Bonds are revealed when castaways are forced to divide into pairs for this week's Immunity Challenge. Then, the challenge reward meal isn't the day's only prize - one castaway finds an advantage.
At Tribal Council, I did speak up about how we need to start playing the game and break up this whole we're a happy family thing and start getting these stronger players out. I sort of tried to play it off that it was just talking smack at Tribal, but am I lying? Yes, I'm lying. Sooner or later, we have to get rid of these guys, or might as well give them the million dollars right now.
The relief to have made it this far in this game is unexplainable. I made it to the jury, but so far, I've honestly been playing a really scared game. So now I gotta take control of my own game, and I gotta push the votes where I want them to go.
I'm so grateful that I am still here because honestly, the first five days, I thought I was going home every single day. It's a completely different game for me now.
Another Tribal Council survived, and this was definitely the sketchiest for me by far because I finally saw my name on a piece of parchment today, and that will make you pucker up a little bit.
The one person that I'm not super confident on is Mary because I just don't have a relationship with her, and she has a very close relationship with David. And at this point, I would like Kamilla because I trust Kamilla a lot right now, and we've been working together since this tribe swap. But David wants Mary, and so I feel a little worried if I'm being honest, but I think I'm in a good spot.
I've been wrong about everything this season because I was sure that today we were gonna have time to paint a tribe flag. Apparently, Jeff has no interest in us painting anything anymore. He's just like, you know what? Play the game faster. So that's what Tree Mail felt like today. You know what? Faster.
There is a good bit of awkward silence from everybody trying to figure out how are we going to do this? What's the best way for me without looking like it's the best way for me? It's, really kind of a cat and mouse game. Who's gonna speak up first?
A million dollars is on the line. And I just thought, it's time to speak up and say, this is your chance to play because the game started. And I also did that so I could see where people's heads at. I'm trying to force that dial so I can start picking apart alliances. Right away, what happened? Shauhin, first one. Kamilla, right away. He's playing. What's David do? Mary. Exactly what I wanted to hear.
I think this picking showed who wants to work together. And at this point, I think my number one is Kyle, but I don't want people to know that me and Kyle are working closely together. So Kyle picking Chrissy, that was the right move.
Of course, Joe grabs Eva. Like, how is that fair that the two strongest people pair up? But, again, they're running the show, and I'm - I'm not gonna sit back. I can't sit back and let them run the show. I'm just not playing that way.
Now that we know we have an Immunity Challenge, we're all kinda coming together to figure out who we wanna get rid of. And yesterday, while we were at the Civa camp, there was a little side talk with Chrissy that I overheard where she was saying that it should be Shauhin, that these strong people are banding together. They need to start picking that off. And she even said at Tribal Council last night that she wants to play Survivor, and that's lying and backstabbing and all these things.
We have created a very strong loyal group of five people that I trust that are all big threats. Plus Mary, that’s six. Chrissy is the kind of person who will come in and try to bust off what we built, and I don't wanna play with someone like that.
At the moment, the original Civa have five votes. All of us have an opportunity to make some moves if I can get all the original members back together.
Mitch is looking to make a move with old Civa. However, right now, I see a clear path to victory with a Strong Five, and Mitch isn't really part of that alliance.
I need to start thinking about who I can win against. And right now, the three former Lagi, Joe, Shauhin, and Eva are the ones calling the shots. So I really do wanna get some of those people out now so I could just be free to play my game.
No surprise that we've been taking out easy targets. And now we're at a point that if we keep on getting rid of people on the bottom, then we lose our shot at making a move. This is a pivotal point in the game. It seems as if people are all starting to make their move. So I feel as if I have a difficult decision to make because I'm smack dab in the middle.
I'm furious that I'm going on a journey and potentially losing my vote because tonight's vote is gonna be a crucial one. And if I lose my vote, there's no way we have a shot to make a move.
After the challenge, Chrissy and I are in this weird limbo, purgatory, whatever you wanna call it. Because we're not in the top four, so we don't get the tacos and the reward, but we're also not in the bottom group of four people who are now on a journey and they have to risk their vote.
Chrissy just wants to take a shot. In her own words, she wants to go down swinging. But I've been teeing up Shauhin as sort of a very easy vote. I know that he's a very good liar and a great Survivor player. Whereas Joe, the head of the snake as Chrissy calls him, we've developed a great relationship, and he shoots it to me straight. While I am willing to take a shot, I don't even know if that really makes sense for me. So it's hard. Especially because the people who I need to make that move, Kamilla and Mitch, could possibly lose their vote. When you wanna pull off a move as airtight as I want to, you need some certainty at least with the vote. So I have to wait for them to get back.
So the four of us pull up in this boat to this beach, and all I was thinking was, I can't lose my vote. But also, I definitely need Mitch to keep his vote because I need him as a number so we can flip this game on the big guys who are running it.
How this game works is there's gray balls, there's red balls that are in the chute. At the end of the chute, you have the option to either pick up one or two balls and put them in your chute. The first person to have three red balls in their chute loses their vote.
Now we see the dreaded red ball. So now you're trying to figure out, okay, how do I avoid the red ball? You're doing math trying to figure out, should I take one here or two here? One, two. And you can feel it kind of building because that red one's coming.
So when I see that Mitch had one red ball, I get pretty nervous because I'm like, we need to start working together here. We need to make sure that Star is the one that gets three, and it's not either of us because she already had one red ball. So me and Mitch are making eye contact to try and get the red balls to fall on Star.
Here's when the game gets crazy. Now there's two gray balls and two red balls. So now Kamilla has the option of grabbing just one ball, but she takes two balls, leaving me with the red ball. So now I get a second red ball. And I'm like, okay. Here we go.
As the game goes on, everybody has at least one, and Star has two. This game is stressful, and getting one of those red balls is like, oh, crap. If I get two more of these, I'm done.
Once again, it depends really on Kamilla. So there's two gray balls and one red ball. So in this moment right now, Kamilla can really save me because right now, I'm pretty much a sitting duck.
This journey went exactly the way I wanted it to. Star ended up losing her vote, and I am so happy to have my vote, so happy Mitch has his vote because now we have the numbers to make a move tonight.
We walk in, and it was just everything I had been imagining. And you gotta remember, I've only had one pastry reward in, like, fifteen days. It was beautiful. And it was everything. It was beans. It was rice. It was chicken. It was steaks. Tacos. I haven't been that hungry in my life.
I'm going to absolute town eating way too much, and then I start to reach for another chip. And I see there's this little twig looking thing. It's not a twig. It's a little rolled up scroll. And so I quickly stuff it right in my pants. I could have shown it to my allies right then and there, but with everyone having such public knowledge of my idol, it might be nice to have have something that's private knowledge to me.
Even more important than the food itself are the people at that table. These are three people that are strong in my alliance. I have Joe and Eva. They're part of the Strong Five, and then I have my girl, Mary. And we've been hitting the ground running since the tribe swap.
Chrissy might be the obvious vote, but what about Kamilla? Right now, I'm a little wary of Shauhin because, obviously, we know that he's working with Kamilla because we saw them working in the challenge. On top of that, Shauhin might have an idol. So if Shauhin actually is working with Kamilla, there's one easy way to solve this, and that is to get Kamilla out.
Mary is hell bent on Kamilla being the vote that we cast tonight to go home, and she's already got David hooked on it. The easy option for me is Chrissy, but I'm gonna just rely on this. If Mary and David are so hell bent on Kamilla, it seems like we have the numbers. So if we do Kamilla today, that's okay because she's not really one of our key alliance players.
I get back to camp, and I am feeling like I'm going to absolutely puke my guts out. But this is a chance for me to sneak out of camp so that I can be alone and open my scroll. I'm just itching to see what it says. It says, 'Your effort in today's challenge has also earned you a secret advantage, but you will have to be stealthy in order to retrieve it.'
So tomorrow night, I gotta sneak out of camp, and I think this is one thing I'm gonna keep secret. Sorry. I'm gonna burp again. Everything else about my whole game is very public. My tightest alliance with Joe, like, everybody knows that he's my buddy. My idol, everybody knows about it. But this is a chance for me to have something additional to add to my game that nobody will know about that I can use to my advantage only.
Immediately, a lot of red flags go off in my head because this Kamilla thing came out of left field. Right now, Kamilla and I have our undercover relationship, and I trust Kamilla possibly more than anybody on this island. And all of a sudden, David wants to disrupt everything. So I need to do whatever it takes to keep Kamilla in this game.
Kyle tells me that Chrissy's throwing out my name. Huh. Noted. So my emotional response right now in this moment is why don't we just vote Chrissy – Kamilla tomorrow? You put my name out there, I'm taking you down.
David is hell bent on getting Kamilla out of this game, and that can't happen. So what are my options at this point? I don't want it to be Kamilla because Kamilla is my actual number one. I mean, Kamilla has proven time and time again that she's with me. She's proven time and time again that she's a smart player.
David apparently is floating my name around. I'm like, this guy is the biggest idiot on this beach. This is the only shot we will have in this game to take at Lagi. Like, David is just so stupid. He shouldn't have signed up for Survivor. He should have called up Joe and Eva and been like, guys, let's enter the Olympics together because he wants to do all these ******* challenges with them. So now I think the only way I move forward tonight is that I need to write down Chrissy's name in order to save my game. And I just have to pray that Kyle can, like, work his magic.
I can't steer votes away from Kamilla without making people very wary of me. But at the very least, I would like Chrissy out of this game and not Kamilla.
Mary and David want Kamilla. Kyle wants Chrissy. And I agree with Kyle. I truly don't know why the Kamilla push. but I'm gonna stick my neck out, and I'm gonna go Kamilla because they're pressing it so hard.
Kyle is hesitant to vote out Kamilla. It's got me thinking why? Why are you so hesitant? Why is this not easy for you? Because it should be. This is a clear path on the way to the final five. It doesn't add up. Something's not right. Maybe if Kamilla and Kyle are working together, maybe there's some inner workings in this alliance that's not so strong as I thought it was.
I'm trying to work with David to convince him to keep my number one. Right now, David and I are at odds. This is without a doubt probably the toughest moment for me in Survivor. My hands are tied. The issue is is that I have to dance around how closely Kamilla and I are working together. It's an uphill battle, and I don't know if I can win that battle right now.
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Challenges[]
Reward/Immunity Challenge:PairyFeral Before the challenge, the ten castaways paired themselves up into five teams. One at a time, each team member would crawl through an obstacle. They will then dig up a bundle of planks. The first three pairs to retrieve their planks would proceed to the next stage.
At the next stage, each team will use their planks to solve a staircase puzzle. After climbing the staircase, they will use another set of planks to cross a rope bridge. The first two pairs to cross the rope bridge and slide down to the finish mat will proceed to the final stage.
In the final stage, the pairs disbanded and each player competed individually. The castaways must hang onto a pole as long as they can. The last person left hanging without touching the ground wins. Reward: Tacos Additional Stipulation: The two pairs eliminated in the first round will go on a journey, where they will compete in an individual challenge where the loser loses their right to vote. Winners (team reward) (in order of finish): Purple Team (David Kinne and Mary Zheng) and Orange Team (Eva Erickson and Joe Hunter) Winner (individual immunity):Eva Erickson
I got voted out off baby, but no regrets whatsoever. I went out swinging with my head held high cause these people are strong, they're killing challenges, and they're going to run this game, but now, they have to go back and deal with the reprecussions. Let's see how fast they get kicked off, so I'm just glad I got to try to knock them down and it didn't work, but I'm okay with that.
