User blog:MATT DB/Survivor: Gilbert islands original boot order

Now that Gilbert Islands has finished, I feel tempted to post what the original boot order was for the season when I posted it on the Wiki. Be warned: it's terrible!

Changes from First Draft to the Final Draft

 * Everything stayed the same up until the final eight, including who received votes. The only notable difference is that, at the final ten, Troy had no idea that Adam was going home and was not involved in the plan to take him out of the game. He still flipped to the Makin alliance at the final nine because he was turned on by Dottie and Kent (and because Rebecca told him to because she was with the secret alliance).
 * At the final eight, Troy was brought into the fold of the secret alliance and even though Kent turned on him, he wanted to keep him in the game. He targeted Luis to go home as the leader of the Makin alliance, and he and Rebecca hoped Alexa and Jerome would vote with them. However, Alexa and Jerome got cold feet and Kent was eliminated 5-3. The next round, Alexa and Jerome did flip, and Luis was eliminated 4-3 over Rebecca.
 * At the final six, Jerome began to see Troy as a social threat (keep in mind that Troy didn't backstab allies in this version of the season, and was legitimately liked by the other castaways) and wanted him to go, especially since he saw both Chad and Erica as goats. Chad and Erica, meanwhile, targeted Alexa as the biggest threat in the majority alliance (Jerome had immunity). Alexa wouldn't settle for this, however, and orchestrated a 3-2-1 against Erica, who was seen as the biggest goat in the season (in this version of the season, Erica never fully developed into the strategist we saw in the final version). Basically, Erica became Courtney Marit.
 * At this point, Chad had immunity, so Alexa/Jerome and Rebecca/Troy, the two pairs, turned on each other with Chad as the swing. He sided with Rebecca and Troy, and Jerome was voted out 3-2 over Rebecca. Chad was close with Alexa, though, and didn't see her as quite as big of a threat as Rebecca and wanted both people in the final three to take him to the end if he couldn't win final immunity, so Chad tied the vote between Alexa and Rebecca. In the end, it was Rebecca that lost the fire-making challenge and she was sent home. Troy actually won immunity in the final four round instead of Chad, but he was seen as a goat, so nobody bothered to get rid of him.
 * At the final three, Chad won the final immunity and thought Alexa had played the more dynamic strategic game, especially with her 3-2-1 blindside of Erica at the final six. He voted Alexa out of the game and took Troy to the final two. Since Chad only got to the end with immunity wins and didn't really do anything noteworthy, he only got jury votes from Erica and Luis (in this version of the season, although Chad was still effectively useless, he wasn't actively paranoid/antagonistic towards those two). Troy got the jury votes from Alexa, Jerome, Rebecca, Dottie, and Kent for playing the better social game and for getting rid of threats in his alliance at the right time.