First, some housekeeping items. Last week we DROPPED OUR BUFFS! Which means there was a redraft! Here are the new teams:
- Roberta: MacGyver
- Jen: WTF JEN??!?!? TEXT ME BACK!
- Kristyn: Charlie
- Scott: Venus
- Brian: Tiffany
- Jay: Tevin
- Marissa: Tim
- Dalphyne: Ben
- Carol: Maria
- Ricky: Liz
During the draft, (5 points
each to Brian, Jay, Dalphyne and Carol for keeping the same player through a
merge!). Housekeeping
completed. Lets have a look at what
happened last week!
We pick back up at Merge camp
following Moriah’s untimely departure, and Venus is none too happy to have
received a vote. With no proof, she immediately
accuses Soda of voting for her and Tevin’s judgmental tut-tut-tutting of Venus’
outlash is so palpable he could be Meryl Streep from the Devil Wears Prada.
For a reason known only to God and telepaths, Charlie cuts the act short and admits he voted for Venus. This doesn’t directly break any of the codified Rules, but it’s such bad game play that I’m adding an old adage as a new rule. Rule #6: When your enemy is making a mistake, let them. To his benefit, Q calls Charlie out for coming clean. Charlie sees this as Q running the show meaning…he has to go. That’s all it takes to get whacked.
At the individual immunity and
reward challenge, the remaining players are split into groups of 6.
- Purple: Soda, Liz, Maria, Charlie, Tevin, Venus
- Yellow: Tiffany, Kenzie, MacGyver, Q, Tim, Ben
In this comp, they have to balance
while standing on a platform in the water.
The last person from each group wins immunity with the final person winning
coffee and sandwiches as a reward for their group. Also, there will be two tribal councils
tonight! Double the fun!
Last time they did this challenge
it was a choppy day on the water and the whole thing lasted three minutes. This
time, it’s calm seas and they get so bored that Q starts playing the alphabet
game but no one else knows how to play.
He spends time teaching them but not a single one of them gets it,
leading Jeff (and me) to laugh out loud.
He should have saved his energy though, as at the 25 minute mark, he’s
the first one to drop. Soda quickly follows, with Ben right behind her. They make it to 30m, and have to complete
the rest of the challenge on one foot which spells doom for Charlie and
Tim. Venus, Liz and MacGyver follow
meaning (8 points for “Win individual immunity” to Kenzie’s owner: NO ONE ). It’s down to Kenzie, Tevin and Maria for
reward. Tevin drops meaning (8 points
for “Win individual immunity” to Carol!) but she can’t outlast Kenzie who wins
reward for Yellow (3 points each for “Win Tribal Reward” to Brian, Roberta,
Marissa and Dalphyne!).
For this afternoon, Yellow goes
back to Siga’s old camp where MacGyver tells us he will play his idol. Q tells
us he threw the challenge just to test if his alliance is true and strong. Is he insane? Throwing immunity? I wasn’t aware they allowed mind-altering drugs
on Survivor! He deserves to lose just for THINKING about doing that, much less
doing it! Tim thinks MacGyver being
alone is a gift-wrapped vote but Q isn’t ready to turn on him, and wants to go
Ben instead. Tim just failed Q’s loyalty
test but Q failed the Survivor strategy test, breaking Rule
#3 (Play to Win).
The game of musical votes begins with
Tim and Tiffany, as Tim pitches MacGyver but Tiffany sees that as “Siga Strong”
going after Nami because Siga (Moriah) went home last week. Q pitches Tim to Tiffany and Kenzie and they’re
all for it, despite Tiffany wanting to go after Ben since she sees him as a
better player. For his part, MacGyver
still plans to play his idol.
Kenzie and Ben are friends now
that she helped him through an overnight panic attack. Ben thinks its either him or MacGyver, and
for a reason known only to Ben and hunger, Ben pitches Q to have him convince MacGyver
to vote Ben. That make sense to
you? Me neither. In the end, Kenzie and Tiffany are set on Tim
but Q can’t stop flip-flopping which drives the girls crazy. So in the Yanu
trio, they’re the duo and he’s the odd man out. Got it.
At the feast. Venus is ecstatic
that Maria won because food is life (1 point for “Reference ‘in this game’”
to me!) and she wants to vote for
Charlie despite hating Tevin and having a chance to go after him. She’s all over the place, and it could cost
her because while Tevin is good with sticking to tribal lines and going after
Charlie, he’d much rather blindside Venus.
They all have a very large
post-meal MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Charlie lays out the “4 Nami, 2 Siga” breakdown, but he’s got the person he trust most with him (1 point for “Reference ‘in this game’” to Kristyn!) but assumes he’s going home until he meets the truly dysfunctional Nami. Soda would rather keep Charlie over Venus, and she trusts Tevin. However, Tevin thinks she’s been distant recently and talking with Liz, Tevin compares her to Yam Yam “all she does is talk talk talk talk talk” (5 points for “Bring up a previous season’s player” to Jayson!) leading him to suggest blindsiding Soda to Liz, which Liz is totally down for since she’s a big social threat (1 point for “Reference ‘in this game’” to Ricky!) . With Liz on board, he pitches it to Maria and Charlie.
Charlie is spinning 9 different
ways but none of them seem to be landing on him. Welcome to “How to break up a
dysfunctional tribe 101, your instructor Tevin will be here shortly”. Not to be left out of the self-destruction,
Venus pitches Tevin Maria leading the elder to notice how hard Venus is pushing
(1 point for “Reference ‘in this game’” to Carol!) . Maria doesn’t think
much of Venus, however, and isn’t buying it.
When Venus pitches either Tevin or Soda to Charlie, he finally sees just
how easy it will be to bring down Nami.
At tribal #1 (Q, MacGyver, Kenzie,
Tim, Ben, Tiffany) Q is sticking with tribal lines but MacGyver wants to know
when tribal lines disappear. Funny how
close the Yanu three (Q, Kenzie, Tiffany) are while Nami (MacGyver) can’t wait
to get away from his tribe. Kenzie
questions whether going after MacGyver now makes more sense than keeping him as
a vote, while Tim notes they’re in the individual portion now. Tim doesn’t like
MacGyver’s implication that Siga is tight, and Ben notes how many people have
been trying to drive a wedge between him and Tim.
At the first vote, MacGyver is definitely on the line, and he’s told us he’s playing his idol, but it remains in his pocket. Stupid? Gutsy? Your call. He receives the first two votes, but the remaining four go to Tim who’s voted out. (2 points for “Received vote against” to Roberta!), (4 points for “Received vote against” and -2 points for “The Tribe Has Spoken” to Marissa!)
At tribal #2 (Liz, Charlie, Soda, Tevin, Venus, Maria) Charlie is clear that he feels the target is on him since Maria is safe and Liz, Soda, Tevin and Venus are all Nami. Soda says the luxury of numbers is there was a lot less running around due to an easy vote, but Tevin takes Charlie off the hook though, saying things aren’t always that simple.
At the second vote, things truly aren’t that simple. Despite having overwhelming numbers, Nami can’t wait to turn on each other. Venus gets two votes, but it’s Soda who gets the remaining four and is voted out, becoming the first member of the jury. (2 points for “Received vote against” for Scott) and (4 points for “Received vote against”, -2 points for “The Tribe Has Spoken”, and 2 points for “Jury Member” to No one!) She’s shocked, and Venus takes credit for it, but this move was all Tevin
Dual tribals are always fun, but I hope we get a full 10 person tribal this week. Bring on the chaos!
Jay gained some ground on Ricky, narrowing the gap from 16 to 12 thanks to Tevin’s constant callbacks to previous seasons. Carol gained a whopping 13 points thanks to Maria’s immunity win, jumping her into 4th while everyone else treaded water in the Current Scores:
- Ricky: 71
- Jay: 59
- Kristyn: 54
- Carol: 47
- Dalphyne: 42
- Jen: 41
- Brian: 34
- Marissa/Roberta: 31
- Scott: 30
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