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Predictable vote-out was predictable. Though there's something to be said of the players taking the really easy vote and not overplay their hand this early in the game (which cost Maddy the game in the first week).

The 3-tribe set-up really does seem to make it a bloodbath for women getting voted out early, doesn't it? I saw elsewhere on the internet, someone ran the numbers and it's been something like 65-70% woman voted out pre-merge in this format. And it makes sense. 6 player teams are too small for anyone to hide, and the show seems like having really intense physical components to the early immunity challenges (even if it always comes down to the puzzle). Although it balances out post-merge when the focus shifts to getting rid of the threats.