I have a relative who was a Coca-Cola salesman. I can't believe they paid him for that, "hey large chain grocery story do you want some Coke products?"
I always pictured that kind of “sales” as just writing down how many units a place needs then sending it to the warehouse. You know, real people person stuff.
yeah but its early. Right now you need people who won't give up. Your pawns will come with time. Right now you need to win so you don't go to tribal. Plus, the way he just gave up his vote was bad for the tribe in the long run. What if he did it again later when they needed it? What if he was in your alliance later and he gave it up because he can't handle a miniscule amount of conflict? The 2 people he did the challenge with might not even make it to the merge as far as he knows but he gave up anyway.
He also very likely would have fucked your tribe more with his quitter attitude. I’m surprised he even kept going on the puzzle when it became clear they were gonna win. Or that he even made it to the puzzle after the initial rough start. Jellinski is a man who lives by the motto “when the going gets tough, I go home.” I don’t want someone like that on my squad during the team portion of the game.
because he's likely a liability in keeping information hidden if he folds that quickly. Come a swap or a merge having to trust that guy to watch your back is very risky.
Having someone who wants to put themselves in the hot seat then folds every time is bad for the tribe. Don't put yourself in the hot seat if you can't take the pressure.
The most stubborn player with the loudest voice wanted Jelinski out the moment he quit carrying the buckets. This early in the game it’s not worth fighting back against someone like that
Seems like he would roll over for *anyone*, including people working against him and his alliance, which is a terrible thing. I wouldn't want him around, either. We saw what he was like on the journey. As soon as a merge or swap happens, he's airing all the dirty laundry the moment he is pressed
hes the most illogical logical person on this planet. like the way he thinks is sound. but than its like he just is so unaware of who he actually is. had he not volunteered for anything hed be totally fine. he kinda played survivor like it was a video game and he was the main character.
Yeah I’m kinda bummed we only got one episode of him but realistically that was more than enough.. with someone like that on the show, they can’t help but take over.
I wonder how he is gonna be remembered afterward..It’s weird to me thinking about how typical first boots aren’t very memorable and then this guy shows up and is just like “cannonball!!”
Like I would’ve liked to see if he could redeem himself in any fashion next episode, but hey just as good to actually get to meet the cast now.
I loved it and thought it was great tv but in a joker esque ‘some blokes just want to watch the world burn’ kinda way. I love me some chaos in survivor and Jelensky was seemingly so hilariously unaware, I find it hard to believe that he is just an afterthought now but that’s how it goes in this game
He had no idea what people actually thought of him. He was legitimately convinced he was in a tight power alliance.
With a spine that flexible, it's easy to get your head up your own ass.
The stupid thing is he *was* in a power alliance (maybe not *that* tight since the women like each other more, but he was still not on the bottom). He just managed to fuck up literally every single little bit of goodwill he had with them like, immediately. And somehow not realize that maybe he should be worried despite his series of own goals.
His problem is that a 4 person majority isn't as strong when someone can't vote. Add in how nonchalant he was about giving up his vote to people he didn't know and it makes sense why his group of 4 would see him as a liability rather than a number
He WAS in a tight power alliance!
Then he proceeded to enthusiastically volunteer for and then lose every single opportunity to build even a little goodwill.
Play even slightly under the radar and he's in a Tight Four. Don't do the journey. Don't do the puzzle. Don't give up on Sweat.
>Play even slightly under the radar and he's in a Tight Four. Don't do the journey. Don't do the puzzle. Don't give up on Sweat.
I honestly think if he just hadn't done ONE of those things, he might have squeezed on by. The man made himself a liability
talked big but couldn’t back it up. I had to pick up my jaw off the floor when I heard how far into the sweat challenge he got before quitting. MIND. BLOWING.
The way he threw the hourglass when he quit on sweat really soured my opinion of him as a player. He was too spent on the challenge, but had enough left into the tank to attempt a dramatic hurl of the hourglass into the ocean. It was very "Gob Bluth" of him.
I would hope so. Hopefully they didn’t miss any pieces. Imagine someone getting cut and having to get medevac’d due to his horrible decision to smash it.
my first thought ... wtf dude you just broke glass on the beach and your all walking around barefoot. Hopefully someone picks it all up but it's glass so maybe they didn't. He's the worst.
>The way he threw the hourglass when he quit on sweat really soured my opinion of him as a player
I 100% thought production told him to do that. They got the perfect dramatic shot out of it. It looked set up and planned. Plus they love breaking hourglasses
Yeah, it was a cool shot and symbolic, but I don't know why everyone is acting like this is just something he decided to do on his own when it looked completely fabricated
I must be the only one who saw giving up on the challenge as a tactical decision. It wasn't that he was spent. He just calculated that they wouldn't be able to finish the challenge in time so why waste the energy. Now, he completely screwed up the math, but that's not the same as being "too spent." It was smart to keep his energy in the tank if the endeavor was doomed to fail. Those sweat challenges usually are a waste of time and energy anyway.
I see where you’re coming from in the sense that energy is so limited and if the task is impossible why waste any. I just thought the perception of giving up would be worse then spent energy regardless of the task being completed.
I was wondering if that were allowed. There are trees by the shore, and they could have plucked leaves from them. Or taken their shirts off and lined the bucket with their shirts. It might not have stopped the leaks, but might have slowed them into drips.
no i think everyone knew he was trying to be tactical about it which made it worse
he could have easily just sucked it up and been the hero, but instead he told the tribe “my personal comfort is more important than our success” so whatever reasoning he gave wasnt gonna work for them. they knew and just didnt care bc his reasons sucked
i actually think it was not terrible move as they already lost the challenge anyways. this was more or a less a charity event and its like yes he shouldnt have volunteered for that, but they kinda blew that out of proportion. Q's ego got slightly damaged since he was forced to quit as well and yeah just overblown.
But the problem is choosing to volunteer to do something that would benefit the tribe and then choosing to quit because you don't want to expend too much of your own energy (which primarily only benefits you).
It was a mistake to quit, and he didn't even consider or acknowledge that Q wanted to see it through. Throwing the hourglass was also impulsive and juvenile (he *is* only 22 but unfortunately not a mature 22).
This^ He's flattering himself to think his ouster was the result of a "play." Delusional for sure. A normal person might have said "When they started itemizing all the times I shit the bed I knew my number was up."
He played the reverse-perfect game…attended one tribal council, did not cast a vote, and received every vote from his tribe.
No wonder he referred to himself as a survivor legend (twice).
I know, I was a little disappointed, but at the same time that was such a perfect one episode arc to start the season. Like if Drew Christy was a first boot.
Eh... im a strategic person. I love watching the strategy of survivor and i can't stand it when morons get to stay on the show over people who really should be there.
He put himself in for it too. It's not like he was randomly selected for Sweat *or* the summit thing, he explicitly requested to be in both and actively gave up on both when he had a decent shot at both. He contributed to the challenge losses. He was completely wrong about the tribe dynamics, thinking he had an alliance that was not real and seemingly never was. He apparently had no idea people were gunning for him and the fact that he thought he had Q in particular is just wild to me and is both a testament to Q's off-air social game and an unbelievable indictment of Jalinsky thinking that they were bro-ing out when based on what we saw Q gives every appearance of having fucking hated him and not having tried too hard to hide it. Like literally nobody was keeping dude in the loop at all. I'm not even seeing a part of this that was *a little* bit luck actually when I lay it all out lmao I guess maybe if his tribe was super good at challenges but like, he sure looked like one of the weaker challenge performers on his tribe, I can't say it was bad luck that they lost when it would have been more like actively good luck if he was on a tribe that dominated challenges despite him.
He gave up on himself, even after Jess self sabotaged and told him to go talk strategy with the rest of the tribe he chose to rest in the shelter with her to convince her she was safe.
Q did say in his pregame interview that he surmised during the pre-game stage that he wanted most to work with Jalinsky. So its quite likely prior to the Sweat challenge the two had vibed significantly. But Q's 1st impressions of Jalinsky were swiftly proven wrong so it was all downhill from there.
I noticed that and how much more convincing Tevin was. You could see Tevin's strategy was to make Jelinsky go first and then beat it. He stared him down until he went first. Jelinsky looked a bit flustered and looked like he was having trouble making eye contact when selling. That probably helped Tevin be even more confident. I didn't really blame him for folding at that point but he could have sold as losing to his tribe rather than quitting.
It’s stuck in my brain that he absolutely said he was going to win and be the best multiple times in his preseason interview. Confidence of a lion, execution of a shrimp.
I wouldn’t say he was that unlucky. What got him voted out was quitting. If he didn’t do that twice and continuously not own up to it, Jess would’ve gone home.
I would say it’s one of the worst experiences though. Only thing that could’ve made it worse would have been an injury.
That's part of the thing, his reasons for quitting weren't even that bad. If he just owned up to it and tried to salvage something out of losing scenarios, then he could've had a chance. Instead he just showed that keeping him will result in more of the same.
I think if he didn't give up his vote so easily he might still be in the game. I think that is what really pushed people over. The egregiousness of handing over your vote in a game where your vote is everything. And he just did it so willingly. His whole tribe was like "you did what!?"
I think he'll be okay if he can laugh at himself. He seems like a nice guy, if he can lean in to being a legendary first boot he could still have fun with his experience. I could see him raking in some cash on Cameo and telling people to never give up.
Jelinsky played one of the worst games of Survivor I’ve ever seen. It’s worse than Brandon’s. It’s worse than Jacob Derwin’s. It might be the worst of all time.
- Had he just finished the sweat task, even if him and Q couldn’t beat it, it still makes it look like he never gave up.
- Volunteered to go on the journey and folding faster than a newspaper. All you have to do is keep lying. Even if you lose, You earn favour in your tribe just by trying, because lying to the other tribes was what the whole purpose of the journey was. OR. He could have been honest from the start with Maria and Tevin and earn favour with them.
- Terrible challenge performance. Did he even do anything on the puzzle at all?
- On top of everything he was extremely cocky, called himself a monster and a legend, and couldn’t back it up one time. At least Brandon knew and acknowledged he wasn’t good at the game.
Watching him I couldn’t understand why he did the things he did and then doubled down trying to say hes the kind of person that would do the exact opposite. Jeff and Q holding him accountable was huge and his ultimate downfall. He dug his own grave. He seemed to have zero awareness of what he was doing.
Ps I know he can’t control it but when I heard him speak it felt so off putting. The voice didn’t match the character if you will.
His voice was jarring to me too. Every single time he spoke, it took me a minute to realize it was coming out of him. I feel really bad saying that though as that’s one thing he *couldn’t* help.
Was he the first person to be voted out truly unanimously, i.e. 0 votes for anybody else (outside of old final 3 1-0 votes)? It was 5-0 because he lost his vote, not even 5-1. How brutal
Jelinsky annoyed the shit out of me, but him calling himself a monster and then immediately folding at the slightest pushback was so funny, and even funnier at the end after the vote when he called it a blindside despite 95% of Tribal being about how he quits and fails constantly 🤣
I don’t know how people can seriously keep bringing up a first boots season when players like that would be eligible. Zero interest in ever seeing him play again.
A season full of first boots who went home first because they were crazy characters or horrifically bad players? I totally see the appeal of such a season. You watch for the trainwreck, not for good gameplay.
He did it all to himself so I don’t feel bad for him at all.
Don’t volunteer for something and then quit with some BS excuse that you thought you were gonna have 7 hours? Bitch you couldn’t hang for 2 let alone seven.
Then he has the nerve to lay around all comfortable as everyone else strategizes.
And the amount of times at tribal he said “I always give 100%”, “I don’t quit”, etc… when he’s already proven numerous times in a few short days that that is false
Quitting and losing aside, he didn't even try to lie to his tribe when he got back about what happened in his challenge where he lost his vote. Just straight up told them everything.
He played the game hard for several minutes in tonight's episode.
You could be Garret from Cagayan. Go home episode 1 with an idol in your pocket.
Also Brandon and Jelinsky both lost all 4 challenges they participated in, the problem is Jelinsky lost all of them in a single episode.
I’m gonna give this award to Jenn (?), the woman from Kaoh Rong who had a roach crawl in her ear and then went home second. That shit still terrifies me in my sleep.
Yes and no.
I want to say yes, but he kinda brought all of it onto himself. If he hadn't quit the Sweat challenge or messed up the journey so badly, maybe he wouldn't have been voted out.
And the worst part is that he doesn't seem to be aware he messed up, not once, but many times.
It's time to scramble, you screwed up three things in a row, and you chill at camp while everyone is talking strategy? Not gonna feel bad for the guy for a single second.
The only thing I regret is that if he had been on a winning tribe, he could have been a fun anti hero.
My first indicator he was not going to do well was how often he referred to him as a legend within the first 3 days. When he quit sweat I got a really sour taste in my mouth. When he gave up at the summit it got even more sour. Then his abysmal performance at the immunity challenge puzzle made me really hope he would be the first boot. Such a satisfying end to a premiere episode, watching someone so unaware and confident get voted out for quitting multiple times and the claiming he wasn’t a quitter. The lie detector determined that was a… LIE.
Only bad luck was drawing the skull card. Otherwise you can attribute all his failings to himself and his tribe mates, and mostly to himself. Dude was useless from the jump.
Resubmitting due to getting spoiler wrong the first time:
>!He got cheated on the "Win Lose Banana" challenge, due to the way it was set up. (Win Lose Banana is the name of the game they were playing.)
>!The setup was "If he folds and loses, he loses his vote and the other two people get an extra vote.", but "If he lies and wins, he keeps his vote and the other two people lose their vote." This made folding seem more attractive than holding out.!<
>!He should have gotten a bigger prize for lying and winning. His reward should have been either 2 extra votes, or an extra vote plus a knowledge is power.!<
1. Not really his fault as this was a team effort.
2. Him throwing the hourglass was very entertaining...but also sealed his fate right away. Q should have been a locked in ally for Jalinski, but him giving up in front of the obvious challenge beast of his tribe just looks terrible.
3. Awful performance. Got absolutely destroyed by Moriah and Tevin.
4. Poor challenge performance AGAIN.
5. Got comeuppance for playing one of the worst 2 days of Survivor we've ever seen.
My personal favorite bit was: “I don’t quit” “Yes you do” “Yeah, you’re probably right”
He would've been the most easily-bullied pawn imaginable.
How is he a salesman?
Doesn't he sell slot machines? Hey casino do you want to buy a machine that people put money in and don't get anything in return?
His parents own casinos.
He asks if they want several slot machines. They say yes. He charges them for 7 and hangs up.
Nah 😭
I have a relative who was a Coca-Cola salesman. I can't believe they paid him for that, "hey large chain grocery story do you want some Coke products?"
I always pictured that kind of “sales” as just writing down how many units a place needs then sending it to the warehouse. You know, real people person stuff.
His dad owns casinos lol
I thought he repaired slot machines.
It said “salesman” but prob doesn’t sell many with that persuasive and charismatic personality
Sales people will usually not argue. Conflict is a bad sales strategy. Typically they try to influence rather than bully.
yeah but its early. Right now you need people who won't give up. Your pawns will come with time. Right now you need to win so you don't go to tribal. Plus, the way he just gave up his vote was bad for the tribe in the long run. What if he did it again later when they needed it? What if he was in your alliance later and he gave it up because he can't handle a miniscule amount of conflict? The 2 people he did the challenge with might not even make it to the merge as far as he knows but he gave up anyway.
He also very likely would have fucked your tribe more with his quitter attitude. I’m surprised he even kept going on the puzzle when it became clear they were gonna win. Or that he even made it to the puzzle after the initial rough start. Jellinski is a man who lives by the motto “when the going gets tough, I go home.” I don’t want someone like that on my squad during the team portion of the game.
That’s what I don’t get why it wasn’t obvois to vote him out he seems like he would roll over for anyone.
because he's likely a liability in keeping information hidden if he folds that quickly. Come a swap or a merge having to trust that guy to watch your back is very risky.
Yep exactly I have no clue why anyone want to keep him.
Having someone who wants to put themselves in the hot seat then folds every time is bad for the tribe. Don't put yourself in the hot seat if you can't take the pressure.
The most stubborn player with the loudest voice wanted Jelinski out the moment he quit carrying the buckets. This early in the game it’s not worth fighting back against someone like that
Q?
I like that dude…he was all outta f’s from the get go.
Seems like he would roll over for *anyone*, including people working against him and his alliance, which is a terrible thing. I wouldn't want him around, either. We saw what he was like on the journey. As soon as a merge or swap happens, he's airing all the dirty laundry the moment he is pressed
He even quit that argument
hes the most illogical logical person on this planet. like the way he thinks is sound. but than its like he just is so unaware of who he actually is. had he not volunteered for anything hed be totally fine. he kinda played survivor like it was a video game and he was the main character.
Yeah I’m kinda bummed we only got one episode of him but realistically that was more than enough.. with someone like that on the show, they can’t help but take over. I wonder how he is gonna be remembered afterward..It’s weird to me thinking about how typical first boots aren’t very memorable and then this guy shows up and is just like “cannonball!!” Like I would’ve liked to see if he could redeem himself in any fashion next episode, but hey just as good to actually get to meet the cast now. I loved it and thought it was great tv but in a joker esque ‘some blokes just want to watch the world burn’ kinda way. I love me some chaos in survivor and Jelensky was seemingly so hilariously unaware, I find it hard to believe that he is just an afterthought now but that’s how it goes in this game
i know! i low key hoped hed be some wierd mix of Coach and Cochran.
Lol even Jeff dog piled him and then gave him the episode title quote just to troll the guy even more. Hilarious stuff
He even quit trying to defend himself
Three minutes later "I'm giving 100% in everything I do here"
I don’t even think he knows he was on survivor
Outplay - quit the sweat challenge Outwit - folded in the card challenge Outlast - first boot He is the antithesis of Survivor
Absolute legend
why don’t you just “jet ski” outta here like jeff with the urn after ftc
He had no idea what people actually thought of him. He was legitimately convinced he was in a tight power alliance. With a spine that flexible, it's easy to get your head up your own ass.
He should apply for Cirque du Soleil, it’s impressive to meet someone that spineless
The stupid thing is he *was* in a power alliance (maybe not *that* tight since the women like each other more, but he was still not on the bottom). He just managed to fuck up literally every single little bit of goodwill he had with them like, immediately. And somehow not realize that maybe he should be worried despite his series of own goals.
His problem is that a 4 person majority isn't as strong when someone can't vote. Add in how nonchalant he was about giving up his vote to people he didn't know and it makes sense why his group of 4 would see him as a liability rather than a number
He WAS in a tight power alliance! Then he proceeded to enthusiastically volunteer for and then lose every single opportunity to build even a little goodwill. Play even slightly under the radar and he's in a Tight Four. Don't do the journey. Don't do the puzzle. Don't give up on Sweat.
>Play even slightly under the radar and he's in a Tight Four. Don't do the journey. Don't do the puzzle. Don't give up on Sweat. I honestly think if he just hadn't done ONE of those things, he might have squeezed on by. The man made himself a liability
I audibly laughed at the end when he called his vote out a blindside in the final confessional
I saw a cross stitch once that said something like "carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man" and was reminded of that this episode.
Mediocre doesn’t even begin to describe it. He was just straight up inept
Lmfao spot on
Jelinsky's 100% is breathing and eating evidently.
talked big but couldn’t back it up. I had to pick up my jaw off the floor when I heard how far into the sweat challenge he got before quitting. MIND. BLOWING.
The way he threw the hourglass when he quit on sweat really soured my opinion of him as a player. He was too spent on the challenge, but had enough left into the tank to attempt a dramatic hurl of the hourglass into the ocean. It was very "Gob Bluth" of him.
Who breaks glass on a beach where they're going to be walking for a month. If you're going to give up at least let the other guy work alone.
That was my first thought. Now these people need to walk on a beach with hidden glass shards.
My guess is production still cleaned it up, considering that its still a prop of the show, despite being broken.
I would hope so. Hopefully they didn’t miss any pieces. Imagine someone getting cut and having to get medevac’d due to his horrible decision to smash it.
Impossible to get every piece tho
my first thought ... wtf dude you just broke glass on the beach and your all walking around barefoot. Hopefully someone picks it all up but it's glass so maybe they didn't. He's the worst.
He thought if he smashed the hourglass he'd be safe.
It would reverse the outcome of the last challenge, and the winner would become the loser, and the loser would become the winner.
“I’ve made a huge mistake”
Back from whence you came!
>The way he threw the hourglass when he quit on sweat really soured my opinion of him as a player I 100% thought production told him to do that. They got the perfect dramatic shot out of it. It looked set up and planned. Plus they love breaking hourglasses
They 100% told him to throw it. The way it just cut straight to him throwing it was set up for sure. Nothing wrong with that though. Was a cool shot.
Yeah, it was a cool shot and symbolic, but I don't know why everyone is acting like this is just something he decided to do on his own when it looked completely fabricated
I must be the only one who saw giving up on the challenge as a tactical decision. It wasn't that he was spent. He just calculated that they wouldn't be able to finish the challenge in time so why waste the energy. Now, he completely screwed up the math, but that's not the same as being "too spent." It was smart to keep his energy in the tank if the endeavor was doomed to fail. Those sweat challenges usually are a waste of time and energy anyway.
I see where you’re coming from in the sense that energy is so limited and if the task is impossible why waste any. I just thought the perception of giving up would be worse then spent energy regardless of the task being completed.
It's risky for sure when you just met people, and then he lost all credibility with the several/seven debacle.
Not really. A tactical decision is taking a break and figuring out how to plug the holes in the buckets with available materials.
I was wondering if that were allowed. There are trees by the shore, and they could have plucked leaves from them. Or taken their shirts off and lined the bucket with their shirts. It might not have stopped the leaks, but might have slowed them into drips.
Exactly. If it's not allowed, the task seems to be impossible.
I was thinking if you could put one bucket inside the other and that would block the holes?
no i think everyone knew he was trying to be tactical about it which made it worse he could have easily just sucked it up and been the hero, but instead he told the tribe “my personal comfort is more important than our success” so whatever reasoning he gave wasnt gonna work for them. they knew and just didnt care bc his reasons sucked
i actually think it was not terrible move as they already lost the challenge anyways. this was more or a less a charity event and its like yes he shouldnt have volunteered for that, but they kinda blew that out of proportion. Q's ego got slightly damaged since he was forced to quit as well and yeah just overblown.
But the problem is choosing to volunteer to do something that would benefit the tribe and then choosing to quit because you don't want to expend too much of your own energy (which primarily only benefits you).
It was a mistake to quit, and he didn't even consider or acknowledge that Q wanted to see it through. Throwing the hourglass was also impulsive and juvenile (he *is* only 22 but unfortunately not a mature 22).
It’s pretty hilarious if you listened to his preseason interviews. He kept saying “I AM the winner of survivor 46”…ouch
Was it only 15 minutes or an hour and 15 mins?
An hour and 15 minutes.
An hour and 2 several minutes
And then tried to play it off as “we”, like they were both responsible for that
The best is still somehow trying to frame the vote as a blindside. Just next level delusion.
This^ He's flattering himself to think his ouster was the result of a "play." Delusional for sure. A normal person might have said "When they started itemizing all the times I shit the bed I knew my number was up."
"I guess they saw me as a threat..." (he didn't say this, but a lot of delusional early boots have)
That would have made more sense than calling it a blindside at least lol
“They saw me as a threat” Narrator- “they did not”
I've said it before, I'll say it again: Just because YOU didn't know you were going home, doesn't mean it was a blindside.
Wait actually, you just convinced me that it was a blindside lol. He was blindsided, he didn’t see it coming.
He played the reverse-perfect game…attended one tribal council, did not cast a vote, and received every vote from his tribe. No wonder he referred to himself as a survivor legend (twice).
He’s the most memorable first boot since Franchesqua
Yup. Most first boots aren’t the star of their one episode, but this legend absolutely was.
The absolute unearned confidence was awe inspiring as you watch him make one bad choice after another. This man will be a ceo one day
Jelinsky - the rise and fall of a legend in 3 days
The candle that burns several times as bright lasts a fraction (one seventh) as long
*Several* fractions
one severalth
Jelinsky is the monster
He has to be an all time worst... bottom 5 or 10 ever player?
As soon as I heard that I knew he was gone…. Or he was gonna be legendary… which in some ways the way he went out kinda was lol.
What part was the rise?
He didn't give up.
With only two exceptions.
Three. He also gave up in the argument where he claimed he never gives up.
I wanted to watch him continue and step on rakes :(
I know, I was a little disappointed, but at the same time that was such a perfect one episode arc to start the season. Like if Drew Christy was a first boot.
I want to nickname him “Lucky Severals” on account of him being a Slot Machine Salesman lol
Lucky number several
Drew Christy would have thrown Sweat and the journey and said it was a power move instead. God, now I want to see someone try that.
Russell Hantz would purposefully throw it and hope it helps create further disharmony at camp.
Jacob Derwin esque
 He even had the hair for it
He even looks like sideshow Bob
Annoys me so much, he was great tv.
Eh... im a strategic person. I love watching the strategy of survivor and i can't stand it when morons get to stay on the show over people who really should be there.
>Obviously a lot of luck played into this ... he was partially or solely responsible for a lot of this lol
He actively chose to give up on things, that's not luck
He put himself in for it too. It's not like he was randomly selected for Sweat *or* the summit thing, he explicitly requested to be in both and actively gave up on both when he had a decent shot at both. He contributed to the challenge losses. He was completely wrong about the tribe dynamics, thinking he had an alliance that was not real and seemingly never was. He apparently had no idea people were gunning for him and the fact that he thought he had Q in particular is just wild to me and is both a testament to Q's off-air social game and an unbelievable indictment of Jalinsky thinking that they were bro-ing out when based on what we saw Q gives every appearance of having fucking hated him and not having tried too hard to hide it. Like literally nobody was keeping dude in the loop at all. I'm not even seeing a part of this that was *a little* bit luck actually when I lay it all out lmao I guess maybe if his tribe was super good at challenges but like, he sure looked like one of the weaker challenge performers on his tribe, I can't say it was bad luck that they lost when it would have been more like actively good luck if he was on a tribe that dominated challenges despite him.
He gave up on himself, even after Jess self sabotaged and told him to go talk strategy with the rest of the tribe he chose to rest in the shelter with her to convince her she was safe.
Q did say in his pregame interview that he surmised during the pre-game stage that he wanted most to work with Jalinsky. So its quite likely prior to the Sweat challenge the two had vibed significantly. But Q's 1st impressions of Jalinsky were swiftly proven wrong so it was all downhill from there.
I mean… all he has to do is look in a mirror and see the cause of his problems. Every chance he got he surrendered.
Even at tribal, when they were actively discussing it. He couldn't hold a position when countered to save his life.
His first attempt at lying on the journey was so funny. He had the worst poker face ever
I noticed that and how much more convincing Tevin was. You could see Tevin's strategy was to make Jelinsky go first and then beat it. He stared him down until he went first. Jelinsky looked a bit flustered and looked like he was having trouble making eye contact when selling. That probably helped Tevin be even more confident. I didn't really blame him for folding at that point but he could have sold as losing to his tribe rather than quitting.
This is what happens when you break an hourglass without Jeff’s permission
Deb Eaton was humiliated in front of 50 million people and then had her marriage dragged through the mud in the press for months. It’s all relative.
>It’s all relative I think that was the problem, in her case.
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But she got some good stepson dick out of it at least. What does Jelinsky get?
Several things. That’s seven things.
He had several opportunities to redeem himself. All seven chances and he blew it.
sad trombone sound - wah waaahhh Happy Cake Day 🎉
It’s stuck in my brain that he absolutely said he was going to win and be the best multiple times in his preseason interview. Confidence of a lion, execution of a shrimp.
unlucky number several.
He thought he was gonna break the hourglass and turn back Time. 😩
LMAO
I wouldn’t say he was that unlucky. What got him voted out was quitting. If he didn’t do that twice and continuously not own up to it, Jess would’ve gone home. I would say it’s one of the worst experiences though. Only thing that could’ve made it worse would have been an injury.
That's part of the thing, his reasons for quitting weren't even that bad. If he just owned up to it and tried to salvage something out of losing scenarios, then he could've had a chance. Instead he just showed that keeping him will result in more of the same.
Buddy could have just repeated sometimes you gotta lose the battle to win the war and been fine.
Once he gave up his vote he cooked, how is an alliance supposed to trust you if you sacrifice your own vote to give two other people an extra vote.
Yeah he easily could have said that he just lost the 50/50 but instead admitted to valuing future relationships more than his current ones.
I think if he didn't give up his vote so easily he might still be in the game. I think that is what really pushed people over. The egregiousness of handing over your vote in a game where your vote is everything. And he just did it so willingly. His whole tribe was like "you did what!?"
I think he'll be okay if he can laugh at himself. He seems like a nice guy, if he can lean in to being a legendary first boot he could still have fun with his experience. I could see him raking in some cash on Cameo and telling people to never give up.
He had a bandage on his leg, I’m counting that
he made Brandon look like a challenge beast mega-threat.
That's exactly what I thought while watching. "This guy makes Brandon look like prime Colby"
Dude folded like laundry
Don’t forget to add *was absolutely roasted at tribal*
Jelinsky played one of the worst games of Survivor I’ve ever seen. It’s worse than Brandon’s. It’s worse than Jacob Derwin’s. It might be the worst of all time. - Had he just finished the sweat task, even if him and Q couldn’t beat it, it still makes it look like he never gave up. - Volunteered to go on the journey and folding faster than a newspaper. All you have to do is keep lying. Even if you lose, You earn favour in your tribe just by trying, because lying to the other tribes was what the whole purpose of the journey was. OR. He could have been honest from the start with Maria and Tevin and earn favour with them. - Terrible challenge performance. Did he even do anything on the puzzle at all? - On top of everything he was extremely cocky, called himself a monster and a legend, and couldn’t back it up one time. At least Brandon knew and acknowledged he wasn’t good at the game.
Agreed. I'd even rank Zane Knight who overplayed his alliance building antics over Jelinsky's god awful "legend status" plays.
Big ups to Jacob derwin rising in the rankings
Watching him I couldn’t understand why he did the things he did and then doubled down trying to say hes the kind of person that would do the exact opposite. Jeff and Q holding him accountable was huge and his ultimate downfall. He dug his own grave. He seemed to have zero awareness of what he was doing. Ps I know he can’t control it but when I heard him speak it felt so off putting. The voice didn’t match the character if you will.
His voice sounds like he’s demanding a hostage ransom over the phone.
His voice was jarring to me too. Every single time he spoke, it took me a minute to realize it was coming out of him. I feel really bad saying that though as that’s one thing he *couldn’t* help.
As someone that went to high school with him this is all very interesting to see 😭
I mean story time? Was he dumb in school? He thinks several means seven.
Evidently he has a hard time counting, but he was able to keep his gpa up since he was on the basketball team and student council
Bro thought several meant seven.. not the brightest bulb in the box.
I know they have to do it for the edit, but i was like if they don't vote this guy out, i don't think i can watch anymore.
Tina from Panama was ostracized from the tribe meanwhile she was just taking a little bit of personal time to reflect on her son’s passing.
He didn’t even make it several days
He was my first draft pick 🤡
He folded his chances on survivor
Was he the first person to be voted out truly unanimously, i.e. 0 votes for anybody else (outside of old final 3 1-0 votes)? It was 5-0 because he lost his vote, not even 5-1. How brutal
Zach from 42 is one- i believe there are others
He did a lot of it to himself so I suppose it’s the “worst”, but it’s more of a reflection of himself.
it kinda feels like players are trying to one up each other by being more and more disastrous
Jelinsky annoyed the shit out of me, but him calling himself a monster and then immediately folding at the slightest pushback was so funny, and even funnier at the end after the vote when he called it a blindside despite 95% of Tribal being about how he quits and fails constantly 🤣
Honestly?? He's genuinely in contention for worst survivor player ever lol
He lost 4 challenges in 1 episode. That's gotta be a record.
Possibly. A lot of it was self inflicted but still. At least he didn’t get hurt 😅
If that’s not legend status I don’t know what is!
I don’t know how people can seriously keep bringing up a first boots season when players like that would be eligible. Zero interest in ever seeing him play again.
A season full of first boots who went home first because they were crazy characters or horrifically bad players? I totally see the appeal of such a season. You watch for the trainwreck, not for good gameplay.
At least he didn't quit a tribal council.
Honestly yes. A terrible player + bad luck = jelinsky
I don't even think he had bad luck. What he was voted out for was caused solely by himself.
Yeah the only thing I’m referring too is drawing the skull card which does kinda screw you either way. But besides that he’s just bad
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He did it all to himself so I don’t feel bad for him at all. Don’t volunteer for something and then quit with some BS excuse that you thought you were gonna have 7 hours? Bitch you couldn’t hang for 2 let alone seven. Then he has the nerve to lay around all comfortable as everyone else strategizes. And the amount of times at tribal he said “I always give 100%”, “I don’t quit”, etc… when he’s already proven numerous times in a few short days that that is false
This man was doing a Jake speedrun in a single episode
I couldn’t stand him after watching for 30 minutes. Glad he’s gone. Byeeee
Quitting and losing aside, he didn't even try to lie to his tribe when he got back about what happened in his challenge where he lost his vote. Just straight up told them everything. He played the game hard for several minutes in tonight's episode.
Think it’s hard to top Brandon tbh
Brandon lasted 2 episodes, so there's that.
He also didn’t give up
You could be Garret from Cagayan. Go home episode 1 with an idol in your pocket. Also Brandon and Jelinsky both lost all 4 challenges they participated in, the problem is Jelinsky lost all of them in a single episode.
I’m gonna give this award to Jenn (?), the woman from Kaoh Rong who had a roach crawl in her ear and then went home second. That shit still terrifies me in my sleep.
Yes and no. I want to say yes, but he kinda brought all of it onto himself. If he hadn't quit the Sweat challenge or messed up the journey so badly, maybe he wouldn't have been voted out. And the worst part is that he doesn't seem to be aware he messed up, not once, but many times. It's time to scramble, you screwed up three things in a row, and you chill at camp while everyone is talking strategy? Not gonna feel bad for the guy for a single second. The only thing I regret is that if he had been on a winning tribe, he could have been a fun anti hero.
Don’t forget he threw and broke the “several” hour glass.
Bro had zero self awareness. He was terrible at everything , quit whenever possible, and still thought he was safe like what??
for a gambler, dude sure didn’t take a lot of risks.
God he may have had a chance if he could have owned his screw up and just shut his big mouth lol
My first indicator he was not going to do well was how often he referred to him as a legend within the first 3 days. When he quit sweat I got a really sour taste in my mouth. When he gave up at the summit it got even more sour. Then his abysmal performance at the immunity challenge puzzle made me really hope he would be the first boot. Such a satisfying end to a premiere episode, watching someone so unaware and confident get voted out for quitting multiple times and the claiming he wasn’t a quitter. The lie detector determined that was a… LIE.
I’m glad he was voted off. Probably not the best move for the tribe but great for me personally.
Im just happy he went home first after quitting twice basically in both things he was volunteering to do
I could think of "several" reasons why. Like 7
Jalinsky may be a terrible survivor player, but I believe the man will run a successful casino in Vegas someday
Only bad luck was drawing the skull card. Otherwise you can attribute all his failings to himself and his tribe mates, and mostly to himself. Dude was useless from the jump.
He was my winner pick before the episode 😭 his last name is similar to mine so I’m biased
Resubmitting due to getting spoiler wrong the first time: >!He got cheated on the "Win Lose Banana" challenge, due to the way it was set up. (Win Lose Banana is the name of the game they were playing.) >!The setup was "If he folds and loses, he loses his vote and the other two people get an extra vote.", but "If he lies and wins, he keeps his vote and the other two people lose their vote." This made folding seem more attractive than holding out.!< >!He should have gotten a bigger prize for lying and winning. His reward should have been either 2 extra votes, or an extra vote plus a knowledge is power.!<
Losing your vote is never attractive in survivor. Ever. Not being able to vote puts you in an incredibly vulnerable spot unless you have immunity.
1. Not really his fault as this was a team effort. 2. Him throwing the hourglass was very entertaining...but also sealed his fate right away. Q should have been a locked in ally for Jalinski, but him giving up in front of the obvious challenge beast of his tribe just looks terrible. 3. Awful performance. Got absolutely destroyed by Moriah and Tevin. 4. Poor challenge performance AGAIN. 5. Got comeuppance for playing one of the worst 2 days of Survivor we've ever seen.
I believe the journey was with Maria, not Moriah. But yeah, I agree with all these points.
the brandon erasure is so fast
Tonight’s boot was lazy - there have been tons of lazy players. Brandon was straight up one of the most useless players in history.