As Survivor airs here on the East Coast, I'll be live-blogging with the major events. Although tonight's show is only an hour, two castaways will get the boot! As always, the real party is in the comments area. Please feel free to join in on the fun!
Here are the blog pool match updates from our good buddy, Lifeguard Laurie:
Survivors
Adam Klein - Brian, Kelsey NY, Sharon N
Bret LaBelle - Brandi Peralta, Judi Sweeney, Skyriverblue
David Wright - Buzzmaam, MikesGirl, Sharon C
Hannah Shapiro - David, meb, Terry is a Texan
Jay Starrett - Becky, Jackie, Shayne
Ken McNickle - Dolores in Hollywood, Margo, Russ
Sunday Burquest - Brenda, Kristen from Ohio, SueGee
Will Wahl - Cheryl, Indiana Jane
Jury
Michelle Shubert
Taylor Lee Stocker
Chris Hammons
Jessica Lewis
Zeke Smith
Survivor fans ready?
Will has delusions of manhood from his Tribal Council vote to oust Zeke. Bret is trying to think of how he'll stay alive in the game without his ally Zeke. He and Sunday go to Adam saying that David, Will and Jay are the most dangerous players left in the game.
Will? Dangerous? Um, well, maybe because he can't be trusted.
Oh, right to the Immunity Challenge! Race out to disks, stack them, over balance beam and wire maze ... reminds me a bit of a recent BBOTT comp. Will is dangerously keeping in last place.
JAY wins Immunity!
Jay talks to Will about taking out either David or Ken. Will, who's the Big Man on Campus, thinks he's calling the shots and goes around telling people to target David. David thinks he himself is the target, too. Adam isn't too keen about Will thinking he has the power. So, HE goes around bad-talking Will. He tells Bret. Bret and Sunday will both target Will. Hmm. Adam tells Hannah. Now she's a Nervous Nelly all over again.
Now Adam thinks HE's in charge of the game.
No time wasted tonight, it's off to Tribal Council! No real clues in the questioning.
The tally:
David, David, Will, Will, Will, Will, Will.
Ha! That's what happens when you get too cocky!
Jay knows he's all alone in the game. He tells Adam not to take David to the end. Adam tells us Jay needs to go home.
Onto the second Immunity Challenge! Solve a block puzzle, timer in the form of a Survivor pinball doohickey that times them out in errors. Good challenge! They have to toss a ball through a maze, work on the puzzle, retrieve the ball before it gets caught in the pinball time-out.
Adam is helping Ken! KEN wins Immunity!
Adam's plan is for David to go home. David is worried. Jay wants David to go. David thinks they should set Bret up to go. Meanwhile, Hannah thinks they should target Sunday because she thinks Sunday will be brought to the finals because she'd be easy to win against. Adam tells Ken and Hannah they need to vote for Jay. He wants either Jay or David out.
Adam tells Jay he needs to use his idol tonight. Then he tells him his Mom is dying of cancer and he's playing for her. Jay's Mom also has big health problems. Now they're besties once again.
Hannah is still pushing the Sunday Out Bit. She doesn't want David to go as she loves him.
Time for Tribal Council.
Jay plays his idol.
The tally:
Jay, David, David, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
Woot! David stays, Jay's idol is flushed out and Sunday goes!
Next week is the two-hour season finale!
As Survivor airs here on the East Coast, I'll be live-blogging with the major events. As always, the real party is in the comments area. Please feel free to join in on the fun!
Here are the blog pool match updates from the Lifeguard Luau Laurie:
Survivors
Adam Klein - Brian, Kelsey NY, Sharon N
Bret LaBelle - Brandi Peralta, Judi Sweeney, Skyriverblue
David Wright - Buzzmaam, MikesGirl, Sharon C
Hannah Shapiro - David, meb, Terry is a Texan
Jay Starrett - Becky, Jackie, Shayne
Ken McNickle - Dolores in Hollywood, Margo, Russ
Sunday Burquest - Brenda, Kristen from Ohio, SueGee
Will Wahl - Cheryl, Indiana Jane
Zeke Smith - Beachmom, monty924 , Glenn
Jury
Michelle Shubert
Taylor Lee Stocker
Chris Hammons
Jessica Lewis
Survivor fans ready?
Hannah is beside herself about the Jessica rock pick. David is ticked that he burned his idol for no reason at Tribal. Zeke thinks he's winning the war over David.
Ken came across the Legacy Advantage note he received from Jessica. If he can make it until Day 36, he'll be using it!
Reward Challenge time! Jeff starts bringing out loved ones. Tears all around as usual. Adam, whose mother is in stage four cancer and whose brother came, mentions his advantage to steal someone's reward. He will not be using it.
They have to be tied to a rope and go through obstacles. Prize is the loved one at a barbecue. Jay wins Reward! He takes Will along as he had promised. For his second, he chose Sunday as "they" had made a promise. He gets to pick one more and even though they've been "brawling" all this time, he chooses Adam.
Whoa! Adam, in appreciation of Jay's move, gave Jay his advantage with no strings attached.
Will decides to defect to David and company. Hmm.
Immunity Challenge time - Endurance, they have to clench a thing holding a bar. David out first. Hannah out. Will out. Bret out. Sunday out. Zeke out. Jeff is torturing them about the hot sun baking their minds. Ken out. It's Jay versus Adam. Jay out.
Adam wins Immunity!
With Will aboard, the move is on to vote out Zeke. Zeke thinks something is amiss because the others are too calm. He thinks David might have another idol and he needs to throw someone else under the bus. That someone is Hannah.
Ken gives Will a third-degree treatment before being willing to trust him. Will tells Ken that "they" will be voting for him. Uh-oh. Ken tells Jay that Will is saying his name. Will claims he needs to play his game for himself.
Gah! Adam calls it right that it was a stupid move on Ken's part! Now Will is going to be solid with the others as he can't trust his "new" group.
Tribal Council time. Both sides vie for Will's vote. He may be the youngest, but he has the deepest voice!
Adam pulls out his idol! He plays it for Hannah!
The tally:
Hannah, Hannah, Hannah, Hannah, Zeke, Zeke, Zeke ...
Zeke is out!
As Survivor airs here on the East Coast, I'll be live-blogging with the major events. As always, the real party is in the comments area. Please feel free to join in on the fun! Tonight is a two-hour show!
Since the BBOTT weekly show is starting at the same time as Survivor, I'm putting up a post for it that will be concurrent with this one. I'm not expecting the eviction there until after Survivor ends, so I will be here until the end of this show. I can't physically (or mentally) watch and post about two shows at one time! Gah! I'll have the feeds on minimized and low volume during this show. If I hear the eviction go down, I'll see what's up.
Here are the blog pool match updates from the Lifeguard Luau Laurie:
Survivors
Adam Klein - Brian, Kelsey NY, Sharon N
Bret LaBelle - Brandi Peralta, Judi Sweeney, Skyriverblue
Chris Hammons - Cheryl in NC, Jennasmom, Lanell from TN
David Wright - Buzzmaam, MikesGirl, Sharon C
Hannah Shapiro - David, meb, Terry is a Texan
Jay Starrett - Becky, Jackie, Shayne
Jessica Lewis - Cupcake, Jean, Petals
Ken McNickle - Dolores in Hollywood, Margo, Russ
Sunday Burquest - Brenda, Kristen from Ohio, SueGee
Will Wahl - Cheryl, Indiana Jane
Zeke Smith - Beachmom, monty924 , Glenn
Jury
Michelle Shubert
Taylor Lee Stocker
Survivor fans ready?
Both Adam and Jay are scrambling to overcome the Taylor Food Fiasco from Tribal. Chris still wants to target Jessica instead of either of the boys.
Oh, geez. Hannah has a crush on Ken. I might have a panic attack over that.
Will, who's been a bit of connected to Jay at the hip, has decided to work with Zeke instead. He tells Zeke about Jay's idol. He thinks telling one individual will only help his game. The news of the idol spreads through camp like wildfire. Poor Will.
Chris wants to vote out Jess. Zeke wants to flush the idol out from Jay. They will all soon have to eat one another to survive in the Donner Party. Um, well. Okay, not that far!
Reward - Floating pizza restaurant. It's an obstacle course and stacking blocks. It's a random draw for teams. One person won't play. David volunteers to sit out due to his poor swimming. The others encourage him to play.
It's a rock pick thing. Jay got the sit-out rock.
Adam, Bret, Zeke, Hannah and Sunday win reward. At said reward, they received letters from home. Tears all about. Well, except maybe Bret.
David thinks that he, Jessica and Ken should target Bret, Sunday and Chris. David thinks Chris needs to go first. Jessica knows that Chris is her biggest nemesis, so she's fine with that.
Immunity Challenge - Stand on a narrow beam balancing a statue on a long pole. As time passes, they'll need to move farther away from the statue. Hannah out first. Ken out. Sunday, Chris, Will, Jay and Bret out. Ants crawling on them are taking a toll. Adam out. Jessica out. Zeke out.
DAVID wins Immunity!
At Tribal, everyone is 100% sure the vote will go the way they want. I'm not 100%.
Jay doesn't play his idol even though he kept saying he was going home during the Tribal Council.
The tally:
Chris, Jessica, Chris, Jessica, Chris, Jessica, Chris, Jessica, Chris, Chris.
Yay, Jessica stays and Chris goes!
Zeke made things good with Bret. He needs Bret and Sunday to build up a charge against David and Company. Jay is a target. But David realizes he needs to get rid of Zeke. He mistakenly tells Bret.
Hannah is torn between Zeke and David. Zeke told Adam and Hannah that David has another idol. The Reward is slithering through a course and solving a snake puzzle. Helicopter tour of the island and a picnic are Reward. One person will not have a chance to earn Reward, but automatically win a spot -- white rock. David got the white rock!
Bret, Zeke and Sunday will go on Reward with David. Now, Adam is tempted to use his advantage, but doesn't. Bret and Zeke bond even more over many beers. Bret tells Zeke that he doesn't care if a guy is gay. Hmm. Their target is still David.
Hannah has made the decision to go with David. She tells him that Zeke told her and Adam that he has an idol. She also told him that Bret told Zeke he's (David) gunning for him (Zeke).
Immunity Challenge time! Stand behind a caged door, maneuver a handle through a maze and solve a slide puzzle.
Jay gets through the handle maze first. Jay wins Immunity and no one else even got through the door!
David gets Jessica and Ken to agree to vote for Zeke. Zeke puts Hannah on the spot. He realizes that Hannah isn't on his side. Uh-oh. Zeke thinks he should switch his target to Hannah. Hannah goes to Adam trying to get him to vote for Zeke. Adam doesn't really trust her. She's paranoid and thinks they're going to target her thus she would need David to save her with his idol.
Tribal Council is uncomfortable. Lots of whispering. Hmm. No real trust showing.
David plays his idol. Adams tells them the whispers were to vote for Ken. He uses it to save Ken.
Zeke, Hannah, Zeke, Hannah, Zeke, Hannah, Zeke, Hannah, Zeke, Hannah.
It's a tie.
Re-tally:
Hannah, Zeke, Hannah, Zeke, Hannah, Zeke, Hannah, Zeke.
A double tie deadlock!
Re-vote time. Nope! It's drawing for rocks if they don't make a unanimous decision.
Ken, Hannah, Zeke and Jay are safe. The rest must draw rocks.
Jessica drew the black rock. She's going home. She's crushed. She leaves her early earned Legacy Advantage to Ken.
As Survivor airs here on the East Coast, I'll be live-blogging with the major events. As always, the real party is in the comments area. Please feel free to join in on the fun!
Since the BBOTT weekly show is starting at the same time as Survivor, I'm putting up a post for it that will be concurrent with this one. I'm not expecting the eviction there until after Survivor ends, so I will be here until the end of this show. I can't physically (or mentally) watch and post about two shows at one time! Gah! I'll have the feeds on minimized and low volume during this show. If I hear the eviction go down, I'll see what's up.
Here are the blog pool match updates from the Lifeguard Luau Laurie:
Survivors
Adam Klein - Brian, Kelsey NY, Sharon N
Bret LaBelle - Brandi Peralta, Judi Sweeney, Skyriverblue
Chris Hammons - Cheryl in NC, Jennasmom, Lanell from TN
David Wright - Buzzmaam, MikesGirl, Sharon C
Hannah Shapiro - David, meb, Terry is a Texan
Jay Starrett - Becky, Jackie, Shayne
Jessica Lewis - Cupcake, Jean, Petals
Ken McNickle - Dolores in Hollywood, Margo, Russ
Sunday Burquest - Brenda, Kristen from Ohio, SueGee
Taylor Lee Stocker - Donna in FL, Janice from GA, Stephanie in Baltimore
Will Wahl - Cheryl, Indiana Jane
Zeke Smith - Beachmom, monty924 , Glenn
Jury
Michelle Shubert
Survivor fans ready?
Jay is very bitter about Michelle being voted out. Meanwhile, Gen-X Chris is a bit leery whether Adam can be trusted or not. Jay, Taylor and Will are ready to work to stay in the game. Adam knows about Jay's food stash while Jay knows about Adam's found advantage. Hannah seems to stand a better chance of acceptance for her betrayal of the kids.
Rewards Challenge time - two teams of six -- schoolyard pick, Resort poolside, cheeseburgers, fries, cocktails, soft drinks.
Purple - Chris, Bret, Ken, Sunday, David and Taylor
Orange - Hannah, Will, Zeke, Adam, Jessica, Jay
Obstacles and more. Reward goes to Purple!
Adam's mouth continues to get him in trouble. He went and aggravated Jay, telling him that he was the bottom of the alliance and would be targeted. If Adam would just shut up and play, he'll be around longer. It was okay to tell Jay that he voted Michelle out and joined in with Gen-X because he knew he himself was a target. He should have stopped at that!
Uh-oh. Jessica has attracted the attention of Sunday and company. Not good attention, mind you. She goes to Jay to tell him Jessica. Hmm.
Immunity Challenge time! My gosh! It's similar to a recent BBOTT comp! Standing on a narrow beam balancing a ball on a doohickey. Jeff tries to bribe them with food and beer. Zeke and Will go for the bribe. All else play.
Hannah out, cannot eat or drink. Jeff reminds Will he's too young to drink the beer. Heh. Bret out.
Taylor and Ken are now the only ones remaining.
Ken wins Immunity!
Ken and David think it best to split the vote between Taylor and Jay in case there's an idol. Sunday tells Bret (alone) that she doesn't want Jay to go. We know she wants Jessica out.
Taylor shows his stolen food stash and shares it with Jay. Jay doesn't know if he should use his idol or not. Jay tells Taylor about Adam's advantage.
Whoa! Adam's game is getting blown up at Tribal! Taylor tells them Adam was in on the stolen food! Taylor also blows Adam's advantage. Epic foolishness.
No idols played.
Tally:
Jay, Taylor, Adam, Jay, Taylor, Jay, Taylor, Jay, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor.
Well deserved. Taylor is gonzo.
As Survivor airs here on the East Coast, I'll be live-blogging with the major events. As always, the real party is in the comments area. Please feel free to join in on the fun!
This week is the double eviction on BBOTT. Since their weekly show is starting at the same time as Survivor, I'm putting up a post for it that will be concurrent with this one. I'm not expecting the first eviction there until after Survivor ends, so I will be here until the end of this show. I can't physically (or mentally) watch and post about two shows at one time! Gah! I'll have the feeds on minimized and low volume during this show. If I hear the eviction go down, I'll see what's up.
Here are the blog pool match updates from the Lovely Lifeguard Laurie:
Vanua - Orange
Chris Hammons - Cheryl in NC, Jennasmom, Lanell from TN
David Wright - Buzzmaam, MikesGirl, Sharon C
Michelle Shubert - Ed in Ohio, Nickelpeed
Zeke Smith - Beachmom, monty924 , Glenn
Takali - Purple
Adam Klein - Brian, Kelsey NY, Sharon N
Jessica Lewis - Cupcake, Jean, Petals
Ken McNickle - Dolores in Hollywood, Margo, Russ
Taylor Lee Stocker - Donna in FL, Janice from GA, Stephanie in Baltimore
Ikabula - Green
Bret LaBelle - Brandi Peralta, Judi Sweeney, Skyriverblue
Hannah Shapiro - David, meb, Terry is a Texan
Jay Starrett - Becky, Jackie, Shayne
Sunday Burquest - Brenda, Kristen from Ohio, SueGee
Will Wahl - Cheryl, Indiana Jane
OUT
x Rachel Ako
Mari Takahashi - cwcamper, Marthalight
Paul Wachter - ChickMc, PDX Granny
Lucy Huang - Delee, ML
CeCe Taylor - Anonymouse, Merrilee
Figgy Figueroa - Donna in Alabama, Laurie
Michaela Bradshaw - Donna in NY, Krysta G, Pinky
Survivor fans ready?
Hannah feels left out as the only one not in on the Michaela vote. She trusts no one and vows revenge. For some reason, I don't think she'd be good at revenge.
A boat arrives and they have five minutes to pack ... the merge is on!
Old alliances will become renewed? Hmm. Will some new alliances hang in?
While the others are feasting, Adam goes Idol hunting. He finds an advantage that allows him to steal a reward that's won by someone else. Interesting!
Taylor decides to steal and hide food, but Bret sees him. Adam decides to use that to his own personal advantage to work him against Jay. How to do that? Vote out Will and Jay will return to Taylor. Then Adam tells him about the advantage. Here I thought Adam might end up being a smart player. I guess not!
Heh. Zeke overhears Taylor telling Jay that they need to get Adam out.
Okay, to the first individual Immunity Challenge! Balance on a small perch with hands tethered above, bucket of water comes down. Last standing wins.
It's down to Jessica and Will. Both look sturdy. Jessica is out! Will wins Immunity! He knew he needed it because he was told Adam was gunning for him.
Zeke tells Adam that the others are planning on him. Working with Gen-X, they could target Jay. Meanwhile, Gen-X thinks that Michelle might be a good target. Taylor wants revenge for Adam getting Figgy out. Hannah tries to talk sense into Adam. Even the Gen-X are leery of him.
Time for Tribal Council.
Adam does not use his idol.
The tally:
Adam, Michelle, Adam, Michelle, Adam, Michelle, Adam, Michelle, Michelle, Michelle, Michelle.
Michelle is voted out. That took the smile off of Taylor's face.
