Survivor: Cook Islands – Why Cao Boi Lost

The fifth rule has two parts – pretending to be nice and keeping controversial thoughts to yourself. Cao Boi certainly did well in the first part, as he seems to be a genuinely nice guy. But the second part, not so much. Cao Boi said what he thought. If that meant he wanted to take the immunity idol to what was said to be a reward challenge, then that’s what he said. If somebody disagreed with him, he argued. Cao Boi definitely had his own way of thinking about things, and sometimes he needed to mentally push down what he was really thinking and allow things to progress more smoothly.

Sixth is to not be too much of a threat. Cao Boi failed in this regard for a couple reasons. First, while he might not have been seen as a physical threat, he certainly showed his prowess in a couple areas. One of those areas is fire-starting, which just happens to be the tie-breaker in Tribal Council votes. While I doubt anybody said, “let’s get rid of the best fire-starter,” it might have played a bit in the back of their minds.

A more serious way in which Cao Boi was a threat was simply in his attempt to find the immunity idol and target people who were part of the tribe’s main alliance. As already mentioned, he told Yul he was targeting two of Yul’s main allies. And he had previously attempted to vote out Becky, Yul’s tightest ally. It’s not clear if Yul engineered Cao Boi’s downfall, but I’m sure he played a role in it. Allowing Cao Boi to stick around was simply too dangerous for the main alliance.

Cao Boi did well with the seventh rule, as he did his part to provide food and work around camp. But unlike some other people this season, laziness had nothing to do with the reason for Cao Boi being voted off.

Now we turn our attention to whether the rest of the tribe was correct in voting off Cao Boi. It should be obvious that those in the main alliance certainly were – and that doesn’t really leave many others left. Those remaining, such as Ozzy, are in the minority and could not really have bucked the majority alliance anyway. And then there’s Jessica, who got left out in the cold.

Cao Boi is the type of person who would be good to have in a real survival situation – well, as long as you can put up with his stories. He can build a fire. He enjoys adventure. But in the game of Survivor, these things are not nearly as important. Cao Boi did try to scheme, but his lack of knowledge of the game aspects hurt him. He was too open with his plan, sharing it with almost the entire tribe, including somebody who had every reason to want the plan dead. And he was something of a loose cannon in the eyes of others. Cao Boi was a lot of fun to watch and a good guy to be around in real life, but he didn’t fit in with his tribe and the scheming he attempted ensured the majority would turn against him. That is why Cao Boi lost.

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