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Let's revisit this issue that Tina did not really betray Jerri's alliance. If I recall the time sequence correctly, the TC questions come before the voting. This means that Tina was left out of Jerri's response to the TC question--yet Tina proceeded to vote Maralyn because of a promise she had made--which seems to be referring to the 5-person alliance formed by Jerri in the first three hours of Day 1.

So Tina heard Jerri's response and then calmly voted Mad-Dog off due to a "promise". Seems Tina thought she was still in the 5-person Jerri-led alliance at the time of that vote.

Didn't sunsawed post something about Jerri making the game about loyalty while Tina made it about strategy? So at this point Tina's strategy was to keep the strongest and get rid of the weakest so her voting matched the Jerri-led "loyalty" alliance. The parting of the ways was over Mitchell.

Tina took up her "keep the strongest" strategy, ensured that Keith was still voting Mitchell, and then got Colby in with her on the admittedly better game strategy. Result? Mitchell ousted on previous vote cast by Keith and Tina threw away the Jerri-led "loyalty" alliance in favor of the "keep the strongest" strategy and a new alliance. Tina did betray.

bluegun, I think Nick probably reported Keith's "Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead" to Jerri back at the ranch. But Keith and Jerri did not see eye-to-eye from Day One and only voted together when it was to their mutual benefit. There were no "loyalty" issues between them. I respectfully submit that if Jerri is presented Keith and Tina as the final two, she would vote for Keith due to his loyalty (even if not to her) and would not vote for Tina due to Tina's initial betrayal.

I also think Tina has had her post-merger game strategy somewhat upset by Colby's run of IC wins. If there is any way possible, she will not want to take this younger, likeable fella into the Final Two. Expect a real push by Tina to win the IC and control the Final Two. She has no loyalty, really, to either Colby or Keith. She will make her choice based on her calculation of how many jury votes she will have in contrast to her selection--she will definitely want Keith. If Keith wins the IC, Tina is going to bank on Keith's loyalty to her--and so she goes into the Final Two with who she wanted anyway.

Colby has the same hard approach to the game (as most of us would) and he's going to select Keith as the most unlikeable "bozo" he can come up with and hope to take the mil home to his real mom. He's probably been winning all of the challenges so he doesn't have to run into Tina's "take out the strong" strategy in this portion of the game.

IMHO, we're only looking at Tina/Keith and Colby/Keith as the Final Two. Absolutely cannot envision any way that Colby or Tina want a Colby/Tina Final Two. I also think that Keith feels uncertain enough about everything that he will compete vigorously and not pull a voluntary "stand down" like Richard did in S1.