At the beginning of this season of Survivor I predicted a long losing streak for the women of the Salani tribe, and I'm happy to see that after two weeks of losing challenges, they won both the reward and immunity challenge last night. I'm thinking being cold and not getting any sleep had some sort of reverse effect on them, because they were on fire!
There was a bad storm coming in when the women got back from tribal council, and unlike the men, the woman had no tarp, and their fire was put out by the rain. By the morning, they were cold, wet, and tired. Things were not looking good for these women! They asked Troy if they could just warm up by the men's fire for a few minutes, which the men apparently thought was just a HUGE favor that the women must at a later time re-pay. There weren't really too many interesting conversations going on at this time, so let's get on to the reward challenge!
I am so happy that Survivor has brought back the reward challenge. I've missed that the last few seasons, and I hope they continue doing two challenges per episode even after they merge the tribes. It's always interesting to see exactly where people's loyalties lie when the winner of a reward challenge is forced to pick only one or two players to join him. Anyway, so at the reward challenge one man and one woman face off and a curtain will be lifted to reveal a bunch of stuff (skulls, pots etc.) lined up on a shelf, and when one of them thinks they have the order lined up, they close the curtain and both tribe members race back to a table, where each of them attempts to re-create the order in which the stuff was on the shelf. Whew, that was a mouthful and probably a horrible run-on sentence, but I'm trying to draw a picture here, so bear with me. Anyway, the woman are just smoking the men, and they are all getting the order right on the very first attempt, and then we come to poor Kat. We can say it's because she's so young, but Troyzan from the Manono tribe doesn't fair much better, and it's probably one of the longest match-ups in Survivor history. Kat does finally pull out the win and scores another point for Salani. You go Kitty Kat! It may take you awhile, but you'll get there. The girls win every match-up and walk away with some fishing gear and a canoe waiting back at their camp that, according to Jeff Probst, they don't have to share if they don't want to. Well, that's good to know...they probably won't.
Back at camp, the girls go out in their brand new canoe, they catch some fish, the men want to use their stuff, the girls don't think they should have to share and try to bargain...you see where I'm going with this, right? The men think they've done enough for the girls already, that they should be allowed to use their canoe and stuff, and the girls disagree. That about sums that up.
The immunity challenge involves two players being blindfolded and shackled together having to navigate their way to these ropes attached to buckets full of some sort of paint and containing puzzle pieces. One player is the caller and guides the blindfolded players to their respective buckets, and then when they have all their puzzle pieces, the caller solves the puzzle. The girls get off to a rocky start, to say the least. Sabrina is their navigator and has them running into fence posts and all over the place, so the guys take an early lead. The girls FINALLY get all their puzzle pieces back, and Sabrina starts to solve the puzzle, which is some weird looking tree-type thing. The guys have what appears to be a huge lead, but the girls get it together and stage an epic come back to win their first immunity challenge sending Manono to tribal council where the first man will be voted off.
In the men's tribe, you have the "average Joe's" and "the muscle". The average Joe's appear to have the numbers on the muscle and are talking about voting out Bill who clearly drives Colton crazy. Matt fears that the muscle may be in trouble, so he pulls Troy aside to discuss things and, hopefully, convince Troy to join his band of young, muscled up jocks. Matt compares himself to a rooster who doesn't want to be surrounded by other roosters but by a bunch of chickens. I think he was calling Troy a chicken...there's a compliment in there somewhere! At tribal council, Matt showed his arrogant side, and Bill showed his "I need to be heavily sedated" side (somebody needs to lay off the Red Bull), but in the end, Matt was the one to go. I'm thinking Matt has never seen any other season of Survivor, or his hero is Russel Hantz, but the cockiness definitely did not pay off for the top rooster last night.
So, there's one less rooster on Manono and the women won two in row! I'm rooting for you, ladies! Keep it up.
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