Night 9, and Ace knows Kelly voted for him. He wants her out next.

The next day at Fang Randy says they should start eating only one meal a day to conserve rice. Kenny says they’ll be fine eating like they have been. Randy, Susie, Dan and Matty go off and say they’ll stick together and vote out GC next.

Both tribes meet with Jeff and everyone has to rank their teammates in order. The votes are tallied and they get lined up on pedestals based on rankings. The orders are:

Kota: Marcus, Ace, Bob, Charlie, Jacquie, Corinne, Sugar, Kelly

Fang: Matty, Dan, Randy, Crystal (mad she’s after Randy), Ken, GC (mad he’s after Ken and says his pimp line), Susie

It’s “Drop your buffs” time and they’ll be picking new tribes. The draft goes:

Kota: Marcus > Dan > Charlie > Randy > Corinne > (Randy advises against GC) Susie > Bob (should’ve been much higher)

Fang: Matty > Ace > Crystal > Jacquie > Ken > (Ace advises against Kelly) Kelly > GC

Sugar is the one left out and she goes to Exile Island. She’s immune from the next vote and will join the tribe that loses someone.

Randy knows he and his old tribemates are in the minority in his new tribe but he’s fine with it if they vote off one of the other two. However, he tells us if they vote him out he’ll burn the camp down.

Sugar gets the “Sugar Shack” which contains lots of fruit and a hammock. She’s hoping to join Ace’s tribe, and she wants to replace Kelly.

GC is happy with the swap. He still has his two allies plus Matty from his old tribe. Kelly openly complains about her old tribe. She tells GC, Crystal and Ken that Jacquie is close with Ace. Ken says he picked Kelly because she was ranked last and he thought he could swing her vote. And, he says, she’s hot.

The Immunity Challenge is a “cross between water polo and lacrosse.” Everyone gets a little round boat and a paddle/stick. The goal is to pass the ball to teammates with your paddle and shoot it into the goal. First tribe to three points wins.

Marcus cruises down the middle with the ball, passes to Randy for a short shot at the doorstep. 1-0 Kota.

The second round is pretty much the exact same thing. 2-0. Crystal, Kelly, and Ken can’t get their boats to move.

Round three, and Randy shoots again but he’s short. Dan gets the rebound but his shot is blocked. Randy tries again. He shoots, he scores! Kota wins! Jeff scolds Fang by saying, “One of the worst performances I’ve seen at a Challenge.”

Back at camp Ace says they were “like legless chickens going against sleek weasels.” GC is laughing and he says, “Kenny, you sucked out there!” I didn’t see GC once during the Challenge. Was he even in the water?

GC wants Kelly out. Crystal and Ken agree. But then they start to worry about Sugar having the Hidden Immunity Idol and sharing it with Ace or Jacquie. They don’t think she would give it to Kelly, so now they want to vote off Jacquie. Matty doesn’t agree but says he’ll join them.

But then Matty goes and tells Jacquie they’re targeting her, and he explains their reasoning. She goes to Ken but he says it’s because Kelly was last and they think she’s the outsider. Ken tells us he’s not sure who to vote for now.

Jacquie talks to Crystal about how hard she worked during the Challenge and how she wants to be the fourth person in their alliance. Crystal says she doesn’t know who to vote for either.

At Tribal Council Matty refers to himself in the third person and says he wants to keep the tribe strong. He adds that he isn’t sure if he can trust Ace yet but he wants Ace on his team. Kelly says other people were worse than her during the Challenge, and she names Kenny and Crystal. Is she trying to get voted out? Crystal gets angry and says it was only one Challenge. Ken says Kelly and Jacquie should be worried about the vote.

Ace votes for Kelly, Kelly and Jacquie vote for each other, and GC says, “It probably would’ve been smarter to keep you but this is how it is,” but we don’t see his vote.

The tally reads: Jacquie, Kelly, Kelly, Jacquie … Jacquie! Jacquie!! Paranoia wins out over strength.

Next time on…Survivor: We finally get some real nature as an elephant visits Fang. GC goes missing.

So an alliance with a voting majority chooses to keep their weakest member because someone in the minority might have one Immunity Idol to share among three people. I’m not math whiz but that doesn’t make much sense. Once again people are playing like individuals while we’re still in the team portion of the game. You don’t have to worry about who’s got an Idol when you’re not at Tribal Council.

At least I don’t have to worry about spelling Jackie – I mean – Jacquizz – I mean – Jacquie any more.

-Scqott

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