Game Changers Episode 2--"Survivor Jackpot" Recap
This episode went directly to the Reward Challenge and the anticipated tribe swap.
As shown on "Next Time..." last week, five Mana became Nuku with J.T.. Hali and Caleb stayed Mana and were joined by four Nuku, Tai, Brad, Sierra, and Debbie. The other six formed the new tribe Tavua, Troyzan the only Mana member was joined by Zeke, Cirie, Ozzie, Sarah and Andrea from Nuku.
NUKU Tribe
It is not lost on J.T. that he is the only Nuku on a tribe of Mana. He immediately tries to make himself valuable by chasing goats with Malcolm and capturing two of them. Only problem was, it was a baby and its mother. Sandra doesn't seem to care and wants goat for dinner and talks about gutting and cleaning them, while the others, most notably, J.T., Malcolm and Jeff, bare their consciences and don't want anything to do with it. Malcolm realizes that he has to finesse Sandra into coming to their side without getting her peeved at them, finally deciding to eat a chicken.
Later J.T. takes all of them out to fish, and heads back to camp for pliers, While there he searches for the idol. They all realized they have been duped and sit there waiting for him to come back rather than going in. Ultimately J.T. is unsuccessful in finding the Idol or a Clue.
MANA Tribe
The Mana tribe goes to the beach. Brad decorates the camp, while Tai and Caleb reunite causing suspicion among the others. Tai is mentioning Hali as the first boot, but Caleb's name is being tossed around also, as Brad and Debbie realize that a Tai/Caleb alliance could cause issues later. It is also noted that Sierra and Hali don't have a connection despite being on the same season weren't together. Nobody seems to think that Debbie might have an alliance with Tai (no signs of it yet) as they were also together on their season after the merge.
TAVUA Tribe
Cirie and Ozzie stay together on Tavua, and agree to band together for now at least against Troyzan. Troyzan plays it cool around camp not trying to ruffle any feathers and see a way into being kept. He doesn't trust Andrea but goes looking for the idol, while no one chaperones him. He finds the clue which tells him where the idol is in the immunity challenge.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
The immunity challenge requires three people to work together in the early part of the challenge and three to do the puzzle (one unties, the other two put it together.) Nuku has a huge lead, and eventually wins Immunity first which brings with it a Tarp and a choice, which they take comfort items, leaving spices for the 2nd place team. Tavua and Mana fight it out in the puzzle with Tavua barely edging Mana out, sending Mana to tribal for the 3rd time (but with some new people.) After the challenge is over and Tavua is celebrating, Troyzan kneels down around the puzzle board, seemingly thanking higher powers, and grabbing the idol from the leg of the board.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
The discussion at Mana camp after was solely about Hali or Caleb, with a hint of Tai. Brad talks to Tai, who is set on Hali, but Brad works to convince him that Caleb would be a smarter pick for Tai, so the monkey would be off of Tai's back. At tribal, Caleb and Hali go back and forth trying to make each other's strengths a weakness and convincing the rest of the tribe to vote the other out. In the end the vote went 5-1 for Caleb making him the 3rd person voted out.
NEXT TIME:
The biggest news for next week is that there will be two boots as only one tribe will get immunity. Likely targets are J.T., Hali, and Troyzan, but Troyzan now has an Idol.
The Boot
With the previews showing a 5-1 Mana Tribe, it was inevitable that either other tribe would be a Mana target, which made Caleb, Hali and Troyzan most likely to go, so this was not a blindside, but it was interesting that there was little sway in potentially taking one of the others out. I had Caleb ranked 15 this week behind Tai, J.T., Hali and Troyzan making him my least likely to go.
As shown on "Next Time..." last week, five Mana became Nuku with J.T.. Hali and Caleb stayed Mana and were joined by four Nuku, Tai, Brad, Sierra, and Debbie. The other six formed the new tribe Tavua, Troyzan the only Mana member was joined by Zeke, Cirie, Ozzie, Sarah and Andrea from Nuku.
NUKU Tribe
It is not lost on J.T. that he is the only Nuku on a tribe of Mana. He immediately tries to make himself valuable by chasing goats with Malcolm and capturing two of them. Only problem was, it was a baby and its mother. Sandra doesn't seem to care and wants goat for dinner and talks about gutting and cleaning them, while the others, most notably, J.T., Malcolm and Jeff, bare their consciences and don't want anything to do with it. Malcolm realizes that he has to finesse Sandra into coming to their side without getting her peeved at them, finally deciding to eat a chicken.
Later J.T. takes all of them out to fish, and heads back to camp for pliers, While there he searches for the idol. They all realized they have been duped and sit there waiting for him to come back rather than going in. Ultimately J.T. is unsuccessful in finding the Idol or a Clue.
MANA Tribe
The Mana tribe goes to the beach. Brad decorates the camp, while Tai and Caleb reunite causing suspicion among the others. Tai is mentioning Hali as the first boot, but Caleb's name is being tossed around also, as Brad and Debbie realize that a Tai/Caleb alliance could cause issues later. It is also noted that Sierra and Hali don't have a connection despite being on the same season weren't together. Nobody seems to think that Debbie might have an alliance with Tai (no signs of it yet) as they were also together on their season after the merge.
TAVUA Tribe
Cirie and Ozzie stay together on Tavua, and agree to band together for now at least against Troyzan. Troyzan plays it cool around camp not trying to ruffle any feathers and see a way into being kept. He doesn't trust Andrea but goes looking for the idol, while no one chaperones him. He finds the clue which tells him where the idol is in the immunity challenge.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
The immunity challenge requires three people to work together in the early part of the challenge and three to do the puzzle (one unties, the other two put it together.) Nuku has a huge lead, and eventually wins Immunity first which brings with it a Tarp and a choice, which they take comfort items, leaving spices for the 2nd place team. Tavua and Mana fight it out in the puzzle with Tavua barely edging Mana out, sending Mana to tribal for the 3rd time (but with some new people.) After the challenge is over and Tavua is celebrating, Troyzan kneels down around the puzzle board, seemingly thanking higher powers, and grabbing the idol from the leg of the board.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
The discussion at Mana camp after was solely about Hali or Caleb, with a hint of Tai. Brad talks to Tai, who is set on Hali, but Brad works to convince him that Caleb would be a smarter pick for Tai, so the monkey would be off of Tai's back. At tribal, Caleb and Hali go back and forth trying to make each other's strengths a weakness and convincing the rest of the tribe to vote the other out. In the end the vote went 5-1 for Caleb making him the 3rd person voted out.
NEXT TIME:
The biggest news for next week is that there will be two boots as only one tribe will get immunity. Likely targets are J.T., Hali, and Troyzan, but Troyzan now has an Idol.
The Boot
With the previews showing a 5-1 Mana Tribe, it was inevitable that either other tribe would be a Mana target, which made Caleb, Hali and Troyzan most likely to go, so this was not a blindside, but it was interesting that there was little sway in potentially taking one of the others out. I had Caleb ranked 15 this week behind Tai, J.T., Hali and Troyzan making him my least likely to go.
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