Premature E-Jed-ulation

One strategy that I've seen used on Survivor several times is losing challenges on purpose to get rid of somebody. There are situations where that could be a wise move, but Jed was offed the 3rd tribal council session by an overly cocky Sook-Jai tribe. Granted, we don't get to see everything that is going on as the viewing obvious, but it was clear that Jed Hildebrand was instrumental in winning the challenges that the Sook-Jai tribe had won prior to that. I do think not booting Jed so early, and especially not losing a challenge on purpose would have made a drastic difference in how the game played out.