Our Time to Shine

Once Solana returned back to camp from tribal council, Morgan wasted no time dealing with the collateral damage she suffered from Brice’s elimination. Angered by Jeremiah’s actions, she did not mind calling him out in front of the entire tribe. Later on that night, Morgan apologized to Alexis for casting her vote against her saying that Jeremiah actually was the one who came up to her & convinced her to vote for Alexis.

The following morning Luzon was bestowed with the first reward challenge that wasn’t paired up with immunity! YAY!! The training wheels of the game are slowly coming off & we are actually seeing the shift from the starter episodes.

Challenge – Reward

Haulin’ Oats

One member of each tribe would act as a caller while two other blindfolded tribe members would navigate the course to retrieve five items and a flag, eventually working with a third blindfolded tribemate to hoist the items up to the caller’s platform. The first two tribes to get all of its items to the top of their platform win.
Reward: Chickens and a rooster for the first tribe; Twelve eggs for the second tribe.
Winners (in order of finish): Solana & Aparri

Luzon shouldn’t count their eggs before the hatch because WHAT THE HELL?! Luzon was killing it & had jtiarice such a strong lead over Aparri – Oh that’s right, J’tia ONCE AGAIN lost the challenge. For a nuclear engineer who works for the United States of America, she is unable to complete games on a reality show. (I had to add this picture for comedic relief from the terrible survivor castaway we know as J’tia.) For this challenge as a whole, it was very entertaining to watch all these people watch around blindfolded & just run into objects. It was such a good episode. This episode exemplifies, that in the game of Survivor, you should NEVER give up because the game can change in the blink of an eye. It also projects this theory to not only challenges, but the social aspects & strategic moves made by castaways. One conversation can TURN this game upside – never give up in Survivor. HaulinOats

Solana brought their chickens back to camp & to LJ’s surprise, he saw a small note within the basket, quickly snatching it up. A sense of relief rushed over him know it was the hidden immunity clue – which he already possessed himself. Some comedic relief in this episode – listening to the Solana women talk about how eggs from chickens are made. Alexis, who attends Northwestern didn’t know if the chickens were “asexual” or “if the roosters got it on with the hens.” On the topic of chickens, Jeremiah broke the one chicken’s neck so the tribe could eat it, but instead of it dying, the chicken was running around camp FREAKING out the beauty tribe.

Aparri’s camp life was starting to burst at the seams – Sarah’s paranoia was beginning to get the best of her, questioning her alliance to Tony & what Cliff’s & Lindsey’s intentions were. Sarah decided to confront Woo, who is a close friend of Cliff’s, asking Woo to help throw the challenge without Cliff & Lindsey knowing – resulting in voting out Cliff.

Challenge – Immunity

Octopus’ Garden

One member from each tribe at a time will dive to a buoy in the water. They will dive down to a series of buoys submerged at different levels. The first buoy would be 1 meter underwater, the second 2 meters, and so on. Once all the buoys have been brought back to the platform, they will shoot the buoys into a basket out in the ocean. The first two tribes to get all their buoys in the basket win immunity.
Winners (in order of finish): Solana & Aparri

Okay, a basketball related challenge with Cliff (former NBA player) & Aparri is going to throw the challenge. Good luck trying that. Solana has really been kicking ass in these challenges, when I predicted their tribe to be pretty awful. In my opinion, I find it disrespectful to throw a challenge – handle your Our Time to Shine problems when the times comes. Good thing Cliff is such a team player that he put the team on his back & carried them to victory. Speaking of hard working players, Spencer is doing the best he can do with his tribe. I give him so much credit for all the work he puts into each challenge. Where as J’Tia couldn’t even help retrieve the balls to throw back to Spencer. While Aparri tried to throw the challenge, they won & while Luzon tried their hardest to win, they lost. A moment of silence please.

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“Dude, we tried so hard to blow that challenge. Seriously, green tribe, I tried to help you out, but that team sucks! They deserve to lose after that! It’s all I can say.” Sarah from Aparri.

With the inevitable tribal council that will leave Luzon with three castaways, the women are in an alliance of three leaving Spencer on the outs. Kass & Tasha then begin to question J’Tia because literally she sucks so bad at this game of Survivor, but she has always remained loyal to Kass & Tasha. Spencer has proven himself to be the only competent physical aspect to the Luzon tribe. At this point they really need to win challenges because they are going to be decimated within a few days.

Jtialoses At tribal council, Tasha & Kass decided to keep Spencer around because J’Tia really hasn’t been contributing to the tribe at all since day one. She may have been loyal, but that doesn’t cut it in their situation. Saving Spencer definitely solidified the three last Luzon castaways.