Warning: This article contains spoilers forSurvivor 46episode 11.
Getting voted out with an idol is rarely due to a truly bad game decision by the player.
Ninety-nine percent of the time, it’s the result of great gameplay by the other players.
Jeff Probst on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
That’s why it’s called a blindside."
“Ultimately, it was a mistake,” she says.
“A mistake equals a wrong judgment, right?
Charlie Davis, Venus Vafa, Kenzie Veurink, and Liz Wilcox.CBS
“I get that, but I do have the viewer seat, and what I see is … And Kenzie said, ‘No, you’re not.’
“But if you’re playing to win, then you’re always making calculated risks.
That’s the cornerstone of anySurvivorstrategy.
you oughta be clear about the risk you are taking.
Hopefully not in a fatal way.”
It goes back to Probst’s favorite strategy that “you might’t winSurvivorby playing to not lose.”
It’s a huge part of having an idol, to play or not to play.
