Episode 31.3

For no good reason lately I’ve been wondering what would happen if there was a tie for win on Survivor. For some odd reason, I’ve been wondering if a new reality show could solve the answer. I imagine it being a more condensed version of Survivor that would have eight contestants plus the tied player. These would be competed separately from each other and whoever does better between the two games would be declared the winner of that Survivor season. Aspects if this supposed game that would remain the same would be immunity challenges, tribal councils, and juries. Basically anyone who gets voted out would be on the jury. Only quitters and expulsions could potentially mess up how the jury would work. And the best part about this idea is that it can become its own game that can air during the summer to fill the Survivor gap that some of us have.

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 Stephanie Valencia Redemption Island Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo Mikayla Wingle South Pacific

Readers of this blog should be glad that I always update it on a regular basis. My other blogs aren’t updated as well as they should be. My TV blog has always had sporadic updates. Meanwhile, my blogs about Madam Secretary and the Good Wife are written at a good pace, but not updated as well as they should be. This is mostly due to OCD habits of mine. You know, I should form a blog about my OCD, but I don’t know yet if I ever will or not. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Spencer is glad that he is still in the game. Also, anyone who thinks that the tribe swap is for saving him is an idiot. There is nothing rigged about Survivor. That would be illegal. Anyways, Terry is a bit cocky, but is glad that he’s improving his social game. Both tribes arrive for the tribe swap. The new Bayon is Monica, Spencer, Jeremy, Stephen, Kelly Wigglesworth, and Kimmi. The new Ta’Keo is Joe, Keith, Terry, Ciera, Kelley Wentworth, and Kass. The new tribe is Woo, Andrew, Peih-Gee, Tasha, Jeff Varner, and Abi-Maria.

In the second segment of the show, the new tribes interact with each other. There’s not much to be learned here as I fail at mult-tasking. Nobody on Angkor, the new tribe, seems to like being on a new tribe. I still don’t know if it would have worked better if the losing tribe of a reward challenge had to be the new tribe, sort of like if how the losing tribe after the swap in One World that got a new camp. I guess they feel in a bad enough position already. Stephen and Monica share looking for the hidden immunity idol while Jeremy looks for it separately. He is the person who finds it. Cut to the immunity challenge. Ta’Keo is the tribe that I think will lose the challenge. Remember the hint that I’ve told you about before? That’s why I think it will happen. But, it isn’t always true. Something I didn’t notice before was how all of the brains members are now on separate tribes. I also think that only once a clue is found is an idol hidden at the challenge. Do they have to do new clues for every challenge? How many idols are there in the game? There could be too many of them in the end. Jeremy was able to find the idol. In the end, Ta’Keo actually wins the challenge, so it wasn’t an accurate prediction this time. Bayon comes in second and Angkor ends up going to tribal council. There’s some fall out for the new tribe after the challenge that the others tribe witness. We don’t know what that’s about just yet.

In the next segment of the show, animal imagery shows that something malicious is about to happen. Andrew starts to shake up the game and turn things against Jeff Varner. But, soon things turn against Abi. Am I the only one who missed this meltdown that happened? It didn’t seem like much of anything was actually shown. I do wonder if Jeff Varner pulled a Travis. Remember Travis from Vanuatu? “Merge. We got to think about the merge.” He was voted out that same day. But, I don’t think that this will happen. But I’m generally confused about this moment. Meanwhile, at tribal council, it seems like it is between Abi and Peih-Gee. Ultimately, the person that gets voted out is Peih-Gee. That’s a bit confusing. This makes China the first season to be eliminated from this one.

On the next Survivor, Angkor is in misery, but other tribes are suffering. I guess that they will be the tribe of focus for the next episode. But will they? We’ll see. I’m still not sure who we are supposed to be rooting for just yet.

Total confessional count: Abi-Maria- 9, Woo- 2, Kelley Wentworth- 7, Kimmi- 2, Joe- 4, Peih-Gee- 4, Kelly Wiglesworth- 3, Spencer- 11, Kass- 3, Jeremy- 4, Keith- 2, Terry- 4, Ciera- 3, Monica- 2, Stephen- 5, Andrew- 6, Tasha- 5, Jeff Varner- 11.

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

Spencer and Jeff Varner are the highest in terms of confessionals. They are both the first to have more than 10. Could one or both of them be headed for a crash? Meanwhile, Woo, Kimmi, Monica, and Keith have the lowest confessionals with just 2 a piece. In today’s episode, Kass, Kelly Wiglesworth, Woo, Kimmi, and Keith have no confessionals at all. (Weird how almost all of them have k names.) Peih-Gee, who was eliminated, had 1 confessional this episode and 4 confessionals total. It seems that the lower confessionals for now are pretty bad signs. I remember that Jacyln last year was the last to have a confessional and she ended up coming in second place. But she didn’t have much to her edit and that’s never a good sign. It makes me wonder if a floater could win this season. I wouldn’t say that yet, but it was clear in San Juan del Sur that a floater would win and one did win. But, I’ve spoken enough for this blog post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.