A Survivor/Big Brother Fan

In most cases, when a Big Brother player is on the block and about to be evicted, there are multiple days before the fateful night to campaign to stay.  In one of the many cases where someone is in the position to know they're in trouble from the time an HOH is crowned, there is a whole week.  There are still other times where someone knows they're in a tenuous position to be evicted a couple weeks in advance and can work to prevent that, but this post won't focus on them. In this period of time, there are multiple "levels" of campaigning that a person can partake in: Level 0: Lay Down and Die.  Somehow, a Level 0 campaigner finds things to do in a house with little sources of entertainment, and no contact with the outside world, for multiple days, without putting any significant effort in attempting to stay in the house.  Frankly, there really are very few excuses for a HouseGuest to play this role, except for in some rare circumstances (good luck to Jameka in

On the face of it, Erik's decision in Survivor: Micronesia to give up immunity to Natalie is something only an idiot would do- after all, not only did he give up immunity, but he gave up immunity while he was in the final five with a four-person alliance!  And he gave it to the fourth person in said alliance to boot. Thinking about things from Erik's perspective, though, I've wondered whether a decent amount of Survivor players would have fallen for similar tactics as those used on Erik by the Black Widow Brigade in the leadup to his fateful decision. I'll try to go over the beliefs and actions of Erik in his boot episode, and try to see how many players would have fallen into the same traps. The episode starts out with Erik talking to Natalie; they promise to send each other to exile if one of them wins the reward, so one of them can get the idol.  Which leads to the first belief: Erik believes that Natalie is on his side against the remaining Favorites. I thin