The castaways had been expecting a tribe switch to occur at 12, instead of at 14, it left people scrambling and having to try to make new relationships VERY early in the game. It significantly changed the game.
Logan:
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And now it's time to change things up.
To start off, Jeff, Paul, you will begin by switching to the opposing tribe.
Rhys ( AndThenThereWasOne):
"Wow our tribe must have sucked that bad eh??"
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Jeff ( aimers):
"My heart stopped when logan announced we were switching tribes. I had Rio Celeste on lock and I wasn't going anywhere….And NOW, there's a twist, that could cost me? My heart was frozen, I swear."
Katherine ( JosephinaAlexis):
"Honestly, I really didn't want to go to Tribal Council at all until we have all merged, but because I was placed in a terrible tribe due to Tribe Swap i'm going to be visiting Tribal Council almost everyday."
Michael ( Bradyman7):
"I haven't talked to any1 on this new tribe besides zbase so hopefully josephina is gone."
JB ( _JB_):
"So, I'm glad with the split. the original rio is up 5-2 on the tenorios. the original plan was to keep the rios together and vote paul & brady out in no particular order.
tc comes. my closest ally zach wants to vote out paul. however, katherine wants to vote out brady. i personally dont care who goes, as long as it is a tenorio at this point."
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Eventually the tribe switch amounted to Michael ( Bradyman7), Paul ( Survivorgame1), and Snow ( Snowgirl57) to be voted out due to becoming minorities on their new tribes. Redd ( Vivor) was also voted out, but there were no longer any minorities on the tribe from the original tribes.