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I have to give them props for making a banner where Kana is my favorite character on it. That's not an easy feat.

Well, it's been a while, but I've decided who my character pick is.

But first, I've got a little bit of a story.

When I signed up for this, I wanted this to be a redemption run, both for myself and for the Orange Bears name. Well, I won, so I accomplished the mission I set out for. Why am I bringing this up? Because there's a character who's had a really rough time in Mercs, a character I like a lot. A character who deserves a shot at redemption. So keeping up with the theme of redemption, my character selection is...

Ashton Anchors

Carolyn winning the Sia award was obvious the moment she lost (since I don't think Sia gives money to the winner. She didn't for Maryanne and that's the only reason I can think of.)

Is that a teaser that the auction is coming back?

So the only new era season won by someone who lives in a US state was the one where there wasn't a Canadian or Puerto Rican contestant.

Yeah, Carolyn's result was odd. I was expecting a Carolyn comeback until the 4th Yam Yam vote. Can't believe she got shut out.

Lame that Heidi beat Carolyn

To be fair, it's hard to look charming next to Carolyn and Yam Yam.

Does Heidi not know that Puerto Rico is part of the US?

SJDS had two women that weren't Natalie Anderson!

I hope all that cheering for Heidi isn't a sign of what's to come.

She won both group immunities, but Heidi won one of those too.

I like how Carolyn mentally ran through every challenge in the hopes she'd find one she was good at.

Blaziken posted...

Honestly, if Heidi goes to FMC and loses, that would be an amazing end to the story of someone flopping every time she tries to make a big move.

Hoping this happens

When did Carolyn win an individual immunity?

I think the most likely outcome is Carson tries to pull an Underwood and fails. I can't see Carolyn or Yam Yam winning the next immunity.

Underleveled posted...

I'd care a lot more about this if Lauren hadn't gotten the worst edit of any final five member in the post covid era

How quickly we've forgotten Heather

So this is the point where it turns out Lauren was a big threat all along to justify her boot at the final 5?

I see that they gave them smaller poles this time so Cody's hack won't work.

If it wasn't an idol, it would've been a challenge advantage like the last 3 seasons.

Chaeix posted...

Hmmmm

So I'm 13th in Wentworth's draft and I don't think in closing range if I don't do the yolo pick of a Lauren/Heidi/Carolyn F3 even though I feel like it's going to be Yam Yam/Carolyn/Heidi. I'm also the only one near the top with Carolyn as my winner pick.

Do I do the yolo pick and throw Lauren in the F3 with the hopes that she was edited negligently or play it safe and hope for the best?

I feel like I kind of have to play it safe because Lauren literally got no development after her F6 immunity win. I'm really struggling to see how she isn't the F5 boot edit-wise even though it'd make sense for the Tika 3 to implode on the F5 vote.

Does anyone near the top have Yam Yam or Carson as their winner pick? If not, I'd play it safe and just hope for the Carolyn win.

I think she did in the family letter episode. Even if she didn't, there's still time. Xander didn't get one until right before FTC. (And Lauren is likely to get the same amount of votes as he did.)

I'm hoping a Carolyn win is over Yam Yam and not Heidi/Lauren. It'd be the first time since Tina beat Colby all the way back in season 2 that a mom beats actual competition at FTC (and no, Parvati was not actual competition).

Yeah, I don't see how Carolyn loses after surviving that episode.

Well, either Carolyn goes tonight or she wins the game.

I hope not, because I really don't want this to end in a Jaime/Heidi/Lauren FTC.

That went as well as I expected from a team with Carolyn and Jaime.

Now there's a game that's destined to be doomed to Peacock.

Courtney beat Amanda because Courtney got 2 votes to Amanda's 1.

Underleveled posted...

The most surprising names to me on that list are Sugar, Coach, Lisa and Gabler.

It was Kass for me. I expected her to get a spite vote in there somewhere, but no, her only votes were from Trish at 5 and Woo at 3.

Also, what do the asterisks mean? Was it a tie and you just forgot to put it for Lisa/Skupin?

I'm guessing that's the person who went the longest without having a vote cast against them?

Sucks that Carolyn wasted her idol, but she had no way of knowing that Jaime and Lauren were going to throw their games away.

Did Trump not have a lawyer present during this? (Or maybe he did if Giuliani is the quality of lawyer he hires)

Sandra's a legend and she never won a post-merge challenge!

I like how Jeff was trying to make it look close there when Frannie wasn't anywhere near done with that puzzle.

Does Frannie get a letter from Matt?

Hey, Carson finally gets to compete in an individual challenge!

BlueCrystalTear posted...

Yeah that's what I was referencing. He re-hid it, so did nobody else find it?

Honestly, we've wasted enough time this season on fake idols that didn't amount to anything. I'm fine with it not being shown if it was found since it's not important.

There was a secret scene last week where Kane found Brandon's fake, and then he re-hid it. So it should still be hidden there unless someone found it this week and they didn't show it.

Did MercsCE ever get off the ground? I know it was talked about as a concept, but I thought it didn't actually happen.

Huh, wasn't expecting Frannie to be the Jaime vote.

Well, that was a lousy end to the fake idol storyline

What did Kane do to make them want to target him over someone with an extra vote?

How quickly they've forgotten about Matthew

Jeff

Isaac

You do if you're relying on GF spam!

Except for total value, the Ravens actually offered Lamar more than that:

https://twitter.com/sgellison/status/1647987432128692228

I found leveling to be pointless through the whole game. You got enough AP from bosses to unlock enough mod abilities to get decent spells, and by the middle of disc 2 you could access the desert and fight Cactuars for AP (and no EXP) to unlock the rest of the mod abilities to get the best magic. I grinded to level 100 at the end with the stat up abilities to cap everything, but I'm not even sure that was worth it over fighting things at base level with top level junctions.