Day 25

How to avoid idol plays:

the strategy is to split votes. This is because an idol cancels out all votes cast for whoever plays the idol. Therefore, a situation - 

there are 12 people voting. 8 of them are in an alliance versus the 4 who are in the minority alliance. If the 8 people all cast their votes for one person Kelley, who is a member of the 4, and Kelley and her 3 allies vote for Joe then Kelley would be going home. However, if Kelley plays a hidden immunity idol than all the votes cast for her get canceled and those 4 members decide who goes home because the only 4 votes that haven't been canceled are the ones cast for Joe, so he would go home. However, if the 8 members placed 4 votes on Kelley, 4 votes on Ciera (another member of the minority alliance), and then the 4 vote for Joe still, we have a tie. Say Kelley plays her idol and cancels out the votes cast for her, then we still have a tie between Joe and Ciera. SO everyone who is not Joe or Ciera revotes and can only cast their vote between those two. That leaves the 3 members in the minority alliance voting for Joe and the 7 in the majority alliance voting for Ciera. Ciara would go home. This is how to strategically still get someone out from the minority alliance without risking a member of your own alliance going home due to an idol play.