Survivor 48’s newest episode ended with a wild Tribal Council that concerned a profitable Shot within the Darkish play, a revote to a revote, one individual writing down three completely different names, and a last-second vote change to lastly get rid of somebody.

When all was mentioned and accomplished, Mary Zheng was protected because of her Shot within the Darkish, Justin Pioppi was eradicated after dropping his vote on a journey, Sai Hughley was reeling after making an emotional, last-ditch plea to remain, and Cedrek McFadden was experiencing whiplash after basically telling Sai she was leaving after which stopping on a dime and sending Justin out of the sport as a substitute.

However how did this even occur? Many viewers had been little doubt scratching their heads attempting to maintain up and determine all of it out, whilst Jeff Probst defined on display screen why sure individuals couldn’t vote or draw at sure occasions.

For these nonetheless doing sketchy Survivor math of their heads lengthy after the episode completed within the hopes of lastly unscrambling every little thing, the host provided a fuller clarification on the newest episode of his On Fire With Jeff Probst podcast.

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“There was rather a lot happening due to misplaced votes and votes that had been sacrificed,” Probst says on the podcast. “So let me simply take you thru the large factors. You get to Tribal and also you begin with this: Justin doesn't have a vote, so he's not voting tonight in any respect. Then, Mary decides to sacrifice her vote to play the Shot within the Darkish and she or he will get it. So she's now protected however doesn't have a vote both.”

Okay, we’re with you to this point, Jeff. And by the way in which, props to Mary for turning into the second participant in Survivor historical past (after Kaleb Gebrewold on Survivor 45) to efficiently play a Shot within the Darkish that saved her. Anyway, after that, Sai and Cedrek each revoted (whereas a powerless and voteless Justin and Mary seemed on) with Sai voting for Justin and Cedrek voting for Sai. A tie. So then they voted once more, and once more it was a tie.

“As soon as we’re deadlocked, then that is the place the foundations change the sport,” Probst explains. "The voting is over. There isn’t any extra voting. So Sai, though she had a vote tonight, she didn't get to vote. That is now a call that shall be made between the remaining members of the tribe. So you’ve Justin and Sai — they're sitting over there each tied with a vote. And the query is: What’s going to the remainder of the tribe determine? Who’re they going to ship house? As a result of they received to ship any individual house, as a result of in the event that they don't ship any individual house, then Justin and Sai are protected and all people has to attract rocks and any individual goes house.”

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Ah, but when it had been solely that straightforward. (And, in fact, nothing about that was easy to start with.) So right here’s the place issues received even extra complicated. “What made tonight historic is the remainder of the tribe was composed of two individuals, Cedrek and Mary,” Probst says. “However, as mentioned, Mary doesn't have any say on this as a result of she sacrificed her vote. So the remainder of the tribe is Cedrek. So Cedrek now has this huge choice as a result of he's the one voice.”

Probst continues, “So he decides: Do I ship Justin house or do I ship Sai house? And if for some odd purpose he was so conflicted he couldn't determine, then sure, we’d technically go to drawing rocks and there could be one rock in there and it'd be Cedrek going house. So all of us knew that wasn't going to occur. 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? And also you noticed what occurred.”

In order that’s why finally, Cedrek was the one one out of 4 individuals sitting there at Tribal Council that received to determine (after a lot backwards and forwards) who went house. It was a brutal finish for Justin, who didn’t ask to go on the journey and didn’t ask to play the cube recreation that misplaced him his vote, which finally led to his torch snuffing. Probst additionally weighed in on the ousted participant.

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“You recognize what I beloved about Justin is the way in which he went out is strictly my expertise with him,” says the host. “When he mainly mentioned to Cedrek, ‘Hey man, we'll be associates both means, so that you do what you bought to do’ — that's the man I fell in love with. I used to be bummed to see Justin go. I don't assume he ever received his footing. I'm unsure he ever actually took a maintain of the sport in the way in which that I feel he may want he had, as a result of he's very good. That man's IQ is excessive, graduated from Yale, put legislation college on maintain to assist run the household enterprise, the pizza enterprise. And my 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.”

To listen to Probst and former Survivor champion Rachel LaMont break down the newest episode of Survivor 48, take a look at the On Fire with Jeff Probst podcast.

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