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Most of the tribe decided to ignore the possibility of a hidden idol in Survivor: Second Chance Episode 8. After Kelley played her idol, Andrew was sent home.

Kelley seems really impressed with herself, but the reality is not that she’s great but that everybody else is so dumb or at least so full of themselves. All they had to do was split the votes. Basic Survivor 101 that people who Jeff claims are fan favorites should know, no matter how much they may wish to underestimate the lackluster minority.

For the reward challenge in the rain, they are divided into two teams of five and will use poles to build a staircase, make their way through a maze, open a chest, and solve a puzzle with the pieces inside. Reward is a trip to the Survivor spa. Tasha, Stephen, Spencer, Joe, and Ciera (purple) go against Kelly, Keith, Kelley, Kimmi, and Jeremy (green). Nobody picks Abi. Purple takes a huge lead as green falls apart at the beginning. I’m not sure I’ve seen a performance this disastrous before. Green doesn’t even make it to the puzzle.

Ciera is again the person to bring up strategy at the reward.

Back at camp, the others sit around together while Jeremy goes off on his own to find a clue to the hidden immunity idol, a map that leads him right to the idol, his second.

Stephen wants to join the outcasts, who have been dubbed the three witches. He wants to get rid of people who are actually threatening, unlike them and himself.

At the immunity challenge, they will balance on triangular platforms in the water. As the challenge starts, so does the rain again. Jeff offers them an advantage in the game to jump in the water and swim for a buoy. Somehow, Stephen beats Spencer in the swimming race, and he didn’t really give up anything because it’s not like he was going to win immunity. Those who remain transition to the top of the platforms. Kelley, Jeremy, Ciera, Kimmi, and Tasha all fall as they try to do that.

Keith is the next to fall. Joe’s shaking an awful lot compared to the women who remain. After half an hour, they go to one foot, which should make quick work of two of them. Kelly can’t make this transition. Abi falls. Joe wins immunity. As usual.

It’s a little late, but the majority is now talking about a split vote plan. They’re going to try to get rid of Kelley again.

Of course, there’s Stephen’s advantage to consider. His advantage is roughly what I thought it would be but bigger. He can steal a vote. That gives him the power to make the split vote come back and bite them if he wants, but he doesn’t want to use it tonight. This power gets even more powerful as time passes, so it does make sense to hold off rather than ending up on the bottom with the others.

Stephen tries to talk Jeremy and Spencer into his plan to get rid of Kelly instead of one of the thre girls. He doesn’t seem to be providing them with a particularly compelling reason.

Votes
Ciera
Kelley
Kelly
Ciera
Kelley
Kelly
Ciera
Kelly
Kelly
Kelly

With 5 votes, Kelly has been voted off the island. Somehow, Stephen managed to talk people into going along with his plan to get rid of Wiglesworth. I still don’t understand because that conversation didn’t seem to go very well to me.

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Kass trying to cause chaos bit her a lot earlier this time than last, leading to her elimination in Survivor: Second Chance Episode 7.

Ciera wants to play hard, not smart, just hard. She tells Stephen that her target is Joe. That’s not a bad idea actually. When he stops winning.

For the reward challenge, they jump into boats, untie crates, and stack those crates so there are no repeating colors on any side. Reward is a trip to the Survivor cafe. Joe, Kelly, Kelley, Keith, Kimmi, and Ciera are against Tasha, Andrew, Spencer, Jeremy, Stephen, and Abi. They are even until the midway point when Joe pushes the others team off course, the first in a series of problems from which they never recover. Joe’s team wins reward.

At the top of the episode, Ciera said her target is Joe. Now that she’s on a reward with him, she has a different story for the group: Jeremy, Tasha, Stephen, and Savage will never turn on each other. If you keep stirring the pot and just throwing names out there for the sake of throwing names out there, there’s always the risk that someone will say your name.

Stephen’s whining at camp that he lost as usual. The people he needs to bond with are on the reward with his enemy, Joe. After that, he uses the time to plot against Joe, which Andrew overhears. When Joe finds out, he says he didn’t expect this so soon. Why not? That seems pretty dumb.

For the immunity challenge, they will balance a ball on a disc attached to ropes. Kelley and Ciera are eliminated within seconds and then the other Kelly and Jeremy. Abi is next followed by Stephen and Andrew. They are dropping like flies here. Round 1 lasts for 10 minutes. Kimmi is the first to drop in the next round and then Tasha. The three who remain move to the final round. Spencer is out. A second ball is added for the final two. Keith won this the last time he competed in it, but this time he gets beaten by Joe. Basically any challenge no matter what is likely to be won by Joe, which is exactly why there’s no way he’ll make it to the end unless he wins everything.

Because Stephen got caught talking about Joe, he’s the target now. Joe approaches the three girls who are on the bottom to secure the necessary votes, and Andrew goes to everybody else. Jeremy’s the only one to offer resistance to this plan, and it is immediately changed as a result. Joe lets the girls know this is a no go, and they assume one of them is the target.

At Tribal Council, Ciera again points out the group of four people who are in control: Jeremy, Tasha, Andrew, and Stephen or Joe. I think that’s five. Kelley won’t name names just in case she’s still here tomorrow.

Knowing she’s a possible target, Wentworth plays her idol, shocking everybody.

Votes
Kelley (does not count)
Kelley (does not count)
Kelley (does not count)
Kelley (does not count)
Kelley (does not count)
Kelley (does not count)
Kelley (does not count)
Kelley (does not count)
Kelley (does not count)
Andrew
Andrew

With 2 votes, Andrew has been voted off the island. The outcasts controlled the vote as the majority doesn’t even think about splitting the vote, despite having plenty of votes to split it between three people if they wanted. They just got cocky. If Joe kept quiet and didn’t tell the girls that plans had changed, perhaps he could have saved his closest ally.

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Terry went home because his son was in the hospital, and then Woo was voted out in Survivor: Second Chance Episode 6.

There are 13 people left, which leaves most people to suspect that the merge won’t happen soon. But it will. Their new tribe name is Orkun, which means thank you.

After being blindsided last week, Savage is happy to be off that island and ready to turn on his tribe. Of course, he’s not alone, as there is much scrambling right away. There’s a lot of talking going on. I’m not sure how much of it is even relevant.

The Brains tribe, for lack of a better term, still don’t trust each other. Kass and Spencer reluctantly worked together last week, but Tasha isn’t having any of Kass.

9 out of the 13 people who remain were originally on Bayon. Joe talks about how he hasn’t even been to Tribal Council yet more than two weeks into the game.

For the immunity challenge, they will stand on a narrow beam while balancing a ball on a pole. After a few seconds, Stephen drops. Keith is next, and Ciera and Kimmi also don’t get out of the first round. Abi is out within a second of the second round beginning, followed by Kass, Kelly, and Kelley. The third and most difficult round begins after 20 minutes. Andrew is eliminated. Tasha is next and unable to repeat the victory she had the only other time this challenge was done. Jeremy is next. Spencer places second like when he lost to Tasha, and Joe wins immunity, as if he needed a bigger target.

Ciera vocally joined in with Kass’ chaos earlier in the morning, making them the biggest targets. The first 20 minutes of the show when people were talking and talking doesn’t seem to matter much after this argument.

A very large group gathers to discuss their fate, leaving Kass, Ciera, Kelley, and Abi as the outsiders who need to try to overcome a split vote. That other group is so large that it’s not sustainable for very long.

Spencer is the only hope Kass has, and now he has the chance to return the favor from when she saved him last week. This should be a slam dunk, but the plan to split the vote means all they need is one swing.

Votes
Kass
Ciera
Tasha
Kass
Ciera
Tasha
Kass
Ciera
Andrew
Kass
Ciera
Kass
Kass

With 6 votes, Kass has been voted off the island. The throw away vote for Savage came from Ciera, while Kelley joined the rest of the tribe in voting out Kass. They clearly realized it was a lost cause.

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

Kimmi kept whining about Monica for some reason in Survivor: Second Chance Episode 5, and for some reason Monica was oblivious to it, which proved to be her downfall.

The previews already gave away what happens next. Terry gets a late night visit from Jeff Probst with news that his son is in the hospital, and his wife and doctor think it’s serious enough that he should go home. Terry departs from the game.

Drop your buffs. Again. Angkor is dead. We hardly knew you, and you were incompetent most of the time.

Ta Keo: Andrew, Kass, Woo, Spencer, Kelly, Abi, Ciera
Bayon: Stephen, Kelley, Joe, Jeremy, Tasha, Keith, Kimmi

Jeff asks Kass how she’s feeling, and she wastes no time throwing Spencer under the bus. On the other side, Kelley is the odd person out.

For the reward challenge, they will race down a slip and slide, grabbing a ring to toss along the way. Reward is a picnic. Jeremy beats Andrew by a second to give Bayon the lead 1-0. Kass beats Stephen to tie it at 1-1. Abi beats Kimmi to take the lead 2-1 for Bayon. Joe beats Woo to make it 2-2. Kelly beats Kelley to win for Ta Keo.

Andrew comes up with a plot. He tells the others that Spencer is the target, and they will tell him that Ciera’s the target. This despite the fact that he loves Spencer. Somehow, Ciera gets all bent out of shape at the thought of just having her name mentioned.

Joe is trying to bond with the person who is the easy target, Kelley, which gets Stephen paranoid. Jeremy doesn’t want Joe to go, however, as Joe is a good shield.

Immunity is a gross eating challenge. Woo and Spencer eat their tarantulas before Tasha and the very bad at this challenge Kimmi. Ciera sucks as bad as Kimmi, allowing Keith and Jeremy to tie it 1-1 after eating water beetles. Kass is unable to finish her pig snout, giving Bayon the 2-1 lead. Kelly plows through the frog, beating Joe to make it 2-2. Kimmi refused to eat cow’s brain in her last season, and she refuses to eat pig’s brain this time. Woo gets it down in a few seconds anyway, taking the 3-2 lead for Ta Keo. Ciera loses again, allowing Kelley to tie it. The final round is Kass against Tasha eating balut, and we already know how this is going to turn out. Kass isn’t even competitive. Bayon wins immunity.

Everybody seems to be onboard with the Spencer vote. Except Ciera. She has issues with her name being brought up at all, though her bigger issue seems to be she’s willing to do whatever to make it known she’s playing the game, not necessarily whatever smart but just whatever. Her target is Woo, which she reveals to the other women. Of course, Abi will have no problem with this.

Though she doesn’t trust Spencer, they’re going to have to play together if she wants to get rid of Woo. Kass informs Spencer that he’s Andrew’s target. In her case, she wants to prove something just like Ciera, except that’s how she was the first time, too. This whole concept of Chaos Kass is just stirring up trouble for trouble’s sake.

Votes
Spencer
Woo
Spencer
Spencer
Woo
Woo
Woo

With 4 votes, Woo has been voted off the island. I’m not entirely sure why, though the people responsible for this tribe being at Tribal Council due to their poor challenge performance controlled the vote. Savage has some regrouping to do because he just got his legs kicked out from under him after thinking he was in total control.

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