Episode 31.8

There was a merge at 13 and the moment of truth about the whole twist is whether or not the thirteenth placed person would make the jury or not. Since that person did, then we know that something strange is happening. A final three would mean a ten person jury, the highest that the jury has ever been. But, it could mean something else completely and unusually strange. If there’s a final four this season where four finalists compete for the votes, then I’m calling that it will happen now. Some may wonder if they’ll be a jury of 11 and final two, but I just don’t see it happening right now. I really think that it will be four finalists facing the jury vote.

Joe Anglim Worlds Apart Vytas Baskauskas Blood vs. Water Spencer Bledsoe Cagayan Jeremy Collins San Juan del Sur Teresa "T-Bird" Cooper Africa 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 Troy "Troyzan" Robertson One World Andrew Savage Pearl Islands Natalie Tenerelli Redemption Island Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo Mikayla Wingle South Pacific

I still don’t know that many rumors regarding Survivor 33. It might have already been filmed. But I don’t know if it has or not. I’m not sure that I can post something asking about it in facebook groups as they normally don’t have spoilers like that and I normally wouldn’t want to look for information without finding out things that I didn’t want to know. Speaking of which… SPOILER. I have talked some about Survivor 32. From what I know, it will reuse the brains versus brawn versus beauty twist. Now you’d think that after San Juan del Sur that they would know better than to reuse twists like that. (But, I did think that Vanuatu was better than Amazon and One World was better than both of them.) They seem to be overusing the more than two tribes concept. Among the rumored contestants are Caleb Reynolds from Big Brother. END SPOILER.

With the fact that both Kelley and Kelly are still in the game, it is clear that they are going by their last names for votes. I don’t know when things could turn against either one of them. Now you can call me crazy for this, but I hate being called by just my last name. If you call me Decker, I will ignore you. I just don’t like it. I find it rude. So I’m still confused to this day why so many people like that.

Now speaking of Kelly Wiglesworth, it is incredibly obvious from her edit and possibly lowest ever confessional count that she is not winning. But how does she not win? Does she fail at the jury vote again? Does she get voted out? Does something else happen that removes her from the game? Now even if you factor in players who have played more than once, not one season thus far has had every player in it voted out. And for proof of that, here’s a list of all the players who were never voted out from each respective season.

Kelly from Borneo was never voted out. Michael from Australia was never voted out. Kim Johnson from Africa was never voted out. Paschal, Neleh, and Vecepia from Marquesas were never voted out. Clay and Brian from Thailand were never voted out. Matthew and Jenna from Amazon were never voted out. Osten and Sandra from Pearl Islands were never voted out. Jenna Moresca from All-Stars was never voted out. Twila and Chris from Vanuatu were never voted out. Jonathan, Wanda, Janu, and Katie from Palau were never voted out. Danni from Guatemala was never voted out. Bruce from Panama was never voted out. Becky and Yul from Cook Islands were never voted out. Gary, Cassandra, Dreamz, and Earl from Fiji were never voted out. Todd from China was never voted out. Kathy from Micronesia was never voted out. Susie and Bob from Gabon were never voted out. Joe and Stephen from Tocantins were never voted out. Mike, Mick, and Natalie from Samoa were never voted out. Sandra from Heroes versus Villains was never voted out.

Continuing the list, NaOnka, Kelly Shinn, Sash, Chase, and Fabio from Nicaragua were never voted out. Natalie from Redemption Island was never voted out. Albert and Sophie from South Pacific were never voted out. Kourtney, Colton, Chelsea, Sabrina, and Kim from One World were never voted out. Dana, Lisa, Michael, and Denise from Philippines were never voted out. Shamar and Sherri from Caramoan were never voted out. Colton and Katie from Blood versus Water were never voted out. Lindsey and Tony from Cagayan were never voted out. Julie, Missy, Jaclyn, and Natalie from San Juan del Sur were never voted out. Carolyn, Will, and Mike from Worlds Apart were never voted out. And the two contestants from this season that have not been voted out as of yet are Kelly Wiglesworth and Stephen. Just voting off Kelly would cause Survivor history that has not happened in 31 seasons.

You know what I’m tired of hearing? There’s always all this crap being said that Survivor is rigged. I’d once again like to point out that it would be illegal to rig something like Survivor. I’m tired of hearing it over and over again. I should write a blog post about that sometime. In fact, I have at least six pages worth of ideas for the potential of future blog posts. Plus, who is the 13 merge meant to save anyways? There’s not a clear person that it saves, in my mind at least. Also, twists are planned out from the beginning and are rarely changed as the season progresses. They knew that they were going from two tribes to three after two players were voted out. They knew that they were going to do the merge earlier than ever before. And they had no reason to change this just to let the game play normally. If they were going to let the game be normal, than Samoa wouldn’t have been the last season to lack a major starting twist, have no returning players, and have only two tribes. They like to shake things up and that means nothing about it being rigged.

There’s always a lot of me to ramble about. Heck, soon I’ll be starting a new blog. I ramble a lot in all my blogs for various reasons. That always tends to be how I start most of my blog posts. Anyways, I’m sorry if you don’t like my ramblings. I’m done with them for this post.

In the first segment of the show, Andrew talks about how he’s glad that he made the jury. Ciera tries to talk to Stephen about what needs to be done in the game. He wants to get a threat out of the game. Will he succeed?

In the second segment of the show, we get to the reward challenge. You may remember this challenge from its use in Redemption Island duels. Jeff (probably intentionally) gets the quote wrong about Kelly’s loss in a water relay challenge. What she actually said was, “I got beat by a man who can’t fucking swim.” They left out the f bomb. I’m not surprised. Keith is doing well in the challenge. The green team won, although I can’t exactly tell who they are. It is redemption for Kelly Wiglesworth.

In the third segment of the show, both Kelley Wentworth and Kimmi are glad that they made an individual reward this season. Ciera talks about how reward challenges are a good time to talk about the game. Keith takes a ride with a vehicle that is there. Also, Orkun is the name of the merged tribe. Stephen is bummed about losing the reward. Joe could wind up facing the same fate that he did the last time. But will it happen?

In the fourth segment of the show, Joe talks about how Stephen was gunning against him. Meanwhile, Andrew is trying to help Joe or it at least seems that way at least. We have another ball challenge for the immunity challenge. Don’t lose your ball. Stay in the right position or your balls will get messed up. Balls can easily drop in this challenge. Moving back far makes handling balls more difficult. People are getting further away from their balls. They have to stay in position to keep their balls in place. Man I really hope that somebody is finding humor in my double entendres. I do wonder if Joe is in a catch 22 situation. If he wins, he’s a threat. If he loses, he could get voted out. Joe wins the challenge.

In the fifth segment of the show, Joe is trying to put the target on Stephen. Will he get voted out? Some people talk about getting rid of Andrew. Does Stephen have too many connections to get voted out? Is it Fish-back or Fish-Bach? I can’t tell and will call him Stephen anyways. We get to the tribal council. Ciera and Kelley Wentworth try to point out who is running the show. The four five people controlling the game are Stephen, Jeremy, Andrew, Joe, and Tasha. Meanwhile, it seems like Ciera could be digging her own grave. Is she? I honestly don’t know what to make of any of this. WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN? I don’t know. Kelley Wentworth decides to play her idol on herself. But was it worth it? Turns out it actually was. Interesting how nobody wrote down Kelley. Of course, I knew this was probably going to happen. Andrew is voted out. Here’s an interesting fact: he’s on the jury this time despite ranking higher the last time he played when he was one short of the jury. Pearl Islands has now been eliminated from the game.

On the next Survivor, everyone’s looking for an idol that’s actually going to be given to a brave person who drops out of the challenge. But they probably won’t know that. Would someone actually do it? This is something that I will actually look forward to.

Total confessional count: Kimmi- 5, Joe- 13, Kelly Wiglesworth- 3, Spencer- 24, Jeremy- 11, Keith- 5, Ciera- 9, Stephen- 14, Andrew- 25, Tasha- 11, Abi- 14, Kelley Wentworth- 16.

New confessionals this episode: Kelley Wentworth- 3, Kimmi- 1, Joe- 3, Kelly Wiglesworth- 0, Spencer- 1, Jeremy- 2, Keith- 1, Ciera- 3, Stephen- 4, Andrew- 4, Tasha- 0, Abi- 0.

Once again, the person with the highest confessional count is eliminated. Well, according to my probably wrong numbers it is. Andrew had 25 total and 4 in this episode. His elimination means that Spencer has the highest confessional count with 24. This also makes 25 the next number to beat. I might add tables about this in posts for future seasons. Tasha, Abi, and Kelly Wiglesworth have no confessionals in this episode. Jeremy is now above 10 confessionals. Stephen and Joe are now above 13 confessionals. Joe has 13 and Stephen has 14. Kelly Wiglesworth still has the lowest with a mere 3 confessionals. There was nothing about how she got redemption in this challenge. She’s my only finalist pick that’s still in the game and if she does make it to the end again, she cannot possibly win this time. Any uptick she might have in confessional numbers will be when she is eliminated. If only things were different for her this time around. If things were good for her, it was in another previous season. But I’ll talk about the differences between people’s games this season in the future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.