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TONIGHT 8:00 PM (EST)

Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, its Thursday, and that means its time once again for your:
SURVIVOR PING!

The Airai Tribe: Orange Buffs
Alexis, Chet, Erik, Jason, Joel, Kathy, Natalie, Tracy

The Malakal Tribe: Purple Buffs
Amanda, Ami, Cirie, Eliza, James, Jonathon, Ozzy, Parvati

The Losers:
Jonny Jackass, Mary, Yau-Man. Mikey B.

The title for tonight’s episode is “He's a Ball of Goo!”

From the website:
After an epic battle between tribes of Fans and Favorites, the tribes are finally mixed up. Will old tribal lines stick, or will former enemies now try to work together?

And from a SeeBS press releases:
After an intense reward challenge, several castmates return to camp with injuries, and one proves serious enough to threaten the fate of the castaway's future in the game. Also, one woman catches a shark that provides a feast for her tribe. At tribal council, one person is voted out of the game.

Now for those who don’t want to have tonight’s episode spoiled then hit your back button now.

Otherwise, start highlighting at the - - > below:

- - > First off, lets start with the tribal switch-up. The sharp eyes at Survivor Phoenix have determined that each tribe will draw stones from a bag. The one member of each tribe to pick the odd stone will be designated the Team Captain for that tribe. Ozzy is the captain for the Malakal tribe and Natalie is the captain for the Airai Tribe. This is followed by a typical “School Yard type pick-em.” After all is said and done, the new tribes are:

The New Airai Tribe: Alexis, Eliza, James, Jason, Jonathan, Kathy, Natalie, Parvati
The New Malakal Tribe: Amanda, Ami, Chet, Cirie, Erik, Joel, Ozzy, Tracy

To further confuse and confound the players, they will then have to participate in a brutal Reward Challenge with their new tribes. The title of this Reward Challenge is “Cat and Mouse”. The tribes are split up into same-sex pairs. These pairs are tethered together by a length of rope. Each pair will also carry a tribal flag somewhere on their persons. The object of the Challenge is to negotiate an obstacle type course while tethered together, capture the opposing tribes flag while protecting your own flag at the same time. Vidcaps show us a few of the pairings: James & Jason; Eliza & Parvati, Joel & Chet, Ozzy & Erik. These same Vidcaps emphasize the struggle of Joel & Chet, to the point that Joel seems to be dragging Chet around the course most of the time. Even so, I’m gonna say that the New Malakal Tribe wins this Challenge.

Next we are also shown vidcaps of Jonathan’s knee with a particularly nasty looking gash in it. The medics are called in and they drain fluid from his knee with a syringe. Does this force Jonathan from the game for medical reasons? I doubt it. I think its more about showing the presence of the Medical Team and how they play a more important role in later episodes. Anyway, Jonathan is safe for this episode at least.

The only thing we are shown about the Immunity Challenge is players throwing stones. And that the title of this challenge is “A Stone's Throw”. Not much else to go on here, other than all the spoiler sites are saying that Joel is voted out at Tribal Council. If this is the case then the New Airai Tribe must win this IC and send the New Malakal tribe to tribal council.

So how does Joel end up getting the boot? Keep in mind the New Malakel tribe consists of Ozzy, Amanda, Cirie and Ami from the original Favorites tribe. Ozzy, Amanda and Cirie were an alliance and Ami will probably go along with them, just to stay in the game. Now look at the other half of the tribe. Chet, Erik, Joel and Tracy. Joel and Erik will probably have had enough of Chet by this time, and Tracy being the schemer that she is, will try to protect Chet again by throwing in with the original Favorites. Ozzy sees Joel at the biggest threat, so Ozzy, Amanda, Cirie, Ami, Chet and Tracy all vote to boot Joel. Say bye-bye Joel.

Well, there you have it:
CUZ’S WEEKLY SURVIVOR PICKS!

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Reward Challenge: New Malakel
Immunity Challenge: New Airai
Removed from the game: Joel

I’ll be back Monday morning with a recap. So till then,
Take care,

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Looks like a good night to get comfy in front of the TV.

I can agree with your assesment of the situation.

Thanks for making Thursday night TV so much more enjoyable!

Ozzy is damn lucky he ended up back on the same beach, unless he brought the idol with him to the reward challenge.

And they better wake up soon to the threat that Cirie is. She needs to go. Of course, so does Chet. Penner might be a medical removal next week.

Just started here on the West Coast. :)

Exciting episode! I can root for Tracy very easily. I felt for her when she was angry with Joel for calling her weak. I just can’t bring myself to root for her closest ally, Chet. Physically and mentally, he’s not in the game at all, and personality-wise, he’s embodying the worst stereotypes about gay people.

Not sorry to see Joel go, but I felt a little sorry for Erik. He’s naive, but seems like a good kid who just got put into a bad place. He looks like the odd man out now - unless Ami turns on her fellow Favorites and forms an alliance with Erik, Tracy, and Chet to counter the Ozzy/Amanda/Cirie trio. That could really save his bacon.

Joel and Erik groaning when they realized they were still on the same tribe as Chet - soo funny! Although I would have groaned too.