Survivor Game Changers Merge Boots Don’t Get Why They Left
Both players voted out at the Survivor Game Changers merge didn’t quite understand why they were targeted in the first place.
This post will showcase the final words of the departing Survivor Game Changers players after their torches have been snuffed in episodes 8 and 9.
Since I’m ineligible to ever play Survivor due to my Canadian status, I will never know whether it’s better or worse to know you’re going home ahead of time, even if there was nothing you could do about it. You would always want to try and save yourself from leaving, but seasoned players befit for a season like Survivor Game Changers should either know why they were voted out or appreciate the blindside.
Neither Survivor Game Changers merge boots quite got why they were targeted, but for very different reasons. For one, it didn’t quite make sense that a non-threat was taken out first. The other “understood” why he was chosen as a vote-out target, even if that wasn’t quite the case.
Let’s start with Hali Ford first, repeating her Survivor Worlds Apart status as “first player to make the jury.”
Hali didn’t see why she was voted out first in this post-merge Survivor Game Changers world, as she thought there were plenty of huge threats ahead of her. She pondered why she was on the chopping block when strong enough players will need to sit with lesser players in order to make a more convincing final tribal council argument.
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The problem is that the vote was split between her and Michaela Bradshaw, and people feared that she had an idol. The majority alliance needed to put the pressure on two targets of old Mana, and Hali being placed between both tribes for so long meant that she was stuck in the middle of two alliances. The strong alliance, following the numbers game, needed to strengthen their numbers.
When it comes to the sad departure of Ozzy Lusth, he makes it clear (in his mind) why he was voted out, talking about the inevitability of not winning an individual immunity necklace. “I played my hardest. I think I overestimated my worth, but if you don’t win immunity, you don’t have an idol, you’re sitting where I’m sitting.
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He kind of understands why he’s one of the two players voted out at the Survivor Game Changers merge, but you can tell based on his dialogue during tribal council that he still thinks, four attempts in, that you can provide food for your camp, be pleasant and be deemed worthy of staying.
Ozzy Lusth, time and time again, has demonstrated he doesn’t understand the full dynamics of Survivor, even though he’s been chosen as one of the show’s players who changed the game. It’s his inability to adapt that got him out in 12th place, as he played his predictable game with unpredictable results; a lack of an immunity necklace around his neck to keep him safe.
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Survivor Game Changers episode 10, “A Line Drawn in Concrete,” will air next Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET. We’ll have to wait and see whether or not the exiting player of that episode gets why they were voted out.