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Having let everyone know he was a “Survivor professor” throughout their time on the island, Max talked himself right out of the game and was eliminated in Survivor: Worlds Apart Episode 5. Being creepy and naked didn’t help him any.

Shirin thought she was in control of the game. Right up until the vote. Now she’s pretty sure she is all alone, but at least now she realizes that the correct strategy is not going to be being creepy and naked, too.

At the reward challenge, they will race up a tower and then launch sandbags at targets. Reward is food while watching a turtle migration. Dan sits out for Escameca. The physical part of the challenge starts off as can be expected with Escameca taking an early lead. Nagarote takes out the first target, but that advantage does not last for very long. After trailing, however, they make a comeback and win 6-5.

Sierra hates her old tribe again/still. So she connects with Joaquin, who lets her know she’s going to have to suck up to his new bromance Rodney. With Tyler, that gives them a foursome. She’s backed herself into the corner to a point where she doesn’t have a choice.

Rodney tells Mike about his plan. He wants to throw immunity so that they can get rid of Joe. This may also help to save Kelly, the lone Blue Collar member on the other side. Little do they know she’s not even a target.

This immunity challenge is a memory challenge in which they have to remember a series of objects in order. Any physical advantage is irrelevant here. Carolyn scores a point against Rodney. Hali takes the 2-0 lead against Sierra. Joe makes it 2-1 against Will. Dan ties it at 2 against Shirin. Mike and Kelly are both wrong. Then he tells her he’s throwing it, but she still can’t win. They reset back to 5 items instead of 6. Why is he being so blatant about helping her, not just throwing it but actually telling her what to do? In the end, Nagarote wins immunity as he had planned.

Now that he’s done as Rodney instructed, Mike has decided that he’s starting to not trust Rodney any more. He approaches Sierra to target Joaquin, who she said earlier she trusts most, seeing as they have been together for like a day.

Votes
Joe
Joaquin
Joe
Joaquin
Joe
Joaquin
Joaquin

With 4 votes, Joaquin has been voted off the island. Even after all that complaining about them that continued throughout Tribal Council, Sierra decided to return to her original tribe. I’m not sure that was the right move or the wrong move for her or, for that matter, if she even had a right move. As hot headed as Rodney is, if their goal was to split them up, he may have been the better vote.

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

As the Blue Collar tribe continued to argue, Lindsey was voted off the island in Survivor: Worlds Apart Episode 4.

Following the elimination of her closest ally in which she also received two votes, Sierra quickly drifts even further away from the rest of her tribe.

Now they can drop their buffs, bringing an early end to the twist as usual. Good, now they can stop pretending like collars drive every aspect of the game and life.

Blue (Escameca): Dan, Sierra, Mike, Rodney, Tyler, Joaquin, Joe
Red (Nagarote): Will, Hali, Jenn, Max, Carolyn, Shirin, Kelly

Sierra has been pouting about how much she hates her tribe. The bad news for her is that she’s stuck with three of them. Her choice now is whether she wants to stab them in the back and join forces with the other three.

On the other tribe, there are three from two tribes with a lone Kelly in the middle. Carolyn may need to put up with the two people she hates the most for a little longer.

They jump right into a reward challenge for kitchen supplies and sausages, and they will launch balls and catch them with nets. Max and Joe both score to tie it 1-1. Joe and Tyler both score to take the 3-1 lead for Escameca. Joe scores again to make it 4-1. Will scores, but it does not matter as Escameca wins reward.

Sierra minces no words about her old tribe. The others can use her for now, but she’s so bitter and hostile that it would be hard to trust her for long.

Shirin’s already driving Jenn crazy. Another one for the list. Carolyn hates her (and Max) so much that she’s already talking about jumping ship, regardless of the numbers. As time goes by, the chorus grows, and it seems like everybody hates both Shirin and Max, so perhaps it is wise to jump what is a sinking ship.

The immunity challenge requires them to place pots after transporting them then smash the pots. This is a very strength-oriented challenge, which heavily favors Escameca, a tribe with almost all men. This isn’t even a fair challenge. Escameca wins immunity.

Max talks about how he’s happy to have lost because he loves to see some blindsides. I suspect he is foreshadowing his own departure. Not only is he somewhat creepy, but he also knows everything about Survivor, down to things like apparently capricorns have won the most.

Shirin, who is delusionally thinking she is in control, wants to vote out Will.

Votes
Will
Will
Max
Max
Max
Max

with 4 votes, Max has been voted off the island. His random nudity and constant talking didn’t help him any, but he sealed his fate by being a Survivor professor.

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

Vince proved creepy from the start, and the first chance they got in Survivor: Worlds Apart Episode 2, the No Collar tribe got rid of him.

Joe’s now upset because his stupid split vote plan didn’t exactly go the way he wanted. He’s just lucky Will didn’t decide to get rid of him.

Awkward as ever, Nina tells the tribe she knows they’re going to vote her out next, reminding them again that she’s deaf.

Shirin is unaware that nobody particularly has an interest in her tales of watching monkey sex.

Dan finds out that Rodney is extremely sensitive about mama jokes.

Not content with silently hating Shirin, Joaquin makes an extra effort to go out of her way to let her know he hates her.

In addition to his problem with mama jokes, Rodney explodes at Mike for talking about how he doesn’t work enough. Being calm and rational is not helping Mike any, though, as Lindsey blows up on him, too. This tribe is unstable.

The immunity challenge will have teams run back and forth with a large bucket full of holes to transport water. Lindsey sits out for Blue Collar. For some reason, Nina is essentially sitting out for No Collar as well, though they are not required to do that since they are not the tribe with more members. Blue Collar wins immunity and a comfort reward of chairs, blankets, pillows, candles, rope, and a tarp. White Collar places second and wins a tarp. As much as Blue Collar should go home because they are annoying, No Collar are stupid for listening to Joe’s strategy (or lack thereof), though the question is just how useful Nina would have been had she participated more, rather than just standing at the end of obstacles waiting to help plug up the holes there.

With Vince’s departure, the clear boot becomes Nina, the only person who voted with him last week. Her only option is to try to convince the others that Will sucks at challenges.

Nina blames what happened at the challenge on her being deaf. Again. No, they had no faith in her because she’s older and weaker, though regardless she could have contributed something toward the carrying.

Votes
Nina
Will
Will
Nina
Nina

With 3 votes, Nina has been voted off the island. I see they learned nothing from last week’s silly split vote, but the end result is the obvious one.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Worlds Apart Episode 4, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

After proving to be a bad liar almost immediately after getting to camp in Survivor: Worlds Apart Episode 1, So was voted off the island.

There are problems with clothing already. Dan lost his underpants and had to create makeshift pants to wear instead. Max simply prefers to be naked, and Shirin follows his lead. Then on the No Collar tribe, the girls go skinny dipping, and Nina at 25 years their senior for some reason gets upset that she was not invited, so she says.

As his tribe plays “basketball”, Mike wants to keep working. While doing that, he loudly complains about the others who are not helping him.

Vince continues his obsessions with Joe, a battle that splits the tribe down the middle.

At the challenge, they will dive into the water, swim to a platform, maneuver the buoys free from the various platforms, swim to the final platform with them, and then shoot baskets. Kelly and Nina sit out. No Collar and Blue Collar are way ahead of White Collar. Until Will gets in the water and stays there basically until it’s a lost cause. After struggling for most of the challenge, White Collar takes the lead when Joaquin hits the water. The hero of the challenge, Joaquin is also making all of the baskets for his team, and White Collar wins immunity and fishing gear. Blue Collar places second.

After Will blew the challenge, Nina and Vince comment how he’s looking tired, cost them the challenge, and will continue to do so. But Vince would rather have the numbers than worry about all that.

Joe plans to split the vote just in case Nina finds an idol. Does it look like Nina is looking for the idol? Perhaps she is, but I’m not getting that sense. What a stupid plan. That’s an easy way for one of them to be sent packing. When Will reveals the plan to Nina, she informs him that Vince has been discussing how he seems tired, an equally stupid move because now she, too, seems to be trying to make it so the vote does not go her way.

Interestingly, the guy who should be going home will now cast the deciding vote.

Votes
Jenn
Vince
Nina
Jenn
Vince
Vince

With 3 votes, Vince has been voted off the island. No matter how creepy and cancerous he may have been, I’m not sure keeping around weaker challenge participants is going to help them go forward. The only person this vote made sense for is Will, who has an alliance of sorts with the other three plus one with Nina, so he took out his only threat, which Joe allowed him to do with this silly split vote proposal.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Worlds Apart Episode 3, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

In its 30th season, Survivor remains as compelling as ever. The Survivor: Worlds Apart cast consists of 18 contestants with the new twist being white collar vs. blue collar vs. no collar.

White Collar (Yellow/Masaya): Carolyn, Joaquin, Max, Shirin, So, Tyler
Blue Collar (Blue/Escameca): Dan, Kelly, Lindsey, Mike, Rodney, Sierra
No Collar (Red/Nargarote): Hali, Jenn, Joe, Nina, Vince, Will

Each tribe picks one person to represent them: Joaquin, Dan, and Will. They choose So, Mike, and Jenn to join them. When they get back to camp, each pair will separate and make a decision for their tribe.

The decision they must make is between honesty and deceit. Honesty will earn them a large bag of beans; deceit will earn them a small bag of beans with a hidden immunity idol clue. The first two tribes choose to be honest.

Sierra doesn’t trust that story and starts spreading rumors that they screwed them and took the clue.

So has some skepticism, but Joaquin without question wants to lie and pushes the decision that way. He views this as an advantage, and he’s going to take whatever he can. Is it really? Having less food than the other tribes sounds detrimental. As a result of this plot, they agree to be in an alliance. They lie and say they chose the non-existent neutral option, which nobody believes. In response, Carolyn, Shirin, and Max form an alliance of their own.

Blue Collar gets fire within a couple hours. Pretty impressive. Not to be outdone, Joe makes fire for the No Collar tribe as well. Okay, this is getting a little silly now. Vince’s immediate reaction is jealousy because he fears his crush Jenn will now be after Joe instead.

Mike eats a scorpion. He’s now vomiting on day 1. That’s probably not a good thing.

Lindsey has already decided she does not like Dan, who seems to be talking down to her as they build the shelter. This quickly puts him on the wrong side of the female members of the tribe.

Carolyn doesn’t need a clue to find the hidden immunity idol. She just keeps an eye on So and then looks where she is looking because they all know she’s got the clue.

The first immunity challenge sends them through some obstacles before they must choose between keys to unlock locks or knots to untie. All three tribes choose the keys. Then they all change their minds. Another set of obstacles follows as Blue Collar falls way behind. The big choice is which puzzle they want: 5, 10, or 50 pieces. Each averages about the same amount of time to solve but utilizes a different set of skills. No Collar chooses 10 pieces, White Collar chooses 50 pieces, and Blue Collar picks 10. Shirin is terrible, allowing the last place tribe to catch up. No Collar wins immunity and reward. Blue Collar places second. Reward is a fire-making kit for first place and flint for second. That means White Collar is still fireless, though they will get it after Tribal Council.

So successfully accomplished her part of the challenge of untying knots, which would make one of the other two women the target. Whether that’s a fair comparison to doing a puzzle, probably not.

Joaquin and So lie again, telling Carolyn she is not a target. Tyler informs her she is a target, and her response is that she knows they don’t have the idol because she does. This turn of events makes So her target.

Carolyn opts not to use her idol, and I’m not sure how much sense it would have made to use it at the first vote anyway, although telling someone seems equally questionable.

Votes
Carolyn
So
Carolyn
So
So
So

With 4 votes, So has been voted off the island. For the sake of challenges, they could use her a lot more than either of the other two women, but she lost any credibility with that early lie.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Worlds Apart Episode 2, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

The Survivor: Worlds Apart cast consists of 18 castaways divided by collar (white collar, blue collar, and no collar).

White Collar (Masaya Tribe)

Tyler Fredrickson, 33
Current Residence: Los Angeles
Occupation: Ex-Talent Agent Assistant

So Kim, 31
Current Residence: Long Beach, Calif.
Occupation: Retail Buyer

Carolyn Rivera, 52
Current Residence: Tampa, Fla.
Occupation: Corporate Executive

Max Dawson, Ph.D., 37
Current Residence: Topanga, Calif.
Occupation: Media Consultant

Shirin Oskooi, 31
Current Residence: San Francisco
Occupation: Yahoo Executive

Joaquin Souberbielle, 27
Current Residence: Valley Stream, N.Y.
Occupation: Marketing Director

Blue Collar (Escameca Tribe)

Kelly Remington, 44
Current Residence: Grand Island, N.Y.
Occupation: State Trooper

Sierra Dawn Thomas, 27
Current Residence: Roy, Utah
Occupation: Barrel Racer

Mike Holloway, 38
Current Residence: North Richland Hills, Texas
Occupation: Oil Driller

Lindsey Cascaddan, 24
Current Residence: College Park, Fla.
Occupation: Hairdresser

Dan Foley, 47
Current Residence: Gorham, Maine
Occupation: Postal Worker

Rodney Lavoie Jr., 24
Current Residence: Boston
Occupation: General Contractor

No Collar (Nargarote)

Jenn Brown, 22
Current Residence: Long Beach, Calif.
Occupation: Sailing Instructor

Hali Ford, 25
Current Residence: San Francisco
Occupation: Law Student

Joe Anglim, 25
Current Residence: Scottsdale, Ariz.
Occupation: Jewelry Designer

Nina Poersch, 51
Current Residence: Palmdale, Calif.
Occupation: Hearing Advocate

Vince Sly, 32
Current Residence: Santa Monica, Calif.
Occupation: Coconut Vendor

Will Sims II, 41
Current Residence: Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Occupation: YouTube Sensation

Survivor: Worlds Apart premieres Wednesday February 25 at 8/7c on CBS.