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Are you purposefully trying to be stupid, Swine?

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Yes, because being stupid doesn't come naturally to me, as it evidently does to you.

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Making the tribes even, after one tribe had gained a hard-earned two player advantage, was enormously unfair to the dominating tribe. The only reason to do this was to possibly save some players on the lesser tribe. That's it.

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I stand by what I said before and argue that randomly rearranging the players would not protect anybody, nor necessarily help either tribe. Any one of the final 10 could have been put in danger as a result. If EPMB wanted to have more influence over the direction of the game, he would have done so in a way that enabled him to control the outcome. This was a twist over which he had no control, which could have changed the game in any number of unintended ways.

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Every other tribal member switch in Survivor history had an equal number of members switching, with the dominating tribe maintaining its numerical player advantage.

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So what? Who says the switch on ASS had to be exactly like every previous switch? You undermine your own argument by claiming that EPMB had always adhered to some standard of fairness when planning switches on earlier seasons. If he's as corrupt as you seem to think, why wouldn't he have tried to save other doomed tribes on other seasons? Why would he have tried to make it fair on every non-ASS season if he sees nothing wrong with rigging his own show?

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I think the Chaperas would rather continue their current dominance over the Mogo Morons, rather than draw buffs for a chancy 5-5 split.

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It was just as chancy, if not more so, for Mogo Mogo. Regardless of whether Chapera had been the stronger tribe to that point, they had no apparent advantage in the Survivor trivia game planned for the F10 IC. That challenge would have been very easy to rig in Mogo Mogo's favor, were that EPMB's intention.

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And you don't think MB favoured Lex and Kathy?

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No. I don't think he favored anybody on Mogo Mogo. The only two players I could see EPMB trying to protect and shepherd through the game are Rudy and Rupert. They were his favorites, and he put both of them on Saboga, the hopeless basketcase tribe that couldn't build a shelter or a raft, or win challenges.

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The thinking was that MM would blow away the other two tribes, with L/K leading a majority alliance to the merge, then to the F4, and finally L or K winning. That is precisely what MB was hoping to happen.

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Look, I'm not saying Burnett is a saint, but this is ridiculous. I do not believe for a second that he had the game planned out ahead of time or decided beforehand who would win. If he had that capability, most seasons would have had a different winner. One of the more consistent elements in the Mark Burnett formula (at least when he picks the tribes instead of the players), is that he does not want any one tribe to be dominant. He wants the challenges to be as competitive and unpredictable as possible. It's boring when one tribe wins everything, and anything that's boring is bad for business. And Mark Burnett is, first and foremost, a businessman. As long as people watch the show, I don't think he could care less how it turns out.

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They also thought that any MM TC trips would result in JennaM and Shii Ann being the first to go.

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Do you know this for a fact, or is this just something you pulled out of your ass? You make these assertions as though they are self-evident, but I have no idea how you've conjured all these supposed examples of behind-the-scenes manipulation. EPMB may be shrewd (although his casting decisions for ASS make that seem questionable), but he is not nearly as omniscient as you seem to think.

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Since they were 99.9% likely to lose another IC unless something was changed, MB decided to switch up from 6-4 to 5-5.

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Nonsense. The IC they had planned was a trivia challenge, which any tribe could win, no matter how weak or outnumbered. If they wanted Mogo Mogo to win, all they had to do was come up with some obscure questions about Thailand that only Shii Ann would know.

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Let's look closer at this "Chapera gets majority on both tribes" scenario. After the switch, we have RobM, Rupert, Alicia, Shii Ann and Jerri, versus Amber, Jenna, Tom, Kathy, Lex. Wow, isn't that great, Chaperas dominate both new tribes. But do they? There's no chance that Tom would swing over to his buddy Lex, is there? And lone wolf Alicia wouldn't switch over to rid of strong Rupert or RobM, would she? Nah, it wouldn't happen. Snort.

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I'm not a statistician, but would assume that hundreds or even thousands of different combinations could have resulted from ten people randomly picking buffs out of a jar. EPMB had no way to anticipate how it would turn out, or how it would affect the game. Imagine if Rupert had been left on Chapera instead of Amber. Then Rupert would have been voted out, which is the last thing Burnett would have wanted. Considering that Rupert was awarded a million dollars (in order to make the audience happy after putting up with the most disappointing winner ever), I don't buy that EPMB would ever try to punish the tribe Rupert was on.

^ Were that the case, then the buffs would have been chosen in that order, but they weren't. There was clearly no attempt to influence the outcome, since Probst told them to "line up in any order." The conspiracy theorists don't have a leg to stand on.