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Irritated that they were being accused of forming an alliance, the women proceeded to do just that in Survivor: Kaoh Rong Episode 8 and joined together to eliminate Nick.

Scot has a plan to get even. Take away tools. His goal is to make people miserable. Jason is fully onboard with this. How unexpected to see the big bullies acting like big bullies. It’s not as if they can rely on their minds to come up with a way back into the game. Tai at least is above this.

The women figure out how to open a coconut without any tools. This makes Scot angry because it took them 20 minutes to outsmart him. So he dumps water on the fire, which they then rebuild.

For the reward challenge, they will work together to separate themselves from being tied together, then toss some bags to knock over targets. Reward is Chinese food. Joe volunteers to sit out. Tai, Jason, and Scot form their own team, and Julia offers to join them. As the odd man out, Joe votes for the girls to win, so he will either join them if they win or get nothing, a personal decision but perhaps not a smart one. The women fall behind on the rope task, and they never catch up.

Julia’s choice at the challenge is not lost on anyone. She may not have necessarily flipped, but she’s weighing her options. Seeing this, the other girls have a new target in mind.

Not to be outdone, that night Tai puts out the fire, too. He doesn’t get any blame for it, though. The women just assume it was Scot. After that, Debbie flat out refuses to vote for Julia and wants Scot gone instead.

The immunity challenge requires them to stack blocks like dominoes, spacing them just right so they can hit a gong on the other side. As most people fall apart around her, Michele is going slow and steady, but her stack stops a couple shy of the target. Then Debbie unsuccessfully tries. So does Jason. Debbie again. On her first attempt, Julia wins immunity.

That pretty much forces their hands. Like it or not, they can’t get rid of Julia now.

Debbie proposes a split vote. Aubry is afraid because she is saying this plan in front of Julia, which if she flips would cause whoever the others want to go home. Of course, Julia reveals this plan to the other side.

Because Debbie keeps talking without apparently thinking, Cydney and Aubry discuss getting rid of her instead. Joe refuses. Ironically, what they were so upset about is that Debbie was telling Julia her plan. So they tell her theirs. I do not understand how you arrive at this conclusion. Either you trust Julia to know information, or you don’t.

At Tribal Council, Scot reveals that Tai has an idol, and then Jason reveals his. Once again, this is all news to Julia, who thinks she is playing both sides, though neither side actually wants her for anything more than a temporary vote.

Following the vote, Jason hands his idol to Tai.

Votes
Scot
Cydney
Scot
Cydney
Cydney
Debbie
Debbie
Debbie
Debbie

With 4 votes, Debbie has been voted off the island. I’m not sure whether that whole idol song and dance helped decide anything or not.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Kaoh Rong Episode 10, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

A seemingly harmless cut on his leg spelled the end of Neal’s time on the island in Survivor: Kaoh Rong Episode 7, as medical pulled him from the game.

For the challenge, they will use poles to transport one person across to the other side. Reward is ice cream. Julia chooses Nick, Debbie, Scot, and Tai. Aubry chooses Cydney, Michele, Joe, and Jason. Julia and Aubry are the ones walking across the poles. Julia goes slow and steady as Aubry keeps falling in the water. Michele takes over for Aubry and has no more success, and Cydney faces the same fate. Julia makes it across without falling, and her team joins her on the platform. Aubry blames her team and by extension herself for picking them, but her contribution didn’t exactly help.

Scot and Jason are worried about an all girl alliance, so they want to make sure one of the women goes next. When the others return, Nick approaches Julia to confirm, which Cydney sees and gets suspicious. She goes up to Jason, who plays dumb, not exactly a stretch, but Cydney isn’t buying it.

For the immunity challenge, they will balance on a perch while holding a handle above their heads. After 5 minutes, Jeff has a temptation, the only one he will be offering. Julia can’t even wait for him to get back with the food. Jason, Scot, Joe, and Michele take the food. Tai says he doesn’t want any of the Brains to win. Then Debbie steps down, and Aubry follows. As soon as he sees the Brains are done, Nick gives up as well. Tai has been struggling almost since the beginning, but he has refused to give up. After 40 minutes, Cydney, who seemed solid throughout, finally steps down. Tai wins immunity.

The plan is to split the votes between Debbie and Aubry with Debbie as the target. Nick tells Aubry the plan and suggests she vote for Debbie while also acknowledging he’s being arrogant.

Cydney, who denied the existence of a female alliance, has a different plan. She wants to form a female alliance and get rid of Nick. Of course Debbie and Aubry support this idea, but the question is which way Julia and Michele will go.

Tai reveals at Tribal Council that there is potentially a super idol in the game. This is all news to Julia, which begs the question why she’s so out of the loop in this large alliance of seven.

Votes
Aubry
Debbie
Nick
Aubry
Jason
Nick
Nick
Nick
Nick

With 5 votes, Nick has been voted off the island. His arrogance got the best of him. The seemingly random Jason vote came from Tai, and that was not something anyone had discussed, though there are those who would certainly like to see Jason go away.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Kaoh Rong Episode 9, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

As the Brains turned on each other in Survivor: Kaoh Rong Episode 6, Peter was eliminated.

Cydney notices a bulge in Neal’s pocket, which she takes to be an idol. That could be the worst hiding job ever.

As one tribe sails across to meet the others, they are now merged.

There are 4 Beauty, 4 Brains, and 3 Brawn left. Nick approaches Aubry and Neal to form an alliance against the Brawn, but he is concerned about both Tai and Julia. Then he goes to the other team and learns that Tai has an idol.

Next up is Debbie. She wants to be in an alliance with Tai, but he doesn’t like her aggressive approach. Her other allies notice that her approach is probably a problem as well. Realizing they’re probably screwed by Debbie being Debbie, Aubry asks Neal if he has the idol, and he says he does. She should have just looked at his pocket.

Jason’s theory is that Beauty always goes with the jocks, which he apparently thinks describes himself, while they shove the nerds in lockers.

The immunity challenge requires ball balancing while also balancing on a perch. Joe is out early, and Debbie is right behind him. Jason falls toward the end of the round. After 5 minutes, they add a second ball. Michele, Neal, Scot, Cydney, and Aubry all drop within seconds. Then a third ball is added. Julia has been steady the whole time, but she’s the next one out. As Tai is eliminated, Nick wins immunity.

Michele doesn’t think that Jason or Scot can get any votes, and Nick thinks they are idiots. So they’ll be siding with them to get rid of Aubry.

At the challenge, they were discussing all their wounds. Jeff shows up at camp with medical to check everybody out. Tai is healing nicely. Scot is badly infected, but they will just keep an eye on it. Aubry looks sketchy, but they will be conservative and start her on antibiotics.

The nasty looking thing on Neal’s back is not an issue, but because what’s on his knee is potentially damaging to a joint, he is pulled from the game.

It wasn’t Aubry but her right hand man instead, and he departs with the idol they had hoped would save them if anything went wrong, which apparently it was.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Kaoh Rong Episode 8, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Following a tribe swap, the Beauty tribe became the targets at their new camp. They opted not to get rid of idol holding Tai, making Survivor: Kaoh Rong Episode 5 Anna’s last.

Peter approaches Tai to tell him he wants to get rid of Joe.

Debbie has decided that Nick looks like a Greek god, which she should know because she has convinced herself that she has also been a model.

Returning to the game, Julia joins the tribe that lost last time, Gondol.

For the challenge, they will retrieve buoys, which will then be shot into baskets. Reward is a picnic. As Michele struggles to grab her buoys, Gondol builds a nice lead. This should be an easy win for the pro basketball player, right? Okay, maybe easy is not the right word. Nick makes a comeback and even passes Scot for a while, but Gondol ends up winning reward.

Peter immediately goes up to Julia to discuss getting rid of his old alliance.

Debbie tells Michele that they should try to get rid of Jason. Nick instructs Michele that they’re not doing that. She’s the target after she blew that challenge, but if she does what he says, maybe she’ll be fine.

Joe notices Peter walking around talking to everybody else and eventually accuses him of trying to get rid of him. Peter acknowledges there’s a certain element of truth to that, as in it’s completely true. Joe knows he’s lying because he is being evasive.

For the immunity challenge, they must climb over a series of obstacles before finally freeing some blocks that must be stacked in a tower. Whatever else happens, it’s all about stacking the tower and not letting it fall and hit anyone in the head and cut them open and make them bleed (as happens to Joe). Chan Loh wins immunity.

Aubry doesn’t trust Peter, with good reason, but she’d rather keep him for now than risk the rest of the tribe having the numbers to take them out next time. Joe reluctantly apologizes for accusing him earlier, and Peter has decided his plan blew up in his face so he’ll go back with the Brains.

Realizing the real power is with Aubry, Tai and Julia approach her. Now she’s the one who wants to get rid of Peter, but Joe doesn’t want to go flipping things around at the last minute.

Even as they get to Tribal Council, there is whispering what the vote is supposed to be. This whispering eventually gets louder, culminating with Scot taking a page out of Keith’s book and telling everyone to just stick to the plan.

Votes
Peter
Julia
Peter
Julia
Peter
Peter

With 4 votes, Peter has been voted off the island. The fact that it’s 4 means Aubry just blindsided Joe.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Kaoh Rong Episode 7, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

First Caleb was the victim of a poorly designed challenge and had to be evacuated from the game in Survivor: Kaoh Rong Episode 4. Then Alecia, who for some still unexplained reason (Probst tried to explain it, badly) was placed on a tribe that was supposed to be about brawn and consisted of much larger bullies than her, was finally voted off the island.

We now pick up with the same story as before. How easy it is to find hidden immunity idols. This time, Neal is the one who finds one.

The good news for Brawn since they suck so badly is that it’s time to even up the sides, or at least as even as things can be with 13 people. They can drop their buffs.

Chan Loh (Blue): Michele, Cydney, Neal, Nick, Debbie, Jason
Gondol (Yellow): Peter, Tai, Scot, Aubry, Joe, Anna
Red: Julia

The odd woman out is Julia. Who? So far I’ve mentioned her once this season, to say that she was sitting out of a challenge. She will return to Brawn beach by herself and will reenter the game after the next vote.

Chan Loh has two Brains, two Beauty, and two Brawn. Gondol has three Brains, two Beauty, one Brawn.

Beauty girls had an alliance, which has now been split three ways. Peter is relieved because he had played himself right out of the game before this happened.

Debbie quickly forms an alliance with the two Brawn members, and almost as quickly, she calls herself a mastermind. Likewise, Nick approaches Jason to try to form an alliance and get rid of the Brains.

Anna promptly throws Tai under the bus. She assumes the Beauty tribe is the target because Julia’s coming back next.

For the immunity challenge, they will retrieve a net of fish puzzle pieces, untie hook them on to a pole, and carry them to the puzzle platform to complete the puzzle. They are about even on retrieving the nets, but Scot by his own carrying the useless Aubry gains a lead by the time they get to the beach. Regardless, as usual it comes down to the puzzle, which is split between all Brains plus Anna. Chan Loh wins immunity.

Everybody knows Tai and Anna are the targets, including Tai and Anna.

Peter and Joe talk Aubry into getting rid of Anna instead of Tai because he is their primary provider. Despite Aubry being the one trying to get rid of him, Tai has decided he doesn’t like Peter, who he can get rid of with his idol, and he shows it to Scot and Anna to gain their support for this plan. Because of the possibility of a super idol (since Jason has one as well), Scot doesn’t want Tai to play his, which seems dumb.

Tai goes along with Scot’s plan and does not play his idol.

Votes
Peter
Anna
Anna
Anna
Anna

With 4 votes, Anna has been voted off the island. Well, Tai did not get himself voted out, but he did sacrifice what limited numbers he may have had.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Kaoh Rong Episode 6, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.