Survivor Week 8 – The Apple in the Garden of Eden
At Fang’s camp Sugar realizes her true alliance is with Kenny with Ace gone. Crystal offers Matty a clean slate. The tribe bans together to keep the Immunity idol secret and decide to “start over.”
Treemail hints at a merge, feast and beach party. Everyone is hugging and starving when they arrive at the feast. On the table there’s a clue, which is read out loud. It’s for an immunity idol and a hunt begins. They find it quickly and decide to set it afloat so no one will have it.
Randy declared himself King of Gabon and Marcus is his Prince saying that he got ten people to throw away an idol, so he must have some pull within the group. After they are done eating they choose numbered rocks and SPLIT into two new tribes – no merge. The new Kota tribe – Crystal, Bob, Ken, Susie, and Marcus and Fang is – Matty, Randy, Sugar, Charlie, and Corinne. The Kota six is evenly split and stick the original plan.
Fang starts plotting immediately and plans to vote out Sugar with a blind side. Matty tells Sugar what really happened with the vote for Ace in which she got duped by Crystal and Ken.
At Kota Susie is the swing vote and Marcus talks to her about it where she says she could switch her alliance at any time.
It is time for the first challenge, which is for immunity. With arms outstretched the Survivors are to use the tops of their hands to hold up polls, the slightest move and the polls drop. The last person out gets immunity for their whole team. It becomes a show down between Matty and Bob – Matty wins immunity for the new Fang and the new Kota is off to tribal council.
Kota once at camp starts the plotting. Marcus talks to Crystal about voting out her alliance mate Ken. Crystal sees through Marcus’ nice guy routine. Marcus and Susie talk about voting out Ken first also. Crystal fills Ken in on the inside scoop. Crystal and Susie discuss Marcus and his scheming. Susie is the decision maker essentially and both alliances want her.
At Tribal Council Ken calls out Marcus on his calculating. And they discuss whether keeping the tribe physically strong is part of the plan. Once the votes are cast the first member of the jury is Marcus – the 9th person voted out of Survivor Gabon.
Survivor Week 9 – The Brains Behind Everything
At Kota, Kenny’s ego grows with the two blindsides he’s orchestrated and Bob starts thinking strategy.
At Fang, they are out of food and everyone is wondering about the merge. Unknowing about the previous Tribal Council, Corinne says, “The Kota alliance from the get go was me, Charlie and Marcus. As long as that’s intact, I don’t really care who goes home.”
The first challenge is a slingshot golf tournament. Winners receive a Gabonese village trip for a ceremony, meal and sleep over. When teams arrive at the challenge Ken and Corinne argue about who “deserves” to stay and/or go. Once the game starts Kota’s Bob and Fang’s Matty compete in a tight game. It is Kota’s Kenny who sinks the first ball and scores the first game point.
The second hole is back and forth and Matty ties the game with a point for Fang. The third hole is neck and neck too. Randy nags Matty about his shot, but Matty remains calm and sinks the ball. Fang wins, but Randy is angry no one listened to him. Fang chooses Bob for Exile.
While on reward, Charlie and Corinne discuss Marcus being gone and not having anyone else to turn to now.
At Kota, Ken gets three fish and feels good about his place within the tribe and game. On Exile, Bob continues to search for the idol but makes a fake hoping to throw people off if they see he has it. He says, “It’s sort of like when you’re holding up a bank. You don’t necessarily need a gun, but if they think you’ve got a gun, they might leave you alone.”
At the second challenge Jeff reveals it is time to merge and hands out new buffs. This challenge is simple, make a fire and burn a rope, first person to do so wins the coveted individual immunity necklace. Surprisingly, Susie wins by a landslide. The new tribe heads to Kota’s camp to come up with a new name and sign.
Once there they find food and enjoy a quick meal before talking shop. Randy talks with Charlie insisting Crystal be voted out. Charlie states the alliances are Randy, Charlie, Corinne and Bob against Matty, Ken, Susie and Crystal. Charlie and Corinne try to convince Sugar to vote Crystal first then Randy. In another mastermind scheme, Ken persuades Crystal, Susie and Matty to blindside Charlie and attempts to persuade Sugar.
Eventually, the team comes together to create a new name. Ken suggests “Nobag” which is Gabon backwards. The tribe likes it and puts it on their flag.
Tribal Council – Crystal and Randy argue. Charlie hassles Randy for not thinking before he speaks. Once it’s time to vote, we see that Sugar sides with Ken and Charlie becomes the 10th person voted out of Survivor Gabon and the second member of the jury joining former alliance buddy Marcus and leaving Corinne with the hated Randy and the underdog Bob.
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