Intelligence

Intelligence plays a huge role while playing this game. For example, the Villains team thought they had the voting all figured out. Russell was smart and had the immunity idol. This made them think that he will be pressed to use the idol. Instead he was smart and gave it to another tribe member and saved her. Everyone thought he would go home and it would have been except for Tyson. He voted for the girl instead of Russell like they planned. In the end, got sent home. 

Intelligence is necessary to win the game because they need to come up with strategies for challenges and tribal council. Also they need logic when it comes to making alliances.

Type A and B

Russel portrays the type A personality. He always is on the move. He is extremely competitive. He will do anything to get things done even if that means jeopardizes his trust with his tribe. He even went searching for the immunity idol even though his whole tribe decided they weren't going to. He is his own leader. He will never be a follower. Russel will go far i think in the competition because of his personality type.

Courtney portrays the type B personality. She has none of the type a qualities. She not as competitive as everyone else. She doesn't get angry at anyone. She will always be a follower. She sits out challenges when they tell her too. She doesn't even try to be in the challenge and when she does she doesn't seem like she's trying as hard as the others. She is more relaxed while everyone is competitive and anxious to start the challenge. Since she is a type B personality, I think they will keep her as long as they need her and then vote her out because they can control her.

True colors and chocolate!!!

 James is Gold. He is loyal to his tribe members and is a natural leader. He dislikes disobedience and that is shown a lot especially after the first puzzle game, when they got back to camp. He told everyone that one person talks, everyone else listens, especially if someone did the challenge before. He even said at the tribal council that everyone went their own way. His personality being gold affects his interaction with the other tribe members in the way that they listen to him. Only a few people have conflicts with him. 

Chocolate is such a big reward because they have to eat what they can hunt and can eat coconut. The food is not that good and there is not a lot of it. So when they have a chance to eat something as great tasting as chocolate they go for it. Its a luxury for them. 

Their decision to vote Tom out is just going to hurt the tribe. Yes, James is stronger but he cant walk well and his injury will not heal soon and he is risking the fact that it can get much worse than it is now. I think they should have sent James home where he can get help for his knee and keep Tom for a while. Tom can run and i think he is strong in some challenges. James will not be able to help much in challenges with his leg. The tribe is looking at how strong he was before the injury not how strong he is currently. 

Defense Mechanisms

During the last episode, Russel buried the machete so it would cause problems between the tribe members. I believe Russel is using rationalization because he says he hid it so that he would have an advantage and be powerful. He is making excuses for hiding the machete. This hinders interactions between within the tribe because no one knows where it is or if someone hid it.

In this episode, I think they made the right decision putting Boston Rob in the ball to direct them. It was a good idea to sit the two girls out because I don't think they would be as strong in that challenge. The people blindfolded did a good job listening to Rob and won the challenge for the Villains.

When the Heroes got back to camp they found a clue to finding the immunity idol and Tom started to look for it. He found it and tried to be sneaky about having it and put it in his sock and that plan backfired. One of the girls saw and used it to their advantage by telling everyone he had it. They set a plan so that Tom would be forced to use it and there would be two votes for Colby. Then get Colby out. Little did they know that three of their tribe members voted Cirie and she went Goodbye. I'm really happy they got Cirie out because i think she wasn't that strong. she was strong at control some of the people but not that strong in challenges.