Survivor · Season 51 · Episode 3

An accidental
Power move?

Carter missed his boat and joined Toka. Thien An argued for Patt; Brady dismissed the warning. Patt went home, 6–5. Here’s how those moments fit together.

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Explore the debate

One ballot apart

Patt CannadayPatt6
/
Kilby MaloneKilby5

Patt went home. Earlier, Rob chose to leave Savu.

See how it happened →

Fans ask. The game answers.

What holds up?

Four questions from the fan discussion.
The comments, the evidence, and our answer.

What changed someone’s response?

Five worked. Two didn’t. One is still unclear.

Eight uses or attempts supported by the research.
A group exchange counts once.

8recorded uses
or attempts
Worked 5Failed 2Unresolved 1

Patt changed Brady’s view of Kilby and still went home. A use counts as “worked” when it gets a supported response—the next decision can still go another way. Failed attempts add nothing to that count.

The people behind the vote

What happened to your player?

Pick Toka or Savu, then a player.
Carter is on Toka; earlier exits stay with their last tribe.

Look at the conversations

Who persuaded whom?

Download the eight findings ↓
Who has an advantage?
What Patt and Rob said afterward

Read the numbers

What the charts can tell you.

Each count is a particular response

The player bars count uses that worked. The line below follows that count from E1 to E3. A persuasive conversation earns a count for its response; it doesn’t earn a strength rating or predict the next vote.

A dash means we have no individual finding for that episode, or the player had already left. Zero means we assessed a use but none worked. Shared findings appear on both players’ cards and count once in the episode total.

Fans choose the questions; evidence checks the answers

The four headings adapt selected fan comments and a post title. Those examples show what their authors found interesting; they aren’t a poll of all viewers. Named-author recaps helped model the explanations. The game findings still come from the existing research, which closed October 8.

E1 and E2 counts keep their original analysis. E1 details identify later participant accounts where those were already included. The separate later update to E2 stays outside this chart. Comments and writing models were reviewed October 12.

Sources, writing models, and research files