That was the question on the mind of Survivor 48's most recent casualty, Justin Pioppi, the other three members of his tribe, and the millions of people that just finished watching Episode 3. Over the latter third of the episode, a lost vote from a journey and the third successful Shot in the Dark play in the show's history kicked off a calamitous and historical series of events. Votes were lost and regained. Three trips to the urn resulted in a deadlock. And Cedrek McFadden ended the night somehow voting for every other person in his tribe.
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Mary's successful Shot nullified all the votes against her from the rest of the tribe, completely wiping the slate clean. This is the second time since the Shot's introduction that it has saved a player from getting voted out (and third time the "Safe" scroll was pulled overall). With all of the votes cleared out, the other three tribe members–Justin, Cedrek, and Sai Hughley–went up to revote.
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What makes this situation different, however, is the vote that Justin lost. Even if him and Sai had the chance to vote, he would not be able to vote for her. Therefore, the votes would theoretically not cancel each other out. Since the balance is thrown off, Sai is able to vote in the revote, as that could affect the numbers. The precedence for this was actually set last season when a tied vote occurred between Sierra Wright and Sam Phalen, the latter of whom had lost his vote in the auction.
“Once we are deadlocked, then this is where the rules change the game,” he explains on the podcast. "The voting is over. There is no more voting. So Sai, even though she had a vote tonight, she didn't get to vote. This is now a decision that will be made between the remaining members of the tribe. So you have Justin and Sai, they're sitting over there both tied with a vote. And the question is: What will the rest of the tribe decide? Who are they going to send home? Because they got to send somebody home, because if they don't send somebody home, then Justin and Sai are safe and everybody has to draw rocks and somebody goes home."
Ordinarily, the discussion would be among the people who could cast a vote to break the deadlock. Indeed, we have seen this moment happen a handful of times before. All three times the infamous "Purple (or Black or White) Rock" twist was implemented in Seasons 4, 27, and 33, the voters had time to talk amongst themselves, only to ultimately not come to a consensus. A consensus was reached during climactic moments in Survivor: Cambodia and Survivor 42, as at least one person flipped their vote verbally to avoid drawing rocks.
“What made tonight historic is the rest of the tribe was composed of two people, Cedrek and Mary,” Probst says. “But, as discussed, Mary doesn't have any say in this because she sacrificed her vote. So the rest of the tribe is Cedrek. So Cedrek now has this big decision because he's the only voice.
Indeed, after a lot of back-and-forth–and a promise from Sai to try to squash her beef with Mary–Cedrek chose to flip his vote and take out his closest ally in Justin. Justin's torch snuffing concluded one of the wildest Tribal Councils in Survivor history, involving a life-saving Shot in the Dark, a deadlock vote, and the possibility of a one-man rock draw.
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