Its Day 19. Kelly has gone home to clean underwear and a pedicure. The Fangalites are scraping crusty rice off the sides of their cooking pot and Matty tells us that he is feeling hopeless. And just when you think things can't get any worse, Crystal spills some of their precious rice in the dirt. Matty and Ace can't hide their looks of disdain and Crystal poutily refuses to eat. At Kamp Kota, Charlie, Marcus and Corrine are still tight but their friendship is making Dan feel insecure. Corrine tells us that Dan is socially inept while Marcus believes Dan is paranoid. I don't know. Is it paranoia when everyone really is out to get you?
Dimples, in a palest-of-blue shirt announces the reward challenge. This is a game of keepaway* where three members of one tribe must keep a breakable ball away from one member of the opposing tribe. If the ball falls and breaks it is a point for the opposing tribe. Kota wins the challenge in three straight points. After selecting Sugar to head off to Exile Island for the fifth consecutive time, the Kotarians climb aboard a helicopter. They fly over some spectacular African scenary and land beside a huge crater where they have a picnic of bread, meat, cheese and veggies. The icing on the cake comes when the helicopter pilot walks over with a package. Inside the package are letters from home. Bob is beside himself with his letters and there are a lot of smiles and tears among other tribe members as well.
At Fang Matty is angry, frustrated and humilated at their latest loss. He puts the blame squarely on Sugar's shapely shoulders (try saying that quickly five times). Matty tries to convince Ace to take out Sugar but Ace wants to keep Sugar and her immunity idol. Instead, Ace thinks Crystal should be the one to go. But Crystal and Ken are doing some plotting of their own off in another corner of the forest. On Exile Island, Sugar, the only well-fed Fang member is eating fruit and pondering her future.
When the tribes come together for the immunity challenge, Dimples (in Robin's egg blue) tells them that both tribes will be going to Tribal Council to vote someone off. The challenge is for individual immunity, with a twist to be announced at the end of the competition. The challenge is a log rolling competition of which Marcus is the ultimate winner. As the winner he learns that he can assign immunity to someone from the other tribe. Once again Sugar is the lucky one.
So the plotting heats up in both camps. Ken wants Sugar to join him and Crystal in voting off Ace. He tells Sugar that Ace is a snake, something that Sugar already knows. As if to prove the point, Ace comes to Sugar and asks for the idol "just in case". Sugar is smart enough not to give it to him though, and when the votes are counted Ace is the one doing the Walk of Shame. On the walk with Ace is Jack from our pool.
Now its Kota's turn at Tribal Council. Randy has replaced Bob in the alliance of Corinne, Marcus and Charlie. The group waffles about who should go - Susie (because she sways with the wind) or Dan (because he is paranoid and annoying). The group is leaning toward Susie, especially when she tells Corinne that she had been planning on voting for her and phew wasn't it a good thing that she didn't. An angry Corinne wants Susie gone, but there is a slim chance that Dan has the immunity idol since he was the first to visit Exile Island. A vote for Dan will either flush out the idol or get rid of Dan. And so the votes are cast and Dan is the next to leave, along with Rick from our pool.
Also sad this evening are Mitzie who voted for Ace to win and Roberta who voted for Dan to win.
There are now 10 wannabe millionaires left. Who will be the next to go? Judging by the previews of next weeks show it just might be me and my boy Randy. Until then,
Outwit, Outplay, Outlast
Pat (aka Randy Aint I Smooth Bailey)
*In Wadena where I grew up this game was called Pig in the Middle. In more sophisticated civilizations like Foam Lake and Kelvingon it was called Monkey in the Middle.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Survivor Gabon - October 23, 2008
Due to an unfortunate incident last night involving my car keys, I wasn't able to watch Survivor last night, nor do an update. Fortunately Lynn has come forward with a brief summary of events. I can't help noticing a certain animosity in Lynn's writings for MY GUY Randy. Hmmmm. It appears that Barb from our pool was the one to make her exit last night. Lynn's notes follow:
Well, here’s a short synopsis which is all I have time for. You may find some of the material familiar:
Fang lost the Reward Challenge
Randy is a jack***
Dan thinks he’s at the Survivor all you can eat buffet which is starting to tick people off
Randy is a jack***
Sugar went to Exile Island
Fang lost the Immunity Challenge
Crystal, the Olympic champion, is a dud
Sugar stupidly gave the Idol to Ace
Kenny found out that Sugar gave the Idol to Ace and asked her what the h*** she was thinking
Sugar repossessed the Idol when Ace was away from camp leading me to believe there may be brunette roots under that blonde hair
Ace managed to maintain his fake smile when Sugar told him about the repossession
Kelly went home after talking trash about both Ace and Crystal at Tribal Council
Oh, and did I mention that I think Randy is a total jack***???
And here is Roberta's take on the evening's entertainment:
What can be said… Jeff had a dark purple shirt or else it was dark navy with purple glints. There was the usual conniving between team members.
The losing team continued to lose the challenges.
The reward challenge was for each team to chase each other around a track until they caught the other team, carrying a 200 pound snake attached by a thong to a wrist cuff. When they got tired they could drop out. Kelly had the head on their snake and couldn’t walk as fast as the opposing team, much to the dismay of her male team members. ( Why they put her on the front I don’t know). They convince Kelly to drop out and Sugar went at the same time leaving 4 against the 5 guys on the other team. Soon Crystal and Ken drop out. Ace has been vocal in encouraging his team members to drop out so they don’t slow them down. However Ace and Matty carried 100 pound each can’t move as fast as 5 guys carrying 40 pound each. Crystal cries tears of frustration and then tries to convince everyone on her team that it is not weakness. Kelly see this as an opportunity to get rid of a team mate that she doesn’t like. The opposing tribe, especially Randy rubs in the lose specifically targeting Crystal who, if looks could kill, Randy would be dead.
At the other camp Marcus and Bob catch a huge turtle and they make turtle stew which is really good although it looked very grey in the pot. Dan is being bossy and getting on people’s nerves.
The challenge that sent them to tribal council was to crawl through an obstacle course in pairs tied together, collect two pieces of a flag pole and eventually build the pole with the 6 pieces they had retrieved. The pole was made from metal pipe. ACE thought he could build the flag pole all by himself, telling everyone else but especially Crystal, to let him do it, only to spend minutes trying to get two pieces that clearly didn’t fit, together. Up until this point, they had a fighting chance of winning. However it was not to be again.
Sugar gets sent to Exile Island again and feels guilty and cries because she has all this fruit to eat and her team mates have ½ cup
of rice. However Sugar gave the immunity idol to Ace for safe keeping because her tribe mates went through her bag!!!! Duh! I think she think’s if she asks, she’ll get it back. After great strategizing back in camp as to whom should be voted off, Kelly or Ace the votes are finally cast. Kelly is voted off and Ace sits and smirks.
Unfortunately I didn’t look to see who Kelly was to see who we bid fairwell too.
Oh the elephant is back across the creek and actually moved into the creek. Ace sits and watches and comments on what a fantastic sight this is.
Roberta ( aka Ken, )
Well, here’s a short synopsis which is all I have time for. You may find some of the material familiar:
Fang lost the Reward Challenge
Randy is a jack***
Dan thinks he’s at the Survivor all you can eat buffet which is starting to tick people off
Randy is a jack***
Sugar went to Exile Island
Fang lost the Immunity Challenge
Crystal, the Olympic champion, is a dud
Sugar stupidly gave the Idol to Ace
Kenny found out that Sugar gave the Idol to Ace and asked her what the h*** she was thinking
Sugar repossessed the Idol when Ace was away from camp leading me to believe there may be brunette roots under that blonde hair
Ace managed to maintain his fake smile when Sugar told him about the repossession
Kelly went home after talking trash about both Ace and Crystal at Tribal Council
Oh, and did I mention that I think Randy is a total jack***???
And here is Roberta's take on the evening's entertainment:
What can be said… Jeff had a dark purple shirt or else it was dark navy with purple glints. There was the usual conniving between team members.
The losing team continued to lose the challenges.
The reward challenge was for each team to chase each other around a track until they caught the other team, carrying a 200 pound snake attached by a thong to a wrist cuff. When they got tired they could drop out. Kelly had the head on their snake and couldn’t walk as fast as the opposing team, much to the dismay of her male team members. ( Why they put her on the front I don’t know). They convince Kelly to drop out and Sugar went at the same time leaving 4 against the 5 guys on the other team. Soon Crystal and Ken drop out. Ace has been vocal in encouraging his team members to drop out so they don’t slow them down. However Ace and Matty carried 100 pound each can’t move as fast as 5 guys carrying 40 pound each. Crystal cries tears of frustration and then tries to convince everyone on her team that it is not weakness. Kelly see this as an opportunity to get rid of a team mate that she doesn’t like. The opposing tribe, especially Randy rubs in the lose specifically targeting Crystal who, if looks could kill, Randy would be dead.
At the other camp Marcus and Bob catch a huge turtle and they make turtle stew which is really good although it looked very grey in the pot. Dan is being bossy and getting on people’s nerves.
The challenge that sent them to tribal council was to crawl through an obstacle course in pairs tied together, collect two pieces of a flag pole and eventually build the pole with the 6 pieces they had retrieved. The pole was made from metal pipe. ACE thought he could build the flag pole all by himself, telling everyone else but especially Crystal, to let him do it, only to spend minutes trying to get two pieces that clearly didn’t fit, together. Up until this point, they had a fighting chance of winning. However it was not to be again.
Sugar gets sent to Exile Island again and feels guilty and cries because she has all this fruit to eat and her team mates have ½ cup
of rice. However Sugar gave the immunity idol to Ace for safe keeping because her tribe mates went through her bag!!!! Duh! I think she think’s if she asks, she’ll get it back. After great strategizing back in camp as to whom should be voted off, Kelly or Ace the votes are finally cast. Kelly is voted off and Ace sits and smirks.
Unfortunately I didn’t look to see who Kelly was to see who we bid fairwell too.
Oh the elephant is back across the creek and actually moved into the creek. Ace sits and watches and comments on what a fantastic sight this is.
Roberta ( aka Ken, )
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Survivor Gabon, October 16, 2008
Its night 12 and Fang returns from Tribal Council. With Jacquie, Ace has lost one of his two closest allies. It seems to me that Ace is also losing something else near and dear to him...his accent. There are times during this episode when Ace sounded - well- American. That aside Ace has lost none of his arrogance as he tells us that he is still ok since he has Sugar in his pocket. For her part Sugar makes it plain that she chose comfort during this trip to Exile Island and wasted no time searching for the immunity idol. This wasn't perhaps the smartest move if she wants people to believe she hasn't found the idol.
Over at Kota their greatest hardship is that one of the fish Bob caught is electric and shocks everyone who touches it. In spite of this Randy is loving his new life at Kota. Not only has he been made to feel welcome but these dudes have corn and beans and even electric fish.
On Day 13 Matty finally spots the elephant they have been hearing around camp. He calls everyone to come and look. The Fangaluvians sit on the river bank in awe, watching the big elephant rip through the foliage looking for tender shoots. It may not have been the smartest move of their lives, but Ace and Matty decide to take the kayak out in the water to get a closer look. Fortunately, other than a few warning snorts the elephant choses to ignore our two Wild Kingdom rejects.
The reward challenge is an event where one tribe member must throw fruit through a goal to a fellow tribe member, who must catch the fruit and throw it through a second goal to another tribe member who must put in in a basket. The catch is that in each goal is an opposing tribe member with a big stick whose job is to stop the fruit from going through the goal. The reward is all of the fruit they collect, a herb garden, some salt and oil and other flavourful (flavorful)* additions to their diet. Although Ace is good in net, Kota wins the event by 2 pounds of fruit. Kota elects, once again, to send Sugar for her third visit to Exile Island. However, this time she will be back in time for Tribal Council. Kota heads back to camp with their bounty. Flush with the win, Dan begins to take charge, suggesting strategy. Marcus thinks Dan is just a little too vehement about his love for Kota and conversely he wonders if Susy is committed enough. Marcus tells us that he is not confident that either of these two will have his back if he needs them. For his part, my boy Randy is just trying to contribute and not rock the boat. Sugar, meanwhile, is literally skipping on her way to Exile Island. There she has all the food and rest she needs. Not so at Camp Fang where GC complains about his rice ration and Crystal tells him to just eat his rice. Offended at being told what to do, GC gets a little pouty. Ace comments, smugly, that his tribe is cracking at the edges and apparently nothing makes Ace happier. GC is not as happy, though, telling us he needs to get back to real life.
Tree mail arrives with a wicker ball implying some sort of sporting event. Given their track record and their current disarray, Matty isn't holding up much hope for a win. When they pack up to go to the immunity challenge, GC is nowhere to be found. Kelly, Matty and Ken go out to look for him while Ace and Crystal wonder why they are wasting the energy. GC shows up in the nick of time though, and off they go to the challenge. The challenge is a little bit like a game that Bob Barker used to play in the Price is Right (Kerplunk?) where you roll a ball down a board covered with little thingies that divert the ball. Of course I never actually saw this game but I remember my mother telling me about it. Ahem. Anyway in this case they take a giant wicker ball and roll it down a hill through a bunch of little thingies that divert the ball. At the bottom one member of each tribe is blindfolded and armed with a shield. Directed by an unblindfolded tribe member they must try to stop the progress of the ball with a shield. If the ball gets past them and rolls into one of several goals, it scores a varying number of points. Ace is the blindfolded member of Fang and Sugar is assigned to direct him. They are an ineffective team compared to their opponents, Randy and Dan. It comes down to the last ball and Randy yells for Ace to freeze....AND ACE FREEZES. Let me just point out that Randy is my guy! So Kota wins again and Fang is off to their fourth Tribal Council. It seems like a no brainer. GC wants to go home and everyone is happy to oblige. At least until Crystal takes it upon herself to look in Sugar's bag and finds the immunity idol. Suddenly it seems like a really good idea to use the opportunity to blindside Sugar and take her and her idol out of the game. However, for some reason Fang opts not to do it and when Dimples, in a decidedly(man, I don't know if I can even type this) PURPLE shirt, counts the vote, GC is indeed going home. GC (aka Danny Brown) take our own faithful pool member Lisa with him. I am pretty sure Lisa is not nearly as eager to leave the game as GC was! No one picked GC as the ultimate winner so we have only one sad face in the pool this evening.
Until next week,
Outwit, Outplay, Outlast
Pat (aka Randy did you see me mess up Ace in that challenge Bailey)
* while our Canadian words (eg flavourful) are sometimes longer, I would like to point out to our US members that our elections are blissfully short. We had a Federal election on Tuesday. It was 38 days from the time the election was called until we went and voted. If you blinked you missed it. We spent a Toonie and a couple of Loonies. Of course nothing changed but we like to get our politics out of the way so we can get back to the important things like beer, hockey and critiquing the US election candidates. Are you taking notes?
Over at Kota their greatest hardship is that one of the fish Bob caught is electric and shocks everyone who touches it. In spite of this Randy is loving his new life at Kota. Not only has he been made to feel welcome but these dudes have corn and beans and even electric fish.
On Day 13 Matty finally spots the elephant they have been hearing around camp. He calls everyone to come and look. The Fangaluvians sit on the river bank in awe, watching the big elephant rip through the foliage looking for tender shoots. It may not have been the smartest move of their lives, but Ace and Matty decide to take the kayak out in the water to get a closer look. Fortunately, other than a few warning snorts the elephant choses to ignore our two Wild Kingdom rejects.
The reward challenge is an event where one tribe member must throw fruit through a goal to a fellow tribe member, who must catch the fruit and throw it through a second goal to another tribe member who must put in in a basket. The catch is that in each goal is an opposing tribe member with a big stick whose job is to stop the fruit from going through the goal. The reward is all of the fruit they collect, a herb garden, some salt and oil and other flavourful (flavorful)* additions to their diet. Although Ace is good in net, Kota wins the event by 2 pounds of fruit. Kota elects, once again, to send Sugar for her third visit to Exile Island. However, this time she will be back in time for Tribal Council. Kota heads back to camp with their bounty. Flush with the win, Dan begins to take charge, suggesting strategy. Marcus thinks Dan is just a little too vehement about his love for Kota and conversely he wonders if Susy is committed enough. Marcus tells us that he is not confident that either of these two will have his back if he needs them. For his part, my boy Randy is just trying to contribute and not rock the boat. Sugar, meanwhile, is literally skipping on her way to Exile Island. There she has all the food and rest she needs. Not so at Camp Fang where GC complains about his rice ration and Crystal tells him to just eat his rice. Offended at being told what to do, GC gets a little pouty. Ace comments, smugly, that his tribe is cracking at the edges and apparently nothing makes Ace happier. GC is not as happy, though, telling us he needs to get back to real life.
Tree mail arrives with a wicker ball implying some sort of sporting event. Given their track record and their current disarray, Matty isn't holding up much hope for a win. When they pack up to go to the immunity challenge, GC is nowhere to be found. Kelly, Matty and Ken go out to look for him while Ace and Crystal wonder why they are wasting the energy. GC shows up in the nick of time though, and off they go to the challenge. The challenge is a little bit like a game that Bob Barker used to play in the Price is Right (Kerplunk?) where you roll a ball down a board covered with little thingies that divert the ball. Of course I never actually saw this game but I remember my mother telling me about it. Ahem. Anyway in this case they take a giant wicker ball and roll it down a hill through a bunch of little thingies that divert the ball. At the bottom one member of each tribe is blindfolded and armed with a shield. Directed by an unblindfolded tribe member they must try to stop the progress of the ball with a shield. If the ball gets past them and rolls into one of several goals, it scores a varying number of points. Ace is the blindfolded member of Fang and Sugar is assigned to direct him. They are an ineffective team compared to their opponents, Randy and Dan. It comes down to the last ball and Randy yells for Ace to freeze....AND ACE FREEZES. Let me just point out that Randy is my guy! So Kota wins again and Fang is off to their fourth Tribal Council. It seems like a no brainer. GC wants to go home and everyone is happy to oblige. At least until Crystal takes it upon herself to look in Sugar's bag and finds the immunity idol. Suddenly it seems like a really good idea to use the opportunity to blindside Sugar and take her and her idol out of the game. However, for some reason Fang opts not to do it and when Dimples, in a decidedly(man, I don't know if I can even type this) PURPLE shirt, counts the vote, GC is indeed going home. GC (aka Danny Brown) take our own faithful pool member Lisa with him. I am pretty sure Lisa is not nearly as eager to leave the game as GC was! No one picked GC as the ultimate winner so we have only one sad face in the pool this evening.
Until next week,
Outwit, Outplay, Outlast
Pat (aka Randy did you see me mess up Ace in that challenge Bailey)
* while our Canadian words (eg flavourful) are sometimes longer, I would like to point out to our US members that our elections are blissfully short. We had a Federal election on Tuesday. It was 38 days from the time the election was called until we went and voted. If you blinked you missed it. We spent a Toonie and a couple of Loonies. Of course nothing changed but we like to get our politics out of the way so we can get back to the important things like beer, hockey and critiquing the US election candidates. Are you taking notes?
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Survivor Gabon- October 9, 2008
Its night 9 and Kota is returning from Tribal Council without the diminutive Paloma. Kelly worries that she is next and Ace thinks she is too. He is wounded after her outburst at him at Tribal Council.
The next morning over at Fang, Randy is having another look at the dwindling rice situation. "It's time", says he "to cut back to one meal a day". The general response is "What?" "Huh?" "Duh?" and my personal favourite, "but we'll be hungry". GC, Crystal, and Ken withdraw to strategize. They feel it is the three of them vs. Matty, Randy, Susy and Dan. Over in the other secret meeting spot, Matty, Randy, Susie and Dan are confirming that very thing, and Matty feels that the four of them have a very solid alliance.
Dimples, in a sky blue shirt, brings the tribes together. In a challenge guaranteed to make everyone squirm, he asks the tribes to rate their members in order of most to least useful. Once the rankings are complete he has them stand on posts according to the ranking assigned by the tribe. At the top of Kota stands Marcus, obviously feeling awkward at being singled out. On the short Kota post (ie the least useful) stands Kelly. Over on the Fang side, Matty takes top honours, while Susy is positioned at the bottom of the Fang-heap. Dimples suggests they take a look at the rankings of the opposing tribe and use the information TO FORM NEW TRIBES. Yikes! Just when Matty is feeling comfortable with his alliance its all going down the toilet (if there were a toilet for it to go down). And so Marcus and Matty get to kick off a school-yard pick to form new tribes. The new Kota ends up with Marcus, Dan, Charlie, Randy, Corrine, Susy and Bob. Fang is now made up of Matty, Ace, Crystal, Jacquie, Ken, Kelly and GC. At the end of all the side-choosing there is one person left...Sugar. Dimples tells Sugar that she will head off to Exile Island again and will return after the next Tribal Council. At that time she will replace whomever is voted off, to make the sides even at 7 members each.
The new Kotaxians head to camp to get acquainted. Susy quickly sees that Bob is the worker at camp and that he is respected for it. She decides to keep her head down and work hard to try to avoid elimination. At Fang, GC is happy with his new position as the numbers are now on his side. In addition to that, they learn that Kelly is more than happy to jump ship since she felt she was treated as an outcast in Kota. Needless to say Kelly is embraced by Crystal, GC and Ken.
On Day 12 treemail arrives promising a game that combines lacrosse with water polo.* As the Kotaputians practise with the paddle, Marcus ponders the next elimination. He has noticed Susy's hard work around camp and decides that, pending his performance at the challenge, Randy might be the next to go. (No, not Randy! He's MY guy!!) The tribes are put in separate colour-appropriate life rafts and given a paddle with a hole in the blade. They must move their rafts to the ball, pass the ball with the paddle and ultimately put it through a goal. The first tribe to score three goals wins immunity. This show pretty much belongs to Marcus and Randy. Marcus controls the ball, and a well positioned Randy gets three consecutive goals (that's my guy!). Meanwhile everyone else spins in circles, or worse, can't move at all. Its kind of like bumper boats with the batteries removed.
So Fang has to send someone home. Ace laments their performance at the challenge saying they performed like legless chickens. GC thinks Kelly's performance was the worst of all and that she should go. However the Fangrubites have enough sense to think about the absent Sugar. If she has the idol (and she had now had four days to find it), who would she be most likely to give it to? The answer is Ace or Jacquie, hands down. Ace is too strong a competitor to send home, bringing Jacquie up to the top of the hit list. A sympathic Matty tells Jacquie about the plot against her and she makes a heartfelt appeal to both Ken and Crystal. Its not enough though. When Dimples tallies the vote Jacquie is the one heading home. With Jacquie goes New Hampshire Kathy's worries of trying to convert her Canadian winnings into US dollars. I was the only one who saw fit to vote for Jacquie to make it to the end, so I am the other person crying in my wine this evening (which reminds me...scuse me while I top up my glass).
And so Sugar will return to join Fang and we will be at 7 members per tribe.
Until next week
Outwit, Outplay, Outlast
Pat (aka Randy I dedicate those goals to my friend Pat Bailey)
* Water polo? Please! They are neither in the water nor allowed to touch the ball with their hands. The only similarity with water polo is the presence of a ball and water.
The next morning over at Fang, Randy is having another look at the dwindling rice situation. "It's time", says he "to cut back to one meal a day". The general response is "What?" "Huh?" "Duh?" and my personal favourite, "but we'll be hungry". GC, Crystal, and Ken withdraw to strategize. They feel it is the three of them vs. Matty, Randy, Susy and Dan. Over in the other secret meeting spot, Matty, Randy, Susie and Dan are confirming that very thing, and Matty feels that the four of them have a very solid alliance.
Dimples, in a sky blue shirt, brings the tribes together. In a challenge guaranteed to make everyone squirm, he asks the tribes to rate their members in order of most to least useful. Once the rankings are complete he has them stand on posts according to the ranking assigned by the tribe. At the top of Kota stands Marcus, obviously feeling awkward at being singled out. On the short Kota post (ie the least useful) stands Kelly. Over on the Fang side, Matty takes top honours, while Susy is positioned at the bottom of the Fang-heap. Dimples suggests they take a look at the rankings of the opposing tribe and use the information TO FORM NEW TRIBES. Yikes! Just when Matty is feeling comfortable with his alliance its all going down the toilet (if there were a toilet for it to go down). And so Marcus and Matty get to kick off a school-yard pick to form new tribes. The new Kota ends up with Marcus, Dan, Charlie, Randy, Corrine, Susy and Bob. Fang is now made up of Matty, Ace, Crystal, Jacquie, Ken, Kelly and GC. At the end of all the side-choosing there is one person left...Sugar. Dimples tells Sugar that she will head off to Exile Island again and will return after the next Tribal Council. At that time she will replace whomever is voted off, to make the sides even at 7 members each.
The new Kotaxians head to camp to get acquainted. Susy quickly sees that Bob is the worker at camp and that he is respected for it. She decides to keep her head down and work hard to try to avoid elimination. At Fang, GC is happy with his new position as the numbers are now on his side. In addition to that, they learn that Kelly is more than happy to jump ship since she felt she was treated as an outcast in Kota. Needless to say Kelly is embraced by Crystal, GC and Ken.
On Day 12 treemail arrives promising a game that combines lacrosse with water polo.* As the Kotaputians practise with the paddle, Marcus ponders the next elimination. He has noticed Susy's hard work around camp and decides that, pending his performance at the challenge, Randy might be the next to go. (No, not Randy! He's MY guy!!) The tribes are put in separate colour-appropriate life rafts and given a paddle with a hole in the blade. They must move their rafts to the ball, pass the ball with the paddle and ultimately put it through a goal. The first tribe to score three goals wins immunity. This show pretty much belongs to Marcus and Randy. Marcus controls the ball, and a well positioned Randy gets three consecutive goals (that's my guy!). Meanwhile everyone else spins in circles, or worse, can't move at all. Its kind of like bumper boats with the batteries removed.
So Fang has to send someone home. Ace laments their performance at the challenge saying they performed like legless chickens. GC thinks Kelly's performance was the worst of all and that she should go. However the Fangrubites have enough sense to think about the absent Sugar. If she has the idol (and she had now had four days to find it), who would she be most likely to give it to? The answer is Ace or Jacquie, hands down. Ace is too strong a competitor to send home, bringing Jacquie up to the top of the hit list. A sympathic Matty tells Jacquie about the plot against her and she makes a heartfelt appeal to both Ken and Crystal. Its not enough though. When Dimples tallies the vote Jacquie is the one heading home. With Jacquie goes New Hampshire Kathy's worries of trying to convert her Canadian winnings into US dollars. I was the only one who saw fit to vote for Jacquie to make it to the end, so I am the other person crying in my wine this evening (which reminds me...scuse me while I top up my glass).
And so Sugar will return to join Fang and we will be at 7 members per tribe.
Until next week
Outwit, Outplay, Outlast
Pat (aka Randy I dedicate those goals to my friend Pat Bailey)
* Water polo? Please! They are neither in the water nor allowed to touch the ball with their hands. The only similarity with water polo is the presence of a ball and water.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Who will win the 1,000,000?
Here are the votes I received:
Pat
- Barb is hanging her hopes on Matty
- Grace only has one hope after tonight, and that is Matty
- Cheryl says its Bob all the way
- Roberta is thinking that Dan is her man
- Mitzie is hoping to win the hand by voting for Ace
- Pam is chosing her own alter ego, Bob, to win
- Rick begged for extra time, told me I was mean then voted for Marcus
- Pat voted for Jacquie based on the premise that sooner or later a woman is going to win
- Selina is counting on the wiley Corinne to win her the secret prize
- Jack, alas, picked Paloma to go all the way and she is already gone.
- Donna is thinking that Charlie can flame his way to the top
- Ah, poor Lisa. I forgot to include her vote for the dreamy Marcus. My apologies Lisa!
Pat
Survivor Gabon - October 2, 2008
Its night 6 in Gabon. The Fangalarians return to camp without Gillian. Randy, though glad Gillian has gone home, still thinks his tribe is stupid. This is only confirmed to him the next morning when they discover that their supply of rice is already more than half gone. Hmm...lets see Day 7, 32 more days to go. This is a really big UH OH. Randy postulates that perhaps having three meals per day is a little luxurious for Survivor. He suggests cutting back to two meals per day. But GC is not willing to suffer now, just because people wanted to cook too much rice earlier in the game. GC's reasoning totally escapes me and apparently it escapes my alter ego Randy too. Randy tells us privately that GC is a cancer that needs to be excised (oooh I love it when my alter egos talk mean!). GC and Randy have a little altercation (read pissing contest) in camp, and its plain neither is feeling the love.
Over at Kota, Corinne is taking inventory. Ace and Sugar are tight. Corinne, Jacquie, Charlie and Marcus are tight. Bob, in Corinne's opinion is "wooable". Ace has entrenched himself as leader and god-like being, something that Paloma is chafing at. Both she and Kelly are frustrated by Ace and are "over him".
The reward challenge involves each tribe putting one member at a post. Their job is to hang onto that post while two opposing tribe members try to drag them off the post, across the sand and over a line. The first tribe to drag two opponents across the line will win reward, consisting of blankets, pillows, mats and a hammock. Kota wins the first round but Fang digs in to win the second. The third round is reminicent of a boxing day blow out sale at Wal-mart. I'm thinking some of those people would be discovering sand in secret places for long time. But in the end a determined Fang gets Ace across the line to win reward. As part of their reward they opt to send Sugar to Exile Island, presumably because she is too dumb to find anything.*
And so Fang carries their loot back to camp, while Kota returns empty handed. Of course, to hear Ace tell the story, this was really a "strategic withdrawal". There are rumblings about why Ace suggested tiny Paloma be chosen to hang on to the post, but Paloma's lack of motivation during the challenge is also a topic of conversation. Meanwhile Sugar is at Exile Island, telling us that she wanted to do Survivor to help her grow up and get a thicker skin. Tearily she explains that her father passed away recently and she believes he is watching over her. She reads the first clue and heads off into the jungle where she encounters an elephant, monkeys and giant ants. She's not an outdoor girl, she tells us, but to her credit she carries on. She finds the sandy crater mentioned in the first clue, then uncovers the second clue, hidden in that crater. Then she is up in a tree to collect the third clue. Finally, under the watchful eye of a crocodile (or alligator - I never learned to tell the difference), she wades out into a swamp to a tree where she finds the hidden immunity idol. "Funny", she muses, "that I could find it while a lawyer couldn't." You're right Toots...the lawyer barely got out of the clearing.
Its Day 9 and Bob and Ace are strategizing. Bob would like to send home Paloma or Sugar but Ace is definitely wanting Sugar to stay. This makes Bob nervous and makes him easier to recruit when Corinne comes to see him later in the day. Ace's attachment to Sugar also gives Paloma more credibility when she goes to talk to Corinne about getting rid of Sugar.
When they meet with Dimples for the immunity challenge, they learn that they will have to belly slide down a long wet slide (just like the one you had as a kid unless you are really old like me) into a lake. Then they must swim out to retrieve one of six floating packages of puzzle pieces, run back up the shore and send the next team member out onto the course. Once all six packages have been retrieved one tribe member must use the puzzle pieces to solve a mathematical puzzle and come up with a sequence of three double digit numbers. If these three numbers are the combination that opens a locked chest, they will find an axe. With the axe they cut a rope and raise their tribal flag for the win. Kota is first to collect their puzzle pieces but Bob, their puzzle master, has problems getting the combination just right. Meanwhile Kenny the gamer remains calm under pressure and manages to solve the puzzle after a couple of false starts. And so, a jubilant Fang wins their second consecutive challenge.
Back at Kota the scheming that began earlier cranks into full gear now that their first Tribal Council is looming. Sugar tells the tribe that she couldn't find the hidden idol but does share her news with Ace.** With his alliance with Sugar and her idol, Ace announces that he hopes to dominate the game. Meanwhile a feisty, if somewhat naive Paloma tells us that she is like an animal. She will wait and watch and when she is ready she will pounce on someone. She points out to Corinne that Ace should be the one to go because he plays Sugar too well and is manipulative. Alas, Paloma is not the wildcat she sees in the mirror. When Dimples (dapper in navy blue) tabulates the votes, Paloma is gone. With Paloma goes Grace from our (crocodile free) pool.
There are now 16 survivors left. Who's next? Look for a separate blog post to see who voted for who to win the million.
Until next week,
Outwit, Outplay, Outlast
Pat (aka Randy at least I got through the episode without hurting myself Bailey)
* never underestimate a blonde
** ok maybe she is kinda dumb
Over at Kota, Corinne is taking inventory. Ace and Sugar are tight. Corinne, Jacquie, Charlie and Marcus are tight. Bob, in Corinne's opinion is "wooable". Ace has entrenched himself as leader and god-like being, something that Paloma is chafing at. Both she and Kelly are frustrated by Ace and are "over him".
The reward challenge involves each tribe putting one member at a post. Their job is to hang onto that post while two opposing tribe members try to drag them off the post, across the sand and over a line. The first tribe to drag two opponents across the line will win reward, consisting of blankets, pillows, mats and a hammock. Kota wins the first round but Fang digs in to win the second. The third round is reminicent of a boxing day blow out sale at Wal-mart. I'm thinking some of those people would be discovering sand in secret places for long time. But in the end a determined Fang gets Ace across the line to win reward. As part of their reward they opt to send Sugar to Exile Island, presumably because she is too dumb to find anything.*
And so Fang carries their loot back to camp, while Kota returns empty handed. Of course, to hear Ace tell the story, this was really a "strategic withdrawal". There are rumblings about why Ace suggested tiny Paloma be chosen to hang on to the post, but Paloma's lack of motivation during the challenge is also a topic of conversation. Meanwhile Sugar is at Exile Island, telling us that she wanted to do Survivor to help her grow up and get a thicker skin. Tearily she explains that her father passed away recently and she believes he is watching over her. She reads the first clue and heads off into the jungle where she encounters an elephant, monkeys and giant ants. She's not an outdoor girl, she tells us, but to her credit she carries on. She finds the sandy crater mentioned in the first clue, then uncovers the second clue, hidden in that crater. Then she is up in a tree to collect the third clue. Finally, under the watchful eye of a crocodile (or alligator - I never learned to tell the difference), she wades out into a swamp to a tree where she finds the hidden immunity idol. "Funny", she muses, "that I could find it while a lawyer couldn't." You're right Toots...the lawyer barely got out of the clearing.
Its Day 9 and Bob and Ace are strategizing. Bob would like to send home Paloma or Sugar but Ace is definitely wanting Sugar to stay. This makes Bob nervous and makes him easier to recruit when Corinne comes to see him later in the day. Ace's attachment to Sugar also gives Paloma more credibility when she goes to talk to Corinne about getting rid of Sugar.
When they meet with Dimples for the immunity challenge, they learn that they will have to belly slide down a long wet slide (just like the one you had as a kid unless you are really old like me) into a lake. Then they must swim out to retrieve one of six floating packages of puzzle pieces, run back up the shore and send the next team member out onto the course. Once all six packages have been retrieved one tribe member must use the puzzle pieces to solve a mathematical puzzle and come up with a sequence of three double digit numbers. If these three numbers are the combination that opens a locked chest, they will find an axe. With the axe they cut a rope and raise their tribal flag for the win. Kota is first to collect their puzzle pieces but Bob, their puzzle master, has problems getting the combination just right. Meanwhile Kenny the gamer remains calm under pressure and manages to solve the puzzle after a couple of false starts. And so, a jubilant Fang wins their second consecutive challenge.
Back at Kota the scheming that began earlier cranks into full gear now that their first Tribal Council is looming. Sugar tells the tribe that she couldn't find the hidden idol but does share her news with Ace.** With his alliance with Sugar and her idol, Ace announces that he hopes to dominate the game. Meanwhile a feisty, if somewhat naive Paloma tells us that she is like an animal. She will wait and watch and when she is ready she will pounce on someone. She points out to Corinne that Ace should be the one to go because he plays Sugar too well and is manipulative. Alas, Paloma is not the wildcat she sees in the mirror. When Dimples (dapper in navy blue) tabulates the votes, Paloma is gone. With Paloma goes Grace from our (crocodile free) pool.
There are now 16 survivors left. Who's next? Look for a separate blog post to see who voted for who to win the million.
Until next week,
Outwit, Outplay, Outlast
Pat (aka Randy at least I got through the episode without hurting myself Bailey)
* never underestimate a blonde
** ok maybe she is kinda dumb
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