Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Survivor Season 36: Ghost Island Week 9 Recap

This is season 36 of Survivor. This time, twenty players (11 remaining) are competing in Fiji, and, for the first time ever, the show will revolve around a new game-changing element: the mistakes of castaways past, the talismans of which are scattered on a land dubbed Ghost Island.




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Now, first of all, let me say that I am in no way an expert in any kind of way about this show. Actually I am only a few seasons in, but I'm starting to get the hang of it. This blog post is my way of helping me keep all things sorted out. So take it easy on me if I make mistakes.


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Lavita


Desiree decided to play this week and get things fired up from the beginning. She realized she was on the bottom of Naviti and even though they still have numbers, it might be time to work with the Malolo to knock out some big targets (Domenick, Wendell, Kellyn). Unfortunately for her, she told Laurel who is in a "secret" alliance with Domenick and Wendell. What followed was a constant barrage of he said/she said where no one outside the original clique knew who to believe.

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Reward Challenge/Ghost Island

The contestants were split into two groups of five (Donathan wasn't chosen and had to sit out) to battle it out to win a chopper ride with a deli picnic. Michael/Sebastian (orange) were able to paddle their boat and "rescue" Chelsea, Kellyn, and Jenna and get to the beach and puzzle before Wendell/Domenick could do the same with Laurel, Desiree and Angela for the purple team. With this lead they were also able to finish the huge puzzle first to win the reward.

They chose to use rocks instead of picking someone for Ghost Island and Angela ended up with the white rock. On her visit she got the chance to win the advantage or lose her vote. She decided to play thinking the Naviti were safe (she wasn't at camp for the Desiree business), but chose poorly and got the "No Vote" for tribal.


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Individual Immunity Challenge

This challenge involved balancing a ball on a platter being supported by holding two ropes.

1st round: Boom! Wendell, Jenna, Desiree, Laurel, Angela, Donathan, Domenick and Michael all go down within two minutes.

2nd round: After moving back on the ropes, Kellyn was the next ball to drop and then Sebastian.

Chelsea wins immunity (probably in a week she didn't even need it).

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Tribal Council

When Angela gets back to camp Domenick gives her the heads up of what's been stirred up by Desiree, but she thinks he's lying. Then Desiree says Laurel is lying. Laurel says Desiree is full of it. The camp doesn't know who's lying and who's telling the truth.

Michael and Donathan are sitting there like wtf, we should go look for an idol. After some digging, Donathan find 1/2 of the "super idol" that Tai didn't use at tribal to save Chris in Brains vs Brawn vs Beauty. He had to dig up the other half in the middle of camp to make it an idol with power. He sat there trying to dig it up until a few people he trusted gathered around and shielded what he was doing. He got it.

At tribal, they had to decide who was not lying, who was lying, and what line of strategy to follow. Is Naviti staying strong or breaking up? Is the bottom forming an alliance to come after the top? Is Michael still the target after getting seven votes last week?

In the end though, I think everyone saw Desiree as acting erratically. That hurt her. She got eight of the votes to be sent home. Michael got the other two (plus the one "no vote").

So that leaves us with (total votes received in parentheses):

Lavita: Angela (3), Michael (9), Kellyn**, Domenick*, Chelsea, Donathan* (1), Sebastian, Laurel, Wendell* (1), and Jenna.

Voted out (in order): Gonzalez, Jacob, Morgan, Brendan, Stephanie, James, Bradley

Voted out and on the jury (in order): Chris, Libby, Desiree

*Has a Hidden Immunity Idol. Domenick found his idol in Week 1. Michael found one in Week 2 and played it in Week 3. Michael found his second and Wendell his first in Week 6. Chris got one on Ghost Island in Week 7, but was voted out with it in his pocket. Michael played his idol in Week 8. Donathan found his first idol this week.

**Has a Secret Advantage. Jacob willed it from Ghost Island to Morgan in Week 1. Morgan was voted out in Week 2, and willed it to Domenick, who used it Week 7.
Kellyn got hers from Ghost Island in Week 6.


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