Episode 31.4

Well, I’m still thinking sometimes about the season after this one. While it is typical for them to film back to back, it has never before been the case that the season of those that they filmed first would air second. Plus, I still don’t know if the rumors of season 33 being filmed already are true or not. I hope that’s not a spoiler. But, it just seems like a rumor that might not have any truth to it. I’m afraid of googling information about future seasons for fear that I might find out spoilers about it. So I’ll just be surprised like almost everyone else. I guess that with the hype of a season where we choose the contestants (something I wonder if they would ever do with an all new player season), that it wouldn’t make sense to not make it the next season, even if that means the next logical season 31 is now season 32. Will this be the only time that it happens?

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 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

I hope that this section here isn’t too confusing to anyone. I also hope that it’s okay to put this here where the most recent elimination was from the previous episode and not this current episode. We’ll see how I end up getting rid of names in the future. I just know that only those who didn’t make the cast will have their names removed over time. I’m removing them in just random order that probably only makes sense to me and no one else. Just remember that I’ll only get rid of the names of people who didn’t make the cast and not others who were on the cast and got eliminated.

I’ve been wondering about some of the new twists this season. Like the hidden immunity idol being hidden at challenges. The clues are still at camp and the idol is at the challenge. Now here’s what I’m wondering: is it still one idol per tribe? You’d think that’s how it should be, but I’m not entirely sure that’s what will happen. They have done screwy things with idols before.

Also, this is the first time that they went from two tribes to three tribes during the game. It makes me wonder what will happen with potential merges/dissolves. You see, in every season thus far that started with more than two tribes, they were always at the two tribe phrase before the merge having gone down from more than two to just two at some point. It makes me wonder if they’ll do a dissolve this time as usual or if they’ll shake things up by merging at three tribes. I also wonder how they would potentially do a dissolve this season. I’d like to see it be at an immunity challenge. Jeff Probst can say that the tribe that loses the potential future challenge will have to be dissolved into the other two tribes after they vote out a member. Thus, right after tribal council, they would get new buffs and head right off to their now new tribes. I’ll discuss how they’ve done dissolves from three to two in my next blog post. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Angkor arrives back at camp after tribal council. Jeff Varner is glad that he survived tribal without a vote. Was he ever in danger? He’s a bit more cocky than I would like. Also, how do people know nowadays who voted for you? That didn’t use to be the case. How do people know that? They shouldn’t be able to. Jeremy is talking about the idol to Stephen and sending him on worthless hunts to find it. This doesn’t seem like a smart move on Jeremy’s part.

In the second segment of the show, Andrew talks about the struggle that his tribe has been having. Also, it appears that different contestants like the same spot for confessionals at the Angkor beach. Finally, we have a reward challenge. Since only one person plays, I wonder if this means that Jeremy and Terry will have to both sit out the immunity challenge. They didn’t say that this would happen, but it could. But will it? It might have been a mistake to have Jeremy play the challenge. It does seem weird to have just one person play the challenge. Why do that now at the tribal part of the game? Angkor comes in first at the challenge. Ta’Keo comes in second place. I could tell from that one weird noise as Jeremy was chosen to play the challenge that it probably meant that his tribe would lose. Meanwhile, Andrew is glad that he could carry his tribe to victory.

In the third segment of the show, for some odd reason, it is nighttime when they get back to camp or enjoy the reward. It looks like Andrew’s edit is picking up and he could be a contender for the win. You may think that all of the contestants technically are, but you can tell sometimes when the edit supports a candidate and when it doesn’t. Those that stay invisible for a while may never have a good chance in the long run. Meanwhile, Kelley Wentworth is getting suspicious of Kass. It turns out she’s making a birthday present and it not up to the evil that Kelley Wentworth thinks she is. Kass knows that Kelley Wentworth is suspicious of her. Spencer has a strategy that backfires in Monica’s mind.

In the fourth segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. It is a personal favorite of mine, although I probably wouldn’t want to play it. Also, it seems like Ta’Keo is the only tribe that they show winning the challenge, it seems. Maybe they’ll shake things up, but this isn’t the hint that I thought it would be. It looks like Kass may contribute to a loss for her tribe based on the edit that she’s getting. There are various injuries at the challenge. All of them seem minor or minor enough. Bayon comes in first.  Ta’Keo comes in second. I’m not sure why Angkor fell apart the way they did. Maybe Andrew isn’t getting that good an edit after all.

In the fifth segment of the show, Andrew is upset that his tribe lost. It seems like he’s becoming the liked leader of his tribe again, like he was the first time. Also, Jeff Varner is injured in some way. It must be a lasting injury from the challenge. I have the feeling that if Abi gets voted out, that Woo wouldn’t have voted against her and if she isn’t voted out, then he will have voted against her again. There are too many names coming up as to who might get voted out, that I can gather nothing about it from camp life. Can I gather anything from tribal council? Apparently, it is between Woo and Jeff Varner. I’m not sure who I want to progress at this point in the game, although I see Woo as the victim of the vote tonight. He seems to be doing what Spencer was a while ago. I also love all the wows that happened. Jeff Varner gets voted out in the end. It looked like he might be heading for a fall and he was.

On the next Survivor, something unlikely will happen to someone, by the looks of it. I guess they are saying that the game is going to get shook up by someone unexpected coming out of the blue to become more important now. Might there be a medical evacuation? That would especially suck in a second chance season.

Total confessional count: Spencer- 12, Kass- 5, Jeremy- 5, Keith- 2, Terry- 4, Ciera- 3, Monica- 3, Stephen- 5, Andrew- 11, Tasha- 8, Jeff Varner- 13, Abi-Maria- 12, Woo- 4, Kelley Wentworth- 8, Kimmi- 2, Joe- 4, Kelly Wiglesworth- 3.

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

A lot of people didn’t have confessionals this week. Those people are Ciera, Kimmi, Joe, Stephen, Kelly Wiglesworth, Keith, and Terry. Jeff Varner has the highest confessional count and he was eliminated in this episode. His elimination means that Abi-Maria and Spencer have the highest with 12 each. This also makes 13 the number that all contestants have to beat to have a chance in the game. Those that can beat that number in confessionals will have better chances at winning the game. Meanwhile, Keith and Kimmi have the lowest total confessionals with only 2 a piece. Andrew is above at 11 and is one of only three still in the game to have more than ten confessionals. But, are any of these people show em while you can contestants like Jeff Varner was? We will see. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.