the remaining members of the tribe whose names weren’t listed within the ties will determine who’s voted out.
“What made tonight historic is, the remainder of the tribe was composed of two folks, Cedrek and Mary. However as mentioned, Mary doesn’t have any say on this,” Probst says in On Hearth. “So Cedrek now has this large resolution as a result of he’s the one voice.”
If he couldn’t select, they might go to the drawing rocks section, however there could be no level to that as a result of Cedrek’s could be the one identify out there. “The large query then turned, is he going to belief Sai and attempt to forge forward with one thing, or is he going to do away with Sai and hold Justin?” Probst goes on. He admits that he was “bummed to see Justin go.”
“I don’t assume he ever received his footing,” Probst shares. “I’m undecided he ever actually took a maintain of the sport in the way in which that I believe he would possibly’ve wished he had as a result of he’s a really sensible that man’s IQ is excessive, graduated from Yale, put legislation college on maintain to assist run the household enterprise, the pizza enterprise. My [casting] notes on him are ‘candy, trusting, giving.’ And that’s what you noticed play out with Cedrek. We’ll be associates, don’t fear about it. And Justin’s gone.”
Study extra behind-the-scenes particulars in regards to the episode within the full episode of On Hearth, under.
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