Before the women ever started picking the men off, the men did the damage themselves — and Leif Manson was right in the middle of it. The easygoing tattoo artist let Colton Cumbie talk him into turning on his own Manono guys, the kind of flip that splinters a tribe you're going to need once the merge hits. Colton took the credit, then got yanked from the game with appendicitis — idol and all — and left Leif stuck on the wrong side of a men's tribe that Kim Spradlin's all-women alliance was about to Pagong six straight.
Once Tikiano merged, Leif read the room and floated jumping into a move against the women — the one play that might've slowed Kim's steamroll. The women clocked it and cut him for it, voting him out ninth, 4-3-2 to the jury, with Kim's alliance never breaking lockstep. He's the fourth juror: a likable guy who finally reached for the move that could've saved him and got punished for even reaching.
