Two episodes this week, so two prediction to make. And because we’re not wimps, we’re doing them in order. Note: yes, some of the staff tried to weasel out of it.

Next Boot Predictions

Andy: First off, I want to warn against any instinct to believe that this will be a boring or predictable set of boots just because we are getting two on one day. This isn’t a double-boot episode. It is TWO full episodes, airing back-to-back. You might say “well Andy, that means they took their two most dull episodes to burn off on the same day”, to which I say “you are stupid”. Which is usually just something I imply.

They’re not airing these on the same night because the episodes are weak, necessarily. They are airing them because it is Thanksgiving. Thus, NO MATTER how the episodes turned out, these would be the ones to air back-to-back. Last year, we got Jeremy playing his idol to save Stephen and oust Ciera and Stephen’s advantage backfiring on him. Not exactly uneventful.

With that in mind, I say Adam is the first to go as no one wants him around to steal their stuff, plus, people are just down on the guy in general (a story we’ve been getting since the Figgy vote). With that, the Millennials will be sufficiently weakened, allowing the Gen Xers to start settling old scores. Sunday will jump at the chance to eliminate perceived rival Jessica, but David and Ken (mostly David) will outmaneuver her and use the Millennials to take out Chris instead. Zeke and Hannah will join with D/K/J, and Jay will join them to get rid of a much more interesting target than Jessica.

John: Jessica goes first, as Sunday is revealed to have been biding her time before throwing bodies into the wood chipper. And because Sunday is a cold-blooded killer, she also tells Jay that the plan is to split the vote on him and Will. Jay then plays his idol, which is crucial to Sunday being able to vote Jay out in the second episode. None of this will happen, I’m just really looking for an excuse to be able to talk about Sunday on the podcast and trot out my horrific Minnesota accent.

Matt: This week is a double episode because the tables turn and the Gen Xers eat their own. First to go is Sunday, whose insistence on getting Jessica out will boomerang on her like some sort of throwing stick. Other people in the alliance will push for Chris to go first, as he is a big threat, but Sunday’s obvious antagonism will win out for them. Having knocked off Sunday, the group will then turn their eyes to the big threat and will vote out Chris.

Mark: There’s no way that Adam survives Foodgate 2016 if his own allies (Zeke and Hannah) aren’t even with him. However, both he and Jay have idols, so this gets tricky. I can see Adam being overly confident now that he won and Jay’s secret is out. He doesn’t play his idol, Jay plays his, and Adam gets booted by a combo of Gen-X and Zeke because this is a game of trust. Speaking of trust, after that the majority of Gen-Xers start to crack, and it’s Chris/Bret/Sunday versus David/Ken/Jess. Of the remaining Millennials, I can see the latter group pulling more people in, so Sunday falls victim to her own uprising and goes home.

Emma: Sunday goes back to Jay to reaffirm her plan to get out Jessica and he realizes that assuming a) Will is still with him and b) Chris is on board, that there is a pivotal swing vote in their midst: Adam. So Jay sweet talks Adam who thinks working with Jay will finally be the thing to get Taylor to like him. Sunday, Bret, Chris, Jay, Will, and Adam vote together to oust Jessica. Unfortunately for Adam, in the next hour everyone collectively decides they no longer need Adam and certainly don’t trust him, so they punt the vote and boot him unanimously. Somehow he still doesn’t play the idol, and Adam goes to hang with his BFF Taylor in Ponderosa.

	Andy	John	Matt	Mark	Emma	Readers
First Boot	Jessica	CeCe	CeCe	Jessica	Rachel	Sunday
Second Boot	Figgy	Figgy	Figgy	Figgy	Figgy	Figgy
Third Boot	Lucy	Paul	Paul	Bret	Paul	Paul
Fourth Boot	Lucy	Lucy	Lucy	Lucy	CeCe	Lucy
Fifth Boot	Figgy	CeCe	CeCe	Jessica	Taylor	CeCe
Sixth Boot	Figgy	Taylor	Figgy	Jessica	Figgy	Taylor
Seventh Boot	Bret	Bret	Sunday	Bret	Bret	Bret
Eighth Boot	Chris	Taylor	Chris	Michelle	Jay	Taylor
Ninth Boot	Adam	Taylor	Taylor	Will	Taylor	Taylor
Tenth Out	Adam	Jessica	Sunday	Adam	Jessica
Eleventh Out	Chris	Jay	Chris	Sunday	Adam
Score
	Andy	John	Matt	Mark	Emma	Readers
Preseason Winner Pick	Taylor	Adam	Ken	Taylor	Zeke	Mari
Mid-season Winner Pick	Ken	Adam	David	David	Zeke	David

Make your picks below and don’t be afraid to give your explanation in the comments.