As the strongest person on the island, Alicia was voted out in Survivor: The Australian Outback Episode 8.
Has the Kucha tribe learned from last time, or will they continue to push the anti-Jerri vote that did not work before?
The roof of Nick’s mouth feels like it’s burning. He has enlarged taste buds, so he thinks that’s the problem. He can barely even swallow water at this point.
With the rainy season here, the tribe is getting more miserable. They’re less able to sleep, the work they have to do is more difficult, and the water is muddy, which has decreased their fishing prospects and forced them to fish from the shore, where they’re losing their hooks. The result of the decreased fish is that they’re eating more rice than they should. They’re down now to their last two meals of rice.
Reward challenge is here, and even that’s a cause for friction within the tribe. They’re told they will split into partnerships of one man and one woman each. So do they pull them out of a hat? Nope, Jerri doesn’t want to. She wants Colby. The others veto her. Jerri gets Colby anyway. Reward is to go via helicopter to one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef, where they will go snorkeling in the clear blue water and get lunch. The challenge is an obstacle course on the beach. The teams are: Jerri & Colby, Tina & Rodger, Amber & Keith, and Nick & Elisabeth. Keith & Amber beat Tina & Rodger to move on to the finals. In a slightly more fair match, Jerri & Colby still easily beat Nick & Elisabeth to move to the finals as well. Amber’s doing a decent job of keeping up with the competition, but Keith’s dragging her down. Colby is making sure that Jerri keeps up with him, no matter how much he has to throw her around and hope to break something. Jerri and Colby win reward.
So does this count as a first date? Colby tells Jerri right away that he doesn’t want to hear a word about Survivor or the others. Under the tent is a feast with every kind of picnic food and some champagne. When they’re done eating, they head out and swim in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef with their underwater cameras. Jerri tells Colby this is one hell of a first date. He just considers it downtime away from the game and nothing more. He’s still thinking, though. When he returns to camp, he’s brought everybody back a piece of coral.
Unless he wins immunity, Nick’s the most likely target, but he’s pretty much burned out, so whether he’ll actually try is the question.
The immunity challenge is a test of balance. The first round is to knock their opponent off balance using a rope, but it’s not a tug of war. The second round is a shaky beam. The finalists will square off on a pair of unsteady platforms. Keith and Rodger are up first, and Rodger wins. Nick and Jerri square off next, and Jerri looks strong but ends up falling backward. Colby and Tina go next, and there’s really no question that Colby will win this. Amber and Elisabeth are perhaps the most evenly matched of the pairs, and Amber moves to the next round. Colby next goes against Rodger, which once again is an unfair fight. Nick takes on Amber on the beam, and Amber looks like she may have the upper hand but eventually falls in. It’s Nick against Colby, and somehow Nick manages to outlast Colby to win immunity.
Because Nick has immunity, Elisabeth’s neck’s on the chopping block. Will they come up to a workable strategy? Elisabeth is sticking to the same thing as last time: vote for Jerri. Tina tells her it ain’t gonna work.
Keith is whining about not eliminating Jerri right away. Colby wants to see calmer heads prevail and stick to the original plan. The reality is they can get rid of Jerri and still have the numbers, although it is the more dangerous path to take, and really not worth the risk considering things are going perfectly as it is.
At tribal council, Jerri acknowledges she’s surprised even herself by saying and acting the way she has due to stress/hunger/etc. She wishes she could take back some of the things she’s said.
Votes
Elisabeth
Jerri
Elisabeth
Jerri
Jerri
Jerri
Jerri
Keith’s whining worked. Jerri has finally gotten her comeuppance, and she’s not too surprised. That makes Amber the most out of the loop person on the tribe, but it still leaves Kucha shy on numbers unless they come up with an alternate strategy because getting someone to turn on Amber will be a lot harder than getting someone to turn on Jerri. They haven’t altered the outcome… they’ve merely given themselves one more tribal council.
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