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The alliance planned to vote out Kelly for being less clever than she thinks she is, but after Kelly won immunity, they opted instead to vote out the last remaining Pagong, Colleen, in Survivor: Borneo Episode 11.

Rudy’s given his word. His word is good. He hopes that whoever has given their word in return is good, too. If not, he has friends back home who handle people like that.

Rich is promising everybody they’re going to the next step with him. He doesn’t care who leaves as long as it’s not him.

Sue confronts Kelly about being a backstabber based on what Colleen said. Kelly, who’s said repeatedly she’s not in this alliance (yet nonetheless has continued to stay with them), says she was never trying to be with the other side. Sue is mostly upset that Kelly tried to look like the good guy and throw the others under the bus. Rich is willing to listen to Kelly’s ranting, seeing this as a good thing for himself.

The mud volcano actually created the entire island. They’re turning it into a challenge. The contestants will collect as much mud from it as they can, putting it into their buckets over the course of 5 minutes. Reward will be a trip to a mysterious bar with Jeff, where they will watch the first 5 minutes of the very first episode of Survivor. Kelly gets 15.9 pounds. Rudy gets 10.0 pounds. Sue gets 15.0 pounds. Sean gets 15.4 pounds. Rich gets 12.8 pounds. Kelly wins reward.

Everybody had a lot of fun at the challenge. They seem to be over the fact that they hate each other. That won’t last long.

Sue has told Kelly that she needs to align with Rich, rather than her. However, they agree to treat each other in a civil manner. It seems Kelly’s only chance here is to keep winning challenges.

The immunity challenge is to answer questions about island folklore after listening to Jeff tell them a story about the island. Some interesting aspects of the tale: every person voted off has had their torch blown out by the wind (to be relighted so it can be ceremoniously snuffed out), it has rained at every tribal council, and Joel chased a pit viper away from camp only to be voted off at the next tribal council (welcoming snakes into your camp is supposed to be good luck). When the story is complete, behind each of 5 masks in the jungle is a question. They need to answer those questions correctly. Kelly has won immunity again, so there goes the theory that they can vote her off. Her plan is to vote for either Rich or Sue. Now that she has very little other choice, she is finally out of that alliance she hated so badly, or so she says.

Votes
Sue
Sean
Sean
Sean

With three votes, Sean has been voted out. His torch does not need to be snuffed because it went out during the vote, as has happened to all of the post-merger people who have been voted off. Whether they wanted to or not, the alliance has stuck together. Despite her talk to the contrary, Kelly continued to vote with the alliance, making it unanimous against Sean. Sean’s elimination represents the removal of the last of the people who really did not want to play the game, although he at least gets some credit for making an effort, even if it was too late.

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Sean finally stopped voting in alphabetical order, not that it mattered because the alliance now has enough votes to control the game, and Gervase was voted out in Survivor: Borneo Episode 10. As for the remaining Pagong members, they were stupid again, this time voting for Sean, their best swing vote hope.

With everybody else gone, Colleen is now the last Pagong standing. She believes that the alliance is scrambling, each trying to further themselves in the game, with the exception of Rudy, who will just watch it all happen. Even Sean’s starting to treat the game a little more like a game. With all that’s going on around her, Colleen has absolutely no interest in improving her standing. She doesn’t enjoy playing the game and pretty much seems resigned to go home.

Reward is a night on a yacht with TV, stereo, luxury dinner, bed, and shower. It is a multiple choice challenge.

Pound for pound, insects are a better source of protein than beef. True or false?
Everybody answers true. Everybody is correct. Almost 80% of an insect is good for protein.

What must be done to water collected from inside green bamboo to make it safe to drink?
The correct answer is nothing. Rudy and Colleen are correct.

After some more questions that we don’t get to see, Kelly is eliminated.

If you do not have water, you should:
Not eat. Digestion removes even more fluid. Everybody is correct, but because she’s one color behind the others, Susan has been eliminated.

If you eat a poisonous mushroom and survive the first 24 hours, you have a 90% chance of full recovery. True or false?
False. Some mushrooms will kill you 2-10 days later. Richard is correct.

What is the longest venemous snake in the world?
King cobra. Sean is correct.

The dangerous female black widow spider is identified by a blue hourglass pattern on her abdomen. True or false?
False. The answer is red. Since they have advanced all the way to the mat, Sean and Richard move on to the tie breaker.

Which can you drink to kill intestinal parasites?
Kerosene. Just hope that doesn’t kill you before it kills the parasites. Sean wins reward.

One person may be able to join him for breakfast. He said he’s going to bring Kelly because he owes her a dinner.

With the growing rain storms, the castaways are becoming increasingly miserable. As the sun comes out, Sean sees his yacht and a rainbow, which has a pot of gold at the end for somebody. Jeff tells him he can invite someone for breakfast. He asks Kelly if she wants that to be her meal. She does not respond yes, but rather tells him not to pawn the decision off on her. The girls want him to grow a pair and make up his mind. Okay then. Rich can join him for breakfast the next morning. Following his dinner, shower, and massage, Sean gets a surprise visit from his father.

Now Kelly’s mad at Sean. Dumbass. She should have said yes when he asked, rather than saying it wasn’t her decision. She got what she deserved.

Colleen thought it was a pretty smart move if Sean’s buttering up Rich to save himself.

Sue wants to know what’s going on in the world, but Sean’s father doesn’t know. He has, however, brought a care package for each person, which does include some food.

The immunity challenge is to stand on planks. Over time, planks will be removed until each person is standing on just one plank. Last one standing wins. The first plank is cut with nobody budging. Then it’s time to cut a second plank. Rudy is the first one out, perhaps to get away from Hatch’s singing. The others get away from it next, as Richard falls in. Rich and Rudy are on the beach discussing how Kelly is going home tonight, and Colleen’s in no danger. The final plank has been removed. Sean falls in as it’s being removed. Sue’s right behind him. If Kelly hangs in there, Sue wants to eliminate Sean instead of Colleen. Rich and Rudy are onboard with that. Colleen asks Kelly if she’s getting voted off if she falls. Not by Kelly. What about the rest? Colleen eventually falls as the sun’s going down, and Kelly wins immunity.

Kelly says she’s out of the alliance. Yeah, this again. Pagong didn’t trust her because they saw her as a double agent, and Tagi doesn’t trust her because they see her over on the other side. Kelly has decided she doesn’t care how she treats the rest of the tribe, whether they’re on the jury or not.

At tribal council, Kelly’s still complaining about her decision to not ask Sean to take her with him. His explanation for his choice is that Rich provides them with so much food.

Votes
Sean
Colleen
Colleen
Sean
Colleen
Colleen

With 4 votes, Colleen has been voted off the island. It was her time to go, as she wasn’t going to bother playing, like the rest of Pagong. Her last words: play fair, be nice. Good luck with that.

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Although Kelly didn’t vote with her alliance, Sean’s alphabetical order strategy still ensured they had enough votes to eliminate Jenna in Survivor: Borneo Episode 9.

The plan had been to vote out Gervase, but they changed it at the last minute because Jenna had to go, which they knew would only take three votes.

Gervase thinks there’s gotta be an alliance. Really? As for Sean, no, he’s not 100% sure. It seems, however, he’s realized that his alphabetical order strategy is stupid, especially when everbody knows about it.

Hatch plans to wait for a couple more people to go home before he starts to feed people like kings. He views his fellow tribe members like he views these fish. Just waiting to be picked off.

Sue’s strategy is to play the role of the dumb redneck. I’m buying it. She doesn’t trust Rich, and her plan is to burn him eventually. She does, however, trust Kelly 100%, and she has no plans to turn on her. In return, Kelly only trusts Sue, but she doubts that trust.

Gervase is again a father. His son was born while he was on the island. That makes 4 kids, although he’s never been married. When Rudy was young, you got married as soon as that stick turned blue.

They get a pizza box before they go to the challenge, so they know what reward will be. I wonder if that 30 minutes or less thing still applies. The winner will get a phone call home to the person of their choice, plus a slice of pizza delivered by helicopter. The game is a simple balancing act. The first one to get across the poles wins. Everybody runs the first leg, and the fastest four will advance. Sue, Gervase, Rich, and Sean proceed. Rich and Gervase make it to the final round. Gervase wins reward. He offers everybody a bite of his slice of pizza. He’ll call his girlfriend in the morning because she had the baby. I’d say call now. It’s 3AM in Jersey, but someone with a newborn is probably still awake.

Kelly thinks the alliance, which she’s been part of for weeks, is dirty and conniving. She decided a while ago to not be part of the alliance. She believes she’s hiding this well from Rich, but he sees she’s changing. Her plan is to either lie down and let Rich do what he wants, or she’s going to try to beat him at his own game (good luck with that).

The immunity challenge is to build a fire with kindling and torches. They have three minutes to place the wood, then they’ll head out into the water to get fire. Richard is first back to the beach. Gervase takes a long time to get back with his fire, and when he gets back, it goes out, so he has to return to the water. He’s pretty much out of it, but it doesn’t really matter anyway. Hatch has a healthy lead, and nobody else is even close. Rich wins immunity.

Gervase and Colleen make costumes for tribal council. His codename is Bullseye; Colleen’s is Sitting Duck.

Sean has agreed to join an alliance with Pagong, as long as Kelly is onboard. One big problem is that the ideal target is safe at tonight’s vote.

Hatch continues to get increasingly suspicious of Kelly.

Sean has, finally, agreed to get with the program. He will be voting in his own best interest.

Sue says that alliances are the American way. So is she finally admitting there’s an alliance?

Votes
Sean
Gervase
Gervase
Gervase
Gervase

With 4 votes, Gervase has been voted off the island. Apparently aware they were unable to get Sean on their side, the Pagong folks made another vote that didn’t make a great deal of sense, rather than letting the sole survivor try to work with him over the next few days.

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Instead of banding together and trying to bring in Dr. Sean’s vote from the other side, the members of Pagong voted against one of their own, Jenna. The other side, however, decided unanimously to vote out Greg in Survivor: Gabon Episode 8, with an assist from Sean’s silly alphabetical order strategy.

Colleen has finally realized that there is an alliance (duh), and she realizes her number is up.

Kelly says she’s not having fun Pagonging people. She’d rather do this all on her own. If she were on her own, she wouldn’t be in the powerful position she’s in now, though.

Hatch doesn’t believe that he’s sticking around due to his fishing. Rather, he’s still there because he’s smart enough to have maneuvered himself into a good spot. The fishing’s just a nice bonus.

Now they just have to figure out how the heck to cook the fish, and Rudy’s not helping any. Half of the fish has been wasted, and Hatch isn’t happy with that. He says he doesn’t plan to catch any more fish for a while.

The others continue fishing, but they still haven’t caught anything. For a change, though, the girls do manage to catch a single fish in their traps.

Reward is a BBQ including steak, hot dogs, burgers, chicken, kabobs, chips, etc. Additionally, they have letters from home, even Jenna. Rudy’s fully prepared to eat rice tonight. The challenge is to navigate their way through 16 legs of a rope contraption and pick up their number at each station. In this competition, Jeff’s starting to do some talking, a staple of future challenges. Kelly has taken the lead, with Colleen in second and Jenna in third. Colleen edges out Kelly by seconds to win reward. After her win, Jeff starts talking about inviting someone. She wants to invite everyone. Nope, time to choose. Jenna has been invited so she can read her letter.

Although Colleen knows there’s an alliance, somebody’s still not convinced. Sean told her that, if it happens one more time, he’ll know for sure there’s an alliance. She is finally planning to actually make a move, seeing if they can swing Sean over to their side and force a tie.

Rich celebrates his 39th birthday in his birthday suit. Tagi is kinda sorta used to this, but Colleen and Jenna run away and cover their eyes.

Sean’s alphabetical order strategy may be stupid, but it’s a valid strategy. Here’s the big problem. He’s told everyone on the tribe his strategy, so they all know exactly how he’ll vote.

The immunity challenge is mental for a change. They have to step on a square and flip it over to reveal a yellow square. When they run out of red squares to move to, they’re out. Colleen is the first one out. Kelly is the next one out. Sue is out third. Sean chooses to step toward Jenna instead of going the other way, effectively ending her run. She is eliminated after a couple more moves, so now she’s rooting for/helping Rudy. Rich follows her. Gervase is next out, and Sean is after him. Rudy wins immunity.

Pagong is all pretty much onboard with the fact that they were playing a very stupid game.

Rich and Sue are concerned that Kelly may flip and join with the girls around her age. Rudy doesn’t think they’ve got enough brains to join together.

Greg, voted out at the previous tribal council, has become the first member of the jury, so he will be observing them.

If Sean felt that Jenna were in danger, he’d cancel her alphabetical vote. Sue thinks Sean’s a neurotic idiot, but he says he just doesn’t have a malicious bone in his body, so he doesn’t want to vote against anyone out of strategy.

Votes
Rich
Jenna
Jenna
Rich
Rich
Sean
Jenna
Jenna

With four votes, Jenna has been sent home, sunk by the alphabetical order strategy. Pagong’s effort to eliminate the biggest threat in the game has failed. Having voted for Sean, Kelly didn’t vote with her alliance, but she didn’t vote against them either.

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