Top Ten Power Shifts

When the game suddenly changes with the power going from one side to another side, that is a power shift. Do they happen a lot in Survivor? Maybe, if not as much as one would like. But there were plenty good ones that happened on the show and this is me mentioning the ten best ones.

#10 Sook Jai affected by fake merge- In Thailand, things would have probably been doomed for the Sook Jai tribe regardless of what happened next. But the fake merge is what made the tribe fail when it might have otherwise lasted.

#9 Mike surviving- In Worlds Apart, Mike wound up at the bottom of the merged tribe while the axis of evil tried to take control of the game. Only he ended up outlasting them all and winning the game. It was a power shift that he had to pull off by himself.

#8 Kass flipping- In Cagayan, the game was going to be set in stone for whoever wound up on top at the first tribal council of the merge. Kass was the reason that the power shift happened even as people thought that someone else would be in control of the game.

#7 Timbira losing the majority- In Tocantins, everything was going for this tribe until it imploded on itself as it spiraled out of control. The other tribe didn’t even have to do anything and it came out on top in a string of bad choices that caused practically every member of Timbira to turn on itself.

#6 Chris the underdog- In Vanuatu, poor Chris felt certain that he would be voted out of the game since the women had all the control and he didn’t have immunity. But he was able to start working with the women and he outlasted the other players by winning.

#5 The Aitutaki Four- In Cook Islands, things looked really bad for this tribe after a surprise mutiny left the over tribe with twice as many members as this tribe. But this tribe ended up going on a winning streak. They could have lost at the merge and they still had a minority against the other tribe, but a member flipped back to this tribe and they ultimately came out on top.

#4 The Outsiders- In Marquesas, what some call the first true power shift happened, although I’m not too sure that it was the first. There was one alliance in the game, but they made the fatal flaw of letting the others know that they thought they were in charge during a fateful challenge. Thus, the outsiders were formed and the other alliance fell to this one.

#3 Russell’s side winning- In Heroes versus Villains, the villains tribe suffered an internal fracture early into the game with Rob having his alliance and Russell having his. People who didn’t know spoilers might not know what was going to happen next. But Russell convinced Tyson to flip his vote and he did well the next time and got out Rob. It was a huge power shift.

#2 A fateful tie- In Australia, the Kucha tribe could have won if they hadn’t lost a member to fire. But they still might have done more in the game were it not for the tie breaker rules that existed at the time. A strategic vote by the other tribe had them get out the only known member of Kucha with votes against them and their fate as outcasts were sealed.

#1 Foa Foa soaring- In Samoa, it took a crazy vote at the merge to start the dominoes falling until Galu was gone from the game. Natalie helped organize the blindside of Erik and then things started getting more and more sour for Galu until they were all gone from the game.

Well, that’s all that I can think of for this blog post. I hope that I didn’t miss any good ones or mention any ones that weren’t good. But we all have different opinions and I hate just how much some people are convinced that a person is wrong whenever they disagree. That is my opinion on the matter as least. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.