I think the actual reason why it was so suspenseful is that for once you weren't sure if everyone was voting with their alliance. Most of the time it's like oh these two people said they were going to vote for Ozzy say, and then there's like 2 people who you're not sure about but then you see that third vote and so you can usually figure that there's a fourth vote and so on. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone else ... but yeah I think the editors just did a really good job of not letting us know how everyone was going to vote before tribal, for once.