The Finish Line Is in Sight

The Finish Line Is in Sight is the tenth episode of.

Day 27
After returning from tribal council, Domenick Abbate thanks Laurel Johnson for warning him about Desiree Afuye. Kellyn Bechtold still wants to stay Naviti strong. Wendell Holland and Domenick agree with stick with Laurel and Donathan Hurley, though Domenick contemplates on turning on Wendell at some point. Domenick goes out to look for a Hidden Immunity Idol and manages to find David Wright 's fake idol from Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X, but learned that he idol was still fake, and he had to  convince another player to use in order for the power of it to be activated in Domenick’s favor.

Day 29
After arriving at the immunity challenge, host Jeff Probst says that two people will win immunity, and two people will get voted out at tribal council. The players are separated into two tribes of 10 via random draw: The orange tribe featuring Michael Yerger, Laurel, Domenick, Wendell and Kellyn, and the purple tribe featuring Chelsea Townsend, Sebastian Noel, Angela Perkins, Jenna Bowman and Donathan. The challenge itself is an endurance challenge that requires them to hold up a bar that keeps a ball in a basket above their head. If they relieve too much pressure then the ball drops and they’re out. The last person left standing from each tribe will win immunity, and one person from each tribe will be voted out. The single player that lasts the longest from both tribes will earn their tribe the right to go to tribal council second. Chelsea manages to win immunity first which means her tribe would go to the first tribal council, while Domenick won immunity second.

The orange tribe agrees to send Michael out. Michael asks Donathan if he’ll lend him his idol so that he can flash it to players on his tribe to scare them away from voting for him. He then lies to Kellyn about having an idol which scares her. Domenick however tells Kellyn that he doesn't have an idol. Kellyn tells Wendell she’s scared and asks him if he’s willing to sacrifice Laurel in order to save one of them from being voted out in case Michael has an idol. Wendell goes to Laurel and says that if Michael does have an idol and so perhaps they might need to vote for Kellyn instead.

On the purple tribe, Sebastian, Chelsea and Angela know they have the majority and decide to be straight up with Jenna and tell her that they are for sure voting Donathan out. Wanting to protect herself by convincing Donathan to not use his idol, Jenna tells Donathan that Sebastian told her they’re voting Jenna out. Wanting to protect her, Donathan tells Jenna that he’ll use his idol on her and asks her to vote Sebastian tonight so that they can send him home with the idol.

During the first half of the Double Elimination Donathan plays his idol for himself, but it negates only Jenna's vote against him as she is voted out 3-1-0, and becomes the fourth member of the jury. During the second half of the double elimination Kellyn votes for Laurel, and uses her Extra Vote advantage to out another vote on her which results in a 2-2 tie between Michael and Laurel. In the revote, Domenick, Wendell, and Kellyn vote for Michael, thus making him the fifth member of the jury.

Challenges
Immunity Challenge: Crocodile Rock Divided into two teams of five, castaways must pull up on a bar, castaways must try and keep a ball wedged between a set of jaws. If they release the bar, the lower jaw will fall, causing their ball to fall out. Once their ball falls, they are out. The last person remaining from each team wins.

Additional Stipulation: The last person left standing allows their team to view the results of first team's Tribal Council and vote second.

Winners: ' and  '

Orange Team
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Other

 * This episode marks the first use of the Double Elimination twist since.
 * Because that episode was during a season, this marks the first permanent Double Elimination since, and the first permanent Double Elimination to take place post-merge.
 * This is the first Double Elimination to involve the merged tribe splitting into two temporary teams.
 * At the Orange Team's Tribal Council, everyone eligible to receive votes received at least one vote.
 * This is the first time post-merge multiple Immunity Necklaces were available without the stipulation of one man and one woman winning each necklace.
 * Angela Perkins is the only eligible castaway this episode to not have a vote counted against her.