No More Previous Votes??? Rule Changes????
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Car54

Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 02:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
From TV Guide:

Survivor: Marquesas
Back to the Beach
60 min.
The reality series returns to its island roots for this fourth edition. The 16 latest castaways are marooned on Nuku Hiva, the largest of Marquesas' 12 volcanic islands in the South Pacific. For the first time, the players must find their own food and water, and, according to executive producer Mark Burnett, “there is a little romance this time around.” He also says he has added at least three new wrinkles to the game, one of which is that previous votes no longer count against a player in the event of a tie at tribal council. As for the 16 contestants, who are divided into the Maraamu tribe and Rotu tribe, Burnett told them not to assume anything, which resulted in a more “freethinking, freewheeling” attitude.

Spunky

Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 05:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Drat...

I think previous votes should count...

Lilliegirl

Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 06:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I cosign that Spunky, that was part of the whole game, guess they dont want another Lex match.

Moondance

Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 06:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think MB has something else up his sleeve or bag of tricks!

Joan

Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 07:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree, previous votes should be important but maybe MB has a better way to break a tie. If it is something stupid like the quiz, I will be disappointed. I did notice in Africa that they used the previous votes to their advantage a lot and I guess he doesn't want to make it too predictable.

Car54

Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 09:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree with Joan and Moon. I think there are some more "Twists" coming to keep things interesting. The prior votes did not count in S1, and for my money, that is still the most exciting version yet.

I think the prior vote thing really became a game-changing rule in S3- look at how Lindsay and Lex handled it when they incurred votes but stayed in the game. Their behavior literally changed the direction of the game.

If prior votes were not an issue, Lindsay might have made it to the merge and Brandon or Tom might have gone instead, and there would have been no reason for Kelly to be "snake-hunted" off, no reason for a Samburu to jump over to Boran and vote with Lex.
Those two things might have totally changed the outcome of the game.

This will mix things up, I think!