User blog comment:Raised By Wolves/Character Analysis – Courtney/@comment-22317052-20170104182110/@comment-31556666-20170104183147

She went over Harold for plot convenience sake. Basically at this point in the season her, Harold, or Trent would have to be eliminated. They needed to pick who would be the main couple of the season between Gwent and Duncney. But since Gwent started first and since Trent is popular on his team, they left it down to Courtney and Harold, while also saving Trent for 4 straight episodes by a non elimination after and a random return by Eva.

Between Courtney and Harold, both scenarios would prove difficult for the creators to pull off. Eliminating Harold seems obvious because he's the least close to his team, only friends with Bridgette at that point and he currently at that point doesn't have much storylines or importance. On the other hand eliminating him makes it difficult to eliminate Courtney the episode after because Courtney-Duncan-DJ-Geoff-Bridgette are a tight group so no matter who gets voted off after Harold on the Killer Bass it looks out of character.

Eliminating Courtney at this point seems like a good idea because it gives them ample room for more stuff with Gwent and Gidgette and it makes it very easy for them to eliminate Harold the episode after. On the other hand it's incredibly unrealistic her team would vote her off besides Harold. So they had to do this twist with the votes.

To answer your question though it's impossible to say what would've happened next had Harold been eliminated in Basic Straining