[Brekkie]

Doesn't help that this year for most of the final lines were closed.

Due to the delayed broadcast (why it takes 10 mins to edit out potential bad language I don't know, especially when the more sensitive/prudish US media manage with a 7-second delay!) the lines close around 10 mins before Darnell was evicted, then only reopened for a minute after Darnell's and Rex's eviction, which was hardly worth it, before being open for just over an hour to vote for the final two.

The voting was so close and the numbers so low it's not unreasonable to suggest that the final five might have exited in a different order if the show had been 100% live and the lines only closed for a couple of minutes at a time. Back in the early days they never actually closed the lines - just the line of the person in last place. They'd never get away with that now though considering for a couple of minutes at a time people could be voting for someone who was already out of the running.