Odd One Out
Last week the girls on the Brawn tribe tried to throw the Immunity Challenge but they still beat Brains, who finally proved they had some, by voting out J'Tia over Spencer (It really was about time.)
Brains - Night 11
-Returning from Tribal Council, Spencer is beyond relieved to still be in the game.
-Kass gives the best description of their tribe ever, "We're not the Brains tribe, we're the Crap-for-Brains Tribe. A rolling, log-jam mess with a couple nerds on top." (Hahaha! She made me love her just a little.)
Day 12
-They get tree mail that sounds like a food challenge. They are ready to put their vote to the test and see if they made the right decision in keeping Spencer (come on, that really should have been a no-brainer for the Brains tribe.)
Challenge
As soon as all three tribes get to their mats, Jeff says, "Alright everybody, drop your buffs. Brains, Brawn and Beauty is no more!" (And with those words he threw a wrench into everyone's strategy up to this point. The always-winning Brawn tribe is not too happy, Brains looks a little more chipper.)
They form two new tribes with Jeff passing out covered buffs randomly - when they reveal the new tribes are:
Orange/Aparri: Sarah (girl-cop), Spencer (Boy-brain), Morgan (Boobs McGee), Kass (funny brain), Tasha (bossy brain), Jeremiah (Male model) and Alexis (brunette beauty) (I think Sarah got screwed in that pick - all the other Brawn members are now on the purple tribe.)
Purple/Solana: LJ (smart Beauty), Jefra (beauty queen), Woo (zen brawn-master), Cliff (basketball brawn), Trish (skinny brawn), Tony (man-cop) and Lindsey (dreadlock-brawn.) (Two beauty and the rest are brawn - this looks like a stacked team now - these "random" picks rarely work out fairly.)
Jeff asks Sarah how it feels being the only former Brawn member still on her tribe. She says she feels like the odd one out, her whole tribe just literally walked away from her. Meanwhile Tasha is so excited, a fresh start is exactly what she'd been praying for and she thinks this tribe will do well in challenges (we shall see.)
Jeff asks Jefra how she feels being one of the two beauties among the Brawn. She says it stinks being on the bottom in numbers but she's happy to be with the best and strongest, hopefully there will be some cracks that she and LJ can fit into. Cliff says it certainly shifts their thought processes. They'll have to see if people stick with their alliances or try to create new ones.
REWARD CHALLENGE
-One person from each tribe will sit with their arms and legs wrapped around a pole while two members from the other tribe try to drag them off the pole and across the finish line to score a point. First tribe to two points wins reward which is... Donuts, cookies, coffee, brownies...(Oh yeah, sugar fix!)
First round: Lindsey on the pole - Sarah and Morgan attacking, and Trish and Jefra attempting to remove Tasha on the other side.
Off they go - and Tasha proves stronger than the smaller blond ladies. Sarah and Morgan get Lindsey off the pole easier but Lindsey does not make it easy for them - regardless Aparri/Orange gets the first point.
Second round: Spencer and Jeremiah are going to be attacking Cliff (I think he could wrap his limbs around the pole twice he's so tall) and LJ and Trish are attacking Alexis (hmm, that hardly seems even.) And it's not- LJ just plucks her off the pole and drags her kicking across the line - easy peasy. Solana ties it 1-1
Final round: Spencer and Jeremiah attacking Cliff again (we'll see if he budges at all this time) and Lindsey and Tony will be attacking Sarah on the pole for Aparri (the new orange tribe only has two guys on it - Sarah is their best bet on the pole in this round.)
Off they go: And Sarah puts up a great fight, but the boys were not able to get Cliff off the pole - Solana wins the reward.
And Spencer says, while he's happy to upgrade from the Moms to the hot chicks (really?) he's still with the Brains and they are still losing.
Solana - Day 12
-They return to camp and scarf down the sugar... then have a little awkward getting-to-know you session. LJ isn't happy about being outnumbered among the Brawn members but when Trish finds out he's from Massachusetts he may have found his in. She thinks he's cute and starts the flirting - which just disgusts Lindsay and Cliff (they still don't like Trish, that hasn't changed, so LJ might not have found his entree to the tribe after all.)
-Cliff tells the camera, overall he's pretty happy with how the tribal split went down today - the only downer for him was when he saw Trish was still on his tribe. He's going to have to keep on eye on her and LJ.
Aparri - Day 12
They return to camp and Sarah is the only person that's been there before - right away, to try and feel out who she can trust, she asks them what happened on the first day, did they have two bags of rice or did the first person go for the idol? Sarah tells them that Trish chose the rice for them - Brains says Garrett must have chosen the idol but he didn't tell them about the rice and Beauty also had no idea about that choice - Morgan however, being the one that made the decision to look for the idol, was effectively "outed" in a lie, but she tells them she didn't find it (which she didn't but are they really going to believe her?)
-Alexis' eyes nearly bug right out of her head when she hears about this - she tells the camera it just re-enforces her opinion of Morgan, she knows she can't trust her and plans to jump ship right away from the Beauties.
-And she's not alone - all the former beauty members start scrambling. Alexis approaches the former Brains first and throws the other two under the bus. Then they show Morgan talking trash about Alexis to them. Then it's Jeremiah telling them he's on the outs and willing to be the fourth for them.
-Tasha said originally she thought they'd have to battle the Beauties for the numbers but it seems like they're in the best position possible - they've gone from tragedy to triumph it seems.
Solana - Day 12
Jefra goes and gets water with Trish who gives her the heads up on the alliance front with the Brawn tribe. Trish lets her know that Lindsey and her are not friendly (to say the least) and Lindsey is in really tight with Cliff.
Jefra says she gets a shady feeling from Cliff (huh, everyone else seems to like him) but then they show Cliff skulking around like he's trying to spy on them (hmm, maybe Jefra does have some good instincts.) Jefra is seeing some hope for her and LJ to get in through this obvious crack in the former Brawn tribe.
And Trish is also starting to feel like she may not be on the bottom anymore.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
-Each tribe will use one log as a battering ram to smash through two walls and get to their table where they have to then maneuver the log along the table through the maze carved into it, to bang their gong. First tribe to sound their gong wins the first single Immunity, other tribe will be going to Tribal Council. Each tribe has to sit one person, Solana sits Trish and Alexis and Morgan Rock-Paper-Scissors to play - rock crushes scissors - B. McGee is sitting.
Off they go - And those walls are not so simple to get through. Aparri had to switch positions on the log and get the guys up front to keep the log out of the dirt. Solana, with more man-power, gets through the first wall faster but they are neck and neck to the table and working on the maze - where the Brains finally helped out... though still very close, it was Aparri! (Brains/Beauty/Brawn) tribe winning immunity.
That means it's the first time for a lot of the former Brawn tribe to visit Tribal Council. Tony can't believe they lost that challenge - but they have the numbers and in his mind LJ is a threat, he'll be the first to go.
Solana - Day 14
They return to camp still a little shell shocked that they lost. LJ knows this puts him and Jefra on the block and he goes to Cliff/Lindsey/Tony and just asks them to consider that he can still help them in challenges.
But later Woo says he's just as good as LJ, they don't need him for challenges - Cliff agrees, they are looking to take out the strength threat, plus he's been talking to Trish and they want to break that up. It looks like they are all thinking LJ first.
-Trish tells LJ not to worry about it, he's in. They (being her and Tony) have wanted to get Cliff out so if LJ and Jefra vote Cliff with her and Tony, they'll have the numbers.
-It doesn't make sense to LJ why any of the Brawn tribe would be looking to flip but if it'll keep him there and not having to play his idol - he's in.
-Trish is sure they'll be able to blind-side Cliff and she loves it.
-But Lindsey has her number, she's 100% sure that Trish will flip on them. Cliff and Woo try to reassure her that won't happen.
-Trish then talks to Tony and pitches they stay the course and take out Cliff like they had been trying to do before but Tony thinks that's crazy now that the tribes have been switched up. They need to get rid of LJ, he's got drive and he's strategic. To Trish, this is their chance to get rid of Cliff before a merge where he'll win every immunity challenge. Tony says he trusts Trish to her face - but he tells the camera he's not sure what he's going to do. (Bye LJ.)
-Cliff takes Tony aside and asks him what Trish was saying to him. Tony tries to lie but Cliff knows, and standing over Tony he decrees that Tony let Trish try and make her move, it's still three against four and then they'll vote her ass right out. Tonight it's LJ. (Cliff just bullied Tony, I don't think that was a very smart move.)
TRIBAL COUNCIL
LJ said arriving back at camp with two Beauty and five Brawn made him feel like he and Jefra were a couple selling their home, just waiting for the word and they'll get out of their way.
-Cliff says you'd think we'd keep moving forward with the numbers but there is always that person who's not happy with where they're at, who can't put their emotions aside.
-Woo agrees, you have to trust in what you are a part of...(but you've made it clear to Trish she's not a part of your alliance, so she should be happy to be on the bottom? This is where Brawn lacks the finesse to keep everyone happy - they are trying to strong-arm her into doing what they want.)
-Trish agrees with Jeff that it's kind of a test of loyalty and she does agree that numbers are important but only if they work for you - if they don't then you might have to make other arrangements for yourself. (Oh yeah, Lindsey and Cliff look like their heads are going to explode at that comment.)
-Jefra agrees this is good news for them - she gets that numbers are important but someone is the bottom man in that five and the bottom man is not going to get to the top on their own.
-Lindsey is having trouble with the rain on her face (it's pouring on them) but after squeegeeing off she says they have to stick together so they can move forward without LJ and Jefra (nice.)
-Cliff likens finally going to Tribal Council to an NBA playoff game (which makes everyone "Say what?") - but he says it never starts until you lose a game, then you can regroup, make adjustments and go forward.
-Tony says this vote will definitely shift things, either we'll go forward as a team or we'll step back and go forward with a different team, it all depends on how the vote goes down.
Time to Vote:
Woo votes for LJ - says he doesn't want him to make the merge and reconnect with his beauty tribe (Ha! what Beauty tribe?)
Jefra votes for Cliff - "You can't call the shots forever."
Tony says, "Nothing personal, just strategical." (They don't show us his vote.)
Tallying the Votes:
Anyone have a hidden immunity idol... And LJ doesn't play it (What?)
LJ - 1
Cliff - 1
LJ - 2
Cliff - 2
LJ - 3
Cliff - 3
Final vote is for... CLIFF! (HA! I can't believe they actually did it!) Woo looked like he was going to cry and Lindsey almost swallowed her tongue - WOW, that was a magnificent blind-side! So fun to watch, I actually cheered ;)
And with Cliff's ignoble departure, that also takes Drew C, Karen S. and Katie L. out of the pool.
Next week: Lindsey and Trish's animosity comes to a head and it looks like LJ tries to play peacemaker.
Cliff's final thoughts - he got too comfortable in his four alliance and thought he was keeping up with everything that was going on around camp but it just goes to show, you never know. (I think his undoing was trying to bully Tony, he didn't give the littler man the respect he thought he deserved and it bit the big man in he butt.)
Well, that was fun!
Have a great rest of your week everyone.
Coleen.
Last week the girls on the Brawn tribe tried to throw the Immunity Challenge but they still beat Brains, who finally proved they had some, by voting out J'Tia over Spencer (It really was about time.)
Brains - Night 11
-Returning from Tribal Council, Spencer is beyond relieved to still be in the game.
-Kass gives the best description of their tribe ever, "We're not the Brains tribe, we're the Crap-for-Brains Tribe. A rolling, log-jam mess with a couple nerds on top." (Hahaha! She made me love her just a little.)
Day 12
-They get tree mail that sounds like a food challenge. They are ready to put their vote to the test and see if they made the right decision in keeping Spencer (come on, that really should have been a no-brainer for the Brains tribe.)
Challenge
As soon as all three tribes get to their mats, Jeff says, "Alright everybody, drop your buffs. Brains, Brawn and Beauty is no more!" (And with those words he threw a wrench into everyone's strategy up to this point. The always-winning Brawn tribe is not too happy, Brains looks a little more chipper.)
They form two new tribes with Jeff passing out covered buffs randomly - when they reveal the new tribes are:
Orange/Aparri: Sarah (girl-cop), Spencer (Boy-brain), Morgan (Boobs McGee), Kass (funny brain), Tasha (bossy brain), Jeremiah (Male model) and Alexis (brunette beauty) (I think Sarah got screwed in that pick - all the other Brawn members are now on the purple tribe.)
Purple/Solana: LJ (smart Beauty), Jefra (beauty queen), Woo (zen brawn-master), Cliff (basketball brawn), Trish (skinny brawn), Tony (man-cop) and Lindsey (dreadlock-brawn.) (Two beauty and the rest are brawn - this looks like a stacked team now - these "random" picks rarely work out fairly.)
Jeff asks Sarah how it feels being the only former Brawn member still on her tribe. She says she feels like the odd one out, her whole tribe just literally walked away from her. Meanwhile Tasha is so excited, a fresh start is exactly what she'd been praying for and she thinks this tribe will do well in challenges (we shall see.)
Jeff asks Jefra how she feels being one of the two beauties among the Brawn. She says it stinks being on the bottom in numbers but she's happy to be with the best and strongest, hopefully there will be some cracks that she and LJ can fit into. Cliff says it certainly shifts their thought processes. They'll have to see if people stick with their alliances or try to create new ones.
REWARD CHALLENGE
-One person from each tribe will sit with their arms and legs wrapped around a pole while two members from the other tribe try to drag them off the pole and across the finish line to score a point. First tribe to two points wins reward which is... Donuts, cookies, coffee, brownies...(Oh yeah, sugar fix!)
First round: Lindsey on the pole - Sarah and Morgan attacking, and Trish and Jefra attempting to remove Tasha on the other side.
Off they go - and Tasha proves stronger than the smaller blond ladies. Sarah and Morgan get Lindsey off the pole easier but Lindsey does not make it easy for them - regardless Aparri/Orange gets the first point.
Second round: Spencer and Jeremiah are going to be attacking Cliff (I think he could wrap his limbs around the pole twice he's so tall) and LJ and Trish are attacking Alexis (hmm, that hardly seems even.) And it's not- LJ just plucks her off the pole and drags her kicking across the line - easy peasy. Solana ties it 1-1
Final round: Spencer and Jeremiah attacking Cliff again (we'll see if he budges at all this time) and Lindsey and Tony will be attacking Sarah on the pole for Aparri (the new orange tribe only has two guys on it - Sarah is their best bet on the pole in this round.)
Off they go: And Sarah puts up a great fight, but the boys were not able to get Cliff off the pole - Solana wins the reward.
And Spencer says, while he's happy to upgrade from the Moms to the hot chicks (really?) he's still with the Brains and they are still losing.
Solana - Day 12
-They return to camp and scarf down the sugar... then have a little awkward getting-to-know you session. LJ isn't happy about being outnumbered among the Brawn members but when Trish finds out he's from Massachusetts he may have found his in. She thinks he's cute and starts the flirting - which just disgusts Lindsay and Cliff (they still don't like Trish, that hasn't changed, so LJ might not have found his entree to the tribe after all.)
-Cliff tells the camera, overall he's pretty happy with how the tribal split went down today - the only downer for him was when he saw Trish was still on his tribe. He's going to have to keep on eye on her and LJ.
Aparri - Day 12
They return to camp and Sarah is the only person that's been there before - right away, to try and feel out who she can trust, she asks them what happened on the first day, did they have two bags of rice or did the first person go for the idol? Sarah tells them that Trish chose the rice for them - Brains says Garrett must have chosen the idol but he didn't tell them about the rice and Beauty also had no idea about that choice - Morgan however, being the one that made the decision to look for the idol, was effectively "outed" in a lie, but she tells them she didn't find it (which she didn't but are they really going to believe her?)
-Alexis' eyes nearly bug right out of her head when she hears about this - she tells the camera it just re-enforces her opinion of Morgan, she knows she can't trust her and plans to jump ship right away from the Beauties.
-And she's not alone - all the former beauty members start scrambling. Alexis approaches the former Brains first and throws the other two under the bus. Then they show Morgan talking trash about Alexis to them. Then it's Jeremiah telling them he's on the outs and willing to be the fourth for them.
-Tasha said originally she thought they'd have to battle the Beauties for the numbers but it seems like they're in the best position possible - they've gone from tragedy to triumph it seems.
Solana - Day 12
Jefra goes and gets water with Trish who gives her the heads up on the alliance front with the Brawn tribe. Trish lets her know that Lindsey and her are not friendly (to say the least) and Lindsey is in really tight with Cliff.
Jefra says she gets a shady feeling from Cliff (huh, everyone else seems to like him) but then they show Cliff skulking around like he's trying to spy on them (hmm, maybe Jefra does have some good instincts.) Jefra is seeing some hope for her and LJ to get in through this obvious crack in the former Brawn tribe.
And Trish is also starting to feel like she may not be on the bottom anymore.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
-Each tribe will use one log as a battering ram to smash through two walls and get to their table where they have to then maneuver the log along the table through the maze carved into it, to bang their gong. First tribe to sound their gong wins the first single Immunity, other tribe will be going to Tribal Council. Each tribe has to sit one person, Solana sits Trish and Alexis and Morgan Rock-Paper-Scissors to play - rock crushes scissors - B. McGee is sitting.
Off they go - And those walls are not so simple to get through. Aparri had to switch positions on the log and get the guys up front to keep the log out of the dirt. Solana, with more man-power, gets through the first wall faster but they are neck and neck to the table and working on the maze - where the Brains finally helped out... though still very close, it was Aparri! (Brains/Beauty/Brawn) tribe winning immunity.
That means it's the first time for a lot of the former Brawn tribe to visit Tribal Council. Tony can't believe they lost that challenge - but they have the numbers and in his mind LJ is a threat, he'll be the first to go.
Solana - Day 14
They return to camp still a little shell shocked that they lost. LJ knows this puts him and Jefra on the block and he goes to Cliff/Lindsey/Tony and just asks them to consider that he can still help them in challenges.
But later Woo says he's just as good as LJ, they don't need him for challenges - Cliff agrees, they are looking to take out the strength threat, plus he's been talking to Trish and they want to break that up. It looks like they are all thinking LJ first.
-Trish tells LJ not to worry about it, he's in. They (being her and Tony) have wanted to get Cliff out so if LJ and Jefra vote Cliff with her and Tony, they'll have the numbers.
-It doesn't make sense to LJ why any of the Brawn tribe would be looking to flip but if it'll keep him there and not having to play his idol - he's in.
-Trish is sure they'll be able to blind-side Cliff and she loves it.
-But Lindsey has her number, she's 100% sure that Trish will flip on them. Cliff and Woo try to reassure her that won't happen.
-Trish then talks to Tony and pitches they stay the course and take out Cliff like they had been trying to do before but Tony thinks that's crazy now that the tribes have been switched up. They need to get rid of LJ, he's got drive and he's strategic. To Trish, this is their chance to get rid of Cliff before a merge where he'll win every immunity challenge. Tony says he trusts Trish to her face - but he tells the camera he's not sure what he's going to do. (Bye LJ.)
-Cliff takes Tony aside and asks him what Trish was saying to him. Tony tries to lie but Cliff knows, and standing over Tony he decrees that Tony let Trish try and make her move, it's still three against four and then they'll vote her ass right out. Tonight it's LJ. (Cliff just bullied Tony, I don't think that was a very smart move.)
TRIBAL COUNCIL
LJ said arriving back at camp with two Beauty and five Brawn made him feel like he and Jefra were a couple selling their home, just waiting for the word and they'll get out of their way.
-Cliff says you'd think we'd keep moving forward with the numbers but there is always that person who's not happy with where they're at, who can't put their emotions aside.
-Woo agrees, you have to trust in what you are a part of...(but you've made it clear to Trish she's not a part of your alliance, so she should be happy to be on the bottom? This is where Brawn lacks the finesse to keep everyone happy - they are trying to strong-arm her into doing what they want.)
-Trish agrees with Jeff that it's kind of a test of loyalty and she does agree that numbers are important but only if they work for you - if they don't then you might have to make other arrangements for yourself. (Oh yeah, Lindsey and Cliff look like their heads are going to explode at that comment.)
-Jefra agrees this is good news for them - she gets that numbers are important but someone is the bottom man in that five and the bottom man is not going to get to the top on their own.
-Lindsey is having trouble with the rain on her face (it's pouring on them) but after squeegeeing off she says they have to stick together so they can move forward without LJ and Jefra (nice.)
-Cliff likens finally going to Tribal Council to an NBA playoff game (which makes everyone "Say what?") - but he says it never starts until you lose a game, then you can regroup, make adjustments and go forward.
-Tony says this vote will definitely shift things, either we'll go forward as a team or we'll step back and go forward with a different team, it all depends on how the vote goes down.
Time to Vote:
Woo votes for LJ - says he doesn't want him to make the merge and reconnect with his beauty tribe (Ha! what Beauty tribe?)
Jefra votes for Cliff - "You can't call the shots forever."
Tony says, "Nothing personal, just strategical." (They don't show us his vote.)
Tallying the Votes:
Anyone have a hidden immunity idol... And LJ doesn't play it (What?)
LJ - 1
Cliff - 1
LJ - 2
Cliff - 2
LJ - 3
Cliff - 3
Final vote is for... CLIFF! (HA! I can't believe they actually did it!) Woo looked like he was going to cry and Lindsey almost swallowed her tongue - WOW, that was a magnificent blind-side! So fun to watch, I actually cheered ;)
And with Cliff's ignoble departure, that also takes Drew C, Karen S. and Katie L. out of the pool.
Next week: Lindsey and Trish's animosity comes to a head and it looks like LJ tries to play peacemaker.
Cliff's final thoughts - he got too comfortable in his four alliance and thought he was keeping up with everything that was going on around camp but it just goes to show, you never know. (I think his undoing was trying to bully Tony, he didn't give the littler man the respect he thought he deserved and it bit the big man in he butt.)
Well, that was fun!
Have a great rest of your week everyone.
Coleen.
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