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Thanks to Kimmi’s big mouth, Ogakor knew exactly who had votes against him, allowing them to gain the upper hand and vote out Jeff in Survivor: The Australian Outback Episode 7.

Rodger says it’s now every man for himself, as he realizes that Kucha as a tribe can easily be picked off. His plan is to keep catching fish.

Alicia expects four people on the jury to be Kucha members, so the other tribe better play nice.

Tina and Keith are gravitating toward Rodger because they’re closer in age. She says that she wants the good guys to win. So up on the screen pops Jerri, who knows she can’t trust her tribe.

Speaking of Jerri, she still wants to be in control of the rice. Alicia and Elisabeth are tending to the rice. Jerri doesn’t like it. It’s mushy. The good thing for Elisabeth here is that she can tell that Tina’s not happy with Jerri, who is quickly becoming the most logical final two opponent, since she has few friends on either side.

For Kucha, though, their way in may be to get the others to vote against Jerri. In addition to the fact that Elisabeth has noticed that Tina has issues with Jerri, Alicia has noticed the same for Keith and Jerri.

Tina is bonding with Elisabeth. Between those two hanging out and Keith and Rodger hanging out, that could be a powerful foursome.

The reward challenge is a boomerang toss, the most popular weapon in Australia. The person whose boomerang comes closest to the red flag wins reward. Reward is a full meal. Alicia is outside the target. Keith is further outside it. Colby isn’t even close. Tina is still unable to catch Alicia. Jerri is the first one to get inside the circle at the second ring. Nick’s inside the target but not close enough. Rodger comes close but no supper. Elisabeth is outside the target. Amber is close enough to Jerri’s toss that they need to measure it. Jerri wins reward. She’s gonna have to choose someone to go with her. So she asks who really, really, really wants this? Everybody. She picks Amber, unsurprisingly, but she does have a reasonable explanation for it: Amber came so close to winning it.

When the others return to camp, they’re quite happy because Jerri is no longer there. As openly vocal as they’re being about how much they hate Jerri, there’s a smarter strategy here than campaigning against Jerri: let her know just how much her tribe hates her.

Amber and Jerri are worried about Tina, who has been a completely different person since the merge. They’re worried they’re going to get their backs stabbed.

Upon their return, Jerri and Amber feel out of place. Nobody’s happy to see them. Colby makes his way down to the beach to get some time alone. So Jerri takes this as her opportunity to go talk to him. She’s worried about Tina and Keith. Colby tells her the truth: Tina and Keith are going to the finals with him. However, he convinces her that he’s with her and Amber. He won’t lose sleep over lying. After all, he’s just lying to Jerri. He doesn’t care that it’s a stupid idea for him to go up against Keith or Tina. His only concern is that Jerri is not allowed to win.

The object of the immunity challenge is to connect posts with ropes to form squares. Whoever’s rope completes the square gets a point, and they can continue scoring points as long as they can complete squares. Amber gets the first point. Nick gets his first. Colby gets 1, then 2. Jerri gets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Keith gets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and on through 17. Amber gets 2 through 10. Tina gets 1 through 16. Not enough. Keith wins immunity.

Nick and Alicia feel Elisabeth is foolish for thinking that Jerri will be sent home. They assume one of them will be gone.

It’s time for tribal council, which means it’s time for a rain storm.

Votes
Jerri
Alicia
Jerri
Alicia
Alicia
Alicia
Jerri
Jerri
Alicia

Because she intimidated the men as much as the women, Alicia has been voted off the island. She is the first member of the jury, and she leaves with a positive attitude and a smile, having already prepared herself for her eviction.

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Survivor: The Australian Outback Episode 6 saw the departure of Michael after he passed out and fell into the fire.

Unlike what they do nowadays, they’re not even trying to keep it a mystery. The merge is coming, and they will be going into it at 5 members each.

Everybody on Kucha agrees they need to stick together, and they have no plans to turn on each other until it becomes necessary. They want to find a weak link that can flip on the other tribe. Their plan is to target Keith or Amber. There’s a problem, though. Kimmi and Debb are coming back to haunt them again. Debb voted against Jeff at the first tribal council, and Kimmi told Ogakor about it, which in the event of a tie would work against Kucha. Unlike Kucha, which is guessing who has past votes, Ogakor knows for sure Jeff has at least 1.

Ogakor remains in the dark. They assume that whoever’s been evacuated is gone, but they don’t know who it is or what happened. After much speculation, they finally get treemail (yet no information). It’s boys’ night out. Colby and Keith will be headed over to Kucha to scout it. Meanwhile, Kucha is getting girls’ night out, allowing Elisabeth and Alicia to check out Ogakor’s camp (they’ll have to forego their last chicken, in favor of white rice).

Kucha would like to get rid of Jerri as one of its first targets. If they do vote for her or Keith, that would give them the advantage.

While all of Kucha wants to live at Kucha beach, Colby’s keeping an open mind.

When the girls arrive at Ogakor, they’re able to finally shed some light on what happened with Mike, who they have been told will be okay.

Over on Kucha, their boys are surprised it’s a sausagefest. They were expecting a girls’ night out from the other tribe. Keith and Colby, also, are disappointed to find out that they’re not getting a meal from the girls. However, they do get to eat some chicken with spices.

When Keith left, he might have thought to check his pocket. He took his tribe’s only matches with him. Jerri will need to bite her tongue and not talk badly about him.

Jerri will serve up tortillas and tomatoes. They don’t have much more to offer, but they’re doing what they can. Either way, they’re going to talk about food all day long.

In addition to all the food, Kucha has so much firewood they don’t even worry about it, and they have a kitchen and a bunch of other things. Jerri and Amber are looking forward to leaving Ogakor beach behind.

Guess what: they’re going to have to start from scratch. They can take whatever they can carry, but it is a new site untouched by either tribe. The good news is that, since they’ve made it to the merger, they’re given a box full of food. Nick was hoping to try to be equal, but he’s not going to get his hand eaten by one of the women.

Jeff sees the other tribe go off within 15 minutes. He assumes they’re strategizing.

Rodger would like to build the hut up in the trees, but the girls would like to go in the sand. Colby’s just going to do whatever everybody else wants to as to not ruffle any feathers. With that said, they build in the sand.

Now that they’re a new tribe, they need a new name: Barramundi.

The immunity challenge is called the perch. They will stand on pillars. This could be a while. After an hour and a half, Nick hops in. He’s getting dizzy, so he’d rather just rest if he doesn’t think he can win. Colby jumps in next. That was… odd. He hopes to draw attention toward himself and away from Keith and Jerri. At 4 hours, Jeff brings out peanutbutter and chocolate. Elisabeth is going crazy. After she yells Colby’s name, Probst gets an idea, which is to give Nick and Colby some food. Rodger has decided to bail so he can have the rest. After some debate, Jeff jumps in as well, feeling he won’t be able to outlast the women anyway. At 6 hours, 47 minutes, Probst returns. He’s got ice cream and hot fudge. Amber and Jerri both jump in before he can even finish his sentence. For Amber, that works because she’s safe (unless she gets put up against someone who also has 0 votes), but Jerri’s neck is on the line since she has votes against her. At 8 hours, 23 minutes, Jeff returns to a shivering Elisabeth, who wants to negotiate, as she’s in the worst shape. Half an hour later, Probst returns with a boat to get her and bring her back to shore without getting wet. At 10 hours, 17 minutes, Probst returns again with an offer of hot coffee or hot chocolate and a boat ride in. Alicia accepts. Immediately after, before Alicia’s even out of earshot, Keith turns to Tina and says he needs it. She agrees, knowing that she has to take one for the tribe. Keith wins immunity. Now they just have to convince the other tribe to not vote for Jerri.

The day’s not over yet. They still have to go to tribal council, so hopefully they’ve gotten all their plotting in before that. Tina and Keith are open about the fact that she gave him the win and why. Colby plans to vote based on a move determined the first week they were there. It’s obvious they remember Kimmi’s words well.

Votes
Colby
Colby
Jeff
Jeff
Jeff
Colby
Jeff
Colby
Jeff
Colby

It’s a tie. They will vote again.

Votes
Jeff
Colby
Jeff
Colby
Jeff
Colby
Jeff
Colby

Tied again. In the event of a tie, previously cast votes determine the outcome. Colby has 0 votes against him; Jeff has 1 vote against him. Jeff has been voted off the island by Ogakor, with an assist by Kimmi’s big mouth.

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