Episode 31.2

Sometimes you may notice that I mention potential spoilers. I’m not entirely sure if all of them are spoilers are not. I’ll try to avoid them as often as possible. But, there are times that I might talk about them for one reason or another. Speaking of which… SPOILER. I have heard from supposedly spoiler free sources that there will be a third tribe sometime this season. Speculation is that sometime soon there will be a switch from two tribes to three. I don’t know yet if that is true. My guess is that the third tribe is a potential scab tribe formed from the other two tribes as they lose members somehow. Maybe a random swap into groups of three will lead to a reward challenge where the losing group has to be the new one. END SPOILER.

Joe Anglim Worlds Apart Vytas Baskauskas Blood vs. Water Spencer Bledsoe Cagayan Jeremy Collins San Juan del Sur Teresa "T-Bird" Cooper Africa Brad Culpepper Blood vs. Water Max Dawson Worlds Apart Terry Deitz Panama Ciera Eastin Blood vs. Water Stephen Fishbach Tocantins Latasha "Tasha" Fox Cagayan Abi-Maria Gomes Philippines Mike Holloway Worlds Apart Yung "Woo" Hwang Cagayan Kimmi Kappenberg The Australian Outback Peih-Gee Law China Kassandra "Kass" McQuillen Cagayan Keith Nale San Juan del Sur Shirin Oskooi Worlds Apart Monica Padilla Samoa Shane Powers Panama Carolyn Rivera Worlds Apart Troy "Troyzan" Robertson One World Andrew Savage Pearl Islands Natalie Tenerelli Redemption Island Sabrina Thompson One World Stephanie Valencia Redemption Island Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo Mikayla Wingle South Pacific

Here’s a reminder of the contestants in the game. Remember that I will slowly take out contestants who didn’t make the cast and cross out those that did when they are eliminated. I’ll probably post this near the beginning of every blog post of mine this season. Every eliminated player will be crossed out, but only those that didn’t make the cast will be removed over time. I hope that this isn’t confusing to anyone, but I’ll probably hear if it is. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Kelley Wentworth talks about how she found the hidden immunity idol which I’m guessing is a real one. Jeff Varner talks about the side that he sided with. I notice the old school versus new school rivalry on at least this tribe. I wonder if this will be a recurring theme throughout the season.

In the second segment of the show, Joe talks about how he is trying to change his game this time around. People talk about the various annoyingness of Abi-Maria. Andrew talks about his wife, but other people get confessionals about it, which is a bad sign for him.

In the third segment of the show, Abi-Maria continues to be ostracized on her tribe and has a bit of a fight with Peih-Gee. She is accepted by some members. We then get to the immunity challenge that I think that Bayon will win. I’m not sure yet if they will. Bayon does, in fact, win the close challenge after a minor error by the other tribe on the puzzle.

In the next segment of the show, Jeff Varner does his best to pick off either Spencer or Shirin as he felt that they are both huge threats in the game. They learn of this and try to turn the tables, but it doesn’t look like this will happen. They both try to pull in Woo, but he just rejects them both. Then we get to tribal council. It seems like a lot of people are possibly repeating their previous seasons and thus their previous mistakes. The last episode proves this. This almost defeats the purpose of a second chance season in a way. Shirin is the unfortunate person that gets the boot in this episode.

On the next Survivor, we see a brand new twist that I talked about in the spoiler section of this blog post. It is now safe for you to go back and read it if you didn’t before. I’ll do my best to either never talk about potential spoilers or put them in appropriate sections like I did.

Total confessional count: Jeff Varner- 8, Abi-Maria- 7, Woo- 2, Kelley Wentworth- 6, Kimmi- 2, Joe- 3, Peih-Gee- 3, Kelly Wiglesworth- 3, Spencer- 8, Kass- 3, Jeremy- 3, Keith- 2, Terry- 2, Shirin- 6, Ciera- 2, Monica- 1, Stephen- 3, Andrew- 3, Tasha- 2.

New confessionals this episode: Kass- 1, Jeremy- 1, Keith- 0, Terry- 1, Shirin- 4, Ciera- 0, Monica- 0, Stephen- 1, Andrew- 1, Tasha- 0, Jeff Varner- 5, Abi-Maria- 3, Woo- 1, Kelley Wentworth- 2, Kimmi- 0, Joe- 1, Peih-Gee- 2, Kelly Wiglesworth- 1, Spencer- 5.

It looks like Monica is at the bottom of the confessional count, still at only one confessional. Jeff Varner and Spencer have the highest number thus far. It makes me wonder if Spencer’s was just a boost due to him being a target and Jeff Varner by being the main reason he was targeted. Tasha, Keith, Ciera, Monica, and Kimmi all lacked confessionals in this episode. Shirin had 4 confessionals this episode and 6 total. I’m not sure what to make of the numbers at the moment. I’m not sure what to make of Jeff Varner’s edit at the moment. Is it good or bad? He is currently my pick to win, although a lot of others are also people that I’d like to win. I’m guessing that the best edit this season will go to the person who overcomes previous mistakes. It is weird that so many people don’t have many confessionals yet. By the time the merge happens, we’ll see whose low numbers stick. Low numbers after the merge are typically a very bad sign. But high numbers before a merge can be a bad sign too since they show some contestants while they still can. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.