I will try my best to at least post the major events of the show as it airs this week. I still can't twist around or sit too long with the back surgery. I overdid things a bit today with physical therapy and some errands I had to run.
They've been changing up the tribes much too often this season. Thankfully, they're promising the merge on promos for tonight. Lifeguard Laurie's been keeping up with it all. Here's the latest blog pool standings --
NAVITI (purple)
Chelsea Townsend - David, Merrilee
Domenick Abbate - Donna in Alabama, Janice
Donathan Hurley - Becky, Terry is a Texan!
Libby Vincek - tbc, jennifer, Laurie
MALOLO (orange)
Angela Perkins - monty924, Karen JC
Desiree Afuye - Bizarro22, Karen in California
Kellyn Bechtold - Glenn Allen, Margo, Delee
Michael Yerger - Sharon N., Tammy
YANUYA (green)
Chris Noble - Petals, Ed in Ohio, ChicMc
Jenna Bowman - Brian, Judi Sweeney
Laurel Johnson - PDX Granny, Donna in FL
Sebastion Noel - Indiana Jane, Shannon, Jackie
Wendell Holland - Skyriverblue, Jennasmom
TORCHLESS
Stephanie Gonzalez
Jacob Derwin
Morgan Ricke
Brendan Shapiro
Stephanie Johnson
James Lim
Bradley Kleihege
Let's get this show on the road!
Thirteen are left. Who will be voted out tonight? The tribes got word the merge was on. They all meet up and have the traditional merge feast.
Chris's new buff holds a clue that he needs to sneak out of camp on a boat at night to get an idol at Ghost Island. It was random that he happened to get it in his buff. Will he be able to get away with the trip?
Dom and Wendell try to get Chris on their side. How'd it work out? Now they plan on targeting Chris because he won't commit to working with them.
Okay, Chris is starting to sneak away. He seems to make it to Ghost Island without drawing attention. He gets JT's idol from Game Changers -- JT left the idol back at camp and got blindsided. It's now only good at the next Tribal Council. Hmm. Now he can gamble to extend it, but he might lose his vote at the next Tribal. He extends it one week and then gets the No Vote. Now he has to sneak back in.
He doesn't get caught. But Dom notices he's sleeping a lot and doesn't like it.
Now a lot of talk about bringing out Dom's idol. The fake one? Both Chris and even more so, Dom, are putting targets on their backs.
The first individual Immunity has them standing on beams balancing a pole on their heads that has a statue on it. They're falling out like flies. Jenna, Donathan, Desiree and Andrea are out. When they move further, Sebastian out. Move further on the beam, Dom out, Michael out, Chris out, Laurel out, Wendell out.
Kellyn, Chelsea and Libby are remaining.
Chelsea out. Libby out. Kellyn wins the first individual Immunity!
Chris talks to everyone except Dom and Wendell about splitting the vote between Dom and Wendell to bring out Dom's idol.
Meanwhile, Dom and Wendell know Chris is probably skunking them and want Chris out. Wendell tells Dom he has an idol and is willing to use it. They go around talking to everyone except Chris.
Desiree wants to use her group of four to get out Libby while everyone else is focused on Dom, Wendell and Chris.
In Tribal, Dom parades out his fake idol (claiming it's real) and goes on his soapbox about Chris. Now Wendell interrupts Chris's rebuttal. It's a showdown! Chris and Dom shine up the targets on their backs quite nicely. Wendell and Dom vote Chris.
The tally ... wait, Dom gets up. He plays his Legacy Advantage. He saves himself with that.
Chris, Chris, Libby, Libby, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris.
Going home with an idol in his pocket. The curse remains.
I will try my best to at least post the major events of the show as it airs this week. I still can't twist around or sit too long with the back surgery. We're having severe winds and some power outages in the area. If I vanish, I'm not dead ... just lost my power.
They've been changing up the tribes much too often this season. Thankfully, Lifeguard Laurie's been keeping up with it all. Here's the latest blog pool standings --
NAVITI (purple)
Bradley Kleihege - SueGee, Nana in the NW, Auntie Leigh
Chelsea Townsend - David, Merrilee
Domenick Abbate - Donna in Alabama, Janice
Donathan Hurley - Becky, Terry is a Texan!
Libby Vincek - tbc, jennifer, Laurie
MALOLO (orange)
Angela Perkins - monty924, Karen JC
Desiree Afuye - Bizarro22, Karen in California
Kellyn Bechtold - Glenn Allen, Margo, Delee
Michael Yerger - Sharon N., Tammy
YANUYA (green)
Chris Noble - Petals, Ed in Ohio, ChicMc
Jenna Bowman - Brian, Judi Sweeney
Laurel Johnson - PDX Granny, Donna in FL
Sebastion Noel - Indiana Jane, Shannon, Jackie
Wendell Holland - Skyriverblue, Jennasmom
TORCHLESS
Stephanie Gonzalez
Jacob Derwin
Morgan Ricke
Brendan Shapiro
Stephanie Johnson
James Lim
Okay ... on with the show!
Michael remains on the outside in his new little tribe. So, he thinks he needs to find an idol. He finds Ozzy's fake idol which has now "grown into a real hidden idol.
Reward Challenge - pull on rope supporting disk, spelling Reward in blocks on the disk. First tribe wins steak and chicken kabobs, second wins not as lavish chicken tribe. Since there are now three tribes, the two winning tribes pick someone to go to Ghost Island.
NAVITI wins 1st place! Malolo takes second.
They decide to send Kellyn to Ghost Island. She wins an advantage there. She won the one that Mikayla didn't notice and was used to vote her out. Kellyn's advantage with it is to get another vote in Tribal.
It looks like Bradley's personality is gonna kill him when it comes their time for Tribal. Wendell finds a clue to an idol. And, then the idol itself. Immunity necklace that Erik gave to Natalie. It has grown into a hidden immunity idol on Ghost Island.
On Malolo, they decide to burn the tribe banner in hopes of reversing the curse.
And it's then time for the Immunity Challenge. Diving. retrieving rings, ring toss.
Yanuya wins first place and finally Malolo wins second and won't go to Tribal.
Bradley has been talked about as a target. Libby seems to be a target. Dominick is torn between the two. I'm just glad that Dhonathan's name isn't being tossed around. The kid is growing on me.
Tribal Council time. Hopefully Bradley will talk too much and go away. He can be obnoxious.
The tally --
Libby, Bradley, Bradley, Bradley ...
Woot! Bradley is out!
The merge will go down next week.
Once again this week, I won't be live-blogging tonight's show. I can't sit long enough to do so. No way could I type the happenings as they happen without it looking like I was just pushing any key on the keyboard. I do the live blogging from a desktop computer and there is no way right now. My apologies.
Please, if you could provide some show updates in the comments, it would be appreciated.
Enjoy the show and the party in comments!
Lifeguard Laurie has updated the blog pool. Here's the latest:
NEW MALOLO
Angela Perkins - monty924, Karen JC
Chris Noble - Petals, Ed in Ohio, ChicMc
Domenick Abbate - Donna in Alabama, Janice
Donathan Hurley - Becky, Terry is a Texan!
James Lim - TS14Fan, Krysta Gibson
Laurel Johnson - PDX Granny, Donna in FL
Libby Vincek - tbc, jennifer, Laurie
Wendell Holland - Skyriverblue, Jennasmom
NEW NAVITI
Desiree Afuye - Bizarro22, Karen in California
Sebastion Noel - Indiana Jane, Shannon, Jackie
Kellyn Bechtold - Glenn Allen, Margo, Delee
Bradley Kleihege - SueGee, Nana in the NW, Auntie Leigh
Chelsea Townsend - David, Merrilee
Jenna Bowman - Brian, Judi Sweeney
Michael Yerger - Sharon N., Tammy
TORCHLESS
Stephanie Gonzalez
Jacob Derwin
Morgan Ricke
Brendan Shapiro
Stephanie Johnson
Sounds like a merge or another tribe shake-up is afoot for tonight ...
Once again this week, I won't be live-blogging tonight's show. Due to my spine surgery last week, I can't sit long enough to do so. No way could I type the happenings as they happen without it looking like I was just pushing any key on the keyboard.
Please, if you could provide some show updates in the comments, it would be appreciated.
Enjoy the show and the party in comments!
Lifeguard Laurie has updated the blog pool. Here's the latest:
NEW MALOLO
Angela Perkins - monty924, Karen JC
Chris Noble - Petals, Ed in Ohio, ChicMc
Domenick Abbate - Donna in Alabama, Janice
Donathan Hurley - Becky, Terry is a Texan!
James Lim - TS14Fan, Krysta Gibson
Laurel Johnson - PDX Granny, Donna in FL
Libby Vincek - tbc, jennifer, Laurie
Wendell Holland - Skyriverblue, Jennasmom
NEW NAVITI
Desiree Afuye - Bizarro22, Karen in California
Sebastion Noel - Indiana Jane, Shannon, Jackie
Kellyn Bechtold - Glenn Allen, Margo, Delee
Bradley Kleihege - SueGee, Nana in the NW, Auntie Leigh
Chelsea Townsend - David, Merrilee
Jenna Bowman - Brian, Judi Sweeney
Stephanie Johnson - Brenda, Rbennie, Kristen from Ohio
Michael Yerger - Sharon N., Tammy
TORCHLESS
Stephanie Gonzalez
Jacob Derwin
Morgan Ricke
Brendan Shapiro
I won't be live-blogging tonight's show due to spine surgery this morning. As I write this, I haven't really had said surgery yet. I'm scheduling the post to appear at its regular time. I should be home as the show airs, but will only be able to peek in now and then, if that much. General anesthesia, spinal surgery and pain meds don't make for sitting and blogging just a few hours later. So, you're on your own -- please behave!
Update: I'm home alive. But no way can I live blog the show.
Since Jeff went and jumbled up the tribes once again, Lifeguard Laurie has updated the blog pool. Here's the latest:
NEW MALOLO
Angela Perkins - monty924, Karen JC
Chris Noble - Petals, Ed in Ohio, ChicMc
Domenick Abbate - Donna in Alabama, Janice
Donathan Hurley - Becky, Terry is a Texan!
James Lim - TS14Fan, Krysta Gibson
Laurel Johnson - PDX Granny, Donna in FL
Libby Vincek - tbc, jennifer, Laurie
Wendell Holland - Skyriverblue, Jennasmom
NEW NAVITI
Desiree Afuye - Bizarro22, Karen in California
Sebastion Noel - Indiana Jane, Shannon, Jackie
Kellyn Bechtold - Glenn Allen, Margo, Delee
Bradley Kleihege - SueGee, Nana in the NW, Auntie Leigh
Chelsea Townsend - David, Merrilee
Jenna Bowman - Brian, Judi Sweeney
Stephanie Johnson - Brenda, Rbennie, Kristen from Ohio
Brendan Shapiro - Martha Light, Rochelle
Michael Yerger - Sharon N., Tammy
TORCHLESS
Stephanie Gonzalez
Jacob Derwin
Morgan Ricke
Enjoy the show!
