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Hello, good people! After the worst Power Rankings of my career, I humbly come back to you in hopes that I can make up for a horrible week. How horrible was it? Well, the person I deemed most likely to go home won immunity and called me out on Twitter for abandoning my home town girl. To make it even better, my #1 for the week (and most of the season) was sent to Ponderosa in one of the bigger stunners in recent seasons. So, yeah...I didn't have a good week. Let's see if I can get myself back on track in Week 9. To start that climb, I have to go with:

1) Spencer - Why Spencer, you ask? Well, because Spencer is still a force in challenges. Spencer now finds himself (albeit loosely) with the numbers. And oh yeah, he's still sitting with an immunity idol that no one else knows about. Further, everyone seems to like him. That's going to be huge coming to the end game. Right now, even people that Spencer is voting off can't hold it against him. He's been playing from behind the whole game and any vote can be viewed as not personal. Not everyone out there can say that.

2) Woo - I'm keeping the stealth ninja near the top because he made the right move last week. Tony will take the fall for the LJ boot, but Woo was wise to jump on board. He followed the crowd and now will find himself as an option for the side with the numbers, while having no real blood on his hand. LJ's people will without a doubt be targeting Tony and Woo gets away scot-free. I'm not sure he's done enough to win the game, but with the right final three, he could easily "Fabio" himself to victory.

3) Tasha - One week after I basically sent her home, fortunes have changed for Miss Tasha. One immunity win and one major blindside later and she's sitting in a pretty nice position in the tribe. She falls below Spencer because she doesn't have an idol. She also falls below Spencer because for some reason or another, when people want to talk strategy with her alliance, they go straight to Spence and not Tasha. Do I think the two of them are playing this game together? Without a doubt. But from what we're seeing, Spence seems to be getting all the respect and credit for what they're doing. And as we've seen many times before, in Survivor, perception can sometimes be reality.

4) Tony - Okay, I know I'm going to catch some crap for this from #teamtv, but I have to leave Tony in the same spot as last week. My reasoning is simple, he just pissed off three people that are either on the jury, or headed to the jury in LJ, Trish and Jefra. His moves have all worked out for him and he's made for great TV, but at this point, he's pretty well painted himself into a corner and I'm not sure how he gets anyone to vote for him. We're getting down to the nitty gritty here and there will be a lot of people with knives in their back with #teamtv engraved on the handle. Also, you have to expect that Trish and Jefra will be gunning for him this week. If they get any love from Spencer/Tasha/Jeremiah at all, Tony could go from hero to zero this week. I do, however, think he's savvy enough to avoid that fate. I would, if I were him, start doing whatever I could to actually put a trick into that bag of tricks though.

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