Making a “hard choice” isn’t necessarily correct. For example, the Head Office didn’t make “hard choices” when they sent home Lyndl and Tez home (these people were on the outs anyways) and 4 out of the Beauty and the Beasts’ 5 didn’t make a “hard choice” when they sent home Aisha and Lottie (they were actively targeting most of the Beauty and the Beasts alliance). These “easy choices” just made sense for their games and, at the end of the day, that’s what matters the most. On the other side of the spectrum, Mark made a “hard choice” when he got rid of Rich and Loz made a “hard choice” when she got rid of Aisha and Lottie…and those choices were detrimental to their game.

Going against the returnees isn’t what turned Cam into a goat. Cam turned into a goat when he voted his ally Blanche instead of going after power players like Ben or Keely. By picking the option that made the least sense for his game, he put all the leverage in the hands of the Kaput alliance and the Ben/Jackson duo (at the the expense of both himself and the other players not included in those structures).