Day 37, and there are still five people left. The Immunity Challenge is a huge spider web ropes course, plus what Jeff calls the most difficult puzzle in Survivor history. Yul leads for six of the eight legs, but guess who passes him? Adam was really close on the puzzle, but guess who beat him out? The Man of Oz. At this point the Challenge could be telling the story of how Becky's parents met, speaking only Korean, and Ozzy would still find a way to win.

Adam knows he's going next but he offers Ozzy and Sundra the chance to force Yul to play the Idol before Adam leaves. Very interesting because, strategically, that's a great offer.

Tribal Council, and Nate hobbles in with a crutch, which is never explained.

Becky implies that the rest of them let Ozzy win all those Challenges for their tribe, and now that they'll be down to four they'll have to try harder. Adam takes a couple digs at the women saying, "I'm not sure what these two do," and calling them, "boring people."

The tally goes: Adam, Yul, Adam, Adam, and the white man has perished. I'm surprised Adam didn't try to kiss Jeff.

So the I4 8-0 run is complete. I certainly didn't expect that. Yul says he's glad the winner will be a minority and calls his alliance's unity a great "morality tale." (I was annoyed by this at first but Yul later clarifies his position so I'm cool with it.)

Day 38 brings the Fallen Comrades tribute. I've said it before and I'll say it every time: They take away Jeff's jet skis but leave in this hunk of cheese?

The final Immunity Challenge is standing on a small "perch" that will gradually get smaller until it's the size of less than "half a postcard."

Jeff then reveals what the math has said all along: There will be three people in front of the jury.

Becky falls after 45 minutes. After an hour they're down to the smallest section and Ozzy wobbles big time - even balancing on one leg - but he holds on. He later says his biggest problem is sweat making his "nether regions itchy."

Yul has been squatting down most of the time and as he tries to stand and stretch he falls! At the two-hour mark Ozzy wobbles multiple times but hangs tight. Finally, after two and a half hours, Sundra falls and Ozzy. Wins. Again.

Back at camp he tells Yul they should let Becky and Sundra decide who goes home in a tiebreaker. But a little later, Yul offers Becky the Idol!

So we go to Tribal and, cutting to the chase, the tally reads: Becky, Sundra, Becky, Sundra. Sure enough we have our tie. Now for the moment of the truth. Does Becky have the Idol? NO!

That means we'll have the standard fire-making tiebreaker. But what's going on? Neither person can start their fire! Thirty minutes pass! The jury is bored, and so is Jeff!

Sixty minutes! The jury is almost asleep. Jeff stops them and says, "We're going to matches." I am dying over here!!

Thirty MORE minutes elapse! Are you kidding me?! Sundra actually runs out of matches and Becky FINALLY gets a fire going. Ozzy is openly rooting for her and…Becky doesn't lose!

Then, to top it off, in her final words Sundra says her time on the island "ignited so many things" for her. Too bad wood wasn't one of them.

That was one of the painfully funniest Survivor moments EVER.

Day 39. Native girls show up with a feast and Becky isn't around. Ozzy says it's symbolic of how the final vote will go. Yul says he has a "rare" friendship with Becky. Ozzy says he's a surfer against two lawyers.

Time for the final Tribal Council. In his opening statement Yul says he wanted to influence the overall game and says it wasn't a coincidence that his alliance always came out on top. He admits he had to manipulate at times. A very nice opening.

Becky says she played a "social game" and played fair and honest.

Ozzy says he was the underdog from the start so he knew he had to provide for everyone. He didn't hide his strength and his actions in the game spoke louder than any words he'll be able to say. Another good opening.

Nate gets the first question. He calls Yul the "big gangsta boss" and says Ozzy's game was more "warrior style." He asked Ozzy what strategy he used. Ozzy says at first he was "the Yul of my tribe" in the way he convinced them to throw the Challenge to dump Billy.

Jenny asks Yul which is more important in the game, strategy or the physical aspect. He says strategy because he let Ozzy set himself up as a target and he got his entire alliance to the end.

Poverty tells "Beckers" she's shocked she turned down the Idol and settled for the tie. Becky says she wouldn't have felt good taking the Idol.

Rebecca says what we all know: It's between Ozzy and Yul. She wants to hear something new from each of them. Yul says he came on the show to represent minorities on TV. Ozzy says pretty much the same thing.

Adam tells the final four they were boring. He wants Ozzy to "talk trash" about the other two. Ozzy says Yul didn't try as hard as he could and Becky just rode their coattails, and then the fire thing.

Candice says Yul always beats around the bush so he can only answer her question with a yes or no, or he'll lose her vote. She asks if he was "shamelessly working this jury" the whole time. He pauses and says, "Yes." She says she knows that was hard for him and then Yul starts to explain himself. Oops.

Brad says he never got to talk to Ozzy so he wants to know the most difficult thing Ozzy has ever gone through. Ozzy says his dad wasn't around when he was growing up and he still wants nothing to do with him. He masterfully whips up some tears. Bravo!

Sundra wants to know what each of them has discovered in the game. Ozzy says, "learning to love" everything. Becky says letting go of time and structure. Yul says self-confidence, because he came into the game with anxieties and self-doubt. Can I get some of those big buff genius anxieties?

They save Jonathan for last, and he does his best to deliver. He says Yul could be a politician so he wants Yul to explain to his future constituents why they should vote for someone who tells a lot of "half-lies." Yul says he deceived people only in the context of the game, and he was loyal to his original alliance. An excellent answer.

Jonathan yells at Ozzy for being arrogant and he wants to know why he should give a million dollars to a 25-year-old whom he perceives as having a sense of entitlement. Ozzy says if he wins he'll go back to school and then "try and change the world for the better. Seriously."

We see two votes. Jonathan casts his for Yul because he "outplayed you all." Poverty votes for Ozzy because the "fire" he brought to the game "completely captivated me." Are you sure it wasn't his bare butt?

We jump into the present and…Holy buffet, Batman! Ozzy ate Aras!!

The tally goes: Yul, Ozzy, Yul, Yul, Ozzy, Ozzy (3-3), Ozzy…Yul! 4-4 tie. Jeff takes a peek and says, "The vote is not for Becky." Instead it is for…………

YUL!!!

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Jumping right to the Reunion, Sundra is looking good. Adam says he did vote for Yul because Yul voted out Jonathan before him. They never go through the rest of the votes but they're on the official site. Ozzy got Poverty, Nate, Jenny, and Rebecca (even though he copied Yul's answer to her question). For Yul that leaves Sundra, Adam, Jonathan, Candice (even with him not following her one-word rule), and Brad (even with Ozzy's tears). Interesting votes.

Not a whole lot of excitement in the Reunion. Becky says she and Sundra did practice making fire but they were just nervous. Jeff asks if there was any romance between her and Yul and Yul says no, they're just really good friends.

Ozzy says he's been swimming his whole life and he had done spear fishing before. He said he was fascinated with Robinson Crusoe as a child and dreamt of being on a deserted island. Well, it shows.

Jeff asks if his dad is watching and he says he doesn't know, but his dad is there in the audience. After the confusion clears we learn that Ozzy's biological father is still out of his life but the man who raised him is there supporting him.

Jonathan says he wasn't a villain he was just playing the game, and he isn't holding a grudge about anything people said to him during the game.

Jenny has prettied up nice. Sekou sings a Survivor song he wrote. He's still dressed in yellow. Cowboy is still weird.

As mentioned earlier, Yul explains that the reason the race experiment worked was because it showed a "multi-cultural coalition" banding together as individuals to overcome long odds. I completely agree.

On the flip side, Nate talks about being called a "race traitor" because he voted out Stephannie. That's too bad.

Jeff asks Adam if he's still with Candice and he says, "Candice is a great girl." The audience laughs because we all knew he'd say something like that.

Nate says he was attracted to Poverty. Poverty tries to convince us "model boxing" is real boxing.

J.P. was contacted by a modeling agency.

Jessflicka says, "My hair, it's just good."

Jeff tells Billy that Candice is now available. Billy is a good sport about it and says he just stuck his foot in his mouth on national TV.

Liz writes in and says, "Who got the car? If it was Ozzie I will have to laugh because it continues the Survivor curse that the one who wins the car doesn't win the show." They did give away a car (I was wondering where that went) and Jeff says the online vote came down to Yul and Ozzy and there was less than 1% difference. And sure enough, Ozzy won. I guess that counts as the curse in reverse.

So what did you think of this season's twists? I think it's funny that once again the Immunity Idol didn't get played. They really need to hide that thing better, or make sure a weak person finds it.

I thought the 3-person twist at the end was silly and it was funny that the third person was made completely irrelevant. But if you think about, the twist indirectly worked great in that it gave us the perfect final. Under the old rules, there is no way Ozzy and Yul go head-to-head. They would have been stupid to take the other one into the final. And neither Sundra nor Becky would've gotten any votes over Ozzy or Yul.

So instead of a dull, predictable, landslide vote we have a tense, dramatic one-vote decision between the game's two best competitors. And if that's what Mark Burnett had in mind when he designed the twist, he's an even greater genius than I thought.

Next time on…Survivor: 19 castaways. One tribe has plenty and the other has nothing. There's a Harvard lawyer, and a former homeless street performer. There will be fierce battles, an Exile Island with two hidden Immunity Idols, a "drastic twist," and a "controversial decision" that will have everyone talking. Survivor: Fiji is coming in the spring! Don't miss it!

Or Yul be sorry.

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