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!
Just a word of warning -- right now my area is having a severe winter storm. Trees, power poles and power lines are down all around me. If I disappear from posting, I have not died and there's no need to contact the authorities. It just would mean I've lost my power.
That said ...
Drop your buffs tonight? On the second/third episode? (Since it was basically two episodes in the season premiere and we lost two castaways.) Really? We're going to have to see how this all goes down!
Standing with our usual practice of reassigning pool folks who lost their hopes and dreams on the first night, Lifeguard Laurie reassigned those who had Gonzalez and Jacob because both of them went. My pool dude Jacob was getting on my nerves anyway! Laurie rocks like that. So, here's the blog pool update:
Malolo
Brendan Shapiro - Martha Light, Rochelle
Donathan Hurley - Becky, Terry is a Texan!
James Lim - TS14Fan, Krysta Gibson
Jenna Bowman - Brian, Judi Sweeney
Laurel Johnson - PDX Granny, Donna in Fl
Libby Vincek - tbc, jennifer, Laurie
Michael Yerger - Sharon N., Tammy
Stephanie Johnson - Brenda, Rbennie, Kristen from Ohio
Naviti
Angela Perkins - monty924, Karen JC
Bradley Kleihege - SueGee, Nana in the NW, Auntie Leigh
Chelsea Townsend - David, Merrilee
Chris Noble - Petals, Ed in Ohio, ChicMc
Desiree Afuye - Bizarro22, Karen in California
Domenick Abbate - Donna in Alabama, Janice
Kellyn Bechtold - Glenn Allen, Margo, Delee
Morgan Ricke - Nickelpeed, Cheryl in NC
Sebastian Noel - Indiana Jane, Shannon, Jackie
Wendell Holland - Skyriverblue, Jennasmom
Torchless
Stephanie Gonzalez
Jacob Derwin
Survivor fans ready? Eighteen are left. Who will be voted out tonight?
As they return, James is so relieved not to have been voted out. But he still feels bad about doing so horribly at the challenge.
It's right to Immunity? Drop your buffs! Switching tribes! Jeff passes out covered buffs. No challenge just yet -- they're off to their new (for some) camps.
Purple is Naviti, Orange is Malolo.
I'm not going to get this new tribes down live.
The original members of the tribes are pretty much equally split with the old. There is only about a one person advantage with the splits.
Sebastian, now Malolo, sees four old Naviti tribe members with him. Brendan isn't thrilled with the swap and think the other tribe members from Naviti whine too much. Domenick and his nemesis Chris are on the same tribe together still. Heh. Chris is telling everyone that Domenick has an idol and they need to get him out. That might not be the best thing to do!
Stunning scenery! Stephanie also thinks the Naviti people are whiners. Stephanie and Jenna run off looking for an idol. On the other tribe the Old Malolo Four go searching for an idol. Michael finds James's original China Immunity Idol that he went home with in his pocket, along with a second idol. Now Michael has the chance to reverse the curse.
Libby and Morgan are bonding. Y'know ... it's really hard to keep up with who's whom after just the premiere show (although two hours) and now the tribe switching tonight! Gah. Of course, throw in there that I have trouble siting and my spine surgery is a week away ... GAH!
Now it's time for the Immunity Challenge -- race through ramp walls, dig up a tall ladder, someone has to go up the ladder, unravel rope, use rope to pull up to platform. puzzle. Reward is a tarp. Again, Ghost Island in effect.
Malolo wins Immunity rather easily. Oh, geez. They can't decide and now they want to draw rocks! Chris draws the white rock and will go to Ghost Island. There goes the chance for Domenick to get him out of the game.
On Ghost Island, Chris hopes they will still get rid of Dom. He drew a break of a No Game Today urn. He breaks down and cries. At least he's doing that away from his tribe!
Wendell and Angela talk. Angela wants Libby out. Now Wendell wants Angela out and new alignment with the former people. Now Dom is showing the fake idol and telling the others it's fake. And, of course, he's saying that's why Chris is after him. James is suspicious that Dom might have a real one. Now Morgan's name is being brought up as a target. These folks are all over the place.
Tribal Council time. This tribe is actually a four/four from their original tribes with Chris on Ghost Island. Jeff is asking his Probsting questions about the cohesiveness of the originals, ties and such.
The tally: No one plays an idol.
Libby, Angela, Angela, Angela, Morgan, Morgan, Morgan, Motgan
Morgan is voted out. What will she do with the Legacy Advantage? Wasn't she the one who had it?
Ah, she's willing it to Domenick and she hopes it's not a curse.
My power remained on for this, yay!
