Sole Survivor

Survivor Gabon

On the season finale of Survivor Gabon that aired back in December 2008 (I got lazy with my posting again), the castaways had to search for puzzle pieces in Gabonese huts, and then solve the puzzle to win immunity. Bob won the challenge, and at a very predictable tribal council Ken was voted off 4:1. At the final immunity challenge, the castaways had to build a house of cards 10 feet tall with a time limit of 30 minutes. Even though this was one of my favorite Survivor challenges from any season, I think 30 minutes was far too short of a time limit for a final immunity challenge considering in some previous seasons they went on for hours. Shockingly, Susie won immunity which gave little hope for my favorite castaway Bob. At tribal council, an emotional Sugar couldn't decide between Matty and Bob on who was more deserving, but knowing Bob most likely would receive votes from Matty and Susie she voted for Matty. This forced a 2-2 tie between Bob and Matty leading to a fire making tiebreaker. Bob's fire burned through the rope before Matty's even got started which in turn sent Matty to the jury. At the final tribal council between Bob, Sugar, and Susie, Corinne beat Borneo's Rats and Snakes speech by Susan Hawk by giving the new nastiest jury speech in the history of Survivor. She insulted Sugar by telling her that she would only give her antidepressants. Jeff Probst then read the votes live where Bob Crowley became Sole Survivor and won the $1,000,000 prize 4:3 with the other 3 votes going to Susie. By the way, my opinions on Survivor Tocantins: The Brazilian Highlands, and The Amazing Race 14 are coming soon.

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Amazing Race 13

On yesterday's finale of the 13th season of The Amazing Race, the final 3 teams (Andrew/Dan, Ken/Tina, and Nick/Starr) flew from Moscow, Russia to Portland, Oregon. Once in Portland, they needed to go to a logging camp in the suburbs for their final detour which was a choice between climbing up a 30 foot tree, and then jumping for half of the clue, or trying to walk on a narrow log in the river. Ken/Tina arrived at the logging camp first, but Tina's fear of heights slowed them down enough for Nick/Starr to pass them. By the way, all 3 teams chose the tree climbing detour option. I would of chose the tree climbing option as well, because we do a balance warm - up in gym class at my school which I never do properly. The teams then zip-lined from the Bridge of the Gods to an island in the river. The teams then had to find a specific picture from each leg of the race from 150 clue boxes. After that, the teams needed to find a Russian food cart, and finally go to a Voodoo Doughnut. I was actually curious to see what so special about it after the show so I looked it up and now I might want to go to Portland myself for a dirt doughnut (by the way I live in Maple Shade, New Jersey so that's kind of far for me to go for it). After finding Voodoo Doughnut, the teams raced to the finish line, The Pittock Mansion. In the end, Nick/Starr crossed the finish line first and won The Amazing Race 13 & the $1,000,000 that goes with it.

Survivor Gabon

On the 5th episode of Survivor Gabon, Fang's camp was invaded by an elephant. Only Ace & Matty decided to take a closer look, as the rest of the tribe was scared of the elephant. If I was on Fang, I wouldn't try to frighten the elephant, but I would take a closer look as elephants are my favorite animal. I wouldn't be scared at all myself because I know that elephants are herbivores. At the reward challenge, the tribes had to throw various kinds of fruit into the their goal which was blocked by 2 members from the opposing tribe. The tribe who caught the most fruit by weight won an herb garden and all the fruit collected in the challenge. At first, Fang had a huge lead over Kota who had almost no fruit at all, because of Ace's excellent fruit blocking skills. Kota eventually decided to throw 2 pieces of fruit at a time which was too much for Ace to handle. Shockingly, Fang never caught on to Kota's strategy and stuck with throwing 1 piece of fruit at a time. Additonaly when Kota got the hang of getting the lighter fruits into their goal, they started throwing the heaviest fruits available. In the end, Kota's change of strategy was enough of a comeback for them to win the herb garden and all the fruit caught in this challenge. When Fang got back to camp, GC was getting fed up with the rest of Fang so much that he even used the tribe's kayak to get away from the rest of Fang suggesting he wouldn't participate in the immunity challenge that was approaching. His tribemates constantly called his name, but he ignored them all until just a few moments before the immunity challenge when he finally decided to participate. At the immunity challenge, the 2 tribes had to throw a ball made out of sticks while down a hill where 1 blocker who was blindfolded and 1 caller to aid their blindfolded tribemate from each tribe tried to prevent the ball from going into 1 of the goals each worth a different amount of points. Ace (Fang) and Dan (Kota) were the blockers, while Sugar (Fang) and Randy (Kota) were the callers. After each tribe member who wasn't a blocker or caller did this once, the tribe with the most points won immunity from tribal council. It looked like Fang was going to win for almost the entire challenge, but in the very last round Ace blocked his own tribe's ball while Kota scored 2 points which was enough for Kota to win immunity 8:7 as for Kota was behind Fang by only 1 point. Back at Fang's camp GC told Matty that he wanted to be voted out. Matty then told the rest of Fang about GC's request. Crystal looked through Sugar's bag which contained the hidden immunity idol from Exile. Sugar should of found a better hiding place for her hidden immunity idol. Leaving the bag for others to clearly see is just plain stupid. Now that the rest of Fang knows that she has the idol, she has an unecessary target on her back which could lead to the idol being flushed out sooner in the game. In fact, Fang aside from Ace and Sugar considered voting her out as GC's desire to quit provided them with a perfect opportunity to blindsight her. At tribal council, Fang voted out GC 6:1. Did GC even watch Survivor before he applied for it? After all, in all 16 of the previous seasons of Survivor the most stragegic players all backstabbed, lied, and betrayed other castaways at some point in the game which according to GC is why he quit. Basically, GC said he quit because he doesn't like how the game of Survivor works. From Fang's prespective I think they should of let GC suffer through another week and voted out Sugar as for she's a strong player, has the hidden immunity idol, and she wouldn't of expected at all to be voted out due to GC which would easily blindsight Sugar, and make the hidden immunity idol available to another castaway.

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