Placements for eliminated players thus far:
18th Darnell - Brawn (voted out Episode 1, Day 3)
17th Jenny - Brawn (voted out Episode 2, Day 6)
16th Liz - Brains (voted out Episode 3, Day 8)
15th Caleb - Beauty (medical evacuation due to heat stroke, Day 9)
14th Alecia - Brawn (voted out Episode 4, Day 11)
13th Anna - Beauty (voted out Episode 5, Day 13)
12th Peter - Brains (voted out Episode 6, Day 16)
---Start forming the jury---
11th Neal - Brains (medical evacuation due to infection near knee, Day 19)
10th Nick - Beauty (voted out Episode 8, Day 22)
9th Debbie - Brains (voted out Episode 9, Day 24)
8th Scot - Brawn (voted out Episode 10, Day 27)
7th Julia - Beauty (voted out Episode 11, Day 29)
6th Jason - Brawn (voted out Episode 12, Day 32)
Tribes as of the beginning of Episode 12:
Dara (merged tribe - black buffs)
Aubry - former Brains
Cydney - former Brawn
Joe - former Brains
Michele - former Beauty
Tai - former Beauty (has a hidden immunity idol, last time it can be used)
Reward Challenge:
Race into the jungle to a large wooden ladder. Climb up and retrieve a bag of sandbags. Race back and attempt to launch the sandbags into a series of targets. First person to get one sandbag in each of their five targets wins a trip to a Survivor spa. Bath, massage, meal of chicken, beef and cheesecake, stay the night on a real bed before waking up and returning to camp.
Details on order of challenge and who did what:
There are 3 bags, each with 5 sandbags, that apparently must be retrieved individually, only going back for another set once all of them from the previous set have been thrown.
Order of arrival at the ladder: Cydney, Michele, Aubry, Tai, Joe.
Order of return to the throwing station: Cydney, Michele, Aubry, Tai, Joe.
Players and the color of their sandbags and targets from left to right when viewing the throwing station from the targets:
Aubry with purple.
Cydney with red.
Joe with yellow.
Michele with blue.
Tai with orange.
Cydney scores her 1st target, followed by Aubry.
Cydney, Aubry, Michele, Tai all head back to the jungle as Joe arrives with his first set of sandbags.
Order returning with sandbag set #2: Cydney, Aubry, Michele, Tai
Cydney hits the same target, so still only has one.
Aubry gets a 2nd target.
Cydney gets a 2nd target.
Aubry gets a 3rd target.
Michele gets her 1st target.
Order returning with sandbag set #3: Aubry, Cydney, Michele, Tai
Aubry needs to land 2 of 5 to win. Her 2nd sandbag hits the furthest target so she only needs one more.
Aubry misses with her last 3 sandbags so is stuck at 4 of 5 targets.
Jeff tells us the rule that once you've thrown all 15 sandbags you have to wait until everyone has thrown all 15 before you can retrieve any of them, and someone may win before that.
Cydney runs out of bags and has only 2 of 5 targets.
Joe hits his 1st and 2nd targets while throwing his 2nd set.
Tai and Michele run out of sandbags and now must wait.
Joe hits a 3rd target.
Joe heads out into the jungle for his 3rd set of sandbags. Everyone else has to wait for him, so he can now take his time with the rest of the challenge.
Joe returns with his last 5 sandbags while the rest of the players are stretching, resting, relaxing.
Joe misses with 3 sandbags and now has only 2 left to hit 2 targets.
Joe hits his 4th target with the next sandbag and must hit the last one to win.
With his last sandbag, Joe hits the furthest target and wins reward.
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Jeff tells Joe he has a decision to make. He has to choose one person to join him.
Joe chooses Aubry since they have stuck together since the original Brain tribe.
Now Joe has to choose one more person to bring. Aubry tries to tell Joe who should go and he lets her choose.
Aubry & Joe choose Cydney to go on reward with them.
That leaves Michele and Tai going back to camp with nothing.
Reward (day 33):
Cydney enjoys the chicken wraps. Joe eats lots of the red meat despite normally not eating much meat in his regular life. Cydney separately notes that eating that much beef probably won't feel good later.
Aubry, Cydney and Joe talk strategy. Joe wants to get rid of Tai, but Aubry reminds him that Tai has an immunity idol. Joe thinks that he and Cydney aren't threats compared to Aubry. Ironically it made Aubry realize that Cydney is a big threat and that she might want to bring Tai to the final three.
Camp (day 33):
Michele and Tai shouldn't get along because they had quite the verbal war at the last tribal council. However, they decide to talk things out in the water. They get on the same page with each other. It leads to them having their own spa day, with Tai giving Michele a Thai-style massage. They discuss strategy and entertain the possibility of working together and trying to work with Cydney since she's the only one who might switch sides.
Camp (day 34):
Aubry makes amends with Tai after having lied to him before the previous tribal council. Tai is now willing to work with Aubry again. Cydney notices that Aubry & Tai look too comfortable together when they return from the water well. Cydney & Michele then talk strategy and figure out how they want to work together in the end.
Joe isn't feeling well. He claims he ate about 8 steaks, or 'three feet', of beef at the reward and now he's bloated and isn't passing urine. Medical comes out to check on him and gives him some medicine to attempt to resolve the issue. Part of the problem is that due to his age he has an enlarged prostate that is pressing on things. He is also constipated from the food he ate at the reward.
Camp (night 34):
Joe still isn't feeling well. The medicine did not clear things up as much as he needed it to. Medical came back to reassess his situation. Based on all the facts, medical decided they need to pull Joe from the game to prevent him from suffering kidney damage. He was in enough pain that he wasn't too upset about having to leave the game.
This sets the record for most medical evacuations in a single season - 3 (Caleb, Neal, Joe).
Immunity & Tribal:
There was no immunity challenge or tribal council due to how late in the game this medical evacuation happened and how few players remain in the game.
Finale on Wednesday May 18th:
The 2-hour finale is on Wednesday, followed by the 1-hour live reunion show that starts with the winner being revealed.
The final 4 players: Aubry, Cydney, Michele, Tai
The jury, so far: Neal, Nick, Debbie, Scot, Julia, Jason, Joe
Nobody in this game has won 2 individual immunity challenges. Aubry is the only one left that has not won an individual challenge.
Despite having only 4 players left on day 34, nobody seems to have considered that it could be a final two at the final tribal council.
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