Survivor One World - March 14/12

Day 12 dawns on the women of Salani who are overjoyed, though somewhat confused, by the mens' decision to head off to Tribal Council when they didn't have to. I believe Sabrina speaks for all of us when she says that the guys are a mess. The girls are united though, and planning to stick together when the merge occurs. But wait. What's this? They head off to a challenge where Dimples informs them that they are to be divided into two totally new tribes. They have to drop their buffs, then each takes an egg and smashes it against their body. In each egg is either blue or orange dye, that determines the distribution of the tribe. Salani is the new blue tribe consisting of Chelsea, Sabrina, Troyzan, Mike, Jay, Kat and Kim. Manono is the orange tribe made up of Tarzan, Colton, Alicia, Jonas, Christina, Monica and Leif. The newly minted tribes must now participate in a reward challenge where the winning team gets PB and J sandwiches along with coffee. They also win the right to stay at the current camp while the losers must start over at a new beach. The challenge involves using a large bucket to haul water to fill another tub. Once the second tub is full enough it will drop releasing a flag signifying the winning team. The catch is that the bucket in which teams transport the water is full of holes. They must cover as many of the holes as they can with fingers and any available body parts to keep some water in the bucket during transport. The new Salani team narrowly wins and heads back to camp with bread, peanut butter, jam and coffee. They are delighted with the way things turned out for them. They have they physically strong players and 4 members of the cool girl alliance is intact. Meanwhile they find a bunch of crabs and catch a rooster to supplement their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Could life get any better? Not having to worry about messy things like eating or finding shelter frees the members of Salani to plan. Kim forges an alliance with Troy and Jay, just in case the whole girl power thing doesn't work out. She also realizes that the idol intended for the girls' tribe was never found so she decides to look for it (now there's a plan...how is it no one thought of this before?). She finds it and shares her news with Chelsea, the one she trusts the most. Things aren't nearly so rosy for Manono. Leaving the challenge, they take their map and head off to their mystery camp with nothing but some fishing gear. They too find a chicken and even capture it in a cage. But not until the chicken walks away do they realize that one side of the cage is open. Colton is frustrated with his new tribe but gets to work shmoozing his new team mates. He befriends Christina while telling everone else that it is Christina he wants gone first. When he tells Alicia of his plan Alicia is uncertain. The guys have been doing crazy things and the girls are tight. However in the end Alicia consents. Jonas actively dislikes Colton and tells us that while everyone else busts their collective butts building a new camp, Colton is sitting on his ass and talking to the girls. Yet when Colton tells Jonas to vote for Christina he agrees.Colton suddenly decides that Monica is a bigger threat than Christine and that she should go first. He spreads the word and everyone signs in on the plan. Colton seems to have some Svengali sort of power over this tribe that I am just not seeing. He is annoying. He is not good at challenges and he is a manipulator. Should he not be the first to go? But everyone seems to feel that as long as they aren't the one being voted out they will go along with any plan (there is something reminiscent of the Holocaust here!). Colton's biggest problem appears to be getting Tarzan to remember the name is his supposed to write down. He can't even remember which girl is Monica. For the immunity challenge, teams must play three on three basketball in the water. There are various man-woman combinations but the first tribe to score three baskets will win immunity. The stars are Leif (strange but true) who fights tenaciously and Monica who gets Manono's single basket. Even Colton manages to get to the ball first and hangs on, despite having three people trying to get the ball away from him. In the end though, Manono loses and head off to Tribal Council. Christine and Monica believe Tarzan is the target but everyone else is targetting Monica. At Tribal Council, Dimples explores Tarzan's amazing vocabularly. Unfortunately Tarzan can't seem to string those big words together in any meaningful kind of order. We also learn he has nominal aphasia (forgets names) which explains why he couldn't remember the name of the person he was supposed to vote for. He apparently gets it all straightened out though, because when the ballots are counted Monica is heading home as per Colton's sinister plan. With Monica goes pool-member Lisa. Sorry to see you go Lisa! Thanks to Jack for sending photos of the Survivor buff he won from last season. I guess Jack is the good looking one in the photos? Until next week.... Outwit, Outplay, Outlast Pat (aka Kat keep your head down Edorsson)