Coach wanted to convince everybody to vote against Erinn in Survivor: Tocantins Episode 3, but unlike last week, he was unable to force his team to do as he wanted. Instead, Jerry, who had been suffering with stomach problems, was voted out.
Coach believes he’s the better leader than Brendan, which gives him more ammo still for wanting to get rid of Erinn. So like after listening to him go on and on for two minutes, are we done with this already?
Everybody is concerned about Taj because she keeps going to Exile. Little do they know what she’s been up to. Stephen is about to find out. She asks him if he wants to be part of the biggest upset in Survivor history. He’s completely open to the idea of joining her alliance with Brendan and Sierra. I like where this is headed.
Brendan, however, has not yet communicated to Sierra what their plans are as they walk to the challenge. This could undo everything. For the challenge, three members of each tribe will have a pole over their shoulders with weight added at set intervals. Reward is to raid the other camp and steal two items. Sierra will sit out for Timbira. Stephen and Spencer will sit out for Jalapao. Jalapao’s weight bearers are Joe, Taj, and JT; Timbira’s weight bearers are Brendan, Debra, and Tyson. The remaining team members will merely be deciding who to add weight to, and then adding it. Brendan and Joe get weight first. Each round is 20 pounds. JT and Tyson are next. Brendan and Taj are next. As time passes, Brendan gets to 180, JT 160, Tyson 120, Joe 140, and Taj and Debra at 80. Brendan and JT get the next weight. The record is 220 pounds, set by Rupert in Pearl Islands. Brendan and JT get the next weight. That puts Brendan at 220. He’s out. JT and Tyson are next. JT’s now at 220. Tyson is out at 140. JT holds strong for a while but is out. Joe drops at 140. That leaves just the women, both at 80 pounds. Both go up to 100. Debra is out. Jalapao wins reward. Sierra is going to Exile Island. She picks Taj to go with her. Now it’s just a question of whether Taj can work things out.
Joe and JT arrive to raid the camp. Unsurprisingly, they take some of the beans and a water can. They know better than to take both sets of beans (no need to completely anger the other side, and no need to screw over your own people in the event of a shuffle). Sandy doesn’t like this strategy. Sydney’s growing more and more tired of her. Sandy is, likewise, growing tired of Sydney because she’s attractive.
Taj gets the clue this time. She knows for sure it’s the treemail based on this clue. Trying to figure out where her head is at, she realizes Brendan never had the time to fill her in. So Taj will do it for him. Sierra’s up for it.
Erinn is an outcast. Before she came on the show, she went through a bad break up, so she doesn’t want to talk to anyone because it will come out. Oh geez. Go ahead and vote her off.
At the immunity challenge, one tribe member from each team will race out, untie and grab a puzzle piece, and return. When they have all 8 pieces, they will put them in the correct spot and rotate them to reveal the winning phrase. Taj is sitting out for Jalapao. Joe takes a lead over Coach. JT and Erinn are next. JT extends the lead. Spencer and Brendan are next. Brendan picks up a bit of ground. Stephen and Tyson go next. Jalapao’s still got the lead. Sandy and Sierra are next. Sandy retains the lead. Sydney and Debbie are next. Sydney struggles, and Timbira takes the lead by a good margin. Brendan and Joe are next. The final people to run are Tyson and JT. It’s pretty close, with Timbira having a slight lead. The puzzle will decide this. A lot of phrases are almost right, but only one is absolutely right. Timbira wins immunity.
This brings Jalapao’s 4 challenge winning streak to an end.
Joe is happy to be getting rid of someone in particular (Sandy). Sydney, however, fell apart in the challenge, which Taj brings up.
Sandy brings up at tribal council how Sydney is wearing JT’s boxer shorts. She defends herself saying she doesn’t have shorts and is wearing jeans. Jeans? On Survivor? She acknowledges, however, that she flirts with Joe the most, in addition to flirting everybody else, regardless of gender.
Votes
Sandy
Sydney
Joe
Sandy
Sandy
Sandy
With 4 votes, Sandy has been voted out. Unless they can pry the boys away from Sydney, the others may run into trouble here.
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