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EmilEdam Day 23 Reynold said getting rid of Corrine last week was the best thing that could happen to him. His crew that includes Malcolm and Eddie are now ready to take the game over. Malcolm points out to the viewing audience that his best buddy Corrine is gone but then again she was the only one who knew that he had an idol. Double edged sword there, you do have an idol but now a hated player is now gone so your protection level from being voted out has dropped. Phillip tells Sherri that she is hot. The confusion has started again and it was just last night (In Survivor time that is) that Sherri got five votes to be eliminated. I think she has taken on the role of Sarah Palin, first you hate her, then you sort of like her, then you really hate her, then you sort of like her again then her unmarried teenage daughter gets pregnant…………….Sorry, I got lost in my thoughts there. Reward Challenge This was basically handball over water. The goal is setup over a body of water with one team perched on a pedestal in front of the goal, being the goalie of course. Teams on the other side then run of the end of a dock and attempt to throw a small volleyball past the goalie into the goal. The all guy purple team of Erik, Eddie, Cochran, Reynold and Mike win the prize. Their prize is to repel down a large water fall into the small pond below and then enjoy a feast of food and drink. I always love the conversation that ensue during the meal, everybody is happy and smiling and making plans to take all of them to the finals. Then we get the little confessionals where people say, “He or she is lying and I don’t want to go to the end with them.” It is a modern day family reunion without the snot nosed kids and unmarried pregnant teenage cousins. I just read where Sarah Palin visited West Virginia and the girls there didn’t like her because she was too perrtty. Okay enough about that. Immunity Challenge Holding onto a set of monkey bars that are setup in the water and waiting for the tide to come up and slowly cover up your face making it hard to breath. They scale this challenge from about an hour and half to about four minutes. Total mute Brenda wins the challenge and continue on with 22 days of having not spoken. For those of you new to the blog, Brenda is playing for the second time and the first time around she never shut up. She has taken the total opposite approach and I don’t think she has said more than three words all season. Here is what I don’t get about her not talking at all. There are two prizes to win on Survivor, the million for winning and you have a chance to win 100 thousand if the fans of Survivor vote you as the player of the game. Nobody gets you know you if you shut up all the time. Eddie and Andrea The couple of the season. Andrea thinks Eddie is hot and Eddie thinks Andrea is hot and they talk and Eddie tells Andrea that he will do whatever she wants him to do to stay in the game. Eddie gets his dad’s station wagon and they go to the drive in for a date…….. Okay so I make things up sometimes. Day 25 Scrambling, scrambling, scrambling. Malcolm says the next vote is the most important of the season. A little dramatic but true. Dawn comes up with a plan to to tell Malcolm that the group is splitting the vote on Eddie and Reynold, but their real plan is to blindside Malcolm, love it, love it, love it….Eddie then tells Andrea that his group is either going to vote for Mike or for her. Confusion reigns. Here’s the thing that people should learn from this. Have a plan but let the day play out and then spring it on people at the last moment just before going to tribal council so they don’t have time to check sources and change their mind yet again. Come on people, pay attention this is how the best players do it. Oh by the way Dawn get Reynold to show her his idol which was brilliant on her part and stupid on his part. Tribal Council Mike starts out by saying the veterans are starting to rely on the rookies. Phillip goes on with one of Stealth R Us stories, I stepped out for a beer a smoke while he was talking. Sherri says that pay backs are a bitch. I am guessing this was because she got five votes the week before. Andrea announces that this would be the perfect time to make a move and she is 100% correct, however if you are going to make a move you shouldn’t announce that you are going to make a move. Sort of like a girl who wants to break up with her boyfriend and tells him she wants to break up with right before Christmas and can’t understand why he didn’t get her anything for Christmas. The vote is taken and Jeff asks if anyone wants to play their idol. Reynold stands up and is about to play his idol when Malcolm stops him and says, “Dude, everyone is voting for me, give me your idol.” Remember, Malcolm has an idol in his pocket and yes Reynold gives him his idol to play making Malcolm safe and Reynold vulnerable to being voted out. Mike gets five votes, Andrea gets three and Reynold gets one vote. Mike is gone and Reynold looks like a fool for giving away his protection. Next Week Dawn looks like she going to leave the game. Maybe, just maybe she is playing everyone.