50% of the vote

50% of the vote...... I was riveted to my television the other night as the votes were being counted from people from all over the country. It was quite apparent that some people were still undecided right up the point of the vote and it showed. I was talking about the Survivor vote from last night, as it came down to the last vote. You see the people who play this game are from all over the USA, if I have to explain my analogies................(The smart people who read this don't need any explanations by the way, you know who you are) Dangrayne Day 19 My original thought was, Penner probably has to win immunity to stay in the game as he played his idol last week and most of the tribe doesn't want a former player winning. Jeff Kent is talking and saying everyone was wishy washy about getting rid of Penner that night at the vote. We all know Jeff wants Penner gone and here is one of my cardinal rules coming to life. Be oh so careful about what you say during this game, remember this is basically a 39 day interview for the job of being the Sole Survivor. If you continue to tell people you want someone gone, it will get back to that person at some point. It's not like you are talking about a co-worker who has an office in Califronia while you work in Ohio, these people see you everyday and unlike the corporate world, there are no middle management suck ups who walk around the office downloading apps on their phones all day and do nothing, these people matter. Skupin does what Skupin always does and tells Penner to relax and look for a crack in the alliance. Penner gives in and says he will ride in the backseat for a while. Good thing, the backseat is always more fun than the front seat because dad can't see what you are doing, just don't kick the back of the front seat. Lisa points out that people want Penner gone and that no one likes Abi, Pete or Artis. Here is the thing about Lisa, I like her but didn't like that she got picked for Survivor, being a former child actor and all. However, she is very aware of what is going on around her and she is very observant which has the makings of a good player. Reward Challenge The tribe is divided into two teams. One member will swim out and unhook of the four bouys which are anchored to the bottom of the the little inlet. The other members will then pull them back toward shore after they unhook each of the four bouys. Then they unlock a box and two people will then put together the various flag pieces. First team to finishi wins a feast on a river boat. Lisa, Denise, Malcolm, Jeff and Penner win reward. Oh by the way, Abi did participate for the other side in the challenge, that is a first I think. Riverboat Cruise In a makeshift boat powered by bike paddling monkeys the five cruise down a small inlet. Penner does his best, "I can't win this game so keep me around for my vote as I think you four should go to the final four" banter. Actually this is pretty smart because by the way everyone is talking, they wouldn't vote for Penner even is he were to make it to the final three. Dangrayne Day 20 We see Artis eating beans and rice and points out to us that if he has to eats beans and rice for 39 days he will do. The problem with that is the RDA of food requires only small portions of beans and rice so if he keeps this up he will probably get bound up because of the lack of fruit intake. He really should look at the ingredients on the bags of rice before partaking in such a risky diet. Day 22 Lisa, who accidently found Malcolm's hidden immunity idol now wants to get rid of Malcolm. WOW, you have someone who trusts and who also has an idol and you want to get rid of them now? Bold move or stupid? Here is another point of fact. If you are going to go after someone in a blindside and they are in your alliance, you better make damn sure you get rid of them and if you don't, you better hope they don't find out you were targeting them. Immunity Challenge Untie rope and then move bags of puzzle pieces up over and down under various obstacles. Pete, Jeff Kent and Penner are the first three and make it to the final to build a puzzle. Penner comes from far behind to win immunity. The pretribal council Democratic-Republican conventions Malcolm points out that Penner winning immunity was the Murphy's Law of Survivor, they had a plan to get rid of Penner and now they can't. Lisa then tells Pete that Malcolm has a hidden immunity idol and Pete asks Malcolm about this and Malcolm asks Pete who told him........yadda, yadda, yadda. Refer back to my blindside comment above. Lisa was a little to honest here as she told Pete exactly how she found Malcolm's hidden idol. Maybe she should have considered saying, "I think Malcolm has an idol." Then one group targets Pete and then one group targets Jeff Kent. Tribal Council Democrats-Republicans Malcolm points out that the Texas girl, Lisa, threw him under the bus by telling people about his idol. Lisa doesn't hide this and calls Malcolm a huge threat. Abi is confronted and tries to lie but is called out. Soon Abi shows people her hidden idol and Malcolm shows his hidden immunity idol. So a quick review, Penner would be going home if he hadn't won immunity, which he did so people can't vote for him. Jeff Kent and Pete seem to be the obvious choices but, just to add flavor, Abi and Malcolm both show their hidden idols making them not hidden anymore. This now ranks as one of the best tribal councils ever, and they haven't even voted yet. Votes are cast, and Jeff asks Abi and Malcolm if they want to use their idols which they don't. Abi gets one vote, Pete gets four votes and fomer major league baseball player jeff kent goes home with five votes. Review I think Lisa had a real chance to go far in this game and had a golden opportunity to blindside her idol holding buddy Malcolm which would have rid her of a great player and someone holding an idol. Now she goes back to camp with what? She goes back to camp with a great player who is holding an idol and now has absolutely no reason to keep her around or trust her. As I said if you are going to blindside someone, you have to blindside them. The game just changed to someone's favor and someone like Pete may have benefitted the most. He just survived a huge close call and now the focus changes to someone else. That's what makes this game so great.

I'm so confused......

I’m so confused………….. When you start with three tribes of six and one tribe gets decimated because they can’t win a challenge, it usually means the other two tribes will swoop down and attempt to gobble up the remaining players from the decimated tribe to strengthen the numbers of their own tribe. Confusion reigns down when the decimated tribe then has its remaining two members divided and one goes to each tribe and loyalty begins to be questioned in each tribe as the question arises: “How can you become friends with people with whom your were just competing with and are now are your tribe?” Now you throw in the fact a merge is coming at some point and you have to take into account the two members of the smallest tribe are still in the game and could be reunited because of a merge and could renew their alliance. Then you have to worry about who is going to ask who to the prom, make sure you don’t get the same dress as that bitch next door and bikini waxing. Everybody got that? Good….and break. Kalabaw Night 16 Denise has now and will continue to go to each and every tribal elimination council until she is voted out or makes it to the final. I think only one other player in years past, Stephanie Lagrossa, had this distinction of ever having to go to each tribal council during a season. Jonathon guesses that Katie, who was voted out last week, was the person who cast her vote for him last week. Jeff Kent continues to say he doesn’t want to be voted out before Jonathon, yes dude we know, you mention this at least five to six times per episode. I put it on my computer’s calendar to remind me just in case I forget. Jonathon also talks to the camera and makes the most logical comment of the season, “I forget that other people might be lying to me.” People lie on Survivor? Tandang and Kalabaw Day 17 A boat shows up at each camp and the tribes have ten minutes to pack their stuff and climb on their perspective boats. The merge is here. Ah crap, somebody forgot to pack the toilet paper. Dangrayne I might have fallen asleep but I don’t remember any discussion of the new tribe name. All I saw was a flag with the name. We see the tribes talking on their new beach and we see Lisa hanging everyone’s clothes us. Yes it is important to collect wood, build the shelter and have Alice from the Brady Bunch hang your clothes up to dry. Uh oh, Lisa is hanging Malcolm’s clothes up and finds his hidden immunity idol. Of course Malcolm and friend Denise notice this and they immediately go talk to Lisa who apologizes for going through his stuff and then Malcolm says I am your slave and the three form a weird bartender, sex therapist and actress threesome. This by far is the strangest threesome of an alliance I think I have seen on Survivor. We then see former actors Jonathon and Lisa talking about their acting past and how cool it is to be doing other things now. No one other than Jonathon or Jeff Skupin even know that Lisa used to be on television at this point. Not sure if anyone will care anyhow at this point. Oh yeah, Jeff Kent tells us once again that he doesn’t want Jonathon to win, yes once again. Talk centers around voting out either RC or Jonathon and Abi says, “This will be fun.” Challenge Grasp a bar which has a rope strung around it which is tied to a bucket holding 25% of your body weight in sand. The idea is to not let your bar unravel the rope which in turn would drop your bucket. Two immunities are at stake, one for the women and one for the men. Denise wins the women’s side, which isn’t really surprising. Then it comes down to Jeff Kent against Carter. It really doesn’t matter which one of these two wins anyhow so Jeff lets his bucket hit the ground giving Carter the win for the men. Back at camp RC tells us that her and Mike Skupin are in the majority. Not according to published reports from the other side. For the 57th time this season Jeff Kent tells us he doesn’t want to leave before Jonathon Penner. For the love of God we get it. Next week we start a drinking game, every time Jeff Kent mentions that he doesn’t want Jonathon to beat him in this game, we all shot gun a beer. But Jeff also realizes he is in the majority right now but he is lower on that social totem pole and it would be a matter of time before he gets voted out. If he flips then he risks alienating people from his original tribe but he would have a greater chance of finishing higher in the game. That is the dilemma, okay everybody shotgun a beer. Tribal Council RC says Tandang is family and sometimes family fight. Abi has none of it and says she is no friend of RC anymore. Bitch must have bought the same prom dress and arrived at the prom first. Lisa who is impressing by playing this game points out that her tribe Tandang should stay together as they have a six to five advantage and that Denise and Malcolm are were in the same tribe but now reunited. I would have said the first thing but lady, you know Malcolm has an idol and you did make a promise not to tell anyone and now you throw them under the bus. Sometimes the best thing to say in this game is nothing. Penner plays his idol and saves his butt as he gets 5 votes. Pete gets two votes but RC is sent packing as she gets four votes. Pete needs to pay attention now as people who get votes as tribal are either the easy out or people don’t like you. He might have wanted to keep RC around as she wasn’t well liked but and this is a BIG BUTT it is better to be the second least like person as opposed to the least liked person which he probably is now. Next Week Penner is on the war path.