User blog comment:MightyUke416/Survivor: Djibouti - Ultra Mighty JTS/@comment-26910098-20180217211244/@comment-26485526-20180217215846

Adam was paranoid from the get-go, and was an erratic player to align with. This paranoia allowed him to be manipulated perfectly by Jaxon post-swap. Adam was concerned that Pearl was growing too close to Heidi and would turn on them. Errol & Adam also got along really well, to the point where Adam revealed to Errol that he had an idol.

Adam didn't realize however that he didn't tell Jaxon about the idol. When Adam told Jaxon he wanted Pearl out and had Errol, Adam asked how he could be so sure, and Adam said "Oh, I just revealed my idol."

From there, Jaxon planted seeds of distrust in Adam, making him think Errol would stick with Heidi (his original tribe mate) and not him. Errol did stick with Adam, but Jaxon flipped, ensuring that if Adam didn't play his idol, he'd be eliminated. Adam played his idol, and Pearl went home.

Jaxon was the person that kept Adam in line from that point forward. After Jaxon's blindside, Adam latched onto Ashleigh, who decided she just couldn't deal with him, and formed an alliance with outsiders, Imani and Jomel, just to get Adam out. This backfired, as the other castaways viewed Imani as the biggest threat, and sent her packing, not wanting to let her get back in the game.

From there, people viewed Adam as a goat due to his paranoia, which allowed him to slide into the FTC. Errol in particular ripped Adam apart because, was asked to explain his game, he mentioned saving himself with an idol after Errol "turned on him" (he didn't). Adam's paranoia, poor handle on the game, and sliding into FTC for being a goat got him no votes from the jury.

Jomel was the season underdog, plain and simple. There was not one point in the game where Jomel could actually say he was in the majority. He initially helped Clayton form a majority alliance with the older people of the tribe (Eve, Thurman, and Maaya), but Eve was put off by Clayton's attitude, and they gathered the rest of the tribe to split the votes between Clayton & Maaya, then Maaya and Jomel.

Come the swap, Jennifer & Jomel were alongside Thurman, Sergio, and Imani on Tadjoura. Initially, Thurman tried to keep his original tribe mates (Jennifer and Jomel) together, but their mutual distrust of each other made that impossible. Luckily for Jomel, he managed to convince his tribe that Jennifer was running things on the original Halhal, and that he had no allies left, allowing Jennifer to get the boot over him.

Come the merge, the original plan for most of the tribe was to vote out Eve, which Jomel was perfectly happy with considering that Eve turned her back on their original alliance. However, when Jaxon & Adam had the plan changed to vote Errol out after Raul refused to vote against Eve (and due to Errol's "betrayal"), Jomel was left out of the vote.

From there, Jomel joined forces with Imani. After Thurman's evacuation, Imani won immunity and played her idol on Jomel. Initially, they thought they could get Eve out. Although the majority alliance didn't trust each other 100%, and didn't officially split the vote since Imani won immunity, Eve and Raul put their votes on Jaxon (who they believed was pulling all the strings), just in case, which caused a 2-2 tie between Jaxon and Eve. At Tribal, Imani declared that her's and Jomel's votes were open. At Tribal, although Adam and Jaxon voted for Eve, Raul & Eve convinced Imani and Jomel that Jaxon was pulling all the strings, and Jaxon was blindsided.

After the vote, that fractured the majority alliance, and as I said above, Ashleigh couldn't stand Adam's paranoia and flipped. However, Ashleigh's plan backfired when the rest of the tribe viewed Imani as the biggest threat, putting Jomel in the minority again. Jomel was then spared at the next vote as Ashleigh was viewed as the bigger threat of the two. From there, Jomel convinced Adam that one of the two pairs (Sergio/Heidi; Eve/Raul) needed to be split up. Both Heidi and Raul played idols, nulling the vote. Since Sergio won immunity, Eve was then sent home 4-2 over Jomel. Jomel then won immunity, advancing himself to the final 4. However, he was unable to beat Heidi for final immunity, and his underdog story was impossible to overlook, causing him to be eliminated.