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Kerri: Though a bit of an enigma in the beginning, Kerri quickly grew into a no-nonsense and highly aggressive player at the merge, her skills as a principal being highly questioned as she happily stabbed people in the backs and danced on their graves as they left the game.

From the beginning, Kerri established herself as a hard worker around camp and a loyal follower to the "older crowd" of players, namely Jasper and Patrick. She bonded with Eula and Clay early on as well, though she ended up turning on the former when Tara turned the two boys against her and she needed to save her own skin.

As we saw in that first episode, she had zero patience for neither Paul nor Brianna, and she made this very apparent to both of them with her behavior around camp. Banishing Paul to a new camp and leaving Brianna behind so as to pick her off at the next vote. And when Eula told Kerri that Brianna had mentioned voting her out at the previous beach party reward, Kerri went as far as to sit in the shelter and boss Brianna around, openly making scathing remarks about her laziness and that "she better lose the attitude unless she wants detention" and making other veiled threats. The two even got into a hilarious bitch fight over a missing bottle of wine that the girls had brought back from their reward earlier, with the argument ending with Kerri saying in a confessional that "the blue-haired bitch better drink the wine while she has it because it won't be for long".

Ultimately, despite her heated rivalry with Brianna during the premerge and bossy, blunt demeanor around camp, Kerri's strong bonds with Clay, Patrick, and Tara to an extent are what carried her through the rest of the premerge. At the merge, she officially joined Jasper's alliance and helped in sending home Liz from the game.

After Liz was taken out, Kerri convinced Clay to look for the idol with her as they both suspected that it had been rehidden after Jasper misplayed it the night before. They were right, and it was at this point that Kerri was able to get her hands on an idol, giving even more security in the game and the confidence to start making the game go HER way, and not anyone else's.

Forcing Jasper and Patrick's hands at the final 9, Kerri was able to convince Paul to vote for Brianna to save himself from getting voted out next, giving her the superior firepower to take out her more immediate threat and season-long rival. Everyone from the majority alliance and Paul knew about the plan except for Robbie, who the others had lost trust with for helping the outsiders in blindsiding Toshi.

After Brianna left, Kerri was approached by Robbie to make a big move by taking out Jasper before he could pull a move on her, citing both of them as the "titans" of the majority alliance who were "bound to clash sooner than later". He further convinces her by saying that he can get Tara on board with the plan if she can pull in Clay. Mulling it over with the farmhand, the two decide to ultimately pull the fast one on Jasper and Patrick and spare Robbie, Paul, and Faith so as to establish themselves as the new power players in town. Jasper was blindsided, and after the double Tribal Council twist was revealed, the pair along with Robbie were able to convince the rest of the tribe to turn on Paul for his status as a strategic threat on the outer of the tribe.

With an iron-clad grip on the game and an idol safely tucked away in her pocket, Kerri looked like a surefire pick to make it to the final 3. However, seeing her tight alliance with Clay and knowing now, thanks to Tara's loose lips, that Kerri has the immunity idol, both Robbie and Patrick saw the opportunity to pull Faith and Tara onto their side and pull off another showstopping blindside by getting Kerri out of the game. Luckily for both her and Clay, she won immunity and Tara was kind enough to blab the entire plan to them, reaffirming their alliance, or so they think, and targetting Faith for being the last of the former "Nerd Herd". However, as explained before, Tara still did not have any loyalty to either of them and Robbie ended up being the casualty at the vote for being a physical and mental threat while also being a safeguard against the idol.

Feeling lied to and betrayed on many different levels, Kerri goes off on Patrick and Tara when everyone gets back to camp, reminding them and the rest of the tribe that she still has an idol and that it was very dumb of them to betray her when she can still have the "last laugh". Calling them "brain-dead toddlers", Kerri goes further and boldly tells both of them to start packing their bags because one of the two of them will be going home.

Though it seemed like Kerri's idol had given her back her power in the game, seeing as Patrick and Tara both separately came to her trying to get her to take out the other, Kerri was confident that she had the numbers on her side, with Faith at her side to pray with and reassure her that she's decided not to associate with Patrick and Tara for their deceitful gameplay and that she will do whatever Kerri wants for the night. Kerri buys into Faith's claims of loyalty, but unfortunately for her, it's all lies. Going into Tribal confident that Patrick and Tara will vote for each other, Kerri doesn't play her idol even though it is the last night she can use it, and never sees the 4-1 bindside on her coming, leading to, in my opinion, the best blindside of the season and an epic fall of an epic villian.

Though many of the readers accurately called out her no-nonsense and "fun-sucking" attitude in the first episode, Kerri showed herself to be a dominant force in the game. She showed a motherly side when bonding with the younger ones like Eula and Clay, but had no problem stabbing people in the back to get where she wanted to get in the game, so much so that Patrick and Robbie both started calling her "Ex-Principal Kerri Lansing" behind her back due to her constant squabbles with Brianna and Paul and her outrageously villainous gameplay moments that were none too befitting for someone working with children xD