Survivalism

 is the fourth episode of Survivor: South Pacific.

Challenges
Redemption Island Duel: Sandbagging Competitors will toss sandbags attempting to land the bags on top of crates. The first person to get one bag on each of the ten crates stays wins. Winner: Christine

Reward/Immunity Challenge: Shoulder The Load Three members (consisting of two men and one woman) from each tribe will have a pole across their shoulders. Each round, weight (20 lbs.) will be added to that pole. The decision about which tribe member gets the weight will be made by the other tribe. When the weight becomes too much to bear, the tribe member will drop the pole and be out of the challenge. Last person left standing wins immunity for their tribe. Reward: Tribal Immunity and three live chickens (two hens and one rooster) Winner: Savaii

Day 9
At Savaii camp, Ozzy and Elyse look at the ocean and have a conversation, and Jim looks at them and worries that Ozzy's relationship with Elyse is stronger than Ozzy's relationships with Jim or Keith, who are supposed to have a final three plan. So Jim talks to Cochran about voting off Elyse next and Cochran is totally into it, knowing that if this plan succeeds, his chances of winning are quite greater. On Upolu, Brandon apologizes to Mikayla about everything and even though Mikayla and Brandon now seem to be on good terms, it's also accurate to say that they're not too close still. Brandon also told Edna that she's not in the core alliance of the tribe, which worries Edna and which prompts her to try to be more social such as in giving Coach a massage and talking to a variety of different people about trivial things, much to Stacey and Mikayla's annoyance. Both tribes received new swimwear, and during this time Dawn felt that even though she's only 41, she felt like Rudy Boesch of her tribe, referring to the fact that she was the oldest one left, which concerned her because she didn't want to be targeted for being the oldest. Brandon, Edna, Cochran, and Jim witnessed the duel between Christine and Papa Bear, which worried Jim since he thought that there may be danger with being alone with Cochran. As Jim and Cochran set off for the arena, Ozzy mocked Jim by saying "we won't be doing any strategizing". Ozzy thinks that although it's necessary to think a few steps ahead in Survivor, he thinks that Jim is taking it too far. In a very close duel, Christine won for the second time, which made Papa Bear the loser and he was eliminated as the 17th place finisher. Papa Bear stated that it was fun to finally be on Survivor after all his cop friends would joke about that ever happening.

Day 11
Cochran was well aware that the plan to vote off Elyse would not work with only him and Jim, so he talked to Dawn about voting off Elyse next and although for whatever reason Dawn wanted to target Ozzy next, she was on board with the plan to blindside Elyse, making the plan that much more realistic. In the immunity challenge, Dawn, Jim, and Keith were the weight bearers for Savaii and Albert, Brandon, and Stacey were the weight bearers for Upolu. Keith would be the first to drop out at 200 pounds. Albert would drop out soon after at the same weight as Keith. Brandon and Jim dropped out at 240 pounts, breaking the record of Rupert Boneham, J.T. Thomas, and Brendan Synnott of 220 pounds. It came down to Dawn and Stacey, who were both at 140 pounds, and in the end Stacey dropped out of the challenge and Dawn won immunity and reward for Savaii. When Upolu returned to camp, Stacey knew that even though she did a good job in the challenge, she likely had a target on her back since she did receive some votes at the day 5 Tribal Council and she's not in a majority alliance. Regardless, Stacey still felt hopeful that Edna would leave since Edna isn't quite strong. Coach was honest in telling Stacey that it was between her and 1 other person, likely referring to Edna. As another attempt to save herself, Stacey told Brandon to watch out for Mikayla, Albert, and Sophie, so immediately Brandon reports to Coach about what he ahd just heard but Coach stops him short saying that he should not be so quick to believe someone who's on "death row" (a likely candidate for elimination) like Stacey and to just relax. Brandon responds asking Coach how many people screwed Coach in his first two seasons, to which Coach leaves unanswered. Sophie thinks that even though Brandon tries to be good, he is becoming a little Russell Hantz. And Coach, knowing that this is his 3rd and possible final time on Survivor, knows that he can't let anything stop him from winning, even if it possibly means voting off Brandon, which he does not want to do. At tribal council, Jeff does a "group therapy" by having a number of players finish this sentence: the most annoying thing about so and so is... . After Mikayla finishes that sentence about Brandon, saying that she can't get over the fact that Brandon is Russell's, Brandon becomes emotional about how even though he loves his uncle he does not want to be like him and he hates that people keep lumping him with his relative. Despite earning her stripes in the challenge, Stacey's outsider status came up with her, and was voted out in an unanimous 7-1 vote. Coach insisted that the tribe should hug Stacey, but Stacey avoided them outright.

Upon reaching Redemption Island, Christine was shocked to see her closest ally voted out. While catching up on each other, Stacey reveals that Coach was running the voting dynamics of the Upolu tribe, much to Christine's annoyance.

Voting Confessionals
Coming Soon

Trivia

 * This marks the first time a male lost to a female in a two way duel.
 * In an exit interview, Mark revealed that he found a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol, but was not revealed onscreen.
 * The reward/immunity challenge is a throwback to the challenges used in Me and My Snake and The Strongest Man Alive.
 * Both Jim and Brandon held 240 lbs. and broke the previous record of 220 lbs. held by Rupert Boneham, J.T. Thomas, and Brendan Synnott.