Survivor 41: November 10 Episode Blog Party

 

Good evening! I hope everyone is doing okay tonight. After all, we're at the merge now. We're talking individual games with all kinds of convoluted twists going on. At least we saw what Shot in the Dark can do ... or, more accurately, what it cannot do. To be honest, I won't be missing Sydney. She was way too full of herself and how much better she was than everyone else. Too bad, so sad.

Lifeguard Laurie has gathered the pool together once again -- at least without tribes, it makes things a bit easier! Here's where we stand:

Danny McCray - Cheryl in NC, Nickelpeed, Jennifer
Deshawn Radden - Kelsey NY, PDX Granny, Jlaf
Erika Casupanan - Petals, Pam Arceneaux, Margo
Evvie Jagoda - Sharon C, bizaro22, Indiana Jane
Heather Aldret - Debbie, Joanne Victoria
Liana Wallace - Terry is a Texan, ChicMC
Naseer Muttalif - CherryPie, Tammy M
Ricard Foye - Mikes Girl, GiLLL
Shantel Smith- Marthalight, Jackie
Tiffany Seely - David, Dr_Celine
Xander Hastings - Donna in FL, April

OUT
Sara Wilson
David Voce
Brad Reese
Jairus Robinson (JD)
Genie Chen 
Sydney Segal

I'll be updating this entry with the major happenings as the show airs here on the East Coast. Refresh the page to get the latest news! As always, the real party is in the comments area -- please feel free to join in on the fun!

We open with night 14 and get a quick replay of Xander handing off the fake idol. Liana tells us her relationship with Evvie is fractured. Evvie knows how close she came to going home. Her eyes have opened and now she feels she needs to rebuild relationships after playing too hard.

Tiffany is working on people. Xander is, too. They're scrambling, the Yase Three. 

We're thrown into a challenge. Jeff tells us there is an advantage hidden at the bench. The castaways come by boat. It's a Reward Challenge, leap off ramp, dive down, puzzle pieces and people in boat, two solve the puzzle. Five on each team, one sits out. Blue/Yellow -- Erika gets the odd rock and sits out, with no chance of Reward. Xander offers to take her spot because she hasn't eaten. The Reward is grill cheese sandwiches. (I would give that up, too. Not a grill cheese fan!)

Blue wins -- Evvie, Ricard, Deshawn, Erika, Danny 

Xander did NOT find the advantage at the bench.

The six not eating are whining. Well, except for Xander who is schmoozing and Naseer who goes off and gets papaya. They are scheming against Evvie because she put the puzzle together in seconds remembering it from a previous season. Ricard ticks off Shan as he came back from reward and wanted to try papaya.

Day 16 brings us the Immunity Challenge. Balance on toes with a block of wood balanced between your head and frame. Last one standing wins. Two options, any player feeling safe enough can opt out for rice or as a group, multiple people can win enough rice for everybody for three days.

Shan suggests five and steps out, Naseer joins her. Xander proposes four and steps forward if one more will. Ricard joins them.

Deshawn, Erika, Tiffany out quickly. Danny out. Liana, Evvie and Heather remain. Liana down. Heather out.

EVVIE wins Immunity ... the shortest the challenge has ever gone -- around four minutes.

Liana is not happy that her oust Evvie plan is busted. She wants to flush out Xander's idol. Hmm ... Naseer trusts Shan and Ricard. Tiffany is the new target? Dehawn and Danny are talking Naseer but Shan is going on about Xander not being a number for them and being a big threat. Of course, she is putting a target on her own back by not listening to them.

Shan tells Xander and company the target is Naseer. Xander hears Naseer, Tiffany and Heather's names as targets. Tiffany is worried. Heather is worried that Shan is putting her out there and trying to run the show. 

They head off to Tribal and it looks like just about anything can happen.

Jeff talks about food being such a big issue this year. He asks Shan why she stepped forward. She said for the group to eat. Xander also talked for the group. Naseer says he has flat feet and chicken legs, would have won the challenge but wanted the group to eat. The rest talk about being a bit nervous heading into this tonight.

Heather gets up and whispers to push the vote to Naseer which gets a group wanting to push it to Heather. Ricard whispers to Xander to please play his idol ... now, Xander's name wasn't in the whispers.

With no idols/advantages played, the tally is: Xander, Xander, Heather, Heather, Naseer, Tiffany, Tiffany, Tiffany, Tiffany, Tiffany ... first member of the jury is Tiffany.

Survivor 41: November 3rd Episode Blog Party

 

We were left with no Tribal Council and a cliffhanger last week on the show. Now, those who know me know I'm just going to have to go there -- we were left between a grey rock and a hard place. Heh.

While this season is moving along quickly, as it should seeing as it was filmed in 26 days rather than the usual 39, it's getting all kinds of convoluted up in here. I'm still not quite really understanding the twist they can pull at Tribal to save their butts (individually) but lose a vote. Until I see that one go down, I'll continue to be a bit befuddled. That's not even mentioning the three part idol between tribes and the various trips out to wherever with risks and rewards. Twist overload alert!

Now we have the latest. The tribes were issued random rocks consisting of five yellow, five blue and two grey. The two grey didn't participate in the Immunity Challenge. One (Naseer) joined the winning "team" -- Blue. The other grey rock person, Erika, had to go off to a sort of Exile Island. There Jeff met up with her and has given her a choice to break an hourglass to set time back so the other team wins (and she is safe) or to do nothing which would most likely leave her to be cast off.

And, there we are at the grey rock and hard place. Either way she choses she will make enemies. If she reverses the win, she alienates most of her previous tribemates. Of course, she was pretty much at the bottom of the pecking order there anyway. Tonight we will see her decision and someone will be cast off.

I don't know how long it will last, but here are the teams currently in play --

Yellow - Liana, Heather, Xander, Shan, Tiffany, (Erika?)

Blue - Ricard, Danny, Deshawn, Evvie, Sydney, Naseer

I will be updating this entry as the show airs here on the East Coast. Refresh the page to get the latest news. As always, the real party is in the comments area. I'd love to see you there! Let's get this show on the road!

We start out with all three of the sentence-saying idols in power. Liana reads her advantage about asking it someone has an idol and taking it. Gah. It's a ball of confusion!

Night 13 on Exile with Erika. A beautiful dawn on Day 14 after a stormy night. She's feeling renewed and will realize her true strengths. Hmm. She knows whatever she does some will not be happy with her.

All castaways are brought together in a challenge place when Jeff brings in Erika. At Jeff's prompting she explains that she could change history. Jeff explains that she could switch the game up. She decides to play for herself and changed history. Now the ones who didn't have to compete for immunity (Blue) do and Yellow can sit back being safe for the night.

The new bunch has to drop their buffs as they are not guaranteed a spot in the final eleven. 

Using feet only drop blocks, put in a three level circle with flag in middle.

RICARD wins Immunity! All will go to Tribal tonight and vote. However, the only ones who can be voted out are Evvie, Sydney, Deshawn, Danny and Naseer.

Day 14 after the challenge. Liana is thrilled -- she's safe and still can use her advantage (asking for idol). Danny is upset but Deshawn is taking it all pretty mellow. They start talking about Evvie being the target. Xander would be on board for that. Liana is not too happy with that as she thinks she can work with Evvie.

Huh? Xander promises Evvie his idol? Hmm. Evvie found out all about Liana's steal an idol and tells Xander. He knows that he has to have it in his possession for it to be stolen by her.

Ricard tells Erika they are thinking Evvie. Xander tells Danny that Evvie will be safe no matter what and about Liana's idol. He thinks that he's creating paranoia but doesn't realize that Liana is an ally of Danny's. She realizes that Tiffany told everyone.

Xander tells Liana in front of Evvie that he is playing the idol for Evvie and will have it with him until he hands it to her. Now Deshawn is worried that HE will be going home. Sydney wants to redirect any votes off of her. Liana is sure she will be taking the idol from Xander. We'll see about that.

They're heading to Tribal now.

So many people there, many who never were there before. Jeff is asking his typical questions. Will the Shot in the Dark come into play? Talk of relationships and trust now. Evvie gives Xander credut fir saving her. And, he does have it and is giving it to Evvie. Deshawn tells them that Evvie had told him about the idol.

Liana reads her advantage. HE HANDS HER A FAKE IDOL!!! Perfect! Tiffany has his real one!

Now the whispering starts. Will they target Sydney? Oh my. Deshawn's name is coming up, too. Danny is saying Evvie. 

Xander voted Deshawn. Erika voted Sysney. Danny uses his extra vote.

The tally ... Sydney is taking her Shot in the Dark. She sacrifices her vote. She is NOT SAFE. Eep. Evvie tells them not to play the idol for her.

Deshawn, Evvie, Sydney, Deshawn, Sydney, Deshawn, Evvie, Evvie, Sydney, Evvie, Sydney, Sydney.

Bye, Sydney. 

The rest have made the merge.

Survivor 41: October 27 Episode Blog Party

 

Good evening! I hope everyone has made it through the weird weather all over the country okay. Our nor'easter here dropped about five or so inches of rain over two days and all day today has been strong winds. Lots of flooding, lots of power outages. Thankfully, I was affected by neither.

Tonight's episode promo from last week is that we'll have a tribe shuffle or merge. I think it will be a shuffle of some sort. But don't hold me to that or make any wagers. I'm just guessing. I refuse to be held liable if I'm wrong.

I'll be live-blogging tonight's show with the major events as it airs here on the East Coast. Refresh the page to get the latest updates! As always, the real party is in the comments area. I hope to see you there!

Lifeguard Laurie has updated the blog pool. She rocks like that, right? Are you still in the pool?

LUVU TRIBE BLUE

Danny McCray - Cheryl in NC, Nickelpeed, Jennifer

Deshawn Radden - Kelsey NY, PDX Granny, Jlaf

Erika Casupanan - Petals, Pam Arceneaux, Margo

Heather Aldret - Debbie, Joanne Victoria

Naseer Muttalif - CherryPie, Tammy M

Sydney Segal - Joyce Erickson, Laurie

UA TRIBE GREEN

Ricard Foye - Mikes Girl, GiLLL

Shantel Smith- Marthalight, Jackie

YASE  TRIBE YELLOW

Evvie Jagoda - Sharon C, bizaro22, Indiana Jane

Liana Wallace - Terry is a Texan, ChicMC

Tiffany Seely - David, Dr_Celine

Xander Hastings - Donna in FL, April

OUT

Eric Abraham

Sara Wilson

David Voce

Brad Reese

Jairus Robinson (JD)

Genie Chen

Survivor fans ready?

We start out with Ua returning from Tribal on Night 11. Shan feels bad that she had to go for Genie to leave because she needed Ricard's strategy skills. He's upset with her because she wanted her extra vote just before Tribal. He gave the vote back but not the advantage, claiming that he would give her it tomorrow. Ricard doesn't think she should have two advantages in this game. I don't know. If I were there, no one would touch any idol or advantage I had. I don't care if they trust me or not! Now because she used the advantages as collateral, they're squabbling.

Yase Day 12 -- Tree mail. Milestone, it sounds like it might be the merge coming. So they think, anyway. They have to gather all their personal items and such to take with them. Xander thinks the four are locked solid and could shake up the game. However, Liana thinks of Xander as a big threat. 

Luvu - Naseer is trying to gather them all together as an alliance going into the merge.

Jeff meets with us. He says no one is going home tonight and it will be a two part episode. 

Jeff calls them in. He tells them tribes are no longer, it's an individual game. Drop your buffs. He says they are not merged, they have to earn their way in. Draw for two teams, dig up massive boulder, push boulder through course to key stations, retrieve keys, climb up a tower, word puzzle -- earns a merge buff and a meal, will be safe at Tribal Council. Two players will draw grey rocks and their fate will be decided by the winning team.

ACK! Naseer has grey! Erika also has grey. The teams are determined by blue and yellow rocks. Right now I can't keep up with both teams members live. I will add them in later. Blue is ahead and Yelllow seems to be more women.

Yellow - Liana, Heather, Xander, Shan, Tiffany

Blue - Ricard, Danny, Deshawn, Evvie, Sydney

BLUE wins! They have to choose either Erika or Naseer to be with them. The one not chosen has to go off to like an Exile Island dealie for two days. YAY! Naseer joins them for the merge feast at the sanctuary.

Oh my -- that is some feast! It comes out that the worry is the men keep being eliminated which is why they chose to bring Naseer aboard. Evvie denied they were targeting the men.

Erika is on the island. She has a bit of rice. She has water. Now we get her backstory about being different from others and not having much. Yet her parents instilled good personal values in her. Hmm. My head was turned looking at the computer monitor but I caught a glimpse of something that looked like a key. I may be wrong.

Yellow goes to their assigned camp. Xander is worried that he might have to play his idol or win immunity to stay in the game. Liana has that "you must give me your idol"advantage. She tells Shan about it. Tiffany prods Liana for intel and learns about the advantage. Tiffany is suspicious (with good cause) about Liana even though Liana told her she wants Xander to go.

It's still Day 12 when the feasting Blues join the Yellow at camp. Naseer tells Xander he has his back. Xander knows he could very well be a target. Sydney thinks Erika will get an advantage on the island and should be targeted. Liana wants to team up with Danny and Deshawn. Okay, they are aligning and, like BB last season, it's the blackness. But a major difference is that they don't have the singular goal of first Black winner and I doubt they will be as cohesive.

Erika is still on the island. A boat pulls up with Jeff on it. He asks her about how it feels to be left alone He tells her they gave her tremendous power. An hourglass will allow her to go back in time, can change history, can go back to yesterday and change the results. If she wants to do it, she needs to smash the hourglass. She can save herself. She is worried because the six that would no longer be safe are her own ex-tribemates for the most part.

Survivor 41: October 20 Episode Blog Party

 

Yessirree ... we're back for more schemin' demons ... er ... castaways. The tribes are getting down so low that you know a shuffle or merge has to be upon us soon. So, what are we in for tonight? Will Shan hum again? She's reminding me of Omar's whistling 'The Farmer in the Dell' as he walks with his shotgun in The Wire.

I will be live blogging the episode as it airs here on the East Coast. Refresh the page to catch the latest major updates! As always, the real party is in the comments area. Please feel free to join in on the fun!

The Ever Efficient Lifeguard Laurie has updated the blog pool. Are you still in it?

LUVU TRIBE BLUE

Danny McCray - Cheryl in NC, Nickelpeed, Jennifer

Deshawn Radden - Kelsey NY, PDX Granny, Jlaf

Erika Casupanan - Petals, Pam Arceneaux, Margo

Heather Aldret - Debbie, Joanne Victoria

Naseer Muttalif - CherryPie, Tammy M

Sydney Segal - Joyce Erickson, Laurie

UA TRIBE GREEN

Genie Chen - SueGee, Laura in GA, Bren

Ricard Foye - Mikes Girl, GiLLL

Shantel Smith- Marthalight, Jackie

YASE  TRIBE YELLOW

Evvie Jagoda - Sharon C, bizaro22, Indiana Jane

Liana Wallace - Terry is a Texan, ChicMC

Tiffany Seely - David, Dr_Celine

Xander Hastings - Donna in FL, April

OUT

Eric Abraham

Sara Wilson

David Voce

Brad Reese

Jairus Robinson (JD)

Survivor fans ready?

Ua - Day 10! The tribe of three. Genie is feeling solid with the three of them. Genie is looking for JD's recycled three-part idol rehidden. And, she finds it! Argh. She tells Shan and Ricard about it. Shan doesn't want it opened, tells us she doesn't want anyone to have more power than her. She talks to Ricard, neither trust Genie. They decide to hide a fake idol in its place before opening it. It is the three-way one. If the third part isn't used by the merge, it expires. Ricard, the one behind the fake idol idea, tells Genie they need to say Brad's speech just to see if Luvu has found theirs.

Luvu - Erika is out there catching fish. The men are getting worried about men on other tribes are getting voted out. Naseer doesn't want to throw challenges. He is feeling good because Danny and Deshawn have accepted him. They haven't really, though. They just feel they need him.

Yase - The women are making Xander feel like he has the power. Tiffany and Evvie don't trust his relationship with Liana. They go in his bag and find the extra vote. He tells Tiffany that he has the three part.

Day 11. A very hot day. Whoa! Naseer comes up with the third line for the three-part idol! Immunity Challenge -- also Reward, rope and giant tarp for 1st, 2nd smaller tarp. 

Up and over net "ramp," one person untangle knots after all tribe mates up and over, release key, machete to release bags, fire at targets with giant slingshot doohickey.

YASE wins 1st Immunity! Luvu wins 2nd! Uh-oh ... Ua will be down to two? Yase sends two in a journey, must choose a Ua -- chooses Shan. One more -- Liana.

Liana and Shan travel together. Shan rats out Xander to Liana. They agree to work together after the merge. Shan also tells her that if she's not here tomorrow, Ricard can't be trusted because he's her ally. We get the backstory on both. Shan used to be in a gang but is now a pastor. Liana is just getting to know her mother. Shan doesn't risk her vote. Liana says she needs to risk her vote. The Knowledge of Power Advantage. She can ask others if they have an idol or advantage, they cannot lie to her. Then she can take it.

Ua - Ricard and Genie. Ricard tells her that he thinks Shan will vote him out. He tells us he plans on convincing Genie to vote out Shan while he and Shan vote out Genie. Genie doesn't really trust Ricard. She's not a dummy and she tells us she and Shan would vote him out.

Shan returns and tells us she will tell them all that happens. She does tell them that she did not risk her vote. All three decide to pitch themselves. Shan wants one on one meetings with both. Genie tells her she's with her. Shan trusts her. She wants to snag the extra vote back from him. Ricard tells her he won't vote her out. He thinks if he gives her the extra vote back she will vote him out. They argue-ish. He tells her he will give it back tomorrow. Shan is down to trying to decide between the strategist or the loyalist.

Tribal Council time and Jeff's Probsting questions. Ricard is taking a lot of credit for himself. Hmm. All are nervous.

The tally -- no idols played -- Genie, Ricard, Genie.

Aw, I was getting to really like her.

Next week -- Drop your buffs. But it's not really a merge. I assume it will be a tribe jumble of some kind. Either two tribes or people drawn from Luvu to fill out the other two tribes.

Survivor 41: October 13 Episode Blog Party

 

Good evening! I hope everyone is doing well. Are you ready for another episode of this rather new-fangled twists season? I'm getting a bit befuddled with all these bizarre idol twists and walks through the countryside. I guess we'll find out tonight if Brad's now lost part of the three part idol will be re-hidden. I would think so. Otherwise three people won't get an idol each. We know how the show pushes the idols.

Lifeguard Laurie has updated the pool and here's where we currently stand:

LUVU TRIBE BLUE

Danny McCray - Cheryl in NC, Nickelpeed, Jennifer

Deshawn Radden - Kelsey NY, PDX Granny, Jlaf

Erika Casupanan - Petals, Pam Arceneaux, Margo

Heather Aldret - Debbie, Joanne Victoria

Naseer Muttalif - CherryPie, Tammy M

Sydney Segal - Joyce Erickson, Laurie

UA TRIBE GREEN

Genie Chen - SueGee, Laura in GA, Bren

Jairus Robinson - Sydney, Brandi

Ricard Foye - Mikes Girl, GiLLL

Shantel Smith- Marthalight, Jackie

YASE  TRIBE YELLOW

Evvie Jagoda - Sharon C, bizaro22, Indiana Jane

Liana Wallace - Terry is a Texan, ChicMC

Tiffany Seely - David, Dr_Celine

Xander Hastings - Donna in FL, April

OUT

Eric Abraham

Sara Wilson

David Voce

Brad Reese

I'll be updating this entry with the major events as the show airs here on the East Coast. Refresh the page to get the latest news! As always, the real party is in the comments area. Please feel free to join in on the fun! Survivor fans ready?

Ua - Coming back from Tribal. Genie feels all alone because Brad went and he was her only ally. She says she will not help them anymore. Shan tells her about Brad's advantage that he had kept secret from her (Genie). She ends up giving JD his advantage back.

Oh my ... we're already into the Immunity Challenge? Yikes! Oh. It's a pure Reward Challenge. First two tribes to finish -- 1st gets a local visitor who will aid them in how to survive. 2nd gets a fish. They have to toss a ball up and let it roll down a raised platform over their heads, run to catch it on the other side. Then they must dig to go under a pole. Then toss the balls on a beam to balance them.

GENIE made the final shot for Ua and they win. Yase wins second. And Luvu has their first loss. Heather is hysterically crying because she just couldn't get through the first part. Her tribemates are consoling her and trying to cheer her up. After all, it was just Reward.

Yase - They are loving their fish! Tiffany is actually (seemingly) thriving. They find a whole bunch of turtles. Baby ones, that is. They cheer the turtles on as the babies head to the ocean.

Ua - The local Nathan shows them how to climb coconut trees. It's a bit reminiscent of Ozzy. He gives them advice on catching fish. Uh-oh, now Ricard is thinking they don't need Genie again!

Luvu - Erika doesn't feel bad about losing ... she's just happy to be there. She observes that Sydney's emotions might be the downfall of the tribe. But when she voices her thoughts to Deshawn, it kind of puts her in the spotlight. Ohh ... he tells us he thinks she's sneaky. Deshawn runs to Sydney to tell her what Erika said about her.

Then Deshawn tells Danny. Now the target is on Erika if they lose. Heck, they're talking about throwing the challenge! Danny does not want to do that!

Immunity Challenge time. Race through water, collect three bags of logs, push through a tunnel, find key on one log, unlock the ring, toss three on pegs. Deshawn is going very slowly. He's retying the knots on the logs bags instead of untying. Heh, Naseer's efforts to win thwart Deshawn's efforts to lose.

Yase wins Immunity! And, despite Deshawn, Naseer wins the 2nd Immunity for Luvu. Ua will go to Tribal tonight.

Genie tells JD she is thinking of doing the Shot in the Dark, rolling the die. They lose their votes when they do that. JD thinks Genie should go because if she doesn't, it could very well be him. Shan wants to put Genie's focus on JD to protect Ricard. Oh my. What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive. Oh geez ... JD falls for Shan's trust speech and lets her hold his advantage of the extra vote. What a gullible kid!

Tribal time! Jeff points out that Genie's body language seems exhaustion, defeat? She says she's playing from the bottom. She is sure the tribe is just placating her to keep her from using the Shot in the Dark -- which is another confusing thing introduced this season. Emotion is big on all of them.

JD votes Genie. No others shown.

The tally -- Genie, JD, JD, JD.

Oh, silly boy. His childhood dream blown in a minute. Not to mention, Shan still has his extra vote advantage for herself now. You KNOW she won't be fool enough to give it to someone to hold to prove their trust.