{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The two tribes paddled their way to their respective beaches on a raft with meager supplies. Upon arrival, the Pagong tribe celebrated the beginning of this journey while the Tagi tribe got right to work with Rudy taking command, aggravating some of his tribe members. Richard called for order and structure, to which Susan agreed. Ultimately, they pulled together to assemble a functional camp. At Pagong, B.B. stepped into the leadership role. He and Ramona found the tribe's watering hole, and jokingly agreed to hide it from the group. The next morning, Tagi seemed to be in good spirits as Sonja played her ukulele, though Rudy realized he might need to adapt to the personalities of his younger tribemates. B.B.'s aggressive work ethic grated on Pagong and his tribe's laziness began to frustrate him.\n\nReward/immunity challenge: The tribes were tasked with guiding a lit raft through shallow water. Upon reaching the shore, the competitors must carry the raft above land to the finish line. Along the way were a number of torches that must be lit with the raft's fire, culminating in a final fire bowl in front of a massive bamboo statute that must be set ablaze. The first tribe to light their final bowl won immunity and a reward of waterproof matches.At the first immunity challenge, Tagi took the early lead by guiding its raft through the water. Sonja stumbled as they reached the shore, helping Pagong crawl ahead to light their final torch and win. As a result, Pagong received matches and immunity from that night's Tribal Council. At Tagi's camp, Richard and Rudy bonded while Sean tended to Sonja's injuries. As the first vote approached, Stacey talked of voting out Rudy for being overbearing, but at Tribal Council, a plurality of the tribe instead decided to vote out their choice of weakest link, Sonja."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Following their Tribal Council, Tagi found its fish traps still empty. Disappointed that Rudy was not voted out, Stacey suggested he was not made for the game, while Rudy believed Stacey wasn't cut out for wilderness survival. Richard revealed to his tribe that he is gay, making Dirk uncomfortable. It didn't discourage Rudy, who still saw Richard as a strong competitor. At Pagong, Ramona was dehydrated and ill while B.B. refused to quit working. Greg and Colleen began to grow close. Greg's evening game showed tribe spirits were high, though B.B. continued to annoy his tribe by washing his clothes in drinking water. At Tagi, Sean crafted a fishing pole to catch food for the group. Both tribes received tree mail, foretelling a disgusting competition. B.B. suggested Pagong throw the challenge to eliminate him, but the tribe refused.\n\nImmunity challenge: One by one, each castaway was given an insect grub to consume. If any individual refused to eat their bug, their tribe would lose the challenge. The tiebreaker saw one member of each tribe (chosen by the opposing tribe) racing to eat two larvae, with the first player to complete the task winning immunity for their tribe.Ultimately, despite Gervase's struggles, everyone was able to eat their assigned grub, forcing each tribe to select one person from the opposite group to eat two bugs in a tiebreaker face-off. Stacey beat Gervase and as a result, Pagong was sent to Tribal Council, where Ramona's weakness earned her two votes but B.B. received the rest and was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":3,"episode_summary":"At the Tagi tribe, Stacey still wanted to get rid of Rudy and tried to create a girl alliance to do so, but Susan didn't want to be a part of the plan. Richard proved his worth following his tribe winning the reward challenge, as he used the spear they won to catch many fish. At Pagong, Greg and Colleen found a \"mud volcano\" that the entire tribe was able to enjoy.\n\nReward challenge: Each tribe swam out to an inner tube attached to a sunken treasure chest. Once all the tribe members were at their tube, they would dive down and drag their chest to shore. The first tribe back with their chest would win fishing supplies.Tagi won the reward challenge. Back at Pagong, everyone ate rats, including a hesitant Gervase and Ramona. At Tagi, Dirk annoyed everyone with his Bible reading.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe built a stretcher, and raced into the woods to rescue one tribe member stuck in a tree. They then had to carry that tribe member back to the beach and to the first aid tent.Pagong won the immunity challenge. At Tribal Council, Tagi voted out Stacey."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":4,"episode_summary":"At Pagong, Ramona started to feel better after having been sick and tried to begin pulling her weight around camp, but Jenna said it might be too late for her despite the pair bonding more. After a tropical storm, Gretchen took a stand and suggested once again that they rebuild their shelter in the canopy away from the beach. Greg appeared to be providing light relief to their tribe, and Gretchen said this would likely get him further in the game. At Tagi, Sean and Dirk spent most of their time fishing, but had no luck; Sean also tried to build a bowling alley. Kelly, Susan, and Richard created an alliance.\n\nReward challenge: The castaways had to make a distress signal. The goal was to make the best S.O.S. signal for the plane (with Jeff in it) to see. The best signal would win the tribe hammocks, towels and pillows, plus two additional items (one chosen by each tribe; Tagi chose a flaying knife, Pagong chose a spice rack). Tagi won the challenge.Immunity challenge: A five-part relay race: The first member swam to a buoy, dove down and retrieved a map in a bottle. The second ran across a floating bridge with the bottle to a waiting boat, where the second and third paddled to shore. The fourth member would break the bottle, check the map, and sprint into the jungle to find a rope ladder and a key. For the final leg, the two remaining tribe members had to locate a buried treasure chest and dig it up. Tagi, being the first tribe to unearth their treasure chest and bring it back to the start line and have the key inside the lock, were the winners.At the immunity challenge, Gervase had problems on the sprint into the jungle, one of the main reasons Pagong lost to Tagi again. They proceeded to vote out Ramona. Ramona thought it was her early illness that caused her to be voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":5,"episode_summary":"At Tagi, Dirk and Sean were still trying to fish instead of helping around camp, but to no avail. Susan told them it was a waste of time if they weren't catching anything. The tribe were worried about Dirk's weight loss. At Pagong, everyone felt vulnerable because their tribe was getting smaller. Greg and Colleen grew closer, choosing to sleep out in the jungle away from the others. Greg knew he was becoming somewhat of a tribe leader, a role he didn't want.\n\nReward challenge: Tribes selected three tribe members to shoot for the tribe in three rounds. The first one was a blow gun, the second was a slingshot, and the third was a spear toss. The winning tribe would win fruit and chickens.At the reward challenge, Joel helped Pagong win with his spear throwing after the first two rounds were tied. Dirk and Sean began to help around the camp but that didn't change their tribe members' minds, and they remained on the outs. The alliance of four was decided on getting one of them out at the next Tribal Council. At Pagong they decided to let their chickens lay eggs.\n\nImmunity challenge: One person from each tribe rowed their boat around the buoys, picking up their tribe members waiting in the water. The first tribe to get all members back to shore won.At the immunity challenge, Gervase finally led Pagong to victory and Kelly, the whitewater rafting guide, was upset that \"she got beat by a guy who couldn't even swim\". At Tagi's Tribal Council, the alliance of four claimed its first victim as Dirk was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Both tribes were wondering what the merge was going to be like. Tagi was afraid due to their numerical deficit, and Rudy agreed to be a part of Richard, Susan, and Kelly's alliance. At Pagong, Joel was confident because his tribe had the numbers, but Colleen thought Joel was an idiot because they weren't merging yet and still had a chance of going in even. Gervase offended the girls by telling them that they were dumber than a cow. One of Pagong's chickens was eaten by another creature. At Tagi, Richard began walking around camp naked.\n\nReward challenge: One at a time, each tribe member raced to a barrack. There were three different items in there (a can opener, a knife, and an Army helmet). The first tribe to get all of their items (with no duplicates) back to the start won a reward of canned foods and a chocolate bar.At the reward challenge, Richard brought back a duplicate knife instead of a can opener and Pagong won by default. At Pagong, Joel tried to create an alliance with the group that would carry over after the merge but was shot down by the women of the tribe. The alliance was interpreted as mean-spirited on Joel's part. Joel started to get a little bossy, which annoyed the girls.\n\nImmunity challenge: Both tribes raced through an Army obstacle course. The first two tribe members raced through the first part and met up with two more members, then had to go through a puzzle and race to the finish line.Tagi won the immunity challenge in a very close race. With help from Greg, the women of Pagong voted out Joel."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":7,"episode_summary":"The day after Pagong voted Joel out, one person from each tribe went to the opposite tribe's camp and then convened to decide which camp to live on. Jenna went to Tagi and Sean went to Pagong. After a bit of time at camp, Jenna and Sean met with each other at a neutral site to decide which camp they wanted to live on and what to name the new merged tribe. They were welcomed by a feast, including lobster and wine, and got to stay the night under a canopy shelter and on beds. The next day, Jenna and Sean decided to live at the Tagi beach and named their merged tribe Rattana. The ten castaways met up and everyone celebrated, except Rudy, who was annoyed because the population doubled.\n\nImmunity challenge: All ten castaways submerged themselves underwater to see how long they could hold their breath. The top three castaways then had another competition of releasing buoys along a ladder submerged underwater. The first castaway to release all of their buoys would win immunity.Greg won immunity after a close battle with Sean. At Tribal Council, the disorganized Pagong tribe and Sean were completely split and voted individually, while the Tagi alliance of Kelly, Richard, Rudy, and Susan stayed together and voted out Gretchen."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":8,"episode_summary":"At camp, the remaining members of the former Pagong tribe felt vulnerable because the Tagi tribe had voted out their leader, Gretchen. Jenna decided her best move was to get closer to the other women, all of whom were Tagi members. She put her plan into action and seemed to sway Susan who at first thought Jenna was going to be really annoying. Richard started to worry about who voted for him at Tribal Council.\n\nReward challenge: Each tribe member was to shoot at an archery target with a bow and arrow. The closest mark to the bullseye won a video from home and the chance to send a video home to them.At the reward challenge, Jeff showed everyone a sneak peek of their videos, except Jenna, because they never received a video for her. Greg went first and no one hit the mark closer, so he won the reward and saw his home video from his sister and sent one back to her. Rudy thought there might be some incestuous behavior between Greg and his sister though clearly took things the wrong way. Jenna was frustrated about losing the reward challenge and instead of watching Greg's video, continued to practice with the bow and arrow, continually hitting the target closer than Greg's mark. People began to realize that Richard liked Greg because of the way he was playing the game. Greg realized that Richard was a powerful player.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each member was connected to a piece of rope and needed to go to the checkpoints in number order (1–6) and collect the color carabiners at each checkpoint and then cross the finish line.Gervase won immunity. At Tribal Council, the Tagi alliance and Jenna piggy-backed off of Sean's alphabet strategy and voted out Greg."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":9,"episode_summary":"While Richard was catching fish, the other players began to realize that nobody voted him out because of his role as provider. Rudy didn't make the fire hot enough so the fish wasn't done when it got off the fire, and the attempt to recook it simply burnt it.\n\nReward challenge: A rope course with 16 legs, each leg had a medallion with the castaways number on it. The first castaway to receive all their medallions and get back to the center won a barbecue and letters from home.At the reward challenge, Jenna wanted to win because she hadn't heard anything from her family at the last challenge. It was a race between Colleen and Kelly, which Colleen narrowly won. Jeff told her she could pick one other person and she instantly chose Jenna. After the reward challenge, it was Richard's 39th birthday and he celebrated in his \"birthday suit\". Richard spent his entire birthday naked, which disturbed some of his tribemates, especially Colleen and Jenna.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways started on a square and moved one square at a time. As they moved, they had to flip over the square they were just on. Each castaway would go until they could no longer move. Last person standing wins immunity.Rudy won immunity over Sean. Sean was convinced that his alphabet strategy of voting for people was the fairest way and that there was no alliance because he wasn't asked to be a part of it. He continued to vote that way and even told Jenna beforehand that he was voting for her but that he didn't think it would make a difference. At Tribal Council he was once again proved wrong, as Richard, Rudy, and Susan again piggy-backed off his vote and Jenna was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Some people were happy that Jenna was voted out because she was getting on everyone's nerves. Everyone knew that Sean voted for Jenna and Kelly didn't, so the remainder of the Tagi alliance felt betrayed. The alliance thought about replacing Kelly with Sean because he might be more valuable. Richard's plan was to catch more fish once Colleen and Gervase were gone. At tree mail, the castaways were surprised by cigars and a note saying that Gervase's son Gunnar was born the previous day, which they celebrated.\n\nReward challenge: Each person started at one end of a balance beam. There were three rounds, where the first half to make it to the other end of the balance beam would move on. The first person to get to the end with both feet on the platform without falling off would win a slice of pizza and a phone call home.Gervase narrowly beat Richard at the reward challenge and had a chance to call his girlfriend and daughter to see how his baby was doing. He shared his slice of pizza with everyone. While he was making his phone call, Rudy questioned Gervase's life choices, namely having four children out of wedlock, and said that having babies out of wedlock would have never happened when he was his age and that the girl would be \"taken out of town\" and dealt with.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway had a few minutes to grab the kindling necessary to build a fire. They then had to take their torch out to the water to floating woks, light their torch, and bring it back to their pile of wood to start their fire. The first person to burn through their rope won.At the immunity challenge, Richard easily won. At Tribal Council, the five Tagi members decided that Gervase was a bigger threat than Colleen, voting him out. Ultimately, Kelly decided to vote with her alliance despite her urges to join forces with the others."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":11,"episode_summary":"The Tagi alliance began to crumble because Kelly was always talking to the remaining enemy of the alliance, Colleen. Camp life started to take a toll on everyone.\n\nReward challenge: Each castaway was given a questionnaire about Borneo. The person who answered the most correctly won an overnight trip on a yacht and a Visa card.Sean won the reward and was surprised to see his dad on the yacht. Sean told Kelly he was going to take her for the feast, but chose Richard instead, which infuriated the women. Sean brought his dad back to camp to meet everyone, who attempted to update them on current events and the stock market (although Susan thought he didn't know anything), and before he left he gave each person a care package from their loved ones, which rejuvenated their spirits.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each person stood next to each other on a set of five planks. One plank would be removed over time until they got down to one plank. Whoever stayed on the longest would win.Rudy fell off first. Richard attempted to annoy people off the planks by singing \"99 bottles of beer on the wall\" until he fell off. On the beach, Richard thought it was funny that Colleen was really trying to win immunity when she had no chance of going home tonight because they were going to blindside Kelly. Sean was third to go, followed almost immediately by Susan. Colleen fell off after 2 hours and 54 minutes, giving immunity to Kelly and foiling the Tagi alliance plans. At Tribal Council, Sean was grilled for taking Richard on the reward instead of Kelly. Colleen, the last remaining member of Pagong, was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":12,"episode_summary":"With only Tagi tribe members left, the two people that felt vulnerable were Kelly and Sean. Kelly said she didn't trust Richard, while Richard conspired to get Kelly off next. Sean thought he was stuck with the most conniving people ever. Tempers flared at camp as Kelly and Susan had a fight about their alliance since Kelly didn't vote with them again, and Susan said Kelly made them all look like idiots. Richard attempted to smooth things over, but said the fight was to his advantage. Susan got stung by a ray and her hand swelled up. On day 34, all of the castaways talked about how they missed home.\n\nReward challenge: Under a time limit of five minutes, tribe members dove into a mud pit and covered their body with as much mud as they could, then raced back and scraped it off into a bucket. They could not carry mud in their arms or in their hands, only their body. The buckets were then weighed, and the heaviest bucket would win a cold beer, then picked up, blindfolded and taken to a mysterious bar to watch the first five minutes of this season.Kelly collected 15.9 lb at the reward challenge, followed by Sean (15.4), Susan (15), Richard (12.8), and Rudy (10). After the reward challenge, Susan and Kelly rekindled their friendship. Kelly went with Jeff to watch the first five minutes of episode 1 and talked to Jeff about how the game was going for her. On day 36, Kelly and Susan agreed to stay civil with each other, although Susan told Kelly she didn't want her in the final three because she was such a threat. Sean knew he needed to win immunity and attempted to exploit the Kelly-Susan friendship.\n\nImmunity challenge: \"Survivor Witch Project\": Jeff told the castaways a story about Borneo folklore. Once he was done, the castaways went out to the woods (where the masks with questions on them were scattered) with a video camera to record their answers. The first person to get back to the start with all of the masks and the questions right on tape won immunity.Kelly won her third challenge in a row. Sean said he was definitely winning this thing even though it would be an uphill battle. Richard tried to decide whether to vote for Sean or Rudy, although Rudy was confident that it would be him and Richard in the final two. While everyone spoke of voting for different people, in the end the original Tagi four stuck together and Sean was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The final four reflected on how much their bodies had changed, and how the game was played by them and by others. Kelly said she felt like the odd person out and was stressed because she didn't feel safe. She said that she was now playing for herself. Richard, Rudy, and Susan were planning to vote out Kelly if she didn't win immunity.\n\nImmunity challenge: Jeff asked 10 questions about the jury members. The person who answered the most questions right won immunity.At the challenge, Kelly and Susan were tied after 10 questions, but Kelly got the tiebreaker question correct, giving Kelly her fourth challenge win and third immunity in a row. Directly after at Tribal Council, there was a 2–2 tie between Richard and Susan. During the revote in which only Rudy and Kelly voted, Kelly changed her vote and Susan was voted out.\nAt 4:00 am on day 38, the remaining three were awoken by Jeff, told to put on something comfortable, and took a long boat ride to their rite of passage and final immunity challenge. For their rite of passage, they covered themselves with mud, walked through palm fronds held by locals, passed the torches of their fallen comrades, then passed through a bamboo curtain and walked barefoot through a fire pit.\n\nFinal immunity challenge: Each tribe member held on to the immunity idol while standing on a small log. The person who lasted the longest would win immunity.After two hours of holding on the idol, Jeff tempted the three with oranges. After 2½ hours, Richard gave a speech, said he wouldn't be able to outlast Kelly, and stepped down voluntarily. He said that it was a game of odds and he didn't know what the winner would actually do. After three hours, the remaining two switched positions while keeping their hand on the idol and were to do so every half-hour. While the two were still standing on the pole, Richard spoke of the alliance to Jeff and how he wasn't surprised that Kelly changed her vote. After 4 hours, 11 minutes, Rudy took his hand off the idol while switching spots, and Kelly won immunity yet again. Richard and Rudy each said it was in Kelly's best interest to keep them. At Tribal Council, Kelly voted out Rudy because she thought she might have a better chance of winning defeating Richard than Rudy.\nAt the final Tribal Council, Gervase asked if there were one, two or three things they would change about their time on the island if anything at all. Richard said trusting people so easily, Kelly said making an alliance. Jenna asked who they would put in the final two and why. Richard said Rudy and Greg; Kelly said Sonja and Gretchen. Sean had no questions, but congratulated the two and thanked Kelly for being capable and keeping camp afloat, and told Richard that he enjoyed his company although he played the game differently. Colleen asked what three character traits got them where they were and were essential to get future players to the finals; Kelly said faith, strong will, and likability, while Richard said self-awareness, observation of relationships, and ethics. Rudy said he had nothing to say to those two, but felt dumb after mistakenly removing his hand in the final immunity challenge. Greg had them choose a number between 1 and 10 (Rich said 7; Kelly 3). Susan famously compared Richard to a snake and Kelly to a rat, and declared her intent to vote for Richard. In the end, Rudy, Susan, Sean, and Greg voted for Richard; Jenna, Gervase, and Colleen voted for Kelly. With that, Richard became Survivor's first winner by a narrow vote of 4–3."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US01","episode":14,"episode_summary":"The castaways return to discuss the season with Bryant Gumbel."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The castaways were transported to their destination on a DHC-4 Caribou loaned from the Royal Australian Air Force. Upon arrival, each tribe had 5 minutes to collect everything they needed from a box waiting for them and then faced a five-mile hike to their respective camps. The Kucha tribe got lost, and the Ogakor tribe arrived at their camp first. After arrival the Ogakor tribe argued about starting a fire and where to build their shelter. The two tribes faced the first immunity challenge. First, they had to cross a broken bridge using two planks. They then had to carry a torch on a raft to an island and locate two sets of ladder rungs. Finally, they had to take a second raft to a second island, use the ladder rungs to climb to a fire pit, and light it with the torch. Once Kucha got to the third section, their raft overturned and their torch went out, disqualifying them. Mitchell lit the fire for Ogakor, winning them the prize of waterproof matches and immunity. At Tribal Council, Michael was regarded as the leader. While Jeff, who had become physically sick, got a vote for being considered weak, Debb was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":2,"episode_summary":"The reward challenge required the tribe members to jump off a cliff, swim out to a floating crate, and bring it back to shore through a set of rapids. Ogakor took the lead and won their second challenge in a row. Jerri thought she saw Kel eating beef jerky, but on searching his bag they found nothing; Kel claimed it was a blade of grass. The immunity challenge featured tribe members eating things based on the spin of a wheel. Kimmi from Kucha faced Tina from Ogakor, and Kimmi won the challenge by eating her mangrove faster. At Tribal Council, Kel was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Michael became fixated on providing for his tribe and was determined to ambush and catch a pig. In the reward challenge, one member had to hold a shoulder pole while a \"loader\" placed buckets on the pole. The remaining tribe members would then traverse a long balance beam with a pole on their shoulder and one bucket on either side and hang it on the opposing tribe's pole. When neither Ogakor's Colby nor Kucha's Michael cracked, a run-off race was arranged. Ogakor won and received some fishing gear.\n\nAt the immunity challenge, each tribe, tethered together, raced through a log chute, down a sand slide, and across the river, climbed over obstacles, and sprinted across the sand to the finish line. Kucha took a lead on the third leg, and although Rodger fell twice during the sprint, Maralyn proved too costly for Ogakor as they dropped their second straight immunity challenge. Jerri and Mitchell each received a vote at Tribal Council, but Maralyn's weakness in challenges caused her to be voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Tina and Keith were concerned about their position in the tribe following the previous night's Tribal Council, where Jerri said she was friends with everyone except them. Kimmi led Kucha to win the reward challenge and receive three chickens and a rooster. Michael wanted to eat the chickens as soon as possible, but Nick told him that they needed to make decisions as a group. With Nick's help, Michael caught and killed a pig. Ogakor took a 3–2 lead in a trivia immunity challenge, but Kucha pulled even and then won thanks to Alicia answering the final question correctly.\n\nAt Tribal Council, Mitchell wanted to vote for Keith, but Colby felt he was an asset at camp. In the end, Colby sided with Keith and Tina to vote for Mitchell while Amber, Jerri, and Mitchell voted for Keith, resulting in a 3–3 tie. Although Mitchell said he could not compete with Keith and that he was physically drained, the second vote was still 2–2. Probst announced that in the event of a second tie, the person with the highest number of previous votes would leave; with the one vote cast against Mitchell at the last Tribal Council (by Keith), he was the one sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":5,"episode_summary":"The Ogakor beach was overcome with smoke and haze from a nearby forest fire. Kucha moved their campfire after ash jumped from the fire into their sleeping area, burning through one of Jeff Varner's shirts. The reward challenge was for toiletries as the tribes built stretchers and then used them to rescue their tribemates. Ogakor took an early lead, but Kucha caught up during the second leg and pulled ahead during the final leg, winning their fourth straight challenge. Ogakor became very frustrated at losing again, especially Colby and Amber. Ogakor won immunity at a maze-based immunity challenge. Alicia discussed voting off Kimmi for their personal issues, while Rodger and Elisabeth entertained the idea of voting Alicia off instead. At Tribal Council, Jeff Varner received another vote, but it was Kimmi who was voted off."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":6,"episode_summary":"The merge was on Kucha's mind; they wanted to go in 6–4 and knew the next immunity challenge would be key. In the reward challenge, the tribes were blindfolded except for one member each, who had to navigate the tribe through a series of tasks. The winning tribe would receive a picnic basket of chips and soda. Ogakor became excited at the thought of a picnic and did yoga to prepare themselves; Kucha was more focused on not having Ogakor win. Ogakor led at the beginning, but Amber veered off track and Alicia and Jeff from Kucha narrowly beat her to the end. Frustrated, Colby filled up a bucket of water and threw it at Jerri.\n\nEveryone at Kucha was relaxing around camp when Michael yelled out in pain and dove into the water. When his tribe asked what happened, he said he took a breath full of smoke and passed out, falling face first into the fire; his hands were burnt with skin hanging off. While his pain intensifying, his tribe watched helplessly from shore and tried to calm him until the medical team could aid him. The medical team arrived in the helicopter, and Michael said his goodbyes to his tribe, all of whom were visibly shaken. Ogakor got a note in tree mail saying that there had been an accident at the Kucha tribe and that no immunity challenge would take place; as a result all five of them would continue to the merge."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Since Kimmi told Ogakor that Debb voted for Jeff Varner at the first Tribal Council, Jeff Varner was worried that his previous number of votes would cause him to lose after a 5–5 tie. At Ogakor, they waited for information regarding the accident. Ogakor's tree mail told the men to go to the other tribe to scout the other tribe's camp; Kucha's tree mail told the women to go. When Elisabeth and Alicia showed up at Ogakor, they filled the women in on Michael's accident. The women were shocked, but relieved to hear that it was not life-threatening. The Kucha men were surprised to see Keith and Colby and sensed that Keith was the outsider of the tribe.\n\nOn day 20, the tribes merged. They were given 15 minutes to take as much as they could from their old camps. The men were frustrated that they had to move but gathered as much as they could for the hike. They named the tribe Barramundi, after the river fish. An individual immunity challenge followed, with each tribe member standing on top of a wooden pillar in the water, with the last castaway remaining winning immunity. When just Tina and Keith remained, Keith told Tina that he needed the immunity, and Tina stepped down. The five from Ogakor voted for Jeff Varner, while the five from Kucha voted for Colby. In his vote, Colby said that it was a strategic move that was decided the first week they were there. At the second vote, they were still deadlocked 4-4, and Varner was eliminated due to his prior vote."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":8,"episode_summary":"The immunity challenge was a large game of dots and boxes. Despite being behind, Keith scored 17 in a row to win the challenge. While Elisabeth thought that Jerri would be voted off, Alicia thought she was being naïve and that the former Ogakor would be stupid to get rid of Jerri. In the end, the Ogakor team stayed together, and the physical and intimidating Alicia was voted out. Alicia became the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":9,"episode_summary":"A recap episode of the first 24 days, including unseen footage."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Heavy rains caused the river to become muddy, and most of the fishing hooks were lost. The lack of fish forced the tribe to eat more rice, diminishing their supply. In the reward challenge, the castaways competed in pairs in an obstacle course. Jerri was paired with Colby, and the two won the challenge. Their prize was a helicopter ride to the Great Barrier Reef, where they had lunch and snorkel. When they got back to Barramundi, Colby gave everyone their own piece of coral from the reef. Keith, Colby, and Tina voted with the Kucha three to kick Jerri out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Amber felt isolated after not being told of the vote for Jerri. The contestants were down to their final serving of rice and were quickly losing energy. Keith went on a run to catch grasshoppers for bait. In the immunity challenge, Colby won by creating enough fire to raise a platform. Colby contemplated voting Amber off, since she was bonding with Elisabeth, and he worried that she could flip to the remaining Kucha members. At Tribal Council, Nick voted for Keith because he did not bring his backpack, which Nick took as a sign of arrogance. The remaining Ogakor 4 voted out Nick for his comments about being ready to leave, and he became the third jury member."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":12,"episode_summary":"A huge storm hit the camp as the castaways were walking back from the challenge. Their camp, which was located in a creek bed, flooded completely, and their rice, knives, and fishing gear were washed away. Tina and Keith went downriver to see if any of their things had washed up offshore; Keith saw the can of rice, still sealed, and went across a heavy current to get it. However, they had no way of starting a fire as the matches that were in Keith's jacket got wet. Tina and Keith joined Elisabeth and Rodger to vote out Amber."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The remaining five were excited to receive tree mail that said their loved ones would be involved. The contestants' loved ones – Tina's husband and children, Elisabeth's family, Rodger's wife, daughter, and son-in-law, Keith's girlfriend, and Colby's mother – remotely participated in the reward challenge, answering trivia questions via instant messaging. Tina's family correctly answered 4 questions and won a 30-minute Internet chat with her and a $500 shopping spree. Each person got one final goodbye, and Keith took the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend, who said yes.[15]The challenge boosted everyone's spirits; Colby said that for that one day, no one cared about winning a million dollars. The next morning, after a long night of rain, Keith and Rodger found a smoldering log from a forest fire, which helped them rekindle their fire. After rationing the rice for the number of days they had left, Keith continued to make more rice. Boredom began to set in, as there was nothing to do around camp.\n\nAt the immunity challenge, Jeff Probst told them a story about Indigenous Australians, and they had to run to eight stations and answer questions about the story. Colby won his third straight immunity challenge. Rodger told Tina that he wanted to go before Elisabeth, as she needed the money a lot more than he did. Colby contemplated voting for Keith instead of Rodger, thus allowing the most deserving to make it to the end. At Tribal Council, the remaining Ogakor members honored his wishes, and Rodger was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":14,"episode_summary":"With the end near, the contestants talked about how much they missed their families. At the last reward challenge, an obstacle course composed of stages from challenges, the final four had a chance to redeem themselves from past challenges. Colby was the first through the rope course and the puzzle, followed by Elisabeth, Keith, and Tina. Colby and Elisabeth were dead even at the fire station, but Colby's bucket rose first, continuing his winning streak. The prize was a Pontiac Aztek, a good night's sleep, a hot shower and meal.\nBack at camp, they received a mirror and a scale in tree mail to see how much weight they had lost and how they looked. Tina had lost 16 pounds, Elisabeth 12, Keith 27, and Colby 25. The women gave a \"car-warming\" gift of wildflowers to Colby. Jeff Probst took Colby to his new car and joined him at dinner. They feasted on appetizers for a few minutes, until Probst had the food brought out – by Colby's mother. He was in disbelief and excited to see her and gave her a long hug. His mom said she was not prepared to see how much weight he had lost. Colby brought his mom back to camp, and she brought care packages and news from everyone's families. Eventually, the helicopter came to take Colby's mom away.\n\nAt the immunity challenge, Colby led the entire time and won his fourth consecutive immunity. Colby was torn between keeping Keith, whom he believed he would win against, or Elisabeth, as she deserved to go further. At Tribal Council, Elisabeth became the sixth member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":15,"episode_summary":"At tree mail on day 40, the final three were given wood, paint, and feathers to create idols, which would be given back to the land. On the way to their immunity challenge, they walked past the torches of those who left before them. At the end of the walk, they found a quiet spot to reflect on their time in the Outback, then threw their idols into the river. Keith said he realized that it was not about the money and that you should walk away with something much more valuable; Tina said she had learned how much her family means to her; Colby said making the idol made him appreciate and remember why he was there.\nThe final immunity challenge took place at Tribal Council. The contestants had to answer questions about the players who made up the Barramundi tribe. Colby took the lead after 7 questions, but Tina pulled even. After 11 questions, they were tied, but Colby answered the final question correctly, continuing his dominance and allowing him to choose whom to take with him to the final two. Colby chose philanthropy over strategy and picked Tina, making Keith the final member of the jury.\nColby and Tina each pleaded their case for a million dollars. Tina asked the jury not to vote for someone because they got their feelings hurt and that what she was going home to was worth more than a million dollars. Colby said that while he did not beat Tina in strategy, he did everything pretty well. Each member of the jury asked the two contestants a question. For their closing arguments, Colby had no comments. Tina talked about backgammon and how it related to her personal strategy, and that no one's vote off was personal.\n\nRodger voted for Colby because he thought he played the game harder. Alicia voted for Tina, saying she really played the game by using her head. Amber voted for Colby, saying he was more straightforward and played the game better. Jerri voted for Tina, saying Tina was the mastermind behind all of the strategy that took place, including getting Colby to take her to the final two, which she deeply respected."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":16,"episode_summary":"Months later, the remaining votes were read live at CBS Television City in Los Angeles for the first time ever. In addition to the four votes that were shown during the broadcast, there was one more for Colby (from Nick) and two more for Tina (from Keith and Elisabeth), giving Tina the title of \"Sole Survivor\". The castaways returned to discuss the season with Bryant Gumbel."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US02","episode":17,"episode_summary":"Follow-up interviews with the 16 contestants months after the end of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The sixteen competitors began the competition by jumping off the fishing boat, Amaryllis, in the middle of the ocean with the bare essentials: two machetes, two cooking pots, two empty water containers, one frying pan, one filet knife, and one magnifying glass. They were divided into two tribes of eight: Maraamu (Tahitian for wind) wearing yellow, and Rotu (Tahitian for rain) wearing blue, and had to paddle two miles to their beaches. Due to the extreme current, the Rotu tribe was making no progress, but by rowing together they started to move. Maraamu noticed that Sarah was not giving an effort into helping row to the beach. After landing on the beach, Sean and Peter had a prayer session out in the water, and Rob M. thought \"they either started playing the game as soon as possible, or they were off their rocker.\"\nRotu tried using their magnifying glass to start a fire, but it was too cloudy to get direct sunlight. They then tried starting a fire with friction, which also didn’t work. As soon as Kathy walked away, some of the tribe voiced their annoyance with her. Hunter look the leadership role at Maraamu, and they got much smoke, and thanks to Peter’s long breaths, they finally got a fire. At night, Rob M. and Sarah’s flirtations had the rest of the tribe talking.\nRotu found a waterfall near their camp, and also found much taro to eat. Maraamu found some grapefruit trees. Rob M. heard a rooster crowing at camp, and went on a wild chase, but it flew away. Hunter thought Rob M. was wasting his time and needed to work on other chores. Back at Rotu, John argued with Kathy about the fire situation, but he felt bad afterward so wanted to start the fire for her, which he and Zoe did. Maraamu found their water source, and Peter thought he was working too hard, so he decided to take a break.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe has an outrigger canoe with two torches. The teams must run down the beach with it and then swim with it out to a wok where they must light both torches, then come back to the beach, lighting four torches along the way. Once they get back to shore, they must sprint along the shore, lighting three more torches, get the canoe back in its stand, and light the final torch.The immunity challenge proved tough. Maraamu was first to the center wok, but had issues lighting their torches, and Rotu took the lead. Things got worse as they dropped one of the torches in the water. Rotu won immunity fairly handily.\nPeter wanted to keep the tribe as strong as possible, and Gina said she was going to vote the way she wanted to vote and that no one would talk her into voting a certain way. Some of the women thought that Peter was strange. Sean thought the more males on the tribe, the better, and he wanted to vote out Sarah. Going into the first tribal council, there were no clear alliances, and a lot of people had no idea who they were voting for. Surprisingly, the majority of the tribe came together and voted off Peter."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At Rotu, the tribe bonded with a massage line and commented how they were getting along really well, but Kathy continued to alienate herself by sleeping by herself. Rob was also struggling physically due to the lack of food. Some of the males made traps and fishing gear to try and catch some protein. At Maraamu, Hunter, Rob M. and Sean’s morning show was entertaining the tribe, and put them in high spirits. Patricia, or \"Momma\" as she was nicknamed by the tribe, stepped up around camp. John wanted to be as high as possible on the pecking order, and caught a shrimp with the trap that he made. Almost immediately after, Kathy called the tribe over as she found a trove of shells and crabs. Back at Maraamu, Patricia’s hard work turned into bossiness, which rubbed some people the wrong way. Sean and Vecepia bonded over their culture and love for God. Although Sean looked physically strong, Gina and Hunter noted his laziness around camp. They also noticed that Rob M. and Sarah were spending a lot of time together, and Hunter thought that if Sarah were to go, they could get more productivity out of Rob M. Again back at Rotu, Kathy wanted to have a meeting about the shelter because there wasn’t enough room for everyone. Gabriel fought back a little, saying that she wasn’t putting forth the effort to get to know everyone. Still, they redid their shelter to include everyone.\n\nReward challenge: Each tribe has a boat anchored at the bottom of the ocean floor with about 250 rocks inside. They must dive down and remove as many rocks as possible until the boat floats to the surface. Then, they must bail enough water as they determine necessary and paddle to the beach. The winning tribe receives fishing gear: mask, snorkel, and fins.While Maraamu only sent down one or two people at a time, Rotu went down in groups. They finally sent a group down to flip the boat instead; it worked and rose to the surface. Maraamu followed suit, rising their boat to the surface. While Rotu flipped their boat on their dock, Maraamu flipped it in the water and had to bail water out. That gave Rotu the advantage, and they ran their boat to their mat, giving them their second straight win.\nBack at Maraamu, Sarah voiced her opinions about the shelter, but no one wanted to listen to her because she wasn’t willing to put in the effort to do it herself.\n\nImmunity challenge: One at a time, each tribe member must bob for a piece of fafaru (marinated fish bones, crab and lobster legs) and eat it without throwing up.After 8 rounds, every person had eaten their piece, each tribe had to select a member of the other tribe to do the tiebreaker. Rotu chose Rob M. and Maraamu chose Neleh to do the tiebreaker. While both had problems, Rob M. threw part of his up and Neleh got hers down first, giving Rotu another win.\nAt tribal council, Sarah admitted she did less work in order to conserve energy at the challenges, to which Gina responded that if she has to pick up people’s slack at camp, she is twice as tired at the challenges. Although Sarah received three votes, an early alliance was formed as Vecepia, Sean, Rob M., and Sarah voted out Patricia due to her overall bossiness and per their alliance."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":3,"episode_summary":"After Maraamu’s vote, Sarah got upset about people saying she didn’t do work around camp, and an argument broke out. Rotu began to repair their shelter after they got soaked from a rainstorm. Paschal formed a tight bond with Neleh, because she reminded him of his two daughters. He became the father figure around camp. John landed on a sea urchin and needed someone to pee on his hand, which Kathy did. The Maraamu members were having big issues with the nonos, which were biting them horribly. While moving the bamboo poles for their raft up to camp, Robert stepped on a rock and sliced the bottom of his big toe open, which John took care of. Later on, John got bitten by an eel while looking for food, which gave him a deep cut on one of his fingers.\n\nReward challenge: Each tribe has to construct a raft from bamboo and rope that can fit 6 members and other supplies. Each tribe has to paddle in a criss-cross fashion to five boxes that are anchored to the bottom of the ocean. The winning tribe receives blankets, pillows, and three lanterns, or a week’s worth of rice.At the reward challenge, the tribes were relatively even, and collided in the middle of the course. But on the fourth box, Maraamu had issues unhooking their box and Rotu got back to the start line first, and chose to take the comfort items. Being 0 for 4 in the challenges, Maraamu needed a win badly.\n\nImmunity challenge: Get three coconuts through a puzzle maze. Using pulleys to raise and lower their platform, one person will guide the coconut through the maze, and each time one falls through the hole, the caller must be switched.Maraamu scored first with Vecepia guiding the coconut to the hole, with Gabriel scoring for Rotu soon after. Sarah quickly navigated Maraaamu to score #2, with Paschal scoring right after. With Rob and Zoe directing, Maraamu kept circling the final hole and Rotu easily dropped theirs in, winning immunity for the third straight time.\nHunter and Gina tried to target Sean, but when Hunter told Rob, Rob said he wanted people on his tribe that he could control, and didn’t care about how strong his team was physically. Even though Sarah received two more votes at tribal council, it was Hunter who was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Gathering at the reward challenge, Jeff told everyone to stand on a piece of log. Under each piece was a new buff. The new Rotu tribe consisted of Zoe, Gabriel, John, Vecepia, Rob, Sean, Robert, and Tammy while the new Maraamu tribe consisted of Gina, Neleh, Kathy, Sarah, and Paschal.\nThe new Maraamu members were excited to have a change of food from the shells they were used to. The new Rotu members felt welcomed in their camp but noticed that they did a lot more work. Rob was worried that he was in the minority and ripped his new tribe mates. Sean said he felt like a slave and that he was really tired towards the end of the day. The Maraamu tribe decided to go for a hike and eventually got lost; Kathy wanted to go further while some of the tribe wanted to head back. They found a pool with shrimp in it. While the rest of the tribe stayed to try and catch some shrimp, Sarah wanted to head back to avoid being bitten by the nonos. However, she got herself lost and headed back to where the rest of her tribe was. Back at Rotu, Sean grew tired of working so much around camp and complained about it to Gabriel. Rob asked Vecepia what she thought about everything, and she said she wanted to stay out of the drama as much as possible.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe has to unscramble a woven tapestry.Rotu got off to a fast start, while Maraamu struggled. Kathy was the only one offering directions, while Gabriel and Vecepia led the way for Rotu. Rotu easily won their fourth straight immunity, but this is the first time Rob, Sean, and Vecepia won while this is the first time Kathy, Neleh, and Paschal lost.\nGina told Kathy, Neleh, and Paschal she wanted Sarah out because of her weakness in challenges and her laziness around camp. Meanwhile, Sarah was oblivious to her tribemates wanting her out and believed that it was everyone for themselves. At tribal council, the original Rotu members sided with Gina and Sarah was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Rob was not happy at Rotu because he was in the minority and he had everything under control at Maraamu. He thought that Sean would definitely be the first to go, followed by a tossup between himself and Vecepia, so he tried to get himself in further with the original Rotu members to further himself. Gabriel said he was not there to play the game, but for the experience, which bothered John. At Maraamu, they found tons of crabs and were able to make an entire pan full of crab meat.\n\nReward challenge: Fourteen pieces belonging to four tikis are scattered on a course. One member will guide three blindfolded members to the fourteen pieces. Once all pieces are back, the four tikis must be reconstructed. The winning tribe gets to raid the losing tribe’s camp.At the reward challenge, Gabriel and Kathy were chosen as the eyes for their tribe. Rotu took an early lead and had 13 pieces, but could not find the last piece. Maraamu made up the difference and collected all their pieces first. Rotu eventually found their last piece, but Maraamu was too far ahead. Maraamu won by a landslide, giving the tribe, and Gina, their first win. They had two minutes to raid Rotu's camp, and nearly every reward item Rotu had won ended up with Maraamu.\nJohn noticed Gabriel bonding with the three original Maraamu members. When he approached him about his voting strategy. When Gabriel said he didn’t have one and that he would only tell John who he was voting for beforehand, John did not feel comfortable and said that Gabe was no longer safe, and that he wanted to get rid of him. John concocted an alliance of himself, Robert, Zoe, and Tammy. In order to avoid a tie, John approached Sean about voting for Gabe as well.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe must build a distress signal without using fire to signal a ship from a distance.Maraamu’s raid proved useful as they used a lot of the supplies taken from Rotu to help their signal. Rotu quickly realized that all three of the former Maraamu members were participating in the challenge, which worried Robert. Rotu built a signal with their raft and their life jackets, but the captain said he didn’t think it was a very good signal. Maraamu used the insides and outsides of their life-jackets, Paschal's American flag, and their white blankets to create moving signals. The captain said that Maraamu’s distress signal was much more obvious, and Maraamu won their second challenge and their first immunity.\nJohn continued to talk to the other members of Maraamu to get rid of Gabriel, but Rob had other plans and considered getting rid of John. After talking to Rob, Gabriel weighed his options of continuing to play his game or by joining forces. John worried that he may have hatched his plan too early and thought he may be going home. However, Gabriel’s apathetic attitude toward playing the game cost him and he was unanimously voted out. Despite voting against Gabriel himself, Rob told John he was coming after him."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":6,"episode_summary":"With Gabriel gone, John takes charge at Rotu, and the four original Rotu members (John, Robert, Tammy, and Zoe) agree to stick together to the final four. Rob and Sean agree that their only option is to hope the tribe wins immunity until the merge. Rob is suspicious of Vecepia, stating that she's been distancing herself from them since they came to Rotu. At Maraamu, they collect more crabs.\n\nReward challenge: A three part relay race. The first runner races through the jungle, unties a paddle, and tags the second runner. Both then race to untie a second paddle, and then race back to the beach where they break open coconuts to find a key. The two runners pass the paddles and the key to two other tribe members, who must unchain a boat, paddle the boat out to retrieve a flag, then paddle back to plant their flag in the tiki. When the paddlers return to shore, they must push their boat to their chain and both paddlers must be present at the tiki when they put their flag in. The winning tribe receives a meal of chicken, quiche, bean salad, dessert, and Sierra Mist.At the reward challenge, the Maraamu tribe is shocked to see that Gabriel was voted out. Rob and Zoe easily beat Paschal and Neleh in the jungle portion of the race, however John and Robert have difficulty paddling together, allowing Gina and Kathy to overtake them on the water, retrieving their flag first. However, John and Robert manage to catch up as the boats are heading back. Gina and Kathy forget to take their flag as they ran to the finish, allowing John and Robert to put their flag in the tiki first. Jeff announced that Rotu won the challenge; but Maraamu protests, claiming Robert was not at the tiki before Gina and Kathy put their flag in after John. Jeff then goes to the boats to see if they were in reach of their chains. Maraamu's boat was okay, but Rotu placed their boat too far from their chain. Jeff then stated the Maraamu was correct and that Robert had to be at the tiki with John. Jeff corrects his statement and declares Maraamu the winning tribe.\nBack at the camps, Maraamu feasts while Rotu declares it didn't really need food and that the Maraamu members would just make themselves sick eating all that food. Paschal is disappointed that Rotu turned on Gabriel, and he and Neleh bond with Gina which concerns Kathy. Rob confronts Zoe about being in an alliance, which she denies. He then confronts John who confirms that the original four Rotu members are sticking together. After they reach an agreement not to work against each other, Rob asks, \"Are you gay?\" John answers yes. The four original Rotu members discuss getting rid of Rob but Tammy doesn't want to throw a challenge.\n\nImmunity challenge: Retrieve five ladder rungs, in order, from throughout a giant maze, while roped together. Climb the ladder they build in the center of the maze.At the immunity challenge, Rotu is led by Rob and Maraamu is led by Kathy. Rotu wins easily.\nMaraamu returns to camp to discover that they have no fire or banked coals. Kathy and Gina discuss if they should vote together to rid of the Neleh and Paschal pair, but end up arguing about whether putting sand on coals banks them (Kathy's method) or puts them out (Gina's view). At tribal council, Gina and Kathy fought for Neleh's and Paschal's votes. In the end, the Neleh and Paschal bloc decided to stay loyal to ex-Rotu member Kathy and Gina is voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":7,"episode_summary":"After unwittingly discovering an ancient burial (or paepae) with a visible skull and ribcage along with Neleh and Paschal at Maraamu beach, Kathy thinks that she will be the next to be voted out when she notices how strong a bond Neleh and Paschal have. Meanwhile, at Rotu, unhappy with several of his tribemates and disliking the happiness that they seem to have with one another, Rob tells Sean that the others might try to vote one of them out so that a new alliance cannot be formed. Each tribe later gets a tree mail message telling them they have five minutes to select one member to hike to a destination unknown. Rob volunteers to go for Rotu, while Kathy is picked to go for Maraamu.\nRob and Kathy eventually cross paths with one another and meet Jeff at a meeting place called a Tohua. Jeff explains to the two of them that by being sent there, they have been chosen as ambassadors who will be responsible for the upcoming tribal merge. Both would spend the night there to discuss tribal situations, decide on the new tribe's name and paint the new tribe's flag. After leading both ambassadors to a picnic table, Jeff surprises them with a feast of pizza and beer. As they eat, Rob shocks Kathy by telling her that her old tribemates from Rotu plan on aligning with him, Sean and Vecepia to target the remaining Maraamu members upon the merge. Feeling betrayed by her old friends, particularly Zoe, Kathy makes a pact with Rob promising not to vote out each other before turning in for the night.\nThe next morning, Kathy returns to Maraamu Beach with Rob by her side and tells Neleh and Paschal that they have five minutes to gather everything from their camp and put it on their raft before paddling to Rotu Beach. Upon arrival at Rotu, Kathy, Neleh, Paschal and Rob receive a big welcome from everyone else. Despite being glad to see everyone, Kathy was hesitant due to what Rob told her the night before. When Rob gathers everyone else around, he passes out the new purple buffs, presents the new tribe's flag revealing the new tribe's name as Soliantu (meaning \"Sacred Allegiance to the Sun\"). Shortly after settling down from all the excitement, things are back to business as usual. Kathy approaches Paschal and explains why she feels vulnerable. Later, while eating together, she told other tribemates how she felt and that she doesn't want anyone lying.\nThe next day, Rob questions Zoe as to whether she planned on voting for Kathy. Zoe's denial upsets Kathy, who walks off uncertain as to who is being loyal. Rob makes it clear that being continuously lied to aggravates him, while Kathy realizes how badly she needs to win immunity.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each player stands on a floating platform in the water. Whoever stays on their platform the longest without falling off or touching the platform with any part of their body besides their feet wins.When it comes down to two players (John and Kathy), John leans down and touches his platform, giving Kathy a much-needed victory. As Tribal Council looms, Rob and Sean have a heated disagreement with John over the vote. Sean lashes out about the vote being individual when four people vote alike.\nAt Tribal Council, Jeff reveals a new facet: Whoever has individual immunity has the option to assign it to another player. Kathy decides not to give up immunity and the tribe casts their votes. Vecepia and the Rotu members (minus Kathy) stick together to vote Rob out over John and Zoe."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Upon returning from tribal council after voting off Rob, members of the recently merged Soliantu tribe congratulate one another on making it as far as they've gotten. Shortly afterward, Sean makes it evident that he has a flatulence problem. Robert concludes that the tribe's usual Marquesan diet has affected Sean's system. The next morning, the tribe notices how fortunate they are to have discovered that two trees have fallen near their tent as a result of a fierce storm that hit their camp. Later on, Kathy asks Zoe if she John, Robert and Tammy were planning on voting her out. Kathy doesn't believe Zoe when she denies such plot.\nAfter cooling off in the waterfall near their camp, the tribe discovers a message attached to a kite-making kit at their tree mail. The message instructs the players to make their own kites for the next reward challenge. As the tribe works away, Kathy believes the next thing to do is to target players who were originally on Maraamu prior to the tribal switch, but wishes she could eliminate John and Tammy instead. Kathy approaches Paschal hoping to convince him that targeting stronger players was the way to ensure them a longer stay in the game.\n\nReward challenge: Each player has a kite (which they made themselves prior to the challenge). The first player to get their kite 300 feet in the air wins a king-size Snickers candy bar and a scuba diving trip at a coral reef.During the challenge, several players find it difficult to get their kites up, but Kathy's kite rises above all others, clinching her another victory.\nWhile Kathy is out scuba diving, voting strategies are being made as Neleh and Paschal align with John, Robert, Tammy and Zoe planning to vote out Sean at the next tribal council. When Kathy returns, she shares her Snickers bar with her tribemates. Although all are appreciative of Kathy to do so, John is not impressed saying that his share of Kathy's bar is not enough to change his vote. Sensing vulnerability, Sean urges Kathy to vote with him hoping that Neleh and Paschal will follow suit. Kathy agrees with Sean theorizing that John and Tammy are playing in such a way that would make them difficult to vote out. However, Neleh disagrees with Kathy explaining that there will always be alliances and that the more you speak out, the more vulnerable you become. Despite Kathy telling him that she refuses to be a pawn to help John and Tammy make it to the final day, Paschal chooses not to align with Sean and Vecepia. John feels confident that Neleh and Paschal are supporting him.\n\nImmunity challenge: The players are asked questions about surviving on the Marquesas Islands. Each player has a station with three ropes each tied to a bundle of coconuts hanging from trees. A correct answer gives a player the right to cut one of the other players' ropes, causing a bundle of coconuts to fall to the ground. Losing all three bundles means elimination from the game. The last player left with at least one bundle of coconuts wins.At the immunity challenge, Sean realizes his vulnerability by being the first to be eliminated followed by Vecepia and Kathy, all of whom notice a bothersome pattern as John, Robert, Tammy and Zoe seemed to work as a group to eliminate all others, all of whom believe that this pattern would affect future votes at tribal council. The challenge ends with Tammy cutting loose Robert's last coconut bundle, giving her individual immunity. After the challenge, Vecepia senses cockiness among John, Robert, Tammy and Zoe. Sean seconds Vecepia's observation. Neleh and Paschal are also displeased with what happened at the challenge.\nAt tribal council, Neleh and Paschal align with Kathy, Sean and Vecepia. As a result, John is voted out over Sean and became the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Highlights and never-before-seen footage recap castaways' first 24 days on the island of Nuku Hiva."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Sean is overjoyed over John's departure as a result of the previous tribal council vote, realizing a new day for him, Kathy, Neleh, Paschal and Vecepia. Neleh finds it funny to have beaten John, Robert, Tammy and Zoe at their own game. Later, Tammy realizes that she and Robert are outcasts, being seen as traitors by the others, and it's their own fault for trusting John. Tammy then questions Zoe's intentions only to have Zoe deny forming an alliance with Tammy, John and Robert. Zoe even reveals to Tammy that she never liked her.\n\nReward challenge: The eight remaining players are separated into four teams of two by random drawing. Each team has a three-foot bamboo shoot and it's up to the teams to fill them with coconut juice using coconuts from the shoreline or from the parcels anchored in the water. Once retrieved, the coconuts must be cracked and drained into the shoots. the first team to fill their shoot to the top wins a helicopter ride over the Marquesas, a horseback ride and an authentic Marquesan feast.At the reward challenge, the players are separated into four teams of two. Sean is teamed with Paschal, Tammy with Vecepia, Kathy with Robert, and Neleh with Zoe. All four teams must race to fill a bamboo shoot with coconut juice with the winners going by helicopter to a mountaintop where they will ride horses to a Marquesan feast. It was a frantic race, but due to Sean draining a huge coconut early on, he and Paschal come out on top and win the reward. The next day, Paschal and Sean were taken by helicopter to a mountaintop where they met two Marquesan tribesmen who, despite Sean's anxiety, have them mount on horses and journey to where their feast will take place. They are greeted by locals upon arrival and are served coconut drinks with which they toast to their new friendship. The locals perform a traditional dance upon Paschal and Sean's arrival at their dining area. Once served, Sean says a prayer before he and Paschal feast on everything including roast pig, goat and potatoes and even go as far as to sneak food in their pockets for their tribemates before dancing with the locals. When the locals depart, Paschal and Sean tearfully soak in the experience before returning to camp. Everyone is grateful to Paschal and Sean for bringing food from their feast.\nThe next morning, Tammy speaks with Robert and the two try to re-align with Neleh and Paschal without success. Zoe makes shell jewelry for the rest of the tribe hoping to win their confidence and friendship and have an effect on distancing her from Robert and an unconvinced Tammy. Later, the tribe finds a message written on a pair of stilts at their tree mail. The message tells the tribe to practice walking on them for the next immunity challenge. Several players have trouble balancing on them, much to the delight of Tammy, who has no trouble at all when practicing on the beach.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The players enter a ring walking on stilts, trying to knock their opponents off their stilts. The first to fall off is eliminated, leading the winner to move on to the next round. The player left on their stilts after the final round wins.Tammy's practicing pays off and wins her individual immunity for the second straight time.\nAfter a debate over who will be next to go, the eight members of Soliantu hike to tribal council, where Zoe is unanimously voted out over Robert, making her the second member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":11,"episode_summary":"There are complaints over the living situation due to a restless night's sleep had by the remaining members of the Soliantu Tribe. Sean is uncertain as to the sincerity among tribemates after witnessing hugs as good morning gestures. Later that morning, the tribe celebrates Vecepia's 36th birthday with a special breakfast of bananas and mangoes, much to Vecepia's delight. With only coconuts, taro root and troca left to eat, the tribe's energy level was lower than ever. Armed with a machete in hand, Kathy stands by the shoreline hoping to catch one of the baby black-tipped sharks swimming in the shallow waters. But apparently the waves stop her from even striking one blow. After checking for tree mail, Sean serenades a teary-eyed Vecepia with a rendition of \"Happy Birthday\" with hugs and kisses.\n\nReward challenge: The tribe plays Musical Chairs island-style by racing to retrieve either of six shells from the ocean floor. Whoever does not retrieve a shell is eliminated from the game. Similar rounds are played until four players remain. Those four then race from a dock to the shore carrying a 40-pound rock underwater. The first to reach shore and drop their rock at Jeff's feet wins a day on a luxury cruise ship with a hot shower, change of clothes and a full-course meal.At the reward challenge, Vecepia is first to be eliminated as she is unsuccessful in finding one of six shells on the ocean floor. Sean and Neleh have the same misfortune in the next two rounds, bringing it down to a race between Kathy, Paschal, Robert and Tammy to bring a 40-pound rock to shore from underwater. In spite of being older than all the others and at his lowest level of energy, Paschal was first to retrieve his rock and drop it by Jeff's feet, making him the winner.\nLater that day, a cruise ship comes toward Soliantu's beach and Jeff pulls up in a small motorboat to pick up Paschal. As the rest of the tribe enviously witnesses Paschal board his boat, Jeff surprises Paschal by asking him if there's someone he'd like to take with him. In a sudden fit of excitement, Paschal surprises Neleh by calling out to her  waving his arms. Screaming, Neleh rushes to the motorboat and hugs Paschal upon boarding. Paschal's quick choice is much to the chagrin of Sean who would have chosen Vecepia as a birthday gift to her. Once checked in, Neleh and Paschal are led to their rooms a where they find changes of clothes on their beds. Soon after, they have their first showers in almost a month. Later, they have a fancy dinner with fresh bread, escargot, steak and crème brûlée. As the rest of the tribe awaits Neleh and Paschal's return, Tammy wonders if they will bring back food from the ship. Neleh and Paschal return to camp full-bellied but empty-handed. Neleh's full description of the experience rubs Kathy the wrong way. Upset over not bringing back food to her starving tribemates, Neleh offers to share a small mint from the ship that she had previously put in her mouth. No one accepts Neleh's offer.\nThe next morning, Sean is not convinced that Neleh is doing her share of the work at camp. Kathy seconds Sean's observation. Meanwhile, Robert tries to impress the others and securing his position by building a pig snare. As Tammy assists him, Robert explains that if she wins immunity and if he catches a wild pig that has been seen occasionally, both are safe at the next tribal council.\n\nImmunity challenge: The players race to gather firewood to place under a wok filled with oil and popcorn kernels. Using flint and steel, they then must build a fire hot enough to boil the oil and pop the kernels. Once the kernels start popping, they must transfer the fire to the bottom of a station and build it to ignite a pyre at the top. The first to ignite their pyre wins.At the immunity challenge that night, all seven players race to gather enough firewood to place under their woks. With other players struggling with their flint and steel and despite being second after Vecepia to start his fire, Robert is the first to get his popcorn popping. Wasting no time, Robert transfers his fire to his station where he continues to build it. Vecepia is next to pop her corn and quickly tries to catch up. But Robert's fire quickly builds high enough to light the pyre at the top of his station, winning him individual immunity. Robert's celebration does not last long knowing that Tammy is the only other person remaining from John's Rotu alliance and fears she will be next to go.\nThe next night, Robert's fears come true as at tribal council, Tammy is voted out over Vecepia, making her the third member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":12,"episode_summary":"The six remaining members of the Soliantu Tribe continue to run low on energy after another bad night's sleep and homesickness kicks in as all discuss missing friends and family. A teary-eyed Kathy finds the effect on the tribe's mental stability uncanny. Sean nearly falls from a tree trying to fix the hut with Robert catching him in the nick of time. Paschal finds it weird to miss home and enjoy the tribe's companionship at the same time. Being the last of John's Rotu alliance, Robert realizes he has to play harder than ever.\nAfter teasing the tribe with the chance to win the right to call home at the reward challenge, Jeff surprises everyone by bringing out their loved ones. Among the six loved ones are Neleh's mother Rebecca, Kathy's son Patrick, Robert's sister Diana, Sean's buddy Daryl, Vecepia's husband Leander and Paschal's wife Beverly. After explaining the object of the reward challenge, Jeff surprises all by announcing that the loved ones will compete instead of the tribe.\n\nReward challenge: The loved ones of the six remaining players stand around the edge of a large puzzle consisting of individual hexagonal pieces. One at a time, the loved ones move from one piece to another, flipping each piece they step off of to green (a green piece cannot be stepped on). Once trapped in with green all around, a loved one is out of the game. Six pieces of the puzzle read \"Skip a turn.\" If a loved one steps to one of those spaces, they will not move on their next turn. One piece reads \"Vote someone out\" on the other side. If a loved one turns over that piece, it gives them the right to choose a loved one to eliminate from the game. Verbal contact between players and loved ones is not allowed; non-verbal contact is. The last loved one standing spends the night at Soliantu beach.After several moves made by all, Beverly is eliminated first. She gives a goodbye hug to Paschal and heads on her way. The game continues with Daryl finding the \"Vote someone out\" tile. Undecided on whom to choose, Daryl tosses his cap in the air and it falls by Leander's feet, bringing Vecepia to tears. As he hugs a weepy Vecepia, Leander encourages her to stay strong before heading out next. As the game progresses, Daryl is next to go followed by Rebecca, both of whom hug Sean and Neleh respectively before heading out as well. Although Diana and Patrick both run out of moves, Diana was eliminated due to being the first to run out. Therefore, Patrick wins the challenge and, after a big hug from a gleeful Kathy, spends the night with her and the rest of the tribe. Jeff even gives Patrick a buff.\nUpon returning to camp, Kathy puts Patrick to work by having him collect taro root and crush troca shells. After struggling to crack the shells, Patrick realizes how hard it is for everybody and even admits to not being the outdoor type. Having been visited by Beverly, Paschal feels he has come face-to-face with himself and plans to change his outlook on life upon returning home and not take things for granted anymore. Vecepia has similar feelings after being with Leander. Once alone with him, Kathy asks Patrick for advice on how to play the game from this point on. But Patrick has no advice at all. All in all, Patrick's stay at Soliantu turned out not to be enjoyable for him. Kathy is in tears as a motorboat arrives to pick Patrick up and take him back. Upon Patrick's departure, the game is back on. Robert feels vulnerable being the last of John's Rotu alliance. Sean and Vecepia suspect Neleh of riding Paschal's coattails. Kathy thinks if she makes it to the final three either with Neleh and Paschal or Sean and Vecepia, she will be last to go due to the bonds both pairs have.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each player has an hourglass structure filled with sand. A tiki is placed at the base of each structure. Each player takes turns firing small rocks with a slingshot at another player's structure hoping to break one of nine tiles on it. Breaking a tile releases sand that falls over a player's tiki. Once a player's tiki is completely covered, they are out of the game. Players rotate one space over after each round. The last player left with their tiki uncovered wins.At the immunity challenge, the three men are the first to have their tikis covered, much to Kathy's delight. But Kathy's celebration is short-lived after being the fourth one down. Neleh and Vecepia continue to battle it out until Vecepia's accuracy pays off for her, winning her individual immunity. Feeling even more vulnerable than before, Robert says he doesn't regret anything about his time in the game. Sure enough, at tribal council, Robert is unanimously voted out over Sean, making him the fourth member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":13,"episode_summary":"With just under a week left in the game, the harsh conditions continue to wear down the remaining players. Given the strong bond that Sean has with Vecepia and the similar bond between Neleh and Paschal, Kathy finds herself being the swing vote at the next tribal council. Despite noticing Kathy's predicament and weighing racial differences, Vecepia does not believe that race is not an issue in the game. Upset over such assumption, Paschal bets that Kathy feels foolish for being asked by Vecepia to consider such concept.\n\nReward challenge: The players compete in an obstacle course consisting of elements from six previous challenges. Players begin by gathering eight pieces of their color tiki. Once completed correctly, they move on to a pile of coconuts and a bamboo shoot. Players must crack coconuts and fill the bamboo shoot to overflowing with coconut juice before moving on to a pair of stilts that hang in the air from a rope that is tied to a log. Players must untie the knots to release the stilts and take them to a ten-foot section where they must walk across while on the stilts. Once across, players advance to another bunch of coconuts. Inside one coconut is a key to unlocking a box containing a slingshot. Players must take their slingshot to the final station where a plate of colored rocks are found and use the slingshot and rocks to break a tile on an hourglass structure which, when broken, will release sand to cover a small tiki at the bottom. The first player to break the tile and cover their tiki with sand wins a new Saturn VUE all-wheel drive S.U.V. with all of the extra features.Despite being third after Vecepia and Neleh to assemble his tiki at the reward challenge, Sean is first to fill his bamboo shoot and completes the rest of the course with no one else close to him. He even breaks the tile on his hourglass structure with his first shot, quickly burying the small tiki at the bottom, and winning himself a new Saturn VUE all-wheel drive S.U.V. with all of the extra features.\nSoon after returning to camp, despite more hunger and fatigue, everyone goes searching for troca shells in the shallow waters near their beach. Sean is thrilled to have found his very first troca. That night, all five sit around the fire to discuss their differences and the division among one another. Paschal revealed his allegiance to Neleh saying that neither would vote against each other and felt that Sean and Vecepia had an alliance and were not being truthful by denying it. Sean and Vecepia felt that Neleh and Paschal assumed that their allegiance was on account of Sean and Vecepia both being African-American. Although the debate continued long into the night, the issue was not resolved. The next morning, Kathy continues to feel the pressure of being the swing vote and takes time out by trying to fly the kite that she flew at a previous reward challenge, but is unable to get it airborne.\n\nImmunity challenge: Six stations are spread throughout an area. Each station has a question with two possible answers. The questions are related to a Marquesan story told to the players by Jeff. When a player reaches a station, they must insert their torch in a slot, signifying that the station is occupied and not allowing another player to enter. If a player reaches into the bag below the right answer, they will find a tiki which must be attached to their necklace. Otherwise, they will find a bone which must be taken to a fire wok and dropped in as a sacrifice before continuing on, costing valuable time. The first player to answer five questions correctly and cross the finish line with five tikis wins.At the immunity challenge, it was a frantic race as the five players raced to answer questions about a Marquesan story which Jeff told them. Although she and Neleh each dropped one tiki on their way to the finish line, Kathy found the tiki she dropped and came out on top, winning individual immunity.\nThe next day, Kathy continues to weigh out her voting options before she and the others hike to tribal council where the debate from the previous night continued where they left off and with far more tension. Although he tried to influence Kathy's vote one last time, Sean was voted out over Neleh, making him the fifth member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":14,"episode_summary":"After returning to camp from a heated tribal council, the final four members of the Soliantu Tribe sit around the fire to discuss the outcome of the vote. Having cast the deciding vote, Kathy dwells on her final decision to vote out Sean not knowing whether or not she did the right thing by doing so. The next day, Paschal struggles with his island routine saying that he is in good mental shape but bad physical shape. After a duet of \"Show Me the Way to Go Home,\" Kathy and Neleh let out a scream hoping to relieve their physical and mental fatigues. Having heard their screams, Vecepia decides that in spite of loving them, she has had enough with her tribemates.\nThat night, the final four players hike to tribal council where their next immunity challenge takes place.\n\nImmunity challenge: At tribal council, the final four players are each given a pad of paper. Jeff asks them a series of questions relating to the twelve players who had been voted out or the events that happened throughout the course of the game. Once a question is asked, the players must write down their answers and reveal them once all four have finished writing. Each player gets one point per correct answer. Whoever scores ten points first wins.The first of several questions that they are asked is a two-parter to which Neleh gets two points on, while everyone else get one point apiece. Although the lead is tied for most of the game, Vecepia is the first to reach ten points, winning her individual immunity. Shortly before the vote, Kathy negotiates with Vecepia by asking her to keep her immunity but not vote against her in order to force a tie. Vecepia accepts Kathy's offer and casts the deciding vote against Neleh. The vote is tied as Kathy and Neleh receive two votes each. Jeff then reveals that in the tie-breaker previous tribal council votes do not count nor do questions and answers as opposed to previous seasons. Instead, the players are given two minutes to discuss who should be next to go  and come to a unanimous decision as to whether Kathy or Neleh will be voted out. Failure to finalize such decision means all but Vecepia picking colored rocks (two yellow, one purple) out of a bag. Picking the purple rock means being the next to go. After the discussion, no decision is made. So Jeff brings the bag around and one at a time, Neleh, Kathy and Paschal reach into the bag and pull out a rock. When Jeff signals the three of them to reveal their rocks, Kathy and Neleh each had a yellow rock, leaving Paschal with the purple rock. Therefore, Paschal, despite never receiving one vote at previous tribal councils, is the next player eliminated and becomes the sixth member of the jury.\nAt 3:00AM the next morning, Jeff comes to Soliantu and wakes up the final three players and lets them know of the day ahead of them. Upon conclusion of the description, Jeff gives the final three players a map to where they will later journey to before leaving them to assemble an outrigger canoe. With their canoe completed, Kathy, Neleh and Vecepia paddle to the other side of the island. Shortly after reaching shore, they find a mat with brushes and black body paint with which they paint symbols and personal images on their bodies similar to the tattoos worn by local Marquesan tribesmen. Once painted, they hike along a high ridge where they encounter the torches of the first thirteen players eliminated from the game and reflect on the time they spent with them. After passing all thirteen torches, the final three players hike to an area of purification where, after saying a prayer, they bathe to cleanse their spirits using a mixture of oils and spices. As their cleansing ritual commences, Kathy reflects on herself and the other two remaining players and finds it amazing that the three of them have made it to Day 38 in spite of their different ways of life. After adorning themselves with flowers, the three remaining players hike the rest of the way and meet Jeff for the final immunity challenge.\n\nImmunity challenge: The final three players stand on two logs and lean forward to have one hand on the immunity idol. If a player lets go of the idol, lifts up one foot or touches the idol or supporting tiki with their free hand, they are out of the game. The last player standing wins.The challenge goes long into sundown. About four and a half hours into the challenge, Neleh suggests that Kathy fixes her top. Doing so with her free hand causes Kathy to lose her balance and fall off her logs, putting her out of the game. After Kathy limps off to the side, Vecepia tries to make a deal with Neleh by asking if she will take her to the final two if she steps off. Neleh agrees and Vecepia steps off her logs, giving Neleh individual immunity.\nWhen the final three players arrive at tribal council, they notice that Paschal is not among the members of the jury. Jeff explains that Paschal collapsed before tribal council was to start and had been evacuated to medical care. Having witnessed the incident and being a registered nurse, John is asked by Jeff to explain what happened. John explains that Paschal fainted on his feet and showed signs of dehydration but was within normal limits, talking, alert and knew where he was. Kathy, Neleh and Vecepia are relieved when John assures them that Paschal will be fine. The three of them move on to discuss what happened at the immunity challenge. Kathy admits her mistake by trying to fix her top and falling from the logs as a result, leading Vecepia to make her deal with Neleh, much to the jury's chagrin when Jeff points it out. Neleh explains that she accepted Vecepia's offer because she was convinced that she would be the next to go if she didn't win. Before long, Jeff sends Neleh to cast the one vote to determine who will be the final player to be eliminated from the game. When Jeff tallies Neleh's vote, it is revealed that Kathy is the final player voted out of the game and the seventh and final member of the jury. Neleh and Vecepia thus became the first final two who originally started on two different tribes.\nUpon returning to camp from tribal council, Neleh and Vecepia tend to their fire where they later sit by and pray for Paschal's health before turning in for the night. Shortly after waking up to their final morning and preparing breakfast, the final two players notice a pig and two chickens near their camp. The two of them later take their last mud bath in the shallow waters near their beach. When they return to shore, they start up a bonfire and ceremoniously burn unwanted clothes left behind by their former tribemates. All the while, the two finalists are curious as to how the jury will interpret their methods of gameplay. Vecepia hopes the jury will define her methods as strategic, decisive and partly deceiving, while Neleh hopes that the jury will know that she has been upfront and honest. Both ladies somberly take one last look at the ocean before hiking to their final tribal council.\nEach jury member has different feelings about the events leading to the final day. Paschal feels that the game was played honestly and does not know what caused Neleh and Vecepia to make it so far other than luck. Kathy cannot process the game and has not focused on whom to vote for. Zoe thinks it is best to have an all-woman's final and that both Neleh and Vecepia are deserving of the million dollars. Despite not feeling so good about Neleh and Vecepia being the final two and that they lasted longer than him, Robert sees his jury vote as a coup for himself. Sean says that the money will not be swayed by his preference for race and thinks the best player should win regardless. Unable to feel the jury's power until joining the jury herself, Tammy does not think that Neleh nor Vecepia deserve to win the money and must decide who played best and deceived her the least. John feels that how the final two will react to his statement will determine who gets his vote.\nWhen Neleh and Vecepia arrive at their final tribal council, they are glad to see Paschal back on his feet and among the rest of the jury. After explaining the procedure, Jeff has both finalists make their opening statements. Neleh states that she has had an incredible time, that everything she did for the other players was out of love, that she gave everything 100% and loves them regardless of their vote. Vecepia states that she wanted to have a strategy, develop relationships, avoid riding other players' coattails and prove herself with her work ethic, spirituality and gumption to be her best.\nThe jury then approaches Neleh and Vecepia with questions and comments. Tammy states that she was going to lie, cheat and do what she could to win but changed her strategy because she felt bad about her gameplay because of Neleh and Vecepia's \"holier-than-Thou\" attitude. Tammy considers the two finalists as hypocrites and possibly the biggest liars due to condemning herself along with John, Robert and Zoe for being manipulative only to be the same way behind their backs through Christianity. Tammy feels that Kathy deserves the million dollars more than Neleh and Vecepia but congratulates them anyway for beating her at her own game. Sean asks the final two if there was a moral message they gained gameplay. Neleh says that at times, she wanted to follow her heart but felt she couldn't due to an alliance she had made and learned to always follow her heart. Vecepia, on the other hand, says that when in a situation, she will think it through before giving her word. Paschal considers both finalists deserving of making it to the end, the epitome of what America has to offer and would have been glad to have had either of them as his daughters. Robert asks the finalists if there was any decision they made or action they took that could be their downfall. Vecepia says that she regrets what she did to Kathy, while Neleh says that she regrets Robert and Zoe leaving when they did. Zoe believes that both Neleh and Vecepia are good-hearted and congratulates them for making it to the end. Kathy asks Neleh which point in the game she did her most dramatic strategic movement, what her decision was and when and the decision she made herself. Neleh explains that she really started playing on Day 24 when she along with Kathy, Paschal, Sean and Vecepia started targeting the Rotu alliance of John, Robert, Tammy and Zoe. Kathy then asked Vecepia how she could go on playing the game by adjusting alliances and not feel part of such cunning manner to which Vecepia explains that her strategy was to wait for people to approach her. After angrily stating how he feels about integrity and stating that both of them lied, John asks why he should vote for either finalist. Neleh states that she was going to join his alliance with Robert, Tammy and Zoe hoping that somehow she would finish further than fifth place but chose not to due to finding out that would not happen. Vecepia states that John knew she came in with a strategy and played the game at her best to get to the end.\nIn conclusion, Vecepia stated that regardless of she and Neleh responded to what the jury had to say, that the jury finds the answers to decide justly. Neleh asked the jury to consider how she treated them, her love and compassion and that luck got her to the end. Shortly afterwards, the jury casts their vote for who they feel deserves the million dollars. Once the votes are cast, Jeff retrieves the voting urn but does not tally the votes right away saying that they will be tallied after they return to the United States. Jeff then leaves the tribal council area, boards an arriving helicopter and flies away."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US04","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, Jeff arrives in New York City in the same helicopter he left the tribal council area in with the voting urn in hand, Jeff hails a taxicab which takes him to Central Park where the two finalists and the seven members of the jury await him on a big stage before a live audience of cheering fans. Shortly after building suspense, Jeff tallies the jury's votes. Neleh receives the votes of Kathy, Paschal, and Zoe, but in the end, Vecepia receives the votes of Sean, Robert, Tammy, and John and is declared the winner of the million dollars and the title of Sole Survivor.  The jury confirmed Kathy would have won easily over both Vecepia and Neleh, beating both 6-1, with only Paschal voting Neleh, and only Sean voting Vecepia.\n\nThe castaways return to discuss the season, hosted by Rosie O'Donnell.  As of today, this is the last reunion special hosted by someone other than Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The sixteen castaways were dropped off at an island separated by gender, causing some players to think they were going to be divided into tribes of men and women. As the castaways introduced each other, Jeff warned them not to assume anything in the game. He then told the two eldest castaways, Jake and Jan to step forward. Jeff shocked the castaways by announcing that Jake and Jan would choose their own tribes and pick a name. Jake filled his tribe with mostly younger castaways. His tribe consisted of himself, Erin, Jed, Ken, Penny, Shii Ann, Stephanie and Robb. His tribe was \"Sook Jai\"; Thai for happy heart. Jan filled her tribe with mostly elder castaways. Her tribe consisted of herself, Brian, Clay, Ghandia, Helen, John, Tanya, and Ted. Her tribe was \"Chuay Gahn\"; Thai for to help one another. As the tribes arrived at their respective camps, Tanya became ill from what the tribe believed was dehydration, leading Chuay Gahn to search for a water source. After Helen, John and Tanya found a water source, John pulled a prank on his tribe by telling them a small pool of saltwater was going to be their water source, which didn't go well with some of his tribemates. Meanwhile, Sook Jai focused on their shelter, but Jed wanted to focus on catching fish, isolating him from his tribemates. Robb and Shii Ann argued over the tribe's division of labor.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes must race around a small island by paddling a boat. As they go around the island, they must solve puzzles along the way. One castaway will be stationed at each puzzle. First tribe to assemble their puzzles and retrieve their tribe's flag wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Chuay Gahn had an early lead, however Ghandia struggled with her puzzle, allowing Sook Jai to pull ahead and win immunity. After Chuay Gahn lost, Ghandia felt vulnerable after struggling with the puzzle. Tanya also felt vulnerable due to her illness. However, the vote ended up going against John, who was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At Chuay Gahn, Helen and Jan paddled out to retrieve water from their water source, however they did not bring their map and got lost. Meanwhile, the men of Chuay Gahn put Clay's luxury item, a golf club, to use by playing golf in a makeshift golf course. At Sook Jai, their main priority was still to build their shelter. Instead of working on the shelter, Jed and Stephanie gathered food and water. While the other Sook Jai members feasted, Jed, Robb, and Stephanie chose to sleep on the beach. As the tribe awoke to a cold, rainy morning, Stephanie got ill from sleeping out in the rain all night. Meanwhile, Chuay Gahn celebrated Helen's 20th wedding anniversary. \n\nReward Challenge: The tribes must choose one castaway to act as a guide, while the others will be blindfolded. The blindfolded tribe member must carry their guide in a palanquin, while the guide helps them navigate through a course in order to retrieve tribe-colored bags. First tribe to complete the course and collect all of their bags wins a lantern, a fishing line, and hooks.At the reward challenge, Tanya guided Chuay Gahn and Penny guided Sook Jai. Sook Jai ended up winning reward. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Each tribe will be given a large, floating lotus flower puzzle that's missing six pieces. The six missing pieces will be tethered to the puzzle, each floating at an equal distance from it. First tribe to untether all of their puzzle pieces and assemble their puzzle wins immunity.Sook Jai also won a tight immunity challenge, sending Chuay Gahn to Tribal Council for a second time. At Tribal Council, Chuay Gahn couldn't ignore Tanya's illness, and she was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":3,"episode_summary":"At Chuay Gahn, Ghandia accused Ted of grinding against her at night. Ted later approached Ghandia and explained that he mistook her for his wife. Ghandia accepted his apology. \n\nReward Challenge: The tribes must race across a bamboo course over the water. In the middle of the course was a \"contact zone\" where the castaways were able to knock other castaways off the course. At the end of the course were two tribe-colored boats filled with baskets. The tribe members must steal baskets from the opposing tribe's boat. If at any point a tribemember was not in the \"contact zone\" when they made contact their opponent, they're disqualified from the challenge and their tribe loses a basket to their opposing tribe. First tribe to steal ten baskets wins a reward of Two Thai Red Beret Special Forces soldiers who will visit the winning tribe's camp for a day to help improve living conditions.At the reward challenge, Jed, Ken, Robb, and Stephanie were disqualified for various reasons causing Sook Jai to lose their lead. Chuay Gahn ended up winning reward. Still bitter towards Ted due to the grinding incident, Ghandia approached Helen and Jan in order to oust Ted. Helen later told Brian about their plan to eliminate Ted. Brian approached Ted in order to hear his side of the story, causing Ghandia to become enraged. Meanwhile, Sook Jai's fishing net drifted away. Jed and Robb were blamed as they fell asleep when they were responsible for the net. Jed and Robb searched the water but failed to find the net. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes were given three stations and one temple made up of six large puzzle pieces. The tribes must transfer the six pieces from their first station to their third. Once the tribes have all their pieces at the third station, they must reassemble the temple so it is identical to the original. First tribe to assemble their temple wins immunity.Immunity was won by Chuay Gahn, sending Sook Jai to their first Tribal Council. At Tribal Council, Jed was perceived by his tribe to be lazy, and was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":4,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council in which Jed was voted out, Stephanie was upset at Sook Jai's decision. Meanwhile, Ghandia felt that she was on the outside of the Chuay Gahn tribe. \n\nReward Challenge: Before the challenge, the tribes received a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m), 250-pound (110 kg) dummy to be decorated. For the challenge, the tribes had to race around an island while carrying their dummy. First tribe to make it around the island and cross the finish line wins bananas and a mystery food prize, which turned out to be four chickens.Sook Jai won the reward. After Chuay Gahn returned to camp, the women felt that the men weren't pulling their weight around camp. Meanwhile, Sook Jai enjoyed their bananas and discovered their mystery reward, four chickens.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribe members must work in pairs to solve two puzzles, with the goal being to match a picture in front of them. First tribe to correctly assemble their puzzles wins immunity.Immunity was also won by Sook Jai. After Chuay Gahn lost immunity, Ghandia attempted to form an alliance with the women to target Clay. She approached Helen and revealed that Jan was in on the plan, meaning Helen would be the swing vote. At Tribal Council, Helen voted with the men, sending Ghandia home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":5,"episode_summary":"While Brian and Ted set out to catch fish, they took the opportunity to form an alliance. At Sook Jai, Robb stepped on a stingray and stung his foot. Meanwhile, Helen entertained the Chuay Gahn tribe by singing. While Helen entertained her tribe, their canoe floated away. Clay blamed Ted as he felt he had not secured the canoe enough. As the tribes gathered for the Survivor Auction in lieu of a reward challenge, Jeff offered the castaways the opportunity to change tribes. After a minute, no one accepted the offer, so the auction began. \n\nSurvivor Auction: Both tribes were given $1,000.00 (USD) to spend as a team on the items presented in the auction.After returning to camp, Brian and Helen, without the tribe's canoe, swam out to replenish their water supply. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes were each presented with an entire pile of mixed fish. The tribes had to sort the fish into their respective bowls. The fish were Barramundi, Travelly, Squid, and Silver Fish. The first tribe to correctly sort their fish the quickest wins.Immunity was won by Chuay Gahn. After returning to camp, Shii Ann and Stephanie discussed the upcoming Tribal Council. Feeling vulnerable, Stephanie wished she had accepted the offer to switch tribes. In the end, Stephanie's fears proved true, and she was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":6,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council, Robb began to feel vulnerable after his ally Stephanie was eliminated. Meanwhile, having to swim three miles for fresh water, the canoe-less Chuay Gahn tribe became frustrated. Some tribe members took turns looking for the boat, but they all returned empty handed. \n\nReward Challenge: The tribes must start by selecting one member to be a ball launcher. The remaining tribe members, who will be situated at four different stations, must use wicker baskets in order to catch balls thrown from their tribe's launcher. At the same time, they must try to prevent the other tribe from catching their balls. First tribe to catch five of their balls wins a Thai feast consisting of shrimp, pineapple, vegetables and wine.At the reward challenge, Robb quickly caught four balls for Sook Jai, however Chuay Gahn quickly evened the score. In the end, Sook Jai caught their fifth ball first, winning reward. As Sook Jai enjoyed their feast, Brian and Ted explained the importance of winning the next immunity challenge so the tribes would merge at five members each. Meanwhile, Ken and Robb hiked out into the jungle and discovered a bat-filled cave. They explored the cave and settled their differences. \n\nImmunity Challenge: There will be 21 flags placed in a circle. Taking turns, the tribes must gather simultaneously one to three flags. The tribe that takes the final flag wins immunity.In a huge upset, Immunity was won by Chuay Gahn, when Sook Jai failed to realize that they could have ensured a victory by virtue of them getting to make the first move. After losing immunity, Sook Jai enjoyed the leftovers of their feast. Despite reconciling with his tribe, Robb was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":7,"episode_summary":"The tribes received Tree Mail along with body paints of five different colors. The tribe members were instructed to paint themselves with one color representing each member. When the tribes met Jeff, he explained that they would be having a \"get-to-know-you\". The castaways were instructed to pair off with the person wearing the same paint color. The pairs chose baskets at random. The pair of Clay and Shii Ann received a note telling them to travel to the Chuay Gahn camp. The pair of Ken and Helen were instructed to travel to the Sook Jai camp. The four were instructed to choose which camp would be more comfortable to live in. They chose the Chuay Gahn camp, and Jeff explained that everyone would be living at that camp. Believing the tribes had merged, the castaways created a new name, Chuay Jai by mixing the two tribe names. When they returned to camp, a feast was waiting for them. Later on, Shii Ann, who was on the outside of the Sook Jai tribe, talked to Ted about flipping to Chuay Gahn. Ted agreed to let Shii Ann into their voting bloc. Later on, Brian asked Shii Ann to flip to Chuay Gahn to vote out Penny. As the castaways gathered for what they thought was an individual immunity challenge, Jeff shocked the castaways by explaining that the tribes hadn't actually merged, but were simply living on one beach.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribe members will be shackled in a prison. Using resources in the cell, the tribe members must gather keys hanging on the outside of the prison. First tribe to gather their keys and escape wins immunity.Immunity was won by Chuay Gahn. At Tribal Council, Shii Ann's tribemates decided they could not trust her after she openly aligned with Chuay Gahn. She was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":8,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council, Penny was relieved her tribe voted out Shii Ann instead of her. Still feeling vulnerable, she attempted to form an alliance with Chuay Gahn member Ted. However, Ted and the other Chuay Gahn men knew that Penny was trying to manipulate them and still didn't trust her. Meanwhile, Ken got annoyed when he smelled urine in the cave. While Jake and Ken set out in their canoe, Ken reminded Jake that Brian was a used car salesman and that he could be very manipulative. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways will be timed while underwater, using bamboo snorkels to breathe. When a castaway comes up for air, their time is stopped. The tribe with the longest cumulative running time underwater wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, it came down to Brian for Chuay Gahn and Jake for Sook Jai. Brian outlasted Jake, winning immunity for Chuay Gahn. As the castaways returned to camp, they noticed that a monkey had raided their food supply. Meanwhile, Jake blamed himself for losing the immunity challenge. Erin attempted to console Jake. With Tribal Council on its way, Sook Jai held a tribe meeting to determine whether or not they should reveal each other's votes. They felt that it would be extremely tough to vote someone out. In the end, Erin was voted out, becoming the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":9,"episode_summary":"With a five to three advantage in numbers over Sook Jai, Chuay Gahn felt that they were in a powerful position. Jake attempted to entertain both tribes and bond with Chuay Gahn by telling adventure stories, however he ended up annoying Clay. As the tribes gathered for a reward challenge, Jeff announced that they had officially merged.\n\nReward Challenge: The first round would be done in pairs. The pairs must navigate through an obstacle course performing various tasks along the way. The two pairs to complete the obstacle course first move on to the next round. The four finalists must compete against each other to assemble a pyramid puzzle. First castaway to correctly assemble their puzzle wins a video of their loved ones from home.The challenge came down to Brian and Helen. In the end, Brian won his video from home. Back at camp, Clay revealed his distaste for Ted. Jake, taking advantage of Clay's distaste for Ted, lobbied Clay to form a voting bloc with the Sook Jai three.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must match Thai numbers with the numbers in English. The first two to match the numbers move on to the final round, where they will be pitted against each other in a test of memory and skill. The castaway that outwits the other wins.The immunity challenge came down to Clay and Ken. In the end, immunity was won by Clay. After returning to camp, Ted brought up voting out Ken as a physical threat. Ken, feeling vulnerable, attempted to break the Chuay Gahn alliance. In the end, the Chuay Gahn five stuck together, and Ken was voted out, becoming the second member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council, Ted was upset that the three Sook Jai members had targeted him. Jake explained that Clay had told them to vote for Ted, however Ted thought he was lying to him. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways must race through a four-stage obstacle course. First, the castaways will pair up to navigate between towers using two wooden planks to bridge the gaps. The first two pairs to finish move on to the second round, where they will have to do a belly crawl underneath a bamboo course. First three to complete the belly crawl move on to the third round, where they will have to climb a wall with the aid of another castaway. Both Ted and Brian assist Clay to the top, where he tries to pull both of them up after himself.  Not strong enough to do both, Probst insists he choose, whereupon Clay chooses Brian. First two to climb the wall move on to the final round, where they must race across a balance beam. The castaway that crosses the balance beam first wins an elephant trek through the Thai jungle, plus a Thai feast.Brian won the reward challenge and chose Clay to join him. After Brian took Clay with him on the reward, Ted questioned the strength of their allegiance to one another. Back at camp, Jake lobbied Helen to flip to Sook Jai, explaining that the only way they could win is by getting rid of Brian or Clay. However, Helen was wary of his intentions. After returning from the reward, Brian and Clay brought back food for the others. Meanwhile, believing that her alliance with Jake could hurt her, Penny decided to distance herself from Jake. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The challenge tested the castaways' knowledge of Thai culture. Each castaway who answered a question correctly was permitted to snuff another castaway's torch. The last castaway with a lit torch wins.Penny's intentions became clear when she snuffed Jake's torch right away at the immunity challenge. Despite this, the Chuay Ghan alliance (minus Clay) quickly saw through Penny's scheme and immediately took her out of the immunity challenge. Helen won immunity, narrowly beating Ted. After returning from the challenge, Jake speculated on why Penny had turned on him at the challenge. In the end, despite her attempts to get Jake out before herself, Penny was voted out, becoming the third member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":11,"episode_summary":"A recap featuring bonus footage of the first 30 days."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":12,"episode_summary":"As the castaways gathered for a reward challenge, they were shocked to see their loved ones. Jeff then announced that the loved ones would be competing against each other.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways' loved ones were brought in to compete in the challenge. The loved ones would compete against each other in an insect-eating contest. Should a loved one fail to eat an insect, they are eliminated from the challenge. The loved one that eats everything all the way to the end wins a day at camp with their loved one.The challenge came down to Helen's husband and Jake's wife. In the end, Helen's husband, Jim, won the challenge. After returning from the challenge, Helen gave Jim a tour of the Chuay Jai camp. Later on, Helen discussed strategy with her husband, telling him that she trusted Brian and didn't trust Clay. When the castaways gathered for the immunity challenge, Jeff announced that the contestants with their loved ones would compete as a team. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways, with the help of their loved one, must retrieve their designated puzzle pieces from a pile in order to construct a cube. The castaways will have their loved one tied to their wrist. First team to construct their cube wins.In the end, Ted and his brother Aljuan won immunity. After returning to camp, Jake, being the last member of the former Sook Jai tribe, reflected on his vulnerability. In the end, the former Chuay Gahn tribe unanimously sent Jake to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The castaways received Tree Mail, along with a full-length mirror and pictures of themselves from prior to the game. While retrieving Tree Mail, Ted asked Brian if their alliance was still strong. Despite being told that their alliance was still intact, Ted was still wary of Brian's intentions. As the castaways gathered for the reward challenge, Jeff drove up in a new Chevrolet TrailBlazer and explained the rules.\n\nReward Challenge: This challenge was a word puzzle. The castaways must gather a series of placards, each bearing a letter, at different stations. Once they have gathered their letters, they must unscramble them in order to form a two-word phrase. The first castaway to unscramble their letters to form the phrase \"Road Trip\" wins a brand new Chevrolet TrailBlazer, plus a Thai dinner, a shower, and a massage.The challenge came down to Brian and Ted. Brian managed to unscramble to letters, but misspelled the phrase and yelled it out aloud, giving Ted the correct answer. Ted took advantage and won reward. He chose Helen to come along. While enjoying the reward, Helen and Ted agreed to oust Clay at the next Tribal Council. After returning to camp, Helen approached Jan in hopes of forming a voting bloc against Clay. Later on, Helen, deciding to play on both sides of the fence, approached Brian and revealed her distaste for Ted. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must assemble a staircase using jigsaw puzzle pieces. The first castaway to assemble their staircase and climb up to the finishing platform wins.Immunity was won by Brian. At Tribal Council, the castaways decided that Ted was too much of a physical and mental threat and voted him out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":14,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council in which Ted was voted out, the final four anticipated the difficult choices they would have to make. The castaways received a flower kit with Tree Mail instructing them to design twelve floating krathongs in honor of the castaways who were previously eliminated. They would later release the krathongs into the sea. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would compete in an obstacle course containing elements from previous challenges. The first castaway to complete the obstacle course would win.Immunity was won by Brian. After winning immunity, Brian secured an agreement with Clay to vote out Helen. He approached Jan in hopes of swaying her vote. In the end, the tribe unanimously voted out Helen.\nOn the morning of Day 38, Jeff arrived at camp towing a gold canoe with instructions for the tribe's final rite of passage. As the final three castaways paddled, they released the krathongs in honor of the castaways who were voted out. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Situated in the deepest portion of a cave. the castaways must wedge three large coins between their fingers on both hands. While holding the coins, the castaways would position themselves in frames constructed to hold them in an uncomfortable traditional Thai stance. The last person left standing with all of their coins in their hands would win.At the final immunity challenge, Clay and Jan let their coins go, guaranteeing Brian a spot in the final two. At Tribal Council, Brian voted out Jan, who became the final member of the jury.\nOn Day 39, Brian and Clay set their boat ablaze and reflected on the time spent in Thailand. At the final Tribal Council, Erin asked the finalists why the person sitting next to them didn't deserve the million dollars. Brian responded by stating that Clay had not put forth the effort he should have. Clay responded by stating that Brian thought he was the head of camp, and that he expected everyone to call him the leader. Ken asked Brian why the tribe decided to vote out Ted. Brian responded by saying they felt that Ted didn't quite fit in with the group, which to Ken's mind was a lie. Penny asked the finalists about whether they had bothered to get to know her at all. She started with Brian, asking him if he knew where she had grown up and about her siblings. Brian incorrectly answered the questions, while Clay accurately listed several details about her personal life. Jake started with a statement and commended their clever manipulations in turning Penny against him and their alliance to vote him out. He asked Clay why he was threatened when Jake was excited that the votes were based on performance at a previous tribal council. Clay didn't answer the question but instead turned it around and said he didn't like how Jake tried to make alliances with all of the Chuay Ghan members and turn them against each other. He asked Brian how he felt at that time, and Brian said he didn't feel the same way due to their teamwork in acquiring food.\nNext up was Ted, who told Brian that he was a great car salesman, and sold him friendship and loyalty, though it was limited. He then told Clay he was an ignorant redneck hillbilly who rode Brian's coattails. He asked Clay if he made any racist comments behind his back. Clay did not impress Ted by saying he hadn't made any such comments about him, leaving Ted with the impression Clay was dodging whether he had many such remarks in any other context. Jan asked Clay and Brian about their work ethic, or lack thereof. The final statements came from a betrayed Helen, who confronted her former ally Brian. She asked Brian why he hadn't told her that she was the next to go. Brian explained that he heard from Jan that Helen and Ted were targeting him and felt that she had betrayed him first. He admitted that he had made a mistake. Helen then asked Clay, who she deeply disliked and vice versa, to name three instances when he had done physical labor to help the tribe; Clay responded by telling Helen he wasn't going to respond to her question."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US05","episode":15,"episode_summary":"In the same manner as Survivor: Africa two seasons earlier, Jeff Probst returned to a Tribal Council site that was actually a CBS sound stage and read the votes as if he was reading them immediately after they were cast.  Also, the audience held off applause until Brian was declared the Sole Survivor with a vote of 4–3 with Brian receiving the votes of Jan, Helen, Ted, and Jake and Clay receiving Erin, Ken, and Penny's votes. The castaways then discussed the season with Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":1,"episode_summary":"As the sixteen castaways arrived deep in the Amazon jungle via a river boat, Jeff shocked the castaways when he divided the castaways into a tribe of men, Tambaqui, and a tribe of women, Jaburu. He gave the castaways their buffs and maps to their respective camps. As Tambaqui arrived at their camp, they had a quick meeting and questioned the women's survival skills. When Jaburu arrived at their camp, Christy informed her tribemates that she is deaf. Meanwhile, at Tambaqui, Roger became their leader and became frustrated with Daniel and Ryan's work ethic. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribe members would be chained together to navigate through an obstacle course. After each station is completed, the tribes would gather a series of keys to unlock sections of a chain blocking the finish line. Meanwhile, one member of each tribe would retrieve a flying fox, with which they will head down a zipline and find the key that will open the gate that will release the rest of the tribe. The first tribe to unlock their chain and cross the finish line would win immunity.At the immunity challenge, Tambaqui took an early lead, however Jaburu pulled ahead to win the challenge when Daniel and Ryan had trouble with the balance beam, sending the men to Tribal Council. As Tambaqui returning to camp without immunity, they thought their overconfidence had caused them to lose the challenge. Knowing he was on the chopping block for struggling in the challenge, Ryan formed an alliance to oust Roger, the tribes' oldest and most vocal player. In the end, Ryan's plan failed, and he was sent home.[3]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":2,"episode_summary":"With the need to strengthen their shelter and assign a leader, the Jaburu tribe woke up miserable. Meanwhile, Tambaqui enjoyed a breakfast of manioc flour and set out on a fishing expedition, only to rained on by a heavy rainstorm. Meanwhile, with their faulty shelter, Jaburu struggled to maintain their fire in the rainstorm. \n\nReward Challenge: Each tribe must designate a caller. The rest of the tribe members are blindfolded, and the caller must guide their tribemates so they can retrieve 30 designated giant puzzle pieces surrounded by obstacles. Once all 30 pieces are collected, the tribe members must remove their blindfolds and work together to solve the puzzle. First tribe to solve the puzzle wins fishing bait.At the reward challenge, JoAnna was Jaburu's caller and Butch was Tambaqui's caller. Following JoAnna's instructions, Jaburu was able to win their second consecutive challenge. Tambaqui got frustrated after they lost their second challenge in a row. After winning fishing bait, Jeanne set out to catch fish for her hungry tribe. Meanwhile, JoAnna expressed her dislike for the immunity idol because she felt it was against the Ten Commandments. Christy and JoAnna argued over JoAnna's beliefs. Suspicion arose at Jaburu when a granola bar was found at the bottom of their storage container. Despite being unclaimed, Janet was blamed for smuggling the granola bar. The tribe agreed to throw the granola bar in the fire. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Both tribes will be given two minutes to observe a traditional Amazon home. After the two minutes is up, Jeff will ask the tribe a series of questions about the Amazon home. The tribe that answers the most questions correctly wins immunity.Immunity was won by Tambaqui. After losing immunity, Christy expressed that she felt her tribe was lazy, causing some friction within Jaburu. At Tribal Council, Janet was targeted for being the weakest, and was blamed for smuggling the granola, and was voted out.[6]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":3,"episode_summary":"As rain poured over Tambaqui, the men worked on their daily chores. Roger got frustrated with Daniel's hesitation to help with the water. However, Matthew helped Daniel calm his nerves and the two bonded. \n\nReward Challenge: Each castaway will have a basket containing five items. The castaways must try to match one of their items with another castaway. The tribe with the most matches wins personal hygiene products.Reward was won by Jaburu. While Jaburu bathed with their newly acquired personal hygiene products, the younger women bathed separately from the older women. Meanwhile, at Tambaqui, Matthew and Dave discussed whether to eliminate Daniel or Roger. At Jaburu, Deena became the tribe's leader. With Deena's leadership, Jaburu managed to repair the roof of their shelter, boil five pots of water, and caught fish to give them nutrition for the next challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each tribe will be locked inside a prison-like cage. In order to escape, the tribe members must untie a series of ropes in order to release a machete. Then the tribes must use their machete to cut through a rope, then they must undo another series of knots in order to release a plank, which will in turn release a pole. They must use the pole to retrieve a set of keys on the outside of the cage. Once the keys are collected, they must unlock their chains and release their escape hatch. First tribe to open their escape hatch wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Tambaqui fell behind when they failed to saw through the rope attaching the plank of wood properly, allowing Jaburu to pull ahead and win immunity. Knowing he was on the chopping block, Daniel attempted to form an alliance with Alex and Rob in order to oust Roger. Despite his attempts to target Roger, the tribe voted out their weakest link, Daniel.[8]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":4,"episode_summary":"At Jaburu, Jeanne and JoAnna were doing most of the work. While Tambaqui struggled to catch fish, JoAnna caught a fish for Jaburu. At Jaburu, a rift between the younger women and the older women formed. Knowing they were vulnerable, Heidi, Jenna and Shawna lobbied Deena to join their alliance. Feeling she could manipulate the younger women more easily, Deena agreed to align with Heidi, Jenna and Shawna. Meanwhile, at Tambaqui, Matthew became the tribe's provider. \n\nReward Challenge: Each tribe had four ropes attached to a 30-foot tower. Each rope is attached to a fire-making station. The tribes must gather enough firewood in order to build a fire high enough to burn through all four ropes. Each time a rope is burned, a portion of a banner at the top of the tower is released. First tribe to burn through all four ropes and release their banner wins a  refrigerator filled with iced Coca-Cola.At the reward challenge, Jaburu took an early lead, however Tambaqui managed to pull ahead and win reward. After her tribe lost the challenge, Shawna had grown extremely tired and lost motivation. Meanwhile, Tambaqui enjoyed their Coca-Cola and a large fish that Matthew had caught. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Each tribe will be given one hour to catch as many fish as they can. The tribe that catches the most fish in one hour wins immunity. The winning tribe will also take home all the fish they had caught.At the immunity challenge, Tambaqui had caught more fish than Jaburu and won their second challenge in a row. After returning to camp, Shawna was still not feeling well and threatened to break her alliance. Deena, Heidi and Jenna pulled Christy into their alliance in case Shawna broke their alliance. In the end, Shawna did not vote with her alliance. However, with Christy's help, they managed to send JoAnna home.[10]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":5,"episode_summary":"With JoAnna gone, Deena felt she had more leadership than before. Meanwhile, Shawna was ready to give up after her alliance voted against her wishes kept her in the game. Meanwhile, at Tambaqui, Alex accidentally sliced his eyebrow as he was cutting firewood. Alex hurried to notify his tribemates and was bandaged up by the medical team. Both tribes received Tree Mail instructing them to send their youngest member, Dave from Tambaqui and Jenna from Jaburu, on a journey. Dave and Jenna met Jeff at a luxury Amazon retreat. Jeff announced that they were going to have a \"Get to Know You\". Dave listened to the information that Jenna willingly provided about her tribe. She described her friendship with Heidi. As the two awoke the next morning, they found a breakfast waiting for them. As they enjoyed their breakfast, Jeff arrived to announce a twist. Jeff dropped nameplates on the table, each with the name of a castaway. He instructed the two to pick new tribes and told them to alternate between genders. Being aware of Heidi and Jenna's  friendship, Dave chose Heidi for his tribe first in order to separate the two women. Once they finished, the new Jaburu tribe consisted of Alex, Deena, Jenna, Matthew, Rob and Shawna. The new Tambaqui tribe consisted of Butch, Christy, Dave, Heidi, Jeanne, and Roger. After the two paddled to their camps, they announced the switch to their old tribes. The new members of both tribes were welcomed with opened arms. After Christy revealed her deafness to the men, they made an effort to include Christy in all conversations, and used the lantern to help her read lips at night. Meanwhile, at Jaburu, Shawna seemed to overcome her fatigue. \n\nImmunity Challenge: This challenge had two stages. In the first stage, the tribes must find five words and circle them in a wordsearch-like puzzle. Once they've found all five words, they must paddle to a small island in order to retrieve five flags corresponding to the five words. First tribe to cross the finish line with the correct flags wins immunity.Immunity was won by Jaburu. After Tambaqui returned to camp, the women planned to target Butch and cause a tie between the men and the women. However, Dave lobbied Heidi to vote with the men, leading Heidi to become the swing vote. In the end, Dave's lobbying proved effective, and Jeanne was sent home.[12]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":6,"episode_summary":"At Jaburu, Shawna had a romantic interest in Alex. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways must square off against someone of the same sex on the opposing tribe by balancing on a revolving log over a mud pit. The last castaway left standing on the log earns a point for their tribe. First tribe to score five points wins spices, plus a bowl of fruit.At the reward challenge, it came down to Christy and Jenna to break a tie. Christy outlasted Jenna, winning reward for Tambaqui. With Deena's authority at Jaburu diminishing, she formed an alliance with Rob. Rob then pulled Matthew into their alliance. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Each tribe will be given a chunk of meat on a hook. With their hands tied behind their backs, the castaways must tear off pieces of meat using only their mouths. The castaways must then drop the meat on their tribe's scale. After ten minutes, the tribe with the most meat on their scale wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, it was neck and neck until Tambaqui tore off a large piece of meat, winning immunity. After Jaburu returned to camp, Alex and Shawna revealed that they would be voting for Matthew. However Rob had just formed an alliance with Matthew, and chose to target Shawna with Deena, Jenna and Matthew. In the end, Rob's plan came into fruition and Shawna was sent home.[14]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Jaburu agreed to form a voting bloc once the tribes merge. As the tribes read their Tree Mail, they found a key that will unlock a mysterious box at their camps. They were instructed to pack up their camp and paddle to a spot where they would meet Jeff. Once the castaways arrived, Jeff announced the merge and distributed new red buffs. Jeff then sent the castaways to a new camp along the river. As the castaways enjoyed their merge feast, they named the new tribe \"Jacaré\", Portuguese for alligator. While enjoying the feast, Roger got upset when his tribe used their ice to cool their beer instead of using it to preserve their food. Roger caused tension among the tribe as he gave orders to his tribemates. As the castaways built their shelter, Deena discussed voting out Roger with Heidi and Jenna. Roger planned to pick off the four women one by one. As morning came, Roger continued to annoy his tribemates by chopping wood too early. Deena discussed her plan to eliminate Roger with Rob, who agreed. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must stand onto a perch as long as they can. During the challenge, food items will be presented to the castaways in order to test their temptations. The last castaway left standing wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Heidi and Jenna stripped naked in exchange for peanut butter and chocolate. It came down to Christy and Deena, and the outcome would be decided using a game of rock-paper-scissors. Christy lost, giving immunity to Deena. At Tribal Council, Deena's plan came into fruition, and Roger was voted out.[16]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":8,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council, Dave felt vulnerable after his ally Roger was eliminated. Dave attempted to secure his position in the tribe by helping Butch construct a dock. However, Rob wasn't impressed and felt that Dave was a showoff. Meanwhile, Matthew worried his tribe as he kept on sharpening the machete for an hour at a time. \n\nReward Challenge: The challenge will start with the castaways divided into teams of three. While bounded by a bungee cord, the team members race through a pool of mud to collect five team-colored flags. First team to collect all five flags will move on to the final round. The final round is the same challenge, however the winning team members would compete individually in order to retrieve three flags. First person to collect three flags wins a cold bath, a banana split, and a brownie sundae.The team of Alex, Dave and Deena won the first round of the reward challenge, with Dave winning the final round. Dave chose Deena to join him on the reward. As Dave and Deena enjoyed their reward, Dave lobbied Deena to keep him in the game. Deena agreed to talk to her alliance about keeping him in the game. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Each castaway will have a mask attached with three ropes to a suspended log. The castaways will be asked a series of questions about Amazonian and Brazilian culture and survival skills. When a castaway answers a question correctly, they must cut through one of the ropes attached to their opponent's mask. Once all three of a castaways ropes are cut, the log will smash the mask, eliminating that player. Last castaway with their mask intact wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, it came down to Heidi and Jenna. Jenna answered the final question correctly, winning immunity. After returning to camp, Matthew continued to irk his tribemates with his behavior. Despite Matthew's behavior, Dave was perceived as a physical threat, and he was voted out, becoming the first member of the jury.[18]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":9,"episode_summary":"The castaways received Tree Mail, along with blow guns, spears, bows, and arrows. They were instructed to practice for the reward challenge. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways must use Amazonian weapons to hit a target. The four that hit closest to the bull's eye moves on to the second round. The second round was the same challenge, with the top two moving on to face off against each other. The castaway hitting closest to the bull's eye wins a trip to an Amazon coffee bar.At the reward challenge, it came down to Alex and Matthew. Alex shot closest to the center, winning reward. He chose Jenna to join him on the reward. While Alex and Jenna enjoyed their reward, Deena plotted to oust Alex as she felt he was a physical threat. Meanwhile, Butch accidentally caught a piranha while fishing, and got bitten in the finger. When Alex and Jenna returned to camp, Heidi revealed Deena's plan to Jenna. Jenna then told Alex that Deena was targeting him for elimination. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must compete in a four-round elimination race to eat native Amazonian dishes. First person to finish the final round (consisting of two castaways) wins immunity.The immunity challenge came down to Deena and Matthew. Matthew swallowed a live beetle larva whole first, winning immunity. Unaware that Heidi had already revealed Deena's plan, Deena lobbied Jenna to vote for Alex at Tribal Council, upsetting Jenna. In the end, Deena's scheming cost her the game, and she was voted out, becoming the second member of the jury.[20]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":10,"episode_summary":"A recap of the first 27 days including previously unaired footage."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Each castaway received US$500 in their Tree Mail for a Survivor Auction. At the auction, Jeff shocked the castaways by bringing letters from home up for bids. Christy outbid Jenna, winning her letter from home. The castaways were shocked when Jeff put another letter from home up for bid. The tribe let Jenna win the second letter. After returning to camp, Jenna, whose mother was ill, was upset at Christy for outbidding her. Meanwhile, Alex revealed to Rob that he would vote him out should their alliance make it to the final four. Upset, Rob approached Matthew to oust Alex with the help of Butch and Christy. Matthew agreed to vote for Alex at Tribal Council.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Before the challenge, the castaways were instructed to fill out a questionnaire about their tribemates privately. For the challenge, when asked a question, the castaways must guess the most common answer. Each answer will be the name of a tribemate. First castaway to answer five questions correctly wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, it came down to Rob and Matthew. Rob answered the final question correctly, winning immunity. Unaware of Rob's plot against Alex, the alliance of Heidi, Jenna and Alex decided to target Matthew, who they saw as a physical threat. At Tribal Council, Rob's plan came into fruition, and Alex was voted out, becoming the third member of the jury.[23]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Heidi and Jenna were furious at Rob for turning against Alex at Tribal Council. While the men were out working, Heidi and Jenna lobbied Christy to align with them in order to oust one of the men. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways must start by retrieving a paddle buried in the sand. The two that didn't find a paddle will be eliminated from the challenge. The remaining four must then paddle out to a floating box, where they will find a survival-related question and bags filled with puzzle pieces. The castaways must then match the correct answer with the corresponding bag. If they answered correctly, their bag will contain the correct puzzle pieces that would form the shape of a snake. First person to assemble their puzzle wins time at an Amazonian tribal village with a loved one.Matthew won the reward challenge, and was given the chance to sacrifice the visit from his mother to let everyone else reunite with their loved ones. Matthew chose to sacrifice the visit from his mother. Not wanting Matthew's act to go unrewarded, Jeff allowed Matthew to reunite with his mother and enjoy the reward at the village. As the five other castaways returned to camp, Rob attempted to make amends with Heidi and Jenna. He brought up voting out Matthew as a threat and taking Jenna to the final two. However, Jenna still didn't trust Rob, and she told the tribe of his plans.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must use a slingshot to crack plates with shuffleboard pucks inside. Then they must slide their pucks on the shuffleboard, aiming for the \"X\" at the end of the board. The number of plates they had broken will determine their number of pucks. The castaway whose puck lands closest to the \"X\" wins immunity.Immunity was won by Jenna. After returning to camp, Rob lobbied Christy, the swing vote, to vote out Heidi. Christy told Rob that her decision was still up in the air. However, Rob realigned himself with Heidi and Jenna to target Christy, who was a threat to ruin the Heidi-Jenna alliance. At Tribal Council, Jenna gave up immunity for Heidi. Rob's plan came into fruition, and Christy was voted out, becoming the fourth member of the jury.[25]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Jenna was feeling the effects of the harsh living conditions. Meanwhile, Rob planned on voting out Heidi due to her being a physical threat and told her about his plan to be honest with the girls. Butch, with Rob's help, continued to collect \"firewood,\" despite the large amount of wood around camp, causing Rob and Jenna to question his sanity. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways must start by untying knots in order to escape a cage. Once they escape, they must solve a puzzle. Once completed, they must swing across a riverbed to solve another puzzle. Once they've completed the puzzle, they must retrieve a set of keys while being propelled by a flying fox. First castaway to retrieve their keys wins a brand new Saturn Ion, plus a barbecue feast to be enjoyed with another tribemate.Matthew won the reward challenge, and chose Rob to join him on the barbecue. As the remaining castaways returned to camp, a fire had burned much of their camp, burning many of the castaways' clothes and personal belongings. Once Matthew and Rob returned from their reward, the men worked to rebuild the camp. Heidi and Jenna, knowing the men planned to vote them out, did not help as they felt it would make the men's lives easier. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must navigate a rope course, avoiding obstacles along the way, in order to retrieve five feathers. First castaway to retrieve their five feathers wins immunity.Immunity was won by Matthew. As the castaways returned to camp, Jenna broke down in tears, wanting out of the game. Knowing she was on the chopping block, Heidi lobbied to vote out Jenna at Tribal Council due to the pain she was in. In the end, the men felt that Heidi was more of a threat than Jenna, and she was voted out, becoming the fifth member of the jury.[27]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":14,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council, the final four celebrated making it that far. Meanwhile, the men planned to vote out Jenna next. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must navigate through a maze blindfolded. The first castaway to retrieve four necklaces at stations within the maze and then return to the center of the maze wins immunity.The men's plan to eliminate Jenna was thwarted after she won the challenge, keeping her safe from the vote. After returning to camp, Matthew and Rob discussed voting out Butch. Later on, Matthew formed a secret alliance with Jenna to take her to the final two. Although Jenna was interested in siding with Butch, the tribe unanimously voted him out, sending him to the jury 3-1.\nAfter eating breakfast, the final three castaways were shocked to find a bathroom scale in their Tree Mail. The three castaways each stepped on the scale and discovered how much weight they had lost over 38 days. Later on, Jeff arrived at the Jacaré camp and instructed the castaways to board a seaplane, where they would get an aerial view of the Amazon. Once finished, they were instructed to paddle to Tribal Council, where they would compete in the final immunity challenge. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must balance themselves on a narrow wooden perch while holding a headdress over their head. They have a bead necklace attached to the headdress, which prevents the castaways from holding the headdress too high. The last castaway standing wins immunity.During the challenge, Matthew was the first to fall off the perch. Rob offered to take Jenna to the final two if she stepped down. However, Jenna declined Rob's offer. Jenna ended up outlasting Rob, guaranteeing herself a spot in the final two. At Tribal Council, Jenna ended up voting out Rob, who she felt was more of a threat to win the game than Matthew.\nOn their final day at the Amazon, Jenna and Matthew reminisced about their eliminated tribemates and wrote each castaway's name on their supply crate. Matthew, wanting to add closure to their experience, brought the tribe's boat to shore and placed the camp artifacts inside. Matthew then set the contents on fire and sent the boat down the river.\nAt the final Tribal Council, Jenna stated to the jury members that they knew who she was. Matthew stated that he was dedicated to the tribe, that he was a serious competitor, and that he played with honor and integrity. Butch asked Jenna and Matthew if they had lied to or deceived any of their tribemates. Jenna responded by claiming she had lied to Deena, who she felt had betrayed their alliance. Matthew claimed that he had lied to Alex and Roger in order to save himself. Rob asked the final two castaways why the other finalist didn't deserve to be sitting next to them. Matthew responded by saying that Jenna did not contribute much around camp and that she had the desire to quit. Jenna responded by saying that Matthew hadn't been playing the game, didn't need the money, and that it was \"just another adventure on his list of things to do\". Alex stated to the finalists that the words \"honesty\" and \"integrity\" didn't mean anything to him anymore. He asks them about their biggest regret. Jenna says it was putting trust in untrustworthy people. Matthew says it was his decision to support Ryan at the first vote.\nNext up was Heidi, who asked the finalists whether they felt there was someone else more deserving of being in their position. Both Jenna and Matthew answered Rob. Deena was concerned about Jenna's statement that Matthew didn't need the money, and wonders if they should vote on need and not gameplay. Jenna responded that if she were on the jury, she would vote on need, but understands that others may feel differently. Deena then stated to Matthew that she was offended by the comment \"may the best man win\" he made at an earlier Tribal Council. Matthew apologized to Deena. Next up was Christy, who asked the finalists what their reactions were when they learned she was deaf. Matthew responded by claiming he thought she had a \"funky accent\". Christy demanded an explanation from Jenna about her comment that she, Jenna, was \"handicapped because she was beautiful\". Jenna claimed that she didn't remember making that comment, but says she feels others judged her as not smart or strong because she's a swimsuit model. Last up was Dave, who asked which influential leader a castaway should emulate in the game. Matthew answered Colin Powell, while Jenna chose her mother for \"her fight and strength\". In his closing speech, Matthew admitted that he had lied along the way, however mentioned that it was part of the game. Jenna mentioned that she had come through in the end when she needed to save herself."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US06","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, it was revealed that the jury gave Jenna the title of Sole Survivor, along with the million dollars. She won with six out of the seven jury votes. Only Butch voted for Matthew to win.[29] Then, all 16 castaways discussed the season with host, Jeff Probst at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, on David Letterman's Late Show stage which was decorated to look like the tribal council set in the Amazon."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The sixteen contestants arrived at the Pearl Islands onboard the luxury yacht, Rembrandt Van Rijn, still dressed in their street clothes. The contestants were shocked when they were told that they would be participating in the clothes on their backs, most believing they were getting publicity pictures prior to the game. Host Jeff Probst threw the contestants' sneakers overboard, and they were given a sack of Panamanian currency. The two tribes, Morgan and Drake, were sent to buy surviving essentials at a local village. When they reached the village, Morgan was scrambling to get supplies, while Drake was more successful, as Sandra was able to speak Spanish with the locals. Morgan had left their shoes unattended, so Rupert took the opportunity to steal their shoes so he could buy goods for his tribe. Meanwhile, Morgan member Osten traded all of his clothing, except for his boxers to buy goods for his tribe. After they were finished buying goods, the tribes got on their marine vessels and traveled to their respective islands. On Night 1, Morgan had trouble sleeping, as rocks were falling from above, and crabs were biting the members. Meanwhile, Drake decided to celebrate their new home by drinking Panamanian wine, which they had bought at the village. Jon became incredibly drunk, which annoyed his tribemates. When morning came, the dehydrated Morgan tribe was relieved to find directions to a freshwater well on their map. At the well, Lillian and Ryan S. bonded while filling their canteens. \n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe must transport a cannon through the jungle along a course that runs from one side of the island to the other. Along the course, the castaways must avoid several obstacles. The first tribe to bring their cannon to the finish line wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Osten took off his boxers, which had been loose due to the weight he had lost. Other male members of Morgan also stripped naked. Morgan had a lead, however just before the finish line, their cannon got stuck in the sand, causing Drake to pull ahead and win the challenge. After they had lost, the Morgan tribe was upset, but Andrew tried to cheer his tribe up by giving them a pep talk. Lill was at risk of possibly being voted out because she was the oldest woman, and therefore considered to be potentially a liability at future challenges, and Nicole wanted to oust Tijuana, but when Lill told Tijuana of Nicole's plan, Tijuana decided she couldn't trust her. In the end, Lill saved herself and the vote went against Nicole."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":2,"episode_summary":"The Morgan tribe had trouble sleeping as the cold nights had taken their toll on the contestants. Over at Drake, Rupert caught fish for his tribe. After receiving Tree Mail about the upcoming reward challenge, Ryan S. felt that he was under a lot of pressure to do well in the challenge. \n\nReward challenge: Each tribe has a designated treasure chest underwater. Each player must dive into the ocean to retrieve a pre-placed item and put it into their tribe's treasure chest. Once all the items are in the chest, the contestants, as a tribe, must grab the chest and swim it to the shore. First tribe to bring their chest to the shore wins reward. For the reward, both tribes were given a shovel. Probst explained that there is an actual treasure buried at each camp. The winning tribe would be given the first of three pieces to a map that will help them find the treasure. In addition, the winning tribe would have to send one member to the losing tribe's camp to take an item of their choosing back to their camp.As Ryan S. started swimming during the challenge, he had trouble with his mask as well as staying underwater giving Drake an early lead. Morgan never recovered, giving Drake their second win in a row. In a twist, the winning tribe, Drake, had to send one member to the Morgan camp to take one of their items back with them. Drake sent Sandra, who chose to take Morgan's tarp. Morgan was sullen around Sandra and after they snapped at her for taking the tarp and asking them to help so she didn't damage their shelter doing so, Sandra simply tore the tarp down and left the shelter in bad shape, ignoring Morgan's whining and leaving without any pleasantries. While trying to rebuild their shelter, Osten announced that he was considering quitting the game, which upset Andrew. Meanwhile, at Drake, Shawn went fishing and lost the head of his tribe's fishing spear, which upset Rupert. Rupert searched underwater for the lost head, and wound up finding it. \n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe would capture three members of the opposing tribe. The other castaways must try to free their captured tribemates, and then overcome a series of obstacles in order to raise their flag. First tribe to raise their flag wins immunity.Once again, Morgan lost the immunity challenge. Osten surprised his tribemates by asking to be voted off, which disappointed Tijuana. In the end, Osten did not get his wish, as the majority alliance valued Osten more than the physically weak Ryan S. and sent the poor kid home early."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":3,"episode_summary":"The Morgan tribe quietly thought about their misfortunes. The Drake tribe decided to look for their buried treasure. They had guessed that it would be along the shoreline, therefore it would only be accessible during the low tide. However, the Drake tribe did not succeed in finding the treasure, so they decided to take a break and check another time.\n\nReward challenge: Each tribe was given two boats and a fisherman's grappling hook. They must try to sink both of the opposite tribe's boats. The hooks could be used to remove plugs that covered holes along the sides of each boat. The last tribe still floating wins blankets, mattresses, pillows, and a piece of the map to the buried treasure.Jon wanted Sandra to sit out at the reward challenge, as he thought she was a weak swimmer, which angered Sandra. Once again, Drake ended up winning the reward challenge, which left Morgan distraught. The next morning, Lillian woke up early to go on a fishing trip and lost the tribe's fishing hook. Meanwhile, Drake decided not to look for the treasure, so they discussed what item they should take from the Morgan camp. They decided they should take Morgan's water pot. Christa was sent to the Morgan camp to take the pot. When Christa arrived at Morgan's camp, the Morgan tribe asked many questions about Drake. Christa tried not to reveal too much about her tribe, which she found difficult. \n\nImmunity challenge: The strongest member of each tribe must suspend the smallest member above the ocean using a rope-and-pulley system. The first person to drop the rope and their suspended tribemate would lose immunity.At the immunity challenge, it came down to Morgan's Osten, and Drake's Rupert. Probst decided to add difficulty to the challenge by forcing Osten and Rupert to stand, and then he forbade them to rest the rope on the wooden braces in front of them. Osten couldn't hold the rope any longer, giving Drake immunity for the third consecutive time. At Morgan, Andrew had decided Lill was the least valuable tribe member, and took pains to let Lill know that she should generally be OK with losing her spot in the game because it would benefit the people who were voting her out. Andrew spoke with Lillian to let her know that she was on the chopping block but apparently didn't honor her request to be explicitly told her time was up before Tribal Council. Lillian became the third person voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":4,"episode_summary":"The Morgan tribe was at risk of losing their shelter due to the rising tide, and built a breaker wall out of sand to try to protect it. Meanwhile, having never voted anyone off, there was some tension at Drake due to clashing personalities. \n\nReward challenge: Each tribe must retrieve sixteen puzzle pieces; eight buried in the sand and eight hidden out at sea. The tribes must collect all sixteen pieces in order to solve a puzzle. First tribe to solve their giant puzzle wins a sewing kit and a piece of the map to the buried treasure.At the reward challenge, Morgan fell behind as Osten had trouble swimming, giving Drake a lead. However Drake member Trish had trouble digging out one of Drake's pieces, allowing Morgan to make a comeback. However, Drake solved their puzzle just before Morgan could, giving Drake yet another win, and the final piece to their treasure map. With all three pieces, Drake had a good idea where to look for the treasure. They got somewhat confused when they had to find a spot on the map called \"Devil's Fork\". Drake was overcome with joy when Shawn hit the treasure chest with the shovel. The tribe gathered to see what the chest contained. Inside, there were goblets, candles, candleholders, canned foods, sugar, honey, blankets, coffee beans, and chocolate. Over at Morgan, Andrew and Ryan O. went to the other side of the island to fish, however they came back with no fish. The Drake tribe sent Trish to the Morgan camp, who Morgan greeted. Trish decided to take Morgan's lantern. Over at Drake, Burton proposed to Rupert that they throw the next immunity challenge to get rid of one of the weaker women, to which Rupert agreed.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway must cross a human checkerboard over water. When a castaway is face-to-face with an opposing tribe member, a hand-to-hand clash would occur. Whichever castaway loses balance first will have to start over. First tribe to get all of their members across wins immunity. In addition, the winning tribe will have the right to kidnap a member of the opposing tribe.At the immunity challenge, Drake sat out two of their strongest players, Burton and Rupert, to increase the chances of Morgan winning the challenge. Morgan won their first challenge, sending Drake to Tribal Council for the first time. After Morgan won, Probst announced that they had the right to kidnap one member of Drake; they chose Rupert. At Drake, many alliances scrambled, with Jon as a swing vote. Jon showed up drunk to Tribal Council and awkwardly answered hostile questions from Jeff Probst. In the end, the vote went against Burton, who was blindsided by a secret alliance that included his closest friend, Shawn."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":5,"episode_summary":"With Rupert still at their camp, the Morgan tribe moved their shelter to avoid the rising tide. Meanwhile, Drake decided to save their last can of spam for Rupert upon his return. Some Drake members were worried that Rupert may have given too much information to the Morgan tribe. \n\nReward challenge: Each tribe must retrieve rungs for a ladder from the water. In addition, they must retrieve a golden idol hidden in an old Spanish well in the jungle. First tribe to assemble their ladder and place the golden idol at the top of their platform wins a portable shower, a pot for boiling water, two jerrycans, rain jackets, sponges, shampoo and conditioner.At the reward challenge, Drake fell behind as they lost control of their boat due to Jon's faulty navigating. Morgan found their golden idol and quickly assembled their ladder, winning their first reward challenge. After Morgan won, Rupert was offered a chance to return to the Morgan camp to enjoy a shower, however Rupert decided to return to his Drake camp. Winning the challenge, Morgan had to send one member to the Drake camp to take one item. They chose Andrew, who took a bag of rice from Drake. When Drake got Tree Mail inviting them to an immunity challenge that likely involved eating exotic seafood, they decided to strategize. Michelle claimed to have a high tolerance for eating undesirable foods, so Drake decided to use her as a decoy. Their plan was that Michelle would pretend to have trouble downing the food in order to fool Morgan into competing with her in the event of a tiebreaker. \n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway must spin a wheel, which will determine which two ingredients would be blended together for them to drink. The ingredients were red shellfish, sardines, razor clams, bleeding clams, sea water, squid, mango, rock oysters, conch, octopus, coconut juice, and an ingredient of Jeff's choice. The first person unable to keep their concoction down will lose immunity for their whole tribe.The immunity challenge initially resulted in a tie, with all contestants managing to swallow the concoctions. However, when it was time for Morgan to choose a Drake member, they chose Sandra and not Michelle. Sandra was able to drink her concoction, however she had trouble swallowing the sardine, allowing Morgan's Darrah to win immunity for her tribe. Sandra and Michelle both felt vulnerable. Jon was upset at Michelle for not pretending to have trouble drinking the concoction, and she was ultimately unanimously eliminated."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Rupert was upset when an injured baby snake he named Balboa died overnight. A local pelican nicknamed \"Pelican Pete\" came to the Morgan camp; Osten feared the pelican and threatened it with a machete, amusing his tribemates. After Rupert suggested that they raise the floor of the Drake shelter, the Drake tribe got to work. Jon and Sandra were annoyed at Shawn due to his complaining. \n\nReward challenge: Each tribe must fire a cannon and try to hit designated targets. First tribe to hit all of their designated targets wins a grill, spices, lobsters, and steak. Should Morgan win, they would receive their second piece of the map to their treasure.At the reward challenge, it was a very close competition. It came down to Andrew from Morgan and Christa from Drake. Andrew missed his target, allowing Christa to hit her target. Christa was successful, winning reward for Drake. The Drake barbecued their steaks, and enjoyed their feast. Jon was sent to the Morgan camp to take an item. Jon took their water pot and enjoyed shampoo. While at Morgan, Jon revealed that Drake had thrown one of the immunity challenges, which irritated Andrew. \n\nImmunity challenge: Tribe members would hold a pole on their shoulders behind their neck. Periodically, weight would be added to the poles. The castaways would decide which poles the weight would added on for the opposing tribe. Last tribe standing wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Morgan chose to add all of the weight to Rupert's pole, while Drake decided to spread the weight evenly among the Morgan tribe. Morgan's strategy worked, as Rupert could not hold the weight. In the end, Christa couldn't compete against that last two Morgan men left, giving Morgan yet another immunity win. After losing immunity, Trish wanted to oust Rupert as she saw him as a threat. Her alliance needed Shawn to complete the plan. But Christa caught the exchange and she and Sandra told Rupert about the plan, and they started a secret alliance of their own. In the end, Shawn flipped and Trish's plan backfired as she was voted off."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":7,"episode_summary":"While returning to camp from Tribal Council, Rupert was enraged at Jon as Rupert had suspected that Jon had voted for him. Jon admitted to voting for Rupert, and the two apologized for the good of their tribe. Over at Morgan, the rainy weather prevented the hungry tribe members from fishing. They were eating their diminishing supply of rice and beans. When the contestants arrived at the challenge, they were shocked to see the castaways they had previously voted off return as a ghost tribe, The Outcasts. The immunity challenge would be between three tribes, the first one in Survivor history. \n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway except for one designated \"rescuer\" from each tribe will be prisoners in a set of cages. The rescuer must free all of their tribemates. First tribe to free all of their prisoners and cross the finish line with their flag wins.\nAdditional stipulation: Drake and Morgan are competing against the Outcasts, rather than each other. Any tribe that finishes behind the Outcasts must go to Tribal Council and vote out a member. The Outcasts will then hold a special Tribal Council in which they will vote members back into the game, enough to replace each person that just left. Those returning will be given automatic immunity for the next Tribal Council. If the Outcasts finish last, Drake and Morgan will be safe, and all six Outcasts leave the game permanently.Morgan fell behind in the challenge as Drake took the lead, with The Outcasts not far behind. In the end, The Outcasts managed to unlock the last door, cross the finish line, and win the challenge, sending both Morgan and Drake to Tribal Council. After the challenge, Morgan was upset that they would have to let one of The Outcasts back into their tribe, as Andrew's blustering about immediately voting out any returning Outcast was snuffed when Tijuana reminded him that said returnee would be immune from their first vote back on a new tribe. Osten asked his tribemates to vote him off. Over at Drake, Jon and Shawn were both on the chopping block. The tribe decided to let the two make their case as to why they should stay. Shawn spoke of trust, while Jon spoke of work ethic. In the end, work ethic proved to be more important as Shawn was voted out. Soon after, at the Morgan Tribal Council, Osten decided to take the opportunity to quit the game, to the lengthy and pointed disgust of Jeff Probst. For the first time, voting was done verbally and was unanimous, as Osten's torch was snuffed and put to rest on the ground for the remainder of the season. In addition, because his reasons for quitting were insufficient, he did not get a closing speech; instead, all viewers saw was footage of the Morgan tribe departing Tribal Council and ending with a final shot of his laid-down torch."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":8,"episode_summary":"The Outcasts, a tribe consisting of the first six departed castaways, had to vote two people back into the game. At The Outcasts' Tribal Council, each Outcast made their plea as to why they should be voted back into the game. It was decided, in a 3-3-2-2-1-1 vote, that Burton and Lillian would return to represent the Outcasts. After randomly selecting who would go to which tribe, Burton returned to Drake and Lillian returned to Morgan. When Burton returned to Drake, his tribe apologized, and were happy to have him back. When Lillian returned to Morgan, she was welcomed by her old tribe, but she wasn't remotely appeased by the general niceness of everyone but Andrew, and Andrew stupidly complained to Lill at length about how he hated the Outcast twist and felt it should never have happened. Over at Drake, Burton, Christa and Rupert made an alliance to vote out Jon at their next Tribal Council. They thought that Jon's lack of honesty could work against them once the tribes merge. When the two tribes arrived at what they thought would be a reward challenge, Probst announced that the tribes were merging and it was decided that Drake's camp would be better to live in. \n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway must pull themselves along a rope under a floating wood platform without coming up for air. The challenge ran in two heats. The two winners of each heat would compete against each other in the final heat. The winner of the final heat wins individual immunity.After the announcement of the merge, the first individual immunity challenge took place, in which Burton won narrowly over Rupert. When the castaways arrived at camp, they named the merged tribe \"Balboa\" after Rupert's pet snake. The hungry castaways then saw a merge feast ready for them. Having been voted out of Morgan and then returned, Lillian was the potential swing vote for the next Tribal Council. Andrew begged her to rejoin the Morgans and vote out a Drake member, but Lill had already made plans to vote with the Drakes and left Andrew speechless when she coldly told him that he'd previously screwed her over and blindsided her, making it plain she was not interested in anything he had to say. At Tribal Council, Burton decided to give the Immunity Necklace to Rupert, since he was already immune due to the Outcast twist. In the end, Lillian joined the former Drake members to pay revenge to Andrew, who was eliminated in a 6-4 decision against Jon."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":9,"episode_summary":"As morning came, Lillian got up early and celebrated her renewed life in the game by being the first to get to work. After his strongest ally was ousted, Ryan O. feared that he was on the chopping block. While fishing, Ryan O. tried to align himself with Burton to oust former Drake members Christa, Rupert, and Sandra. When Burton returned from fishing, he returned with an electric ray, although he still wanted to cook it and enjoy the meat. \n\nReward challenge: The challenge was done in three heats. Each castaway would use a slingshot to fire marbles at targets. Whenever a target is hit, it will ignite a flame that would climb to the next target. The first person from each heat to hit their three targets in ascending order would move on to the final round. The first person in the final round to hit their three targets wins pancakes and maple syrup, bacon and eggs, sweet rolls, orange juice to enjoyed in a remote, attractive location.At the Reward challenge, Ryan O. won the first heat, Rupert won the second, and Lillian won the third. Rupert won the final round. Rupert decided to give his reward to Burton, who took Lillian along with him. While Burton and Lil were having breakfast, Burton brought up a plan to eliminate Rupert as soon as possible. The plan was for Lillian to eliminate Rupert by creating an alliance with Darrah and Tijuana, while lying to Christa and Rupert. At camp, Sandra and Christa contemplated eliminating Rupert and Burton. \n\nImmunity challenge: The immunity challenge involved a trivia test based on local pirate lore. Each castaway who answers correctly would get to place coconuts in the bins of those who answered incorrectly. When a castaway receives five coconuts, they are out of the challenge. Last castaway standing wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Ryan O. was quickly eliminated. The challenge's final two were Rupert and Christa. Rupert answered the final question correctly and placed the fifth coconut into Christa's bin, winning immunity. Knowing that he could be next to go, Ryan O. tried to create alliances with Burton, then Tijuana and Darrah. Rupert was worried that Ryan O. could be successful. In the end, Rupert's fears were for naught as Ryan O. was unanimously sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Jon was annoyed at the arrogance from the Christa, Rupert, and Sandra alliance. Jon and Burton made a plan to break that alliance, as both players knew that their only real chance to win the game was face off with each other in an all-Outcast Final 2. They planned to align with Darrah and Tijuana. While Rupert was fishing and Christa and Sandra were getting lemons, Jon and Burton made efforts to align with Darrah and Tijuana. The two women agreed to align with Jon and Burton.\n\nReward challenge: The challenge took place at the wreck of an old Spanish galleon. The castaways must team up in pairs to complete two rounds. Each pair must race up a cargo net, and then swing on a rope to the other side of the ship. Then they must climb up to a crow's nest and slide down a large canvas sail. The winning pairs would then play against each other, but to make it more difficult, they must carry bags of puzzle pieces that they must assemble at the end of the course. The pair to win the final round wins a trip on a luxury catamaran with pizza and beer.At the reward challenge, it was a tight race between the team of Burton and Lillian and the team of Christa and Darrah. Darrah missed the rope that Christa tossed, allowing Burton and Lillian to advance to the final round. Meanwhile, over at the other round, Rupert and Jon had a lead over Tijuana and Sandra. In the end, despite Jon forgetting to ring the bell, Rupert and Jon won their round. The final round was between the team of Burton and Lillian and the team of Rupert and Jon. It was a tight race, however Burton and Lillian finished the puzzle first, winning reward. Burton decided to give his reward to Jon, while Lillian kept hers. Back at camp, Rupert's trust for Burton was dwindling after Burton chose to give his reward to Jon over Rupert. While Jon and Lillian enjoyed their reward, Jon told Lillian how she could convince Rupert, Christa and Sandra that she was on their side, when in reality, she's actually aligned with Burton, Darrah, Jon and Tijuana. When Lillian and Jon returned to camp, Rupert tried to align with Lillian. Lillian managed to convince Rupert that she was loyal to his alliance, when in reality she was aligned with Burton, Darrah, Jon and Tijuana. \n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways must use a blowgun. Each castaway was designated an area on a large target. The castaways must try to use their blowgun to knock out the other player's darts into the other castaways areas. Last player left in the challenge wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Rupert had an early lead. However, in the end, it came down to Burton, Jon and Lillian. Burton ended up winning immunity. Back at camp, the alliance of Burton, Darrah, Jon, Lillian, and Tijuana pretended that Darrah was going to be next one to go, however Rupert didn't trust them fully. Still convinced that Lillian was on his side, Rupert thought that there would be a tie. At Tribal Council, Rupert was blindsided after Lillian voted against him, and he was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":11,"episode_summary":"After Rupert was voted out, Sandra was furious at Jon for breaking their alliance. After Sandra's yelling, the Balboa tribe members noticed that someone had thrown away a bucket of fish Rupert had caught. Christa was blamed for it; however Sandra admitted in an interview that she had spilled the fish. At the reward challenge, the castaways were reunited with their loved ones. Before the challenge started, Jon was saddened to hear from his best friend Dan that his grandmother had died. \n\nReward challenge: Probst brought the castaways' loved ones to the challenge. The castaways would ask questions about themselves. Both the castaways and their loved ones would write down an answer. When the two answers matched, the castaway would get to choose which loved one to take a step towards walking off a plank, falling into the ocean. The last loved one left gets to stay at the Balboa camp for a day.When the challenge started, Sandra chose Dan to take a step on the plank. Jon was upset, as he wanted to hear the details about his grandmother's death. Sandra's husband was the first loved one sent into the ocean, followed by Christa's fiancé, Darrah's boyfriend, Burton's mother, then Tijuana's friend. With Lillian's husband and Jon's friend left, Burton was the one who decided which one would jump off the plank. Feeling sorry for Jon, Burton sent Lillian's husband off the plank. When Jon won reward, he learned that he and his friend would share the camp on their own, with the other castaways banished to a separate island (formerly the Morgan tribe's island) without their loved ones. While Jon and his friend Dan were alone at the Balboa camp, the two of them revealed that the story about Jon's grandmother's death was pre-planned and that she was actually still alive, as Jon had decided to use this tactic to gain sympathy and any possible edge at a relatively late point in the game. Jon and Dan celebrated alone. When the rest of Balboa returned, Sandra and Christa attempted to get Tijuana to break her alliance with Burton, Jon, and Lillian. During the night, as Burton and Jon went away from camp to talk about strategy, Sandra called Tijuana to come with her and listen to Burton and Jon's strategic talk. Sandra did this to ensure there was no doubt about the alliance between Burton, Jon, and Lillian. Sandra and Tijuana returned before Jon and Burton, and Tijuana told Darrah what she heard. \n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway has a board with individual letter blocks spelling \"SURVIVOR PEARL ISLANDS\". Immunity will be earned by the first castaways to successfully use the letters to form twenty new, correctly spelled English words, excluding plurals, proper nouns, acronyms, and the original three words.  Each contestant can submit their work only once, and is eliminated if their results are invalid.Christa, Tijuana, and Jon were all eliminated for misspellings, and Burton then initially won immunity; however, Probst recalled the departing castaways and stripped Burton of immunity, announcing he had overlooked Burton's misspelling of \"LIAISON\" as \"LIASON\".  As the contestants had already seen and discussed each others' results, remaining contestants Darrah, Lillian, and Sandra were given a new challenge:  from the phrase \"OUTWIT OUTPLAY OUTLAST\", write as many words of four or more letters as possible in one minute. Darrah won. Jon and Burton were worried that they were on the chopping block as the women outnumbered the men. Knowing that women of the former Morgan tribe wanted Burton out, Jon tried to create an alliance with Sandra and Christa; however Sandra said she didn't trust Jon. In the end, Jon ended up convincing the former Drake tribe and Lillian to vote out Tijuana, and she became the third member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":12,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council in which Tijuana was voted out, Sandra and Christa had second thoughts about their alliance with Jon. They tried to break their alliance with him by attempting to align with Darrah. \n\nReward challenge: The castaways would compete in teams of three. Beginning on a platform in the water, one team member would cross a balance beam, then dive underwater to retrieve paddles tied to floating boxes. The other two must then untie three barrels from an underwater cable and move on to a ladder, where the last paddle is tied. All three team members would then jump into the water to retrieve their designated boat and then they would race the boat to the first floating platform. First team to touch the platform wins a night at a spa where the team would enjoy a shower and a massage followed by dinner.The team of Darrah, Jon, and Lillian won the reward challenge. After returning from the reward, Jon and Burton discussed voting out Christa next due to her being aligned with Rupert previously.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway would use old muskets to shoot at designated targets covered with kerosene. First castaway to set all three of their targets ablaze wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Christa took an early lead even though she had no experience of using guns, however Darrah quickly tied with Christa when she hit two of her targets. Christa just missed her final target, allowing Darrah to hit her final target and win immunity for the second time in a row. After the immunity challenge, Lillian and Christa were both told that the other was going home. In the end, Christa was voted out and became the fourth member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":13,"episode_summary":"After voting out Christa, Jon and Burton decided they were going to betray Darrah for being an immunity threat, while Sandra tried to plot revenge after losing her last ally.\n\nReward challenge: Each castaway must untie themselves from a post, find a key buried in the sand, escape from a jail cell, fire a slingshot at plates, and then solve a puzzle. First castaway to complete the challenge wins a GMC Envoy along with a night in Panama City where the winner and an invitee would camp out in ruins and enjoy a feast.Burton won the reward challenge and took Jon with him on the trip, which unfortunately for him and Jon allowed the women to openly discuss Burton and Jon's schemes. Lillian told Darrah that Jon and Burton wanted to betray her for being a physical threat, so Lillian, Darrah, and Sandra all decided to form an all female final three alliance. The women decided to vote off Burton, or Jon if Burton wins immunity. The next day, Lillian expressed doubt over the plan to vote Burton or Jon out, and afraid that they would berate her for their betrayal. Sandra decided to feign sadness to stop the guys from realizing there was a plot against them. When Burton and Jon returned to camp, only Darrah and Lillian were there to welcome her. Darrah and Lillian told the guys that Sandra was ready to leave and didn't strategize to vote either of them out. Burton was sceptical about it and asked Lillian questions about if it was true, while Jon approached Sandra and then decided to make a deal that it won't be her next to go home and sticking with the plan to vote off Darrah at the next tribal council by making Sandra swear on her kids. In reality, Sandra mouthed to herself that she swore on her kids to get rid of Jon and Burton. \n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway must use a canteen to pour water in a tube that will lift a key to open a lock. The lock releases a rope, allowing the castaway to lower a plank into the water. First castaway to lower five planks and walk them wins immunity.Darrah won immunity for the third consecutive time. Jon realized that Lillian was being withdrawn and questioned her loyalty. Jon told Burton that he thought that the women made a deal to get rid of Burton, so the two men tried to lobby Sandra and Darrah to vote out Lillian with them. In the end, the women stuck together to send Burton to the jury, making the first player in Survivor history be voted out twice in a single season."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":14,"episode_summary":"The final four was awakened by a motorboat to find host Jeff Probst with breakfast and champagne. After their meal, they were excited to see letters from home. Knowing that he was on the chopping block, Jon told Darrah that it would be a good strategic move to vote out Lillian because she was a threat to gain jury votes. Lillian convinced Sandra that Darrah should go because of her three straight immunity wins. \n\nImmunity challenge: The challenge would be a test of survival and pirate folklore knowledge. In a twist, the final four castaways would be competing against each other and the jury, which will be playing as a team. Should the jury win, none of the final four castaways would be immune. Should one of the remaining castaways win, that castaway would be safe from elimination.At the immunity challenge, the jury took an early lead, however Jon quickly tied the score. In the end, the jury answered the final question correctly, meaning that none of the remaining castaways were immune. At Tribal Council, Darrah was seen as a physical threat and she was voted out.\nAfter receiving Tree Mail at midnight, the final three got up early to paddle to a shipwreck. Jeff Probst told them that they were about to take part in the ceremony for fallen castaways. After all the torches of those voted out (Osten's was left at Tribal Council) were placed on the wreck, the final three shot muskets at the shipwreck and it erupted and burned to the ground. \n\nImmunity challenge: The final three must balance themselves on a small raft floating in the water. They could use their hands and feet for balance, but not their behind or knees. Last castaway on their raft wins immunity and a guaranteed spot in the final two.At the immunity challenge, Jon and Sandra felt uncomfortable, while Lillian felt fine. Sandra fell early. Jon tried to make a final two deal with Lillian, however she refused because she felt she could beat him without a deal. After over two hours, Jon lost his balance, guaranteeing Lillian a spot in the final two. After Lillian won the final immunity challenge, Jon and Sandra both lobbied Lillian to take them to the final two. Jon argued that he was widely hated by the jury and that taking him to the final two would guarantee Lillian a million dollars. Sandra told Lillian that she has a family she'd like to provide for. Lillian was still unsure of whom to take to the final two. After much consideration, Lillian decided to vote out Jon due to Sandra's motivation of providing for her family.\nAt the final Tribal Council, Lillian talked about her honesty in her speech and admitted that it was a mistake to bring her Boy Scout uniform to the game, as most of the jury members were much harsher towards her than Sandra. Sandra talked about her work ethic and said that she didn't ride any coattails, not even Rupert's."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US07","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, the votes were revealed and it was announced Sandra beat out Lillian to become the Sole Survivor in a 6-1 vote, with Lillian only receiving Tijuana's vote (and that vote largely came when Sandra told Tijuana that Lill was responsible for everyone's ouster to the Jury and Tijuana decided that Lill doing so made her an effective player who deserved her vote) and Sandra getting all the rest. The castaways discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":1,"episode_summary":"Escorted by a local military unit from Panama, the eighteen All-Stars arrived at Panama already divided into three tribes, Chapera, Mogo Mogo and Saboga. They were only given water canteens to start, and received no information and no fire. The three tribes received maps to their respective camps. When Chapera made it to their camp, they found a well with contaminated water. The tribe decided to focus on building their shelter. Over at Mogo Mogo, the tribe members were scrambling to create alliances. Eventually, they agreed that no one trusted each other, and that they would focus on their camp before alliances. Chapera and Saboga desperately needed fire. At Chapera, Alicia and Boston Rob were fighting over whether to focus on fire or shelter. After the fight, Boston Rob formed an alliance with Amber, while Rudy and Rupert formed an alliance at Saboga. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The contestants would start on floating platforms, and they must dive down to retrieve a raft on the ocean floor. Then they must transport the raft to the beach, and pass and light torches along the way. First two tribes to light their torches and bring the raft to the beach win immunity. This challenge was based on the very first challenge of the first season.At the immunity challenge, Richard decided to be completely naked. Chapera took an early lead. Saboga fell behind when Rupert dove to release a raft that was already free. Although Saboga managed to catch up, Chapera and Mogo Mogo won immunity. When Saboga returned to camp, Jenna L. tried to convince Rudy and Rupert to vote out either Ethan or Tina because they have already won in the past. Ethan tried to convince them that it would be a good strategic move to keep a winner around to guarantee a Final 2 victory. With Ethan and Tina voting for Jenna L., and Jenna L. and Jerri voting for Tina, Rudy and Rupert would be the swing votes. In the end, Rudy and Rupert voted for Tina, sending her home. In addition, since Saboga was unable to start a fire at camp, their torches remained at the Tribal Council until they were able to do so."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":2,"episode_summary":"As it rained heavily over Saboga, the tribe began losing morale. Rudy took the tribes mind off of hunger and thirst by telling them stories from his time in Vietnam. At Mogo Mogo, the tribe had varying reactions as Richard decided to walk around camp naked. The three tribes were shocked to find a box secured with three locks at each of their camps.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribes must swim out to retrieve five logs from the ocean. After one log is retrieved, the tribes would lose one member so the final log is carried by only one tribemate. The tribes must then use the logs to build a staircase. First tribe to build their staircase and use it to reach a platform wins either blankets or flint, a pot, and a clue to the first key of their box. Should the winning tribe choose the second option, all three tribes would receive flint and a pot. Based on a challenge from Africa.At the reward challenge, Chapera took an early lead while Saboga fell behind as Rudy struggled with the swimming. However, Saboga pulled ahead as they assembled their staircase and won reward. After the challenge, Jeff explained that the boxes at their camps contained rice. After giving Saboga the choice between the two rewards, they chose to take the clue, giving all three tribes flint and a pot. \n\nImmunity Challenge: There are three boats at the ocean floor. Each tribe must swim down to retrieve their boat, and then clear the heavy cargo and water out of it. First two tribes to row to the shore and carry their boat over the finish line win immunity. Based on a challenge from Marquesas.At the immunity challenge, Saboga took an early lead, however Chapera and Mogo Mogo pulled ahead by flipping their boat to empty the water, and Chapera and Mogo Mogo ended up winning immunity, sending Saboga to Tribal Council for a second time in a row. After they lost the challenge, the Saboga tribe considered voting out Ethan for being a past winner and Rudy for being the weakest link and for his injured ankle. In the end, Saboga chose to keep their tribe strong, and Rudy was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":3,"episode_summary":"At Mogo Mogo, Jenna M. was suffering from depression due to leaving behind her mother, who was fighting cancer. Meanwhile. Saboga, having lost two immunity challenges, knew they needed to be productive. Rupert caught a fish for his tribe's lunch. \n\nReward Challenge: Prior the challenge, each tribe received a box containing supplies from Home Depot. Using the tools provided, each tribe had 24 hours to build a home at their camp. Once the 24 hours is up, Jeff will send a judge to rate the homes on size, strength, and creativity. The top two tribes receive a clue to a key for their box of rice, with the winning tribe winning an additional reward of blankets, mats and wine.At the reward challenge, Chapera elected Boston Rob as their leader as he had experience with construction. Meanwhile, at Saboga, Rupert took the leadership role and came up with the idea of a log cabin. However, things got tense as Jerri disagreed with his design. Mogo Mogo decided to build a treehouse. Colby and Lex worked on Mogo Mogo's home, while Jenna M. and Shii Ann suggested creative touches. However, Colby and Lex weren't interested in the women's ideas, causing a rift between the men and women of Mogo Mogo. The next day, Jeff showed up at each camp with a licensed contractor to judge the homes. The judge inspected all three homes, and decided that Chapera's home was the winner. Chapera received their reward airdropped. After a rainstorm, Jenna M. announced that it was time to go home so she could be with her dying mother. When the tribes arrived at what was supposed to be the immunity challenge, Jenna M. announced that it was bad judgment to become an All-Star, and that she was needed at home. Jeff announced that both the immunity challenge and Tribal Council would be canceled due to Jenna M.'s voluntary leave. Jenna M. then boarded the boat to take her home.\n\nEight days after Jenna M. returned home, her mother died of cancer."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":4,"episode_summary":"At Chapera, a romantic relationship was developing between Amber and Boston Rob. At Saboga, heavy rainfalls caused flooding in their home, so they had no protection from the storm. After the storm, Mogo Mogo remade their fire and Richard caught three eels for his tribe. \n\nReward Challenge: Each castaway will receive a box containing four items. The goal was to match an item to another castaway's item. The tribe scoring the most matches wins a reward of a shower, toilet, mouthwash, shampoo, soap, toilet paper, toothbrushes, and toothpaste. Additionally, the first and second place tribes would receive a clue to one of the keys to open the box of rice. Challenge from The Amazon.At the reward challenge, it came down to Chapera's Alicia who guessed the final item of Jerri's box correctly, giving Chapera another victory. After enjoying their reward, Chapera went out to find their final key. To show his tribe that he could contribute, Rob C. went to dig for the key, however Boston Rob found the key first. Chapera then enjoyed a meal of rice. \n\nImmunity Challenge: One castaway from each tribe would work as a caller to direct their tribemates, who would be blindfolded and teamed up in pairs, in collecting fifteen large puzzle pieces from a field. Once all of the puzzle pieces were collected, the entire tribe would work together to assemble the puzzle. The first two tribes to complete their puzzle win immunity. Based on The Amazon.At the immunity challenge, the blindfolded castaways were constantly bumping into each other. Saboga finished their puzzle first, and Mogo Mogo placed their last puzzle piece just in time, sending Chapera to their first Tribal Council. After they lost immunity, Alicia, Rob C., and Sue were on the chopping block. The alliance of Amber and Boston Rob seemed to be in control. Boston Rob attempted to ease Rob C.'s fear of going home by offering an alliance with him, however Rob C. was skeptical. In the end, Rob C.'s savvy gameplay from his original season caused his tribe to view him as a threat, and he was voted out unanimously."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":5,"episode_summary":"The three tribes were surprised to find a bundle of bamboo poles at their camp. They were instructed to construct a raft for the reward challenge out of the bamboo poles. At Saboga, Rupert led his tribe in building a raft that resembled a catamaran. At Mogo Mogo, after attempts to design a raft that would hold everyone's weight failed, the tribe chose to not construct a raft at all and just bundled the poles together. At Chapera, Sue chose to urinate on their raft. \n\nReward Challenge: Prior to the reward challenge, each tribe had to construct a raft out of bamboo poles. The tribes must use their rafts to rescue two tribemates, and then they must paddle out to a buoy to grab a flag. Then they must race their flag to the shore and cross the finish line. Based on a challenge from Marquesas. First tribe to cross the finish line win fishing hooks and a fishing spear, plus a clue to one of the keys to their box of rice. The losing tribe would be dissolved into the first and second place tribes.Mogo Mogo had a slight lead early on, with Chapera in second place. In the end, Mogo Mogo won, with Chapera in second place. In last place, the Saboga members would be dissolved between Chapera and Mogo Mogo. Ethan and Jerri joined Mogo Mogo, while Jenna L. and Rupert joined Chapera. When the two tribes returned to camp, the former Saboga members were impressed with their new homes. At Mogo Mogo, Ethan caught fish for his new tribe, causing some rivalry between him and Richard.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must race across balance beams to retrieve tribe-colored flags. When two castaways of opposing tribes met in the middle, they must battle until one falls into the water. First tribe to collect twenty flags wins immunity. Based on a challenge from Thailand.At the immunity challenge, Boston Rob lead Chapera to another victory, sending Mogo Mogo to Tribal Council. After they lost immunity, Mogo Mogo planned to vote out Ethan as a past winner. However, Colby changed his mind and felt Ethan would a better asset for the tribe and that Richard was untrustworthy and would tear the tribe apart.  Colby and Ethan approached Lex about this plan, and Lex agreed, wanting to take out Richard before a merge.  The guys then approached Jerri about the plan to eliminate Richard.  Colby tried to make sure Richard had no idea that he was in trouble by assuring him that Ethan would be voted out and that the original Mogo Mogos would stick together.  Lex then approached Kathy and Shii Ann about taking Richard out and although they agreed, they felt it was a mistake and that Colby was becoming too powerful.  Jerri tried to target Colby in order to get revenge on him.  She told Richard about the plan to eliminate him and proposed that he and the girls team up to take out Colby.  Richard agreed and felt confident that the plan to get him out would fail.  Kathy soon found herself as a swing vote for she could either side with the guys and eliminate Richard and not ruffle any feathers or go with the girls and try to make a bold game move by sending Colby home. At tribal council, Colby said that some people were flying under the radar and not really trying to make any bold moves.  In the end, Colby's plan came to fruition as the girls abandoned the plan and Richard was sent home unanimously."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":6,"episode_summary":"At Chapera, Rupert became the tribe's provider by catching fish. At Mogo Mogo, there was tension between Colby and Shii Ann due to comments at the previous Tribal Council. Colby was annoyed by Shii Ann's method of flying under the radar. Meanwhile, Sue's tribemates got concerned when she became increasingly upset regarding Richard's brief, but inappropriate bodily contact with her at the previous challenge. Feeling vulnerable, Amber and Boston Rob formed an alliance with former Saboga members Jenna L. and Rupert. Prior to the reward challenge, Jeff asked Sue about the incident at the previous challenge, causing her to become enraged. Sue said that she couldn't take it anymore and quit the game. After Sue's departure, the tribes chose to go on with the reward challenge.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribes must use a balance beam to stomp food items into the air. The goal was for the castaways to all of their tribe's food items into their tribe's basket. First tribe to have all their food items in the basket wins the basket as reward, plus shish kabobs. This challenge was based on Africa.Chapera took an early lead as Tom landed a bag into a basket on his first try. However Jenna L. struggled, causing Mogo Mogo to pull ahead and win the challenge. Sue's departure lead to some discussion on both tribes. Chapera agreed to stick together to the end, and shared a moment for Sue. Due to Sue's departure, there was no immunity challenge nor Tribal Council."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":7,"episode_summary":"At Mogo Mogo, Jerri awoke with complaints, annoying her tribemates. After receiving Tree Mail, Chapera discussed their chances of winning the challenge. Rupert motivated his tribe by giving them an inspirational speech. \n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The castaways would start on floating platforms. One at a time, the castaways must swim to retrieve designated floating puzzle pieces. Once all puzzle pieces are gathered, they must assemble them to form a boat, which they must paddle to shore. One tribe member must then run through the jungle to raise a flag and retrieve additional paddles. The tribes must then race back to their floating platform. First tribe to arrive at their platform wins immunity, plus a barbecue feast, beer and dessert. In a twist, the winning tribe must kidnap a member of the losing tribe to join them on the reward. The kidnapped castaway would also be immune from the vote.At the reward/immunity challenge, Jerri caused Mogo Mogo to fall behind by struggling to unclip a puzzle piece. However, Mogo Mogo pulled ahead when they assembled their puzzle more quickly. However, in the jungle, Rob M. was able to untie the paddles faster than Ethan, leading Chapera to a victory. Chapera chose to kidnap Kathy, sparing her from Tribal Council. At the reward, the Chaperas attempted to convince Kathy that in the event of a merge, it would be in her best interest to flip on Mogo Mogo. When Mogo Mogo returned to camp, Ethan blamed himself for the loss and felt concerned that due to his performance that the tribe would see no reason to keep him around. Ethan felt his best chance was to target Jerri. Colby and Ethan conspired to vote out Jerri, with the approval of Lex. However, Lex felt that this was the perfect opportunity to make a bold move by taking out Colby as he felt his mistake in Africa was not making a big move. Lex then approached Jerri, mentioning that Colby was the biggest threat. Jerri was more than happy to send him home, as she still felt ill feelings towards Colby for his betrayal on her back in Australia. Lex then approached Shii Ann about the plan as well. Shii Ann agreed but had second thoughts as she was getting tired of Jerri's constant complaining and her laziness. In the end, Shii Ann sided with Lex and Jerri, and therefore Colby was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":8,"episode_summary":"During a rainstorm, Kathy returned to Mogo Mogo from her reward with the Chapera tribe while her tribe was at Tribal Council. Kathy attempted to build a fire. As morning came, the tribes received Tree Mail instructing them to choose one ambassador to go to the other tribe's camp. Mogo Mogo chose Kathy, who had already built a relationship with Chapera. A draw determined that Jenna L. from Chapera would be sent to Mogo Mogo. \nWhen Jenna L. and Kathy arrived at the opposing camps, they learned that they would choose three items that their tribe would receive should they win reward. \n\nReward Challenge: Each castaway would face off with a castaway of the same gender on the opposing tribe on a free-spinning log. First person to hit the water would be out of the challenge, and the winner would score a point for their tribe. First tribe to score five points wins reward. Based on a challenge from The Amazon. Should Chapera win, they would be given Mogo Mogo's grill, a bag of their rice, and their Hawaiian sling. Should Mogo Mogo win, they would be given Chapera's blanket, parachute, and tarp.At the reward challenge, Mogo Mogo took an early lead as Shii Ann outlasted Alicia. However, Chapera tied when Boston Rob outlasted Ethan. In the end, Amber outlasted Kathy and scored the fifth and final point for Chapera. When Chapera, returned to camp, they celebrated their new tools, and Amber and Rob M. shared their first kiss. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must face off with members of the other tribe using weapons, blowguns, and spears to hit targets. The final round would be between one member from each tribe. Each finalist receives a bow and arrow, with the number of arrows determined by how many hits their tribe got in the first round. Once all the arrows are used, the person with their arrow closest to the target's center wins immunity for their tribe. Based on a challenge from The Amazon.At the immunity challenge, Jerri was the only castaway to hit the target with a blowgun. The final round consisted of Mogo Mogo's Jerri and Chapera's Boston Rob. Boston Rob lead Chapera to another victory. After Mogo Mogo lost immunity, Lex formed an alliance to outlast Ethan. Lex decided to tell Ethan that he was going home next, which angered Ethan, who attempted to form an alliance to outlast Jerri. In the end, Ethan's attempt to target Jerri was unsuccessful, and he was voted out unanimously."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Recap of the events in the All-Stars season with some additional never seen footage thrown in."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":10,"episode_summary":"At Chapera, Rupert and Tom woke up early to work. Tom decided to go fishing for the first time and caught a fish. After losing three immunity challenges in a row, the morale at Mogo Mogo was low. The tribes received Tree Mail with paint in the color of their tribe. Mogo Mogo decided to save the paint, while the Chapera tribe used it to paint each other's bodies. As the tribes assembled for a reward challenge, they were told that there was no challenge. Instead, members of Chapera and Mogo Mogo were instructed to pair off and enjoy a picnic. After the castaways completed their picnic, they thought that they were going to merge, but instead discovered they were actually switching tribes. The castaways were instructed to draw a random buff from a vase. By chance, each castaway was switched to the opposite tribe, with the exception of Amber, who remained on the Chapera tribe with the four former Mogo Mogo tribe members. With Amber now on the opposing tribe, Boston Rob was upset to be separated from her. The new Chapera tribe, consisting of the entire former Mogo Mogo tribe and Amber, was impressed by their new camp. The new Mogo Mogo tribe, consisting entirely of former Chapera tribe members, was disappointed with their new home.  Prior to the immunity challenge, Boston Rob expressed his desire to go the final two with Amber and would do whatever it would take to get her there.  Rob decided that he needed to make a big move that would affect everybody. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes must answer questions about Survivor from season one to season seven. First tribe to answer ten questions correctly wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, the score was even until Mogo Mogo answered a question incorrectly. However, Mogo Mogo pulled ahead and evened the score. With the scores tied at 10–10, the castaways were asked a tiebreaker question. The castaways were asked to list the first castaways voted out in the first seven seasons. Chapera answered six out of seven correctly, however Mogo Mogo got all seven correct, winning immunity. As the tribes gathered to return to their camps, Boston Rob approached Lex and offered him a deal, \"You take care of her, I'll take care of you.\"  Lex promised that he would do his best. When Chapera returned to camp, it came down to Amber, as the only former Chapera member on the tribe, and Jerri, who was on the chopping block previously due to her perceived lack of work ethic. Amber lobbied Kathy to save her, while Jerri lobbied Lex. In the end, Lex stayed true to his deal with Boston Rob, and Jerri was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":11,"episode_summary":"After Amber was switched to the opposing tribe, Boston Rob was worried that she may have been voted out. Knowing that his closest ally could be out of the game, he formed an alliance with Alicia. When the tribes gathered for the reward challenge, Boston Rob was relieved to see that Amber was spared. \n\nReward Challenge: This challenge was a Survivor version of musical chairs. The castaways must dive underwater to retrieve a colored pot. Castaways without a pot would be eliminated from the challenge until there are only three left. The last three would then race to the shore carrying a heavy crate. The first castaway to carry their crate across the finish line wins the reward of a night at a spa along with a feast and a massage.. Based on a challenge from Marquesas.During the reward challenge, Lex, Boston Rob and Rupert moved on to the final round, and Rupert was the first to cross the finish line, winning reward. Rupert chose Amber and Jenna L. to join him on the reward. As the tribes gathered for the immunity challenge, Amber, Jenna L. and Rupert were dropped off by helicopter. Jeff then announced that the tribes were merging, and that they would live at the old Saboga camp. They were given new blue buffs, as well as two Hawaiian slings and a tarp. The castaways chose the name \"Chaboga Mogo\" for the merged tribe by combining the names of the three original tribes. Lex approached Boston Rob about his deal. Boston Rob promised to keep him safe, however later revealed that he never had any intention of keeping his deal with Lex and that it was all a game so that Amber could stay. Boston Rob then approached Amber to tell her that Lex was going next.  Amber was hesitant, as she had promised Lex and Kathy that Boston Rob and her would be the final four. Amber didn't want to break her word just yet and tried to convince Rob that they should play it safe by eliminating Jenna or Rupert but Boston Rob felt that Lex was too big a threat to keep around. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The men and the women competed separately for immunity. The first round is a competition to determine who can hold their breath underwater the longest. Two men and two women would move on the final round, where they must swim underwater to release ten buoys. The first man and the first woman to release ten buoys win immunity. This challenge was based on the first individual immunity challenge of Borneo.At the immunity challenge, Amber and Kathy moved on to the final round, along with Lex and Boston Rob. Amber struggled to unhook the seventh buoy, allowing Kathy to pull ahead and win immunity. Lex had a lead, however he struggled to unhook the final buoy, allowing Boston Rob make a comeback and win immunity. When Chaboga Mogo returned to camp, Kathy and Lex were skeptical about Boston Rob's deal. Lex felt that he had a made a potential game-ending blunder by sending Jerri home instead of Amber.  Lex's worst fears were realized as Boston Rob bluntly told Lex that the original Chaperas would be sticking together and that he was their target at tribal council.  Kathy was also upset at Boston Rob for going back on his word.  Extremely angry, Lex yelled at Boston Rob that he had compromised his numbers at the merge by honoring his word with Boston Rob. Boston Rob realized that had Jerri stayed and Amber gone, Big Tom may have possibly switched sides.  Kathy felt that Lex didn't deserve to go and considered giving her immunity to Lex and sacrificing herself so that Lex would have another chance to take Boston Rob out. Kathy kept the necklace and Lex was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":12,"episode_summary":"As Chaboga Mogo returned from Tribal Council, heavy rainfall had reduced their fire significantly. When the castaways gathered for a challenge, they were informed that it would be for reward and immunity. The castaways were given a taste of the videos from home. \n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The castaways would compete in two teams of four to navigate through an obstacle course. The must fight through twigs, navigate a series of balance beams, and participate in a belly crawl. Then they must climb a 10-foot wall, build a bridge and cross it, use a rope ladder to climb to a tower and cross a rope bridge. One team member must wait while the rest descend a ladder and dig out a buried flag. Once the flag is dug up, the one left waiting must zip down a line to grab a key. They must use the key to unlock a gate, allowing the team members to pass through and cross the finish line. First team to cross the finish line wins a reward of letters from home as well as rain parkas. Then the winning four must compete against each other for immunity. Each team member must complete slide puzzle. First castaway to slide out their knife and cut a rope to raise a flag wins immunity, plus a chance to watch a video from home while enjoying hot chocolate.The teams for the challenge were Alicia, Amber, Boston Rob, and Shii Ann versus Jenna L., Kathy, Rupert, and Tom. Alicia's team took an early lead and won the reward. Boston Rob quickly solved the puzzle to slide his knife out, and chopped the rope to raise his flag, winning immunity. Boston Rob chose to forgo seeing his video so everybody could receive letters from home. After everyone finished reading their letters from home, Kathy attempted to break the Chapera alliance by telling Rupert and Tom that Amber, Jenna L., and Boston Rob wouldn't allow anyone else to reach the final three. In the end, Kathy's efforts to break the Chapera alliance failed, and she was voted out, becoming the second member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":13,"episode_summary":"As the castaways returned from Tribal Council, Shii Ann, the last ex-Mogo Mogo left in the game knew she was on the chopping block. She lobbied Boston Rob to keep her in the game and failed. \n\nReward Challenge: At the challenge site, there were a set of masks for each castaway. Each castaway must fill out a questionnaire that asks personal information and private opinions on others. Then they must vote on what they think the most common answer would be. Each castaway who answers a question correctly would be allowed to cut a section of rope connected to the swinging log of the castaway they wanted eliminated. Three cuts of the rope would send the logs smashing into the mask. Last person left with their mask intact wins reward. All the castaways would go to a restaurant, with the winner choosing what each castaway would eat at the restaurant.At the reward challenge, Boston Rob was found to be the most trustworthy, and Shii Ann and Tom each took a hit. The castaways thought that Alicia and Shii Ann were the least deserving of being an All-Star, and Tom was out of the challenge. After Alicia, Jenna L., and Shii Ann were eliminated, the castaways found out that Alicia was voted \"most likely to be under the false assumption that she was smart\", upsetting Alicia. When Rob M. was eliminated, it came down to Amber and Rupert. Both answered a question correctly, however Rupert was already ahead and won reward. After returning to camp, Alicia was upset at what she found out at the challenge. As the castaways arrived at the restaurant, Rupert chose a steak for himself (which came with an all you can drink bar), a cheeseburger for Rob M., a hot dog for Jenna L., a sandwich for Amber, a salad for Alicia, and potatoes for Tom, leaving Shii Ann with cold rice. During the dinner, Rupert got drunk and the other castaways were annoyed by Shii Ann's craving of Rupert's steak. After returning from the restaurant, Shii Ann attempted to form an alliance with Alicia and failed. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Each castaway would stand on a post directly under a bucket of water connected to their wrists. When a castaway drops their hand, they get poured on and are eliminated from the challenge. Last dry castaway wins immunity. This Challenge was based on one from Africa.At the immunity challenge, Amber and Jenna L. fell out early, with Alicia and Tom following. Rob M. moved his arm to swat at an insect, and only Rupert and Shii Ann remained. After Rupert was eliminated, Shii Ann won immunity, forcing the ex-Chapera alliance to vote out one of their own. After the castaways returned to camp, the Chapera alliance knew they had to turn on one of their own. Rob M. began to worry that Amber may be playing him. However, Rob M.'s fears proved untrue, as Alicia was voted out and became the third member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":14,"episode_summary":"As the castaways gathered for the reward challenge, they were excited to see their loved ones. Jeff surprised the castaways when he announced that the loved ones would participate in the challenge instead of the All-Stars. \n\nReward Challenge: The loved ones must eat types of indigenous foods from past seasons. Each round will feature a different food item, with the loved one that finishes last being eliminated from the challenge. Last loved one left wins a night with their loved one at the old Chapera camp. Challenge was based on one from Thailand.Amber's mother was eliminated first, followed by Shii Ann's mother and Rupert's wife. Jenna L.'s brother broke the rules by drinking water during a tarantula dish. It was down to Rob M.'s brother and Tom's son. Tom's son quickly ate the final item, winning reward. Tom was offered the chance to invite one other castaway and their loved one to join them. He chose Rob M. and his brother to join him. When Rob M. and Tom arrived at the old Chapera camp with their loved ones, there with beer and pizza waiting for them. Rob M. and Tom both discussed their strategies privately to their loved one. When the four men returned to the Chaboga Mogo camp, the loved ones were put to work. Tom's son helped out, however he broke the tribe's fishing spear, which upset Rupert. Rob M.'s brother wanted to relax. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The goal of this challenge is to ignite the top of a \"teeter-totter tower\". East castaway must gather firewood and use matches to start a fire in one bucket. Then they must fill a bucket on the opposite side of the teeter-totter with water. To make things more difficult, the water bucket will have a hole in it. First castaway to ignite their tower wins immunity. The challenge was based on one from The Australian Outback.At the immunity challenge, it came down to Shii Ann and Tom. Tom's fire ignited the fuse first, securing him immunity. After returning the camp, Shii Ann attempted to break the Chapera alliance. She lobbied Amber, Rupert, and Tom to vote out Jenna L., giving her some comfort. In the end, Shii Ann's lobbying proved ineffective, as she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Jenna L. and Rupert discussed their alliance, and talked about voting out Rob M. As they were strategizing, Rob M. appeared and got paranoid.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways must cross a long balance beam, with the last to cross being eliminated from the challenge. The last four must then do a military crawl to a slide puzzle, with the last to finish the puzzle being eliminated from the challenge. The last three must then stomp an item from a balance beam into a raised bucket three times, with the last one to complete the round being eliminated. The last two must then climb a rope ladder to catch a flying fox. First castaway to jump off the flying fox and grab a set of keys wins a brand new Chevrolet Colorado, as well as a trip to a drive-in to watch a screening of Lord of the Flies in their new truck.The reward challenge came down to Amber and Rob M., however Rob M. was faster in climbing the rope ladder to win the challenge. Rob M. had a chance to bring one other castaway with him on the reward. He chose Amber. As Amber and Rob M. arrived at the drive-in, Amber was excited to receive a reward of her own, a brand new Chevrolet Malibu. When Amber and Rob M. returned to camp, Rob M.'s paranoia increased when he saw Rupert and Tom going to talk privately. Feeling vulnerable, Rob M. managed to turn Rupert and Tom against each other.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must search through a bundle of letters for a list of all the past Survivor tribes. The seventeen tribe names will intersect and share letters. Once all the tribe names are found, the castaways must unscramble the intersecting letters to form a winning word. First castaway to unscramble the winning word wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Rob M. figured out the final word, \"Chaboga Mogo,\" before Amber, winning immunity. After the immunity challenge, the final five made sure their alliances were still intact. Amber got worried that Tom would join Jenna L. and Rupert to vote her off. Amber and Rob M. formed an alliance with Tom to vote out Jenna L. In the end, Tom stayed true to his word and voted for Jenna L., however Amber and Rob M. did not stay true to their word, and Tom was voted out, becoming the fifth member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":16,"episode_summary":"The final four were awakened by Jeff, who landed on their beach with a breakfast of eggs, bacon, mimosas, and pancakes. He also gave them a camera and a scrapbook. Amber and Jenna discussed Jenna's position in the game. She could vote for Amber or Rob – whichever one doesn't win immunity, causing a tie between one of them and Rupert, or she could vote with Amber and Rob to eliminate Rupert.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The final four castaways must navigate through a maze and avoid several obstacles. At the end of each corridor would be a rung for a ladder. The castaways must collect eight rungs in order to climb up to a tower. First castaway to assemble their ladder and climb to the top of their tower wins immunity. This challenge was based on one from The Amazon.At the immunity challenge, Jenna fell behind early, while Rob got confused and fell behind later on. It was between Amber and Rupert. Amber climbed to the tower first, winning immunity. After the immunity challenge, Amber and Rob reminded Jenna none of the three would ever beat Rupert in a jury vote and that if she were to cut Rupert at the final three as opposed to now she would also lose his vote, and that she was good in challenges and could get to the finals still by winning the final immunity challenge. In the end, Jenna voted for Rupert, who became the sixth member of the jury.\nJeff woke up the final three and gave them a map to follow. They first went to a decoration stand filled with jewelry and paint and decorated themselves to resemble Pearl Islands tribesmen. Their trek then continued with the traditional path of the fallen castaways' torches and led them to the final immunity challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The final three castaways must balance themselves barefoot on a post while holding onto an idol with one hand. Any castaway who moves either foot off the post or touched the idol with their free hand will be eliminated from the challenge. Last castaway left standing wins immunity. This challenge was based on the final immunity challenge of Borneo.At the immunity challenge, Jenna was eliminated after two hours. After Jenna was eliminated, Amber tried to convince Rob to let her win immunity, however Rob wanted to finish the challenge fair and square. Amber accidentally touched the idol with her free hand, giving Rob immunity. Rob made it clear that he was voting out Jenna, however Amber was still a bit paranoid. In the end, Rob kept his word and voted out Jenna, propelling him and Amber to the final two.\nOn their final night, Amber and Rob prepared to meet the jury the next day. With the camp to themselves for the first time, Amber and Rob enjoyed romantic moments. At the final Tribal Council, Rob defended his actions as part of the game. Amber admitted that her position in the final two was partly due to luck and riding of Rob's coattails. The jurors made emotional statements, with many jurors angry at Rob for his deception."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US08","episode":17,"episode_summary":"Months later, the votes were read to reveal the winner. But before the votes were read, Rob proposed marriage to Amber, and she accepted. Ultimately, the jury had voted Amber the Sole Survivor in a 4–3 vote; Amber received the votes of Lex, Alicia, Shii Ann and Tom, while Rob got Kathy, Rupert, and Jenna's votes. The castaways then discussed the season with host Jeff Probst. Additionally, Amber—as the season's winner—was given the right to award a new car to one of the jurors; she chose Shii Ann. Jeff also revealed another $1 million prize, to be awarded to one of the 18 castaways by public vote, with the results to be announced four days later on Survivor: America's Tribal Council."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":1,"episode_summary":"After being divided into two tribes separated by gender, with the men and women in the Lopevi and Yasur tribes respectively, and witnessing a Vanuatuan ceremony, the tribes headed their separate ways through the dark night in order to find their respective camps. As the Yasur tribe negotiated the dangerous rocky beach path, factions quickly developed. At the Lopevi camp, Chad stunned his tribemates by revealing his prosthetic foot, which he received as a result of a battle with cancer. \n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The castaways would compete for both immunity and reward by going through an obstacle course. Each castaway would go beneath a mud crawl and solve a box maze. Following the box maze, they would then cross over a very narrow balance beam to light a fire in order to drop a torch. The torch would be needed to light a final wok, which would signify victory. The winning tribe receives tribal immunity and flint.At the combined Reward and Immunity Challenge, the men made quick work of the puzzle maze and took their lead to the balance beam, where they struggled to cross it one by one. The men maintained their lead until Chris simply could not cross the balance beam. Taking advantage of this, the Yasur tribe took the lead and received immunity. After returning to camp from the crushing defeat, most of the Lopevi members deemed it a foregone conclusion that Chris would be the first one voted off because of his balance beam failure. Chris, however, built an alliance on the fly with some of the older members of Lopevi to get rid of the younger members of the tribe. At Tribal Council, the older member's alliance held strong and Brook was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":2,"episode_summary":"As the tribes convened for the Reward Challenge, Jeff explained that the challenge would involve balance and teamwork, and that if Lopevi were to win, they would secure flint for their tribe.\n\nReward Challenge: Eight castaways from each tribe would stand on a narrow beam over water. One at a time, the castaways would move down the beam, squeezing past their fellow tribe members. The castaway moving down the beam would not be allowed to touch more than one tribe member at a time. Any castaway to fall off would have to start over. The first tribe to get all eight members to the finish platform would win pillows, blankets, and a hammock.During the challenge, the women of Yasur made easy work of the competition and finished well ahead of Lopevi, winning the reward of comfort. Alliances were still forming at Yasur; the tribe was split by age with the younger and older alliances. After learning that she had been a target, Twila formed an alliance with Dolly. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes would be required to assemble a series of platforms to an observation deck. Each platform would be made from puzzle pieces. Blindfolded, the castaways would need to retrieve these puzzle pieces from the land and sea with the aid of a fellow tribe member who would not be blindfolded. Once all the pieces are gathered, the tribe would then remove their blindfolds in order to put together their platform puzzles. The first tribe to piece together the puzzle pieces would win immunity.When the tribes started the Immunity Challenge, chaos began as the blindfolded castaways bumped into each other. Lopevi took the lead, while the Yasur women were in disarray when Scout mistakenly overlooked the final puzzle piece in the water. Lopevi made quick work of the rest of the puzzles, and they secured flint as well as Tribal Immunity. After experiencing their first defeat and returning to their camp, the Yasur women vacillated between Eliza or Leann. At Tribal Council, Dolly found herself to be the swing vote; she, however, was perceived as a threat to the rest of her tribe, and got voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Personalities clashed at both tribes. At Lopevi, Lea questioned Rory's work ethic. At Yasur, Mia expressed her dislike for Twila. Julie, Lisa, and Mia got concerned that Eliza may have changed her vote. At the reward challenge, Jeff announced that both tribes would go to Tribal Council, and that the winning tribe would compete for individual immunity. \n\nReward Challenge: The tribe members must work together to escape a set of three locked cages. To make their way through, they must untie planks, use grappling hooks to retrieve keys, and master a series of interlocking siderails. First tribe to escape the cages wins reward, and will go on to compete in the individual immunity challenge. The winning tribe receives fishing gear.Lopevi had an early lead, but they lost one of their grappling hooks, allowing Yasur to pull ahead. However, Lopevi managed to pull ahead once Yasur had trouble obtaining their final key. Lopevi won reward, as well as a chance to compete for immunity individually. \n\nIndividual Immunity Challenge: The castaways must dig seven ladder rungs out of the sand in order to assemble a puzzle-like ladder. Once the ladder is built, the castaways must climb to the top. First castaway to climb to the top wins Individual Immunity. In addition, the winning castaway would be able to grant immunity to a castaway on the opposing tribe.At the immunity challenge, it came down to Chad and John K. Chad came up first with all seven rungs, however he had trouble assembling the puzzle-like ladder, allowing John K. to pull ahead and win immunity. At Yasur, Eliza lobbied to vote out Scout, however Mia lobbied to vote out her nemesis, Twila. At Lopevi, Brady argued to Lea that the alliance of older men should be broken up to vote out Rory, who didn't get along with many of his tribemates. Chris had to talk to Lea and convince him to stay loyal. In the end, Lopevi's alliance of older men held strong, and sent John P. home. At Yasur's Tribal Council, John K. granted Ami immunity as he knew she would probably be safe anyway. The alliance of younger women was broken when Lisa flipped, voting Mia out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":4,"episode_summary":"After Lisa flipped alliances at the previous Tribal Council, tensions arose at Yasur and the women were unsure whom to trust. The older men of Lopevi were happy to see that they were succeeding in voting out the younger men. Knowing he was on the chopping block, the younger Brady attempted to become Lopevi's provider of fish, however he brought back only a small catch. \n\nReward Challenge: Pairs of several Vanuatu cultural items were hidden in a group of baskets. The castaways must take turns finding matching pairs in the field of baskets. First tribe to find five pairs wins a Vanuatu tribesman named Dah's visit to the winning tribe's camp to teach them about fishing, hunting and shelter.With the help of Ami, Eliza, Julie, and Leann, Yasur took an early lead at the reward challenge and eventually won. When the Vanuatu tribesman, Dah, arrived at the Yasur camp, he taught the tribe how to retrieve coconuts for milk and showed them roots, nuts, and sugarcane. The Yasur women felt that Dah's visit boosted their team morale. At Lopevi, Travis became homesick and the feud between Lea and Rory intensified. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribe members must race to match a series of colored tiles according to the symbol painted on them. Each tribe must designate a member to be their \"eyes\". The \"eyes\" will stand on a perch to guide their tribe as they arrange their tiles in a grid so that no color or symbol is repeated in one row or column. First tribe to decipher the puzzle wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Lopevi selected Rory to be their \"eyes\" and Yasur selected Eliza for theirs. Yasur managed to secure another victory. Knowing they were on the chopping block, Brady and John K. lobbied the older men's alliance to keep them around in order to win challenges. In the end, loyalty outweighed strength, and Brady was unanimously sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":5,"episode_summary":"After a cold night, there was a conflict at Lopevi over who gets to sleep near the fire. Travis, who always slept near the fire, refused to consider a rotation of sleeping positions that will give all Lopevi members a chance to sleep near the fire. As morning came, both tribes were shocked to see Vanuatu tribesmen approach their shore, instructing them to choose a \"chief\". Lopevi chose Lea while Yasur chose Scout. As the tribes speculated about the role of being the chief, both tribes were shaken up by an earthquake. As the tribes gathered for a reward challenge, Jeff announced that the tribes would be switched. The two chiefs, Lea and Scout, would be the leaders of the new tribes. Scout had to assign the castaways to each tribe, while Lea would get to choose which tribe he would lead. After the tribes were switched, the new Lopevi tribe was Chad, Chris, John K., Julie, and Twila with Lea as their leader. The new Yasur tribe was Ami, Eliza, Leann, Lisa, Rory, and Travis with Scout as the leader. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways must pull themselves along an underwater rope, retrieving markers along the way. The tribe the collects the most markers in the time given wins a trip to the waterfalls of Vanuatu, plus beer and Pringles chips.At the reward challenge, the new Lopevi tribe fell behind as Chris lost his marker. However, they managed to pull ahead when Ami from Yasur was unable to dive that deep and returned empty-handed. Chris found the marker, and came back from underwater, winning reward for Lopevi. As they enjoyed their reward, the new Lopevi tribe bonded over their beer and Pringles. The women at Yasur welcomed new arrivals Rory and Travis. As Jeff was explaining the immunity challenge, Ami caught Travis trying to communicate something to Chris, who was now on the opposing tribe. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes must race through the jungle to retrieve paddles and parts of a canoe. Once all the pieces are gathered, the tribes must assemble their canoe and paddle out in the ocean to retrieve their flag. First tribe to bring their flag to the shore wins immunity.During the challenge, Yasur fell behind when Rory had trouble untying a knot to release a paddle. Lopevi ended up winning immunity. As the only men on Yasur, Rory and Travis were on the chopping block, however Eliza argued that they could go on a losing streak without the men. Despite Eliza's arguments, Travis was not trusted due to his attempt to communicate with Chris during the challenge, and he was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Rory was upset that the only other Yasur male, Travis, was voted out. At Lopevi, Julie and Twila made predictions of who Yasur voted out. After receiving Tree Mail, the Yasur tribe gathered to hear a speech from Rory about fairness. \n\nReward Challenge: The tribe members must race through a muddy pigpen in order to retrieve tribe-colored pigs. First tribe to bring ten pigs back to their tribe pen wins steak and eggs.At the reward challenge, Lea placed the final pig into the pen, winning reward for Lopevi. While Lopevi enjoyed their steaks, the Yasur tribe discussed Eliza's poor performance in the reward challenge. At Lopevi, Lea and Twila discussed their alliances. Without Rory and Travis, the older men welcomed Twila into their alliance. \n\nImmunity Challenge: From a platform in the water, each tribe member must navigate obstacle course to retrieve a pieces of a tiki. The castaways must avoid both above and underwater obstacles. The tribes must then bring the pieces ashore to assemble their tiki. First tribe to assemble their tiki correctly wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Ami and Chris collapsed on the beach. Rory gave Yasur a lead, however Leann had trouble underwater, allowing Lopevi to win immunity once again. After Yasur lost immunity, Leann blamed herself for the loss of the challenge. Eliza, Leann and Rory were on the chopping block. However, Ami decided that Lisa couldn't be trusted and convinced Eliza, Leann, and Rory to vote for Lisa. In the end, Ami's plan came to fruition, and Lisa was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":7,"episode_summary":"At Lopevi, John K. decided to slack off from work, which irritated some of his tribemates. At Yasur, since being the only man left, Rory was feeling vulnerable. \n\nReward Challenge: One tribe member at a time must open coconuts, then they must race through an obstacle course with the coconut juice, and fill up their tribe's receiving jar. Once the jar is full, the final tribe member must carry it to the finish line. First tribe to get their full jar across the finish line wins a trip to a café to enjoy coffee, juice, treats, and love from home.At the reward challenge, Leann almost lost the challenge for Yasur when she tripped. However, she managed to bring the full jar across the finish line, winning reward for Yasur. At the café the Yasur tribe enjoyed their treats and tearfully read letters from home. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribe members must take turns using a slingshot to fire marbles at tiles. First tribe to break all twenty of their tiles wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Rory hit his tribe's final tile, winning immunity for Yasur. After returning to camp, the men of Lopevi worried that keeping the women around could be fatal mistake, as they could easily pick off the men one by one with a 6–4 advantage. Knowing that he was on the chopping block, John K. lobbied Chris and Twila to vote out Chad because of his position as a sympathy threat. In the end, the alliance of older men stuck to their original plan, and John K. was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Knowing she would probably be next on the chopping block, Julie flirted with Lea. At Yasur, Rory and Scout seemed to be doing most of the work. Being the only man on Yasur, Rory's patience was dwindling. \n\nReward Challenge: One tribe member must race into the ocean to fill a bucket with water. Then they must bring it back and toss it to a tribemate. The bucket must be tossed twice more, and the final tribe member must catch the water itself in another bucket, and use it to fill a jar. The tribes must repeat this until they have enough weight in their jar to lower it to the ground, sending a lit flame up to a fire tower. First tribe to light their fire wins cookies, milk, and chocolate cake.At the reward challenge, both tribes had trouble getting the water into their final castaway's bucket. However, Chris managed to catch water more easily by getting low to the ground, allowing Lopevi to take the lead and win reward. While enjoying their reward, Chris formed an alliance with Chad. As the tribes gathered for the immunity challenge, Jeff shocked the castaways when he announced the merge, and explained that they would be playing for individual immunity.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways were divided into two groups. The castaways must race to a series of tall wooden towers in the water and climb to the top. Then they must navigate across a balance beam, retrieve a flag, and jump off the tower and race to the beach. First two players from each group to bring three flags to the beach moves on to the final round. The final round would be the same challenge. First person to collect all three of their flags wins immunity.Immunity was won by Lea. As the castaways returned to the old Lopevi camp, they were excited to enjoy their merge feast. They chose to name the new tribe \"Alinta\", which means \"people of the fire\". Lea got nervous when he saw how close Ami and Julie were, which threatened his Lopevi alliance. With the Lopevi men's alliance and the Yasur women's alliance, Julie and Twila were the swing votes. They could either vote with their former Lopevi tribemates, or vote with the other women to eliminate the men, starting with Rory. In the end, Julie and Twila stuck with the other women, and voted out Rory."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":9,"episode_summary":"After Julie and Twila broke their alliance with the Lopevi men, it became clear that a gender war was taking place. Being the leader amongst the men, Lea became worried. \n\nReward Challenge: Each castaway is assigned three skulls. The castaways must take turns answering questions about Vanuatu history and culture. Each time a castaway answers a question correctly, they must set another player's skull on fire. The person with the last skull left wins a helicopter ride to the inland gorge of Vanuatu. They will enjoy a picnic of chicken wings and champagne in the mouth of an inactive volcano.At the reward challenge, all three men were quickly eliminated as the women burned all of their skulls. Leann won reward, and chose Julie to join her. As Julie and Leann enjoyed their picnic, they formed a final two alliance. Back at camp, the men tried to figure out how to break the female alliance. They decided to take advantage of the rift between Eliza and Scout, and use that to convince the women that Eliza should be voted out. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Each castaway must stand behind a podium containing a mosaic puzzle. Each piece of the mosaic puzzle has multiple sides, with each side a different color. The castaways would then be shown a picture showing a mosaic with a specific color scheme. The castaways will have one minute to replicate what they saw on their picture, with those making a mistake eliminated from the challenge. The puzzles will gradually become more difficult and the castaways will have less time. Last castaway standing wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, the first puzzle eliminated all three men. In the end, it came down to Ami, Julie, and Leann. Immunity was won by Ami. After returning to camp, the men continued to try and break the women's alliance. Lea convinced Twila that she was lied to by Julie and not by the Lopevi alliance. Chad suddenly realized that instead of their stupid plan to have Eliza voted out, the men should try and convince her to abandon the women's alliance that didn't really like her and join forces with them. In the end, however, the women stuck together, and Lea was voted out, becoming the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":10,"episode_summary":"As morning rose, Scout formed an alliance with Chad and Chris. Her plan was to eliminate Eliza, then Ami. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways will be split into two teams of four. One player from each team will be deemed the \"sacrificial lamb\". The \"sacrificial lamb\" must wear a harness with their hands tied. The other three team members must guide the \"sacrificial lamb\" through an obstacle course. First team to get their \"sacrificial lamb\" to the finish line wins a trip to another island, where a Vanuatu village will host a night of ritual, spiritual union, and food.The team of Ami, Chad, Chris, and Eliza won reward. Back at camp, Scout revealed her plan to eliminate Eliza before the men. Leann had doubts, however Julie and Twila considered it. After the winning team returned to camp, Scout clarified her plan to the men. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must hang onto a pole as long as they can. The last person left hanging without touching the ground wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, it came down to Chad and Twila. Twila outlasted Chad, winning immunity. After returning to camp, Scout immediately lobbied to have Eliza eliminated before the men. However, Ami still wanted to stick with their original plan. Twila ended up being the swing vote. She could vote for Eliza, with Chad, Chris and Scout and cause a tie between Chad and Eliza, or vote for Chad with Ami, Eliza, Julie and Leann, sending Chad home. However, the women ended up sticking to their original plan, and Chad was voted out, becoming the second member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Knowing he was on the chopping block, Chris, the last man left, attempted to break the female alliance. He told the women that Scout and Twila had conspired to align with Chad and Chris. As the castaways gathered for the reward challenge, Jeff shocked the castaways by announcing that the winner would get to communicate with their loved one for one hour using a computer satellite hook-up. The castaways were given a one-minute taste of the contact before the challenge started. \n\nReward Challenge: The challenge would be a memory test about what has played out in the previous challenges of this season. The castaways will be asked a series of questions. The player who answers the most questions correctly wins reward. The winner's loved one will spend a night at the Alinta campThe challenge came down to Eliza and Julie. Eliza ended up winning reward. Jeff shocked Eliza by telling her that she would actually spend a whole night with her mother. Jeff invited the loved ones for a tearful reunion with the castaways. While Eliza spent time with her mother, Ami and Leann asked Scout and Twila where their loyalties lay. They both assured Ami and Leann that they were sticking to their original plan. However, Leann revealed that she had since promised Julie a spot in the Final Four, meaning that the original plan (Leann, Ami, Scout, and Twila in the Final Four) was no longer applicable. As the castaways gathered for the immunity challenge, Jeff shocked the castaways by announcing that the loved ones would participate in the challenge. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Both the castaways and the loved ones will participate in the challenge. The castaways must sit on towers and verbally guide their blindfolded loved ones through a series of obstacles in order to retrieve bags of puzzle pieces. Once all the bags are retrieved, the castaways and their loved one must work together to assemble the puzzle. First castaway to complete the puzzle wins immunity.  This challenge was originally used in Survivor: Thailand.It came down to Ami and her girlfriend, and Chris and his fiancée. Ami and her girlfriend completed the puzzle before Chris and his fiancée, and Chris sadly told her his fate in the game was sealed. After returning to camp, the women discussed who they would vote out next. Julie and Leeann decided that Eliza didn't deserve to stay in the game any longer, which Ami then signed off on. However, Julie told Chris about Eliza's looming vote-out, and then Chris brought the information to Twila. Twila told Chris that he's been spared and he could turn the game around by talking to one person; after some back and forth, Chris realized she meant Eliza, and he went to Eliza and pleaded with her to take the chance and side with him, Scout and Twila against her former allies, which was hard for Eliza due to her dislike of Scout and Twila. Scout and Twila formed an alliance with Chris and Eliza and targeted Leann, since Ami had immunity. In the end, the new alliance of four's plan came into fruition, and Leann was voted out, becoming the third member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":12,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council in which Leann was voted out, Ami was furious at Twila for betraying her, but Twila bluntly told Ami she'd paid the price for being cocky and making it clear who was NOT in her Final 3 and Final 4 alliances. As the castaways gathered for the reward challenge, Jeff drove up in a brand new Pontiac G6, and explained that the winner would win the car. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways must race across a floating obstacle course in order to retrieve flags. First person to bring three flags back to shore wins a brand new Pontiac G6. The second and third placed castaways would join the winner on a road trip to a resort, where they will enjoy a night with food and a hot shower.It came down to Ami and Eliza as they both got their three flags. However, as they were running up to place their flags in their posts, Ami fell in the water, allowing Eliza to win the car. Being in second and third place, Ami and Chris joined Eliza on the road trip, with Chris making a critical move to outrun Julie for the reward share so that she and Ami wouldn't have their former alliance-mate/recent vote target Eliza alone to possibly re-recruit. At the reward, Ami apologized to Eliza for voting for her at the previous Tribal Council, but annoyed Eliza by claiming (falsely) that Ami and her alliance had repeatedly saved Eliza from being voted out in the past. Back at camp, Twila got worried that Ami would use the reward time to recruit Eliza into her alliance. At the reward, Ami lobbied Chris and Eliza to break their alliance with Scout and Twila. Chris explained to Eliza that strategically, it would be better to stick with Scout and Twila. Meanwhile, Ami urged Eliza to consider how many times Ami had saved her from being eliminated. Eliza thought it would be hard to write down Ami's name. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The challenge was a version of shuffleboard. Each castaway will be given six metal discs. On the board there will be a map of the Vanuatu islands. The castaways must try to get their discs on the islands. However, the castaways may use their discs to knock the other castaways' discs off the islands. The only way to keep a disc safe on an island is to drop it into a volcano on the board. The castaway with the most discs on the islands wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, it came down to Ami and Chris. Ami hit one of her own discs off an island, reducing her score by one, giving Chris immunity. After returning to camp, Ami and Julie knew they were on the chopping block. Chris, Scout and Twila got worried that Eliza would flip to Ami's side. In the end, Eliza stuck to her alliance with Twila, Chris, and Scout, and Ami was voted out, becoming the fourth member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":13,"episode_summary":"After Eliza reminded Twila of a previous broken promise at Tribal Council, Twila got furious at Eliza and her tribe. Julie took advantage of the rift between Eliza and Twila and lobbied to vote out Twila next. Eliza told her that she would consider it if Chris was on board. \n\nReward Challenge: This challenge incorporated elements from previous challenges this season. First the castaways must navigate through a mud crawl, with the last to complete the crawl being eliminated from the challenge. Then the four remaining castaways must catch a pig to bring it into their pen, with the last one to do so being eliminated from the challenge. Then the three remaining castaways must solve a tiki puzzle, with two moving on. The final two castaways must race across a balance beam, then use a slingshot to break three tiles. First castaway to break three tiles wins a trip to Mount Yasur where the winner will enjoy a picnic of hot dogs, hot chocolate, and beer.At the reward challenge, it came down to Julie and Twila. Julie ended up winning reward, and chose Chris to join her hoping that she could convince him to eliminate Twila. At the reward, Julie told Chris that Eliza had put the decision about whether or not they were going to break their alliance with Scout and Twila in his hands. After Chris and Julie returned to camp, Chris assured Scout and Twila that he was still on board with them. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Jeff will start by telling the story of Roy Mata. After he finishes the story, the castaways must race to different stations to answer questions about the story. Each time a castaway answers correctly, they would receive a white pig tusk, which they must attach to a necklace. First player to attach all five of their tusks to the necklace wins immunity.Immunity was won by Eliza. After returning from the challenge, Chris knew he was the swing vote. Chris could vote with Scout and Twila to eliminate Julie, or he could vote with Eliza and Julie to eliminate Twila. He told both Julie and Twila that he needed to vote the other off. In the end, Chris voted with Scout and Twila, and Julie was voted out. Julie became the fifth member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":14,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council, Eliza was angry at some of the things said about her. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must race through an eight-level vertical maze in order to retrieve ten colored tiles. Once they have all their tiles, they must untie the tiles to reveal letters for a word scramble. First castaway to form the correct two-word phrase wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Chris spelled out the winning phrase, \"Final Three\", correctly, winning immunity. After he won immunity, Chris celebrated with Scout and Twila. Chris tried to get Twila to give Eliza a hard time before Tribal Council, however Twila realized that he was trying to get more jury votes should they make it to the final two. In the end Chris voted with Twila and Scout, eliminating Eliza by a 3–1 vote, who became the sixth member of the jury.\nThe final three were awakened early by Jeff, who instructed them to paddle to chief Roy Mata's resting place to pay their respects to the fallen castaways. The final three passed all the torches and reminisced about the 38 days they had spent at Vanuatu. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must stand on platform holding a bow and arrow in a warrior pose. Any castaway who falls off the platform or releases their arrow will be eliminated from the challenge. The last castaway remaining would win immunity.At the final immunity challenge, Scout fell out first. After an hour, Twila lost balance, giving Chris immunity once again. After winning the final immunity challenge, Chris thought about whom to take to the final two. He felt that Twila was not as well liked as Scout, therefore he felt he could beat Twila more easily. In the end, Chris voted out Scout, who he felt was more liked by the jury. Scout became the seventh and final member of the jury.\nAt the final Tribal Council, Chris defended his actions as part of the game and said that he often didn't know who he was going to vote for until he was in the booth. Twila apologized for swearing on her son's name, and said that she worked hard and did what she needed to stay true to herself. Twila received Ami and Scout's votes, while Chris received votes from Lea, Julie, Eliza, Chad and Leann."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US09","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, Chris won the game and becoming Sole Survivor beat Twila by 5–2 votes. The castaways return to discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":1,"episode_summary":"As the twenty castaways paddled to shore, host Jeff Probst started the game by announcing an impromptu individual immunity challenge.\n\nIndividual immunity challenge: The newly marooned castaways must jump off their boat, swim across the sea and reach the drop-off beach where two individual immunity necklaces, one for each gender, are waiting.Though shocked by the twist as they were not divided into tribes yet, the castaways raced to the shoreline. Jonathan and Stephenie jumped off the boat and tried to outswim it, but the boat went far ahead of them. In the end, Ian and Jolanda each won individual immunity. The next day, Jeff Probst informed the castaways that Ian and Jolanda, as winners of the Immunity necklaces, would initiate the schoolyard-style tribe selection process, and that one man and one woman would not be chosen for tribes, and be automatically eliminated. Jonathan and Wanda were not selected. Therefore, they were forced to leave the game for good. After they left, the two tribes were given their buffs: Ian's tribe, Koror, was given brown, and Jolanda's tribe, Ulong, was given blue.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: Castaways will be on an obstacle course involving a jungle race, a cargo net crawl and a tire run. The tribe members would then arrive at a supply dump, where they would gather valuable supplies. The tribes would choose which items they want to race with. The next obstacle was a 10-foot (3.0 m) wall that the Survivors would need to get themselves and their supplies over. They would then wade through a waist-deep swamp before dropping the supplies on beach mats. The final leg would be an outrigger race on the water to retrieve their tribe flag. The first tribe to cross the finish line with their tribe flag wins all supplies they chose from the supply dump as well as ImmunityIn the first immunity challenge, the younger Ulong struggled as Jolanda insisted to take everything in the supply dump, leaving the elderly Koror, who only took the flint, with the lead and the eventual challenge win. Koror was also given the chance to stay into their old camp or to start fresh; they chose a new one, leaving the old camp solely to Ulong. Though having won the flint as well as Immunity, Koror had a mishap as their outrigger capsized and their newly acquired crate full of fire-making essentials sank in deep water. While in Ulong, Jolanda and Angie were to blame for the loss (Angie deemed as a weak link and Jolanda insisting to take all the supplies). But in the end, despite being a strong competitor, Jolanda's overly domineering attitude sealed her fate."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Now living at their new campsite, Koror's new home proved terrible when they learned that their camp is infested with rats. To make things worse, their flint is still underwater after their boat capsized while paddling to their new beach. \n\nReward challenge: Castaways were to run through a \"gauntlet\" bridge, requiring them to cross several floating obstacles over water in order to collect flags on the other side. As they were crossing, two opposing tribe members would be hurling swinging bags of sand at them all the while. If knocked off, the player would be forced to go back to the beginning. The first tribe to collect all 10 of their flags wins fishing spear, and a snorkeling set; if Ulong wins, they will receive flint.Angie from Ulong still felt isolated after deemed as a weak link from last challenge but quickly gained the respect of her teammates by singlehandedly winning the reward challenge for Ulong. While Ulong chowed down a handful of fish, Koror had to get the hard-earned flint that was still lying underwater. Despite the angry tides, Ian became victorious as he brought the flint back at camp. In both camps, romances emerged at Koror (Jenn and Gregg) and Ulong (Kim and Jeff Wilson). \n\nImmunity challenge: Two heavy foot lockers, filled with mess kits, were resting on the ocean floor. Each tribe must swim out to a marker buoy, dive down, find a rope attached to the foot locker, then pull it 50 feet (15 m) across the ocean floor. Once the foot locker reaches the start point, the tribes must unlatch the lockers, thus releasing the mess kits. Each tribe member would retrieve one mess kit, then swim back to the beach. Each mess kit had a Morse code letter inscribed on it. The first tribe to decipher the Morse code and spell out the mystery word (\"immunity\") wins Immunity.During the immunity challenge, Kim performed very badly and it seemed that she was throwing the challenge, while Koror's \"buddy system\" brought them to another Immunity win. Facing another Tribal Council, Ulong discussed voting out Ashlee, who had a questionable desire to stay and was plagued with sickness, while Kim's laziness as well as her weak performance in challenges also put her on the chopping block. But in the end, ailing Ashlee paid the price and was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":3,"episode_summary":"At Ulong, James became suspicious of Jeff Wilson and Kim's undeniable closeness and saw it as distraction, especially when Ulong needed to win immunity. Meanwhile, the still complete Koror started to get tired of each other, as Caryn and Katie bickered when they repair their shelter.\n\nReward challenge: Members from each tribe would race into the water to retrieve a safety ring. The first tribe member to fight off the opposition and swim the ring to their designated buoy would get a point. The battles would be one-on-one as well as two-on-two. The first tribe to score three wins a sewing kit.At the reward challenge, Ulong defeated Koror in another reward challenge blow-out. In an attempt to feed their hungry teammates, Ian and Tom killed a snake and tried to use its blood as bait for sharks, but failed. At Ulong, Jeff Wilson twisted his ankle when he accidentally stepped into a stray coconut. \n\nImmunity challenge: The tribes would partake in a beach run, clipped to each other by a rope and carrying backpacks with 20 pounds of sandbag weight. The tribes would begin at opposite sides of an oval course. After Jeff Probst's go-signal, the tribes would race to catch up to one another. Any tribe members who fell behind could unclip from the rope and drop out of the race, but they would be forced to pass their sandbag to another player, who must carry the extra weight. The first tribe to catch up to the other tribe and tag them would gain Immunity. A variation on this challenge was used in Survivor: Cook Islands and Survivor: Caramoan.At the immunity challenge, Jeff Wilson's injured ankle was too much to bear as he bailed himself out from the challenge. Koror won Immunity again, and Ulong faced their third successive Tribal Council. Jeff Wilson confessed that his ankle was too much torture for him and asked his team to vote him out, despite Bobby Jon and James' insistence that they oust lazy Kim. At Tribal Council, the others decided to grant Jeff Wilson's wish to leave the competition."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Ulong returned to camp from Tribal Council, with Stephenie's spirits going an all-time low and James angry and sarcastic about losing immunity challenges. \n\nReward challenge: Tribes will be given a crate full of tools (courtesy of Home Depot) and will be tasked to create a bathroom for their camp. Host Jeff Probst and Survivor production designer Jesse will then judge both bathrooms. The tribe that has the better bathroom wins a new shelter, picnic table and a patio.For the reward challenge, the tribes were instructed to elect a leader. Koror chose Ian to be the leader of the project, and Ulong chose steelworker James. When both projects were judged, it was Koror who won a deluxe shelter, further frustrating James.\n\nImmunity challenge: Tribes would face off in a series of one-on-one sumo-style battles. The Survivors would use padded duffel bags to knock their adversaries out of a ring and into the sea. The first tribe to win six bouts would take Immunity.In the immunity challenge, Koror had an early lead, but Ulong made a slight comeback. However, in the final winner-takes-all round, James was defeated by Coby, thus giving Koror another victory. With another Tribal Council coming, Kim was still perceived as a weak link as well as lazy at camp, but she tried to shake things up when she tried to pull the other Ulong girls to an alliance. In the end, though worried of gender imbalance afterwards, Angie and Stephenie joined the guys in voting out Kim."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":5,"episode_summary":"After another Tribal Council, things got worse for Ulong as they got lost in the dark on their way back to camp. While having not to visit Tribal Council for winning all the immunity challenges, Gregg and Tom complained about Willard's poor work ethic and how he seemed to enjoy having a \"free ride\" as his tribe continue to win challenges while he sat out most of the time. Before introducing the reward challenge, Jeff Probst announced that both tribes would go to Tribal Council to vote someone out. \n\nReward challenge: The tribes will race to salvage sake bottles from a shipwreck. One player at a time would be pulled to the shipwreck on a raft by their tribemates. Once the player arrived, they must dive down to retrieve a sake bottle. The first tribe to bring back six bottles wins beef stew and root beer, but to be eaten while watching the losing team's Tribal Council. However, one member will be voted out from the winning tribe before the reward is distributed.Though Ulong had an early lead, Ibrehem had difficulty in swimming, thus giving another win for Koror. \nAt Koror, the alliance of Tom, Ian, Gregg, Jenn, and Katie targeted Willard as Tom thought that Willard would take one of the spots at the Final Tribal Council, but Coby and Willard wanted to vote out Katie. Later that day, Gregg approached Coby about joining forces with Janu and Jenn to eventually blindside Tom and Ian, which Coby agreed to. \nLater at Koror's first Tribal Council, Willard was perceived as weak and a freeloader and was voted out unanimously. While watching Ulong's fifth straight Tribal Council, it was revealed that Koror will vote again, this time to give immunity to one of the Ulong. Knowing Ibrehem was Ulong's worst performer in the reward challenge, Koror granted Ibrehem individual immunity in a 3–2–2–1 vote (with Bobby Jon and Stephenie both have 2 votes and Angie with 1). Ulong's vote was originally a tie as Angie and Stephenie voted against Bobby Jon, Bobby Jon and James voted against Angie, and Ibrehem against James, causing a revote. In the end, Ibrehem and Stephenie changed their votes to Angie and she was voted out unanimously. She left in good spirits, saying she was glad she was not the first person voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":6,"episode_summary":"At Ulong, everyone was upset about Ibrehem being voted by Koror for Immunity last Tribal Council. At Koror, things were lively as the yet-impenetrable team had to do some chores around camp.\n\nReward challenge: Using an old authentic machine gun, tribe members would take turns shooting tribe-colored tiles. The first tribe to take out eight of their targets would win an excursion to a stinger-free jellyfish lake with a feast of Pringles and Mai Tai.In a closely fought reward challenge, both teams seized seven targets, but, after Stephenie shot the eighth for Ulong, Caryn was unable to tie the score for Koror, giving Ulong the victory. Back at Koror, Janu's severe shivering annoyed some tribe members, particularly Tom. \n\nImmunity challenge: Tribes will be given wood and rope and 20 minutes to construct an impenetrable fortress to protect the already-bound foot locker. After 20 minutes, the tribes would race to break into the fortress constructed by the opposing tribe and rescue their flag. The first tribe to capture their flag and hoist it up a flagpole wins Immunity.At the immunity challenge, Ulong again took the lead, but Koror's Janu worked through her fragile state and managed to give her tribe another Immunity win. With their sixth successive Tribal Council looming, Bobby Jon and Stephenie made an alliance and pointed out James's strength was weakening and Ibrehem was weak all throughout and his anomalous Immunity last Tribal Council. Despite their alliance, Bobby Jon and Stephenie cast separate votes: Bobby Jon and Ibrehem voted against James, and Stephenie and James voted against Ibrehem. In a revote, Stephenie changed her vote to James, sending him home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":7,"episode_summary":"With their roster down to only three members, camaraderie in Ulong became even closer; but Bobby Jon and Stephenie reaffirmed their alliance. At Koror, Ian and Tom competed against each other in a fishing contest. Ian brought a giant clam; not to be outdone, Tom slayed a giant shark, dazzling his tribemates. \n\nReward challenge: Tribes must construct an SOS signal. The most creative yet recognizable signal wins a plane that will airdrop a crate full of additional camping supplies, some food and sewing supplies.At the reward challenge, Ulong dismantled their shelter and spelled out their tribe name, while Koror's more comical \"Got Food?\" signal won and gave them additional camping supplies. After days of starvation, Bobby Jon brought a giant clam for his tribe hoping that it would help them win the next immunity challenge. \n\nImmunity challenge: Two tribemates must manipulate a giant sliding puzzle while the last tribe member will act as their caller. The first team to finish their puzzle (a sea star) wins Immunity.In the immunity challenge, Ulong struggled again as Bobby Jon gave up as their caller and gave the job to Stephenie. Though Stephenie made Ulong's work progress, Coby's puzzle prowess gave Koror another win to send the Ulong trio back to Tribal Council. At Ulong, Stephenie was unsure if Bobby Jon was still committed to his pact with her. Ultimately, Bobby Jon was true to his word to Stephenie and Ibrehem was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Now only a duo, Bobby Jon and Stephenie felt discomfort in losing challenges but were still eager to win. In Koror, Coby became infuriated about his female tribemates' laziness. \n\nReward challenge: The participating contestants would partake in a balut eating competition. There would be four rounds, starting with 1 balut, with each round adding another one. It was not a race, and the contestants would switch off each round  In the case of tie, the two strongest eaters would go head-to-head to eat 5 balut. The tribe to finish their balut first would win bath essentials and a portable shower containing 55 gallons of potable water.At the reward challenge, Bobby Jon struggled to swallow as he put all his servings in his mouth, but Tom strategically ate one egg at a time, thus granting Koror another victory. Back at Koror, their reward became a controversy as tribe leader Tom insisted to use the portable shower (containing drinkable water) for drinking purposes only. At Ulong, Bobby Jon became angry and blamed himself for the loss, which scared Stephenie. At Koror, Tom revealed to Ian that he has a secret alliance with Stephenie way before the tribes were created. \n\nImmunity challenge: The tribes must race out to a series of floating platforms, swim under them in order to collect puzzle pieces, swim back to shore, and drop off the puzzle pieces on the beach. Once they have collected all the pieces, the tribes must assemble the puzzle and solve a word jumble using the pieces. The first tribe to correctly unscramble the mystery word (\"victory at sea\") wins Immunity.At the immunity challenge, it was a close race, but Coby and Gregg solved their puzzle first, Koror prevailed once more. With only two members remaining it was impossible to vote either Ulong member off, so Bobby Jon and Stephenie competed in an elimination challenge at Tribal Council, where they confessed that they were uncomfortable with the idea of them being adversaries. \n\nElimination challenge: At Tribal Council, the two remaining members of Ulong must create a fire high enough to light their elevated torch. The loser will be eliminated from the game.In the elimination challenge, though skeptical about her fire-making abilities, Stephenie narrowly defeated Bobby Jon, securing her place in the game and eliminating Bobby Jon. Stephenie had to go back to Ulong camp alone."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":9,"episode_summary":"At Koror, Coby constantly complained about the others being dysfunctional, such as Janu's drama, Jenn and Katie's inactivity, and Tom's machismo. At Ulong, with all her tribemates gone, Stephenie tearfully struggled to fend for herself. But after receiving a sealed canister in the Tree Mail, she was instructed to go to the Koror camp and gleefully left her now desolate campsite. It was revealed that the canister holds a brown buff and she officially joins Koror1, while the challenges from there on out will be individual. Tired of each other, Stephenie was welcomed by Koror with open arms, but most of the tribe agreed that she was a major threat after seeing her confidence and strength. Then, two Palauan natives, Edwin and Joe, taught Koror how to fish, gave them additional fishing equipment, and held a feast. Meanwhile, Coby got fed up with everyone for leaving him out of the \"fun\" (Gregg, Ian, and Tom were chosen to go fishing instead of him) and openly told Stephenie about the others' strategies and alliances, angering most of his tribemates. \n\nImmunity challenge: The Survivors must stand on a perch under the changing weather conditions for as long as they can. Meanwhile, Jeff will occasionally tempt players with food. The last person standing will win Individual Immunity.At the first Individual immunity challenge, Coby for the second time, revealed Koror's secrets. After the others, including the obviously vulnerable Stephenie, bailed out for various food items, Tom was the last person standing and won Immunity. At Tribal Council, Coby again openly spilled all strategies and problems of his tribe; which prompted everyone except Janu to vote against him instead of Stephenie. In the end, Coby's jealousy of Ian and Tom's leadership, constant complaining and revealing too much of the tribe dynamics to Stephenie, resulted in his elimination as he became the first member of the Jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Janu clashed with Gregg and Katie because of the former's work ethic and her dramatic demeanor.\n\nReward challenge: Koror will be split into two teams of 4. The teams must race into the water to erect a custom tower using scaffolding. The first team to construct their tower, climb it, retrieve a flag and race the flag back to the beach wins an authentic Palauan Feast.In the reward challenge, the heavy scaffolding proved stress for the survivors, but the worn out team of Caryn, Gregg, Janu, and Tom won a Palauan feast. At the feast, Janu vomited, angering her fellow winners. Returning from the feast, Gregg gave Ian's team some leftovers from the feast, but Janu and Caryn impolitely ate some of it, annoying Katie. \n\nImmunity challenge: A steel cage would be set up in the water at low tide, with the castaways huddled inside under a steel tier. With the rising tide, the Survivors must fight for air, and the last player to stay under the cage would win Immunity. In a twist, the first castaway to bail out from the challenge will be sent to an untouched beach.In the immunity challenge, Janu was the first to give up and was sent to an uninhabited island, while Tom won Immunity again. In seclusion, Janu became happy as she was away from the others that alienated her. After many hours, Janu created fire and danced joyously. Back at Koror camp, the tribe was torn between Janu, who no one liked but several people wanted to keep around because she was not a threat and could be gotten rid of whenever the stronger players wanted, and Stephenie who was popular and a fierce competitor but also a huge threat to win if she could reach the final Tribal Council. In a heated Tribal Council, Janu revealed that she was fed up with the others and the game so she decided to \"throw a wrench\" to the probable plan of voting out Stephenie and voluntarily left the competition, joining Coby on the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":11,"episode_summary":"After another lucky reprieve, Stephenie tried to shake things in Koror as she conspired with the women to get rid of the males (Tom, Ian and Gregg) and take advantage of their gender majority. \n\nSurvivor Auction: Each contestant will be given US$500. The items available in the auction will be remained covered after someone takes them. Players may share money and the item. Auction will end without further notice and included food and drink items as well as letters from home.After a series of food items, Jeff then revealed letters from home in which the tribe (except Ian and Jenn) bought and declared the auction closed after. Back at camp, the castaways temporarily put the game aside and took a moment from themselves as they read their letters.\n\nImmunity challenge: Players must stand behind a line in front of 35 multicolored ceramic tiles, each color representing a different Survivor. The Survivors must toss coconuts at their tiles, trying to smash them. If a castaway smashed an opponent's tile by accident, the opponent would get the benefit. The first Survivor to smash (or to have smashed by others) all five of their tiles would win Immunity.In the immunity challenge, Tom accidentally hit one of Ian's colored tiles, which gave Ian Immunity. Despite strong lobbying, the six original Koror members ultimately turned on Stephenie, as the last Ulong standing, and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":12,"episode_summary":"With Ulong completely obliterated, the six remaining Koror members started to scramble as Tom, a physical threat, and Caryn, being on the outs, talked about their voting options and future schemes. \n\nReward challenge: Each player would be assigned a fire wok suspended over the water. Each time a Survivor correctly answers a question about Palauan culture/history, they may lower an opponent's wok. The last person with their flame still burning would win a yacht trip with two other castaways of the winner's choice.In the quiz-type reward challenge where Gregg won, he revealed his true colors as he selected Jenn and Katie over Caryn, Ian, and Tom on a luxury yacht trip, angering the trio. Back at camp, knowing she was next to go, Caryn agreed to be a new wheel with Tom and Ian for dismantling their five-person alliance with Gregg, Jenn, and Katie. At the yacht trip, Gregg, Jenn, and Katie were enjoying their massage therapy, their loved ones (Gregg's best friend, Jenn's sister, and Katie's brother-in-law) appeared as an additional reward. \n\nImmunity challenge: Players will compete through a series of obstacles they have already seen in previous challenges: navigating a net maze, solving a miniature version of the sea star puzzle, eating balut, unleashing lock-boxes and target shooting. One player would be eliminated at each round, and the last castaway standing wins Immunity.At the immunity challenge, Ian and Tom were on even ground, up until the final round, where Ian successfully hit his three targets and retain Immunity in his possession. Back at camp, Ian approached Katie about blindsiding Gregg to prevent a possible tie, much to Katie's shock. In the end, Katie avoided the possible tie and joined Caryn, Ian, and Tom in voting out Gregg."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":13,"episode_summary":"After Koror disposed Gregg, his sweetheart Jenn was shocked yet kept calm after the predicament. Meanwhile, Tom talked to Caryn about his distrust with Katie. Ian promised Katie that if he wins the reward challenge, he will take her. \n\nReward challenge: Survivors would race into the lagoon on bamboo rafts and collect a series of mileage markers. Once all the markers were collected, they must be placed under the sign marker designating the distance from Palau to various big cities. The first player to place all the markers correctly would win a Chevrolet Corvette, and an overnight stay in a hillside Palauan mansion where he will feast together with a companion of their choice.After Ian won the reward challenge, Katie was offended as Ian took Tom with him instead of her. Angered by the move and with the absence of the boys, Katie approached the other remaining girls, plotting another women's alliance. After their reward, Ian confronted Katie of his deception, but Katie got emotional and deemed him untrustworthy. Ian then begged for forgiveness, which Katie eventually accepted. \n\nImmunity challenge: Survivors must traverse a watercourse to get reference to an arrangement of various icons on a puzzle grid. Next, they must make their way back to the start to rearrange their own icons on a blank grid to match what they had seen on the course. The players must repeat the watercourse until one of them replicated their grid exactly in order to win Immunity.At the immunity challenge, Tom was not at his prime, forgetting the appearance of his grid and constantly stumbling throughout the course, but ultimately won the challenge and secured his spot in the final four. Back at camp, Ian and Tom speculated that while they were gone for the Reward, the women may have made an alliance. Ian reaffirmed his alliance with Katie and insisted to vote out Caryn. At Tribal Council, Caryn spilled out everyone's strategies and alliances, hurting Ian, Jenn, Katie, and Tom, who retaliated by unanimously voting Caryn out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":14,"episode_summary":"After a series of prickly vote-outs, the four remaining members of Koror contemplated that amidst the game-playing, unpredictable weather and intense challenges, all agreed that their closeness was unmatched. In a conversation with Jenn and Katie, Ian said that, should Tom lose the immunity challenge, he would break his deal with Tom and vote him out in order to maximize his chances of making the final two.\n\nImmunity challenge: Survivors must race along a tire crawl, then navigate through a series of vertical escape hatches to reach the top of a three-story tower. Once at the top of the tower, the Survivors must use grappling hooks to retrieve keys that unlock a hatch covering a flag, which they must raise. The first two players to finish would race down a flying fox into the ocean and retrieve a combination lock box containing another flag. After figuring out the box's combination, the Survivors must retrieve the flag and raise it. The first to raise this final flag wins Immunity.At the immunity challenge, Tom and Ian were neck-and-neck once again, but Tom triumphed for his fourth collective individual immunity win. Back at camp, the four agreed publicly that Jenn was going home, with Tom deciding to stay loyal to the final three pact he had made with Ian on day two. That night, Ian let slip to Tom that he was happy Tom won Immunity, because it would have been a hard decision for Ian if he had won. Tom was baffled by the fact that his longtime ally would have had a \"hard decision,\" so he talked to Jenn, who informed him that Ian had indeed said he would turn on Tom. At a late-night Tribal Council, all of the controversy came out in the open, with Tom and Katie hurt by Ian's lies. Katie and Ian stuck to the final three pact and voted against Jenn, but Jenn and Tom – realizing that Ian wouldn't have been true to him – voted against Ian, leaving a 2–2 tie. They were still deadlocked 1–1 after Tom and Katie re-voted. It was revealed that a challenge between Ian and Jenn would take place to resolve the tie. \n\nTiebreaker challenge: At Tribal Council, Ian and Jenn must create a fire high enough to burn through an elevated rope which will raise a flag. The loser will be eliminated from the game.Though the challenge started on even ground, Ian was the first to get the fire high enough to burn through a rope and raise a red flag, and Jenn was eliminated from the game.\nBack at camp, Tom and Katie accused Ian of being two-faced for not honoring their alliance, while the latter exclaimed that they are in a competition. After a tribute to their fallen castaways, the three remaining contestants took part in the final immunity challenge. \n\nImmunity challenge: The Survivors must each grab onto a navigational buoy and hang on while the buoy swayed from side-to-side. The last player left hanging on would win Final Immunity.Katie stepped down after almost 5 hours while Ian and Tom held onto their buoys even as the challenge approached the 12-hour mark. But with the feeling of guilt after Tom and Katie's accusations against him, Ian stepped down and asked the now-immune Tom to vote him out as a sign of integrity. Since the challenge ended at late night and it was too late to conduct a Tribal Council, Ian was verbally eliminated by Tom. The next day, Katie and Tom ceremoniously burned their shelter and everything that helped them survive the past 39 days. In the Final Tribal Council, Tom was commended for his dominance in challenges and leadership skills; but was berated for being overbearing and a sexist. Katie on the other hand praised for her honesty, but was lambasted for being two-faced, weak in challenges and riding on Ian and Tom's coattails. When Jury member Janu asked Katie to state 3 adjectives, both positive and negative, to describe her gameplay, Katie simply told Janu she didn't expect to get her vote and she was not going to answer her. Katie also responded sharply to a critical question from Caryn."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US10","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, the votes were cast with six votes to one, Tom was declared the tenth Sole Survivor over Katie. The castaways return to discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The sixteen new castaways learned upon arriving in the Guatemalan jungle that they would be joined by Bobby Jon Drinkard and Stephenie LaGrossa from Survivor: Palau as they will also compete in the season (though on opposing teams, not as teammates as before). They were also told that their first challenge would be an 11-mile (18 km) hike to a campsite near some Mayan ruins.\n\nReward Challenge: Tribes must run through the jungles of Guatemala in an 11-mile trek. Bringing their belongings and some heavy supplies, they must locate an authentic Mayan pyramid at the end of the course. The first team to reach the pyramid wins flint and the right to live among the ruins.After a grueling overnight hike, Bobby Jon's Nakúm tribe narrowly defeated Stephenie's Yaxhá tribe, giving them the right to live adjacently to the Mayan ruins, as the losing Yaxhá moved on to a less desirable campsite where they have to make their own shelter. Though victorious at their first challenge, the long hike left most of the Nakúm men cramped and in bad condition; Bobby Jon collapsed, Blake was sick shortly after being injured by a poisonous barbed plant, Jim had torn his biceps and, along with Judd, was endlessly vomiting. Despite this, medical practitioner Margaret tried to nurse them back to health.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Using their canoes, the tribes would paddle out to buoys in the lake to retrieve a torch hung from each buoy. Racing back to shore, four members would run to the top of the hill and begin hauling up the canoe with a rope. The remaining tribe members would rotate logs underneath the canoe, allowing it to roll up the hill, much like the technique the Maya used to move large items. Once the canoe passed a finish line, each tribe's remaining member would run to the top of the hill with the torch and light the victory cauldron. The first tribe to light the cauldron wins Immunity. Should Yaxhá win the challenge, they would receive their flint.In their inaugural immunity challenge, the fatigue of the Nakúm men hampered their performance, leading Yaxhá to their first victory as well as Stephenie's first win in a tribal immunity challenge. Back at Nakúm camp, the tribe decided to eliminate one of their ailing men. At tribal council, Nakúm deemed that Jim (the oldest man) was the most injured, and he was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At Nakúm, Bobby Jon was disappointed losing the first immunity challenge, fearing that his Palau losing streak might happen again, while Blake's sickness grew worse. At Yaxhá, Gary decided not to divulge his past as a former NFL quarterback, fearing that Yaxhá might brand him as a threat or deem him as already wealthy; and as a solution, he introduced himself as Gary Hawkins and claimed that he works as a landscaper (actually his current job after retiring from American football).\n\nReward Challenge: One at a time, the Survivors must sprint up a ramp, over a net run to a giant rope web, where they must climb underneath it and gather hanging bags. After untying a bag, they must drop into the water and race with their bag back to the start, where the next person would be waiting to leave. Each tribe member must attempt to get a bag once. The winning tribe receives fishing supplies.At the reward challenge, sickly Blake managed to narrowly outrun Brian, winning fishing supplies for Nakúm. After losing the challenge, Yaxhá found themselves desperately short on food, having been reduced to eating ants, grasshoppers and minnows. While at Nakúm, Blake's physical condition took a turn for the worse as he started to hyperventilate, annoying Judd.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes were tethered to ropes in a pit of mud. The first tribe to drag the other to their side of the mud pit and grab a flag would win that round. The first tribe with three flags would win Immunity. If no tribe reaches a flag in fifteen minutes, the challenge will be modified to one-on-one match-ups.At the immunity challenge, the tribes found themselves in a stalemate, causing Jeff Probst to resort to conducting one-on-one bouts. During Judd and Gary's match, Danni (a sportscaster by profession) recognized Gary as the former quarterback Gary Hogeboom and revealed it to everyone else, giving Judd time to outsmart Gary, giving Nakúm their first point. Two rounds later, Nakúm remained undefeated, thus winning their first immunity challenge and giving Bobby Jon his first win at tribal immunity. Back at Yaxhá camp, Jamie felt threatened by Stephenie, and planned to vote her out, though Gary wanted to vote either Lydia (for being the weakest) or Morgan (for being lazy at camp). Later on, Brian turned on Gary due to Danni's revelation during the challenge, but he quickly denied the allegations. Brian later pleaded to Gary that they never lost a challenge because of Lydia's weakness and admitted that Lydia was more valuable for her work ethic and campaigned for Morgan to go instead for not doing much at camp, despite her athleticism in challenges. In the end, Brian's plan to save Lydia worked, and Morgan was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":3,"episode_summary":"At Yaxhá, Brian congratulated himself about his plan of blindsiding Morgan at the last Tribal Council. The next day at Nakúm, zookeeper Cindy was fascinated about the howler monkeys waking them up every morning, but the loud noises left Judd aggravated.\n\nReward Challenge: Scattered around the challenge grounds are materials needed to construct an archeological tent. One sighted castaway must instruct his/her tribemates (blindfolded and tethered in pairs). After collecting all pieces, blindfolds can be removed and the tribe must assemble the tent. After assembling, the tribe must go back to their tribe mat. First to finish would win pillows, blankets and tarp.During the reward challenge, Yaxhá collected their pieces first, but quickly stumbled as they build their tent, giving way to Nakúm's third consecutive win. Back at camp, Yaxhá started to be fed up with their usual corn mush meal, resorting to Gary and Rafe scouring for termites. Back at Nakúm, Judd and Bobby Jon complained about Margaret's bossiness about modifying their shelter.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways compete in an elevated net court with two hoops for both tribes. Tribes must face off in randomly selected threesomes, race to the ball thrown in the center, and then pass the ball to each other in an attempt to move within shooting distance of their hoops. If a player holds the ball, he/she cannot walk and must pass it to a tribemate (violating this will force the person’s tribe to hand the ball to the other tribe)The first tribe to throw the ball through a hoop would score for their tribe. The first tribe to score five points would win Immunity.During the Mesoamerican ballgame immunity challenge, Stephenie got angry when she noticed Brianna inactive during their round and decided to pass the ball to an open Lydia, but Lydia walked with the ball (a breach in the challenge rules), forcing them to give the ball to Nakúm. In the final round, Danni shot it in the hoop, giving Nakúm another victory. Back at Yaxhá, a limping Amy confessed that she sprained her ankle during the challenge, but assured everyone that she was fine. Jamie, also fuming about Brianna's dismal challenge performance, campaigned for her ouster, while Brianna talked to Stephenie about targeting Lydia. In the end, the tribe agreed that Brianna is a liability, and she was next to go."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":4,"episode_summary":"At the Reward Challenge, the tribes were asked questions to find more out about everyone else, as well as assigning rewards such as a shower and a picnic. After a question which asked who had the most tribe pride, the tribes were reshuffled; Brooke, Cindy, Jamie, Judd, Lydia, Margaret, Rafe, and Stephenie were the new Nakúm and Amy, Blake, Bobby Jon, Brandon, Brian, Danni, and Gary were the new Yaxhá. Judd was very enthusiastic about being on a new tribe because he felt he was the least vulnerable, while Amy and Margaret were upset because they felt they were out of the running. Stephenie and Jamie began thinking that the two people most on the chopping block were Lydia, who had been on the chopping block before as being questionably weak, and Brooke, who they assumed as not very physical and could easily give them the number's advantage. At Nakúm, Judd formed a friendship with the former Yaxhá members on his tribe. Danni directly questioned Gary if he had been an NFL Quarterback, but as usual, he denied it.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Both tribes paddle out and retrieve three tribe coloured bags containing Maya war clubs. They then throw the clubs at three targets 30, 40 and 50 feet away. First tribe to have three people hit the three targets wins immunity.After the new Yaxhá tribe won the Immunity Challenge, Judd betrayed his original Nakúm teammates and helped to vote Brooke out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":5,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Margaret showed how frustrated she was with Judd for betraying Nakúm. At Yaxhá, Brian expressed how uncomfortable and annoyed he was about how religious his new tribe was.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribes had to go through three stations, first cutting a rope with a sharp rock, then through a log to release handles. The remaining four members had to use the handles to turn a wheel, which would pull a mine cart up the hill and a ramp. Six of the tribe members then had to climb into the cart, where the remaining member would cut the rope keeping the cart up, sending it flying down the hill and across the line into a sand pile. The winning tribe receives chips, drinks and a croc-proof cage.At the Reward Challenge, Jamie for Nakúm struggled to cut the ropes with a rock and Yaxhá easily won chips, drinks and a crocodile-proof swimming cage. After the loss, Stephenie tried to hide her depression from losing so many challenges. Before immunity in Nakúm, Lydia tried to cheer up her teammates by dancing.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each tribe divides into two groups of three, as well as one tribe member being left. The individual launches balls from a catapult towards the groups of three, who have a net to catch the balls between them. First tribe to catch five balls wins immunity.Nakúm won immunity. Brian was in trouble because he knew that the numbers were against him. After all, it was 3 old Yaxhá vs 4 old Nakúm. Brandon believed with sticking with the tribal lines and refused to break his bonds with former tribemates. However, Blake was wearing on everybody's nerves by telling outlandish inappropriate stories of his partying days in Texas. Brian used his cunning to \"Bait Blake\" into telling these stories which obviously angered his tribemates. When it came down to tribal council the \"Golden Boy\" Blake was voted out. Brandon stuck to his word and voted for Brian."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":6,"episode_summary":"At Yaxhá the tribe talked about the twist of Blake being voted off while in Nakúm, Margaret was feeling depressed due to being with Judd.\n\nReward Challenge: Tribes were split into pairs and one pair from each tribe competed to move a giant ball across the field and into their goal. First tribe to score three goals wins barbecue items, including a grill, burgers, beer and root beer, as well as the right to compete in an individual immunity challenge.At the Reward Challenge, it was revealed that both tribes would be attending Tribal Council. Nakúm won their second challenge in a row.\n\nIndividual Challenge: The survivors race out to collect three bags of puzzle pieces, containing eleven letter tiles. First person to unscramble the phrase \"Ancient Ruin\" wins immunity and the chance to sit in on the other tribe's tribal council and assign individual immunity to someone on the other tribe.As part of their reward, Nakúm competed in an individual Immunity Challenge, which was won by Rafe. He was also able to watch part of the Yaxhá tribal council. Before Tribal Council at Yaxhá, Brian lobbied his alliance to vote off Bobby Jon however Gary and Amy are unsure about it. At Nakúm, Judd's loud ego started to annoy several of his tribe mates. Nakúm went first to tribal council where Margaret and Judd faced off against each other trying to get the other voted off. In the end, Margaret, due to personality conflicts, was voted out of Nakúm, and at Yaxhá, Rafe gave Gary individual immunity and Brian was voted out, his tribemates perceiving him to be untrustworthy."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":7,"episode_summary":"In Nakúm after tribal council, Judd was glad that Margaret got voted out.\n\nReward Challenge: Four tribe members were attached to poles by rope and had to spin to get out and unwind each castaway. The winning tribe receives chocolate and a jungle canopy zip-line trip.Yaxhá won the reward of a jungle canopy zip-line ride and chocolate. Then, they invited Nakúm to camp for Danni's birthday. At first Nakúm was unsure, but they ended up going. They swam together in the croc-proof cage. Jamie and Cindy felt uncomfortable hanging out with Yaxhá.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes sent out one castaway at a time to dig up puzzle pieces in order to construct  a Mayan calendar.Nakúm won the Immunity Challenge. Afterwards in Yaxhá, they were unsure of whether to vote out Amy who was still suffering from the ankle injury that she had sustained in the second immunity challenge, or Bobby Jon who was threat due to his past experiences in Survivor. At Tribal Council, Yaxhá decided it was best to vote Amy out. After the vote, the four remaining Yaxhá moved to the Nakúm camp for the merger."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":8,"episode_summary":"After tribal council Nakúm was shocked to see that a merge was occurring. The next day, it was revealed in tree mail that there was a Hidden Immunity Idol located near the camp of the new Xhakúm tribe (formerly of Nakúm). The tribes merged into one and took the name Xhakúm.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Survivors were to balance a clay pot on their head while standing on a small cube for as long as possible without touching the pot. After an hour, there was a tie breaker which involved the remaining players running up the steps of a Mayan temple with the pot balanced on their heads, with the first person to the top winning immunity. If no-one reached the top, the person who got furthest up the temple steps won.At the Challenge, Jeff explained that it would be both for Reward and Immunity. However, only those who didn't feel they needed immunity would partake in the food reward while the others competed for immunity. Gary ended up winning the individual immunity via the tie breaker, in effect saving himself because the former Nakúm members (Cindy, Jamie, Judd, Lydia, Rafe, and Stephenie) decided to stick together and had been targeting Gary. During the challenge, Jamie said that Judd is doing the challenge to help his alliance and that made members from both sides mad. With Gary immune from the vote, Bobby Jon and Brandon were now on the chopping block, but Stephenie convinced her allies to keep Bobby Jon in the game, allowing him to at least make the Jury. They were stuck on voting either for Brandon, who is a threat, or Jamie who brushed many people the wrong way. In the end, Brandon, arguably the strongest player of the remaining Yaxhá members, was ousted."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":9,"episode_summary":"After tribal council, Jamie and Bobby Jon made up from last episode.\n\nReward Challenge: Survivors would use an atlatl to throw an arrow to the center of a target, closest to get the arrow to the pole wins a meal at the lodge, an open bar for the night and a choice of desserts, as well as a clue to the location of the hidden immunity idol.Judd won the reward challenge. Jamie, who finished in fourth place in the challenge, volunteered to go last so everyone else goes up one place. At the reward, Judd's dish was lobster and steak while Jamie's was a bowl of Ramon Nuts and a glass of lake water. Judd shared some of his food with Bobby Jon and Stephenie, as well as granting them access to his free bar and dessert list. After reward, Jamie told his alliance that Gary was planning to vote him out but they weren't so sure of him.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Obstacle course consisting of a balance beam whilst untying two planks, with the first four finishing moving on to a rope bridge, where the first two finishers competed in a two line balance bridge to win immunity.Jamie won immunity. Gary, targeted for elimination by the dominant Nakúm alliance, surprised the tribe with the Idol at Tribal Council. With Gary safe from the vote once again, Bobby Jon was voted out instead and became the first member of the Jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: Survivors are in teams of four, split into two pairs – one all male and one all female – and race through a mud pit obstacle course and fill a pot with corn. The winning team receives a helicopter lift to a private home with an overnight stay including food, shower, coffee, and videos from home.At the very messy reward challenge, the team of Danni, Gary, Judd, and Stephenie won a night away from camp and videos from home.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Survivors were attached to ropes and go through an obstacle course manoeuvring themselves round the obstacles. The first four to finish moved onto the final round, which consisted of one obstacle, which was three levels high. First to finish won immunity.Rafe won Immunity, edging out Cindy, and afterwards Jamie became increasingly paranoid about being voted out. Jamie wasn't originally the intended target that night, but his paranoia ended up annoying everyone else to the point where they made his worst nightmare come true, voting him out and making him the second member of the Jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: Each tribe member has three pots of corn and an answer cube. They are then asked questions on Mayan culture. Each question answered correctly allows them to smash one other tribe member's pot of corn. The last person standing wins a feast, waterfall pool and massage.Cindy won the reward challenge, and took Rafe with her on a reward of a feast, waterfall pool and massage. Back at camp, Stephenie took exception to Lydia targeting her for winning too many rewards, and as a result, Lydia started becoming an outcast from her alliance.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribe members first heard a story about a Mayan goddess, Ixchel. They then had to race to seven stations, each with a question about the story they heard. Each station had two options – one box contained a flag, one a stick. If they pulled a stick, they had to throw it into an urn and run back to the station to collect their flag. First to seven flags won immunity.Rafe won Immunity again in a close finish against Gary, and at Tribal Council, the Nakúm alliance finally succeeded in eliminating Gary, despite his best efforts to turn the heat on Judd for lying about the whereabouts of the Hidden Immunity Idol."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Survivor Auction: Each contestant will be given $500 and can only bid with $20 increments. Highest bidder gets the item. Survivors may share money, but not with the item. The auction included food and drink items and overnight visits with a loved one would end without notice.The final six's loved ones arrived at camp after the Survivor Auction. Danni won an Immunity Challenge advantage, and Judd's wife, Cindy's twin sister and Stephenie's boyfriend were permitted to stay overnight at camp. Stephenie promised Judd's wife she would have his back the remainder of the game at the reward challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The survivors competed on a multi-level board. They could move one space in any direction (not diagonally), flipping over tiles as they went along onto their red sides. When a tile is red, no-one can step onto it again. The middle platform spins, allowing relocation around the board. If you can't move, you're out. Last person standing wins immunity. Danni's advantage meant that she had a one-use power to switch players with anyone at any time.As a result of using her advantage to switch places with Stephenie, Danni won the Immunity Challenge. Safe with immunity, Danni also succeeded in turning the game around for herself by convincing Lydia, Rafe, and Stephenie that Judd was untrustworthy and too much of a threat to keep around. Judd was voted out, but not before uttering a parting shot to the remaining contestants, quote: \"Thanks guys. Hope you guys all get bit by a freakin' crocodile. Scumbags.\""}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: The second chance challenge. First, the five survivors raced across a balance beam, untying three sets of war clubs. The first three to finish used the war clubs to try and break a tile 30 feet away. The first two to finish solved a puzzle based on the Maya calendar, hopped in a cart and used a machete to cut the rope keeping the cart up sending them down the hill to the finish. The winner receives a brand new 2006 Pontiac Torrent, which they can use to drive down to an archaeologist's camp, where a barbecue is set up, along with a place to spend the night.After winning the Reward Challenge, Cindy was given the option of keeping her newly won 2006 Pontiac Torrent or giving one to each of the other remaining contestants. Cindy chose to keep the car, a decision which upset Rafe in particular. She chose to take Stephenie with her to the camp for the night on the reward, where they talked about voting out Danni next, as their alliance came into the merge with the numbers.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The survivors begin with their hands and feet shackled, whilst attached to a long rope wrapped around a pole. They must use keys to unshackle their hands, their rope, their final key and use it to unlock their feet, whilst unwinding enough rope to be able to run to the finish and release their flag. First person to release their flag wins immunity.After Stephenie won Immunity, Rafe successfully lobbied to get Cindy voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":14,"episode_summary":"The final four were surprised on the morning on Day 37 by a visit by a family of Mayans, who showed them an ancient Mayan ritual, culminating in them sacrificing a chicken to the Mayan gods.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The most complex Survivor maze so far, which consisted of six stations, containing eight puzzle pieces inside the maze. Once all eight pieces have been collected, the puzzle must then be solved by rotating the pieces until the ancient Mayan image of either a jaguar, crocodile or monkey is revealed. First person to reveal one of the images wins immunity.At the first challenge, Rafe won his third individual immunity, and Lydia was voted out as a result of her popularity with the jury. On Day 38, the final three took part in the Rites of Passage walk, collecting images and the torches of the fallen fifteen, tossing them into the fire before proceeding to their final immunity challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The survivors stood on a small rotating platform with two ropes for their aid. After one hour, they had to release a rope. After 90 minutes, they had to go it alone, with their hands not allowed to touch anything to do with the challenge. The last person standing won.After two hours, 38 minutes, Danni won the final immunity challenge. She chose to vote out Rafe, because she felt she would have a better chance in the final two against Stephenie. Stephenie was ripped into by the majority of the jury members for blatant lies, double crossing many, and switching around from various alliances on her way to the finals."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US11","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, it was revealed that Danni beat Stephenie in a 6–1 vote. The castaways return to discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":1,"episode_summary":"All 16 castaways arrived on what was later revealed as Exile Island for the start of the game. They were divided into four tribes based on their age and gender. Jeff explained the mechanics of Exile Island to the castaways and announced that they'll compete in their first reward challenge.\n\nReward Challenge: Each of the four tribes will produce one representative, who has to run across Exile Island to find a pile of skulls. The representative must smash the skull that contains a tightly bound ball of fabric. Inside the fabric was either an amulet or a stone. If they found an amulet, the representative must run back to their tribemates. If they find a stone, they must go back and select another skull and repeat the process until the amulet is found. First three tribes to finish win flint to make fire.With Viveros, Casaya and La Mina victorious, the losing tribe, Bayoneta, had to pick one of their own to stay on Exile, who would return in time for the next immunity challenge. Through Rock, Paper, Scissors, it was decided among the younger women that Misty would remain. After all the other castaways left Exile Island, Jeff gave Misty the first clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol. The older tribes fared well, with Tina's leadership at Casaya helping everyone get chores done and La Mina successfully building a bonfire, however the younger tribes were less productive.\n\nImmunity challenge: Beginning on platforms in the ocean, the tribes must race over a wall, dive into the ocean and swim to their tribe raft. The last person over the wall dives down to unclip a rope underwater, releasing the raft. The tribe then paddles the raft towards shore. Once the tribe latches their raft to the hitching post on shore, they race to solve a brainteaser puzzle, which releases a giant ring. The tribe has the option to dig down several feet and search to uncover an answer key to solve the brainteaser. Once the ring is released, the tribe attaches it to a rope that they use to throw at a grappling hook to unfurl their tribe flag. The first three tribes to raise their flags win Immunity.At the first immunity challenge, Misty returned from Exile Island and pretended she found the immunity idol hidden there, although it was not necessary when Bayoneta finished first. The male tribes La Mina and Viveros finished second and third, and Casaya headed to Tribal Council. Back at Casaya, Tina was mourning the loss of her son, who passed away a few months before filming, but later caught a sizable fish while Ruth Marie and Melinda were debating whether to vote out Cirie for being a weak link or Tina for being a social recluse. At Tribal Council, Tina accused her tribemates about their work ethic, creating animosity between her and the rest of tribe. In the end, Ruth Marie and Melinda sided with Cirie as Tina was voted out 3–1."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Following a terrible storm, the tribes gathered for a Reward Challenge and were shocked to learn they would be rearranged. Bayoneta and Viveros were disbanded, with all remaining contestants spread across the new Casaya and La Mina tribes of seven people each through a schoolyard pick, with Danielle and Terry as captains. The new La Mina tribe consisted of Austin, Dan, Misty, Nick, Ruth Marie, Sally, and Terry. The new Casaya tribe consisted of Aras, Bobby, Cirie, Courtney, Danielle, Melinda, and Shane. With Bruce left over as a result of the odd number of castaways, he was granted immunity and sent to Exile Island for three days until tribal council and would join the tribe that lost the next immunity challenge.\n\nReward challenge: The two new tribes must race through an obstacle course, collecting six wooden snakes along the way. The tribes will collect two snakes at each of three stations. Each tribe must delegate one player to carry all six snakes throughout the entire course. The first tribe to cross the finish line with all their snakes wins a fishing spear, bait and a raft.The new La Mina Tribe won the reward challenge.\n\nImmunity challenge: The tribes must transport a giant zombie head from the ocean to the beach. Each tribe has a boat anchored to the ocean floor with a large wooden box. In addition, each boat has six holes filled with rubber plugs. Five tribe members have to pull out the plugs and begin bailing water out of the boat while the other two tribe members jump into the water and start moving the boat by pulling the anchor towards shore. Once the boat is clipped onto the hitching post, it's a race up the beach to put the anchor on the finish mat. The first tribe to put the zombie head on the zombie body wins Immunity.Despite quickly losing their newly acquired spear in deep water, La Mina won the immunity challenge as well. Before Tribal Council, Shane considered quitting because of nicotine withdrawal but his newly formed alliance of Aras, Courtney, and Danielle convinced him to get over it. At Tribal Council, Bruce arrived to witness Tribal Council before joining the tribe after one of them was vote out. The five new Casaya members ganged up on the only \"Older Women\" members Cirie and Melinda, with Melinda voted out in a 5–2 vote. After Melinda's departure, Bruce joined Casaya."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":3,"episode_summary":"At Casaya, Bruce used spare T-shirts to develop a water filtration system, meaning his tribe did not need to boil the brackish water before drinking it. It proved popular with some, but Courtney met it with skepticism.\n\nReward Challenge: Using a giant slingshot, three tribe members will be the launchers, while the other four will stand on a balance beam over the water. One tribe member will launch a ball to the other four, who must catch it before it hits the water. The first tribe to catch five balls wins a kerosene lantern, water canisters, blankets, pillows, rope and a tarp.La Mina won camping essentials and the right to choose which member of Casaya would be exiled at the Reward Challenge. They chose Bruce, believing that his absence would most demoralize the tribe. Shane's mood swings continued and created friction among his alliance.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each team will compete in varying match-ups, racing head-to-head to five circles in the sand. Buried within each circle is a bag. The tribes must dig and find the bag, and then get back to the finish mat. To score, there must be at least one hand on the bag while any part of the body touches the finish mat. First tribe to score three wins immunity.Casaya won their first immunity challenge, and back at La Mina, Dan and Terry recruited Nick and Austin to target Misty due to her poor performance in the immunity challenge combined with possibly having the hidden immunity idol. Her bluff about obtaining the hidden immunity idol proved false as she was blindsided 5–2."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: Each tribe gets six floating puzzle pieces. One tribe member at a time will swim out, dive down, unclip a puzzle piece, and bring it back to the puzzle frame. Once the piece is placed in the puzzle frame, the next person can go out. When all six of the puzzle pieces have been collected, the tribe may start assembling the puzzle by matching corresponding symbols on each side of every piece. First tribe to get it together correctly win rolls of toilet paper, bath essentials and a fully functional outhouse.Before the Reward Challenge, Bruce, Aras and Shane returned from foraging for food to find the rest of their tribe had let the fire go out. After a lesson about responsibility around the campsite, they pulled together and won the Reward Challenge for bathroom and supplies, and chose to exile Terry, because they believed him to be his tribe’s leader. Bobby created some friction with his teammates by disagreeing with how the reward should be used. La Mina tried to organize their camp, but were lost without Terry. At Exile Island, Terry discovered the mysterious hidden immunity idol (a makeshift shrunken head concealed inside a bottle), which he kept as a secret from his teammates after his return.\n\nImmunity challenge: One person is seated in a chair attached to a pulley, while another person is situated directly above them in a crow's nest, where an empty water drum hangs. The other four remaining tribe members are together in pairs, which will race across a balance beam carrying buckets. Once they reach the water, they must dip their bucket in, get water, race back and empty the water into a larger pail. The person in the crow's nest will pull that pail up and empty the water into the drum. As the drum takes on water, it will lower, but the person in the chair will rise until they're high enough to pull a pin releasing their tribe's flag. First tribe to release their flag wins Immunity.Dan pulled in Ruth Marie as a fifth person in his alliance, but after losing another immunity challenge, Sally convinced the La Mina men that she was a more valuable player. In the end, strength outweighed loyalty as Ruth Marie was voted out 4–2."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Bruce's \"Zen Garden\" caused friction in Casaya and Aras felt he should instead have been helping with the daily camp chores.\n\nReward Challenge: Each tribe will designate a retriever to transport rice, beans and fish from a boat to the shore. The retriever must race out, retrieve one item and bring it back to shore, then toss the item to their tribemates, who will be lined up. The item will be tossed from one person to the next until it reaches the last person, who will toss it into the appropriate bin. Once the item is in the bin, the retriever must go out and get another item. The first two items will be a bag of rice and a bag of beans. Thereafter, the items will be fish. Once a fish gets to the end of the line, the last person must chop off its head and the tail before throwing the body into the bin. The first tribe to eight wins a sack of rice, beans and three large fish; the losing tribe was given a choice between a sack of beans or a sack of rice.Incorporating the reward into the challenge, the winning tribe would receive all the items that were used in the challenge: fish, rice, spices, and wine. The losing tribe will not go back to camp empty-handed, for they were to choose either a sack of rice or a sack of beans. La Mina lost again and Casaya chose Terry to go to Exile Island for the second time in a row. As Casaya returned to camp, they found out that their shelter was ruined due to the storm that happened during the challenge. Since the storm also extinguished their fire and they were unable to create another one on account of everything being wet, they merely enjoyed what they had and ate the fish raw. Meanwhile, as La Mina ate the beans that they chose from the Reward Challenge, Austin and Nick faced the gastrointestinal consequences. The next morning at Casaya, Danielle and Courtney learned Bruce and Bobby spent the night sleeping in their outhouse, drinking all the wine they had won, which caused friction and a heated argument between Bobby and Courtney. \n\nImmunity challenge Each tribe must send three members to paddle out to collect skulls from four coffins sitting on the ocean floor. Each time a coffin is found, someone must dive under water, open the coffin and find a skull puzzle piece. They'll then untie the puzzle piece and bring it back to the boat. Once all four skull puzzle pieces have been collected, they will return them to shore. The two remaining tribe members use those four puzzle pieces to build a skull pyramid. The first tribe to build their skull pyramid and place their gold skull on top wins Immunity.At the immunity challenge, La Mina constructed the skull pyramid faster than Casaya, finally breaking their losing streak and winning Immunity. After the immunity challenge, Shane told Bobby that Bruce was the next to go, as his tribe feared he would flip over to La Mina's alliance come time of the merge. He assured Bobby he wasn't to go by swearing on his son's name; however, Cirie, Courtney and Danielle overpowered Shane and told him they felt Bruce was more trustworthy and less problematic. At tribal council, Shane voted for Aras as a \"throwaway vote\" as not to choose either side, and the women of Casaya led an erratic 3–2–1–1 vote, resulting in Bobby's elimination."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":6,"episode_summary":"At La Mina's camp, while Austin and the other men searched for edible creatures in the water, Dan spoke to Nick about his space flights at NASA. At Casaya, the women complained to Shane about how disrespectful he was.\n\nReward/immunity challenge: The tribes must each choose three members to race one at a time out into a field to untie, lower, unhook and retrieve four puzzle pieces. Once all four pieces have been collected, the two remaining tribe members will use those pieces to solve a spinning puzzle. The first tribe to solve it correctly will win Immunity and a feast in a Panamanian village and immunity.In a combined reward and immunity challenge, Casaya, despite falling back early, won a barbecue and a trip to a local village, as well as the right to exile someone from La Mina. Because the losing tribe would be attending Tribal Council, Sally, the only woman left in La Mina was exiled and was granted Immunity and unable to vote. Despite being alone, she enjoyed the knowledge that her banishment would break up the men's alliance. Meanwhile, Casaya enjoyed their reward. They rode a boat to a village and gave some toys to children. Shane saw someone smoking and talked about giving up all his clothes just to smoke a cigarette. He ended up smoking after a long abstinence. Later the tribe enjoyed barbecue, played soccer, and partied. At Tribal Council, the four men discussed how tight their alliance was, and the possibility of a two vs. two tie vote. In the end, Terry sided with the younger men and Dan was voted off 3–1."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":7,"episode_summary":"A recap of the first 15 days including previously un-aired bonus footage."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":8,"episode_summary":"La Mina received treemail that they are to go to Casaya for the merge. As the tribe approached Casaya's camp, Shane pulled his tribe together in an agreement to vote out the other Tribe in the next four Tribal Councils and the Casaya members, who were eating, ate as much rice as they could to avoid sharing with La Mina, then greeted them with open arms. While building a larger shelter, Nick accidentally chipped Bruce's tooth with a machete, but Bruce was fine. Meanwhile, Terry tried to convince Shane and Cirie to flip, claiming he could guarantee them two more weeks in the game, but no one would budge.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe member will have to hang upside down with arms and legs wrapped around a pole. They must hang there for as long as they can. Whoever falls off of the pole will be eliminated. The last castaway hanging wins Immunity.At the immunity challenge, the survivors hung on a pole with their hands and feet only. Cirie lasted only 3 minutes and after a point all the Casaya members voluntarily jumped off, leaving Terry, Austin and Nick to fight for immunity.  Austin asked Terry to throw the challenge and let him give immunity, as he was convinced he was going home, but Terry wouldn't budge, despite having the hidden immunity idol. Austin fell off, then Nick did after 45 minutes, giving Terry his first victory. Before Tribal Council, Bruce drew the name \"Gitanos\" for their new tribe name, meaning \"Gypsies\" in Spanish. Later that night, Nick, considered the second strongest member after Terry, was voted out along former tribal lines, 6–4."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":9,"episode_summary":"With Nick voted out, the former La Mina tribe attempted to flip some of the Casaya tribe members.\n\nReward challenge: The Gitanos tribe will be divided into three teams of three. Each team will have one boat and 100 coconuts. They must race to put the coconuts into the boats of the other two teams. The more coconuts in the boat, the slower it will be. Once the teams have exhausted their coconut supplies, they'll paddle out in their boats to retrieve a tribe flag and fishing net, return to shore and use the fishing net to carry all the coconuts from their boat back up the beach and into the bin. The first tribe to get all the coconuts in their bin and on their finish mat with their tribe flag wins a reward of breakfast in bed.At the reward challenge, the castaways were split into three teams, and Bruce, Aras, and Sally ended up victorious thanks to Aras’s plan to ally with another team. Austin and Danielle were exiled together, while the winners enjoyed a big breakfast in a rain-soaked bed.\n\nImmunity challenge: The Survivors will race through a series of obstacles in four stages. In the first stage, all nine Survivors must race to dig through the sand and pull themselves under a wooden fence. The first six to finish move on to the second round, in which they must complete a brainteaser with four written clues to guide them. After completing the brainteaser, they climb up a sand hill, through a maze and over a second sand hill. The first three to finish this phase will move on to phase three, which requires them to navigate across a rope bridge using two wooden planks. Once they've reached the end of the bridge, they must jump off the platform into the water and climb up a steep sand bank. The first to the top of the sand bank move on to the final round: a race through a series of vertical and horizontal tunnels and towers until the first person finishes, winning Immunity.At the immunity challenge, the castaways competed in an obstacle course, with a few contestants getting eliminated in each round. Terry ended up victorious with his second individual immunity win in a row, narrowly beating Sally. Back at camp, the former La Mina tribe tried to convince Bruce and Danielle, viewed as the two outcasts of their alliance, to switch to the La Mina alliance. Terry offered Danielle the immunity idol in exchange for her switch. At Tribal Council, Danielle and Bruce still showed loyalty to Casaya, and, with a 6–3 vote, voted off former La Mina's strongest non-immune member, Austin."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After another La Mina's departure, Sally and Terry were at their most desperate to keep themselves in the game.\n\nReward challenge: After watching a preview of their videos from home, the tribe will be divided into two teams. One person will lie face down on a cradle suspended in the air by bungee cords. Attached to that cradle are three ropes. The teammates will pull those ropes to maneuver the person on the cradle as they grab fifteen flags and place them in order into their appropriate slots. The first team to get all fifteen flags in order wins the full length version of their videos from home, plus peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a glass of milk.At the reward challenge, the team of Bruce, Courtney, Sally, and Terry won a videos from home, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, and ice-cold milk. They chose Aras to be sent to Exile Island. Back at the camp, a paranoid Shane told registered nurse Cirie that he was \"having problems\" with his testicles (and stripped naked in the process, save his shirt). When the winning team got back, they brought some of their reward with them.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each Survivor is asked to grab a nut and a shell and put them in opposite hands. For the challenge, each person will swim out to a long plank with seven symbols on it resting on the ocean floor. They will have to memorize the symbols in order and race back to the beach, where they will try to replicate those symbols, in order, on their answer board. The first person to solve the puzzle correctly wins Immunity. With participation in this challenge being optional, if someone chooses not to participate, they will instead be able to enjoy cheeseburgers, french fries, and soft drinks. They can only eat for as long as the challenge goes or until the food runs out.At the immunity challenge, the players had to decide between a feast of cheeseburgers, fries, and soft drinks or the immunity challenge. Bruce, Cirie, Courtney, Danielle, and Shane decided to feast, whereas Aras, Sally, and Terry chose to participate. Terry narrowly defeated Aras, with Sally placing third. When the Survivors got back to camp, Sally and Terry continued their efforts to break the Casaya alliance. Despite their efforts, the Casaya alliance held strong, and Sally was voted out 6–2."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Terry seemed to become more bitter about his continued status outside of the alliance.\n\nReward challenge: Each of the castaways will fill out a questionnaire in private, then the results will be tallied and the challenge will begin. The questions will be posed to the group. At this time, they will guess whose name came up most often. Each time someone gets a correct answer, they'll get to chop one of three ropes assigned to each tribe member. After three chops, the rope will release a torch that will in turn send their voodoo dolls up in flames. The winner would receive a visit to a spa.In a reward challenge where the contestants voted about their fellow contestants, Courtney was shocked to learn she was considered the most unpopular of the tribe. By correctly guessing what the majority of the tribe had chosen for their answers, Cirie won the challenge and sent Terry to Exile Island, taking Aras and Danielle to share her reward. Cirie then worried about what effect her decisions might have with the other players. Back at the camp, Courtney was bitter because of some of the opinions expressed in the challenge and Shane was upset because he hadn't been chosen by Cirie for the reward. Shane attempted to ally himself with Courtney, but to no avail. Bruce, who had been sick for several days, was in increasing pain. He claimed to have not gone to the toilet since the Panamanian village reward. Finally, he couldn't take it any longer and asked for medical assistance. The medical team arrived and took him out of the game. Later that day, with the Reward winners returned, Jeff Probst brought Terry back to the camp from Exile Island and revealed that as a result of Bruce's withdrawal, there was no immunity challenge nor Tribal Council, and Bruce would assume a position on the Jury if his condition allowed."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":12,"episode_summary":"The other players continued to worry about Shane's strange behavior: he had found a piece of wood and was pretending it was his BlackBerry and he was sending messages to people back home.\n\nReward challenge: The tribe will be divided into two teams of three. Each team member will be attached to a rope that spans the length of an obstacle course. They must follow the rope while navigating the various obstacles. When the final platform is reached, they will unclip from the rope and, one at a time, race across a lily pad run, jump into the water and retrieve one of three bags. Once all three bags have been retrieved, they will clip onto the rope again and make their way back through all the obstacles to the beach. The first team to reach the finish with all three members and all three bags wins a barbecue feast. The winners of the barbecue feast would advance to a second challenge, firing marbles using a slingshot. The first castaway to break three tiles would receive a new car (a GMC Yukon).Terry, Courtney and Danielle won the first part of the reward challenge, and Terry won the second part to claim the car. During their reward, Terry made a deal with Courtney and Danielle for the three of them to work together. Back at camp, Cirie went fishing and caught a sizable fish. After returning to camp, Danielle told Terry she was worried that if they were in the final three with Courtney, she figured he would pick Courtney to go to the final two with because she was less popular. Terry made an agreement with Danielle that if either of them won the final immunity challenge, they would take the second place winner to the final two. When Courtney was told of this, she became upset because she felt it implied she was being carried by other players.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe member will kneel at the end of a long plank suspended over a pit of water. The contestants will hold on to two ropes connected to a weighted hook. Starting with twenty percent of their body weight, the weight will increase by another ten percent every fifteen minutes. When the weight becomes too much to hold, the ropes will slip from their hands, the plank will give out and they'll fall into the water. The last person left standing wins Immunity.Terry won his fourth straight immunity challenge, and the former Casaya alliance was forced to vote out one of their own. Shane thought the alliance was in agreement to vote out Danielle, while Courtney thought that her new alliance with Danielle, Terry and fourth member Cirie was voting against Aras. Cirie, who didn't like her low position in this alliance, worked with Aras and Danielle to vote against Courtney. At Tribal Council, Bruce appeared with the jury members, meaning he had recovered and was fit to continue as a juror. The final six were happy that he was okay. With the votes split three ways, Courtney was blindsided 3–2–1."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Reward challenge: The castaways will dig in a circle of sand, each looking for a bag. The first four to find their bag move on to the second round. In the second round, they will carry their bags with them to untie a wooden snake. The first three to get to the finish with both bag and snake proceed to the third round. The third round, they will carry the bag and snake as they race over a sand hill and into a water pit, where they will untie a large fish. The first two to get to the finish with fish, bag and snake will move on to the final round. In the last round, the last two standing will go head to head, carrying all three items that they have collected through a series of wooden tunnels and towers. The first person to the finish wins a hotel accommodation with their loved one.Players competed in a reward challenge of obstacles from past challenges for a visit with loved ones. The winner would decide as to what capacity the other contestants would get to interact with their loved ones. Terry narrowly claimed victory over Aras and choose himself and his wife, along with Shane and his son, Boston, to spend the night at a villa. He also chose Cirie's husband H.B. to spend the night at the camp, Aras to just get a hug from his mother and Danielle to get a few words with her mom from where she was standing.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe member will stand on a very small perch at the top of a 20-foot pole in the water. When the game begins, they will lower a bucket into the water to fill it, then pour from the bucket into a very narrow bamboo shoot. As the bamboo shoot fills up with water, it will raise a flag. Once the flag is high enough to reach, they must carefully grab it and raise it above their head in order to win Immunity.After the loved ones left, the players competed for immunity. For the fifth time in a row, Terry won immunity. Back at camp, Aras decided to break his alliance with Shane after finding out that Shane wanted to take Courtney to the final two. Aras confirmed his alliance with Cirie and Danielle. In the end, Shane was blindsided in a 3–1–1 decision."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Terry was inadvertently tripped by Cirie's torch and yelled at her while she was tending the bonfire, but Aras protected her, saying that it was an accident. This left Terry further isolated among the tribe.\n\nReward challenge: The castaways will each be attached to ropes by one of two carabiners. Using the two carabiners, they will clip and unclasp from one rope to another as they navigate their way around each other along a main thoroughfare that leads to six stations: poles, hermit crabs, rocks, iguanas, shells and fish. Each time they get to a station they must count the number of items, race back to the start, and find the answer tile with the same number on it. Once they've been to all six stations, they will have six numbers. They will then place those six numbers into an answer grid. Using the combination, the two numbers in each column will open the locks. If the lock doesn't open, it means they've counted wrong and they can go back and correct their mistakes. Once they've opened all three locks, their tribe flag will drop. The first person to lower their tribe flag wins a luxury yacht tour of the Panama Canal.Aras won the reward challenge, and chose to take Cirie on a luxurious yacht trip through the Panama Canal; but not before having a debate with Terry after he accused him of complaining every time he lost a challenge and blurting out \"disparaging comments about women.\" Both Terry and Danielle were sent to Exile Island for losing the challenge. During their trip, Aras and Cirie made a pact for the Final 2; while Danielle and Terry also conspired for their fate in the game during their time on exile. Soon after returning from their reward, Cirie successfully built her first fire.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each Survivor will work to solve three puzzles. Using a set of coordinates, each castaway will cross two ropes. Where the ropes intersect, a bag of puzzle pieces is buried in the sand. They must dig up the pieces, then race back to their respective answer boards to complete their puzzle. The puzzle will reveal the next set of coordinates. The first person to solve all three puzzles, with the third one reading \"Safe From Vote,\" wins Immunity.In the immunity challenge, Cirie and Terry were putting up a good fight but Aras ultimately won the challenge, thus ending Terry's Immunity winning streak. Before the tribal council, Aras approached Terry to apologize for accusations of Terry's worthiness to remain in the game after the reward challenge, which Terry accepted. Meanwhile, Cirie and Danielle practiced making fire, anticipated this would be the tiebreaker in the event of a tie (with Danielle reconsidering about Terry giving his hidden immunity idol to her). In the end, the guess proved accurate as the vote indeed ended up tied between Danielle and Cirie. With Terry refusing to give Danielle the hidden immunity idol, she and Cirie will partake in a fire-starting challenge."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":15,"episode_summary":"After many attempts to start fires that continued to wear out, Danielle won the fire starting tie-breaker, and Cirie was eliminated from the game.\n\nReward challenge: The Survivors must race to the top of a three-story climbing wall using four individually shaped pegs. First, they must make their way through a table maze. Once at the end of the maze, each will release a bag containing their first two pegs and move to a spinning wheel. Reading the clues, each must spin the wheel clockwise, counter-clockwise, and clockwise again like a combination lock to find the one bag that contains their final two pegs. With the help of the pegs, the players must get to the top of the wall and place their pegs in the proper slots, which will raise a flag. The first person to raise their flag wins a protein-enriched meal.The next morning, Terry displayed the now powerless immunity idol back at camp, and in a surprise reward challenge, he won a protein-enriched meal that would be useful for the final immunity challenge. The final three were taken to Exile Island to take part in a tribute to the eliminated Survivors. The three placed the extinguished torches of the thirteen eliminated Survivors on the large skull-shaped shelter in the center of the island and burned it in the process.\n\nImmunity challenge: Starting on the largest of a series of floating platforms, every fifteen minutes the Final Three will move to the next smaller platform. As the platforms get smaller, it will get tougher for the Survivors to maintain their balance. Only their feet can touch the platform. If their hands or butt touch the platform or they fall off, they are eliminated. The last person standing wins Immunity.Danielle won the final immunity after Terry fell off and Aras jumped off after receiving a nod from Danielle. Danielle voted out Terry, thinking that she would have a better chance of winning against Aras, and because Aras was a fellow member of the former Casaya tribe. With all of the other castaways gone, Aras and Danielle received a celebratory food reward the next day. While walking along the beach rocks, Aras slipped and sliced open his hand and back, requiring a total of eight stitches. At the final Tribal Council, Aras and Danielle were asked questions ranging from who contributed the most in getting them into the final two, as to why the other castaway was more deserving of the million dollar prize. Cirie and Terry advocated for Aras to win, saying that he had done far more in the game overall than Danielle, despite Terry's long running rivalry with Aras. Shane, who felt neither of the two were deserving of the prize, asked them to pick a number between one and a million. He also lambasted Danielle for being overly reliant on her father and boyfriend, and Aras for being a poor broke kid who lives with his dad, to which Aras replied that is why Shane and the others should give him a million."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US12","episode":16,"episode_summary":"Months later, it was revealed that Aras won, crowning him as the twelfth Sole Survivor, in a 5–2 vote over Danielle. The castaways discussed the season with host, Jeff Probst, live at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":1,"episode_summary":"Contestants had two minutes to salvage what they could from a boat before paddling to shore. As they scoured the ship for supplies, Puka Puka's Yul grabbed a chicken which escaped; Rarotonga's Jonathan caught it. At Aitutaki, Billy created shelter; Ozzy's survival skills fooled him. In Rarotonga, Jonathan was angry when Jessica accidentally freed the chicken. At Manihiki, the women complained about Sekou (their leader) taking too many breaks. The tribes race to assemble a puzzle boat with seven braces, paddle the boat out, retrieve fire from a bonfire on a raft, and return to shore with the fire. They must then use the braces as ladder rungs, climb to the top of a platform and light a fire bale. The first three tribes to the top win flint and immunity; the first-place tribe will receive a crate of fire-making essentials, including kerosene and waterproof matches. All the tribes except Manihiki won flint and immunity, and Puka Puka (who finished first) received the fire-making kit. Sekou and Nate sent Jonathan from Rarotonga to Exile Island in return for Puka Puka's lost chicken, alienating Manihiki's women. Jeff gave Jonathan the first clue to the hidden immunity idol before he left for Exile Island. Stephannie, Sundra and Rebecca united to eliminate Sekou, and received flint to make fire."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":2,"episode_summary":"The Manihiki tribe started a fire. Jonathan returned from Exile Island to Rarotonga, and was disappointed that little had changed since he left. At Puka Puka, tribe members became tired of Cao Boi's jokes and long stories. At Aitutaki, Ozzy forced his tribe to issue the next immunity challenge to get rid of the lazy Billy. Host Jeff Probst tells a story about James Cook's voyage, and each tribe must remember a story about Cook. Tied together, the tribe must make their way over and under logs and through a field of poles to gather seven answer flags. When they cross a rope bridge over water, they must use the flags to answer five questions about the story. The first tribes to complete the challenge will receive tarps, and the three top finishers win Immunity. Puka Puka and Rarotonga tied for first place; Manihiki finished third, and was saved from the tribal council. The losing tribe, Aitutaki, sent Yul from Puka Puka to Exile Island (where he deciphered clues to discover the immunity idol in the sand). Billy talked about finding love with Rarotonga's Candice, but Candice said \"we love you\" to lift his spirits; Billy was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":3,"episode_summary":"The four ethnically-divided tribes will be merged into two. Manihiki and Puka Puka were dissolved, and their supplies were divided by the Aitutaki and Rarotonga tribes. At Aitutaki, Cecilia told Candice about Billy's \"I love you\" incident; Candice laughed as she made alliances with Yul, Becky and Jonathan. Yul told Becky that he found the hidden immunity idol. The tribes will be clipped together by a rope, each member carrying a 15-pound sandbag. They will start on opposite sides of the course, racing through knee-deep water to catch the other tribe. If a member drops out, they must give their sandbag to a fellow tribe member. The first tribe to tackle a member of the other tribe to the ground wins immunity. The Aitutaki men tried to fend off the Rarotonga men (Adam, Brad, J.P., and Nate), but Rarotonga tackled them and securing immunity for their team. Rarotonga banished Candice to Exile Island. Cao Boi, Cecilia, Jessica, Ozzy, and Sundra united to vote out Becky. After lobbying by Jonathan and Yul, Cao Boi and Jessica switched their vote to Cecilia and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":4,"episode_summary":"The women complained about the men's egotism. Each tribe had two members attached to a rope snaking over, under and around a series of obstacles. The tribe pushed and pulled their members through the course. When they reached the end of the rope, a member swam to a barrel, retrieved a decoder, returned and deciphered a phrase. The tribe finishing first won three blankets, two pillows and one hammock. Aitutaki won, and chose Adam for exile. Cao Boi, egg hunting, knocked a chick from a nest and replaced it. Members of each tribe assembled a stretcher and raced through the jungle to the beach. One member swam out to rescue another, who was shackled to a mast. Both swam back with a life ring, placed the rescued member on the stretcher and raced back through the jungle. The remaining three members built a fire strong enough to burn through a rope and raise the tribe's flag. Cao Boi carried Aitutaki past Rarotonga in the fire-making. Stephannie accepted blame for the defeat, volunteering to be exiled before changing her mind; J. P. was voted out. Adam and Brad betrayed J. P. and Nate, sending J. P. home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Cao Boi complained about Becky, Candice, and Sundra's laziness. Both tribes split into three pairs, each of whom stood on a platform. Each person held a hook with one arm. Every two minutes, members from the opposing tribe gave one of the pair a five-pound bag. The last pair holding their hooks and weight won fishing gear, spices and wine. Rarotonga's Nate and Adam won. Rarotonga returned Jonathan to Exile Island. Cristina's tribemates complained about her bossiness. Cao Boi, Jessica, and Ozzy explored the bay, accidentally reaching Rarotonga. At Aitutaki, Becky, Candice, and Yul tried to pull Sundra into their alliance with Jonathan. The tribes assembled stepping poles to transport two tribe members from one platform to another. When both tribe members were across, all eight members climbed over the platform and swam to a smaller tower. Aitutaki, the first tribe to climb the last tower and get all eight tribe members on the top deck, won immunity. Rarotonga decided that Cristina would be voted off next. When Stephannie and Nate gathered water from the well, Stephannie told Nate that she \"wanted mashed potatoes and gravy\"; Nate relayed this to the tribe, and Stephannie was voted off instead."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Jonathan did not want to bring the immunity idol to the next reward challenge, and both tribes had to eliminate a member. In a sand pit, each tribe selected three members to be stationed at a post. Two members of the opposing tribe tried to remove them, dragging them through the sand over the finish line. Aitutaki, the first tribe to get all three opponents across their finish line, won a feast of lamb shanks, bread and apple cider. Cao Boi had a dream suggesting a strategy he called Plan Voodoo: to reveal the immunity idol by splitting a 3-3 vote between Jonathan and Candice. He chose them because he believed Jonathan had the idol, or one of the two people from the original Caucasian tribe would be eliminated. Yul, his ally, secretly had the idol and was annoyed by Cao Boi's eccentric behavior; Cao Boi was voted out. Aitutaki enjoyed the feast while listening to Rarotonga's tribal council. Aitutaki \"kidnapped\" Nate from Rarotonga; he could not vote, was immune from the vote, received a share of their reward and stayed at their camp until the next reward challenge. Although Cristina made amends with her tribe, she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":7,"episode_summary":"A recap of the first 15 days."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Jessica, disappointed by Cao Boi's elimination, confronted the rest of the tribe. Becky, Candice and Yul planned their preferred order of elimination. Each tribe chose three swimmers and two puzzle-makers. The swimmers grabbed a club, swam to a platform, climbed to the top and jumped. In midair they smashed a plaster box (releasing a key), retrieved the key and swam back to shore. After retrieving six keys, the puzzle-makers used the keys to unlock a chest of puzzle pieces. The first tribe to solve the puzzle won two items; Aitutaki chose potatoes and peanut butter, and Rarotonga chose bread and peanut butter. Aitutaki made Nate miss the challenge; they won, again exiling Adam. Brad, a strong swimmer, upset his tribemates by doing the puzzle instead. Each tribe raced to build a log staircase to the top of a tower. When the entire tribe was on the tower, three members rode a zip line into the water, retrieved a bag of puzzle pieces and swam back. They then climbed a rope ladder to the top of the tower, where the three remaining members solved the puzzle. Rarotonga won immunity, and Jessica was eliminated."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Brad said that he did not trust his tribemates. In a \"mutiny\" offer, members could change tribes. Candice and Jonathan decided to rejoin Rarotonga. Two tribe members were in a barrel while two other members pushed, pulled and rolled the barrel through a series of obstacles to retrieve four buoys. They then floated the barrel through a final obstacle, collecting four flags anchored underwater. The tribes then paddled back to shore, hung their flags on flagpoles, recovered a buried axe and cut a rope to hoist the flags. Aitutaki won a trip to a coffee shop for muffins, Danishes and letters from home, and exiled Candice for mutinying. Jonathan tried to ally with Adam and Parvati, the remaining original Rarotonga members. The four tribe members paddled out in glass-bottom boats in search of three targets on the ocean floor. Lining up the targets with crosshairs on their glasses, they dropped a cannonball and released two buoys. When all six buoys were collected, the tribe paddled back to shore. Each buoy had a clue, and a tribe needed all six buoys for the answer. Aitutaki won immunity with the mystery word (\"bounty\"), and Brad was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Jenny and Parvati were alarmed by Candice and Adam's closeness. Two tribe members with a compass and a coordinate raced to a large sixteen-point compass rose to find buried treasure chests. Each chest had the next coordinates painted on top. When members found a chest, they raced back to their mat. The next two members took the compass and new coordinates to retrieve another chest. When the tribe had all four chests, they removed seven nautical flags (each flag an alphabet letter). Aitutaki was the first team to complete the task, winning a feast and exiling Candice. Each tribe swam, one at a time, to a platform. Each member dove down, unclipped a bundle of island names and swam back to shore. When all the members returned, they identified ten islands at an answer table. Aitutaki won immunity, and a sealed bottle with a note inside was given to Rarotonga to be opened after they have voted out a player. Rebecca was voted out, and the note in the bottle instructed Rarotonga to vote out another member (Jenny)."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":11,"episode_summary":"The tribes were notified of the merge. The castaways decided to live on the Rarotonga beach and call themselves \"Aitutonga\". The former Aitutaki merged in the minority, four to Rarotonga's five. Yul and Becky agreed that Jonathan would most likely flip. Yul told Sundra and Ozzy about the hidden immunity idol and his plan to bring Jonathan over. Each individual hung onto a pole for as long as possible. After two hours and 15 minutes, Ozzy defeated Candice in the first individual immunity challenge. Yul decided to show Jonathan the hidden immunity idol to sway him back to his side. Jonathan asked Yul to vote for Nate in exchange for his flipping, and Yul agreed. Jonathan joined the former Aitutaki members in voting out Nate."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Each contestant received $500, could bid in $20 increments, and could share money in a survivor auction. Becky and Yul outbid Candice and Adam for a note with \"the power to change the game\"; Becky could exile a contestant and receive their money. Learning that Candice and Adam had not spent their money, Becky selected Candice. Before Candice left for Exile Island, saying that she would find the idol, Yul said that he had it. The contestants were annoyed at Jonathan's arrogance and Candice, on Exile Island, broke down emotionally. The castaways were quizzed about their memories of the last 30 days. Each tribe member answered four numeric questions, adding, subtracting or dividing the numeric answers for a final number. They then untied a corresponding box, searching for a key which opened a lock and raised a flag. The first three to raise their flag advanced to a final round; the remaining contenders unlocked and crawled through a timber tunnel, crossing pontoons to raise a final flag. Adam won immunity; back at camp, he, Candice, and Parvati snuggled in the shelter while the majority alliance ate fish caught by Jonathan. Candice confronted Jonathan about his arrogance, and was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Jonathan, uneasy about being called a \"rat\" and \"cancer\", would not let Adam and Parvati ruin his strategy. Adam and Parvati told Yul that if he helped them vote Jonathan out, they would give him their jury votes. The blindfolded castaways had to scoop water with a bucket and pass it to their loved ones, who transport it to a raised bucket. The weight of the water lowered the bucket, raising a flag. Parvati won a picnic of fried chicken, meatloaf, and apple pie with her father and the right to exile Jonathan. Her father chose Sundra and her mother and Adam and his father to share the picnic. Parvati and Adam brought Ozzy, Yul, and Becky leftovers from the picnic. The castaways had to race out into the water and maneuver across a series of obstacles. When a tribe member reached the end, they retrieved a bundle of sticks, raced back and repeated for a second bundle of sticks. Untying the sticks and building a pole with them and the rope, Ozzy collected two rings for immunity and Jonathan went to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Parvati and Adam tried to befriend one of the Aitutaki alliance to swing the vote. Tribe members dove into a mud pit, cover themselves with as much mud as they could, raced back and scrape it off into a bucket. Ozzy, Parvati and Yul won a trip to a local spa, and Ozzy exiled Adam. Parvati tried to secure Ozzy's vote, and Becky and Sundra talked about voting Ozzy off; Yul was hesitant. Tribe members carried four bundles of puzzle pieces across balance beams to a mat. When all four bundles were collected, they used the pieces to create a table maze and maneuver a cannonball into each of two corner pockets. Ozzy won immunity; Adam talked to Yul about keeping him on the island. Adam and Parvati were later caught trying to get Ozzy's vote. Yul returned Jonathan's hat, and Parvati was voted off."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":15,"episode_summary":"The castaways raced around a rope course, collecting a bag of puzzle pieces at each of eight stations. When a tribe member got a bag, they had to return to their table before returning to the course. When a tribe member got all eight bags, they used the puzzle pieces to make an eight-point compass rose. When the puzzle was assembled, a flag was raised; Ozzy won immunity. Adam tried to get Ozzy and Sundra to vote for Yul to make Yul use the hidden immunity idol, but he was voted out unanimously. The remaining castaways stood on a small steel perch in the water. Every 15 minutes, tribe members removed part of the perch; Ozzy, the last person left standing, won immunity. He and Sundra voted for Becky, and Becky and Yul voted for Sundra; in a fire-making challenge, the first castaway to make a fire advanced to the final tribal council. Becky secured her spot in the final three. The jury was split between Yul and Ozzy."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US13","episode":16,"episode_summary":"Months later, the votes were read; Yul won, becoming the thirteenth Sole Survivor in a 5–4–0 vote over Ozzy and Becky. The castaways returned to discuss the season with host Jeff Probst live from CBS Television City in Los Angeles.[14] As a result of a viewers' poll, Ozzy won a Mercury Mariner car."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The 19 castaways arrived on an island with no instructions and were not split into tribes. After some time, a box was parachuted, which contained plans for a luxurious shelter using the provided building supplies. The castaways spent the next two days constructing the shelter from the plans under the primary direction of Sylvia. At the combined Reward and Immunity Challenge, the castaways were asked who the leader was during construction and unanimously named Sylvia. Sylvia was told to split the castaways into two tribes, Moto and Ravu, but was then exiled. She would be immune from Tribal Council and would join whichever tribe lost the Immunity Challenge. \n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Both tribes race chariots across a course with stops at which the tribe members riding on the chariots untie three bags containing puzzle pieces. Once all bags and a small tribe flag are retrieved, the tribes race to the puzzle table to solve the puzzle, revealing the three-number combination to a wheel containing a knife. With this knife, the tribe cuts a rope raising the tribe's flag to win reward and immunity. The reward allowed the winning tribe to live at the luxury camp built upon arrival.Ravu lost the challenge and was sent to a new island with only one pot and a machete. Moto returned to the original tribe to live in the shelter built on day one and two with additional amenities. Rocky, Erica, and Jessica formed a strong alliance, while the other six formed a looser alliance. Jessica was blamed for losing the challenge and being under the radar, and was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Ravu continued to suffer from dehydration and were reduced to licking water off of leaves, though they found a supply of pineapples in addition to their coconut supply. At Moto, the castaways continued to live a cushy life at their camp. Boo injured himself in the eye and then shortly thereafter cut himself with an ax while chopping wood, and then the hammock he was lying on fell down. On Day Five, Sylvia returned from Exile Island and immediately declared that she felt like an outcast. Her tribemates were annoyed by her perceived bossiness and the fact that she had plenty of water to drink on Exile Island. \n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Each tribe will paddle a canoe out and around their tribe flag. While the tribes are heading back to shore the must collect four supply crates. Once they pass a crate, one tribe member must connect the crate to the boat. After getting to shore, they must get the crates to their tribe mat. Once the tribes get all four crates they must untie them to get six puzzle pole pieces and a flag. The first tribe to solve the pole puzzle and raise their tribe flag wins reward (fishing gear) and immunity, and the ability to send a member of the losing tribe to Exile Island.In a close race, Moto pulled out another win and chose Earl to go to Exile Island. Anthony lobbied to vote out Sylvia for being the outsider and disrupting the tribe's chemistry. However, Erica's panicking during the challenge caused a movement against her that resulted in her elimination."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Michelle finally started a fire at Ravu using Yau-Man's glasses. Michelle used Yau-Man's glasses because the thicker bifocals concentrated the light better than her own glasses. \n\nReward Challenge: One member from each tribe will face head to head on a slippery course to receive a number ball. Once the tribe member is on the course they must get the ball and throw it into a basket. First tribe to six, wins one of three choices of reward: Either luxury items from home, a duplicate set of fishing gear, or a basket of fresh fruit.Despite Ravu's momentum from starting a fire, it   failed to carry over to the Reward Challenge as they lost yet again, though they did gain flint for successfully earning fire on their own. Moto opted to have a second set of fishing gear as reward instead of their luxury items or fresh fruit. Moto also won the right to send somebody to Exile Island and they selected Sylvia to go for a second time. After the Reward Challenge when Moto returned to camp, Gary felt dizzy and complained of chest pain, thinking that it may have been a cracked rib suffered during the Reward Challenge. The medics were called in and he was cleared to continue, though his tribe encouraged him to not be afraid to call for medical help should he not be able to breathe. This deflated some of Moto's elation of the Reward win. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes are challenged to eat Fijian dishes, such as giant clam, octopus tentacles, peanut worms, sea cucumbers, fish eyes and pig snouts in a series of 1-on-1 matches. The first tribe to win four matches wins immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, tempers flared after some taunting by Mookie, but Moto was able to continue their win streak. Sylvia, knowing she was vulnerable from the previous vote and her performance at the Reward Challenge, attempted to find the idol at camp using the three clues she had, but was unsuccessful and subsequently voted out at Tribal Council."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Gary continued to suffer from vertigo due to an allergic reaction brought on by bug bites. \n\nReward Challenge: Each tribe will stand on a balance beam. One at a time a tribe member must pass through a tribe member to get to the finish platform. First tribe to have all tribe members on the platform wins fish, rice, spices, pillows, blankets, and a king size bed.Moto came up with a great strategy to win the Reward Challenge after initially falling behind to win the challenge. Moto chose to send Yau-Man to Exile Island, and a frustrated Rocky threw a temper tantrum after his tribe's fifth consecutive loss. On Day 10, Gary decided that his condition was not getting any better and he pulled himself from the game. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Four tribe members will begin locked in floating cages. One tribe member will start on shore and race out to unlock the first cage, releasing the first tribe member. The newly freed tribe member will run across floating lily pads to free the next member in a locked cage. Once the fourth tribe member is freed from their locked cage, those tribe members will get on a boat where another tribe member will be waiting with a ring of keys. The teams will paddle back to shore, picking up the stranded tribemates along the way. Once back, the Survivors will form a human pyramid. The person at the top will use a ring of keys to unlock a series of pad locks, freeing their last tribe member from the last cage. The first tribe to get all members back on their tribe mat wins Immunity.Rocky decided to motivate his tribe by wearing one of the women's pink tops to the Immunity Challenge, but this did not help as Moto's winning streak continued. In a twist, Moto opened a sealed bottle that contained a note that forced them to either give up their luxurious camp or their immunity. Moto decided to keep their comfort and go to Tribal Council. The alliance of Alex, Boo, Edgardo, Lisi, and Stacy discussed voting strategies for tribal council, and decided to target Liliana after viewing Dreamz as an asset for the tribe and Cassandra as harmless. The decision was motivated after Liliana gave the men a sports massage, which Lisi saw as deceptive. Alex was initially against this decision as he feels Liliana was about as strong as the men of the tribe, and preferred to eliminate weak link Cassandra instead. Despite that, the alliance stuck with their decision and Liliana was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Earl and Yau-Man discussed their clues about the Hidden Immunity Idol. Earl took the tribe on a hunting expedition away from camp, leaving Yau-Man to dig for the Idol using only a machete, but his search turned up nothing. \n\nReward Challenge: The Survivors will square off, one on one, on a platform. Using large padded bags they will battle sumo style, knocking the other tribe member off the platform to score a point for their tribe. The first tribe to score seven points wins two items chosen from a catalog by each tribe.At the Reward Challenge, Moto crushed Ravu and opted to send Earl back to Exile Island. Lisi and Stacy upset Alex and Edgardo by going on a power trip, treating Cassandra and Dreamz rudely. Dreamz decided that he and Cassandra would flip to the other side after the unspoken alliance's effort to smooth things over rang hollow.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Scattered in a field are 30 boards. Each board has a number or a word painted on it. One tribe at a time will send a member out to reveal two boards. If the numbers or words on the boards match, they’ll score a point for their tribe. The first tribe to score seven points wins Immunity. To make things more difficult, there are 4 dummy boards on the course without a match.Moto won a close Immunity Challenge to remain undefeated. Rita annoyed Rocky with her chitchatting with Michelle and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":6,"episode_summary":"After receiving tree mail, Moto and Ravu head to what they believed was a Reward Challenge. Jeff asked the tribes to volunteer one member from each tribe; Earl from Ravu and Edgardo from Moto volunteered, and were instructed to begin the selection of new tribes by schoolyard pick. An upset Lisi was not picked and was sent to Exile Island. Edgardo and Earl then played Rock, Paper, Scissors, for the right to draw from a bag that contained Moto and Ravu buffs to see which tribe went to which camp and Edgardo drew the less luxurious Ravu camp. The new Moto tribe became Earl, Yau-Man, Cassandra, Boo, Michelle, and Stacy, with the new Ravu being Rocky, Dreamz, Mookie, Edgardo, Anthony, and Alex. Cassandra, who had been weak without any alliance in the old Moto tribe quickly warmed up to the new members. Over at Ravu, the new members didn't let their worse camp deter them from strengthening the team with their positive attitude and good health. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Each tribe will be belted into a large six point sliding hub resembling a star. By shifting, sliding and adjusting each other they will maneuver through a course of bamboo poles. Along the way the tribes will pass through five gates. Making things more difficult, the tribe paths intersect at four points in the course, which could result in the two tribes colliding before reaching the finish line. The first tribe to get all their members across finish line wins Immunity.Despite their renewed attitude, Ravu was not able to win the closely contested Immunity Challenge. At the Ravu camp, two heads were on the chopping block: Anthony for being seen as weak and Rocky for his obnoxious behavior. Things became tense at Tribal Council, when Anthony unleashed some pent up anger at Rocky. When it came to the vote, Anthony was voted out, and Lisi joined the Ravu tribe."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Lisi joined the Ravu tribe after spending two days on Exile Island. Dreamz immediately saw Lisi as an outsider and the weakest person, as well as being annoying. Earl took his tribemates to try to retrieve Moto's stranded boat, leaving Yau-Man to search for the hidden immunity idol. Using Moto's digging tools, Yau-Man found the hidden immunity idol and vowed to share the idol with Earl. \n\nReward Challenge: Each tribe will use a flamethrower to launch fireballs at three separate targets. Each time they hit a target it will burst into flames. The first tribe to ignite all three of their targets wins a trip via seaplane to a private Fijian arcade where they will enjoy an afternoon of foosball, bowling and billiards while consuming hot dogs and beer.At the reward challenge, Dreamz's perfect aim led Ravu to finally break their losing streak. Ravu sent Earl to Exile Island, and they enjoyed their reward. After suffering stomachaches from gorging on too many hot dogs, Rocky (the only one who moderated and ended up without a stomachache) told them that \"it is what it is.\" Although Lisi was planned as the next to go if Ravu lost immunity, the others were fed up with Rocky's harsh attitude and did not want to suffer the same fate as Anthony. Yau-Man made a fake hidden immunity idol out of a half coconut shell and buried it where he found the real immunity idol, although not as deep so it will be easier to find.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each tribe will designate one person to be the caller while the rest of the tribe is blindfolded. One at a time, the caller will guide their tribe out into a field where five skulls are hanging. Using a Fijian war club one player must smash a skull, releasing a bundle of tiles trapped inside. While still blindfolded that player must then find the tiles, take them to their puzzle board and race back to the start. Then the next person will go. Once the tribes collect all five bundles of tiles, the entire tribe will race to unscramble the tiles and decipher a two-word phrase (Cannibal Isles). The first tribe to correctly solve the phrase wins Immunity.At the immunity challenge, Ravu and Moto were neck and neck, but Moto finished the puzzle quicker to win immunity. Knowing she was next and wanting to keep herself in the game, Lisi told Alex the clues she got from Exile Island to the whereabouts to the hidden immunity idol on Ravu. Alex and Edgardo then concluded that they preferred Lisi's loyalty over Rocky's strength and attitude. Dreamz agreed with them, but Mookie still felt taking out physically strong Rocky was too risky and wanted the weaker Lisi out. In the end, loyalty outweighed physical strength as Rocky was voted out, becoming the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":8,"episode_summary":"While Dreamz and Lisi slept, Alex, Edgardo, and Mookie found the hidden Immunity Idol using the clues that Lisi told Alex. The three men decided not to tell Dreamz or Lisi that they found the idol, though Lisi figured out that Alex told Mookie about the clues. Alex stated that they would share the idol, but Mookie made it clear that he had primary control of the idol because he dug it up. After Lisi mocked the idea that anyone else had found the idol, Mookie had some fun by helping her dig in the spot where he'd already found it in order to maintain the belief that the idol was still hidden.\n\nReward Challenge: Both tribes were taught a Meke, a traditional Fijian dance. Each tribe will perform this Meke in front of Fijian judges who are experts in Fijian dance. They will be judged on three criteria: appearance, authenticity and spirit. Winners will indulge in a Fijian feast of chicken, pork and seafood while enjoying Fijian entertainment.At the Reward Challenge, both Moto and Ravu tied for both appearance and spirit, but Moto beat Ravu in the dance (moves and timing) category. Moto enjoyed a traditional Fijian feast with the natives while Ravu's morale sunk. Lisi struggled at Exile Island during the thunderstorm. She was upset about Ravu continuing to lose challenges and had thoughts on quitting the game.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Using three different weapons, tribes will test their skills. The first round is blowdarts, one shot per tribe member, and whoever gets closest to the bull's eye scores one point for their tribe. The second round is spear throwing; the closest to the bull's eye scores two points for their tribe. For the final round they would shoot a bow and arrow, with the tribe member to hit closest to the bull's eye scoring three points. The tribe with the most points after all three rounds wins Immunity.Moto continued their winning streak by winning all three rounds of the immunity challenge, with Yau-Man showing off some unorthodox but successful techniques in spear throwing and archery. A frustrated Lisi told her tribe that she wanted to be voted out, which made Dreamz happy because he'd never gotten along with her. Lisi then changed her mind and hoped that Alex and Edgardo would vote out Dreamz, but the tribe had enough and decided to vote out Lisi."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":9,"episode_summary":"On day 22, the tribes received tree mail that told them to paddle immediately to Exile Island and to not take any of their rewards with them. When they arrived, they discovered a box in the tower on the island with purple buffs and a note telling them that they were now a merged tribe and they were to return to the Moto camp. When they arrived, everything had been removed and the castaways would have to rebuild from scratch. All the castaways started scrambling for new alliances or tried to bring back together old ones. Michelle chose the name Bula Bula for the merged tribe, meaning \"hello hello.\" At the combined Reward and Immunity Challenge, the castaways were randomly split into two competing teams consisting of a green team (Alex, Dreamz, Michelle, Mookie, and Stacy) and an orange team (Boo, Cassandra, Earl, Edgardo, and Yau-Man). The winning team would be immune and not attend Tribal Council, and the losing team would immediately open a note containing instructions after the challenge.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Shown a large Fijian mask, teams are to memorize the symbols and their arrangement on the mask. Teams will paddle down a river to three stations to retrieve three bundles of puzzle pieces. Once they have retrieved all three bundles, they'll paddle to the finish where two tribe members from each team will then use those pieces to construct six of the symbols from their Fijian mask. The team would then have to place the six symbols on the correct positions on their team mask. The first team to place the symbols in the correct order on their team mask wins immunity and a feast of massive slabs of steak, veggies and seasoning, and a few bottles of wine.Leading from the start, the orange team won the combined Reward and Immunity Challenge, leaving Alex, Dreamz, Michelle, Mookie, and Stacy to go to Tribal Council. The note revealed that they were to go to Tribal Council immediately and were not allowed to discuss anything or strategize. When they got to Tribal Council, Jeff asked each Survivor to tell him a good reason to vote out another castaway. Through this, Alex implied that he was voting for Michelle. Dreamz decided to also vote for Michelle, and she was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After half the tribe returned from the previous Tribal Council, tensions were high as everyone knew the next vote would decide the game between the two alliances: Earl and Yau-Man's Ravu alliance, and Moto's \"Four Horseman.\" Michelle's ouster caused Boo, Cassandra, Earl, and Yau-Man to regroup and make a new strategy. \n\nReward Challenge:  After answering a series of questions in private, Jeff will ask the questions again, but this time Survivors will guess what the tribe as a whole answered. Each time someone gets an answer correct, they will smash a tower belonging to another tribe member. When all three towers are smashed, that person is out of the challenge. The last person standing wins a huge barbecue and a night aboard a 70-foot luxury yacht.Cassandra won the first individual Reward Challenge, sending Mookie to Exile Island, and bringing along Boo, Dreamz, and Yau-Man on a private yacht trip. During the challenge, which involved each tribe member guessing which competitors were named by the others for numerous questions, Stacy received several negative titles, including \"Who do you NOT want to see after the game is over?\" and \"Who wasted this great opportunity?\". On the yacht, Cassandra and Yau-Man talked Dreamz into their alliance. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The survivors will use their arms to brace themselves between two walls, while their feet are positioned on very narrow footholds. Every 30 minutes Survivors will step down to an even smaller foothold. When they reach the third and final foothold they will stay there as long as they can. If a survivor falls off, they are out of the challenge. The main rule: no hips, no back, and no butts. Arms and feet only. Last person left standing wins individual Immunity.The first individual Immunity Challenge was won by Yau-Man. In the ensuing scramble to decide the vote at Tribal Council, the self-titled \"Four Horsemen\" of Alex, Dreamz, Edgardo, and Mookie figured that Earl must have the other hidden Immunity Idol and planned to vote him off. Both Alex and Yau-Man tried to convince Stacy to join their alliances. In the end, Stacy sided with Yau-Man. Alex, Edgardo, and Mookie told Dreamz that they found the hidden immunity idol at Ravu, which caused Dreamz to waver because they kept it a secret from him.\nDreamz jumped sides and told Cassandra, Earl, and Yau-Man that Mookie had found an Immunity Idol; Cassandra responded, \"Mmmhmm\". Initially, the group of Boo, Cassandra, Dreamz, Earl, Stacy, and Yau-Man decided to target Alex. Feeling threatened, Alex asked Mookie to discreetly give him the hidden Immunity Idol for protection at Tribal Council. Dreamz noticed this exchange and told the Earl's alliance of the swap, and the same group decided to change the target to Mookie. Edgardo later suggested to the Four Horsemen that they vote off Cassandra instead, as she was a strong middle player in the game and if Earl did have the Immunity Idol, their plan may backfire. Seeing that Dreamz may have been playing both sides of the game and hoping to improve her standing with her critical teammates, Stacy suggested to Boo, Cassandra, Earl, and Yau-Man that they vote off Edgardo and not tell Dreamz about this change; regardless of whether Alex and Mookie had the idol (facts unsure by Dreamz's double-sided dealings), Edgardo would be left unprotected and be voted off if the 5-member alliance held. This would also confirm whether Dreamz was trustworthy and cost the Four Horsemen use of the idol. At Tribal Council, Alex played the hidden Immunity Idol, but for naught as he received no votes, and the Earl-led alliance stuck to their plan and voted out Edgardo. Jeff noted the Hidden Immunity Idol would be re-hidden with new clues available on Exile Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":11,"episode_summary":"With Edgardo gone and Dreamz having defected, the \"Four Horsemen\" alliance collapsed. Alex and Mookie confronted Dreamz about why he double crossed them at Tribal Council, but Dreamz tried to cover because he noted he needed their votes if he was to make it further in the game. \n\nReward Challenge:  The tribe will be randomly divided into two teams, and one person from each team will launch balls from a platform out into the muddy field. The other teammates will attempt to catch the ball using a basket. Each time someone catches a ball they score a point for their team, regardless of which team's ball they catch. The first team to score five points wins. For the reward, a seaplane will take the winning team to a luxury spa resort where they will have a hot shower, dinner and a night in a bed.Boo struggled in the Reward Challenge when he injured his knee, but he popped it back into place and continued playing. Alex, Dreamz, Earl, and Stacy won the reward and sent Boo to Exile Island. At the spa, Alex scrambled to see if he could get any support from his fellow tribemates, but he could not. Alex and Mookie figured that Yau-Man had the other hidden Immunity Idol from the Moto camp and confirmed this when they searched through his personal belongings. They plotted to confront Yau-Man about the idol at Tribal Council to either get him to lie about having the idol or stir up trouble by casting doubt among his alliance. However, Cassandra and Stacy were nearby, attempting to eavesdrop on the conversation. Although they only heard small parts of the conversation and didn't learn exactly what their adversaries were planning, they were spotted by Mookie and Alex, who then decided to confront Yau-Man immediately. They attempted to blackmail Yau-Man into telling his alliance about the hidden Immunity Idol or they would tell them. Yau-Man decided to tell the members of his alliance, but the strongest reaction was anger that Alex and Mookie went through Yau-Man's personal bag. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Testing their memory, each Survivor will secretly select three squares on a grid, horizontally, vertically or diagonally. The goal is to knock out their opposing teammate by guessing squares and bombing them one by one. When all three squares belonging to a Survivor are knocked out, they'll be out of the challenge. The last person with squares still left on the board wins individual Immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Stacy won immunity by taking out Yau-Man and Alex. Boo convinced his alliance that it would be better to split the votes between Alex and Mookie, just in case either of them had found the remaining idol, even though neither of them had any clues about the rehidden idol. At Tribal Council, it was admitted openly that Yau-Man had the hidden Immunity Idol and that Alex and Mookie were on the outside. The six-person alliance held to their plan of splitting their vote between Mookie and Alex, but Alex voted against Mookie to successfully avoid a tie. Mookie became the fifth member of the jury, leaving Alex the sole outsider remaining."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Alex went into self-declared \"ninja\" mode trying to stay out of everybody's way and just observing the others looking for possible ways to continue in the game. Cassandra, Earl, and Yau-Man discussed the options for who is the fourth member of the \"Core Four\" alliance with Cassandra and Earl preferring Dreamz and Yau-Man preferring Stacy. \n\nReward Challenge: Using only their teeth, Survivors will rip pieces of meat off large chunks of pork, filling their individual plates. The three with the most meat (by weight) on their plates after five minutes wins a trip to a Fijian rain forest for a river rafting adventure. The person with the most meat on their plate would receive an advantage in the next Immunity Challenge.At the Reward Challenge, the winner and the first two runners-up were taken on a river rafting excursion. The winner of the challenge also received an advantage to the next Immunity Challenge. Boo won the challenge by a wide margin with Yau-Man and Dreamz as runners-up. Boo selected Earl to go back to Exile Island for a fourth time. In a surprise, the three castaways on the trip received letters from home. Alex noticed the others complaining about Boo being too talkative, so he approached Dreamz about convincing the others to vote Boo out before Alex. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Survivors will race to dig up three climbing steps buried randomly in the sand. The first two people to find their climbing steps and cross the finish line will move on to the final stage. There they will use those climbing steps to ascend to the top of a 12-foot pole and retrieve their flag. The first person to retrieve their flag at the top of the pole wins individual Immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Boo's advantage turned out to be a bag of three climbing steps, giving him a free pass to the final round of the challenge, where he was joined by Dreamz and Alex. In the final round, Boo used his climbing steps to help him up the pole while Alex and Dreamz ditched their steps to scale their poles. However, the energy expended by Alex and Dreamz was too much for them to overcome and Boo won individual immunity for the first time. With Boo winning immunity, Alex tried to convince Cassandra, Dreamz, and Earl that now was the time to vote out Yau-Man, but his efforts were for naught and he was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Boo made himself a hideout near the well to overhear conversations thinking that he would be the next one voted out. Earl discussed with his alliance that Boo would be indeed the next voted out. \n\nReward Challenge: Split into groups of three and tied together, they will maneuver over a series of see-saws, climb up and through a cargo net tower to a sand pit, dig up a hatchet and chop through a rope to release a box. The first team to release the box wins reward. In addition, those three will also compete against each other in a hatchet-throwing contest for the keys of the 2008 Ford Super Duty. The winning team will drive in the truck, delivering the box as well as a trailer carrying a mobile school office to a local Fijian school. While there, they will have a picnic lunch with the children.At the Reward Challenge, Boo, Stacy, and Yau-Man won the picnic lunch. Then Yau-Man won the truck, but then dealt it to Dreamz in exchange for Individual Immunity should Dreamz win it at a prospective Final Four. Yau-Man also decided to send himself to Exile Island. In his new truck, Dreamz, Boo, and Stacy delivered school supplies and a teacher's office to the local school as part of the reward. After Dreamz returned from the trip, he plotted with Cassandra and Stacy to vote out Yau-Man after realizing what Yau-Man's strategy was regarding giving him the truck, also noting that the deal wouldn't be broken if he voted out Yau-Man before the Final Four. \n\nImmunity Challenge: On platforms in the ocean, Survivors will toss a ball attached to a rope into a hoop to pull down a balance beam. From there, they'll cross to the finish. The first four will move on and do it again, with the first two to cross moving into the final round. They'll once again lower a balance beam, then move onto another beam to a small perch. Balancing on that perch, they will use a grappling hook to fish for a buoy. The first one to raise their buoy wins Individual Immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Boo, Dreamz, Earl, and Yau-Man moved on to the second round. Yau-Man and Boo then moved on to the final round. Boo won immunity for the second time in a row, throwing the alliance's plans into disarray. Earl found the Hidden Immunity Idol using the third clue that Yau-Man received. Feeling bad vibes leading up to Tribal Council and Stacy's hinting that his alliance would split a vote, Yau-Man played his Hidden Immunity Idol. The plans to eliminate Yau-Man backfired as the four votes cast against him were negated, and a surprised Stacy was voted out. Jeff stated that the next Tribal Council will be the last time the Hidden Immunity Idol can be played."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":14,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Earl tried to figure out his standing with his alliance after he was kept out of the loop about the plan to vote Yau-Man out. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Survivors will make their way blindfolded through a massive five-section maze. Each will be assigned a uniquely shaped medallion, negotiating the maze till they find a key station. They will feel for the shape that matches their medallion to retrieve their specific key. After making their way to the correct drawbridge they will use their key to unlock it, lower it and cross over to the next section of the maze. If they get lost at any point, there are guide posts in each section of the maze that would help them to find their way. The first person to get all five keys and cross all five drawbridges wins Immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Yau-Man won immunity. Boo tried to stay in the game by trying to persuade Earl and Yau-Man to vote out Dreamz. At Tribal Council, Earl played his Hidden Immunity Idol, but it was not needed as he received no votes. In the end, Boo was voted out.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Survivors will lie on their backs on an elevated plank at an angle holding onto a wooden handle. Making things more difficult, water will stream out of a barrel, making the plank slippery. They would start at a 35° angle at the beginning of the challenge. Every five minutes, Jeff will increase the angle of the plank, making it steeper and harder to hang onto. When they can't hang on any longer, they'll let go and slide down the plank, landing in a pool of water. If the castaway slides down the plank, they would be eliminated from the challenge. The last person hanging on wins Individual Immunity.The final Immunity Challenge was won by Dreamz when he outlasted Yau-Man. At Tribal Council, Dreamz reneged on his agreement with Yau-Man to hand over the immunity necklace as Dreamz, correctly, felt that if he handed the necklace over, he would be voted out. Dreamz kept the immunity necklace in the end. With Yau-Man's agreement broken, he was voted out. The final 3 enjoyed the traditional Day 39 breakfast and burned down their campsite before heading to the Final Tribal Council. At the Final Tribal Council, the jury saw Dreamz as disloyal and deceptive, Cassandra as greedy and undeserving, and Earl being the only one of the three that played the game respectably."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US14","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, it was revealed that Earl received the unanimous vote of the jury and became the fourteenth Sole Survivor. The 19 castaways return to discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The castaways began in downtown Shanghai and traveled by train and truck to a Buddhist Temple where they participated in a welcoming ceremony. Even though Jeff stated that the ceremony was not religious, Leslie left before the ceremony was done because she felt the ceremony was symbolic of worship, which appeared to conflict with her Christian beliefs. After the ceremony, Jeff announced to the castaways that they would be going into the game with only the clothes that they were wearing at the time. The castaways were then divided into two tribes, each tribe receiving a copy of Sun Tzu's The Art of War. After a stormy night at Zhan Hu, Ashley became ill, which put her on the spot as a target for elimination.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Each tribe is to maneuver a Chinese dragon puppet, held on poles individually by each tribe member, through a maze, with the lead runner for each tribe having to open some obstacles along the way, such as lowering drawbridges and unlocking a locked gate. At the end of the course, the tribe members are to match their poles with correct spots in the ground. The winning tribe is the first to complete this task and will win immunity and flint.At the first challenge, the race began with the tribes trudging through the muddy course, maneuvering side-by-side as they make their way to the locked gate. Frosti and James were neck-and-neck as they catapulted themselves over the walls. But when Frosti forgot to lower the drawbridge and had to go back, he gave James from Fei Long a narrow lead. Carrying the awkward and heavy mascots, both tribes made their way through the waist deep swamp. Fei Long reached he finish platform first. They started on their puzzle as the swamp slowed the Zhan Hu tribe. Zhan Hu did not catch up and Fei Long solved the puzzle, winning flint and Immunity.\nAt Tribal Council, several contestants were up for elimination; Peih-Gee's bossy attitude, Ashley appeared to be a weak link after getting sick with diarrhea, and Chicken was seen as not fitting in. In the end Chicken was voted out 5-2-1. After Chicken left, Probst presented the tribe with fire in the form of a flint."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Dave tried to take a leadership role at Zhan Hu, but his tribemates resisted him for being too controlling and not listening to their ideas. At Fei Long, Amanda and Todd formed an alliance and pulled in Aaron to be \"someone strong to call the shots\" to deflect any anger about their plotting during the game. Jean-Robert became a target due to his laziness, but he privately revealed that this negative perception was part of his game plan. Probst revealed at the Reward Challenge that in addition to the reward, there will be a twist announced at the end of the challenge.\n\nReward Challenge: In a series of 3-on-3 matches, each tribe has to push their large ball across a muddy field into their opponents' goal, while preventing the opponents from doing the same. The first tribe to score two goals wins fishing gear and a fishing boat.In the first round, Amanda, Denise and Aaron of Fei Long raced out into the mud to battle Jaime, Sherea and Erik of Zhan Hu. Both sides choked and wrestled each other to gain possession of the wooden balls, and Sherea pulled Amanda’s top down. Despite the clothing malfunction, Amanda maneuvered the giant ball across the line and scored the first point for Fei Long. In the next round, Ashley, Frosti and Dave of Zhan Hu took on Jean-Robert, James and Leslie of Fei Long. Calling on her professional wrestling skills, Ashley attempted to grapple with the heavier Jean-Robert. Jean-Robert dragged Ashley along behind him and took out Frosti, leaving James free and clear to score the winning point for Fei Long. The twist was that Fei Long was to kidnap a member of Zhan Hu who would stay with them until the next immunity challenge. Fei Long opted to kidnap Jaime as she was seen as a \"spot of sunshine\" and thought her being gone from Zhan Hu would be demoralizing. Probst gave Jaime a sealed bamboo tube with instructions to be opened in private once at the Fei Long camp. Jaime opened the sealed bamboo tube to reveal a second, smaller bamboo tube containing a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol which must be given to a member of Fei Long without opening it before rejoining her tribe at the next immunity challenge. Jaime gave the sealed clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol at Fei Long to Leslie, seeing her as the weakest member of Fei Long. Leslie then shared the clue with Todd thinking that he would trust her and keep her around, but he saw this an opportunity to have the clue to himself if she were to be eliminated. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Each tribe uses a puzzle log to break through two sets of gates; then, they must turn, pull and push the puzzle log to navigate a maze that is worked into the surface of the log. Once the log is cleared from the maze station, the first tribe to use their log to hit a gong at the end of the course wins immunity.Both tribes plowed through their first gates with their heavy puzzle log. James and Jean-Robert muscled the Fei Long log through the second gate and headed to their puzzle station, as Zhan Hu’s over-worked Dave could barely lift his part of the log. In a split-second decision, Frosti switched positions with Dave in order to catch up for the lost time and finally broke through the second gate. However, it was too little, too late for Zhan Hu as Fei Long conquered their puzzle and rung their gong in victory. Once again, Fei Long avoided attending the dreaded Tribal Council. Dave took full responsibility for Zhan Hu's immunity challenge loss. But the tribe saw Ashley as causing too much conflict with Dave and not being a hard enough worker, causing her to be unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":3,"episode_summary":"On the same night Zhan Hu attended the second Tribal Council on Night 6, Jean-Robert hogs up the Fei Long bed space which caused Courtney, Leslie and Amanda to switch spots in order to avoid getting snuggled by him. Another conflict at Fei Long saw Aaron, James and Jean-Robert arguing what to do with a crab James and Courtney caught. Dave continued to work hard at Zhan Hu but also continued to irritate his tribemates for his bossy manner. At Fei Long, Courtney and Todd overheard Jean-Robert and James strategizing and making crude comments about Courtney.\n\nReward Challenge: In a series of 3-on-3 matches (separated by gender) taking place on two tribe-colored floating ships attached via two separate planks, each tribe must attempt to wrestle each member of the other tribe into the water; the first tribe to do so wins that match. The game is played best 3 out of 5 matches with the winning tribe receiving a kerosene lamp, rope, blankets, pillows, and a tarp.At the reward challenge, Dave attempted to distract Fei Long's male members by doing the wrestling challenge completely naked. However, the competitors from Fei Long were unaffected and proceeded to defeat the males both times they battled. Unfortunately, for the male Fei Long members, the women failed to win leaving the score 3-2 with Zhan Hu achieving victory. After winning their first reward challenge, Zhan Hu chose to kidnap Leslie from Fei Long seeing her as \"genuine.\" Leslie gave the sealed clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol at Zhan Hu to Jaime, repaying the favor from the prior episode. Jaime suspected that the idol was right in front of her after reading the clue, but was not able to locate it.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Four members of each tribe, sequentially, must use a machete to chop through wooden beams and ropes to release a set of puzzle disks. Once all four sets of puzzle disks are collected for the tribe, two other members must assemble the disks onto a large post on a heavy stone base. Once all disks are assembled on the post correctly, the two puzzle solves must then drag it across the finish line. The first tribe to drag the completed puzzle across the finish line wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, Zhan Hu got an early lead as Jamie, Peih-Gee, Frosti, and Erik tackled the post chopping with ease. On the other side, Fei Long was having trouble because Courtney couldn't cut fast enough, therefore she had to resort to sawing through the ropes at her station. After finally retrieving their first bundle of puzzle disks; Amanda, Aaron, and James blew through the other posts easily. Jean-Robert and Todd worked on Fei Long's puzzle while Dave and Sherea worked on Zhan Hu's. Fei Long was working quickly until Jean-Robert put a disk on the post too quickly blocking Todd's view, and causing the disk to become stuck. Zhan Hu; who was ahead, calmly finished the puzzle and dragged it across the finish line, thus winning their first immunity challenge. At Fei Long, Leslie was seen as untrustworthy due to her potential ties to the other tribe after being kidnapped, particularly after telling her tribe that Zhan Hu was a more cohesive and fun tribe than they were, and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":4,"episode_summary":"At Zhan Hu, Peih-Gee and Frosti discovered that there was mould in the tribe's rice supply. Frosti spoke to Dave privately and tried to warn him that he was causing too much conflict around camp after he clashed with Sherea over Sherea sifting their rice supply to hand pick the good ones and her throwing away shells Dave collected to take home for his mother.\n\nReward Challenge: Two members of each tribe, at a time, must use a pair of large chopsticks to carry a burning metal ball across the length of the course and then to place it onto a chute, where it will roll down and ignite a fireworks display. The chopsticks would get longer in each round making it more difficult to carry the metal ball. The first tribe to successfully transport three balls in this way wins a visit by a local fisherman and his family the next day. The fisherman would teach the tribe how to fish, and would bring additional food for the tribe.The reward challenge was won by Fei Long. Jean-Robert surprised his tribe by revealing that he spoke Mandarin, which he learned as a child while spending a few years in Taiwan and, during the visit by a local fisherman and his family as part of the Reward, was able to serve as a translator between the fisherman's family and the other contestants. Dave was kidnapped by Fei Long and chose to give the Hidden Immunity Idol clue to Todd after Todd agreed to return the favor should he be kidnapped. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes are dressed in mock Chinese armor for the challenge for their own protection. Two members of each tribe, at a time, attempt to use meteor hammers to break several pots arranged behind the opposing tribe while defending the opponents from breaking their own using large staves to block the hammers. The challenge is played in three rounds, the first round is played with two women from each tribe, the second is played with two men from each tribe and the third and final round is played with one man and one woman from each tribe. Each opposing pot broken scores a point for the tribe. The tribe that breaks the most pots after three rounds receives immunity.Fei Long won the Immunity Challenge. After returning to camp, Dave noticed that his tribe was united against him and tried to convince his tribemates that his attitude had changed. Sherea overheard Erik, Frosti, Jaime and Peih-Gee discussing her lack of work and realized that she was in danger of being voted out. Ultimately, the four other members of Zhan Hu decided that Dave's abrasive and miserable attitude was too much, and he was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Erik and Jaime's relationship grew, and Jaime shared the clues she had about the Hidden Immunity Idol with him. Instead of a Reward Challenge, local fishermen dropped off messages instructing each tribe to select the two strongest members from the other tribe to be added to their own; Fei Long selected Frosti and Sherea while Zhan Hu selected Aaron and James. Along with their new tribe members, each tribe received a basket of fruits, nuts, and wine. The tribal switch caused a lot of plotting of potential future moves by the castaways: Jean-Robert trying to regain the trust of his tribe; Frosti looking for new alliances, and Peih-Gee and Jaime contemplating throwing the next two Immunity Challenges in order to eliminate Aaron and James thus potentially balancing the number of original tribe members should a merge happen with ten players remaining.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Two members of each tribe must dive down from a floating platform to remove sticks that are trapping twelve buoyant puzzle disks, representing the twelve animals in the Chinese Zodiac. Once the members have collected all twelve, they must place the disks in their tribe boat and row the boat to shore to deliver the pieces to three other members of their tribe, who must then place them to match notches on a puzzle board. The first tribe to complete the puzzle wins Immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Aaron and Erik gave Zhan Hu the lead by arriving on shore with the puzzle pieces first, but Jaime and Peih-Gee sabotaged their tribe's chances by tossing a puzzle piece behind the puzzle board and making minimal effort to solve the puzzle, allowing Fei Long to catch up and win immunity for a fourth time. Aaron and James were upset at Jaime and Peih-Gee's poor performance and seeming lack of concern during the challenge. Back at camp, Erik was surprised to learn that the girls purposely threw the challenge and felt compelled to go along with their plan to stay in the game. At Tribal Council, Jaime admitted to throwing the challenge, prompting disgust from both Aaron and James. James was very vocal in condemning the strategy, even asking to be sent home. The remaining Zhan Hu members felt that Aaron would be a bigger threat because of this later on and voted him out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Todd teamed up with Amanda to find the Hidden Immunity Idol, sharing his knowledge of the clues with her.\n\nReward Challenge: One member of each tribe at a time will search an abandoned Chinese village for colored planks containing letters on them. When all eight planks are collected, the tribe must arrange the planks into a large board where other letters are already written and masking some letters on the planks to complete a proverb made famous by Confucius. The first tribe to complete the proverb (The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step) wins a trip to a nearby tea house to bathe, eat, and relax.During the Reward Challenge, Peih-Gee tried to relay a message to Sherea about the strategy she and Jaime had devised, but when Sherea and Frosti were non-communicative, Peih-Gee, Jaime, and Erik began to doubt their plans. Fei Long won the reward challenge and kidnapped their former tribemate James who also joined them on the reward. While on the reward, Todd convinced James to give him the Hidden Immunity Idol clue with a promise to save James in return. Back at camp, Peih-Gee, Jaime and Erik grew concern about their old tribemates and agreed that they needed to win the next Immunity Challenge. With the clue, Amanda and Todd discovered the location of the Hidden Immunity Idol attached to the paifang at the camp's entrance. They attempted to retrieve it discreetly by pretending their main objective was dismantling the paifang, but were forced to reveal the idol to Frosti after he innocently came over to help them. Todd then gave the idol to James and told him how to find the idol at the Zhan Hu camp. Todd also told Denise and Courtney about the Hidden Immunity Idol and his plan for Fei Long to win the next Immunity Challenge. James would then reveal the Hidden Immunity Idol at Tribal Council, thus negating all votes against him, and eliminate Jaime with his sole vote. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes are challenged to eat \"traditional\" Chinese dishes such as 10 chicken hearts, 3 eels, 3 baby turtles (still with their shell), 2 balute, and one \"1,000 year old\" egg in a series of 1-on-1 matches. The first person to finish the food item and show Probst an empty mouth scores a point for their tribe. The first tribe to score four points wins Immunity.Despite the best efforts by the Fei Long tribe to win and James to help throw the food eating Immunity Challenge, Zhan Hu won immunity forcing Fei Long to vote someone out. The alliance of Todd, Amanda, Denise, and Courtney agreed that they could trust Frosti and would vote out Sherea. After thinking more about it, Courtney tried to convince them to vote out Jean-Robert due to her dislike of him. Todd and Amanda were torn on whom to trust, but they stuck to their original plan after a tense Tribal Council, and Sherea was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":7,"episode_summary":"James retrieved the Hidden Immunity Idol from the Zhan Hu paifang after Peih-Gee left to join Jaime and Erik at the river. The other members of Zhan Hu noticed that the paifang was different, prompting them to pick up a false plaque James removed from the other side of the paifang. Later, Jaime searched James' bag and discovered he had two plaques hidden in his pants. She did not actually see the plaques, and thus did not realize the plaque she had was a false Idol. Courtney continued her push to get Jean-Robert voted out, irritating Todd who felt the need to keep Jean-Robert to maintain Fei Long's majority. On day 20, the tribes were merged, after which they enjoyed a feast of food and alcohol, while being entertained by Chinese acrobats. The merged castaways named their new tribe Hae Da Fung (Black Fighting Wind). Jeff arrived at the campsite and announced an Immunity Challenge would take place immediately.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The players must recall information that was visible at the feast they attended after the merge. If a player incorrectly answered a question, that player would be eliminated from the challenge. The last remaining player would win Immunity.The Immunity Challenge was won by Frosti. Peih-Gee tried to bring James and Frosti to the former Zhan Hu's side while Jaime tried to use her knowledge of the Hidden Immunity Idols as a bargaining chip with Frosti and Todd to save herself, but both already knew she had a false Idol and James had the real ones. After the votes were cast at Tribal Council, Jaime tried to play her false Hidden Immunity Idol, but Jeff tossed the plaque into the fire after announcing that it was not a Hidden Immunity Idol. The votes cast against Jaime counted and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: The tribe was divided into two teams of four via schoolyard pick (Jean-Robert, James, Todd, and Amanda versus Peih-Gee, Frosti, Erik and Courtney), with the ninth player (Denise) unable to participate or qualify for reward. During each match, one member of the team is positioned in a boat in the center of a floating platform and must prevent the boat from being flooded by three members of the other team standing on the platform to outlast the fourth member of the other tribe doing the same in a separate area. The team that sinks the other team's boat first wins the match; the game is played to the best 2 of 3 matches with the winner receiving a Chinese feast and a scroll containing the final clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol at camp.As part of winning the reward challenge, Amanda, James, Jean-Robert and Todd received a scroll containing all the clues and an additional clue to the whereabouts of the Hidden Immunity Idol at camp. With his new knowledge about the Hidden Immunity Idol, Jean-Robert searched the remaining wooden plaques at the campsite for the Idol, not knowing that both Idols had already been found. Todd, feeling slighted by James having both Hidden Immunity Idols and not giving one to him, approached Amanda and Frosti about blindsiding James at Tribal Council. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Each player sits atop a large barrel filled with water, fashioned as a Chinese dragon; at the start of the challenge, the players will release a cork that will cause water to drain out of the barrel, and furthermore, will unlatch the barrel as to allow it to rotate freely. Players must then attempt to stay atop the barrel for as long as possible, with balancing becoming more difficult as the water drains from the barrel. The players can only touch their own barrel with their hands. If they touched the other parts of the structure with their hands or if they fall off their barrel, they would be eliminated from the challenge. The last player that remains on their barrel wins Immunity.Courtney won the immunity challenge. Thinking that he had the Hidden Immunity Idol, Jean-Robert told Erik that he had the Idol, but Erik told him that he thought James had both of them. Jean-Robert confronted James about the Idols hoping to get an alliance with him, but James denied that he had it. Jean-Robert then approached Todd about blindsiding James, which caused Todd to alter his plan to do the same. However, he changed his mind and formed an alliance with James, Amanda, Courtney, and Frosti. They decided not to tell Denise due to her wavering friendship. Fearing that Jean-Robert might overthrow him as the strategy guy of the game, Todd turned the majority Fei Long alliance to Jean-Robert who was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Denise felt betrayed by her alliance after they did not tell her about their plan to vote out Jean-Robert at the last Tribal Council. Frosti and Courtney flirted with each other. \n\nReward Challenge: Two teams of four are selected via schoolyard pick (Amanda, Courtney, Erik, and Frosti vs. Todd, Denise, James, and Peih-Gee). Each team must attempt to bounce a ball on the heads of four drums along the length of a course including across two gates, and into a pot at the end of course; if the ball should drop to the ground the team must restart at the last gate passed or back at the start. The first team to transfer three balls in this fashion wins a night on a river cruise along the Lishui River.Amanda, Courtney, Erik, and Frosti won the reward challenge. Peih-Gee took out her frustration at losing the Reward Challenge on James, saying that he quit on the challenge when he had a hard time with it. She later attempted to apologize to James for what she said, but he didn't accept. When the winners got back from the reward challenge, they attempted to downplay their reward in order to not alienate the other castaways.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each player is presented with a set of tiles representing the animals of the Chinese zodiac. Each round, Probst will read off a series of animals in a specific order; the players must remember this series and then using a knife, stab the tiles in the correct order. A player is eliminated from the challenge if they fail to get the correct order of animals. The last player remaining in the challenge would win immunity. Prior to the challenge, players that do not want to participate are able to partake of cheeseburgers, french fries, and drinks for as long as the challenge continues or until the food runs out before the end of the challenge. The decision to participate in the challenge or not is determined by a simultaneous reveal of each player's choice through colored coins. If the player wants to eat, they would reveal the black coin. If the player wants to participate, they would reveal the white coin.Courtney, Denise, James and Todd chose to sit out the Immunity Challenge to eat. Erik was first out, followed by Amanda. Frosti answered the final question incorrectly and Peih-Gee won Immunity. Todd, James, and Denise were concerned that Courtney would not vote for Frosti due to her close friendship with him. Seen as a greater threat to win challenges than Erik and as a possible threat to turn Courtney to his side, Frosti was unanimously voted out. After the vote, Jeff told the remaining contestants that they are not going directly back to camp and that they had to stay at Tribal Council to attend to some additional business."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":10,"episode_summary":"A recap of the first 27 days including previously unaired bonus footage."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":11,"episode_summary":"The surprise \"more business to attend to\" announced by Jeff at Tribal Council was a Reward Challenge held immediately at Tribal Council itself.\n\nReward Challenge: The players are quizzed on their knowledge of China and its culture. The player to first five correct answers wins Reward as well as the opportunity to bring two others along on a plane trip to the Shaolin Temple, including a demonstration of martial arts and an overnight stay.Peih-Gee won the challenge without answering a question incorrectly and invited Denise and Erik to join her on the reward. While at the temple, Denise surprised Peih-Gee and Erik by revealing that she has been a student of karate for eight years, nearly reaching the rank of black belt. While fetching the tree mail announcing the Immunity Challenge, Amanda shared with Courtney her plot to blindside James at the next Tribal Council as long as he did not win immunity at the challenge. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Players are to throw hira-shuriken (steel stars with sharp points) at a target wall marked with various scoring areas (1, 2, 3 and 5 points). In the first round, each player throws three times, and the highest four scores (barring any ties) proceed to the next round. In the second round, the target wall is moved farther away by ten feet (3.0m), and each player only has one throw. The player with the highest scoring throw on the second round wins Immunity.At the immunity challenge, Courtney, Erik, Amanda and James all scored 6 points and moved on to the final round. Erik won the Immunity Challenge with a score of 3 points to Amanda's 2 and Courtney and James missing the target in the final round. Amanda convinced Todd and Denise to go along with her plot to blindside James. Thinking that she was next to go and trying to go out fighting, Peih-Gee talked to Amanda about James possibly having a Hidden Immunity Idol and Amanda told Peih-Gee to \"just not do anything.\" Peih-Gee shared the possible plot with Erik, who had to decide if it was in his best interest to vote with Peih-Gee and vote for Todd or join the possible plot by voting out James. James was blindsided at Tribal Council without playing either Hidden Immunity Idol, and was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: Each remaining contestant was teamed with a loved one for this challenge. Each participant was blindfolded and placed on opposite sides of a maze formed by fenceposts. The contestant and their loved one had to help meet at the center and step up onto a dais to win the reward. The first pair to step up onto the dais wins a boat trip including a dinner feast and a call from home; selection of two other contestants and their loved ones to share in the boat trip and feast.At the Reward Challenge, the castaways were surprised by the appearance of their loved ones (Amanda's sister, Courtney's father, Denise's husband, Erik's mother, Peih-Gee's father and Todd's sister) with whom they teamed up in the challenge. The team of Denise and her husband won, and selected Amanda and Todd, along with their sisters, to join them on the trip. After Courtney, Erik, and Peih-Gee were sent away, Jeff announced the remaining loved ones would spend the night at the camp. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Each contestant is tethered to a rope that crosses a knee-deep bog of water and included various posts which the rope is wrapped around. Each contestant must maneuver the length of the rope including around any obstacles to reach a set of question boxes, each containing one true and one false statement related to Chinese inventions and a key associated with that answer. The contestant selects the key from the answer they believe to be true and makes their way back through the course to try to use the key to unlock one of three locks on a box containing the flag. If they are wrong, they must go back and fetch the other key. The first player to open all three boxes and hoist their flag wins.The grueling Immunity Challenge was won by Peih-Gee. Peih-Gee and Erik tried to get Denise to switch to their side to force a tie at Tribal Council by voting for Todd, but the Fei Long alliance held and Erik, as the only remaining member of the former Zhan Hu who wasn't immune, was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: Each player is given 5 arrows of their color, and must secretly distribute them to the other players by placing them in their containers. They cannot place any of their arrows in their own container. Then, using the arrows that they have been given, they must use a replica of a Chinese wooden repeating crossbow to shoot at their names at a checkerboard target. A player earns a point whenever an arrow hit their name, regardless of who shot the arrow. The winner is the one with the most points after all arrows are fired and receives a private jet trip to the Great Wall of China, including a meal; selection of two other contestants to share the reward with them.Denise won the reward challenge due to Amanda and Courtney hitting her name instead of their own. She then chose to take Courtney and she chose Todd for strategic reasons, leaving a teary-eyed and furious Peih-Gee (she shared her Shaolin Monks reward with Denise, but after Denise's two straight reward wins, she had not returned the favor). Back at camp, Amanda and Peih-Gee started to talk, resolved their conflicts with each other and became somewhat close. Amanda flirted with the idea of blindsiding Todd. Later, when the others returned to camp, Peih-Gee attempted to get Denise to vote along with her and Amanda, telling Denise that she would be voted out once Peih-Gee was eliminated. \n\nImmunity Challenge: This was the \"Second Chances\" challenge split into four rounds, with the last player in each round losing the challenge. The reappearing challenges were: using 3 throwing stars to earn points, eating one balut, bouncing a ball on a drum across a course into a large container, and finally using a sword to chop ropes holding eight puzzle disks, then assembling the puzzle on a large post. The first person of the two in the final round to assemble the puzzle correctly wins immunity.The Immunity Challenge was won by Amanda. At Tribal Council, Amanda and Denise decided to keep their allegiance with Todd; and Peih-Gee, the last original Zhan Hu member, was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: Players must cross over two bridges (once which they have to assemble by placing planks in correct positions on the bridge) to reach a yoke and 12 puzzle pieces. Using the yoke to haul the pieces, the player must then take these to the top of a replica Great Wall. Once all the pieces are collected at the top of the wall, the player must then fill the pieces into a three-dimension puzzle in order to complete their section of the wall. The first place to complete the puzzle correctly wins pizza, brownies, beer, and soft drinks. The winner can choose to eat the food in the reward themselves, or share it with one or two of the other players.At the final Reward Challenge, Amanda won a food reward challenge. Given the choices of having the reward herself, sharing it with one person or sharing it with two people, she chose to split it with only Todd. While eating their reward, Amanda questioned Todd's loyalty to their alliance and he reassured her that he was true to their alliance with Courtney. The Immunity Challenge was preceded by a torch remembrance of the voted out castaways that ended at a statue of Guan Yin. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Each player is provided a one-arm balance adjusted for their height, with a small disk at the far end. During the challenge, Probst will call out specific dishware that the player must take and stack on the far end of the balance. Should any part of a player's stack fall, that player is out of the challenge. The last player remaining in the challenge would win immunity.Amanda continued her winning streak by winning the final Immunity Challenge. During the challenge, Denise tried to convince Amanda to drop out and hand Denise immunity in exchange for a promise Denise wouldn't vote her out. Amanda told Denise to forget it and won Immunity for herself. After the challenge, Denise continued her lobbying to not be voted out and finally decided to move against Todd, but her efforts were unsuccessful and she was voted out in a unanimous vote.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, all the three were confronted by the jury for their actions during the course of 39 days. Amanda was lambasted for apologizing too much and not giving reasons to the jury as to why she chose to vote them out, nor even admitting to ever lying to them. Courtney was seen as the most honest of the three, but was criticized for her personality and her differences with some members of the jury, as well as being too dependent on Todd and Amanda. Todd was seen as the most manipulative and deceitful of the three, but was more honest about his lying (unlike Amanda) and was seen as playing the game since Day One (unlike Courtney)."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US15","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, Todd was voted the Sole Survivor with a vote of 4–2–1 over Courtney and Amanda. The 16 castaways return to discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst. James was voted by the viewers as the favourite contestant of the season, winning $100,000."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":1,"episode_summary":"Ten fans arrived on a tropical island and learned that they would compete against ten returning players. The contestants swam to an island and searched for individual immunity idols. Jonny Fairplay found the idols tied to either tribe's boat, but took the one belonging to the Airai tribe. Yau-Man noticed and grabbed the Malakal idol then showed the fan's idol to Kathy, who took it. At the Malakal camp, alliances form of Ami, Eliza, Jonathan and Yau-Man and of the James-Parvati and Amanda-Ozzy couples; these groups courted Fairplay who played both sides. A combined reward and immunity challenge required building a cart from puzzle pieces and pushing it through an obstacle course, then using the puzzle pieces to complete a mechanism and set fire to a platform. Airai took an early lead and won immunity and a flint. Afterwards, Jonny Fairplay told Malakal that he missed his girlfriend and daughter and wasn't committed to the game. The truth of this is questioned and he is unanimously voted out. After the tribal council, Malakal are given flint, though Yau-Man had already made fire by focusing sunlight."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Airai struggled to make camp. Chet, Kathy and Tracy felt shunned by their younger tribemates and built their own shelter, then a second was built for the other tribe members. At Malakal, the Amanda-Ozzy and Parvati-James couples grew closer, to the concern of Jonathan and Cirie. A combined reward and immunity challenge had five contestants complete laps of an amphibious obstacle course, a sixth unlock a box, and three others solve a puzzle. Chet struggled to retrieve a key in the water and Malakal won by a large margin, receiving immunity, fishing gear and a bamboo fishing boat. Malakal chose to send Kathy to Exile Island, then had to send one of their own and Cirie volunteered. Kathy and Cirie discovered a series of clues but failed to find a hidden immunity idol. At Airai, Mikey B wanted to vote out Chet due to his challenge performance, and devised a way to split his alliance's seven votes between Chet and Tracy to protect against an idol. Joel did not like Mikey B controlling the vote, and plotted with Erik, Alexis, Natalie, Chet, Tracy and Kathy who undermined Mikey B's position by voting out his close ally, Mary."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Mikey B confronted Joel about voting out Mary. A reward challenge has contestants try to move to their end of a playing field with their tribe's three bags and two of the opposing tribe's bags. In a very physical contest in the rain, Malakal won and chose their reward of a tarp, a lighting kit and a survival kit. Kathy and Ami were sent to Exile Island, where they competed in search for the hidden idol. Cirie contemplated which alliance to join and struck a final-three deal with Amanda and Parvati. The immunity challenge required two men and two women from each tribe to support a net into which members of the opposing tribe tossed coconuts. Airai outlasted Malakal and won tribal immunity. The Malakal alliances openly lobbied for Cirie's vote. Amanda, Ozzy, Parvati and James wanted to vote out Eliza – having earlier failed to bring her into their alliance – but follow Cirie's lead and vote out Yau-Man due to her concerns that he would find the hidden immunity idol."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Chet irritated his tribemates with his lack of work at camp. Eliza felt sick and James criticized his alliance's decision to not vote her out, believing she was weak. The reward challenge required diving for coconuts and bringing them to shore where tribemates would unscramble a word puzzle. Ozzy facilitated the diving task for his tribemates and Malakal won three chicken hens, a rooster and chicken feed. Kathy and Ozzy were exiled, and Kathy felt disheartened and did not search for the idol. Under the pretense of looking for food, Ozzy searched and found the idol without Kathy's knowledge and put a fake idol in its place. At Malakal, Eliza talked with Parvati about voting Jonathan, but he overheard them. The immunity challenge harnessed six tribemembers to a hub which they had to unlock and maneuver through a forest course, collecting puzzle necklaces which two tribemates would use to decrypt a three-word phrase. Airai struggled to work together and Malakal won by a large margin. Mikey B feigned loyalty to Joel but lobbied to vote out Chet. Tracy approached Joel with a plan to vote out Mikey B, which worked."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Ozzy told Amanda, James and Parvati that he found the immunity idol. The tribes were switched by a schoolyard pick: the new Airai tribe was composed of Alexis, Eliza, James, Jason, Jonathan, Kathy, Natalie, and Parvati; Amanda, Ami, Chet, Cirie, Erik, Joel, Ozzy, and Tracy made up the new Malakal tribe. The challenge harnessed pairs of tribemates in an obstacle course, with a point scored for the pursuing pair taking a flag from the defenders or for the defenders evading the pursuers for one minute. Airai won a food reward and no one was exiled. Several were injured and Jonathan received medical attention for a puncture wound to the knee. On day 14, the Favorites took charge at Airai and built a new camp and shelter further inland. The immunity challenge had contestants throw rocks at tiles then a caller instructed others to solve a puzzle. Airai initially fell behind but worked quickly on the puzzle and won immunity. At Malakal, Joel and Erik approached the Favorites about voting out physically weaker tribemates Chet, Cirie and Tracy. Cirie overheard, worked with Chet and Tracy to target Joel, and convinced Amanda and Ozzy that Joel was a bigger long-term threat."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":6,"episode_summary":"The reward challenge had tribes race to make an opening in a blockade of tied planks and sticks created by the opposing tribe and get all their tribe members through it. Airai won a reward visit from two Micronesians who demonstrated ways to catch seafood and improve camp. Chet and Jason are exiled and Jason finds Ozzy's fake idol. Jonathan is medevaced for his infected knee. At Malakal, Amy proposed an alliance to Erik and Tracy, as she distrusted Cirie. The immunity challenge required contestants to use stepping poles to transfer two tribemates across platforms over the water then get all seven members on or above a small platform on a tower. Airai won by carrying both Parvati and Eliza on a single pole rather than using both poles. At Malakal, Chet asked to be voted out because he had given up and had an injured foot, though Erik and Tracy wanted him to vote with them against Ozzy. Chet is voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Ozzy's de facto leadership and arrogance during a fishing expedition upset the Malakal women. On the reward challenge, two callers directed four blindfolded tribemates to push a large money stone through a forest course. Eight smaller money stones gathered along the way were then used to solve a puzzle. Malakal won and received a reward trip to a spa and food. Jason and Tracy were exiled. Demoralized by poor living conditions and missing her family, Kathy quit the game. The immunity challenge required a tribemember to race along a floating bridge with a rope for each of five bundles of large puzzle pieces which are winched ashore by tribemates. Two remaining tribemates then solved the puzzle. Ozzy and Erik provided Malakal with a large lead but Eliza and Jason quickly assembled Airai's puzzle for the tribe's third consecutive immunity win. Ami attempted a plot to blindside Ozzy, lobbying Amanda and Cirie to blindside Ozzy's ally Erik while working with Tracy and Erik to vote Ozzy out 3–2–1. However, the plot collapsed at tribal council as Amanda and Cirie did not wish to lose Ozzy's trust, and Erik joined with the Favorites to eliminate Tracy."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Ozzy felt concerned that he was seen as a leader and became unsure of Ami's loyalty. Parvati proposed an alliance with James, Natalie and Alexis to get them to the merge, and offered the women a final four alliance with herself and Amanda. Before a combined reward and immunity challenge, Ozzy and Alexis are chosen by their tribes for immediate exile. The challenge required individual tribe members to maneuver through a balancing obstacle course while two members of the opposing tribe tried to knock them down with weighted bags. In a close challenge, Airai completed five laps first and won tribal immunity plus a reward of pizza and beer at camp. On Exile Island, Ozzy pretended to look for the hidden immunity idol with Alexis to conceal the fact that he had already obtained it. At Malakal, Erik told Amanda and Cirie about Ami's attempt to blindside Ozzy, but they understood her motivation and accept her allegiance. Once Ozzy returned from Exile Island, Erik told him the same story. Although Amanda and Cirie thought Erik was dangerous, Ozzy was upset that Ami plotted against him. Ami tried to counter Erik's story at Tribal Council but was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Eliza formed an alliance with Jason, who told her that he had the hidden immunity idol, not realizing that it was a fake. On day 22, Airai and Malakal merged and received a feast. They decided to live at the Malakal campsite and chose to name the new tribe Dabu, which Erik said meant \"good\" in Micronesian but it was just something funny-sounding that he invented. Amanda became concerned about Alexis's attachment to Ozzy and upset when Parvati revealed that she had committed them to a final four alliance with Alexis and Natalie. An individual immunity challenge had each contestant positioned under a metal grate while the tide rose, reducing their breathing space. Jason lasted the longest and won immunity. He gave Eliza the immunity idol he found but she immediately recognized it as a fake (describing it as \"just a stick\"). At Tribal Council, after the votes were cast, Eliza tried to play it. Jeff declared the idol a fake and burned it in the fire pit, and Eliza declared that Ozzy must then have the real hidden immunity idol, which he admitted. The votes were then tallied and Eliza became the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":10,"episode_summary":"A schoolyard pick divided the contestants into two teams of four for the reward challenge, with Cirie unchosen and immediately exiled. One at a time, teammates swam, crawled and climbed through an obstacle course, and collectively had to reproduce a sequence of Micronesian symbols. The team of Amanda, Erik, Jason and Ozzy won an overnight reward trip to Yap for a feast and cultural observance. The immunity challenge had contestants balance on a log with a raised hand tethered to an unsecured water bucket above them. Erik, Cirie, Alexis and Ozzy forfeited for offered sweets, while others lost concentration. After more than six hours, Jeff offered a tray of food for either of the last two – Jason or Parvati – to step down. Parvati suggested that Jason could gain goodwill by sharing the food. Jason asked for and received a guarantee from everyone that he would not be voted at the next Tribal Council, and forfeited. At camp, Amanda, James and Ozzy immediately wanted to renege on their promise to Jason. Cirie approached Alexis, Jason, Natalie and Parvati about blindsiding Ozzy. At Tribal Council, Ozzy stated that he left his idol back at camp and he was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":11,"episode_summary":"After blindsiding Ozzy and their final four alliance, Parvati tried to repair her relationships with Amanda and James. Both distrusted her, but Amanda played along because the women comprised a majority. An opportunity for rewards was provided through an auction. Natalie won the power to immediately exile a tribemate and she chose Jason, who found a new hidden immunity idol. The women planned to blindside Jason; Natalie misdirected him by telling him to make sure James didn't win immunity so that they could vote him out. The immunity challenge had a series of elimination stages: throwing rocks to break tiles, digging for a key and solving a puzzle wheel to turn a mechanism, and racing through a suspended obstacle course. Erik won immunity (on what happened to be his 22nd birthday). The women searched through Jason's bag, to the disapproval of James and Erik, and found his hidden immunity idol. Natalie reaffirmed to Jason that the women would be voting for James. Jason did not play his idol and was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Contestants' loved ones visited during the reward challenge, which had contestants guess how the majority of the tribe had responded on a survey about each other. Each correct answer allowed them to chop a competitor's rope; three chopped ropes eliminated a contestant. Alexis won a trip to Jellyfish Lake to swim among stingless jellyfish with a loved one; she chose Cirie and Natalie to join her, along with their loved ones. James was removed from the game due to his infected finger. Amanda volunteered to be exiled and learned that the idol was under the tribe's flag. The immunity challenge had contestants take turns shooting at colored sake bottles. Erik's sharpshooting allowed him to break three bottles of his assigned color and win. Amanda told the tribe that she had not found the idol; later, with Parvati's help, she secretly retrieved it. The others wanted to vote Amanda out, worried that she was a jury threat. Everyone is surprised when James appeared in the Tribal Council jury with an IV drip. Alexis, Cirie, Erik and Natalie openly declared that they would vote for Amanda. After the votes were cast, Amanda played her idol and Alexis was eliminated with two votes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Erik and Natalie decided that one of them had to win the reward challenge and exile the other in order to find the immunity idol. Amanda, Cirie and Parvati reconfirmed their final three alliance, and plotted for Amanda to convince Erik that he should partner with Parvati since they were the strongest at challenges. The reward challenge tested the contestants on past seasons of the show. Erik was the first to correctly answer four questions and won a helicopter trip over the Rock Islands and an overnight stay at a resort. Erik brought Amanda with him and exiled Parvati. Natalie felt betrayed and vented her feelings to Cirie. The immunity challenge had contestants retrieve an assigned color of puzzle pieces from three large sand pits, using intersecting ropes to determine the location to dig. Erik assembled his puzzle and won his third consecutive immunity. Erik tried to make a final three alliance with Cirie and Parvati, but Natalie overheard and the women confronted Erik over his multiple alliances. Erik became stressed over potentially ruining his game. At Cirie's suggestion, Natalie agreed to vote out Parvati if Erik gave her the individual immunity as a sign of trust, and proposed that this would redeem him in front of the jury. At Tribal Council, Amanda criticized Erik for switching loyalties, with Natalie and Parvati joining in, while Cirie emphasized the need for redemption to win the jury's favor. Erik gave Natalie the immunity necklace and the women unanimously voted him out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":14,"episode_summary":"The women celebrated outlasting the men. For an immunity challenge, contestants started on poles over water and used buckets to fill a chute and obtain floating keys. They then swam to shore, unlocked pieces of a puzzle ladder and climbed to raise a flag. Natalie took an early lead but Amanda quickly assembled her ladder and won. During the Tribal Council, Jeff hinted that there would be a final two. Cirie declared that she felt at the bottom of her alliance, which provoked an argument with Amanda. Despite this, the Favorites alliance held and Natalie, the last Fan, was voted out. Following a memory walk of those who had left the game, the remaining contestants undertook a final immunity challenge. They balanced a metal ball on a notched wooden cylinder, held only by friction with other pieces of cylinder which were added in successive rounds. Amanda won and voted Cirie out. At the final Tribal Council, Amanda emphasized her loyalty while Parvati emphasized her aggressive play. The jurors questioned Parvati's ethics and Amanda's authenticity. Ozzy's elimination became a central point, and Ozzy stated that he felt robbed of time with Amanda, feeling that he was falling in love with her."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US16","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, the jury's votes are revealed: they sided with Parvati and declared her the Sole Survivor with a vote of 5–3 over Amanda. The 20 former contestants discussed the season with host Jeff Probst. James, for the second consecutive season, was the viewer's choice of favorite contestant, winning $100,000. Amanda and Ozzy received the next highest number of votes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The castaways were welcomed to the game by Jeff with just their street clothes. After introducing themselves, the tribes were divided by schoolyard pick. As traditional in Gabon, Jeff announced that the oldest people usually make the decisions in the tribe and therefore the oldest castaways, Bob and Gillian, started the pick. After the tribes were picked, tribe names Fang and Kota were announced, and buffs passed out, Jeff announced the first challenge for individual Immunity Idols and extra food. \n\nTribal Reward/Individual Immunity Challenge: The tribes would have to race across the plain and up a hill. The first castaway from each tribe to the top of the hill would win an Individual Immunity Idol that would only be good at their tribe's first Tribal Council. The first entire tribe to the top of the hill would win an extra bag of corn and beans.Marcus and GC won individual Immunity Idols and Kota won the extra bag of food. At the Kota tribe, Bob and Ace took charge and organized the campsite. At the Fang tribe, a nighttime visit by an elephant spooked the tribe. Randy hit his head on the tribe's hut, requiring a visit by the Survivor medical team to put in several stitches. \n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Six tribe members would be belted together and have to race through a swamp, over a net wall, and under and over a series of hitching posts. The six would then have to dig up three bags of puzzle pieces and deliver them to the three remaining tribe members. These three would then assemble the puzzle pieces to win flint and immunity.At a combined Reward/Immunity Challenge, Kota pulled far ahead while digging up the puzzle bags and won by a blowout. Before Tribal Council, Michelle and Gillian were targets for votes due to their negativity and age, respectively. Michelle's negativity outweighed concerns over age and she was voted out. After the vote, Jeff announced that Fang would be taking their torches back to camp and gave them a flint.\nPicked as the leader of Fang at Tribal Council, GC started the tribe's first fire and organized jobs to fix up the campsite. At Kota, Charlie and Marcus formed an alliance; the two expanded their alliance to include Jacquie and Corinne. The four discussed bringing in Bob to have a majority, though Bob would be kept out of the core alliance of four. In the early morning of day 5, GC resigned his leadership of the tribe after arguing with Gillian over waking up early and making too much noise. After receiving tree mail announcing the next challenge, Dan tried to unify Fang by painting everybody with charcoal face paint.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The tribes have to roll a large ball through a series of gates. At two points along the course, a tribe member would have to climb atop the ball to retrieve of set of keys. At the final gate, the keys would unlock three chains that blocked the gate. The first tribe to go through all the gates and roll their boulder atop a short pedestal wins fishing gear and immunity.Despite Fang's attempts to boost morale, Kota won their third challenge in a row. Kota selected Dan to go to Exile Island, where he chose to get a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol, but he was not able to decode the clue to find it. At Fang, Randy fashioned a fishing hook out of parts from his glasses and the tribe was finally able to get some meat. Gillian suggested to Susie that the two of them form an alliance, fearing they might have been next in line to be voted out since they were the oldest women in the game; she suggested the two vote off Ken because Gillian thought he was useless. Dan's behavior after he returned from Exile Island made the others suspicious that he had found the Hidden Immunity Idol. This caused some of the Fang tribe to reconsider voting out Gillian, and instead vote for Dan. At Tribal Council, Gillian's weakness at physical challenges was seen as a greater concern than Dan's potential of having the Hidden Immunity Idol and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At Fang, the argument over who was or was not the tribe leader continued.  At Kota, the rest of the tribe was annoyed at Ace's attitude of being king of the tribe. \n\nReward Challenge: One member of each tribe would hang on to a post. Two members of the opposing tribe would attempt to remove the tribe member from the post and drag them across the sand to the finish line. The first tribe to get the member of the other tribe across the finish line would receive one point. The first tribe to score two points wins blankets, a hammock, pillows, and a mat.At the Reward Challenge, Ace chose Paloma to hang onto the post.  However, the Fang members easily overpowered her, leading to their first victory.  They also elected to send Sugar to Exile Island.  The win re-energized the Fang tribe and they finally felt like a team.  Meanwhile, at Kota, Paloma's poor effort at the challenge caused her to be seen as the weakest link in the tribe.  Corinne talked to Bob about joining her alliance of four, though she kept him in the dark about his status in the endgame. On Exile Island, Sugar elected to receive a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol over comfort and followed the clues to find the Hidden Immunity Idol. Sugar then revealed that her father's recent death was the motivation for her playing the game. \n\nImmunity Challenge: One at a time, six tribe members would slide down a water slide. They would then swim out to retrieve a numbered tile, then run up the hill they slid down to drop their number off. Once all six tiles were retrieved, the remaining castaway would use the tiles to solve a numeric puzzle. The answer to the puzzle is a combination to open a locked chest which holds an ax. The first tribe to open their chest and use the ax to cut a rope that would raise their tribe's flag would win.During the Immunity Challenge, Ken secured Fang's victory by overcoming Kota's lead at the tile retrieval stage and solving the numeric puzzle before Bob.  After the Immunity Challenge and back at their camp, Sugar told Ace that she found the Hidden Immunity Idol while leading the others to believe she didn't have it.  Paloma approached Corinne about forming an alliance and targeting Ace for elimination, due to Ace being manipulative and trying to set her up for failure at the Reward Challenge.  At Tribal Council, Ace's attitude at camp was discussed, but the tribe chose to remove their weakest physical link and voted out Paloma."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":3,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Ace was upset at Kelly's animosity towards him and her vote against him. In retaliation, he targeted her for the next elimination. Over at Fang, an alliance of Dan, Matty, Randy, and Susie formed and targeted GC for elimination. The remaining members of Fang, Crystal, GC, and Ken formed their own alliance. When the tribes next gathered, Jeff announced that the castaways would rank their tribemates by secret survey according to their importance within the tribe. Kota ranked Marcus as most important in their tribe followed by Ace, Bob, Charlie, Jacquie, Corinne, Sugar, and Kelly. Fang ranked Matty as most important in their tribe followed by Dan, Randy, Crystal, Ken, GC, and Susie. After announcing the rankings, Jeff told the castaways to drop their buffs as they would be picking new tribes by schoolyard pick once again. Voted as most important within their tribes, Marcus and Matty stayed with their original tribes and started the draft. The new Kota was Marcus, Dan, Charlie, Randy, Corinne, Susie, and Bob, while the new Fang tribe consisted of Matty, Ace, Crystal, Jacquie, Ken, Kelly, and GC. As Sugar was not selected during the process, she was sent to Exile Island. She would stay there until after the next Tribal Council and then join the tribe that lost the next Immunity Challenge. Since she had already found the Hidden Immunity Idol, Sugar chose the comfort option at Exile Island. At the newly formed Fang campsite, Crystal noticed that Kelly felt like an outcast at the old Kota and invited her to join her alliance with GC and Ken. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes would play a lacrosse-like game on the water. Each tribe member would be on a raft and have a paddle. Each round, Probst would toss a ball into the water. The castaways would paddle around the playing field, using the paddle to pass the ball from one tribemate to another. The first tribe to throw the ball three times into their opponents goal would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Randy scored all three goals for Kota in their shutout victory over Fang. Kelly's poor performance at the challenge made Crystal, GC, and Ken reconsider their alliance with her, as they now perceived her as the weakest member of the tribe. However, they decided to target Jacquie instead, realizing that Sugar might have the Hidden Immunity Idol and with it, the trio of Ace, Sugar, and Jacquie would hold power within the tribe. They wanted to ensure that Ace in particular had as little power as possible, as he was also a physical threat. The three shared their plan with Matty to persuade him to vote their way, but he immediately informed Jacquie of the development. Jacquie tried to plead her case to Ken and Crystal, casting herself as an outsider who was not allied with Ace and really wanted to remain in the game. However, her effort was in vain, as the original Fang stuck to their plan at Tribal Council, voting Jacquie out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Sugar arrived at Fang to join her new tribe and was surprised to see that Jacquie was voted out at the last Tribal Council. She continued to feign that she had not found the Hidden Immunity Idol, but Crystal did not believe her and targeted her next for elimination. On day 13, the Fang tribe were visited by an elephant just across the river from their camp. \n\nReward Challenge: A tribe member would toss fruit through a hole in a wall to two members of their own tribe. An opposing tribe member would stand in front of the wall and use a club to try to knock away the fruit as it was thrown through the air. Once a piece of fruit is caught by a tribe member, it would have to be thrown through a hole in a second wall defended by a second opposing tribe member. The tribe that catches the most fruit by weight after five minutes would win an herb garden, salt, oil, chili sauce, and all fruit collected from the challenge.At the Reward Challenge, a strategy change of tossing two fruit at a time over Ace defending the second wall helped Kota win the challenge by 2 pounds (0.91 kg). Kota chose to send Sugar to Exile Island for the third time in a row, with Dan stating that it was a strategy move to force her to play the Hidden Immunity Idol before the tribal merge as they wanted it back into circulation. At Exile Island, Sugar once again opted for the comfort. At the Fang camp, the pressure of the game started to get to GC and he argued with Crystal. Immediately before they were to leave for the Immunity Challenge, he went off alone in the tribe's kayak, causing his tribemates to call out for him. He returned just before they left for the challenge. \n\nImmunity Challenge: One member from each tribe would roll a large ball made of interwoven sticks down a hill. A blindfolded tribe member at the bottom of the hill would attempt to block the opposing tribe's ball with a shield and the aid of a caller. Behind the blocker would be a row of seven goals of varying point values. If a tribe's ball made it past the blocker and into a goal, they would be awarded the specified number of points. The tribe with the most points after five rounds would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Fang was in the lead until the last round of the challenge when Randy, the caller for Kota, tricked Ace, the blocker for Fang, into stopping and allowing the last Kota ball to reach the goal. The final points were enough for Kota to win the challenge, continuing their winning streak. Before Tribal Council, GC told Matty that he was ready to leave the game. Crystal searched Sugar’s bag and found that Sugar had the Hidden Immunity Idol. Although Crystal, Kelly, Ken, and Matty believed that the upcoming Tribal Council was the ideal time to blindside Sugar, they decided instead to grant GC’s wish to leave and he was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":5,"episode_summary":"The day after Tribal Council, Matty and Ace made a pact to take each other to the tribal merger as long as Ace could keep Sugar in the game and Matty could keep Ken in the game. Matty swore on his girlfriend and Ace swore on his mother's life. Over at Kota, Dan's extra helpings of food caused conflict among the tribe while the dwindling food supplies at Fang made them rethink their rationing of food. After Ace told Sugar that he thought the rest of Fang went through her bag and discovered the Hidden Immunity Idol, she gave him the idol for safekeeping.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribes would be tethered to a 20-foot (6.1 m) long, 200-pound (91 kg) cloth snake. The tribes would start at opposite ends of an oval course. Both tribes would run counter-clockwise around the course and try to catch up to the other tribe. If a tribe member could not continue, they may unhook themselves from the snake and the remaining tribe members would continue the challenge. The first tribe to catch the other tribe and touch one of the opposing tribe members would win croissants, fruit tarts, chocolate éclairs, coffee, and tea.At the Reward Challenge, Kota won their fourth consecutive challenge when Ken, Sugar, Kelly, and Crystal were unable to keep up and dropped out of the challenge, leaving an exhausted Ace and Matty to be chased down by the five men of Kota. Randy's taunting of an emotional Crystal did not sit well with her and she predicted that the old Fang and new Fang members would not get along. Kota chose to send Sugar back to Exile Island for the fourth time. Unlike her last visit where she enjoyed the food with the comfort, Sugar felt guilty about eating while her fellow tribe members subsisted on three scoops of rice. Kelly thought that Crystal crying after the Reward Challenge was a sign of weakness, but Crystal said that it was not. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes would divide into three pairs. Each pair would be tethered together by a rope. The first pair would crawl under a cargo net, race through the jungle, go through an obstacle, retrieve two sections of a flag pole, and return to the starting line. The next pair would run the same course with an additional obstacle to retrieve the next two pieces of the flag pole. The final pair would run the course with two additional obstacles and retrieve the final two pieces of the flag pole. The first tribe to collect all of the flag pole pieces and assemble their flag would win.At the Immunity Challenge, good teamwork by Kota during the flag pole assembly versus Ace trying to assemble Fang's flag alone allowed Kota to extend their winning streak to five challenges in a row. After the challenge, Matty approached Ace about blindsiding Sugar to flush the Hidden Immunity Idol, but Ace convinced Matty not to worry about the Hidden Immunity Idol being played and to vote for Kelly, though Ace did not tell Matty that he had the idol. Crystal also wanted to blindside Sugar or vote out Ace, but Matty told her of Ace's plans. Ken talked to Matty about blindsiding Ace, but Matty told Ken that he made a promise that he could not break. Lastly, Ken talked to Sugar about Ace and she told Ken that she had given the idol to Ace. Ken was unable to convince Sugar to change her alliances, but Ken did make sure that Sugar took the idol back from Ace. At Tribal Council, none of the blindside plans came to fruition and Kelly was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":6,"episode_summary":"The day after Tribal Council, Crystal accidentally kicked over Fang's rice supply, which upset Ace and Matty. At the Kota camp, the alliance of Charlie, Corinne, and Marcus made Dan uncomfortable and he approached them feeling left out. \n\nReward Challenge: In two roped off squares, three members of a tribe would toss a breakable ball back and forth. An opposing tribe member would attempt to smash or knock the ball to the ground. The first tribe to break the opposing tribe's ball would score a point for the round. The first tribe to score three points would win a helicopter ride to a picnic. Not announced at the challenge was an additional reward of letters from home.At the Reward Challenge, Kota continued their winning streak by shutting out Fang 3-0; Sugar was chosen to go to Exile Island for the fifth consecutive time. Back at camp, Matty voiced his frustration at Sugar’s lack of effort at the challenge. Matty offered Ace a plan to vote out Sugar without Ace having to stab her in the back, but Ace wanted to vote out Crystal instead. Meanwhile, Ken talked to Crystal about blindsiding Ace. During Kota's reward picnic, a crew member of the helicopter surprised them with letters from home. At the Immunity Challenge, Jeff announced that both tribes would be going to Tribal Council, that they would be playing for Individual Immunity, and there would be a twist announced after the Challenge was done. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would compete in a head-to-head logrolling contest in a single-elimination tournament. Each castaway is matched up against another castaway. The first person to fall off from the log is eliminated from the challenge. The final round would have three castaways rolling the log at the same time. The last person remaining would win immunity.Marcus won the Individual Immunity by defeating Sugar and Ace. The twist was that Marcus had to assign Individual Immunity to one member of the other tribe and he selected Sugar. After the Immunity Challenge, Ken, in an effort to blindside Ace, told Sugar about Ace and Matty plotting to vote her out. Later, Ace asked Sugar to give him the Hidden Immunity Idol, which made her think Ken's story was true. At Fang's Tribal Council, Ken's plan to blindside Ace came to fruition as Sugar cast the deciding vote against Ace and he was voted out.\nThe afternoon before Kota's Tribal Council, Dan scrambled to keep himself in the game. Charlie, Corinne, and Marcus replaced Bob in their alliance with Randy, though they did not tell Bob. Susie upset Corinne by telling her she had planned to vote for her. Corinne immediately went to her alliance and told them that she wanted to vote out Susie. Corinne, Charlie, Marcus, Randy, and Bob split their votes between Dan and Susie, convincing each to vote for the other and hoping that the immunity idol would be flushed out if Dan had it in his possession. Ultimately, Dan was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Back at camp after Tribal Council, Marcus and Corinne addressed Susie over her opinion that she was a stronger player than Corinne. Over at Fang's camp site, the tribe tried to start over and looked ahead to an expected tribal merger. After tree mail hinted at a tribal merge, the castaways packed up their personal items and went to a beach for a feast. At the feast, a clue for a second Hidden Immunity Idol was tucked under a locked box that the castaways would open after the feast was over. Ken noticed the note first, but when he tried to get the note for himself, Charlie saw the note and forced Ken to share the note with everybody. When nobody showed much interest in going to find the idol for fear of looking greedy, Marcus proposed to dig up the Hidden Immunity Idol, but to throw it in the ocean so that nobody could use it. Although many were tempted to take the Idol, the castaways finally agreed to throw it into the ocean. When the castaways opened the locked box, they were instructed to each draw a numbered stone from a bag. A second note was then read, stating that they had just selected new tribes. Castaways with odd numbers would be the new Fang and the even numbers the new Kota. At the new Kota, Marcus identified Crystal as the cousin of one of his friends, forming a connection with her. The two agreed not to write each other's names down at Tribal Council, but Crystal later stated in a confessional she had no intention to be loyal to him. Marcus tried to convince Susie to join his alliance with himself and Bob. At the new Fang, Corinne felt that the greatest threat to her alliance with Marcus was Matty and she wanted to vote him out next. Matty told Sugar that Ace never targeted her contrary to what Ken told her and she felt bad about blindsiding Ace at the last Tribal Council. The two formed a new alliance. Concerned over how Susie would vote at a Kota Tribal Council, Randy talked to Charlie and Corinne about throwing the next Immunity Challenge to force Fang to go to Tribal Council where the three would vote out Matty. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would hold two poles on the tops of their hands up against a board over their heads. Any movement in their hands would cause the poles to drop to the ground. If the castaway dropped his or her poles, he would be eliminated from the challenge. The last person who does not drop their poles would win immunity for their tribe and keep all of its members safe. In other words, the first tribe to have all its members drop their poles would lose immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Matty outlasted Bob and he won the challenge for Fang, spoiling Charlie, Corinne, and Randy's plans. Marcus tried to keep the Kota six alliance going by approaching Crystal about replacing Susie in the Kota six and voting out Ken followed by Susie, but she did not want to vote out her ally, Ken. Marcus told a different story to Susie, telling her the plan would be to vote out Ken followed by Crystal. He also promised to take Susie to the final three. Not wanting to betray her long term alliance with Ken, Crystal told Ken what Marcus told her. Crystal tried to convince Susie that Marcus's promise of a final three was not possible because Corinne and Randy disliked Susie too much to allow that to happen. At Tribal Council, Susie decided to join Crystal and Ken, and they made Marcus the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Several castaways expected a merge notice via tree mail, but instead the tribes received a Reward Challenge note. Upon seeing the Marcus-less Kota tribe, Charlie and Corinne were visibly shocked at their ally's ouster. \n\nReward Challenge: The tribes would use a three man slingshot to shoot an oversized golf ball along three golf holes. The tribe that put their ball in the hole using fewer shots would receive one point. The first tribe to score two points would win an overnight trip to a Gabonese village.Fang came from behind to win the Reward Challenge. Corinne announced that Fang was going to send Bob to Exile Island, hoping that he would find the Hidden Immunity Idol, but not knowing that Sugar had already found it. At Exile Island, Bob followed the clues to the Hidden Immunity Idol and found the location where the idol would have been. Unable to find the idol and thinking that Sugar may have found it, Bob fabricated a fake Hidden Immunity Idol that he hoped to use as a bluff. On day 27, before the start of the Immunity Challenge, Jeff announced that the tribes had merged. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would make a fire large enough to burn through a rope using flint, steel, and a box of fire making supplies. The first castaway to completely burn through their rope would win immunity.Susie and Sugar were the only two castaways to get a fire started during the Immunity Challenge, with Susie being the first to burn through her rope to win individual immunity. The castaways returned to the old Fang campsite, found that they had received new food supplies, and named themselves Nobag (\"Gabon\" backwards). The alliance of Charlie, Corinne, and Randy saw Sugar as a swing vote at Tribal Council to vote for Crystal, whom Randy wanted voted out. Sugar told Charlie and Corinne that she could not live with Randy any more and Corinne tried to convince Sugar that if she voted with their alliance that they would vote Randy out next. To get revenge for forcing him to share the note about the second Hidden Immunity Idol at the feast, Ken decided to blindside Charlie by fabricating a story that Charlie was the brains behind the Kota alliance. Ken told the story to his alliance of Crystal, Matty, and Susie who believed his story and agreed to vote for Charlie. Ken told the same story to Sugar in an effort to get her vote for Charlie. At Tribal Council, Crystal confronted Randy over why he disliked her so much. Sugar joined the alliance of Crystal, Ken, Matty, and Susie, because she did not want to align with Randy and Corinne, and Charlie was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Not knowing that Sugar had the Hidden Immunity Idol, Bob told her that he did not have it and showed her the fake idol that he made. \n\nSurvivor Auction: Instead of a Reward Challenge, a Survivor Auction was held. Each castaway was given $500. Items won included food and drinks, a secret item for the next Immunity Challenge, the power to send someone to Exile Island and take their remaining money, and a hot bath with fresh clothes.The second item up for bid was unknown as it was covered. After making the winning bid, Ken discovered he had won the right to send somebody to Exile Island and take their money. He chose Bob who immediately departed for Exile Island. For the second to last item at the auction, Corinne won a sealed bottle with a note that would give her an advantage at the next Immunity Challenge. Randy won the last item of the auction, chocolate chip cookies to share with the tribe. Sugar declined the first cookie offered to her which Randy then split between Matty and Corinne. Without taking one for himself, Randy offered Sugar the last cookie. She took it and gave it to Matty which upset Randy. At Exile Island, after getting no additional help from the Hidden Immunity Idol clue, Bob decided to go on a personal safari instead of looking for the idol. After the auction, Corinne and Randy talked to Matty about joining their alliance with Bob. Instead of joining with Corinne and Randy, Matty lobbied his alliance to vote out Bob next instead of Randy. Randy decided that the only option available to his alliance was to annoy the Fang alliance, get them to all vote for him, pull out the Hidden Immunity Idol that he assumed Bob had found, and blindside Susie at Tribal Council in revenge for her flipping to the Fang alliance. Randy told Matty that Matty had \"whored [himself] out\" to the original Kota alliance, at which point Matty rescinded his voting off order and gave into his alliance's want of voting Randy off. \n\nImmunity Challenge: In the first round, the castaways would race across a series of balance beams carrying a bag of puzzle blocks. The first two castaways to bring all three of their bags would go to the final round in which each player must stack all of their pieces like a line of domino tiles while avoiding ropes that would topple the tiles that were already stacked. Once all of the blocks were properly stacked, the castaway would start a chain reaction which would release a flag. The first castaway to raise their flag would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Corinne's sealed note that she bought at the Survivor Auction stated that she would skip the first round and go directly to the final round. Despite her advantage, Ken defeated her and Matty in the final round. After the Immunity Challenge, Bob told Sugar that he still did not have the Hidden Immunity Idol and she told him that he should give his fake idol to Randy. Figuring that he had nothing to lose and it would keep him in the game, Bob agreed to Sugar’s plan and gave Randy the fake idol. At Tribal Council, Randy pulled out the idol before the votes were read. Jeff announced that it was not a hidden immunity idol and tossed the idol into the fire pit. The votes against Randy were counted and he was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":10,"episode_summary":"A recap of the first 30 days including previously un-aired bonus footage."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Back at camp after Tribal Council, Bob was upset at all of the laughing when Randy was voted out. Corinne and Sugar argued over how to play the game. At the Reward Challenge, the castaways got to view a short video clip from their loved ones before the schoolyard pick. Jeff said that the castaways' loved ones were not around the corner and he only had the videos of them. Because \"today is all about love\" according to Jeff, nobody was sent to Exile Island. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would be split into two teams of three by schoolyard pick. The unpicked castaway would be ineligible to win the reward. The teams would be roped together and have to race through a swamp to collect seven sprocket pieces at two different stations. After collecting all the sprockets, the team would have to assemble them on a board in order to turn another sprocket which in turn would raise a flag. The members of the winning team would move on to the final round to individually solve a sliding puzzle. The first castaway to solve the puzzle would win a video from their loved one, pizza, beer, and brownies. Not announced at the challenge was an in-person visit from their loved one.The schoolyard pick resulted in one team of Susie, Matty, and Ken and another team of Crystal, Sugar, and Bob; Corinne was not picked, so she could not win. The team of Bob, Crystal, and Sugar came from behind to win the first round of the challenge and moved on to the final round. Bob won the Reward Challenge by quickly solving his sliding puzzle first. Jeff then told the rest of the tribe that he had nothing for them and told them to head back to camp. While Bob was watching the video clip from his wife, she paused and said that there was \"something I wanted to show you\" and moved off-camera. Contrary to what Jeff said at the start of the Reward Challenge, Peggy, Bob's wife, was in Gabon and she stepped around the corner to surprise Bob. Bob and Peggy then walked hand in hand to the Nobag campsite to meet the rest of the castaways. After introducing his wife to the tribe, Bob turned and whistled to signal the other castaways' loved ones to make an appearance. Matty proposed to his girlfriend, Jamie. The loved ones departed camp before sundown. Bob shared with Corinne a plan to blindside Matty where Bob would make up a second fake Immunity Idol and tell the Fang alliance that it was the idol that Marcus threw into the ocean. Bob's story was that Marcus only threw the bottle into the ocean, had hidden the idol around the camp, and told Bob where it was. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would be asked trivia questions about Gabon. For each question answered correctly, the castaway would earn one ball. After four questions are asked, the castaways would throw the balls that they won down a hill at a target divided into zones. The castaway who throws their ball into the zone closest to the center of the target would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Bob won by throwing his second ball one zone from the center. With Bob's win, Corinne expanded upon her blindsiding plan with Bob by concocting the story that Bob would have played the idol tossed into the ocean at the next Tribal Council, but since he won Individual Immunity, he would give Corinne the lost idol. Bob and Corinne hoped that the threat of Corinne having an idol would deter the Fang alliance from voting for her and would instead vote for Matty. Corinne told the story to Ken, which he believed and he suggested that Bob and Corinne approach Crystal with their plan. Bob told the story to Crystal and showed her the second fake idol. Crystal and Ken talked about their voting strategy under this plan where Ken would vote for Matty, Crystal would vote for Corinne, resulting in a 4-3 vote split between Corinne and Matty, respectively, Corinne would play the lost idol negating votes against her, the lost idol would be flushed, and Matty would be going home. At Tribal Council, the vote went as Crystal and Ken planned, Corinne's bluff was called and she was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":12,"episode_summary":"After the castaways returned from Tribal Council, Matty was upset because Ken voted for him. Ken told Matty about Bob and Corinne's fake Hidden Immunity Idol, but Matty did not believe him. Ken confronted Bob about the fake Hidden Immunity Idol. Bob promised Ken that if he won the next Immunity Challenge that he would give the immunity necklace to Ken. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would race through a swamp and over several obstacles to retrieve one of three balls. They would then return to the start and toss the ball into a net. The first castaway to retrieve all three balls and get them into the net would win an overnight helicopter trip to a gorilla sanctuary in Loango National Park, a meal, a shower, and a bed to sleep in.Bob won the Reward Challenge and chose to take Crystal and Ken along on the trip and to send Susie to Exile Island. While on the trip, Bob reiterated his promise to give the immunity necklace to Ken. Ken decided that he would only take it if he felt he was in danger of being voted out. On Exile Island, Susie selected the comfort choice because she knew that Sugar already had the Hidden Immunity Idol. Back at camp, Matty tried to get Sugar to give him the Hidden Immunity Idol. After returning from the reward trip, Crystal yelled at Matty for him questioning Crystal and Ken's loyalty to him. The yelling made Sugar change her opinion about Crystal and Ken. She told Matty that he would not be going home after the next Tribal Council and hatched a plan to take out Crystal and Ken. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would be blindfolded during the challenge. At the starting line would be a Gabonese mask. At the other end of a net obstacle would be a duplicate mask with some pieces removed. Three bags of puzzle pieces would need to be carried across the net obstacle one at a time. The puzzle pieces would then need to be assembled to replicate the mask at the start line. The first castaway to correctly replicate the mask would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Bob won immunity for the second time in a row, marking his fourth consecutive challenge win. Ken told Crystal, Matty, and Sugar that Bob would give him the immunity necklace if they all told Bob that they would be voting for Ken, so they should tell Bob that and then vote for Bob instead to blindside him. Sugar told Bob of Ken's plan, that she would not vote for him, and to vote for Crystal. At Tribal Council, Bob and Ken said that their agreement over the immunity necklace would be that Bob would give it to Ken if Bob felt that Ken was in danger of being voted out. Jeff stated that this Tribal Council would be the last Tribal Council where the Hidden Immunity Idol could be played. Sugar was openly wearing the Hidden Immunity Idol. Before the voting started, Jeff asked Bob if he was going to give up the Immunity necklace. Bob stated that he was not going to give up the necklace as he thought Ken was not going to go home. Before the votes were tallied, Sugar gave the Hidden Immunity Idol to Matty who then presented it to Jeff. Ken and Crystal's votes against Matty were voided and Crystal, upon receiving the four remaining votes, was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Ken felt that Bob reneged on his deal to hand over the immunity necklace at the last Tribal Council. Sugar worked on re-establishing Ken's trust in her even as she plotted with Bob to vote out Susie and Ken next. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would have to dig a hole under a wall, cross a maze made out of planks, and untie a series of knots that would open a gate that led to a maze with 25 Gabonese huts. In three of the huts would be a bag of puzzle pieces. One puzzle bag at a time would need to be retrieved from the maze and dropped off at the finish platform. Once all three bags were retrieved, the first castaway to correctly assemble the puzzle (a replica of a Gabonese hut) would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Bob narrowly beat Sugar, winning immunity for the third straight time and the fifth consecutive challenge. At Tribal Council, Ken felt confident going into Tribal Council that he would not be voted out, but that confidence was misplaced as he was unanimously sent to the jury.\nBefore the start of the final Immunity Challenge, the Final Four took the traditional journey honoring the castaways voted out before them.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would be given 200 wooden tiles. The first castaway to use the tiles to build a house of cards 10 feet (3.0 m) tall would win. There is a time limit of 30 minutes for the challenge. If after 30 minutes, no castaway has built the house of cards to over 10 feet (3.0 m) tall, the castaway who builds the tallest house of cards at the end of the time limit would win.Susie broke Bob's challenge winning streak by having built the tallest house of cards after 30 minutes. Sugar thought about forcing a tie at the next Tribal Council due to her loyalty towards Bob for being a father figure. Bob went off into the trees to practice starting a fire, anticipating a fire making tiebreaker challenge. At Tribal Council, Sugar did force a 2–2 tie between Bob and Matty. The tiebreaker challenge was to create a fire large enough to burn through a rope, which Bob won after resuscitating his initial fire to burn through his rope before Matty managed to even get one started. As a result, Matty became the final member of the jury.\nThe final three spent their last day at camp eating the traditional feast and burning down one of the huts at the campsite. At the final Tribal Council, Charlie asked Sugar and Susie why they felt they should be voted at the \"top of the totem pole\" even though they were ranked the second lowest and lowest, respectively, among their tribes before the first tribal switch. He asked Bob if the \"intimate cuddling and spooning all night long\" was more enjoyable than he would liked to admit. Crystal asked no question of Susie, asked Bob to tell her something that Sugar didn't tell him to do, and asked Sugar why she voted her out. Ken asked Susie why she thought she deserved the million dollars and his vote, asked Sugar why she back stabbed him, and Bob about their deal over the immunity necklace. Corinne asked Susie if she would be willing to have her vocal cords removed if she were to win the million dollars. She asked Bob to show the nasty side of Bob and make her believe that he did not like Sugar. She took the opportunity to make a callous comment about Sugar’s deceased father, to which Sugar gave an obscene gesture. Marcus asked no questions of Susie, what Sugar would do to honor her deceased father if she were to win, and for Bob to give one example of a situation in which he was responsible for his decisions. Randy asked Susie to elaborate on the time that Susie said she felt sorry for him and Sugar and Bob if they considered the consequences of putting him on the jury when they gave him the fake Hidden Immunity Idol. Matty asked Susie to tell him why Bob and Sugar were less deserving that she was of the million dollars, Sugar to reveal something that she felt that she did was evil, and Bob why Sugar and Susie were more deserving of the million dollar prize than he was."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US17","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Months later, the votes were cast and the jury revealed Bob the Sole Survivor receiving four jury votes while Susie received the remaining three and Sugar received nothing. The castaways return to discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":1,"episode_summary":"With the castaways already split into tribes, they were dropped off by a truck in a clearing. The game started immediately with Jeff announcing that the tribes would have 60 seconds to gather as many supplies from the back of the truck as they could. Timbira took all of the water and bags of beans, leaving Jalapao with only some melons and a few other supplies. Jeff then announced that the tribe's campsites were about a 4-hour trek by foot away, that one person from each tribe \"would not be making the journey\" and a vote would take place immediately. Jalapao voted for Sandy and Timbira voted for Sierra. Sandy and Sierra thought they were being voted out the game, but Jeff announced that they would only not be making the trek to camp and instead would be flown to their campsites by helicopter. When Sandy and Sierra arrived at their respective campsites, they were given the option to start setting up camp or follow clues to a disposable Hidden Immunity Idol that can only be used during their tribe's first Tribal Council. Sandy opted to follow the clues but did not find the idol before her tribe arrived. Sierra opted to start setting up the camp in order to improve her impression with her tribe. Carolina was annoyed that Sandy didn't work on the campsite. Timbira's trek did not end until dark, by which time Sierra had built a shelter big enough to house the entire tribe. Despite her hard work, Coach’s view on Sierra did not change and he still wanted to vote her out first. On day 2, Sandy resumed her search for the Hidden Immunity Idol but was stumped by the second clue. \n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Six members of each tribe would race across a series of sand hills and into a river to retrieve a raft with puzzle planks tied to it. When all six members of the tribe returned to shore with the raft, the puzzle planks could be untied and taken back to the start line. The two remaining tribe members would assemble the planks into a staircase. Once all of the tribe was at the top of the staircase, any two tribe members would work together to navigate a peg through a table maze, which would release the tribe's flag to win flint and immunity.At the Reward/Immunity Challenge, Sandy gave Jalapao a huge lead by building the staircase quickly. However, Brendan and Erinn quickly caught up and solved the table maze for a comeback victory for Timbira. Back at Jalapao's camp, Carolina's bossy personality rubbed some people the wrong way, while Sandy's effort at the challenge earned high praise from her tribemates. Still worried about being voted out, Sandy went searching for the Hidden Immunity Idol before Tribal Council but was again unsuccessful. At Tribal Council, Jalapao decided that Carolina should leave due to her bossy personality and she was voted out.  Before sending the tribe back to camp, Jeff gave them flint."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":2,"episode_summary":"In a quest for protein, the Jalapao tribe broke open a termite mound to eat the termites. At Timbira, Sierra decided that she needed help following the clues to the special first-Tribal-Council-only Hidden Immunity Idol and she recruited Brendan in the search. Together they went to the beach to follow the clues but were caught digging a large hole on the beach by Debbie and had to stop their search. Sierra came up with the cover story that she and Brendan were building a fire pit for the tribe that night, which Debbie believed and relayed to the rest of the tribe. Candace and Coach argued over how to cook the afternoon meal on day 5. Back at Jalapao, Taj told her tribe that she was married to famed football player Eddie George. At the start of the rain-soaked Reward/Immunity Challenge, Jeff announced that someone from the losing tribe would go to Exile Island. He added that there was a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol at Exile Island, and a twist would be revealed after the challenge. \n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Three castaways from each tribe would face off against each other in a river to retrieve a ball and throw it into their tribe's net to score a point. The first tribe to score three points would win tribal Immunity and fishing gear consisting of a spear, two poles, fishing line, fishing hooks, a cast net, tackle box, a diving mask, and a knife.Jalapao overcame a 2–0 deficit to win the challenge and chose to send Brendan to Exile Island. Jeff announced the twist was that Brendan could choose one person from the winning tribe to join him on Exile Island; he chose Taj. J.T. and Stephen put their newly acquired fishing gear to use but did not catch anything. On Exile Island, Brendan and Taj found two urns and each had to choose one. Brendan's urn contained two notes: the first note was a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol which he could optionally share with Taj and the second note telling him that he could switch tribes if he wanted to. After some pestering by Taj, Brendan shared the clue with her and they realized that the clue hinted that there was a Hidden Immunity Idol back at each tribe's campsite. They agreed to work to get sent back to Exile Island together to collect more clues. At Timbira, Candace lobbied her tribemates to vote for Coach, but her negativity backfired on her and she became the target to vote out. When Brendan returned to Timbira's campsite, he lied to his tribemates telling them that Taj had the urn with the clue and that she went to look for the Hidden Immunity Idol on her own, but did not appear to have found it. At Tribal Council, Candace's lobbying to vote out Coach could not overcome her negativity and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Back at camp after Tribal Council, Erinn scrambled to realign herself with the rest of her tribe after Candace, with whom the tribe thought she was aligned, was voted out. Jerry started to develop stomach pains which he blamed on Timbira's diet of beans. At Jalapao, the tribe struggled with their casting net, only catching a few minnows, but had better luck with the fishing line and hooks.\n\nReward Challenge: Six castaways from each tribe would be blindfolded and tethered together in pairs. The remaining castaway would work as a caller to direct the paired tribemates through a maze. Each set of tribemates would have to locate a bucket in the maze, navigate the rest of the maze to a tower, fill the bucket with water from the tower, return to the beginning of the maze, and empty the bucket into a container which would raise a flag. Once the water container was filled enough to raise a flag, the process would have to be repeated again, this time filling the buckets with corn from a different tower. The first tribe to raise both flags would win a tarp, an umbrella, folding chairs, pillows, blankets, and a hammock.At the Reward Challenge, Jalapao easily won and selected Brendan to return to Exile Island. As per their agreement the first time they went to Exile Island, Brendan selected Taj to return with him to Exile Island for the second time. On Exile Island, Brendan and Taj shared the next clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol, further cemented their secret alliance, and discussed bringing Sierra and Stephen into their cross-tribe alliance.\n\nImmunity Challenge: In pairs, the castaways would race across a field to retrieve six large crates painted in their tribe's colors. Once all six crates were retrieved, the tribes would have to stack the crates into a staircase with the name of their tribe properly aligned along the sides. The first tribe to complete the staircase and get all of their members to the top of a platform climbing the staircase would win immunity. This challenge would later appear in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.Jalapao secured their third challenge win in a row at the Immunity Challenge by coming from behind during the staircase assembly task. After returning to camp, Jerry's weakening condition made him a target for elimination. Coach was upset about Erinn's reaction after she realized Jerry was sick and he was likely to be voted off next. Coach tried to persuade Tyson, Sierra, and Debbie to keep Jerry and vote out Erinn, but Sierra did not want to \"sever off another limb so we can get our vendetta's against Erinn\" and cast her vote for Jerry. Tyson tried to get Jerry to stick it out and vote against Erinn. A few hours before Tribal Council and using the second clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol, Brendan found the Idol hidden within the statue next to the tree mail. At Tribal Council, Tyson looked for a blindside against Erinn, but the tribe could not ignore Jerry's illness and voted him out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Back at camp after Tribal Council, Coach was angry at Erinn for saying that Brendan was a better leader than himself, but he eventually accepted it and anointed Brendan as tribe leader. At Jalapao, Taj told Stephen about her secret alliance with Brendan and told him that if Jalapao were to win the next Reward Challenge, they would need to choose Sierra to go to Exile Island, who would pick Stephen to go along. However, Brendan could not find the time and privacy to tell Sierra about the alliance. \n\nReward Challenge: Two men and one woman from each tribe would stand on perches holding a wooden pole on their shoulders to which weighted bags would be added. Every few minutes, two members of the opposing tribe would select someone to carry an additional 20 pounds (9.1 kg) of weight. If the weight becomes too much for a castaway, they would drop the pole and be out of the challenge. The last castaway standing would win for their tribe. The winning tribe would send two castaways to the losing tribe's camp where they would be allowed to steal two items.At the Reward Challenge, Brendan, Tyson, and Debbie shouldered the weight for Timbira, and J.T., Joe, and Taj for Jalapao. Brendan dropped out first when he was about to carry 220 pounds (100 kg). Tyson dropped out next at 140 pounds (64 kg), leaving just Debbie for Timbira. J.T. carried 220 pounds (100 kg) before dropping out next, tying the weight carried by Rupert Boneham in Survivor: Pearl Islands. Moments later, Joe dropped out at 140 pounds (64 kg), leaving the two women to continue the challenge. Just as both women were to move to carrying 120 pounds (54 kg), Debbie dropped her pole, giving Jalapao their fourth straight challenge victory. In a rare show of sportsmanship for Survivor, Taj congratulated Debbie for a \"hell of a job\". Jalapao selected Sierra to go to Exile Island, but since Brendan did not tell Sierra of his alliance's plan, she immediately picked Taj to join her. Joe and J.T. arrived to raid the Timbira camp and they chose to take Timbira's larger sack of beans and a canister for water. Sandy derided the decision, stating that they should have taken both sacks of Timbira's beans. On Exile Island, Taj got the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol, which told her it was hidden around the tree mail area. Taj told Sierra about her secret four-way alliance and Sierra readily agreed to join the alliance.\n\nImmunity Challenge: One tribe member at a time would race along a winding path to retrieve a puzzle piece. Each puzzle piece is a large wooden triangular prism with letters written on each of the three faces. Once all eight puzzle pieces are retrieved, they would need to be placed in their correct spot in a frame. The pieces would then need to be rotated to display a scrambled phrase. The first tribe to solve their puzzle would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Timbira broke Jalapao's winning streak. Before Tribal Council, Jalapao was undecided whether to vote out Sandy or Sydney. Ultimately, Taj, J.T., and Stephen did not want to risk Joe and Spencer feeling betrayed by voting Sydney off, so the vote went against Sandy and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":5,"episode_summary":"The day after Tribal Council at Jalapao, Taj and Stephen found the Hidden Immunity Idol in the statue next to tree mail. Taj gave the idol to Stephen as he had shorts with pockets and was able to conceal the idol. While the rest of Timbira was off fetching water from the river, Sierra told Brendan that she decided to join the Exile Island alliance. \n\nReward Challenge: A tribe member would sit on a spinning platform at one end of the playing field. Another tribe member would start at the other end and race across to the platform, grab a rope and pull it back to the starting line. The rope would be wound around the base of the platform, causing the platform to spin as the rope is unwound. When the \"puller\" returned to the finish line, the sitting tribe member, now dizzy, would have to race across a balance beam to the finish line. The tribes would race against each other in rounds with the first dizzy tribe member across the finish line scoring one point for their tribe. The first tribe to score three points would win a trip to a cafe with coffee, fresh water, pastries, cookies, muffins, and a toilet with toilet paper.Jalapao won the Reward Challenge by a score of 3–1 and chose Brendan to go to Exile Island; Brendan chose Stephen to join him. Midway through enjoying their reward, J.T. found envelopes with letters from home. Back at Timbira, Tyson told Coach and Debbie that he was suspicious that Brendan was building relationships with members of Jalapao and that they should vote out Brendan at the next Tribal Council. On Exile Island, Brendan talked to Stephen about cementing the secret four-way Exile Island alliance, but Stephen was privately unsure about tying his fate in the game to the alliance. Spencer decided to keep his homosexuality a secret from his tribe, thinking that there was nothing to gain by coming out and also that it might conflict with J.T.'s Southern values. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Two tribemates from each tribe would alternate launching balls from a slingshot while the remaining four tribemates have to catch the balls with handheld nets. Catching a ball would score one point for their tribe. The first tribe to reach five points would win.Despite J.T. losing half of a tooth and almost single-handedly winning the Immunity Challenge for his tribe by catching four balls, Tyson and Brendan helped score a victory for Timbira. Tempers flared at Jalapao over their performance at the Immunity Challenge, with J.T. upset at Spencer's poor defense and Taj venting at Joe. Joe wanted to vote off Taj for this reason but Jalapao eliminated Spencer instead, voting him out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":6,"episode_summary":"A recap of the first fifteen days including previously un-aired bonus footage."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":7,"episode_summary":"The day after Tribal Council, Sydney was worried that if Jalapao were to lose the next Immunity Challenge that either she or Taj would be voted off as the men would stick together. Joe tried to assure her that she would make it to the merge as she was trustworthy and the men would vote off Taj first. Taj and Stephen discussed telling J.T. about the Hidden Immunity Idol, but not the secret four-way Exile Island alliance in order to secure his vote at the next Tribal Council. Over at Timbira, Coach clashed with his tribe over him burning a pot of beans. \n\nReward Challenge: The tribes would have five minutes to build a barricade of poles tied together with ropes inside two frames of the opposing tribe. The tribes would then have to toss small ceramic pigs from tribemate to tribemate through the two frames, avoiding breaking them against the barricade or dropping them. The tribe which tosses the most intact pigs through the frames after ten minutes would win a trip to a waterfall and a barbecue with hamburgers.The Reward Challenge was closely fought with Timbira winning with a score of 14–13. Timbira decided to send Joe to Exile Island and he chose Erinn to join him, thinking that she would be a good candidate to flip her tribal loyalties once the merge occurred. On Exile Island, Erinn selected the urn with the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol and shared the clue with Joe. Joe and Erinn thought that if they could find the two Hidden Immunity Idols, they could have a strong alliance together. To counter Joe figuring out Jalapao's Hidden Immunity Idol had already been found, Taj and Stephen crafted a fake idol and placed it in the statue at tree mail. After using the real idol as a model for the fake one she made, Taj tried to hide it her bag, but J.T. stumbled upon the idol after she walked off. Stephen tried to cover for Taj by telling J.T. that Taj had just discovered the idol moments earlier and had shown it to him. A bit later, Taj showed the idol to J.T. and told him that he could have it anytime he needed it. J.T. believed Taj and Stephen to be honest in their story and that he now had a strong alliance with them.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each tribe would use a slingshot to shoot a tile out in three towers full of sand. After a tile is broken, the sand would be released from the tower which would cause a bag of puzzle pieces to be released and a tile at the next tower would be uncovered. The same tribe member could do all of the shooting with the slingshot or different shooters may be substituted. Once all three bags of puzzle pieces were collected, two tribe members would have to assemble the puzzle. The first tribe to assemble the puzzle correctly wins immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Tyson gave his tribe a large lead by winning the slingshot shoot out over J.T. Brendan and Erinn finished off the puzzle to give Timbira their third Immunity Challenge win in a row. After the challenge, Joe told his tribemates that Erinn kept the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol to herself. Using an excuse that he wanted some water, he went to find the idol, not knowing that what he found was a fake. Joe told the tribe to vote out Taj. Stephen and J.T. tried to convince Joe to vote out Sydney but were unable to convince him to change his vote. Stephen and J.T. thought about the possibility of blindsiding Taj at Tribal Council since Stephen had the Hidden Immunity Idol. However, the two kept to their alliance with Taj and Sydney was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Anticipating a merge, Coach refocused his game and tried to get along with his tribe. Over at Jalapao, an infection on Joe's left leg appeared to have gotten worse. The tree mail on day 19 hinted at a Reward Challenge with a feast for the winner, but the tribes instead arrived at the challenge site to see a hut with a feast and note saying that they had merged. The castaways named their new tribe Forza, a transliteration of força (Portuguese: \"strength\"), and moved to the old Timbira campsite. Coach approached J.T. about forming an alliance, which suited J.T. as he was concerned about Jalapao going into the merge down 4 to 6. After cementing the alliance with J.T., Coach approached Tyson about forming a four-way alliance with J.T. and Stephen, targeting Brendan as the next to be voted out because Coach and Tyson did not trust him. Tyson talked to Stephen and Debbie about the potential alliance. Taj was concerned that Brendan wasn't holding up to his end of the secret Exile Island alliance, but Brendan wanted to keep it a secret and lie low until there were only seven or eight castaways left. Joe and Erinn went to get the Timbira Hidden Immunity Idol, but found nothing and figured out that either Brendan or Sierra had it. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would hang onto the top of a pole as long as they can. The last person left hanging without touching the ground would win. This was a rendition of a challenge used in Survivor: Vanuatu and Survivor: Cook Islands and was later used in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.At the Immunity Challenge, Tyson outlasted Debbie to win the first Individual Immunity. After the challenge, Jeff told Joe to stay around so that the Survivor Medical Team could look at his infected leg. The doctor diagnosed that infection was serious and could spread to Joe's bones or blood, which could lead to amputation of his leg or loss of his life. Stephen, Tyson, and Coach decided to blindside Brendan and negate him potentially playing his Hidden Immunity Idol by splitting the Tribal Council vote with four votes against Brendan and three votes against Sierra. However, all of the plotting would have to wait potentially three more days when Jeff arrived at camp to announce that Joe had been medically evacuated from the game by the decision of the Survivor Medical Team and there would be no Tribal Council."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Coach continued to feel that he was in control of the game and he targeted Brendan for elimination next, followed by Sierra.  With Joe's departure, Erinn lost her only alliance member and thought about aligning herself with the former Jalapao members. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would be divided into teams of three: black, red, and white.  The teams would have a row of eight team-colored ceramic tiles on frames belonging to them.  Playing in rounds, one member from each team would throw a metal ball at the other two team's tiles to try to break them.  When all eight tiles of a team were broken, the team would be out of the challenge.  The last team with an intact tile would win a whitewater rafting trip down the Rio Novo and a picnic of sandwiches, chicken wings, brownies, watermelon, and potato chips.The Reward Challenge was a nail-biter when the challenge came down to two partially broken tiles for the black team of Brendan, Debbie, and J.T versus the white team of Erinn, Sierra, and Stephen.  A final toss by Brendan knocked out the final white tile and his team won the challenge. They selected Stephen to go alone to Exile Island, per the rules post tribal merger.  Unlike most rewards in past seasons, the winning team went on their trip the next day instead of immediately after the completion of the challenge. On their picnic, Brendan talked to J.T. about going all the way to the finals together.  The next day, Brendan talked to Sierra and Taj about a plan to keep J.T. in the game and to vote out Coach, Erinn, and Tyson.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would be attached to a rope which is thread through three of obstacles, for which the castaways would have to climb under, over, or around.  The first three castaways to finish would move on to the next round.  The next round's challenge would be the same, but with a single obstacle three levels high.  The first castaway to complete the obstacle would win. A rendition of this challenge would later appear in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.The Immunity Challenge was won by Tyson for the second time in a row. Coach and Tyson conspired to split the Tribal Council vote four votes for Brendan and three votes for Sierra to protect against Brendan using his Hidden Immunity Idol.  Brendan wanted to finally reveal the secret Exile Island alliance to blindside Coach. Stephen and J.T. thought about following the Exile Island alliance.  At Tribal Council, Brendan revealed that he has a Hidden Immunity Idol, but opted not to play it, thinking he was safe.  However, Stephen, J.T., and Taj aligned themselves with Coach and Tyson to blindside Brendan."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After returning to camp from Tribal Council, Sierra thought she was the next one to be voted out and she tried to smooth things over with Coach. The next morning, Sierra continued to plead for her life in the game, but Tyson ridiculed her and said that she would not be able to change the vote and she would be voted out next. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would be divided into two teams of four.  Two members at a time from each team would race across a field to retrieve a large puzzle board.  Once the pair returns, the other two teammates would retrieve another board.  Four boards would need to be retrieved.  Once retrieved, the boards would have to be arranged in a line so that the large holes were aligned like a grille to reveal seven vowels.  The revealed vowels and seven consonants that would be given to the team would need to be arranged to solve a four-word phrase.  The first team to solve the phrase (YOU'VE WON A FEAST) would win a trip to a local village for a feast of local food and a demonstration of Capoeira.At the Reward Challenge, the red team of Debbie, Erinn, J.T., and Tyson prevailed over the black team of Coach, Sierra, Stephen, and Taj.  Stephen was chosen to go to Exile Island for the second time in a row because the red team did not want to give Sierra the opportunity to find a supposed new Hidden Immunity Idol since Brendan took his with him when he was voted out.  At Exile Island, Stephen found the seventh clue to the original Hidden Immunity Idol, meaning no replacement Idol was put into play. Sierra continued lobbying Coach to give her a second chance to remain in the game, but Coach refused her pleas. After describing the Immunity Challenge, Jeff offered anyone who felt comfortable enough in the game to sit out and eat pizza for the duration of the challenge; Coach, J.T., and Stephen chose to eat. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would play a version of shuffleboard.  Each castaway would be given three pucks which they would try to slide closest to the target marked with an X.  The castaway whose puck ends up closest to the target would win. This challenge was originally from Survivor: The Amazon and Survivor: Vanuatu, and a rendition of this challenge would later appear in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.Debbie won the challenge with the last slide of the game by knocking away Sierra's puck.  Back at camp, Erinn pointed out to Stephen and Taj that there was an opportunity to vote out Tyson, the biggest perceived threat at the Immunity Challenges. Stephen agreed that this might be their only chance to take him out, so he convinced J.T. to blindside Tyson.  J.T. was concerned about breaking up the \"warrior\" alliance he had with Coach and Tyson.  At Tribal Council, Tyson and Sierra insulted one another, but it was Tyson who was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Upon their return to camp after Tribal Council, Coach and Debbie were upset with J.T. and Stephen for not telling them about the blindside of Tyson. Debbie talked to Coach about reforming the Timbira alliance to regain control of the game. \n\nReward Challenge: Each of the castaways would fill out a questionnaire about the tribe in private, then the results would be tallied and the Challenge would begin.  The questions would be posed to the group and the castaways would guess whose name was written most often.  Each time a castaway guesses the correct answer, they would get one chop at a rope assigned to another castaway.  After three chops, the rope would be released, which would smash an idol, removing that castaway from the challenge.  The last castaway whose idol is not smashed would win a trip to a natural spring and a home cooked, traditional Brazilian feast made by a local family.The Reward Challenge was won by Stephen, who selected fellow ex-Jalapaos Taj and J.T. to join him.  Stephen selected Erinn to go to Exile Island because he felt that he had a strong alliance with J.T, Taj, and Erinn and that they needed one of their alliance members at Exile Island to find any Hidden Immunity Idol, but there was no new clue to a new Hidden Immunity Idol.  While on their reward, J.T., Stephen, and Taj discussed strategy for the next Tribal Council, either voting out Debbie or Sierra.  Coach and Debbie tried to strongarm Sierra into rejoining the former Timbira alliance, but when she hesitated, they angrily turned on her.  Coach felt a line had been drawn in the sand and approached J.T. about what his plans were for the final four.  Coach lied to J.T. that it was Sierra who brought up bringing back the old Timbira alliance.  Meanwhile, Sierra told Stephen that it was Coach and Debbie who brought up the Timbira alliance. The differing stories made J.T. and Stephen suspicious of all three of them. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would toss a grappling hook to retrieve three bags.  The first three castaways to retrieve all of their bags would move on to the final round.  In the final round, the three would compete in a labyrinth game.  The first to finish would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Coach, J.T., and Debbie moved on to the final round, which was won by Coach. In an effort to show that she was not lying about her version of the potential reforming of the former Timbira alliance, Sierra confronted Coach and Debbie about what exactly happened between the three of them in front of the whole tribe.  Coach said that Debbie wanted to talk about a former Timbira alliance, Sierra got into Debbie's face, Debbie started to cry, and then he said that he did not want a Timbira alliance. Stephen and J.T. believed that Sierra's confrontation brought into the open Coach’s half-truths and Debbie's scheming and they considered voting Debbie out, but also thought that voting Sierra out would cause less drama in the future for the tribe.  At Tribal Council, Coach and Sierra continued their confrontation about who said what regarding a Timbira alliance. Unable to sway her tribemates, Sierra was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Upon returning to camp after Tribal Council, Coach was livid about Erinn and Taj voting for Stephen and Debbie, respectively, at the last Tribal Council.  He talked to Debbie about targeting Erinn and Taj next, with Taj to go first.  On the morning of day 31, Debbie woke up feeling that she needed to move away from her alliance with Coach and told J.T. and Stephen that she wanted an alliance with them.  However, Stephen was worried that she was just playing the game instead of wanting a real alliance. \n\nSurvivor Auction: Instead of a Reward Challenge, a Survivor Auction was held. Each castaway is given US$500. Castaways may not share any money or the item(s). The castaways must bid for the items in $20 increments. The auction will end without notice. Items bought include food and drinks and a video from home.On the last item up for bid, Jeff presented a Samsung Instinct loaded with a video message from loved ones at home and announced that the usual Survivor Auction rules would be suspended and that the castaways could pool their money in order to get one of the castaways to win the item. Everybody gave their remaining money to Taj so that she could win the item uncontested. At the very end of the video message, Taj's husband, Eddie George, said that he would see them back at camp.  After pointing out the last line in the video, Jeff told Taj that only Eddie would be back at camp, but if Taj offered to go to Exile Island where Eddie would join her, the other castaways' loved ones would be at the campsite.  She immediately accepted the offer. Back at camp, the castaways were joined by Coach’s assistant, Debbie's husband, Erinn's father, J.T.'s younger sister, and Stephen's brother. After the loved ones had left, the game resumed on the morning of day 32 with Debbie continuing to push her allegiance to J.T. and Stephen, even so far as promising to give the final Individual Immunity to one of them should she win it and they make it to the final three. The three continued to be suspicious of her promises, and after J.T. and Stephen told Erinn of this offer, Erinn said that Debbie had to go next. Coach, still uninformed of the voting out of Debbie, pushed the idea of voting out Taj to prevent the Hidden Immunity Idol from being played. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would have to go through an obstacle course of digging underneath a log, crossing a balance beam, and under a rope crawl.  The castaways would then run across a field to where a spinning series of ten mathematical symbols would be displayed.  The castaways would have to memorize the sequence of symbols, run back to starting line through the obstacles, and use the symbols in the correct order to solve a math equation.  The first castaway to solve the math problem correctly would win immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Stephen was way behind the others as he stumbled off the balance beam several times, so he tried to remember all ten symbols in one pass, while the others needed multiple trips to try to remember the symbols.  Stephen's memory technique did not fail him and he was able to come from behind to win Individual Immunity for the first time.  Before Tribal Council, the game controlling alliance of J.T. and Stephen were torn between using the opportunity to vote out Coach or Debbie.  They decided to move against Debbie, and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Coach was shocked by the turn of events at the last Tribal Council, especially after he was told that Debbie voted for him.  Coach told J.T. and Stephen that he did not want to go to Exile Island because of his asthma, but J.T. and Stephen believed that Coach was scared to go to Exile Island and looked forward to sending him there. \n\nReward Challenge: With their feet shackled together, the castaways would have to race through a maze forming the letters of the word 'Survivor' and then build a long wooden pole by tying together short wooden sticks.  The pole would be used to hook a sandbag which they castaways would swing to knock over three targets.  When all three targets are knocked over, a flag would be raised. The first castaway to raise their flag would win an overnight trip to the Governor's Retreat where the castaway would have a bed to sleep in, take a shower, and eat at a traditional Brazilian churrasco.The Reward Challenge was won by J.T. by a wide margin. He selected Stephen to go with him on the trip, and Coach to go to Exile Island.  After he was selected to go to Exile Island, Coach said that he welcomed the opportunity to test himself and would take the \"monastic approach\" on Exile by spending the time meditating without food or water.  This did not sit well with Erinn, who suspected that Coach was seeking an excuse for his inability to light a fire and prepare his meals. She called him out for trying to take the \"martyr approach\" and use his time at Exile Island as an excuse for not winning the next Immunity Challenge. While Stephen and J.T. enjoyed their reward, Erinn admitted to Taj that she felt a little guilty about what she said to Coach after the Reward Challenge, and was worried that what she said could cause J.T. and Stephen to vote her out before Coach. Taj reassured her that this was not the case, that their alliance was still strong. Coach did exactly what he said he would do on Exile Island, except for drinking some water, and was mentally refocused on the game.  While on their reward, J.T. and Stephen talked about voting Erinn out before Coach because of what she said to Coach.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would brace themselves with their arms between two walls while standing barefoot on two-foot pegs.  Every 15 minutes, the castaways would move down to smaller foot pegs.  When the castaways reached the third set of foot pegs, they would try to remain on them as long as they could.  The last castaway to remain on their pegs would win. A rendition of this challenge later appeared in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.The Immunity Challenge was won by J.T. when he outlasted Coach, who collapsed from the challenge due to back spasms.  Coach declined to have the Survivor Medical Team look at him as he said he feared that he would be pulled from the game for medical reasons.  Erinn and Taj were suspicious that Coach was playing up the sympathy card and that he did not want a medical exam because he knew that it would reveal that he was not hurt.  J.T. and Stephen told Coach that their alliance was good and that Erinn was going to be voted out, but Stephen was not sure who he would vote for.  At Tribal Council, the confrontation between Coach and Erinn at the Reward Challenge was again discussed.  Just before the vote, Coach recited a poem, which visibly annoyed the jury members. Before reading the votes, Jeff stated that this is the last time the Hidden Immunity Idol could be played. Stephen cast the deciding vote against Coach and he was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Back at camp after Tribal Council, Stephen was concerned that he would be perceived as the one who betrayed Coach and that he lost jury votes.  \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would have to race through a series of rope tunnels in the shape of a tarantula to three different stations to retrieve three bags of puzzle pieces, one at a time.  The puzzle pieces would then be assembled into a web-shaped puzzle.  The first castaway to finish their puzzle would win.At the Immunity Challenge, J.T. got a large lead during the puzzle piece bag retrieval stage, Erinn made a huge comeback from behind during the puzzle assembly stage, but J.T. managed to finish his puzzle just in front of Erinn to win immunity.  Erinn pleaded her case to J.T. and Stephen that Taj was a threat for winning jury votes.  The men agreed that they would take each other to the Final Two no matter what but were undecided on if Erinn or Taj would be a greater threat at the next Immunity Challenge and with the jury.  At Tribal Council, the men decided to break up the Jalapao alliance that existed since very early in the game with a vote against Taj and she was blindsided by a vote of 3–1.\nOn day 38, Erinn and Stephen told each other that they had to win the Immunity Challenge as neither stood a very good chance against J.T. with the jury.  J.T. gave his word to Stephen that he would take him to the Final Two and Stephen likewise gave his word.  The day's tree mail told the Final Three to take the traditional journey honoring the castaways voted out before heading to their final Immunity Challenge. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would drop a ball into a metal chute.  The ball would travel down a spiraling metal track and exit out of one of two points.  The castaway would have to catch the ball and drop the ball back into the chute at the top.  Every few minutes, an additional ball would be added to the track until eight balls were simultaneously going around the track.  A turnstile gate in the middle of the track would rotate, causing the balls to alternate exiting out of the two exits.  If a ball exits the track and is not caught, the castaway would be eliminated from the challenge. The last castaway remaining would win. To make the challenge more difficult, each castaway would have one hand tied behind their backs.At the Immunity Challenge, Erinn was out first with three balls simultaneously going.  With four balls circling the track, Stephen bobbled and dropped a ball, giving J.T. his third Immunity Challenge win in a row.  Back at camp, even though Stephen lost the challenge, he felt a great relief that he would not have to decide who he had to take to the Final Two.  Erinn told J.T. that Stephen told her that he would take her to the Final Two over J.T. to ensure himself a victory with the jury.  When J.T. asked him, Stephen denied that he would have taken Erinn to the Final Two.  At the final Tribal Council, J.T. decided to stick with his alliance and promise to Stephen, voted against Erinn, and she became the final member of the jury.\nJ.T. and Stephen enjoyed the traditional Final Two breakfast that they had planned to attend since the very beginning of the game.  At the final Tribal Council, Brendan focused on Stephen's opening statement that he had grown personally in the game, asking Stephen and J.T. if personal growth was relevant and important to winning the game.  Erinn asked Stephen about his changing alliances between the Jalapao Three, the Exile Island alliance, and the Warrior alliance.  She asked J.T. why Stephen was the best player in the game.  Debbie questioned J.T. about if her first impression of him of being an honest person was correct or if lying and deception was his M.O. She asked Stephen that if he had been the one wearing the Individual Immunity necklace at the last Tribal Council, would he have taken Erinn or J.T. to the Final Two.  Coach asked J.T. and Stephen for examples of honesty and integrity during later stages of the game and being the noble warrior.  Sierra had no question to ask of Stephen.  She asked J.T. what he meant by taking the strongest players to the end as she called Stephen one of the weakest players in the game. Tyson asked J.T. if and why Stephen was an asset to him in getting to the Final Two.  Tyson asked for a response from Stephen about J.T.'s answer to Tyson's question.  Taj asked J.T. why, if it was so hard for him to write down Coach’s name at Tribal Council, it seemed so effortless for him to write down her name and why he thought it would be easy to lie to her.  She asked Stephen why he felt it was so important to blindside her and if he felt that she was that big of a threat in the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US18","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, the castaways return to discuss the season with host Jeff Probst. The votes were read, and J.T. earned all seven jury votes, winning the title of Sole Survivor."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":1,"episode_summary":"When the preselected tribes arrived ashore, Jeff handed each of the tribes pens and parchment and instructed the tribes that they would each elect a leader based solely on appearance. Mick and Russell S., the elected leaders for Foa Foa and Galu respectively, selected participants in the first Reward Challenge; as directed by Jeff, they chose who they believed to be the best swimmer, the strongest person, the most agile, and the smartest person on their tribes. \n\nReward Challenge: A designated swimmer would swim out into the ocean to retrieve a key and swim back. The swimmer would hand the key to the designated strong person to unlock a chain around two bundles of heavy logs. The logs would have to be carried to the next station where a designated agile person would use the log bundles to climb on top of a balance beam. The agile person would need to pull a second key along a rope twisted around the balance beam while remaining on top of the balance beam. At the final stage, a designated smart person would use the second key to unlock a bag of puzzle pieces and use them to assemble a statue. The first tribe to assemble their statue would win flint.When Foa Foa won the challenge, Jeff tossed maps to both tribes and sent them on their way. At Foa Foa, Mick downplayed his role of leader to stay \"under the radar\", believing that the leader always has a huge target on his head. Meanwhile, Russell H. quickly made secret \"dumbass girl alliances\" with Ashley, Betsy, Marisa, and Natalie; nevertheless, Betsy was suspicious and didn't trust him. At night in Foa Foa, Russell H. told a completely fabricated story to his tribe of his experience of Hurricane Katrina in his house in New Orleans, Louisiana; later, he emptied all the canteens and burned Jaison's socks. His strategy revolved around the idea that if he could control how his tribe felt, he could control how they think. Russell H.'s strategy began to affect the tribe as tribemates became more irritable.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Six members from each tribe would race across a series of three wooden A-frames carrying three coils of rope. At the end of the course, the six would use the rope to pull a heavy wooden crate across a ramp and up to the finish platform. The four remaining tribe members would disassemble the crate to use as puzzle pieces. The first tribe to solve the puzzle would win.When Foa Foa lost the Immunity Challenge, discussions of whom to vote out began when Mike talked about voting out the physically weakest: in his opinion, Ashley. Since Marisa was skeptical of Russell H.'s quickly-made alliance with her, the latter immediately targeted her for elimination. At Tribal Council, his plan to eliminate Marisa came together, and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Russell H. assumed a Hidden Immunity Idol was somewhere around camp and went searching for it. He located the idol, without the help of any clues, in the roots of a large tree. After taking the idol and hiding it in his underwear, he showed the idol to Jaison to create some trust between them.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: In a walled off arena, three members of each tribe would battle for control of three balls. Once a castaway gets control of a ball, they would pass the ball to three other tribe members standing on a platform who would attempt to throw the ball through the opposing tribe's basket at the other end of the arena. One point would be scored when a ball is made in the basket. After every point, the tribes would change who was in the arena and on the platform. The first tribe to score three points would win tribal Immunity and fishing gear.At the combined Reward and Immunity Challenge, after many dirty attacks during the game, Jeff stated that the next dirty attack would result in getting kicked out of the challenge. Moments later, Ben kicked Russell S. in his leg. Jeff called a time out and kicked Ben out of the challenge, resulting in Foa Foa being short one member. In the end, Galu triumphed over Foa Foa. When the challenge ended, Jeff announced a twist—the leader of the winning tribe would select one member of the tribe to accompany the losing tribe back to their camp and observe them through the next Tribal Council. When Russell S. selected Yasmin, Jeff gave her a note to be read in private. Jeff also asked Mike to stay so the Survivor Medical Team could examine him due to the hard hits he received. The Survivor Medical Team determined that he would be unable to continue and pulled him from the game. At Galu, Shambo went spearfishing with the tribe's new fishing gear; however, when she came back with no fish and a missing mouthpiece to the swim mask, Laura felt that Shambo had \"signed her own death warrant\". At Foa Foa, Yasmin, the observer, came off as rude to the Foa Foa members. Ben and Yasmin had a heated conversation involving racial controversy about Ben's \"cheap shot\". At Tribal Council, Betsy, knowing her head was on the chopping block, attempted to sway her tribe to vote out Ben; the attempt, however, proved ineffective, and she was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Upon returning from Tribal Council, Jaison talked to Mick about voting out Ben next because of what Jaison perceived as racist comments made by Ben about Yasmin.[10] Multiple stories went around about who was \"stirring up the pot\".\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: A pair of castaways from each tribe would swim out into the ocean to retrieve one of four crates with a different color on each face of a crate. Between the beach and crates would be a \"battle zone\" marked off by four flags. Within this zone, an opposing tribe member would try to prevent the two castaways from crossing the zone and reaching the crate. Once the two castaways crossed the zone, they would bring a crate back to the beach, and a second pair of castaways would go out to retrieve another crate. Once all four crates were retrieved, the crates would need to be stacked so that one color didn't show more than once on each column. The first tribe to complete the puzzle would win comfort items of pillows, candles, mats, beach towels, and a hammock.At the combined Reward and Immunity Challenge, Galu never lost their lead and won their third consecutive challenge. After the challenge was over, Jeff gave Russell S., Galu's leader, an option of trading the reward of comfort items for more functional items such as fishing gear, a pot, a lantern, and a tarp. Believing it would be delightful to the Galu women, Russell S. chose the comfort items. Many of the tribe's men disagreed with his choice. When Russell S. was also given the decision on whom to send as the observer to Foa Foa, he chose Shambo. Her visit with Foa Foa went great, and she began to feel more comfortable with them than Galu. When discussions arose about whom to vote out, Liz and Russell H., as well as Ben, gunned for Ashley, but Mick was unsure if he would agree with them or vote for Ben. Russell H. made an agreement with Mick that as long as the latter would not vote for him, Ben would be the next gone after Ashley. In an attempt to gain Mick's trust, Russell H. showed the Hidden Immunity Idol to him. At Tribal Council, Ben and Jaison voiced their disagreement about whether Ben's statements were racist. The tribe decided to vote against Ben, and he was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":4,"episode_summary":"The day's tree mail instructed the tribe leaders to select two castaways to join them at the upcoming Reward Challenge; Russell S. chose Dave and Shambo, while Mick chose Natalie and Russell H. While his tribemates were not around, Erik began a search for the Hidden Immunity Idol at Galu and succeeded. Meanwhile, at Foa Foa's campsite, Russell H. pondered about changing his \"final two alliance\" from Jaison to Natalie, believing that he could tell the jury Natalie rode his coattails; Natalie, on the other and, felt confident that she would beat Russell H. in a final vote and privately stated that she would continue to play to her strengths, laying low and forming personal relationships. Upon arriving at the challenge site, the six selected castaways realized Jeff was nowhere to be seen. After some hesitation, the six made a scramble towards a treasure chest and a cage of chickens. In the treasure chest, they discovered instructions that they were to do the challenge on their own. \n\nReward Challenge: Three castaways from each tribe would play a game similar to bocce. A flag would be placed in the center of a circle. The castaways would take turns tossing three balls each at the flag. The tribe who throws a ball closest to the flag would win three chickens.Dave won the challenge with a last ricochet shot. When the victorious Galu trio returned to Galu with the reward, Shambo was assigned to watch over the chickens, but she mistakenly let one loose.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would race across a net run carrying wooden blocks to a platform. When all of the blocks were at the platform, they would need to be stacked into a tower. The castaways would then cross a rope bridge to a second platform where two nets would be tied together holding more wooden blocks. After the nets were untied, the blocks would have to be stacked into another tower. The first tribe to stack both towers would win.When Foa Foa broke Galu's Immunity Challenge win streak, deliberations began about how Tribal Council would go down. Brett and Kelly were both upset at Yasmin for doing nothing around camp, while Shambo and Yasmin wanted to vote out Monica because of her performance in the challenge. When Russell S. was told that the rest of the tribe was leaning towards voting out Yasmin, he was upset that the tribe was not following his lead. However, at Tribal Council, he followed the majority, and Yasmin was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Shambo felt more alienated from her tribe when she realized that she was the only one besides Yasmin to vote for Monica at Tribal Council, and she became more attached to her Foa Foa \"tribemates\".\n\nReward Challenge: Two castaways would face off against each other by spinning a roulette-like wheel with various food items on it that would be blended together and have to be drunk by the castaways. The castaway would score one point if they were able to drink the whole glass. The challenge would not be a race and there was no time limit on getting the food item down. The first tribe to score five points would win steaks, sausages, and onions.At the Reward Challenge, the chance for Foa Foa to win rested on Ashley's shoulders. After much taunting from the Galu bench, she quit the challenge and lost for her tribe. Per the rules, Galu's leader, Russell S., chose Shambo as the observer for the second time, a decision which infuriated her; he selected Shambo because he felt she had to pay for the loss of the chicken. Upon reaching the opposing tribe's camp, Shambo shared all of the clues to the Hidden Immunity Idol with the Foa Foa members. Liz presumed Russell H. to have the Hidden Immunity Idol, however, and confronted him about it. He denied he had it and then threatened Liz for confronting him.\n\nImmunity Challenge: One man and one woman from each tribe would hold on to a rope that would suspend a net. The castaways from the other tribe would attempt to toss coconuts into the net which would weigh it down, making it more difficult to hold onto the rope. Should the net touch the ground, the castaway would be eliminated from the challenge. The castaway who held on to the rope the longest without letting the net touch the ground would win for their tribe.At the Immunity Challenge, Russell H. was the first to drop his net, and Liz dropped her net shortly afterward, losing the challenge for Foa Foa. Back at camp, rain had been pouring down for more than a day, and the Foa Foa members were forced to huddle together. Russell H. originally wanted Liz out because she had confronted him, but had second thoughts after seeing her strength in the Immunity Challenge. He also knew that Ashley was clearly the weakest link in the tribe. Foa Foa was unable to strategize, however, as the rain kept them together in the shelter. At Tribal Council, Liz's challenge strength helped her, and Ashley was unanimously voted out to maintain a strong tribe."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":6,"episode_summary":"The rain continued for the fifth straight day, but ended soon thereafter. Both tribes were extremely thankful. \n\nReward Challenge: One castaway would be strapped into a wooden spherical cage and would have to guide two blindfolded castaways in rolling the cage through a maze through the forest.  At the end of the maze would be a labyrinth-like table maze. The castaway inside the cage would then have to guide four blindfolded castaways in solving the table maze. The first tribe to finish the table maze would win pizza while observing the losing tribe at Tribal Council.At the Reward Challenge, Jeff announced that both tribes would be going to Tribal Council that night to vote somebody out of the game. Foa Foa selected Liz to be the guide with Jaison and Russell H. as cage-rollers, while Galu selected Laura to be the guide with Erik and Russell S. as cage-rollers. Towards the end of the cage-rolling stage, with Foa Foa in the lead, Russell S. became disoriented and struggled to make it to the puzzle table. When he collapsed at his station onto the puzzle table, Jeff called for a halt so the Survivor Medical Team could tend to Russell S. After examination, they found that he had dangerously low blood pressure which was even worse than Mike's injury was. Jeff officially called off the challenge and stated that although neither tribe would win the reward, both would still go to Tribal Council and vote somebody off. Moments later, as the medical team tried to sit him up, Russell S. blacked out again with his eyes open. The medical team tried to ask him if he remembered what just happened and told Jeff that Russell S.'s heart rate went from 97 (when they set him up) to 68. The medical team eventually decided it was time for him to be pulled from the game. Russell S. protested at first; saying his family depended on this and that he was just a little dehydrated. However Jeff said that after what he saw happen in front of him; including blacking out two times in front of him there would be no way Russell S. would stay in the game and that if he didn't get any help he would get worse. Feeling his frustration, Jeff reminded Russell S. that he was in great shape and had led a tribe that dominated, that there had been no sign earlier of him going home and he pushed himself until the end. Back at Foa Foa, the vote was between Natalie and Liz, while at Galu, the women targeted Shambo for being an outsider, while the men targeted Monica for being a liability in challenges. At Tribal Council, when the two tribes arrived at the site, Jeff explained Russell's condition, how he was removed from the game, and what had happened to Russell S. after the two tribes had been sent back to their respective camps. Jeff made a final announcement that due to the unprecedented circumstances of the incomplete challenge, including how big of an impact that Russell S. had on the Galu tribe, there would be no vote and nobody else would be going home. Before departing, Jeff told Galu that they would need to select a new tribe leader."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":7,"episode_summary":"The men of Galu conspired to vote Shambo in as the new leader of the tribe to secure her loyalty to them, but they kept her in the dark about their plans.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would play a variation of Concentration with thirteen pairs of survival items plus four unpaired dummy items hidden under covers. One tribe member at a time would uncover two items. If the items matched, they would score one point for their tribe. However, the tribe leaders would have the option of forfeiting the point and taking the uncovered pair. The tribe with the most points at the end of the challenge would win a sailing trip aboard a three-masted barque and lunch, and the items collected for the points forfeited for either tribe.At the Reward Challenge, Brett, who was designated to make decisions on which items to keep, forfeited the first point to keep the then-uncovered fire starting kit. The remaining matched pairs were kept for points, and Galu easily won the challenge. Shambo chose Laura to miss the reward and observe Foa Foa, much to the anger of the latter. While at Foa Foa, Russell H. attempted to ally with Laura; unknown to him, though, Laura didn't trust him.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes would paddle out into the ocean to retrieve six sets of fish-shaped puzzle pieces. Once back on the beach, three tribe members would have to assemble the puzzle pieces. The first tribe to assemble their puzzle would win.When the Immunity Challenge was won by Galu, Russell H. considered voting Jaison instead of Liz due to his poor performance in the challenge, but because Liz was considered untrustworthy, the other four tribe members came together, and she was voted off."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":8,"episode_summary":"The tribes arrived at the challenge site as instructed by tree mail. Jeff was not there, and a lone treasure chest lay on the beach. When the castaways opened the chest, they saw new blue buffs and supplies to create a new tribe flag. The note stated that the newly merged tribe would move to the old Galu campsite, and there was a feast down the beach for them. After the feast, the castaways settled on Aiga, meaning \"extended family\" in Samoan, as a tribe name. Russell H. scrambled around camp, showing his Hidden Immunity Idol to John, Laura, and Monica and made conflicting deals with each of them to no avail. He then turned a disgruntled Shambo away from her tribe and gained support from her in voting out Laura.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would play a variation of T-ball with the men competing against the men and the women against the women. The playing field would be divided into sections with different point values. Each castaway would take one swing at the ball. Wherever the ball comes to a stop would be that castaway's score. Two castaways, one man and one woman, with the highest score would win immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Jeff explained that there would be an immunity necklace for the highest-scoring man and woman. With Laura's immunity win, Russell H.'s plan to vote out Laura collapsed. John also won immunity. Laura informed Erik that the Hidden Immunity Idol was in Russell H.'s hands, and he conspired with others. When news of Erik's strategizing spread to Natalie, she campaigned for Erik's elimination. At Tribal Council, Russell H., confident that he was the actual target, played his Hidden Immunity Idol. Not a single vote was cast against him. Erik, not noticing the blindside coming, was voted out with the idol in his pocket."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Upon returning from Tribal Council, Russell H. was shocked to find that he had wasted his Idol, as he had felt certain Galu was voting for him and hadn't at all questioned whether to play it. In the morning, Natalie stumbled upon a rat and, out of hunger, smashed it for food. This surprised the rest of the tribe, as Natalie had provided a good breakfast for all, and Jaison commented on how proud he was of her growth throughout the game thus far.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribe would split into two teams of five, with one castaway sitting out the challenge. Two castaways at a time, the teams would race out into a field to collect a series of poles with black and white colored coconuts. The poles would have to be arranged so that the white coconuts form a four digit number. One blindfolded team member would then have to use their sense of touch to unlock a multiple-dial combination lock using the four digit number. The first team to unlock their lock would win a trip to a waterfall rock slide and a picnic lunch.At the Reward Challenge, the purple team of Dave, John, Kelly, Monica, and Shambo took the win. While eating their picnic lunch, they received a clue to a new Hidden Immunity Idol. The group planned only tell Brett and Laura to keep the knowledge in Galu's hands. When the five discussed which former Foa Foa member to vote out next, Shambo’s defense of Russell H. made Kelly suspicious of her loyalties. Upon returning from camp, Russell H.  found another Hidden Immunity Idol without the help of a clue and informed Shambo. In return, she told him about Galu's plot against him.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would have to toss a grappling hook to retrieve two bags with a wooden peg in each bag. The first three castaways to retrieve their bags would move on to the final puzzle round. In the final round, the castaways would untie the bags and try to insert one of the uniquely shaped pegs into board, which would release another peg. That peg would fit into another hole, which releases another peg, and so on until the board was full. The first castaway to complete their puzzle would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Russell and Shambo’s fear came true when Laura won immunity for the second time in a row. The whole of Foa Foa plus Shambo targeted Kelly. Galu still believed Russell H. would be going home. At Tribal Council, a blindside of Kelly occurred when Russell H. pulled out his second Hidden Immunity Idol, and the seven Galu votes against him were negated. The remaining votes sent Kelly home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":10,"episode_summary":"When the tribe returned to their campsite, Russell H. went searching for his third Hidden Immunity Idol.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribe would be split into two teams. One castaway from each tribe would be hoisted aloft in a cradle held up by four ropes controlled by the other team members. The castaway in the cradle would have to be maneuvered around the playing field to collect fifteen numbered flags in order and placed into a slot in a log. The first team to collect all fifteen flags would win a plane trip to Savai'i and a picnic lunch at a waterfall.At the Reward Challenge, the purple team of Brett, Dave, Laura, Natalie, and Russell H. won the challenge; they were given a Palm Pre to use during their picnic lunch. The castaways were informed the phone contained clues to a new Hidden Immunity Idol. Laura informed the others there was a video - that each player was able to view - revealing a clue to the whereabouts of the idol. The 8 second video showed it was hidden under a rock somewhere near camp. Upon returning from the reward, Russell H. immediately took off in search of it. He finally found the idol after a long chase through the forest.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each castaway would throw one stone at a set of three hanging tiles. For each tile broken, they would earn one spear to be used in the next round. The castaways would use a crossbow to shoot the spears they earned at a target. The castaway that shoots their spear closest to the center of the target would win.At the immunity challenge, Mick and Jaison each broke one of their tiles, Dave broke one of Monica's tiles but none of his own, and Brett broke two of his tiles.  In the final round, Mick came out on top with his spear closest to the center of the target to win his first immunity. When they arrived back from the Immunity Challenge, John and Russell H. debated on how the voting would go down; if John were to switch his vote to Laura after a tie, the next person voted out would be a former Foa Foa. John's first instinct was to let the Tribal Council vote to go the infamous \"purple rock\" tiebreaker and then hope that one of the former Foa Foa would be sent home. At Tribal Council, the vote came to a 5–5 tie between Laura and Natalie. Per the rules, a second vote was held where Laura and Natalie would not vote and the remaining eight castaways would have to vote for one of the two. When the votes were cast again, John changed his vote and Laura was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Recap of the first 27 days with never before seen footage."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":12,"episode_summary":"The day's treemail contained envelopes full of US$500, signaling a Survivor Auction. Unlike previous Survivor Auctions, money and food could not be shared. Jaison bid high on a sealed container with a note that would give him an advantage at the Immunity Challenge, and John received an additional clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol.\n\nImmunity Challenge: With one hand, the castaways would hang on to a rope with several knots tied into it. The rope would be tied to one end of a heavy log. The other end of the log would be connected to a pivot point on a platform that the castaways would stand on. The castaways would start at the knot closest to the end of the log. Every three minutes, they would change hands and move one knot further down the rope. This would increase the angle of the log at the pivot point and increase the weight that the castaways would have to hold. The castaway who held on to the rope the longest would win.At the challenge, Jaison opened the container; the note stated that Jaison could move up two knots on his rope at any time during the challenge. Because this gave him a significant advantage, Jaison won the Immunity Challenge by outlasting Dave. Back at camp, the tribe decided to eat the chickens won by Galu in a previous Reward Challenge. Shambo, the chickens' caretaker, took control of the cooking and insisted on boiling the chickens. She was infuriated when Dave, who had won the chickens for his tribe, suggested on another method of cooking. That night, Shambo had \"a clairvoyant dream\" in which the tribe had voted out Dave. The next day, Russell H. confronted John about the missing Hidden Immunity Idol and revealed to the latter the idol. Later, Russell H. realized that he had made a mistake in showing John the idol and felt that he needed get rid of John immediately to cover up the mistake. He organized a plan to vote John out with his Foa Foa alliance. John did not see through the Foa Foa pact, and at Tribal Council, the Foa Foa plan came together—stunning Shambo in the process—and John was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":13,"episode_summary":"After returning to camp from Tribal Council, Shambo was stunned about the vote going against John. To calm down the infuriated Shambo, Russell H. said he voted out John because he was gunning for her. She bought the lie, but she insisted that Dave had to go next. The argument between Russell H. and his tribe about the former's US$1.7 million salary proved that there were cracks forming in the Foa Foa alliance. When the tribe arrived at the challenge site, Jeff announced they would be playing for immunity, not the expected reward.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would compete in a bowling tournament. The castaways would be randomly matched against another castaway and given two rolls. The castaway who knocks down the most pins moves on to the next round. The remaining castaways would compete in another round and so forth until a winner is determined.Jaison took his second immunity win in a row, while Shambo reaffirmed her statement that Dave was going home at the next Tribal Council. After the challenge, Dave knew that he was the \"lowest man on the totem pole\" in the tribe. Russell H. debated between Dave and Shambo. However, at Tribal Council, Shambo got her wish, and Dave was unanimously voted out.\nRussell H. thought that Brett was the biggest threat to him remaining as he was well liked by the jury, so he started to work on voting out Brett with the Foa Foa alliance. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would swim out into the ocean to retrieve one of three bags. They would then swim back and have to launch the bag up into a basket on top of a tower by jumping on a plank setup like a seesaw. The first castaways to get their three bags into the basket would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Brett edged out Mick to win Individual Immunity, much to the alliance's disappointment. Brett's win solidified the Foa Foa theory that he could quite possibly win again, forcing the alliance to vote out one of their own at the next Tribal Council. Russell H. told the rest that Monica was to be voted out first. Monica stirred the pot by informing Russell H. that Natalie had previously told her about Russell H.'s salary—she later corrected herself and stated it was rather Jaison who revealed the information. Monica's plot to anger Russell H. worked, and he went off to confront his alliance members about Monica's story; after confronting Brett and Natalie, he went to Jaison, who denied it because he had forgotten he told Brett and Monica those stories. Jaison felt nervous around Russell H. and believed the latter should be eliminated soon. When the castaways sat down at Tribal Council, Russell H. flaunted the Hidden Immunity Idol pulled out it out and placed it around his neck. Monica commented that she was busy stirring the pot and infuriating Russell H. with her rumors. She laughed about Russell H.'s open display of confidence in wearing his Idol. Because Brett was immune, Monica was the only vulnerable person outside of the core group of four Foa Foas plus Shambo, so Monica was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":14,"episode_summary":"In the tribe's shelter, Brett and Natalie felt a connection through their shared interest in religion as Brett recited verses of the Bible from memory.\n\nReward Challenge: Coconuts would be suspended in the air by intertwined ropes on a frame. The castaways would be split into two teams. One at a time, each castaway would select a rope to remove, which would cause coconuts to be released and drop to the ground. The first team to cause 100 coconuts to drop would lose. The winning team would receive a trip to a local village with a feast and overnight stay.At the Reward Challenge, the castaways drew stones to be team captains; when Natalie, one of the team captains, selected Brett first, Russell H. and Shambo were suspicious of an alliance that would need to be broken up immediately. This was partially brought up when Brett and Natalie joined hands as \"prayer warriors\" to help them through the challenge. After Jaison, Russell H., and Shambo won the challenge, they went on their reward trip. Jaison told Russell H he agreed to go to the top three together. The winning trio also discussed the possibility of a Brett–Natalie alliance and that they had to put a stop to it immediately by voting out Brett or Mick next. Back at camp, Brett suggested the three from the losing team create their own reward by spending the day at the beach hunting for snails. When Russell H. returned to camp, he talked with Natalie about her picking of Brett at the Reward Challenge. She reassured him that her and Russell H.'s \"final two alliance\" from early in the game was still strong.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would run out into a field to six different stations and count the number of objects (pigs, crabs, rocks, coconuts, octopuses, and fish) at each station. The count of the objects would be used to unlock a combination lock. The order of the numbers in the combination lock would be different for each castaway. The first castaway to open his or her lock and break the tile would win.Brett won Immunity for the second time in a row. Jaison figured the former Foa Foa needed to be as strong as possible to prevent Brett from winning any further Immunity Challenges, and told Russell H. that Shambo would need to go next due to her poor performance in challenges. When Shambo approached the conversation, Jaison quickly scrambled off. Russell H. told Shambo, suspicious that Jaison was hiding something, that Jaison was upset, that he wanted to vote out Mick, and that Russell H. agreed with the vote. Mick was surprised when Russell H. told him that Shambo was getting on his nerves and she needed to go. At Tribal Council, Russell H. once again openly wore his Hidden Immunity Idol, but did not use it the last time it could be played. Shambo was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":15,"episode_summary":"The remaining four Foa Foa members concentrated on getting rid of Brett, feeling that he didn't deserve to be there. Russell H. talked to Natalie about how they could keep her in the game, warning her that if Brett were to win the next Immunity Challenge, she would be voted off to keep the strongest possible in the game in the hopes of voting off Brett. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would race across a rope net and a balance beam to retrieve a bag of puzzle pieces. Once back with the bag, they would climb up a steep wall to a platform where they would assemble the puzzle pieces. The first castaway to assemble their puzzle, the Survivor: Samoa logo, would win.Russell H. was again extremely confident going into the Immunity Challenge, but while he had an early lead, Brett came from behind during the puzzle assembly stage and pulled off his third immunity win in a row. Natalie and Russell H. again discussed what the plans were for Tribal Council. Russell H. wanted to keep Natalie around, as he felt that she would be seen by the jury members as \"riding his coattails\" and therefore not get any votes. Russell H. told Jaison that they had to keep Natalie and get rid of Mick to make it to the final three, which Jaison agreed with.  Russell H. told Mick a different story: Jaison could not beat Brett in anything, and voting off Jaison would give them a better chance at beating Brett. Mick agreed with the plan, believing that Jaison wasn't mentally in the game while Natalie was. With the vote split—Jaison and Mick agreeing to vote for each other—the power of who went home fell to Natalie and Russell H. They decided to vote against Jaison, and he was sent home blindsided by a vote of 4–1.\nUpon returning to camp, Brett knew that he had to win the next Immunity Challenge or he would be going home. Russell H. made a deal with Brett that should either of them win the next Immunity Challenge, that they would take each other to the final three. The final four took the traditional journey honoring the castaways voted out before heading to their Final Immunity Challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would balance a wooden statue on top of a pole which they would have to keep upright holding the bottom of the pole. At regular intervals, an additional 1-foot (30-cm) section would be added to the end of the pole, making the pole longer and harder to balance. The last castaway still holding the statue up would win.The challenge came down to Brett and Russell H.; with the poles at 7 feet (2.1 m) long, Brett lost the balance on his pole and Russell H. won his first Individual Immunity.\nBrett figured that his only hope to remain in the game was the deal he made with Russell H.  Russell H. gloated about his challenge win to Mick and Natalie and said that he thought he had a great shot at the million dollars and was already rehearsing his jury speech.  Mick was concerned that Russell H. had some secret plan and that Mick was going home, but Natalie reassured him that the former Foa Foa would stick together.  Russell H. told Brett that he had a problem because he had made a deal with everybody to take them to the final three.  Russell H. told Brett that Brett was the kind of guy that Russell H. wanted his kids to marry and he wished he was like Brett when he was young.  Russell H. told Brett that Mick and Natalie would be voting against him and asked if Brett could win a fire starting challenge if Russell H. joined Brett in voting for Mick, forcing a tie. At Tribal Council, Mick and Natalie stated that there was no doubt in their mind that Brett was going home.  Jeff asked Russell H. if he could appreciate the competitor in Brett.  Russell H. answered that he respected the game and that Brett deserved to be in the final three.  Mick and Natalie emphasized that strategically, Russell H. had to vote out Brett.  In the end, Russell H. voted against Brett and he became the final jury member by a vote of 3–1.\nWith only three Foa Foa members left, Mick, Natalie, and Russell H. celebrated with the traditional Day 39 breakfast. Russell H. pressed Natalie over what she was going to say to the jury and he continued to gloat over how he had locked up the necessary jury votes. He even threatened to \"put her in the jury\", even though the jury stage of the game was over. The three then burned their encampment.  At the final Tribal Council, the final three made their opening statements.  Mick stated that he tried to play the game without overstepping his morals by trying not promise too much, overtly stomp on, lie, and mislead people, or treat them as pawns in the game.  Natalie focused on how she came into the game wanting to gain the confidence in going outside her comfort zone and that she appreciated everybody on the jury. Russell H. went over many of his big strategic moves throughout the game and claimed he played the game better than Mick or Natalie.\nThe time then came for the jury to ask their questions to the final three.  Jaison was up first, asking the three to tell the members of the jury who they really were and if they didn't, that he would.  All three told the jury what they did, but Jaison pointed out that both Natalie and Russell H. had made a lot of money before coming on Survivor, that Mick had the potential to make a lot of money, and that the jury should not focus who was broke, but on other criteria. Shambo took the opportunity to apologize to America for dismantling Galu and that she questioned that judgment call. She called Mick's overall game play \"feckless\", a word of which Mick did not know the meaning. She used the word \"coattail\" to describe Natalie, to which Natalie defended that she purposefully tried not to be aggressive in the game. Shambo then said that there was no way that Mick and Natalie would get her vote and said nothing to Russell H.  Brett asked nothing of Natalie or Russell H., but asked Mick what a \"bro date\" would be like with him to see to what level Mick invested in Brett as a human being. Kelly started with Natalie, telling her that she thought she was never on the field in the game and that Kelly always saw Natalie asking for help in the challenges, to which Natalie said that while she might not have been good in the challenges, but she gave 100% and that she got better as the game progressed.  She asked Russell H. if he lied, cheated, and stole in real life as he did in the game, to which Russell H. said that he did not and that \"honor, integrity, and loyalty\" was the most important thing to him, which she had a hard time believing. She said nothing to Mick.\nNext up was Monica, who asked Mick and Natalie why they felt the other two sitting beside them did not deserve to win.  Mick said that Natalie rode out her alignment with Russell H. throughout the game and that Russell H. was willing to lie, pit people against each other, mislead, and had a giant ego. Russell H. interrupted Mick's answer by stating that both Natalie and Mick didn't mind when Russell H. was being a snake and was congratulating him all the way. Monica appeared amused, said that she had heard enough, and sat down. Dave asked the three what they thought their chances were with the jury.  Mick thought it was 20–25%, Natalie 30–40%, and Russell H. said that his chances were a lot higher prior to Final Tribal Council but were now 55%.  Laura asked nothing of Natalie or Mick but asked Russell H. what he learned about her that enabled him to beat her, to which he generically stated that she was a threat. John asked nothing of Russell H. but asked Mick and Natalie for the \"hard sell\" of his vote. Mick repeated the theme of his opening statement that he was a stand-up guy, while Natalie said that she saw how the aggressive women in the game were getting voted out and that she adapted her game after that.\nErik asked no questions of the final three and instead made statements to the three.  He told Mick that he did nothing to deserve the title of being the tribe leader of Foa Foa. He told Russell H. that he played an unethical game and wondered if Russell H. got to the right place by behaving the wrong way and if Russell H. was proud of behaving in such a manner. Finally, Erik told Natalie that people would call her weak and undeserving, but asked why those characteristics were any less admirable than lying, cheating, and stealing. He went on to say that maybe she would call herself the less deserving of the title Sole Survivor, but that in an environment filled with \"arrogance\" (pointing to Russell H.) and \"delusional entitlement\" (pointing to Mick), that the person who might think she is the least deserving, could probably be the most. Erik closed his speech by saying that Natalie had his vote and hoped she would get four more."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US19","episode":16,"episode_summary":"Months later, the game was revealed that Natalie became the Sole Survivor over Russell H. and Mick by a vote of 7–2–0. The castaways discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The returning castaways arrived on board four Royal New Zealand Air Force UH-1 Iroquois helicopters.[40] After initial assessments about the tribe division, the contestants launched into a Reward challenge. \n\nReward challenge: The tribes would face off in pairs. The four castaways would race along the beach to dig up a single bag in a designated lane. The castaways would then have to race back to their respective finish mat. The first person to be touching the bag and their finish mat would score a point for their tribe. The first tribe to score three points would win flint. Battle Dig challenge from Panama.During the aggressive challenge, two Heroes were injured. Stephenie dislocated a shoulder, which was fixed, and Rupert broke a toe. Neither injury resulted in evacuation. The Heroes won the challenge, obtaining flint. At both camps, the castaways found fishing gear. Russell made \"top two\" alliances with both Danielle and Parvati; still, they both questioned his loyalty. Rob was quick to organize the Villains camp and helped them to create fire using a fire saw. At the Heroes camp, Rupert failed to start a fire while wasting much of the flint's magnesium, but Colby, J.T., and Stephenie were successful. Tom also found four wild chickens that he and his tribemates captured to use as food. Loose alliances between castaways that were previously on the same season were made, while Coach and Jerri formed a separate alliance and J.T. formed pacts with James and Tom. During the night, Sugar disrupted her tribemates' sleep with her chatting.\n\nImmunity challenge: Six members from each tribe would race to assemble a boat from seven pieces and seven planks and then paddle the boat out into the ocean to light their torch from the raft. Once the six members return with the fire and the seven planks, the remaining four tribe members would assemble a puzzle. The seven planks from the boat would then be used to assemble a ladder to the top of a platform and place the completed puzzle in a slot halfway up. The first tribe to have their whole tribe at the top of the platform and light their fire barrel would win. Should the Villains tribe win the challenge, they would receive flint. Lock, Load and Light challenge from Cook Islands.At the Immunity challenge, the Heroes lost a significant lead due to their conflicting puzzle strategies, and the Villains won, earning their flint. Back at the Heroes camp, Sugar targeted Amanda, but the rest of the tribe wanted to eliminate Sugar. Tom brought up voting for Cirie for strategic reasons. Amanda, Candice, and Cirie talked about voting for Stephenie or Tom to break up a potential alliance that rooted from their season in Palau. At Tribal Council, the vote went against Sugar, and she was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Frustrated from his tribe's lack of work ethic and cooperation regarding their shelter, Rob wandered off into the jungle. Jerri found him collapsed on the jungle floor and called in the Survivor Medical Team, who, as they found nothing to concern them, cleared Rob to continue.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: In pairs, the castaways would race across a field to retrieve six large crates painted in their tribe's colors. Once all six crates were retrieved, the tribes would have to stack the crates into a staircase with the name of their tribe properly aligned along the sides. The first tribe to complete the staircase and get all of their members up the staircase to the top of a platform would win immunity and a tarp. A Crate Idea challenge from Tocantins.During the combined Reward and Immunity Challenge, the Heroes initially gained a healthy lead but, again, ended up stumbling as they solved the puzzle staircase. Russell felt threatened by Rob's rise in power amongst the Villains tribe and tried to demonstrate his own power by catching a chicken with a spear. James vented to his tribe about their lack of cooperation during the challenge and not following J.T., who had performed the challenge in Tocantins. Having mostly stormed on Stephenie for their loss, he pointed that her doings might have contributed to her original tribe's losing streak in Palau. Meanwhile, the trio of Colby, Stephenie, and Tom tried to convince Candice and Cirie to join them in voting out Amanda, who had previously played with Cirie, Courtney, James, and Parvati during her tenure as a contestant. After a heated Tribal Council, Candice and Cirie decided to join Amanda, James, J.T., and Rupert in voting out Stephenie."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":3,"episode_summary":"James apologized to his tribemates for his behavior at the previous Tribal Council. The next day, the men of the Heroes tribe \"bonded\" over re-capturing two chickens that had escaped. Meanwhile, at the Villains camp, Coach and Rob warned Russell about his alliance with Parvati and how it could be dangerous. In retaliation, Russell decided to show the two who was in control by hiding the tribe's machete during the night. Randy became frustrated when he seemed to be the only one providing food for his tribe, thrusting the role of the tribe's main provider on him and Rob. Surprised by Candice's strategic gameplay, J.T. planted some distrust in Candice and Cirie's alliance by fabricating a story to Cirie that the former didn't trust her. When Cirie confronted Candice, the latter scrambled to figure out who had made up the lie, which aggravated James. \n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The tribes would face off in a series of one-on-one sumo-style battles. The castaways would use padded duffel bags to knock their adversaries out of a ring and into the mud. The first tribe to win eight bouts would win immunity and a reward of coffee, sugar, rice for one week, and a luxury item for each castaway. Sumo at Sea challenge originally from Palau, version used was the adaptation from Fiji.At the combined Reward and Immunity Challenge, the Heroes destroyed the Villains in an 8–0 blowout win. Discussions over whom to vote out focused on Parvati and Randy: Parvati for being a social threat and having four potential allies on the Heroes tribe, and Randy because he was one of the weaker competitors. At Tribal Council, the vote went against Randy, and he was unanimously sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Coach vented his disappointment to Tyson about being singled out by Sandra at the previous Tribal Council. He considered quitting the game, but Rob assured Coach that his position in the tribe was secure. \n\nReward challenge: A member from each tribe would slide across a slippery surface and grab a ball with a certain color and number suspended above them. They would have to toss it into a basket to score a point. First tribe to score four points would win two selected items from a Sears catalog. The Heroes tribe chose cooking equipment and additional fishing gear. The Villains tribe chose additional materials to set up camp and a tool kit. Slip, Slide & Score challenge from Fiji.After winning the Reward Challenge, the Villains selected tools, twine, and a tarp from the catalog. While unpacking their reward, Russell accidentally discovered a clue to a Hidden Immunity Idol in front of the tribe. After Rob read the clue out loud, Sandra made the point that whoever found it would be voted out next in order to flush out the idol. The rest of the tribe agreed and decided not to go look for the idol. Despite this warning, Russell went out to search, much to the anger of his tribe. At the Heroes camp, Tom discovered their clue in the jar of coffee beans. J.T. read the clue out loud, and several members of the Heroes tribe went looking for the idol. Tom succeeded in finding the idol and slipped it in his shoe. Amanda saw this and notified the others that it was in his possession. \n\nImmunity challenge: One castaway would be strapped into a wooden spherical cage and would have to guide two blindfolded castaways in rolling the cage through a maze through the forest. At the end of the maze would be a labyrinth-like table maze. The castaway inside the cage would then have to guide four blindfolded castaways in solving the table maze. The first tribe to finish the table maze would win. Roll With It challenge from Samoa.When the Heroes lost the Immunity Challenge, the majority alliance decided to split their votes between Colby and Tom, thus flushing the idol and sending Colby home. Tom reached an agreement with Amanda, James, and J.T. to vote out Candice after offering to give up the idol, but Cirie disagreed and convinced the majority to follow through with the plan to split the vote and flush the idol. J.T. was torn between going with the majority alliance and joining Colby and Tom in voting out Cirie. At Tribal Council, Tom played the Hidden Immunity Idol; therefore, the three votes against him were negated. In the end, J.T. turned on the majority alliance, and Cirie was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":5,"episode_summary":"When the Heroes returned to camp after Tribal Council, J.T. explained that his vote against Cirie was for the tribe and not for \"personal reasons\". However, Amanda and Rupert still questioned J.T.'s loyalties. At the Villains campsite, Russell continued his lone search for the Hidden Immunity Idol and soon found what he was looking for.\n\nReward challenge: In a walled off arena, three members of each tribe would battle for control of three balls. Once a castaway gets control of a ball, they would pass the ball to three other tribe members standing on a platform who would attempt to throw the ball through the opposing tribe's basket at the other end of the arena. One point would be scored when a ball is made in the basket. After every point, the tribes would change who was in the arena and on the platform. The first tribe to score two points would win a trip to a swimming hole and a feast of chocolate bars, chocolate cake, chocolate chip cookies, and chocolate milk. Schmergen Brawl challenge from Samoa.Shortly into the Reward Challenge, James went down with an injury to his left knee. After the Villains won the challenge by a score of 2–1, James's knee was braced by the Survivor Medical Team, and he was cleared to continue in the game. While on their reward trip, Russell told both Coach and Parvati that the Hidden Immunity Idol was in his possession, and a potential alliance brewed. \n\nImmunity challenge: One castaway from each tribe would work as a caller to direct their tribemates, who would be blindfolded and teamed up in pairs, in collecting ten large puzzle pieces from a field. Once all of the puzzle pieces were collected, the entire tribe would work together to assemble the puzzle. The first tribe to complete their puzzle would win. Tiki Towers challenge from All-Stars.James lead the Heroes to an early lead but they all struggled at the puzzle. Rob then lead the Villains to another immunity win. Before Tribal Council, Rupert gunned for Candice for being the weakest, while Candice wanted to vote out James due to his injury. Meanwhile, J.T. vacillated between voting for James or Tom. At Tribal Council, Candice and J.T. voted against Tom, and he was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Both tribes were surprised when Jeff announced that both tribes would be going to Tribal Council, and that the challenge was individual.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The tribes would compete separately for individual immunity. The castaways would be attached to a rope threaded through obstacles which they would have to climb under, over, or around. The first Hero and the first Villain to win will be immune from the vote. Then the two winners will be competing in the final round. The final round's challenge would be the same, but with a single obstacle three levels high. The first castaway to complete the obstacle would win reward for their tribe consisting of hot dogs and soft drinks to be enjoyed at the opposing tribe's Tribal Council. Around the Bend challenge originally from Guatemala, version used was the adaptation from Tocantins.Candice defeated JT to win for the Heroes, and Rob defeated Tyson to win for the Villains. When Candice and Rob battled it out, Rob ultimately won the reward for his tribe. Upon arriving at the Heroes' camp, Colby believed it was his time to go; however, the rest of the tribe members talked about voting out James instead of Colby to keep the tribe stronger.  To try to prove he could still be strong to the tribe by speed, he challenged JT to a race.  But JT defeated James by much even after running backwards halfway through the race.  Another consideration for voting out James was how he was told by Amanda that he hogged all the bananas he could find.  Amanda told him that if he gets a banana, he has to get one for everyone else.  She called it a \"banana etiquette\".  At the Villains' camp, Rob, assuming that Russell possessed the Hidden Immunity Idol, organized his alliance members to split their votes between Russell and Parvati, so that they would hopefully flush out the idol and remove one of the two. As a strategy to put the numbers against Tyson and not himself, Russell approached Tyson and convinced him to vote for Parvati. Tyson, believing Russell would also vote Parvati, opted to switch his vote to her as well, when, in reality, Russell would be voting for Tyson. At their Tribal Council, Russell presented the Hidden Immunity Idol to Jeff but gave it to Parvati. When she played the idol, the four votes cast against her were negated, thus blindsiding Tyson with a vote of 3–2–0. Afterwards, the Villains enjoyed their reward at the Heroes' Tribal Council, where James castigated Colby for not performing as well in challenges like he used to in Australia. But ultimately, despite stating his desire to continue on the competition, the tribe ultimately agreed that James' knee injury and brutish demeanor were too obvious to ignore, and, in a unanimous vote, he was next to go, to ensure he would receive immediate medical treatment for his injury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Rob was stunned by the results of previous Tribal Council and was suspicious of his alliance's loyalties. With Jerri wavering about her alliance with Rob, Parvati promised Jerri that she would go to the final four with Danielle and Russell. \n\nReward challenge: Competing in rounds, the tribes would face off three to a side in the ocean to get control of a ball and shoot it into their basket to score a point. The first tribe to score three points would win a trip to a waterfall with a feast. Basket Brawl challenge from Tocantins.Sensing that he needed to step up at the challenges to prove to his tribe that voting James off was not a mistake, Colby led the Heroes to a 3–0 win at the Reward Challenge. When the Heroes arrived at the waterfall for their reward, they received a note that there was another Hidden Immunity Idol at their beach. The five Heroes agreed that they would find the idol together and use it against the Villains instead of against each other. At the Villains' camp, Russell told Coach and Jerri that he wanted to take them to the final three. Jerri accepted the offer and aligned herself with Russell, while Coach was skeptical of Russell's promises. Coach was hurt by Jerri's equal loyalties to himself and Russell as he thought he had a greater level of trust and loyalty from Jerri. \n\nImmunity challenge: One at a time, three castaways from each tribe would race across a platform and a rope net and then climb up a rope web to retrieve six bags of puzzle pieces. Once all six bags were retrieved, two other castaways from each tribe would assemble the puzzle. The first tribe to assemble their puzzle would win. Caught in the Web challenge based upon one used in Africa, and in Guatemala, with the puzzle part inspired from a challenge from Cook Islands.At the Immunity Challenge, the Heroes finally won a challenge with a puzzle component. Back at camp, Russell told Rob that either Courtney or Sandra, both of whom were sitting right beside, had to go home next. Rob tried to convince Coach to vote for Russell by appealing to his respect for loyalty, and Coach gave him his word. Russell devised a plan to blindside Rob while talking with Coach, Danielle, and Jerri, and although Coach disagreed, he eventually stated that he was with them 100%. Coach was torn because he didn't want to betray his promise to either Rob or Russell. At the Villains' Tribal Council, the votes were cast; while Coach tried to sit in the middle by voting for Courtney, Jerri joined Russell's alliance thus eliminating Rob."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":8,"episode_summary":"At the Heroes campsite, J.T. went off looking for the Hidden Immunity Idol by himself in his own self-interest, even though the tribe had promised earlier to look for it together. Just after he found the idol, Amanda came across him before he could hide it, putting J.T. into a position in which he had to tell the whole tribe about the idol in order to sustain trust. Before the Reward Challenge, the Villains misinterpreted the day's tree mail as a hint to an impending merge. In response, they brought all of their camp equipment to the challenge, only to have Jeff announce that the tribes were not merging. After seeing Rob voted out, the Heroes assumed an all-girl alliance in control—the true power being with Danielle, Parvati, and Russell. \n\nReward challenge: The castaways would be compete in a bowling tournament. Each castaway would be matched against another castaway and given two rolls. The castaway who knocked down the most pins won the round for their tribe and scored one point. The first tribe to score three points won a feast of pizza, garlic bread, brownies, and drinks. Fauxconut Bowling challenge from Samoa.The Heroes continued their winning streak by defeating the Villains at the Reward Challenge. Feeling that they were on the outs with their tribe, Sandra plotted to trick Russell into believing that Coach was gunning for him, in order to save Courtney. Russell, who seemed immediately convinced, conspired with Parvati to vote out Coach, a move they hoped would further strengthen the misconception of an all-girl alliance. \n\nImmunity challenge: Competing in rounds, two castaways from each tribe would be belted together and would have to race across a mud pit and over obstacles to retrieve a flag to score a point for their tribe. The second round would be a one-on-one competition, while the third round would be back to two-on-two. The first tribe to score two points would win. Mud Slide challenge from Survivor: Guatemala.The Heroes extended their winning streak to four at the Immunity Challenge. Russell and Danielle had a heated discussion over whether they should vote out Coach or Courtney, with Russell ultimately voting for Courtney. At Tribal Council, Sandra and Courtney's plan came to fruition, and Coach became the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":9,"episode_summary":"At the reward challenge, the Heroes continued to believe there was a women's alliance on the Villains tribe due to the departure of Coach and silent signals that Russell made to J.T. \n\nReward challenge: The castaways would compete in an endurance contest in which castaways were ranked strongest to weakest in their tribes. These rankings would be used to determine the matchups between each tribe. Each castaway would stand on footholds. After ten minutes, the castaways would move to smaller footholds. After another ten minutes, they would move to the smallest footholds and stay there until the challenge was over. A castaway would score a point for their tribe by outlasting their opponent. The first tribe to score three points would win an all-you-can-eat feast courtesy of Outback Steakhouse. Chimney Sweep challenge from Fiji and Tocantins.The Villains would go on to win the Reward Challenge. During the feast, Parvati discovered a clue to another Hidden Immunity Idol tucked into her napkin at the dining table. Parvati secretly showed the clue to Danielle in order to strengthen her loyalty to Parvati versus Russell; they successfully found the idol the next morning and kept it secret from the rest of the tribe. Over at the Heroes camp, J.T. shared his plan to give Russell their tribe's Hidden Immunity Idol at the next Immunity Challenge in order to protect him from the next vote and gain his loyalty post-merger, hoping he would use it to eliminate Parvati; Amanda and Candice thought this would be a bad idea but would also keep the idol out of J.T.'s hands and agreed to it. \n\nImmunity challenge: One at a time, five castaways from each tribe would maneuver a bag of puzzle pieces attached to a rope through an obstacle course in the ocean. The first tribe to retrieve all five bags and assemble the puzzle (a totem pole) would win. Strung Out challenge from Vanuatu.At the Immunity Challenge, the Heroes dominated throughout and won the challenge. J.T., with Colby's help, successfully gave the idol, wrapped in a letter to explain his reasoning, to Russell during the post-challenge congratulations. Back at the Villains camp, Russell shared the letter and his possession of the idol with Parvati, Danielle, and Jerri, acknowledging the Heroes fell for the woman's alliance plan. Courtney, knowing she was likely to be voted out, attempted to pledge her loyalty to Parvati in an effort to stay in the game; Parvati lobbied her alliance to keep Courtney in the game, but they opted to eliminate her anyway, and Courtney was unanimously sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":10,"episode_summary":"The tree mail on day 25 announced the merge of the tribes, with the Villains moving to the Heroes campsite and enjoying the traditional feast, eventually naming themselves \"Yin Yang\" in keeping with the theme of \"good vs evil\". Russell, Parvati, and Danielle conspired to share the same false story to explain Parvati's survival of the previous Tribal Council; that both Russell and Parvati played opposing hidden immunity idols and voting out Courtney in the revote. Russell maintained the trust the Heroes had with him to eliminate the supposed Villains' \"woman's alliance\" through its leader, Parvati. However, Sandra was able to pull aside Rupert and explain the truth of the former Tribal Council; Rupert reported this to the other Heroes, and together they decided to test Russell's loyalty by informing him they were voting for Parvati while they would vote off someone else. Parvati secretly told Amanda about her Hidden Immunity Idol in order to get information on who the Heroes were going to vote out. \n\nImmunity challenge:  The castaways would hang onto a pole as long as they can. The last person left hanging without touching the ground would win. Get a Grip challenge from Vanuatu, Cook Islands, and Tocantins.The challenge came down to Danielle and Parvati but the latter agreed to step down, knowing she still had her Hidden Immunity Idol, giving Danielle the win. Following the challenge, Russell gave Parvati his Hidden Immunity Idol, believing her to be in trouble at the vote. The Heroes decided to make Jerri their target, believing the possibility of Parvati having an idol and would use it if she felt vulnerable. Amanda, following up on her previous conversation with Parvati, told Parvati she would be the target, but Parvati distrusted her statement.  At Tribal Council, the Heroes voted for Jerri and the Villains voted for J.T as planned.  Before the votes were read, Parvati surprised the whole tribe by giving a Hidden Immunity Idol to both Jerri and Sandra.  They both played the idols, negating the five votes cast against Jerri. J.T. was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Russell worked on getting Candice to join his alliance as he correctly thought Sandra would flip to the Heroes alliance. \n\nReward challenge: The castaways would be split into teams of three and would play a version of shuffleboard. Each castaway would be given two pucks which they would try to slide closest to the target. The team whose puck ends up closest to the target would win an overnight trip to the former home of Robert Louis Stevenson and a screening of the 1934 version of Treasure Island. Shoot 'n' Shuffle challenge originally from The Amazon also used in Vanuatu and Tocantins.The Reward Challenge was won by the team of Amanda, Colby, and Danielle. While on the reward, Danielle found a clue to a Hidden Immunity Idol in a bowl of popcorn.  Amanda grabbed the clue after Danielle tried to hide it.  The two women fought over who should have the clue until Colby intervened and said that Danielle should have it since she found it.  When the trio returned to camp the next day, Danielle related the story of the fight for the idol clue to her alliance and they set off to find it. Russell found the Hidden Immunity Idol without the girls noticing and hid his discovery from them.  In order to secure her loyalty, Russell showed the idol to Candice and told her that they would go to the final three together. Sandra discussed flipping to the Heroes alliance with Colby and Rupert in order to get rid of Russell.  Russell told Sandra that one of the Heroes had already flipped to the Villains alliance and warned her about flipping to Heroes alliance, foiling Sandra's plan of flipping to the Heroes.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would attempt to build a tower out of 150 wooden tiles to a height of 10 feet (3.0 m). The first castaway to finish building the tower to the required height wins immunity. House of Cards challenge from Gabon.The Immunity Challenge was won by Jerri.  Russell wanted to vote out Amanda and he told Candice to vote for Amanda, which she agreed to.  She then told Russell that the Heroes along with Sandra were planning to vote him out.  Russell confronted Sandra about what Candice told him, but Sandra denied any switch in alliances.  Sandra then confronted Candice about her telling Russell about the Heroes plan and that they had to stick to the plan in order to vote out Russell. The Heroes agreed to vote for Parvati in case Danielle or Russell played a Hidden Immunity Idol. At Tribal Council, Russell played his Hidden Immunity Idol, but no votes against him were cast.  Candice flipped to the Villains alliance and Sandra stuck with the Villains, resulting in Amanda being sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Back at camp after Tribal Council, Colby and Rupert were upset about Candice's flip to the Villains side, while Jerri was ready to vote her out now that her vote was no longer needed and was worried she would flip back to the Heroes side.  Rupert and Russell confronted each other in front of the entire tribe, which made Russell target Rupert for the next Tribal Council.  When the castaways arrived for the challenge, Jeff announced that they would be playing for immunity instead of reward.  After explaining the challenge, Jeff stated that there would be a twist at the end. \n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would stand on a perch, one arm above their head with their wrist tethered to a bucket of water on top of a platform. The castaway who could stand there the longest without tipping the bucket would win. During the challenge, Jeff would tempt the castaways to quit with offerings of cookies and milk; donuts and iced coffee; peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chips, candy, and milk. When It Rains, It Pours challenge from Africa, All-Stars and Micronesia.Just as she had done when she last played this challenge during Survivor: Micronesia, Parvati outlasted everybody to win Individual Immunity.  The twist was that Jeff read a clue to a Hidden Immunity Idol to the entire tribe.  When the castaways returned to camp, everybody went looking for the Hidden Immunity Idol.  Sandra found it and hid it from the others.  Rupert stuck a rock in his pocket to feign finding the idol.  Russell fell for the deception and his alliance plotted a way to get Rupert to play the idol by splitting the vote at the next Tribal Council.  Colby and Rupert knew that the Villains alliance would split their vote between Rupert, Colby or Candice, so they agreed to vote for Candice, hoping the Villains would pick her for the split.  At Tribal Council, the Villains ultimately chose Candice and split their votes between her and Rupert. According to plan, Rupert and Colby voted for Candice, sending her to the jury.\nWhen the tribe returned to camp, Russell criticized the girls in his alliance that they should have split their votes between Colby and Rupert instead of focusing on Candice.  \n\nImmunity challenge: In the first round, the castaways would dig up a wooden peg and then guide the peg through a table maze. The first five to finish would move on to the next round. In the second round, the castaways would use four pegs to climb a wall.  The first three to reach the top of the wall would move to the final round. The final round would be a sliding puzzle. The first castaway to finish their puzzle would win. Wall to Wall challenge from Panama.At the Immunity Challenge, Rupert, Sandra, Russell, Parvati, and Danielle moved on from the first round. Russell, Parvati, and Rupert moved on to the final round. Russell finished his puzzle first to win Individual Immunity.  Parvati wanted to vote out Rupert.  Russell was concerned that Parvati was more loyal to Danielle than Parvati was to Russell, so he decided to break them up by discussing voting out Parvati with Danielle and telling Parvati that Danielle wanted to vote her out when it came down to five or six remaining.  Danielle and Parvati discussed Russell's stories to them and they figured out that Russell was trying to break them up.  The two begged Jerri to vote for Rupert to foil Russell's plan.  Meanwhile, Russell decided to get Danielle out of the game so that Parvati would stay loyal to him by telling Colby and Rupert that Danielle needed to go out next.  Russell threatened Jerri to vote out Danielle by telling Jerri she would be voted out next if Danielle didn't go.  At Tribal Council, Danielle and Russell argued over what the other had said to each other. Danielle broke into tears and unintentionally revealed that Jerri was not included in the Final 3 alliance of herself, Parvati and Russell. Russell's plan came together when Jerri switched her vote and Danielle was sent to the jury, becoming the first villain voted out since the merge."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The tree mail on day 34 was a Sprint Palm Pre loaded with videos from family members (Parvati's dad, Mike; Jerri's sister, Jennifer; Russell's wife, Melanie; Colby's brother, Reed; Rupert's wife, Laura; and Sandra's uncle, Fernando) announcing that they had arrived on the island and were looking forward to reuniting with the castaways at the next challenge.  \n\nReward challenge: The castaways would use a bucket to scoop water from the ocean and then toss the water to their loved one who would use another bucket to catch the water.  The loved one would then pour the water into a bucket hanging from a see saw.  The first pair to fill their bucket with enough water to tip their see saw would win a plane trip with their loved one to see the Alofaaga Blowholes along with a meal of hamburgers, soft drinks, cookies, and donuts. Pass the Bucket challenge from Cook Islands.After emotional introductions to the castaway's loved ones, the challenge was won by the team of Jerri and her sister Jennifer.  After winning the challenge, Jeff told Jerri that she could pick another castaway and their loved one to go along with them.  Jerri chose Parvati and her father Mike.  Jerri then asked Jeff if she could take one more pair.  Jeff agreed and Jerri picked Sandra and her uncle.  Russell was angry that Jerri did not pick him and his wife to join them on the trip.  During the trip, Jerri voiced concern that Russell would seek revenge on her for not selecting him for the trip.  Parvati and Sandra said they would protect her from any retaliation and that Russell had to vote out either Colby or Rupert in order to stay in the game.  Back at camp, Russell was indeed plotting to seek revenge by making an agreement with Colby and Rupert to go to the final three with them.  Russell thought he could swing Jerri over to this new alliance and vote out Parvati if she did not win the next Immunity Challenge. During the night of day 35 after the three women returned from their reward, Rupert angered Jerri by making a racket while the rest of the tribe was trying to sleep and she wanted to vote him out next.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would hold two poles on the tops of their hands up against a board over their heads. Any movement in their hands would cause the poles to drop to the ground. If the castaway drops their poles, they would be eliminated from the challenge. The last person who does not drop their poles would win immunity. Keep It Up challenge from Gabon.Russell's new alliance's plan was spoiled when Parvati won the Immunity Challenge.  With his plan spoiled, Russell decided he had to flip back to his original girls alliance and vote out Rupert.  Sandra told Rupert that she wanted to vote out Russell.  Rupert told this to Russell, and Russell then confronted Sandra in front of Parvati asking if she was with him or against him.  Sandra replied that she was against him and then yelled out to Rupert about revealing her plan to Russell.  Russell scolded Parvati and Sandra about being dumb when they made fun of him and changed his mind yet again to vote out Sandra.  At Tribal Council, the argument between Russell and Sandra was discussed. Before reading the votes, Jeff stated that this is the last time the Hidden Immunity Idol could be played. Though Sandra thought she was safe going in and wouldn't need to play her Hidden Immunity Idol, she decided to play it since she had mixed feelings after the discussion.  The Heroes’ votes against Sandra were not counted.  The rest were all cast against Rupert and he was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Back at camp after Tribal Council, Russell was upset at Sandra's use of the Hidden Immunity Idol and accused Parvati and Sandra of lying to him about Sandra having a Hidden Immunity Idol.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would balance ceramic dishes on the end of a balancing arm.  As the challenge progresses, Jeff calls out different dishwares that the castaways would stack on the far end of the balance.  Should any part of a castaway's stack fall, that castaway would be out of the challenge.  The last castaway in the challenge would win. Offer It Up challenge from China.Parvati won the Immunity Challenge by outlasting Colby.  After returning from the challenge, Colby gave his \"surrender speech\" to the Villains and told them they should just enjoy the day and he would not scramble to stay in the game.  However, Colby made one final attempt to stay in the game by approaching Russell about voting out Sandra in an effort to defeat Parvati at the next Immunity Challenge.  At Tribal Council, the Villains voted out the last of the Heroes, unanimously sending Colby to the jury.\nThe final four received treemail announcing that they would take the traditional journey honoring the castaways voted out before heading to their final Immunity Challenge.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would have to navigate through a maze blindfolded.  The first castaway to retrieve four necklaces at stations within the maze and then find the immunity necklace at the end of the maze would win. Blind Maze challenge from The Amazon.Russell won the final Immunity Challenge by edging out Parvati and Jerri by mere inches.  After the challenge, Russell told Sandra that he was going to take her to the final three as he thought he could beat her at the final vote as she would get maybe only one vote.  Parvati disagreed and told Russell that getting rid of Sandra would be best as she would get votes from the jury.  At Tribal Council, Jerri was eliminated and became the final member of the jury.\nParvati, Russell, and Sandra celebrated with the traditional Day 39 breakfast. Unknowingly paying homage to something Russell once did, Sandra tossed Russell's hat into the camp fire in an attempt to throw him off his game at Tribal Council. The three burned down the camp and set off for the final Tribal Council. At the final Tribal Council, the jury questioned and lectured the final three on their strategic plays, their perceptions among the jury, what they would have done differently during the game, their loyalties, and how they played the game. The members of the jury made their dislike of Russell and his unlikelihood of receiving votes very clear; the other two finalists used this in their attempts to sway the jury. Parvati told the jury that she used Russell and \"kept him as her pet\" while Sandra said that she lobbied for Russell's removal since day one."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US20","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, Sandra was revealed as the season's winner after receiving votes from the five Heroes and Courtney, while Parvati placed second with Coach, Danielle, and Jerri's votes, and Russell placed third after not receiving any votes. The castaways discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The game started with the castaways split into two groups.  When they arrived at the beach, Jeff announced the Medallion of Power, though did not explain what the power was, and that it was hidden in a lagoon nearby.  The castaways scrambled to find it, with Brenda finding it up a tree.  When the castaways reassembled in front of Jeff, he announced that the groups they arrived in are not the tribes, but instead the tribes would be split by age, with the 40 and over castaways called Espada and the 30 and under castaways called La Flor. La Flor then traded the Medallion of Power to Espada in exchange for flint and fishing gear.  Once at the Espada camp, Jane started a fire with a pair of reading glasses.  At the La Flor campsite, Kelly B. showed her tribe her amputated leg, which made several of her tribemates cautious about a sympathy vote for her should she make it to the final Tribal Council.  Chase made an alliance with Shannon and then made another one with Brenda.  Alina and Kelly B. found a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol while picking up the tree mail.  They could not decipher the clue, but decided to keep the clue to themselves.\n\nImmunity Challenge:  One castaway would stand at the top of a tower and pour water down five gutters held by five castaways.  The water would fill a barrel, which would release a net of puzzle pieces when full.  The four remaining castaways would assemble the puzzle.  The first tribe to assemble their puzzle would win.\nMedallion Advantage: Starting the challenge with the barrel filled one-fifth of the way.At the Immunity Challenge, Jeff explained the power behind the Medallion of Power.  Espada decided to not use the Medallion and then lost the challenge.  Before heading to Tribal Council, the tribe debated between getting rid of Jimmy J. or Wendy Jo for being weak links. Holly was conflicted due to her pact with Wendy Jo. At Tribal Council, Wendy Jo made a short speech just before the vote in an effort to remain in the game.  The appeal worked against her and she seemed to confirm the tribe's decision to boot her. The votes were read and Wendy Jo was voted out unanimously."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At La Flor, Sash made an alliance with NaOnka and Brenda and talked about creating a \"minority alliance\".  NaOnka thought somebody stole her pair of socks out of her shoes while they were hanging up, so she took Fabio's spare socks and then had a short confrontation with him when he attempted to ask her about the socks.  Over at Espada, Holly snapped at Jill for eating snails which Holly thought were inedible.  Holly dumped the snails, which caused the rest of her tribe to question what had gone wrong with her.  Holly overheard Dan calling her \"crazy\" and decided to take revenge on him by dumping his $1,600 pair of alligator-skin shoes into the ocean.  After a while, she confessed to the tribe to dumping them into the sea.  Holly thought about quitting the game, but decided to keep going after receiving counseling from Jimmy J.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge:  One at a time, four tribe members would crawl in the mud under a net and then retrieve a ball from a stack of hay.  Once all four balls were retrieved, three tribe members would use small shields to bounce one ball at a time into a barrel.  The first tribe to have all four balls in the barrel would win a choice of a tarp and a rope or fishing gear.Medallion Advantage: Starting the challenge with one ball already in the barrel and having one tribe member sit out the challenge.At the Reward/Immunity Challenge, Espada used the Medallion of Power and ended up winning the challenge.  Espada chose to take the fishing gear for their reward.  While unwrapping the fishing gear, the tribe found a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol.  Jill figured out the last part of the clue and told Marty in a ploy to gain his trust.  Using the clue, the two found the Hidden Immunity Idol.  Before Tribal Council, La Flor seemed like they had an easy decision and NaOnka was to go because of her fiery personality. However, discussions turned to Brenda, who seemed like a bigger threat (due to her being seen with Chase). The tribe seemed divided with NaOnka, Brenda, Sash and Kelly S. on one side, and Shannon, Alina, Kelly B., Fabio and Benry on the other side. NaOnka and Brenda started to try to garner the votes to boot Shannon. Chase was conflicted due to his ties with both Shannon and Brenda. However, Brenda seemed to cast doubt on Chase's alliance with Shannon and it seemed like there would be a tie vote. At Tribal Council, Shannon was very aggressive in his answers during Jeff's questions resulting in a fiery Tribal Council discussion, even accusing Sash of being gay. The vote was taken and Shannon's aggressive answers and homophobic statements did not help his case. Kelly B. and Benry flipped their votes, and he was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":3,"episode_summary":"At Espada, Marty was getting more resentful of Jimmy J.'s position within the tribe.  Jill told Marty that he should show the tribe the Hidden Immunity Idol, so he did and announced that he was sharing it with the tribe to make them stronger post merger.  Over at La Flor, the alliance of Brenda, Chase, Kelly S., NaOnka, and Sash discussed voting out Alina.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The tribes would race out into a field to retrieve ten barrels.  Once all ten barrels were retrieved, the tribe would stack them on individual platforms arranged in a triangle formation.  One tribe member would then attempt to toss a sandbag onto the top of each barrel. The first tribe to have a sandbag on all ten barrels would win sauces, spices, fruit, and an herb garden.Medallion Advantage: Starting with two barrels on the platform with sandbags on top.At the combined Reward/Immunity Challenge, La Flor won the challenge without using the Medallion of Power.  When Kelly B. and NaOnka picked up the basket of fruit that was part of the reward, they both noticed a note tucked within the basket, but neither made a move toward it.  However, as soon as they reached their camp, the two tussled over the note in full view of their tribemates.  NaOnka won the tussle and walked off alone with the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol.  She wasn't able to decipher the clues and shared it with Brenda, who wasn't able to decipher it either.  Back at Espada's camp, Jimmy J. and Dan were on the chopping block. Marty lobbied hard to keep his ally Dan in the game and wanted Jimmy J. voted out. Jill and Jimmy T. quickly went along with Marty's plan, though Tyrone wanted to vote out Dan for being the weakest in challenges. In the end, Tyrone and the rest of the tribe chose to vote out the NFL Coach, sending Jimmy Johnson home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":4,"episode_summary":"At La Flor, Brenda and NaOnka found the Hidden Immunity Idol.  NaOnka kept the idol.  Alina and Kelly B. noticed that Brenda and NaOnka were searching for the idol and set off to find it themselves, not knowing that NaOnka already had it.  NaOnka overtly followed the two and then argued with Kelly B.  Over at Espada, the tribe tried to strategize and practice for the upcoming challenge with Marty nominating Tyrone to lead them as tribe caller.  As Marty predicted, this nomination did not go over well with Jimmy T. who asserted that he wanted to lead the tribe in a challenge.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One tribe member would act as a caller to guide three blindfolded pairs of tribemates to collect ten items scattered in a field and bring them to the tribe mat.  Once all ten items were collected, one pair would have to be guided to collect a set of keys and then to a locked chest.  The first tribe to unlock the chest and bring it to their tribe mat would win a choice of three items collected during the challenge such as a toolkit, a tarp, rope and a knife, fishing gear, a collapsible chair, and a grill.Medallion Advantage: Starting with two items already on the mat.At the combined Reward/Immunity Challenge, La Flor used the Medallion of Power advantage and easily won over Espada.  La Flor selected fishing gear, a tarp, and cooking supplies as their reward.  When they returned to camp, Chase found a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol in the tackle box, which he shared with Brenda.  Brenda told him that she and NaOnka had already found the idol and to keep that information to himself as she did not want to jeopardize the trust that she had established with NaOnka.  When Espada returned to their camp, Jimmy T. repeated his request to be given a shot at leading the tribe in a challenge.  He also called out Marty for not being a team player when the tribe went searching for food.  Marty then targeted Jimmy T. for elimination at Tribal Council.  At Tribal Council, Jimmy T. again repeated his plea to lead the tribe just once in a challenge, but he would not get the chance as the tribe voted him out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Marty and NaOnka thought they were in total control of their tribes, but Jeff spoiled their plans by telling the castaways to drop their buffs as there would be a tribal switch before the start of the Reward Challenge.  The castaways drew rocks for captains, with Brenda and Holly being selected.  Brenda was told to pick three members from the older tribe that would join the younger tribe and she picked Jane, Jill, and Marty.  Holly had to pick four members from the younger tribe to join the older tribe and she selected Alina, Benry, Chase, and NaOnka.  Jeff declared that the old-versus-young tribal dynamic was done, and so was the Medallion of Power.\n\nReward Challenge: Playing in rounds, two members from one tribe would roll balls along a board with various pegs that would impede the ball's progress.  Two members from the other tribe would attempt to catch the balls as they exited the bottom of the board.  If the two castaways fail to catch a ball, the other tribe would score a point and next round would be played.  The first tribe to score three points would win two hens and one rooster.The newly formed tribes went on to compete in the Reward Challenge and Espada took the win.  Back at Espada's camp, Tyrone told the new young tribe members how the camp worked, which did not sit well with Alina and NaOnka.  Holly tried to align herself with the younger group.  Over at La Flor, Jane told Brenda and Kelly B. to watch out for Marty and Jill's alliance.  Marty told the tribe that he had a Hidden Immunity Idol.  On day 13, an intense rain storm drove NaOnka to break down emotionally and she considered quitting, but Alina and Chase convinced her to stick it out.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Three members from each tribe would be strapped to a large wheel.  Three other tribe members would spin the wheel, which would cause one strapped in castaway at a time to be dunked head first into water.  While under water, the castaway would take water in the mouth, which they would then spit into a tube.  Once the tube was filled, a ball would be released.  The ball would be used by two other tribe members to break five tiles.  The first tribe to break all five tiles would win.The Immunity Challenge was won by La Flor when Fabio and Jane came from behind during the tile breaking stage.  Espada voted to kill one of the chickens before they head off to Tribal Council, so they killed one of the hens.  Tyrone didn't want to kill the chicken and he was perceived to have taken a larger share of the chicken.  The tribe considered voting out NaOnka for potentially quitting and Tyrone for being too bossy, but the vote went against Tyrone at Tribal Council and he was voted off."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":6,"episode_summary":"On day 15, Dan thought about quitting the game.  Yve asked Holly about why she wasn't told about the previous Tribal Council vote against Tyrone.  When Yve found out from Holly that Dan was thinking of quitting, Yve thought she could use that info to lobby the younger members of the Espada tribe in voting out Dan.  Over at La Flor, Brenda planned to flush out the Hidden Immunity Idol by splitting a 3–3 vote between Marty and Jill.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would use paddles to dig up three rope rings one at a time, tossed into a basket strapped to their lower backs, and returned to the start line.  The first tribe member to return all three rings to the start line would win.\nReward Challenge: The winners of the Immunity Challenge would compete against each other to toss three rope rings onto hooks on a board set a few feet away. The winner would receive a feast of chicken and beef kebabs to be eaten while listening to the other tribe's Tribal Council.When the tribes arrived for the Immunity Challenge, Jeff announced that they would not be playing for Tribal Immunity, but would be playing for Individual Immunity as both tribes would be going to Tribal Council that night.  Jeff then announced that the winners of the Individual Immunities would then compete in the Reward Challenge. Jill and Holly won Individual Immunity for La Flor and Espada, respectively; Jill then won reward for her tribe. Jill's immunity threw Brenda's plan into disarray and she came up with a new plan with Sash: to split the 3–3 vote between Marty and Kelly B., while telling Kelly B. that the vote would be split between Marty and Jane.  Marty worked on getting Fabio to join the older alliance by fabricating a story that he was a chess grandmaster and that as a child, he had beaten Guillermo Vilas, who actually played tennis and was not a chess grandmaster.  Sash told Fabio to vote for Marty, but Fabio had believed Marty's chess story and was conflicted about voting for Marty since he thought Marty was offering him an alliance and insight into his game.  At Espada, Yve continued her lobbying against Dan as being the weaker player in challenges and him thinking about quitting.  The younger members of the tribe were split between voting Dan or Yve as she was seen as the bigger threat within the game.  At La Flor's Tribal Council, the plan to flush the Hidden Immunity Idol did not work when Marty did not play it and the vote ended up being a tie 3–3–2 between Marty, Kelly B., and Brenda.  A second vote was taken with Marty and Kelly B. not voting and the others only voting for those two.  The vote swung against a very surprised Kelly B. and she was voted out.  The remaining La Flor members then moved to the side to enjoy their feast and observe Espada's Tribal Council.  Yve continued her lobbying against Dan, but she was unable to convince the tribe to vote against him and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":7,"episode_summary":"After Espada returned to their camp site, Chase, Holly, and NaOnka talked about voting out Alina ahead of the merge.  Over at La Flor, Marty was seething over Jane's flip to the younger group at Tribal Council and confronted her about it, but she neither confirmed or denied her vote.\n\nReward Challenge: One member from each tribe would act as a defender and stand on a small platform above a pool of water.  The opposing tribe members would leap off a platform on one end of the pool into the water and try to throw a ball into a net on the far end.  The defender would attempt to knock the ball away from the net.  A point would be scored for each ball successfully thrown into the net.  The first tribe to score five points would win a trip to a Nicaraguan farm for a horseback ride and breakfast.\nImmunity Challenge: Two members from each tribe would stand on top of a tower and roll cannonballs down a chute.  Four other members of the tribe would use ropes to guide the chute so that cannonball would break five tiles arranged in a field.  The first tribe to break all five tiles would win.Espada won back to back challenges by winning both the Reward and Immunity Challenges.  With the La Flor loss, the younger group had another opportunity to flush the Hidden Immunity Idol and they planned to split the vote 3–2 between Marty and Jill.  If Marty played the Idol, the vote would be tied between Jill and whomever the Marty/Jill alliance would vote for and the younger group would then vote out Jill.  Meanwhile, Sash came up with the plan to tell Marty that he would be safe at the next Tribal Council if he gave up the Hidden Immunity Idol.  Sash sweetened the deal by telling Marty that if La Flor lost the next Immunity Challenge, Sash would return the Hidden Immunity Idol.  Marty decided to give the Idol to Sash instead of playing it at Tribal Council hoping to stay in the game and make it to the Tribal Merge.  At Tribal Council, the younger tribe kept their word about keeping Marty and Jill was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Marty was ecstatic that the tree mail on day 19 announced the tribal merge and a move to the Espada camp site.  Before La Flor arrived, Alina lobbied for the six Espada members to stick together to the final six, but there was little enthusiasm for such an alliance.  Marty named the new tribe 'Libertad', the Spanish word for freedom.  After the merge, Brenda and NaOnka reestablished their alliance made before the tribal switch and told each other what had happened at each tribe.  On day 20, NaOnka made breakfast, but got angry when she ate last and got the smallest share.  Her anger prompted her to steal food and supplies which she hid in the jungle.  NaOnka shared her stolen items with Alina and told Alina that she was being targeted by the tribe.  When other members of the tribe noticed that items were missing, Holly said that she saw NaOnka take the flour jar and put in her bag.  NaOnka vehemently denied that she took the flour, claiming that she put it back, but did not explain why the flour was in her bag.  Eventually, NaOnka confessed to stealing the food after Alina and Chase convinced her that if she confessed, it would be better than continuing to lie. Even then, she tried to convince them that she stole it for the benefit of the tribe, and so that they wouldn't greedily eat all of it too soon. But most of the others, most prominently Marty, refused to believe this story and knew that she stole the food for her own benefit. The alliance of Brenda, Chase, Jane, and Sash decided to protect NaOnka by distancing themselves from her.  Sash admitted that it would be better strategically to bring NaOnka to the finale at this point because of her actions, as obviously, no one would vote for her to win, which would greatly benefit whoever else was in the finale with her.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would use two metal handles to hold a metal bar in tension above a tile.  The last man and woman to keep tension on the bar and keep it from breaking the tile would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Jane stayed in the challenge to continue to compete against the men even though she had already won the women's side of the challenge.  Fabio outlasted Chase to win the men's side.  Jane told the rest of the women that she stayed in the challenge to show up Marty.  The tribe was split between voting for Marty or Alina.  Sash asked his alliance to keep Marty around for one more Tribal Council so that he could keep his word on the deal that he made with Marty to give up the Hidden Immunity Idol.  At Tribal Council, Marty was very vocal that Jane was the biggest threat to win the game, even going so far as announcing that should Jane reach the Final Tribal Council that he would vote for her.  The votes were cast and after the tally, Alina became the first jury member."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":9,"episode_summary":"The day after Tribal Council, Marty continued his plotting against Jane by proposing a plan to Benry and Dan to feign a vote against NaOnka to Chase and Holly, but really vote for Jane.  Marty said that this would flush out NaOnka's Hidden Immunity Idol and blindside Jane.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribe would be randomly split into two teams.  The teams would run an obstacle course of a hay stack, a rope crawl, a reed blocked pathway, a net crawl, and a brick wall.  Along the way of the course would be three stations where a key is suspended in the air on a metal spring.  The team would have to work together to reach the key and free it from the spring.  The first team to collect all three keys and unlock their team's flag would win a tour of the jungle canopy with zip-lining and a barbecue feast.At the Reward Challenge, the random draw for teams turned out to be men versus women. Since there were eleven castaways, Chase was the odd man out and did not participate.  However, he could select the team he thought would win, and if they won, he would join them on the reward.  He selected the women, but this turned out to be a poor choice when the men won the challenge.  On the reward, Marty continued his lobbying for his plan to vote out Jane.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would test their memory by having to memorize a series of symbols shown by Jeff.  The castaways would have to show back the symbols in order.  If they showed the wrong symbol, they would be out of the challenge.  The last castaway to show all of the correct symbols would win.The Immunity Challenge was won by Brenda.  Back at camp, Marty put his plan into motion by telling Chase that the men were voting for NaOnka.  Chase told Holly that he thought the guys were trying to blindside Jane and he was voting for Marty.  Marty told Brenda that the plan to flush the idol and blindside Jane was Sash's idea.  Brenda and Sash talked over their swing votes by either joining the Marty or Jane blocs.  At Tribal Council, the discussion became heated when NaOnka made an expletive-filled rant towards Marty and Fabio, culminating with NaOnka giving Marty the finger.  Marty's plan to flush the idol failed when NaOnka did not feel threatened enough to play her idol.  When the time to vote came, Brenda and Sash decided to join the bloc voting against Marty and he was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After Brenda and Sash tipped their alliances at the last Tribal Council, Holly decided that she had to make a move in the game and get either Brenda or Sash voted out next. She then recruited Jane, Benry, and NaOnka into voting for Brenda.  She talked to Chase about voting for Brenda, but he was more concerned about Benry being a bigger threat. Holly left Kelly S. out of the plan believing that she wouldn't switch because she was riding Brenda's coattail. A rain storm came and the tribe moved their three wooden chests around the fire in order to protect it before they headed off to the challenge.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribe would be split into two teams by school yard pick.  The teams would be given four barrels, two wood planks, and 10 feet (3.0 m) of rope that they would use to cross the beach without stepping on the sand.  If any team member steps onto the sand, the entire team would have to restart from the beginning.  The first team to reach the finish line would win a helicopter trip to the Cerro Negro volcano with volcano surfing and pizza, brownies, and soft drinks.At the Reward Challenge, the team of Chase, Fabio, Jane, Kelly S., and NaOnka cruised to victory.  While on their reward, NaOnka took Fabio aside and filled him in on the plan to vote out Brenda. Kelly S. looked on in surprise and questioned their actions to Chase but he didn't fill her in on the blindside against Brenda. When the losing team returned to camp, they discovered that the three chests had caught fire and burned down, taking with it their machetes and almost all of the tribe's food. After the winning team returned to camp, Chase told Brenda the entire plan to vote her out, but Brenda shrugged it off. Chase again lobbied to vote out Benry to NaOnka, but NaOnka would not budge and she then told Benry, Jane, and Holly that Chase could not be trusted, since he had told Brenda about their plan.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would stand on small platforms and hang on to a rope while leaning backwards over a pool of water.  The rope would have knots tied along its length.  In five-minute intervals, the castaways would have to move further down the rope to the next knot, increasing the angle at which they were hanging over the water.  The last castaway to hang onto the rope would win.At the Immunity Challenge, after a showdown between Jane and Chase, Jane claimed victory; and afterwards, Chase once again lobbied to vote out Benry, but this time to Sash.  NaOnka told Sash about the plan to vote out Brenda and he was then torn between giving the Hidden Immunity Idol to Brenda or letting the plan go through.  At Tribal Council, Brenda called out NaOnka for splitting up the original alliance, while NaOnka tried to deflect the blame onto Chase. Sash and Kelly S. said they both felt it was the first time they had been left out of the loop. Brenda defiantly refused to scramble to stay in the game, leaving it up to her trust in her alliance to keep her in the game.  However, it was not to be and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":11,"episode_summary":"A recap of the first 27 days including previously un-aired bonus footage."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":12,"episode_summary":"When the tribe returned from camp after Tribal Council, Kelly S. felt left out of her alliance as she did not know that the vote was going against Brenda. NaOnka felt that Brenda had \"thrown her under the bus\". Holly told NaOnka that she trusted her more now that she had told her about Brenda's plans. Chase thought that the core alliance was himself, Holly, Jane, and NaOnka. On Day 28, the rain returned with a vengeance and made camp life miserable. NaOnka and Kelly S. had doubts that they could continue in the game, as they were both exhausted by the conditions of the weather. NaOnka gave her Hidden Immunity Idol to Chase, and with NaOnka thinking about quitting, the alliance of Chase, Holly and Jane brought in Sash, but he preferred that NaOnka and Kelly S. stayed in the game and considered joining Benry, Dan, and Fabio in an alliance.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribe would be divided into two teams by school yard pick.  The teams would be tethered together and would untie from a table an 8-foot (2.4 m) stuffed dummy named \"Gulliver\" after the novel Gulliver's Travels.  The teams would then carry the dummy through a series of obstacles.  The first team to cross the finish line would win a viewing of the upcoming film of the titular novel, hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, candy, and drinks.At the Reward Challenge, Dan was left out of the challenge from the school yard pick. He decided to back the team of Benry, Chase, Holly, and NaOnka, which meant he would join them if they won the challenge. The choice turned out to be a good one as the four won the closely fought challenge. As soon as the challenge ended, NaOnka announced that she wanted to quit the game. A stunned Jeff asked if anybody else wanted to quit and Kelly S. said that she did. Jeff told the two women that they should think about if they really wanted to quit and that the tribe would meet at Tribal Council that night to sort out the matter. Jeff then offered a tarp and a can of rice to replace the ones lost in the camp fire if one of the winning team members would forgo their reward, to which Holly stepped up and volunteered. Benry tried to make NaOnka step up and volunteer since she had wanted to quit, but NaOnka remained silent. Benry, Chase, Dan, and NaOnka went off to their reward. During the reward, NaOnka gave her hidden immunity idol to Chase because she wanted to quit. Back at camp, Holly tried to convince Kelly S. to stay in the game. Later that night, the five who didn't go on the reward arrived at Tribal Council followed a short time later by the four who did and the members of the jury. Jeff and the tribe discussed what it took to keep the desire to stay in the game and why NaOnka and Kelly S. were considering to quit. Jeff then asked NaOnka if she did want to quit and she replied that she did. Kelly S. was asked the same question and she also stated she wanted to quit. Jeff asked the two women what should happen to their torches. They asked for them to be snuffed as per usual practice, which Jeff agreed to, but then said that the snuffed torches would remain in the Tribal Council area as a reminder to the two women that while they served on the jury, they had quit the game instead of getting voted out. Their torches were then snuffed (and laid down) and the two left Tribal Council and became members of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":13,"episode_summary":"With NaOnka and Kelly S. quitting, Sash knew that he was the fourth man between the two three-person alliances of Chase/Holly/Jane and Benry/Dan/Fabio.  Sash told Benry, Chase, and Fabio that he would play his Hidden Immunity Idol at the next Tribal Council so that he would no longer be seen as a threat and to get the two alliances to see him as a swing vote.  Chase told Sash that he would take him all the way to the end and that he would take Sash on the next reward along with Holly, since she had given up her last reward.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would be given a second chance against previous challenges.  The castaways would crawl in the mud under a net and then retrieve a ball from a stack of hay.  The ball would then have to be bounced off a shield on the ground and into a barrel.  The first four castaways to get their ball into the barrel would advance to the next round.  In the second round, the four castaways would use a stick to retrieve a key suspended above on a metal spring.  The key would unlock a chest that contains four sandbags.  The first two castaways to toss all four of their sandbags on top of a barrel would advance to the final round.  In the final round, the two castaways would use a paddle to dig up three rope rings.  The first castaway to toss all three rope rings onto hooks on a board set a few feet away would win an overnight trip to a private resort, which included a shower, massages and a meal.At the Reward Challenge, Chase, Jane, Benry, and Holly advanced to the second round.  Chase and Benry then advanced to the final round, which was won by Chase.  To join him on the reward, Chase selected Holly and Jane, reneging on his promise to Sash.  While Chase and the women were on their reward, Sash talked to the remaining three guys about joining their alliance, but Dan and Benry were leery about Sash's true alliances and did not trust him.  On the reward, Chase realized that he made a major mistake by not taking Sash on the reward and that he would have to regain Sash's trust.  In order to do so, Chase and Holly came up with a plan to tell Sash that the two would vote out Jane and take Sash to the final three.  Chase also told Benry that Jane would not make it to the final three, to which Benry said that was fine and he was willing to vote out Fabio.  Chase and Holly told Sash that leaving him behind was really a sign of trust in him, since they figured that he was loyal to them and that it would be safe to leave him alone with the Benry/Dan/Fabio alliance.  Sash told Chase and Holly that Benry was lying about being willing to vote for Fabio.  When Benry joined the conversation, the three told him that the next target was Fabio.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would be attached to a rope on a hitching rail and would have to maneuver over and under the rail to unspool the rope from the rail.  When the castaway thinks that there is enough rope unspooled, they would race across a field to retrieve a bag of gold coins.  If they had not unspooled enough rope to reach the bag, they would have to return to the hitching rail and unspool more rope.  The first three castaways to retrieve the bag would advance to the final round.  In the final round, the gold coins would have to be assembled in a puzzle in the shape of a chest.  The first castaway to complete the puzzle would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Fabio, Benry, and Sash advanced to the final round where Sash solved the puzzle ahead of the other two.  After the challenge, Benry, Chase, Dan, and Sash agreed to tell Fabio that the vote would go against Holly, though they would really vote for Fabio.  However, in reality, Sash decided to align himself with the Chase/Holly/Jane alliance and vote out Benry.  At Tribal Council, the alliance of Chase, Holly, Jane, and Sash put their plan into motion and voted against Benry, who was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: The castaways would run up a ramp and into a pool to retrieve two bags of letter puzzle pieces.  Their loved ones would then use the pieces to solve a word puzzle.  The first loved one to solve the puzzle would win a trip on a sailboat along the Nicaraguan coast with food and drinks with the winning castaway's loved one.Day 33's tree mail contained a Sprint HTC Evo 4G with videos from the castaways' loved ones: Chase's mom, Connie; Fabio's mom, Ann; Sash's mom, Lea; Dan's son Matthew; Jane's daughter, Ashley and Holly's then-husband and then-South Dakota House of Representatives member Charlie. Fabio and Chase agreed that if one of them were to win the Reward Challenge, they would take the other on the reward along with Sash.  At the Reward Challenge, Jeff introduced the castaway's loved ones.  The team of Chase and his mother won the challenge.  Chase then selected Sash and his mother and Holly and her husband to join in the challenge, reneging on his promise to Fabio.  Dan, Fabio, and Jane were very upset at Chase's choices.  While on their reward, Chase, Holly, and Sash agreed that they would go to the final three together and that their top priority at this point is to get Fabio voted out.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Blindfolded and connected to a rope, the castaways would go over and under three hitching posts to a station where there would be a shield with various symbols on it.  Using only their sense of touch, the castaways would memorize the symbols and take the three bags of the symbols back to the start line.  There, the castaways would have to replicate the symbols from the shield on to a second shield. Making things more difficult, the bags also contain extra pieces which do not fit on the shield.  The first castaway to have all the correct symbols would win.However, Fabio went on to win the Immunity Challenge the next day, which ruined their plan.  Fabio told Chase that Jane had to go, but Chase was conflicted about the choice between Dan or Jane.  Holly approached Sash and Chase and confirmed that Dan was also on board with voting off Jane. The three of them finally decided that this was the only choice left. Then Jane joined them and asked if her alliance of four with them were still strong.  When the three hesitated in answering her and then finally admitting that they were discussing voting for her, Jane knew that her alliance had turned on her, and proceeded to unleash a tirade against everyone. She flipped them off immediately when she learned of their betrayal, avoided everybody else at camp for the rest of the day, and even dumped a bucket of water on the camp fire shortly before Tribal Council, stating that since she started it, she was going to put it out.  At Tribal Council, Dan told Jeff and the Jury of Jane's recent actions. Jane stated that she was going to be voted out.  After some digging by Jeff, the alliance of three stated that the next castaway voted out after Jane would be Fabio or Dan.  Jeff then asked why Dan, Fabio, and Jane did not form an alliance and vote against Holly to force a tie with Fabio being immune due to his Individual Immunity and Chase and Sash having their Hidden Immunity Idols.  The votes were cast and Chase and Sash played their idols since this Tribal Council would be their last opportunity.  Jeff's suggested alliance did not form and everybody voted for Jane.  Jane's sole vote against Sash was discounted and she became a member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Immunity Challenge: The castaways would race out to a station where a question about Nicaragua is posted.  The castaway would have to select from one of two possible answers where a bag would be tied underneath.  They would then return to the start line with the bag.  If the castaway chooses the correct answer, the bag would contain puzzle pieces.  If not, the puzzle pieces would be blank and they would have to return to the station and pick up the correct bag.  This would be repeated for two additional questions until the castaway has three bags of puzzle pieces at which time they would assemble the puzzle.  The first castaway to solve the puzzle would win.Knowing that he was odd man out in the alliance of Chase/Holly/Sash, Fabio worked on breaking up the alliance.  At the Immunity Challenge, while Fabio fell behind due to a missed answer on the second question, he quickly caught up to Chase, Holly, and Sash during the puzzle assembly stage and picked up the win.  Fabio talked to Chase and Sash about voting out Holly before Dan using the argument that Holly was a bigger threat than Dan for jury votes.  At Tribal Council, Dan lobbied to keeping him around because nobody would give him a million dollars and that Holly was a threat to win.  However, his lobbying went for naught when he was voted out.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would balance a sword with one hand by its tip on a shield on the ground.  The castaways would then stack coins on top of the sword handle as directed by Jeff.  Should any of the coins fall off of the sword, the castaway would be out of the challenge.  The last castaway standing would win.On day 38, the final four received tree mail telling them to take the traditional journey honoring the castaways voted out before heading to their final Immunity Challenge.  At the challenge, Fabio outlasted Sash to take the final Individual Immunity.  The win forced the Chase/Holly/Sash alliance to turn on one of their own.  All three talked to Fabio about taking them to the Final Three.  Sash told Fabio that if Fabio had not won immunity then Sash would have taken Chase and Fabio to the Final Three, but Fabio thought Sash might be lying.  When Fabio asked Chase about the alliance's plans should Fabio lose immunity, he told him that the plan was always to vote out Fabio and that he would have stuck to the plan.  Holly told Fabio that Sash was the biggest threat for jury votes and that she would have stuck to the alliance's plans to vote him out.  At Tribal Council, the alliance of three continued their pitch to Fabio to keep them in the game.  Ultimately, Fabio saw Holly as his biggest threat, and she was sent home.\nChase, Fabio, and Sash woke up on day 39 and enjoyed the traditional breakfast.  Before heading off to the final Tribal Council, the trio burned their camp site.  At the final Tribal Council, Chase focused on being open with the jury about how he played the game.  Fabio told the jury that he was always open with everybody, had not back stabbed anybody, and had earned his spot in the Final Three.  Sash emphasized that he was remorseful about the alliances that he had broken but that the friendships he made were important to him.  Chase was mocked by several members of the jury for his rash decisions. Chase and Sash charged Fabio with never knowing what was going on."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US21","episode":16,"episode_summary":"Months later, the votes were revealed as they were cast, Fabio won the title of Sole Survivor over Chase and Sash in a 5–4–0 vote. The castaways return to discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":1,"episode_summary":"Sixteen castaways split into two tribes, Ometepe and Zapatera, arrived on the beach on board a Mil Mi-17 from the Nicaraguan Air Force. After Jeff welcomed the group to the game, he announced that two additional players would be joining them, in which Rob and Russell then arrived in a second helicopter. Jeff went over the two's history in the game and then the two drew for tribes. Rob drew the orange Ometepe tribe buff, while Russell drew the purple Zapatera tribe buff. Jeff then announced the new twist of Survivor, which was Redemption Island. At Ometepe, Rob caught Kristina looking for a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol. Rob then talked to Phillip about keeping an eye out for a woman's alliance on the tribe, since the women outnumbered the men 5–4. However, Phillip was uneasy with the idea and approached Kristina about forming an alliance and siding with the women. Over at Zapatera, Russell made his usual early game move and made an alliance with Stephanie, and talked about taking her to the merge. On Day 3, Kristina went on a hunt for the Hidden Immunity Idol by herself without any clues and actually managed to find it.  Francesca, Kristina, and Phillip then formed an alliance, but Phillip annoyed the women with his aggressive questioning about whom to vote off at Tribal Council.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The tribes would push four blocks along a track which would form a set of stairs to the first level of a temple. The tribe would race to the first level where one tribe member would cut a series of ropes which would release a second set of stairs to the top level of the temple. The tribe would then race to the top level of the temple where there would be a block puzzle. The first tribe to complete their puzzle would win flint and immunity.The first combined Immunity/Reward Challenge was won by Zapatera, when Ometepe fell behind early. They managed to catch up, but at the puzzle part of the challenge they fell behind and lost. After the challenge, Kristina told Francesca and Phillip that she had the Hidden Immunity Idol, and she told Francesca of her plan to blindside Rob by getting the other three Ometepe women to vote for Kristina, while their three person alliance votes for Rob. Francesca was concerned that it was too early to vote out Rob, and that they did not have the numbers to stay in the game long-term. Francesca also wanted to vote out Natalie, as she was seen as the weakest link of the tribe. Rob told the other Ometepe members (Andrea, Ashley, Grant, Matt, and Natalie), that he was concerned that the Francesca/Kristina/Phillip alliance may have already found a Hidden Immunity Idol and they should split their vote between Francesca and Kristina.\nAt Tribal Council, the Francesca/Kristina/Phillip alliance imploded when Francesca openly said that Rob would not be voted out. This enraged Phillip, who immediately responded and said that Francesca told him to vote for Rob. This angered both Francesca and Kristina, and they decided to change their votes to Phillip, both vehemently denied that they were planning to vote out Rob. Phillip openly voiced that he would be voting for Francesca and announced that Kristina had the Hidden Immunity Idol, shocking everyone else on the tribe and silently infuriating Francesca and Kristina. Kristina admitted that she did have the Idol, but she, along with Francesca, still denied that their plan was to vote out Rob, but instead she would be voting for Natalie, even though she did tell Phillip that she was voting for Rob. Jeff asked Rob whose story he believed. Rob said that, while Phillip was adamant in defending his story, Francesca denied it with equal energy. However, Kristina did not defend herself. Rob asked Kristina to show him the Idol just to confirm that she had it. Upon seeing it, he asked her to give him the Idol, declaring that she would stay in the game if she handed it over and that doing so would show that Kristina was telling the truth, but Kristina said she could not hand it over. When the voting came, the alliance of six kept to their plan and split their votes between Francesca and Kristina. With Phillip's flip to the majority, Francesca was voted out and became the first castaway to go to Redemption Island. After Francesca left for Redemption Island, Jeff said that there would be a flint at Ometepe's campsite."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":2,"episode_summary":"After Ometepe returned to camp from Tribal Council, Phillip felt betrayed by Francesca and swore his loyalty to Rob, while Rob plotted with his alliance to vote out Phillip next. Rob was concerned about the growing connection between Andrea and Matt. Over at Zapatera, Russell added Krista to his alliance with Stephanie. Russell then went on his typical Hidden Immunity Idol hunt, but was beaten to it by Ralph who happened to stumble upon the idol while picking up rocks.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One at a time, a castaway would swim across a pool, climb up a tower, and then jump off the tower to smash a tile. The smashed tile would release a key which the castaway would retrieve. Once five keys were retrieved, one castaway would use the keys to unlock a box that contained a ball. Two castaways would then toss the ball to break five tiles. The first tribe to break all five tiles would win fishing gear and immunity.Zapatera came from behind to win their second challenge in a row. After Zapatera had won, Matt shook the hands of several of the Zapatera tribe members, which angered Rob. Russell picked up Zapatera's reward as he knew there would be a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol within it. He tried to take the clue without anybody noticing, but Ralph did and told the rest of the tribe. Mike and Ralph confronted Russell about the clue, but Russell denied that he had it even though he had already shown it to his alliance. Rob came up with a plan with Ashley, Grant, and Natalie to vote against Matt, but to tell Matt and Andrea that they were splitting the vote between Kristina and Phillip. Rob took Phillip aside and told him that something big was happening at Tribal Council, that he needed to not say anything about the plan at Tribal Council, and that Rob would signal to Phillip whom Rob wanted Phillip to vote for. At Tribal Council, Phillip kept quiet about the plan and voted per Rob's signal against Kristina. Kristina played the Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Phillip and Andrea's votes against her, but Rob's plan came together and Matt was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":3,"episode_summary":"When Matt arrived at Redemption Island, Francesca was shocked to see someone from Rob's alliance. After Ometepe returned from Tribal Council, Rob told Phillip that he was in his alliance with Grant, Ashley and Natalie and that Andrea or Kristina would be voted out next. The next day, the tribes received Tree Mail instructing them to draw marbles to see who would witness the duel on Redemption Island. Zapatera sent over David and Steve, while Ometepe sent over Ashley and Andrea.\n\nRedemption Island Duel: The two castaways would use rope to tie together sticks in order to make a pole to retrieve three keys. The first castaway to retrieve all three keys and unlock three locks would win.The duel was won by Matt in a come from behind victory, sending Francesca home. Back at Ometepe, Rob talked to Andrea and tried to reassure her that she was still part of his alliance, but Andrea did not believe him and wanted to find a way to mix things up in the future. Over at Zapatera, Russell's alliance could not find the Hidden Immunity Idol, so they decided to feign like they did have one by having Stephanie constantly carry around her bag, giving the impression that an idol was in her purse. David, Mike, Ralph, Sarita, and Steve all agreed to lose the next challenge on purpose in order to vote out Russell. Julie was reluctant about this plan, as she did not want to give any momentum to Ometepe and she thought she could handle Russell.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Three members from each tribe would be strapped to a large wheel. Three other tribe members would spin the wheel, which would cause one strapped in castaway at a time to be dunked head first into water. While under water, the castaway would take water in the mouth, which they would then spit into a tube. Once the tube was filled, a ball would be released. One tribe member would then solve a slide puzzle. The first tribe to have their puzzle solved would win two chairs, two pillows, tarp, three blankets, a lantern, and immunity.At the Reward/Immunity Challenge, the group of six went through with deliberately losing the challenge, despite Julie's hesitance. Back at Ometepe, Rob found the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol hidden within the reward. At Zapatera, the group of six decided to split their votes between Russell and Stephanie. Russell suspected that the six did throw the challenge and, together with Stephanie, tried to get Julie to flip to Russell's alliance and to vote against Ralph. At Tribal Council, the division between the majority and Russell's alliance was discussed. When it came time for the vote, Julie stuck with the majority and the vote was tied 3–3–3 between Ralph, Russell, and Stephanie. On the re-vote, Russell was voted out and was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":4,"episode_summary":"On day 9, with Krista and Stephanie away from camp, Ralph decided to show the Hidden Immunity Idol to the rest of the Zapatera tribe. On day 10, the tribes were told to select who would witness the next Redemption Island Duel either by mutual agreement or random draw. Ometepe agreed that Kristina and Phillip could go, while Zapatera agreed upon Ralph and Sarita.\n\nRedemption Island Duel: The two castaways would stack wooden blocks like a line of domino tiles while avoiding ropes that would topple the tiles that were already stacked. Once all of the blocks were properly stacked, the castaway would start a chain reaction which would release a ball that would smash a tile. The first castaway to break their tile would win.The duel was won by Matt for the second time in a row. After the loss, Russell was very emotional, but he regained his composure and let loose on his former tribe by getting Ralph to say that he had a Hidden Immunity Idol and telling Kristina and Phillip that Sarita, Mike, and Steve were in charge of their tribe. While Kristina and Phillip were off at the Redemption Island, Rob came up with a ruse to distract the rest of the tribe so that he could search for the Hidden Immunity Idol. The ruse worked and Rob had the time to successfully find the idol. When Kristina and Phillip returned to camp, Phillip thought he could use Russell's information about Zapatera's alliances and the Hidden Immunity Idol as leverage against Rob and Grant to allow Kristina to remain in the game. However, the ploy failed as Rob and Grant distrusted Phillip even more after his revelation.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge:  The tribes would send out one tribe member at a time to complete tasks involving tools. At the first station, a crowbar would be used to open a crate that contained a shovel. At the second station, the shovel would be used to dig up a hatchet. At the third station, the hatchet would be used to chop through a log that would release two saws. At the fourth station, two tribe members would use the saws to saw through a wall to make planks. At the fifth station, two tribe members would use the planks to complete a ramp. Finally, the entire tribe would ascend the ramp, one tribe member would untie a hammer and then use it to hammer in three nails that would break three tiles. The first tribe to break all three tiles and place their tools atop the board would win a BBQ set, steak, sausage, bread, vegetables, condiments, and immunity.At the Reward/Immunity Challenge, Zapatera went on to win their third challenge. Back at Ometepe's camp, Kristina tried to hint that there was a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol within Ometepe's reward and that Grant and Rob may have already found it. Rob kept the knowledge of the idol from his alliance and got Andrea, Ashley, Grant, and Natalie to think that Kristina might have the idol and to split the vote between Kristina and Phillip, favoring Kristina to be voted out. However, Grant and the girls were leaning towards voting out Phillip as he was getting on their last nerves. When Phillip asked Rob whom he should vote for at Tribal Rob told him Kristina, Phillip thought Rob went back on his word about keeping Kristina in the game and decided that he needed to make a move at Tribal Council to keep himself in the game. At Tribal Council, Kristina and Phillip lobbied for the other to be voted out. When the vote came, Rob's plan held and Kristina was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":5,"episode_summary":"When Ometepe returned from Tribal Council, Phillip was upset that he was the odd man out in Rob's alliance. Phillip decided to try to make a better connection with the women of his tribe, but only made progress with Andrea.\n\nRedemption Island Duel: The two castaways would race to retrieve puzzle pieces and then assemble them into a cube. The first castaway to assemble the cube would win.Krista and Stephanie from Zapatera and Grant and Rob from Ometepe witnessed Matt win his third Redemption Island Duel by defeating Kristina. After the Duel, Matt told Grant and Rob that he wanted to go to the final three with them and that he hoped he would rejoin Ometepe. Krista and Stephanie made it clear that they had no loyalties to the Zapatera tribe and they would be willing to join an alliance with Ometepe after the merge.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One castaway from each tribe would be a caller to navigate their blindfolded tribe members through a maze to collect four bags of puzzle pieces. Once all four bags were collected, the caller would use the pieces to solve a word puzzle. The first caller to solve the puzzle would win for their tribe coffee, tea, creamer, sugar, honey, pastries, donuts, and immunity.At the Reward/Immunity Challenge, Stephanie was the caller for Zapatera (at Sarita's urging) and Rob was the caller for Ometepe. In a close battle, Rob came through to win the challenge for Ometepe. While enjoying their reward, Grant and Rob noticed a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol within the jar of coffee and worked together to get the clue and conceal it from the rest of the tribe.  Rob took the clue from Grant, but then switched it with the first clue that he had, leaving Grant none the wiser. Back at Zapatera, Sarita argued with the rest of her alliance over her picking Stephanie to be the caller when several of her alliance members thought David would have been better. Going into Tribal Council, the alliance of six knew that they would be voting out either Krista or Stephanie. Krista tried to stir things up between the alliance of six by pointing out sub-alliances within the six, but the alliance did not break and she was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":6,"episode_summary":"On day 14, Steve was surprised that Krista and Stephanie had voted for him at the previous Tribal Council. When Steve asked Stephanie why they voted for him, she said that they voted for the weakest competitor.\n\nRedemption Island Duel: The two castaways would use a grappling hook to retrieve three bags that hold a ball. The castaways would then use one of the balls to work a labyrinth. The first castaway to finish the labyrinth would win.At Redemption Island, Krista received her luxury item, a Bible, much to the delight of Matt. At the Duel, Matt won his fourth in a row, witnessed by Andrea, Natalie, Julie and Mike. Before Krista departed, she handed over the Bible to Matt, which made Andrea question how much he had bonded with Krista during their time at Redemption Island and speculated that he could be a danger in the future. The next day at Zapatera, Sarita began to irritate her tribe with an issue regarding her tooth. David told Stephanie that in order to remain in the game, she had to try to break up the alliance and get them to vote for Sarita. Stephanie then apologized to Steve after her vote at Tribal Council and that she really wanted to vote for Sarita as she was the weakest tribe member, but he was unsure about her motives. Over at Ometepe, Phillip confronted Ashley and Natalie about what he felt was their lax attitude around the camp. Rob saw the confrontation was a possible fracture among the tribe that would weaken them overall, so he took Phillip aside to attempt to bring peace between the three.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Two castaways from each tribe would shoot balls from a slingshot while the other members of the tribe tried to catch the balls. For every ball caught, the castaway would score a point for their tribe. The first tribe to score five points would win a trip to a mountain overlooking San Juan del Sur, a picnic lunch, and immunity.At the Reward/Immunity Challenge, Grant dominated the challenge by scoring four of the points in Ometepe's shutout of Zapatera, despite Mike ripping his shirt off him. While on their reward, Grant and Rob attempted to read the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol without the others noticing, but were caught by Phillip. Phillip felt betrayed by the two guys for not sharing the clue with him, but decided to keep his anger bottled up until presented with a better opportunity to take revenge. Before Tribal Council, David and Stephanie lobbied hard the rest of the tribe to vote out Sarita instead of Stephanie. At Tribal Council, it was acknowledged that Stephanie was seen as a better competitor, but Sarita was seen as more loyal overall. In the end, David and Stephanie's lobbying did not work and Stephanie was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":7,"episode_summary":"When Zapatera returned to camp from Tribal Council, the rift between David and Sarita continued. Over at Ometepe, Phillip no longer trusted Rob because Rob tried to keep the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol from him and looked for inspiration from The Book of Five Rings to break Rob's control of the tribe.\n\nRedemption Island Duel: The two castaways would compete in a game of concentration. One at a time, the castaways would turn over two tiles from a field of twenty.  Should they undercover a pair of matching symbols, they would score one point. The first castaway to score five points would win.David, Ralph, Rob, and Phillip witnessed Matt's continued domination at Redemption Island when he won his fifth Duel in a row. While Phillip and Rob were returning from Redemption Island, Phillip asked Rob what information they wanted to withhold from the rest of the tribe. Rob said he wanted to tell them everything and then used Phillip's question against him in order to sow distrust of Phillip amongst the rest of the tribe. Rob also told the tribe that he thought Phillip would flip to the other side when the merge happens. Back at Zapatera, Ralph thought David would flip to the other side at the merge.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The tribes would run an obstacle course of a hay stack, a rope crawl, a rope blocked pathway, a net crawl, and two brick walls. Along the way of the course would be three stations where two balls in a bag is suspended in the air on a metal spring. The tribes would have to work together to reach the ball and free it from the spring. At the end of the course, the tribe would untie the bags and shoot the six balls into a basket. The first tribe to shoot all six balls into the basket would win a ride aboard an Mil Mi-17 to an active volcano and a picnic of fruit, vegetables, cheese, candy, cookies, crackers, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and immunity.The Reward/Immunity Challenge was closely fought, with the lead being traded back and forth several times, but Ometepe eventually prevailed. On the reward trip, Rob found the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol within a jar of cookies and managed to get it without any of the tribe noticing. He then tossed the clue into the volcano. At Tribal Council, Zapatera again had a choice between loyalty and strength in challenges with the vote split between Sarita and David, respectively. The tribe chose strength and Sarita was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":8,"episode_summary":"The day 19 treemail arrived announcing the Redemption Island Duel, but unlike previous Duels, the note said that the entire tribe would attend.\n\nRedemption Island Duel: The two castaways would brace themselves with their arms between two walls while standing barefoot on two foot pegs. Every 15 minutes, the castaways would move down to smaller foot pegs. When the castaways reached the third set of foot pegs, they would try to remain on them as long as they could. The last castaway to remain on their pegs would win.The tribes headed off to the Duel anticipating a merge.  Before the Duel started, Jeff announced that the winner of the Duel would re-enter the game. Despite an injured foot, Matt outlasted Sarita in the Duel. After Sarita departed the Redemption Island Arena, Jeff announced that the tribes had merged. After some celebrating by the castaways, Jeff handed the new tribe a map to a new beach and surprised the tribe by announcing that Redemption Island would still be in play. When the tribe arrived at their new beach, the traditional merger feast was awaiting them. Rob proposed naming the tribe Murlonio, which he claimed was Spanish for \"from the sea, united\", but in reality did not mean anything and was an inside joke between Rob and Amber Mariano named after one of her stuffed animals. Mike saw Matt as the linchpin vote at Tribal Council and approached him about joining the former Zapatera tribe along with Andrea. Mike promised Matt to go to the final four with him, even at the expense of his own tribe and the use of the Hidden Immunity Idol. Matt told Andrea that he wanted to vote out the Ometepe tribe, starting with voting out Steve as a diversion, and then voting out Phillip and Rob. Andrea was unsure if she wanted to flip alliances. The next day, Matt was torn between going through with his plan or to stick with Ometepe.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each castaway would have to stand on a small wooden log while balancing a ball on a wooden disk. At regular intervals, a ball would be added until the castaway would be balancing three balls. Should any of the balls fall off the disk or if they step off the log, the castaway would be out of the challenge. The last castaway to not drop a ball or step off the log would win immunity.At the first Individual Immunity Challenge, Natalie took the win over Mike. The former Zapatera tribe plotted to do something Rob would not have thought of by voting out Grant. Matt decided that he would honor his God and instead of flipping to Zapatera, he would stick with Ometepe. Matt told Rob of Mike's final four and Hidden Immunity Idol offer. While the two were talking, Andrea stopped by and Matt told Andrea that he would not be flipping and revealed his plotting with her to vote out Rob. Andrea felt that Matt had thrown her under the bus to Rob. Rob decided that Matt could not be trusted and that he had to be sent back to Redemption Island. Rob rounded up the rest of the Ometepe tribe to plot to vote out Matt. Mike continued to work on getting Matt to flip even so far as writing a note to Matt promising him final three if he voted for Grant. Matt showed the note to Andrea. Rob took Andrea aside to tell her that the vote was going against Matt. Andrea was torn whether to keep Matt or be the deciding vote to eliminate Grant instead, as it would mean betraying 2 of her 3 main allies- Grant and Rob, and she was now unsure after Matt had revealed their prior plans to Rob whether she could trust Matt moving forward, and also unsure what her situation would then become with Matt having already gone back on his idea of them switching to the Zapatera side.  She also considered telling Matt about the situation but did not. Before the Tribal Council votes were read, Ralph stepped up and told Jeff that he wanted to play the Hidden Immunity Idol on Mike.  However, no votes were cast against Mike. Matt stuck with what he promised to Rob and voted against Steve. Andrea decided to save Grant over Matt, and the rest of Ometepe also voted for Matt, and he was blindsided for the second time in a 6-5-1 vote and sent back to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":9,"episode_summary":"The day after Tribal Council, Ralph asked Ashley if he was next on the chopping block and offered his vote for her at the final Tribal Council over Rob should she make it to the top three. Natalie told Rob about Ralph's offer and how Ashley said that she would not tell Rob about the offer. Rob decided that because of that transgression, Ashley would not make it to the final three. Rob tried to keep his Ometepe tribemates from forging alliances with the Zapatera tribe members, even going so far as having separate living quarters and eating times. The former Ometepe agreed to a \"buddy system\" where none of them would talk to the former Zapatera about the game at all.  Rob also spoke in confessionals of his long terms plans of bringing Phillip and Natalie to the final 3 with him, feeling it was already becoming obvious they would be the two easiest to beat in the end.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would dig a club out from under the sand. They would then use the club to smash a tile. The first six castaways to smash their tile would move on to the second round.  In the second round, the six castaways would dunk their head in a trough of water and collect water in their mouths. They would then crawl under the trough and spit the water into a tube. The first three to fill their tubes would move on to the final round where they would solve a block puzzle. The first castaway to solve their puzzle would win immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Grant, Rob, Ralph, Mike, David, and Julie moved on to the second round. Grant, Mike, and David then moved to the final round where Grant solved the puzzle first to take the second Individual Immunity Challenge. While the Ometepe alliance was down the beach, Mike and David noticed that tribe's flag had moved, so they started digging around the pole thinking that there was a Hidden Immunity Idol. The Ometepe alliance noticed the digging and raced back to camp to dig for themselves. Rob was concerned that Zapatera might have found another Hidden Immunity Idol. At Tribal Council, the former Zapatera tried to sow doubt into Phillip's mind that he was the sixth man in the Ometepe alliance, but Phillip did not bite and threw it right back at the Zapatera members. When the vote came, Ometepe decided to send Mike to Redemption Island.\nWhen the tribe returned to camp, Rob congratulated Phillip on his stand against Zapatera at Tribal Council and told him that he was not at the bottom of the Ometepe alliance, but at the top of the Ometepe alliance. Ralph approached Phillip and Andrea to talk about the game, but they deflected his attempts.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would hang from a bar over a pool of water.  After twenty minutes, the castaways could only hang upside down with their legs over the bar.  The last castaway to hang onto the bar would win immunity.When the tribe arrived at the Immunity Challenge site, they were greeted with the view of cheeseburgers. Jeff told them that anybody who wanted to eat could do so, but they would be out of the challenge. Steve and Phillip opted out of challenge to eat. The challenge came down to a battle between David and the women of Ometepe. After over 45 minutes, David dropped from the bar. Andrea told Ashley and Natalie that she really wanted this challenge. Ashley and Natalie agreed to drop from the bar, giving Andrea the win. After awarding Andrea the Individual Immunity necklace, Jeff told the tribe that they would meet at Tribal Council to vote out a castaway who would meet both Matt and Mike at Redemption Island. Rob was torn between whether to vote out David or Steve, and the Ometepe alliance discussed multiple options. At Tribal Council, the Ometepe alliance chose David, and despite a bold plea to make his vote count four times, David went to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":10,"episode_summary":"On day 25, Phillip had a premonition while meditating that made him decide that he had come to a \"full circle of trust\" with Rob. When the Zapatera alliance enjoyed a relatively substantial meal of rice from their provisions, Phillip thought they were trying to eat all of their rice before they get voted out. He decided that the camp's rice was for all and he took several scoops from Zapatera's can of rice.\n\nRedemption Island Duel: The three castaways would use 150 wooden tiles to build a house of cards. The first two castaways to build a tower to a height of 8 feet (2.4 m) would remain in the game.The entire tribe witnessed the new three-way Redemption Island Duel where Mike and Matt built their towers ahead of David, who became the first member of the jury. On day 26, when Andrea opened Ometepe's can of rice, she discovered that there were maggots in the rice. After the Ometepe alliance sorted out their rice on a blanket, Andrea asked if they could put their rice in the Zapatera alliance's can, but Steve refused. Phillip and Steve had a fierce argument over the matter. Phillip thought Steve was being racist after Steve had called him \"crazy\", which Phillip equated with the term \"nigger\".\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would compete to finish a multi-stage puzzle. The castaways would start by running around a post in order to spin off a disk that would be used as a puzzle base. They would then solve a puzzle that would fit within the base. The first six castaways that finish their puzzle would move on to the next round. In the final round, the completed base would be at the center of a second puzzle. The first castaway to finish their second puzzle would win immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Rob, Julie, Ralph, Andrea, Steve, and Grant moved on to the final round. In the final round, Rob barely edged out Steve for the win. When the tribe returned to camp, Julie buried Phillip's swim trunks while he was out on a walk. At Tribal Council, the argument between Phillip and Steve was discussed. Phillip thought Steve's tone during the argument had a racist undertone. Steve declared there was no prejudice within him, and that he also played football along with African Americans in his previous years. Jeff then asked who had taken Phillip's swim trunks, to which Julie joyfully fessed to taking them and burying them under a rock. When the votes were cast, Julie was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":11,"episode_summary":"When the tribe returned to camp, Steve attempted to bury the hatchet with Phillip regarding their argument, but Phillip thought the apology was self-serving and not entirely genuine. Phillip had another premonition from his great-great-grandfather that he would find the shorts that Julie buried and after looking, he did indeed find them.\n\nRedemption Island Duel: The three castaways would play a variation of shuffleboard. The castaways would be given three pucks which they would slide across a board and past various obstacles. The first two castaways to have all three of their pucks come to rest touching the end zone would remain in the game.Over on Redemption Island, Matt was struggling with remaining focused on the game, but his faith pulled him through to a victory along with Mike in the second three-way Redemption Island Duel. Grant suggested to Rob that Andrea be the first of the Ometepe alliance to be voted out as he was concerned that she had some sympathy for voting out Matt.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The castaways would compete in a logrolling contest. The castaways would match up against another tribe member. The castaway who stays on the log the longest would advance to the next round. In the next round, the remaining four would again compete head-to-head in a single elimination. In the final, the last castaway standing on the log would win chocolate cake and milk and immunity.After Jeff described the Reward/Immunity Challenge, he held up a wrapped package and announced that there would be a twist after the challenge. In the first round of the challenge, Grant defeated Rob, Ashley defeated Andrea, Ralph defeated Steve, and Phillip defeated Natalie. In the second round, Grant defeated Ashley and Ralph defeated Phillip. Grant won the last round to take his second Individual Immunity. Jeff then said that Grant could choose two people to share his reward and he selected Rob and Andrea. Grant wanted Andrea to feel secure in the final 3 promise she thought she had with Rob and Grant, and be unaware of her lower position in the Ometepe alliance. Jeff gave the wrapped package to the tribe, told them not to unwrap it and to bring it to the night's Tribal Council. The castaways speculated about the wrapped package, thinking it was a set of cards and that they might have to vote out a second person at the upcoming Tribal Council. Rob decided that Ralph would be voted out next at Tribal Council because he was still a threat in the game while he thought Steve had already given up. Rob informed Ashley and Natalie about his and Grant's concerns about Andrea's loyalties and the two girls agreed to vote for Andrea should they have to vote out two people at Tribal Council. Steve approached Ashley and Natalie about having the three girls of the Ometepe alliance blindside Rob, but Ashley and Natalie declined because they wanted Andrea out of the game. When the two girls told Rob about Steve's offer, Rob reassessed Steve's desire to stay in the game and considered voting out Steve ahead of Andrea. At Tribal Council, Steve made one last play to the girls to blindside Rob, but when the vote came, the girls did not flip and Ralph was sent to Redemption Island.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would test their memory by having to memorize a series of symbols shown by Jeff. The castaways would have to show back the symbols in order. If they showed the wrong symbol, they would be out of the challenge. The last castaway to show all of the correct symbols would win immunity.As soon as Ralph departed Tribal Council, Jeff announced that the tribe could unwrap the mystery package. The package contained a set of cards that announced that the tribe would immediately compete in an Immunity Challenge and then vote out a member of the tribe.  Rob outlasted Ashley and Steve to win Individual Immunity. The castaways then went straight to the vote where they sent Steve to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge/Redemption Island Duel: Competing in rounds, the four castaways would throw a metal ball in an attempt to break four tiles. The first three castaways to break all four tiles would remain in the game. The first castaway to win would receive a visit from their loved one.Day 31's tree mail brought a Sprint Samsung Epic 4G announcing the next Redemption Island Duel and video messages from the castaway's loved ones. The four on Redemption Island also received a similar phone announcing the duel and video messages from their loved ones. When the castaways arrived at the Redemption Island Duel, Jeff took the phones back and then announced that the first winner of the Duel would get to spend time with their loved one in person. Mike was the first person to win at the duel and won a visit from his mother, Jane. Matt and Ralph finished the duel in second and third place to continue in the game. When Mike's mother arrived at the Redemption Island Arena, Jeff gave Mike three choices: he could take the visit from his mother, he could opt to forgo the visit with his mother and instead give Matt's brother, Burton and Ralph's friend, Ronnie for a visit, or he could forgo the visit with his mother and give the Ometepe Six a visit from their loved ones. All of the loved ones entered the Redemption Island Arena while Mike made his decision. Mike took inspiration from the Bible to give the most good to the most people and chose to give visits to the Ometepe Six (Andrea's dad, Royal; Ashley's mom, Teri; Grant's brother-in-law, Steve; Natalie's mom, Tracie; Phillip's sister, Tracy; and Rob's sister, Heather). The Ometepe Six then headed back to camp to spend the afternoon with their loved ones. Back at the Redemption Island campsite, Ralph was upset at Mike's decision while Matt said he couldn't have made the same decision but also admired Mike for being able to. Mike claimed that the decision was not strategic, but just the right thing to do.  Jeff though openly questioned if Mike's decision was to increase his chances of winning jury votes, especially from the Ometepe side, should he reach the end. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would have to race to assemble eighteen puzzle steps in a staircase. The castaways could only carry one puzzle step at a time up the staircase and had to place the steps in order from bottom to top. The first castaway to correctly place all eighteen steps and reach the top of the staircase would win immunity.On day 32, Rob won the exhausting Immunity Challenge to win his second Individual Immunity in a row. The tribe decided to blindside Andrea at Tribal Council. Before Tribal Council, Phillip complained about a tangled fishing net. He also tore down part of the roof of the Zapatera part of the shelter and threw it in the fire. He did this to reinforce his strategy of playing the villain/annoyance-of-the-tribe in order to be seen as being somebody easy to defeat at the Final Tribal Council. Rob and Grant wavered voting out Andrea or Phillip. In the end, the tribe stuck to the original plan of voting for Andrea and she was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":13,"episode_summary":"When the castaways returned from Tribal Council, Ashley thought she had a strong alliance with Natalie, but Natalie was leaning more towards her alliance with Rob.  Rob told Natalie to keep up appearances with Ashley and thought about voting out Ashley next.\n\nRedemption Island Duel: The four castaways would navigate a handle across a table maze. Once clear of the maze, the handle would be used to smash open a box that contained a bag of puzzle pieces. The first three castaways to solve the word puzzle would remain in the game.Over at Redemption Island, Andrea and Matt argued over Andrea's blindside of Matt. Matt argued Andrea had betrayed him again which was a slap in the face given how close they had become, while Andrea argued she had been willing to work with Matt even over Rob, until he had betrayed her trust when he revealed to Rob how she and he had considered flipping sides to the Zaps with Matt, and unnecessarily doing so even after Matt changed those plans. She also blamed Matt's stupidity as causing Rob's distrust in her, and for her position at the bottom of her Ometepe alliance.  On day 33, the Redemption Island Duel was held with Mike, Matt, and Andrea finishing the puzzle ahead of Ralph after he blew a huge lead from the maze stage when he struggled with the word puzzle. The next day, Rob and Grant discussed voting out Ashley. Meanwhile, Phillip and the girls argued over food. Rob was upset Phillip was drawing the girls closer when he wanted to pull them apart. Rob reassured Natalie that he would take her to the end. Back at camp Ashley started to worry about her position in the game, telling Natalie she thought Rob would vote one of them off at the end to make sure Grant was in the final 3. Ashley thought about making a big game move and approached Rob about voting off Grant.  She argued to Rob that neither she or Rob could beat Grant in a jury vote, and that with Mike or Matt expected to be the one to return from Redemption Island, having 2 off Grant, Mike, Matt around would leave the others no chance to win any remaining immunity challenges. Rob told Ashley he would consider it, but then told Grant about Ashley's proposal and they agreed to vote out Ashley next.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: With one arm tied behind their backs, the castaways would work to solve a three section puzzle in the shape of a fish skeleton. The castaways would link together fish hooks to retrieve a bag of puzzle pieces that would complete one of the three sections. After one section is complete, the castaways would retrieve another bag of puzzle pieces until all three sections were complete.  The first castaway to solve the entire puzzle would win a three course meal delivered at camp and immunity.However, their plan was left in tatters when Ashley won the combined Reward/Immunity Challenge.  Rob now the choice of voting off Natalie or Grant and despite the threat of an all girls alliance of Natalie and Ashley, Rob decided that Grant was the bigger threat and voted him off."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Redemption Island Duel: The four castaways would put one foot on one end of a seesaw with the other end having a ceramic vase balanced on it. The castaways would attempt to keep the vase balanced on the end with their foot still on the seesaw. The last castaway to have their vase balanced on the end of the seesaw would win.Day 36 saw the final Redemption Island Duel. The castaways lasted 40 minutes before Grant's vase tipped over and he became the fifth jury member. After the one-hour mark, Matt's vase tipped off the board and he became the sixth jury member after surviving ten duels and 29 days on Redemption Island. The Duel came down to Andrea and Mike, with Mike being unable to keep his vase balanced, allowing Andrea to win and re-enter the game. When Andrea returned to camp, she started to scramble to remain in the game by making up a story to Ashley and Natalie that Ralph, Matt, and Mike said they would vote for Phillip at the final Tribal Council, which was a complete lie but seemed to have the girls worried.  Ashley thought Andrea might join her and Natalie in voting out Phillip or Rob.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would race along a balance beam to collect a series of bags containing 100 numbered tiles. The first castaway to place their tiles on a board in order from one to one hundred would win immunity.At the Immunity Challenge, Ashley edged out Andrea and Rob to win. When the castaways returned to camp, Rob overtly took Ashley, Natalie, and Phillip aside to tell them that Andrea had to be voted off.  In a private confessional he said voting out Andrea instead of Phillip or Natalie (or himself) was a no brainer from his perspective, as she had worked hard around camp, performed admirably in challenges, and had strong connections and had made no enemies on the jury. Ashley asked Natalie about Rob's plan for the subsequent vote to make sure that the next to go after Andrea would be Phillip. Natalie was concerned about Rob keeping Phillip, but promised to Ashley that her next vote would go against Phillip. Phillip openly reported on the girl's discussions, but then took off for a private conversation with Rob.  While the guys were gone, Andrea again lobbied the two other girls in voting out Rob. At Tribal Council, Andrea again lobbied the girls to take control of the game. Rob though pointed out to the others that Andrea was also a huge threat, and proved it again today, and too well liked by jury members to want to take to the end. Andrea then countered by saying the jury were not made up of dummies, and Rob would be an easy choice to win should he be allowed to reach the end, as he had controlled things, while Natalie and Ashley had just followed Rob's orders.  Before the votes were read, Rob pulled out the Hidden Immunity Idol and played it. However, the Idol was not needed as Ashley and Natalie stayed loyal to Rob and voted out Andrea.  At the Reunion show Natalie and Ashley claimed to have known about the Idol, and with this being the last time it could be played, knowing Rob almost certainly was playing it, so possibly voting him out instead of Andrea would have been pointless.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would race through a maze to collect four bags of puzzle pieces at four different stations. Once all four bags were collected, the castaways would race to the top of a pyramid and assemble a word puzzle. The first castaway to correctly solve the puzzle would win immunity.When the castaways returned to camp after Tribal Council, Rob promised the girls that they would go to the final three together. At the Immunity Challenge, Ashley and Rob finished the maze stage, but were stumped by the difficult puzzle. In the end, Rob figured out the puzzle spelled out \"Only You Are Safe\" to win the final Individual Immunity; guaranteeing him a spot in the final Tribal Council. After the challenge, Rob again told the girls that they were safe and to not tell Phillip about their plans. Ashley asked Natalie to tell her if Rob were to change his plans and Natalie promised that she would. Rob told Phillip that Ashley was going home. Rob took Natalie aside try to convince her to vote against Ashley by pointing out that Ashley may have made a connection with the former Zapatera members on the jury and that she was a threat. Ashley again asked Natalie if Rob had said anything about voting against her, but Natalie lied and said that nothing was going on. At Tribal Council, Natalie found herself in a similar predicament Rob had been in with Grant and Natalie last Tribal Council, torn between her friendship with Ashley and her loyalty to Rob. Ashley made the mistake when probed by Jeff by openly stating she had a much better chance of winning the game than either Natalie or Phillip, and could actually beat Rob, but felt she should be taken to the finals anyway due to her game long loyalty. In the end, Natalie sided with Rob by voting for her instead of Phillip to avoid a tie and fire-making challenge, and Ashley became the final member of the jury.\nAt the final Tribal Council, Philip and Natalie both emphasized their loyalty to Rob, with Phillip going so far as to tell the jury that Rob was the mastermind of their entire plan, while he implemented it.[36] The jury was critical of Natalie for her dependence on Rob and her blindside vote for Ashley. Several jury members emphasized their lack of respect for Phillip, who repeatedly grew hostile and confrontational. Rob was both criticized and praised for his aggressive, dominant gameplay and strategy."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US22","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Nearly a year later, the jurors' votes were counted. Rob was awarded the title of Sole Survivor by a vote of 8–1–0. Ralph cast the lone vote for Phillip, while Natalie received no votes. The castaways discuss the season with host Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The sixteen new castaways rowed rafts ashore to the Redemption Island Arena to await the arrival of two mystery players by helicopter. Coach and Ozzy disembarked. To determine which tribes the two returnees would join, each randomly drew a paint-filled egg. Crushing their eggs, Coach discovered his was filled with blue paint, meaning he would join Upolu; likewise, the paint inside Ozzy's egg was red, meaning he would join Savaii.  While all of Savaii was openly pleased that Ozzy was part of their tribe, Coach's welcome to Upolu was cold, with only Edna showing him kindness.  Amidst the ceremony, John requested that Jeff call him by his last name, Cochran, in the vein of past castaways that Jeff was fond of.\n\nReward challenge: Coach and Ozzy would represent their tribes by climbing a 12-foot (3.7 m) pole to retrieve a wooden turtle.  They would then have to dig themselves under a log.  Finally, they would solve a six-level Tower of Hanoi puzzle with the turtle as the top piece to win taro and flint.Jeff explained that Redemption Island was in play and that a reward challenge would begin immediately between Coach and Ozzy representing their tribes. They both struggled with the Tower of Hanoi puzzle, requesting help from their tribes. Savaii's assistance was pivotal and Ozzy took the win. When Upolu arrived at their campsite, Coach tried to charm his tribe and overcome his cold greeting.  Meanwhile, Christine went off to look for the hidden immunity idol, which roused suspicion among her teammates. Brandon found himself struggling with a secret, being the nephew of the infamous Russell Hantz -- a fact which would be a daunting challenge for Brandon to hide for long as he had the words \"Little Hantz\" tattooed on his back and arm. During a nighttime conversation, Coach formed an impromptu alliance with Albert, Brandon, Rick, and Sophie. Over at Savaii, Mark asked to be called \"Papa Bear\", which the rest of his tribe thought was odd but accepted nonetheless. On day 2, Dawn had a minor emotional breakdown, which concerned Papa Bear and Ozzy.\n\nImmunity challenge: The tribes would race through an obstacle course of zigzagging pathways, through a web of strung up coconuts, and over a 10-foot (3.0 m) wall.  One tribe member would then dig up a machete and use it to cut five ropes which would release a bin of coconuts.  Three tribe members would then shoot the coconuts through a hoop into a net.  When enough coconuts were shot into the net, their combined weight would raise a flag.  The first tribe to raise their flag would win.The first immunity challenge was won by Upolu in a close match. In addition to tribal immunity, Upolu received flint and was told that a clue to the hidden immunity idol was hidden at their campsite.  When Savaii returned to camp, Semhar and Jim had an argument about Semhar's effort and Jim's criticism at the immunity challenge. Most of the tribe wanted to vote out Semhar due to her failure at the coconut throwing stage of the challenge, for which she had volunteered. Ozzy, however, having bonded with Semhar, suggested that the tribe consider voting out Cochran for being physically inept. Jim was suspicious about Ozzy's reasons for keeping Semhar in the game. Ozzy told Semhar that she needed to lobby the others in voting out Cochran. Jim told Cochran about Ozzy's suggestion and Cochran became paranoid that he would be voted out. At Tribal Council, the tribe debated if Semhar or Cochran was to remain in the tribe.  When the vote came, the tribe decided to vote out Semhar unanimously and she became the first resident of Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":2,"episode_summary":"On Redemption Island, Semhar recited poetry to comfort herself over feeling abandoned by her tribe. At Upolu, Coach, not having forgotten Edna's earlier kindness toward him, allowed her to join his alliance, albeit as a sixth, outlying member. In keeping his relation to Russell Hantz a secret and with guilt eating at him, Brandon revealed his secret to Coach and asked him to keep it to himself. Brandon gave his word that he would stick with Coach and their alliance. Christine found the clue to the whereabouts of the hidden immunity idol, but her persistent efforts to find the idol further alienated her from the rest of the tribe. Brandon continued to project sinister and sordid motivations in Mikayla's simple camp activities and felt very uncomfortable around her, saying that she reminded him of Parvati Shallow.  Because of this, Brandon wanted Mikayla voted out as soon as possible. At Savaii, Ozzy used his past Survivor experience and looked for things out of place and discovered the hidden immunity idol. Jim put forth a \"3 plus 2\" alliance plan of himself, Keith, and Ozzy as a core alliance with Elyse and Whitney as the \"plus 2\".\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: Four members from each tribe would unwind ribbons from a maypole to release a set of keys. One of the four would then use the keys to free four other tribemates. Those four tribemates would then push crates around a platform to clear the way for a large crate to pass under a pole. The entire tribe would then carry the large crate to a finish platform. The first tribe to have their large crate onto the finish platform would win pillows, blankets, a hammock, a mat, and immunity.At the combined reward/immunity challenge, the men of Upolu blew a huge lead going into the crate stage of the challenge, allowing Savaii to come from behind and win the challenge. Back at camp, most of the core Upolu alliance had settled on targeting the outsider of the tribe, Christine, but were also wary about the possibility of her having found a hidden immunity idol -- so Coach suggested to his alliance that they protect themselves by splitting their votes between Christine and her only ally, Stacey. Brandon, however, expressed his desire to vote out Mikayla instead. Coach, trying to maintain control of the alliance, insisted that they stick to the plan of splitting the vote. Still wanting to eliminate Mikayla first, Brandon lied to Coach and told him that Christine and Stacey would vote for Mikayla. At Tribal Council, Coach confronted Christine and Stacey about their votes.  Christine and Stacey denied they had ever said they would vote for Mikayla.  When they asked who Coach had heard that from, Coach refused to say until Brandon confessed to telling the two women to vote against Mikayla. When the vote came, the alliance of six along with Mikayla followed Coach's plan and split their vote, casting four against Christine and three against Stacey. Having failed to find the idol, Christine was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Day 6's tree mail announced the first Redemption Island duel. The tribes were instructed to send two members to witness the duel; Upolu sent Coach and Stacey while Savaii sent Ozzy and Elyse.\n\nRedemption Island duel: The castaways would balance a wooden totem on top of a pole which they would have to keep upright by holding at the bottom of the pole. At regular intervals, the player would add an additional section to the bottom of the pole, making the pole longer and harder to balance. The last castaway still holding the totem up would win.Before the duel started, Semhar recited more poetry to calm herself, but it did not help and she lost to Christine. On day 7 at Upolu, Brandon felt guilty about lying to his tribe during his push to vote out Mikayla. He finally told them the truth about his family, displayed his tattoos and apologized for continuing to lie to them. In private, Brandon and Mikayla discussed why he wanted to vote her out. After Brandon felt threatened by her demeanor, he gathered the rest of the tribe and told them all that he was very upset at Mikayla's approach, that she did not appear to have much of an alliance, and to keep him out of all tribal drama. Coach was concerned that Brandon's outburst would cause friction within the tribe and his alliance. At Savaii, Ozzy decided that he had to trust somebody with the knowledge of his hidden immunity idol discovery and he decided upon telling Keith. Keith then told Whitney in order to gain her trust.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: A tribe member would race across a floating bridge carrying a bodyboard attached to a rope. The tribe member would grab a bag containing a banner that would form part of their tribe's flag. They would then ride the bodyboard back to shore as it was winched in by the four members of their tribe. Five bundles would need to be winched to the beach in this manner. Two tribe members would then use grappling hooks from the top of a wall to retrieve the five banners. Finally, the two tribe members would assemble the banners into their tribe's flag. The first tribe to have their flag completed would win chocolate, cookies, coffee, powdered milk, tea, sugar, and immunity.The tribes were neck-in-neck until the grappling hook stage of the challenge; while Elyse and Whitney struggled with their grappling hook, Coach and Edna blazed far ahead of them and won the challenge for Upolu. Back at Savaii, Cochran and Papa Bear shared their fear that one of them would be going to Redemption Island after Tribal Council and that the other would go at the next Tribal Council. The rest of the tribe decided on voting out Papa Bear, viewing him as their weakest link, but would tell him that they would be voting for Cochran. Ozzy told Cochran about the plan in an attempt to preemptively quell any paranoia from Cochran. When Jim and Ozzy told Papa Bear that Cochran was going home, Papa Bear saw through their lie and he went to search for the hidden immunity idol in a last ditch effort to save himself. Elyse and Jim followed Papa Bear into the woods to watch him look for the idol.  Failing to find the idol, Papa Bear decided to create a false idol in order to fool the tribe into thinking he had one. Papa Bear then set his plan in motion, telling Jim that he had found the idol. Cochran correctly surmised that Papa Bear's idol was fake, but Cochran was still concerned that everyone else would fall for Papa Bear's scheme and shift the vote from Papa Bear to Cochran. At Tribal Council, the tribe ultimately voted to call Papa Bear's bluff and he was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Jim was concerned that Ozzy and Elyse had a tighter bond than people realized and that he could not vote out Ozzy, so he confided with Cochran about a plan to vote out Elyse next. Cochran agreed as that would leave him in the game for at least another three days. At Upolu, Brandon was still feeling tormented by his actions and decided to be a better more honest player. He apologized to Mikayla for his recent outburst in front of the tribe. He then confessed to Edna that she was not actually part of the core alliance of Albert, Brandon, Coach, Rick, and Sophie, but merely a sixth, disposable member, much to Edna's shock and disappointment. Cochran, Jim, Brandon, and Edna went to observe the Redemption Island duel.\n\nRedemption Island duel: The castaways would toss sand bags and attempt to land them on top of ten crates. The first castaway to have one bag on all ten crates would win.Before the duel started, Brandon apologized to Christine for his rash behavior toward her during Upolu's first Tribal Council. Acknowledging the apology, Christine edged out Papa Bear to win her second duel in a row. Once Brandon and Edna returned to camp, Edna, now on edge about her status in the tribe due to Brandon's earlier confession to her, decided that she had to emphasize the social aspect of her game by being cordial and polite.  However, she overplayed her \"be nice to everyone\" strategy; due to her constant talking and laughing, Edna just ended up irritating Mikayla and Stacey. At Savaii, Cochran approached Dawn about voting out Elyse next.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: Three castaways, two men and one woman, from each tribe would stand on perches holding a wooden pole on their shoulders to which weighted bags would be added. Every few minutes, the other four members of the opposing tribe would select someone to bear an additional 20 pounds (9.1 kg) of weight, ergo making it increasingly more difficult for the weight bearers to hold onto their poles; if a weight bearer drops their pole, they would be out of the challenge. The tribe whose weight bearers all drop out of the challenge first loses. The winning tribe is awarded two chicken hens, one rooster, and immunity.At the combined reward/immunity challenge, Savaii chose Dawn, Jim, and Keith to be the weight bearers while Upolu chose Albert, Brandon, and Stacey. Keith dropped out first after 26 minutes and 180 pounds (82 kg). Albert was out next at the same weight. Jim and Brandon surpassed the Survivor record of 220 pounds (100 kg) held by Rupert Boneham in Survivor: Pearl Islands and James \"J.T.\" Thomas Jr. and Brendan Synnott in Survivor: Tocantins by going to 240 pounds (110 kg), but both dropped their poles shortly after the last 20 pounds (9.1 kg) were added. Finally, Stacey dropped her pole at 140 pounds (64 kg), leaving Dawn as the last weight bearer standing, also with 140 pounds (64 kg) as her final weight held total, giving Savaii the win. Stacey expressed her frustration over being the next target for elimination in her tribe due to her previous ties with Christine, even though she believed she had proven herself to be a strong competitor with her performance in the challenge. Stacey appealed to Coach, implying that she deserved to stay over Edna, whom Stacey viewed as annoying and weak. However, Coach confessed that while he \"understood\" Stacey and where she was coming from, she was still not safe. Stacey then tried to stir things up by lying to Brandon, telling him that he needed to watch out for Albert, Mikayla, and Sophie, because the three of them might have formed their own secret alliance. Panicked, Brandon relayed the news to Coach, but Coach cut him off and told him that Stacey knew she was getting voted out next and would say anything to save herself. Annoyed about Brandon's actions, Coach and Sophie mulled over the possibility of kicking Brandon out of the core alliance at some point. At Tribal Council, Brandon broke down emotionally for feeling that he had something to prove by being Russell Hantz's relative and that he had to reclaim the family name in a positive manner. The tribe then discussed their issues of trust and loyalty. When the vote came, the core Upolu alliance followed through with their plan and Stacey was sent to Redemption Island, angrily rebuffing her tribe's efforts to hug her as she was leaving."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":5,"episode_summary":"When Stacey arrived at Redemption Island, she vowed to tell Savaii at the Redemption Island duel that Coach was in control of Upolu. At Upolu, Brandon felt offended by Mikayla's answer during the previous Tribal Council that she disliked him because he was a Hantz.  Albert, Mikayla, Dawn, and Whitney went to witness the Redemption Island duel.\n\nRedemption Island duel: The castaways would drop a ball into a metal chute. The ball would travel down a spiraling metal track and exit out of one of two points. The castaway would have to catch the ball and drop the ball back into the chute at the top. Every few minutes, an additional ball would be added to the track until six balls were simultaneously going around the track. A turnstile gate in the middle of the track would rotate, causing the balls to alternate exiting out of the two exits. If a ball exits the track and is not caught, the castaway would be eliminated from the challenge.Christine and Stacey lambasted Albert and Mikayla, and told Dawn and Whitney that Coach, whom they declined to call Coach, but instead used his real name, Benjamin, was in complete control, Albert was Coach's right-hand man, and the entire tribe were liars. Christine won her third duel in a row. When Albert and Mikayla returned to camp, they told the tribe about Stacey's venting, which upset Coach as he felt it would put a target on his back. Albert found the clue to the hidden immunity idol, but when he couldn't find the Idol itself, he told Coach and Sophie about the clue to enhance their trust in him. Coach found the hidden immunity idol and told his new sub-alliance of three.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: Using only their mouths, the castaways would rip pieces of meat off a large pork roast and put it into a basket. The tribe with the most meat in the basket after ten minutes would win vegetables, spices, bread, and the meat that they collected and immunity.The combined reward/immunity challenge was won by Upolu by a slim 2 ounces (56.7 g), continuing the trend of alternating tribal wins. Back at the Savaii camp, Ozzy wanted to vote out Cochran while Jim, Cochran, and Dawn wanted to blindside Elyse to break up her close alliance with Ozzy. In an effort to get the majority fourth vote, Jim approached Keith about voting out Elyse. Keith talked to Whitney about how to vote out Elyse without breaking their alliance with Ozzy. Whitney thought about letting Jim, Cochran, and Dawn vote for Elyse, but she and Keith would vote for anybody but Cochran. At Tribal Council, Keith and Whitney threw their votes against Dawn, allowing the alliance of three to blindside Elyse, sending her to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":6,"episode_summary":"When Savaii returned to their camp, Ozzy felt betrayed by the tribe's decision to go behind his back and vote out Elyse, declaring himself a \"free agent\" in terms of no alliances with the tribe. Feeling that he wanted to put everything out in the open, he declared that he had the hidden immunity idol. The rest of the tribe felt that Ozzy was being childish about the blindside. Over at Upolu, Brandon found the clue to the hidden immunity idol and shared it with Coach and Albert. Brandon went on the hunt without knowing that Coach already had the idol. Coach and Albert agreed that telling Brandon that they already had the idol would cause him to fly off the handle.\n\nRedemption Island duel: The castaways would play a variation of shuffleboard. The castaways would start the game with four pucks a piece on the board and would slide another puck to knock their opponent's pucks off the board. The last castaway to have a puck on the board would win.Sophie, Rick, Ozzy, and Keith witnessed Christine continue her domination at the Redemption Island duel with her fourth win in a row. Over at Upolu, Edna continued cozying up with Coach in order to improve her outlier status with the core alliance of five. On day 15, Ozzy realized that his temper tantrum after Tribal Council was a mistake and tried to patch things up with the tribe.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: Three castaways from each tribe would assemble a wheelbarrow and then push the wheelbarrow around a series of obstacles. Along the way, they would stop at two stations and collect a load of coconuts. At the end of the obstacle course, the three tribe members would dump out the coconuts into a box. The three other castaways would then disassemble the wheelbarrow and reassemble it into a sling shot. They would use the coconuts as ammunition for the slingshot to knock down six targets. The first tribe to knock all six of their targets down would win a trip to the \"sliding rocks\", a waterfall where people can slide down the rocks into a pool below, a picnic lunch, and immunity.At the combined reward/immunity challenge, Savaii struggled during the first half of the challenge, falling way behind Upolu. When Mikayla missed several shots with the slingshot, Coach told her to sit out and let someone else shoot, but she refused and stubbornly kept trying, continuing to miss. Meanwhile, Jim and Keith proved to be adept with their slingshot, allowing Savaii to overcome the deficit and take the win. Coach angrily blamed Upolu's upset loss on Mikayla and privately expressed satisfaction that he wouldn't have to deal with her for much longer, as she was the core alliance's next target. Albert, however, having befriended Mikayla and believing her to be an asset to the tribe, began a campaign to keep Mikayla, arguing that Edna should go instead. Sophie agreed with Albert to vote out Edna. Brandon, however, refused to go along with Albert's plan, arguing that the core alliance had a duty to stay true to their original agreement to vote out Mikayla next. Albert and Sophie then tried to convince Coach that Edna was their weakest link and the tribe still needed Mikayla's strength. However, Coach remained steadfast in his decision to vote out Mikayla, claiming that Edna was much more trustworthy than Mikayla, and he felt that was more important going into the merge. With the alliance split, Rick became the swing vote and Coach and Albert each lobbied hard to win Rick over. At Tribal Council, Brandon once again acted out, this time livid over what he perceived to be a breakdown of loyalty within the core alliance.  In the end, Rick sided with Coach, Edna, and Brandon, sending Mikayla to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Upon returning to camp after their heated split vote at Tribal Council, the remaining members of Upolu made amends with each other, promising to stay united going forward.  Though soon thereafter, most of the tribe expressed concern that Brandon's recurring blowups at Tribal Council could potentially jeopardize their future in the game.  Edna, however, secretly hoped that Brandon's behavior would continue, as it might shift the next target from her to him.\n\nRedemption Island duel: The castaways would dismantle a box and use the pieces as planks to build a bridge. Once they cross the bridge, they would use some of the planks to solve a pattern puzzle. The first castaway to solve their puzzle would win.Sophie, Albert, Ozzy, and Cochran witnessed the duel between Christine and Mikayla. Despite the verbal support that Mikayla received from Albert and Sophie, Christine won her fifth Redemption Island duel in a row in a closely fought match. With Christine's continued domination at the duels and the possibility that Savaii might lose the next challenge, Ozzy began to consider volunteering to be sent to Redemption Island so that he could defeat Christine ahead of a tribal merge. A win by him would mean that the tribes would go into the merge in equal numbers. He approached Cochran about his plan and also offered to give his hidden immunity idol to someone to hold for him while he was at Redemption Island. At Upolu, Coach tried to inspire his tribe by having them all \"find\" the hidden immunity idol. Coach, Albert, and Sophie staged a hunt for the idol for the others. While passing the tree mail stand, Coach and Sophie found a package announcing the upcoming challenge, so they took the opportunity to announce they had \"two pieces of great news\": the upcoming challenge and the \"finding\" of the hidden immunity idol.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The tribes would split off in pairs of castaways. One pair would act as callers to the two other pairs as they navigate blindfolded and hooked to a rope through an obstacle course to collect four bags of masks. One pair of castaways would then use only their sense of touch with no help from the rest of the tribe to match the masks into pairs. The first pair to properly match all eight masks would win for their tribe a screening of Jack and Jill and immunity.Both tribes considered the reward/immunity challenge to be crucial, since they had correctly suspected that it was the final tribal challenge of the game and the tribe that won it would secure all of their members going into the merge, and would potentially have a numbers advantage depending on who returned from Redemption Island. Upolu chose Coach and Rick as their callers/rope handlers, while Savaii used Jim and Cochran. The tribes were neck-in-neck through most of the challenge, but on the final heat, Cochran struggled to get Ozzy and Whitney properly hooked into their rope. Savaii fell behind and never recovered, and Upolu ecstatically took the pivotal win. Cochran's entire tribe was extremely upset over his incompetence in the challenge, which concerned Cochran that Ozzy might renege on his plan to volunteer to go to Redemption Island. Sure enough, when Savaii got back to camp, they blamed the loss on Cochran and told him that he could redeem himself at Redemption Island. However, by the next morning, the anger at Cochran had subsided. Ozzy retrieved the hidden immunity idol, presented it to the tribe, and put forth his volunteer plan. Jim and Keith were concerned about Ozzy volunteering to be voted out since if the merge did not happen the next day, the tribe would be weaker with Cochran competing in the next challenge rather than Ozzy. At Tribal Council, Ozzy offered his plan to volunteer with the twist that he would tell Christine that Cochran had found the hidden immunity idol and used it to blindside Ozzy. Before the votes were read, Ozzy handed the idol to Cochran and made Cochran promise to give it back to Ozzy in the event that Ozzy won the right to return to the game. When the votes were read, Savaii's plans were set in motion as Ozzy was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Redemption Island duel: The two castaways would use rope to tie together sticks in order to make a pole to retrieve three keys.  The first castaway to retrieve all three keys, unlock three locks and walk through the doorway would win.When Ozzy arrived at Redemption Island, he spun his planned tale about being blindsided by Cochran to Christine. Both tribes arrived to witness the Redemption Island duel and Upolu was stunned to see Ozzy in the duel. When asked by Jeff if he was surprised to be here,  Ozzy laid it on thick with the resentment towards Cochran on being voted out, but Albert and Coach were suspect about the act. After Jeff announced the rules of the duel, he announced that the winner would return to the game. Ozzy crushed Christine at the duel when he retrieved all his keys and walked through the doorway before Christine was able to retrieve a single key. Jeff told Ozzy that he was back in the game and that the tribes had merged. After the traditional merge feast, Cochran took Coach aside and attempted to infiltrate Upolu's ranks, as per Savaii's plan, but Coach saw right through Cochran's lies and laid out exactly what the former Savaii members were scheming. Assuring Cochran that Upolu wasn't going to fall for Savaii's trap, Coach then gave Cochran a choice: either stay with Savaii and leave the elimination at the next Tribal Council up to chance after an evenly split vote, or truly defect from Savaii and vote with Upolu, guaranteeing Cochran's safety in the dominant alliance. Cochran decided to leave his old tribe and he told Upolu all about Savaii's plans and tribal politics. Cochran kept his word and returned the hidden immunity idol to Ozzy. Cochran and Dawn talked about being an outsider within their own tribe and she considered flipping tribes with Cochran.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would balance on a small perch while holding a coconut between two ropes. At regular intervals, the lengths of the rope would be increased. The last man and last woman balancing their coconuts would win.At the individual immunity challenge, after other players were eliminated, Dawn beat out Sophie while Ozzy beat out Albert. When the tribe returned to camp, the former Savaii gathered to congratulate themselves on their pre-merge plan working and to vote for Rick. They thought Upolu would vote against Whitney, so Ozzy would hand the hidden immunity idol to Whitney at Tribal Council. Little did they know that Cochran immediately told Sophie about Savaii's plan. Dawn asked Cochran what he was going to do and he told her that he was thinking of flipping tribes. While she had earlier considered joining Cochran, she now wanted to stay loyal to the tribe and warned him to not flip. At Tribal Council, Upolu declared that they saw through Savaii's charade at the Redemption Island duel. Ozzy told them to call their bluff. Before the votes were read, Ozzy played the hidden immunity idol for Whitney. But thanks to Cochran having earlier spilled Savaii's entire plan to Upolu, Whitney received no votes and Savaii's idol was wasted.  Instead, the vote was split along tribal lines with six votes apiece against Keith and Rick. Jeff called for a revote with the castaways only being able to vote for Keith or Rick. On the second vote, Cochran flipped to the Upolu alliance, sending Keith to Redemption Island. Immediately after the vote, Cochran confessed his betrayal to his now-former Savaii allies."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":9,"episode_summary":"When Te Tuna returned to camp, Ozzy, Jim, and Whitney ripped into Cochran over his betrayal. Cochran retreated to his new Upolu alliance. Coach asked Cochran who he would like voted out next and he responded, \"Ozzy\" because he was a threat at challenges or Jim on a personal level.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would toss coconuts into a hole in the ground. The first four to successfully land a coconut into the hole would move on to the second round. In the second round, the four castaways would crack open coconuts, take the coconut water into their mouths, and then run through an obstacle course. At the end of the course, the castaways would spit out the coconut water into a tube and then repeat the course until the tube was filled. The first castaway to fill their tube would win.At the immunity challenge, Dawn, Whitney, Jim, and Sophie made it to the second round. In the second round, Jim beat out Sophie after Sophie gagged on the mouthful of coconut water that would have won the challenge. Back at camp, Jim came up with a plan to stir up Tribal Council by giving the Immunity Necklace to Ozzy and then making a rousing speech to get two of the Upolu tribe to vote against Cochran. When Tribal Council came, Jim and Ozzy made several rousing speeches, but Jim did not hand over the Immunity Necklace because Upolu threatened him before Tribal Council that if he gave his Immunity Necklace to Ozzy, he would be voted out.[32] This sealed Ozzy's fate and he was sent back to Redemption Island, with Dawn and Whitney voting with the Upolu alliance.\n\nImmunity challenge: While balancing barefoot on a beam that narrows in three stages, the castaways would hold a wooden bow with a ball balanced on top. At regular intervals, the castaways would move down the beam towards the narrower part of the beam. The last castaway balancing the ball on the bow and standing on the beam would win.After Jeff announced the rules for the immunity challenge, Jeff offered the castaways to opt out of the challenge by choosing pastries and iced coffee. The former Upolu tribe, and Cochran, opted out of the challenge in order to feast, leaving the immunity to be decided between Dawn, Jim, and Whitney. Whitney beat out Dawn to win Individual Immunity. Knowing that he was most likely going to be voted out next, Jim approached Albert and Sophie about joining the remaining former Savaii members in blindsiding Edna, but Albert and Sophie weren't budging.  Albert came up with an alternative plan to vote out Dawn, seeing her as a bigger threat than Jim; Dawn was endearing herself to the Upolu alliance, and Albert feared that she might find a way to infiltrate their ranks. He discussed the plan with his alliance, but the reception was lukewarm. At Tribal Council, the Upolu alliance stuck with their original plan and Jim was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":10,"episode_summary":"On day 25, Cochran tried to cozy up to Coach by joining him in a session of tai chi on the beach. Coach told Cochran that he would do everything he could to keep Cochran in the game longer than seventh place and that he was concerned that Albert might be plotting something.\n\nRedemption Island duel: The castaways would hold two poles on the tops of their hands up against a board over their heads.  Any movement in their hands would cause the poles to drop to the ground.  The last person who does not drop their poles would win.At the Redemption Island duel between Jim, Keith, and Ozzy, after Jeff explained the rules of the competition, he revealed that only one person would move on, and the two losers would become the first and second members of the jury. Jim faltered first and became the first member of the jury. Keith dropped out next to become the second jury member. On Redemption Island, Ozzy thought the situation of no stress and abundant food allowed him to recharge and be a bigger physical threat towards the end game. Over at Te Tuna, Cochran thought about trying to regain some of the trust he lost from Dawn and Whitney by helping them last further in the game.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would fill a bowl with rice and balance it on their head while crossing over two teeter-totters. They would then dump the rice into a basket on a third teeter-totter. If a castaway touches the bowl or drops it, they would need to go back to the start.  The first castaway to fill their basket with enough rice to cause their teeter-totter to tip and raise a flag would win.At the immunity challenge, Sophie beat out Dawn and Brandon while the rest struggled. After Jeff awarded the Immunity Necklace, he said that there would be a twist at Tribal Council. Back at camp, Dawn and Whitney talked to Albert and Cochran about blindsiding one of the Upolu alliance. Albert considered blindsiding Edna which would curry favor from the former Savaii jury members. Albert told Cochran that he would be voted out seventh and his plan to blindside Edna. Albert also told Sophie about his plan as she would be the swing vote. Coach, however, became suspicious of Albert and decided that he needed to lay down the law, threatening that anybody who betrayed the Upolu alliance \"would be dead\". At Tribal Council, the Upolu alliance stayed intact and Dawn was sent to Redemption Island.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would be asked a series of survival related questions. If a castaway were to answer the question incorrectly, they would be out of the challenge. The last castaway to answer a question correctly would win.After Dawn left, Jeff announced that the twist would be an immediate immunity challenge followed by a second round of voting. The Upolu alliance barely avoided having to turn on one of their own when Sophie prevailed over Whitney in the final question. The Upolu alliance then proceeded to pick off the final Savaii outsider, sending Whitney to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Recap episode of the first 27 days including bonus scenes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Fearing that the original Upolu tribe would turn on him now that all the other former Savaii members were gone, Cochran appealed to the core Upolu alliance of Albert, Brandon, Coach, Rick, and Sophie.  Cochran requested that they keep him in the game for at least one more Tribal Council as he felt that they owed him for flipping over to their side, giving them the pivotal vote that they needed to defeat Savaii.  To further strengthen the guilt trip that he was trying to lay on the core Upolu alliance, Cochran also told a lie to them that his birthday was near and he wanted to celebrate it in the game. After Cochran left, the Upolu men mulled over the possibility of sparing Cochran from the next vote, getting rid of Edna instead.  Sophie shot the idea down, however, arguing that Edna had seniority in the Upolu alliance over Cochran, and that the core members were just as indebted to Edna for her unwavering loyalty as they were to Cochran for flipping.\n\nRedemption Island duel: The castaways would balance ceramic dishes on the end of a balancing arm.  As the challenge progresses, Jeff would call out different dishwares that the castaways would stack on the far end of the balance.  Should any part of a castaways's stack fall, that castaway would be out of the challenge.  The last castaway in the challenge would win.At the Redemption Island duel, Ozzy beat out Dawn and Whitney, who became the third and fourth members of the jury. On day 29, the tribe became frustrated with Albert's laziness around camp. Edna asked Coach for advice on how to make it further than sixth place ahead of Cochran.  Coach found himself second-guessing his original plans, as he felt that he could trust Cochran and Edna the most.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The castaways would replay previous challenges. In the first stage, the castaways would toss sand bags and attempt to land them on top of three crates. The three castaways to have one bag on all three crates would move on. In the final stage, the castaways would use the coconuts as ammunition for the slingshot to knock down three targets. The first castaway to knock all three of their targets down would win a spa afternoon with a shower and a massage and immunity.At the reward/immunity challenge, Albert, Rick, and Sophie moved on to the final round. In the final round, Albert beat out Rick. After the challenge was over, Jeff told Albert that he could choose somebody to join him in the reward and he picked Coach. Albert then asked if he could choose another, but when Jeff told him that he could not, Albert asked if he could give up his reward. Jeff allowed that and Albert, believing Cochran's earlier birthday lie, gave up his reward to Cochran as a gift. During the massage, Coach told Cochran that he would fight to keep Cochran in the game. After returning from the spa trip, Cochran tried to convince Albert to vote out Rick and Albert agreed if Coach and Edna would join them. Cochran then told Edna about his and Albert's tentative plans and she excitedly agreed to it, seeing it as a much-needed opportunity to further herself in the game. When Cochran told Coach about the plan, Coach was unsure of whether to stay loyal to his original alliance or create a new one with Albert, Cochran, and Edna. At Tribal Council, Cochran again pushed his feeling that the Upolu alliance owed him a debt. Edna voiced her sadness in being \"a junior member\" of the Upolu alliance. When Brandon openly declared that he would vote out Cochran and then Edna next, as per the core Upolu alliance's original plans, Brandon's lack of strategic play was discussed. When the vote came, Albert and Coach decided to stick with their original alliance and voted against Cochran, sending him to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":13,"episode_summary":"When Cochran arrived at Redemption Island, he felt insulted and used by the Upolu alliance. Ozzy asked for Cochran's vote at the Final Tribal Council, but Cochran would not commit to that as he felt insulted by the implication that he would lose at the Redemption Island duel. On day 31, Edna expressed her anger and frustration over being the core Upolu alliance's next target, being especially livid that Brandon, whom she greatly disliked, was playing a role in dictating her fate in the game. In the middle of Edna making a tearful plea to Coach to spare her from the next vote, Brandon interrupted the conversation when he burst into camp, yelling that the tribe had received tree mail with a Sprint HTC Evo 3D. The phone contained video messages from the castaways' loved ones: Coach's brother Pete, Sophie's father Thurston, Edna's sister Debbie, Brandon's father Shawn, Albert's mom Annie and Rick's wife Katy.\n\nRedemption Island duel: The castaways would toss a grappling hook to retrieve three bags with a ball inside. They would then use one of those balls to finish a labyrinth game.  The first to finish would win.At the Redemption Island duel, Jeff took the phone back and announced that there was a twist to the duel, but that he would get to it later. While Cochran struggled during the grappling hook stage, he caught up during the labyrinth game and was just barely edged out by Ozzy. After Cochran departed the Redemption Island Arena, Jeff brought out all of the castaways' loved ones. Jeff then tasked Ozzy with choosing three people to spend some time with their loved ones. Ozzy picked Albert and his mother, Coach and his brother, and Brandon and his father. After Edna, Rick, and Sophie left the Arena, Jeff handed the phone back to Ozzy and told the seven that they would be spending their time at Redemption Island. During the visit, Coach took the opportunity to promise Ozzy that \"as a Christian man\" that they would go to the final three should he return to the game. Brandon's father tried to convince Brandon that he needed to play to win, not to always play with honor. Brandon's father then told Coach that Brandon would follow any orders Coach would give as long as he took Brandon to the final three, but Coach was annoyed at the attempted manipulation.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would play on a grid of hexagons. They would start by standing on a hexagon and step to an adjoining hexagon. As they move, they would flip over the hexagon they were just on, indicating that the hexagon was no longer in play. Each castaway would continue to move until they could no longer make a move. The last castaway to be able to make a move would win.During the immunity challenge, after Brandon made his final move, he announced that he was making moves to prevent \"a particular person\" from winning immunity. Edna, irked by his statements, cut him off and told him to go ahead and just name her. In the end, Coach beat out Edna by a wide margin to take Individual Immunity. When the tribe returned to camp, Sophie and Rick expressed their disapproval of Brandon's actions toward Edna during the challenge. Brandon attempted to apologize to Edna, but Edna did not accept it as she thought it was insincere. Edna appealed to Albert, Coach, and Sophie to follow the tribe's mantra of playing with \"Honor. Loyalty. Integrity.\" and to vote Brandon out for going against those values. Edna then took Coach aside, asking him to either pass the Immunity Necklace to her or give her the hidden immunity idol, but Coach refused, saying that he would potentially ruin his own game if he did. Not giving up, Edna went back to Albert and Sophie, proposing that the three of them and Coach make a final four pact.  Believing that Edna would be an easy person to beat in the finals, Albert took her plan into consideration. At Tribal Council, Edna lambasted Brandon for his erratic behavior and his rudeness toward her.  Edna then argued to the rest of the Upolu alliance that if they truly believed in their mantra, they would keep her and vote out Brandon.  Despite all her efforts, however, the core alliance of five stuck together and sent Edna to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Determining that Sophie was becoming too dangerous to keep in the game, Albert decided to blindside Sophie at the next Tribal Council. Albert figured that Rick was the least dangerous and it would be to his advantage to go with him and Coach to the final Tribal Council.\n\nRedemption Island duel: The castaways would solve a slide puzzle to obtain a hatchet. They would then use the hatchet to cut a rope which would drop a bag of four cubes with colored sides. The castaways would have to stack the cubes such that there would be no repeating colors on each side. The first castaway to properly stack the cubes would win.At the Redemption Island duel, even though Edna received verbal assistance from the remaining castaways, Ozzy was able to continue his win streak at the duels. When Te Tuna returned to camp, Albert talked to Brandon about blindsiding Sophie. Meanwhile, Sophie told Coach and Rick that they had to send Brandon to Redemption Island as Brandon and Ozzy were the most dangerous players in the game. Albert approached Coach about voting against Sophie, but Coach figured that Albert was running scared. When Brandon interrupted Albert and Coach's conversation, Coach thought Brandon was bullying the two of them and became angry at Brandon. Coach felt that Brandon was acting like his uncle, Russell, and that he had to be voted off next. After Coach apologized for bringing up Russell, Brandon asked for reassurance that everything was okay.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The castaways would use a rope to climb a wall to collect five bags of puzzle pieces. Once all five bags were collected, the 15 puzzle pieces would have to be sorted into matching pairs. Three of the pieces would be unmatchable. These three pieces would reveal a numeric code that would be used to unlock a combination lock on a box at the top of the wall. The first castaway to unlock their box would win pizza and soft drinks to be delivered to camp and immunity.At the immunity challenge, Brandon beat the tribe to win Individual Immunity. After putting the immunity necklace around Brandon's neck, Jeff handed Brandon a pizza menu and told him to select one person to join him. Brandon, declaring that his selection was from the heart and not strategic, selected Rick. Brandon's win scrambled Coach and Sophie's plan to vote out Brandon so they switched their target to Albert. While Brandon and Rick were enjoying their reward, Sophie told them that she was voting for Albert. Rick told Sophie and Brandon that Albert told Rick that they were going to the final three together. This led to a four-way argument between Albert, Brandon, Rick, and Sophie over who made what promises to whom and who was lying. Albert went into damage control with Brandon. Brandon felt Albert did not intend to deceive him, that he deserved forgiveness, and that God was telling him to keep Albert in the game. Brandon went as far as offering Albert his Individual Immunity at Tribal Council figuring that neither Albert or Coach would vote against him and he would be safe. When Brandon told Coach about his plan, Coach sought his own divine wisdom about whom he should vote against. At the outset of Tribal Council, Brandon declared that he wanted to give up his Individual Immunity. A stunned Jeff and jury watched Brandon hand over the necklace to Albert. Brandon explained his actions by saying that he was staying true to the commitments he had made and he would give up his own place in the game to keep those commitments. Rick revealed that Coach had the hidden immunity idol. When asked by Jeff if he would give the Individual Immunity back to Brandon if he felt Brandon was in danger, Albert said that he did not feel Brandon was in danger and would not give the necklace back. Coach said he had received word from God about whom to vote for and was at peace with the decision. When the vote came, Brandon was indeed in danger as Coach cast the deciding vote against him and he was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":15,"episode_summary":"When Te Tuna returned to camp, Coach ripped into Albert for what he perceived as jury politicking by Albert at Tribal Council.\n\nRedemption Island duel: The castaways would hang on top of a pole as long as they can. The last castaway left hanging without touching the ground would win.In the final Redemption Island duel, after 40 minutes, the two castaways began to struggle to hang on, with Brandon finally sliding down to the bottom of the pole. With his sixth straight win, Ozzy re-entered the game. When the five returned to camp, Coach took Ozzy aside to tell him that he wanted to take him to the final three and would be willing to give Ozzy the hidden immunity idol if necessary. However, Ozzy was suspicious if Coach would really go through with the deal. Coach was unsure of whom to go with as all of the other castaways had told him that they wanted to go to the final three with them.\n\nImmunity challenge: With one hand, the castaways would pull on a rope that would steady a balancing board. With the other hand, the castaways would build a tower out of wood blocks to a certain height on one end of the balancing board. The first castaway to build their tower high enough would win.At the immunity challenge, during the middle of the challenge when Sophie was ahead of Ozzy, but had a partial collapse of her tower, she ordered Albert to drop his own efforts in order to help her pick up her dropped blocks. However, Jeff cut off the order by stating that the castaways could not receive any help from other castaways. Sophie never recovered, allowing Ozzy to beat out Coach to win Individual Immunity. When the tribe returned to camp, Coach wanted to vote out Rick as he thought Rick would be a threat for jury votes. Ozzy suggested to Albert to vote out Sophie. Rick also suggested to Coach that they vote for Sophie. At Tribal Council, Coach wore the hidden immunity idol around his neck, leaving the choices of votes to Albert, Rick, and Sophie. The three made their case to stay in the tribe in order to beat out Ozzy. Ozzy told everybody that Coach promised to take him to the final three. Ozzy and Sophie argued what they perceived as personal character attacks against each other. Sophie broke down and cried over the stress of the attacks against her character. After the votes were cast, Coach did not play the hidden immunity idol, and Rick was sent to the jury.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would race through various obstacles to retrieve five bags of puzzle pieces. The first castaway to retrieve all five bags and solve the puzzle would win.On day 38, Coach told Ozzy that he was upset that Ozzy let out his plan to go to the final three together as it was supposed to be a secret between the two of them. Coach thought he was being disrespected by Ozzy. Ozzy told Coach that his actions at Tribal Council were due to being burned earlier in the game by people he trusted and wasn't sure he could trust Coach. At the immunity challenge, Ozzy retrieved all of his puzzle pieces first, but struggled in getting the puzzle started. Once Sophie had the first piece of the puzzle locked in, she quickly caught up and passed Ozzy to win the final immunity challenge. With the loss, Ozzy knew that he was likely to be going home, but he made a pitch to Coach to force a tie at Tribal Council by appealing to Coach's desire to take warriors to the end. At Tribal Council, Coach was torn between staying loyal to his original alliance or allowing Ozzy to take on Albert in a fire starting challenge. In the end, Coach voted against Ozzy and he became the final member of the jury.\nAlbert, Coach, and Sophie enjoyed the traditional day 39 breakfast. At the final Tribal Council, the jury ripped into the final three for actions or questioned their strategies in the game. Albert was criticized for sucking up to the jurors while they were still in the game, giving them false hope of improving their positions in an attempt to win their votes. Sophie was accused of being condescending and pretentious. Coach was blasted for going against his \"honor and integrity\" mantra, manipulating people's religion to his advantage, and hiding behind Christianity, while never owning up to his actions."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US23","episode":16,"episode_summary":"Months later, it was revealed that the jury had cast the majority vote (six) for Sophie, crowning her as the Sole Survivor.  Coach was the runner-up with three votes, with Albert in a distant third, receiving no votes. The castaways return to discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst. Notable members of the audience were Joey King, who asked Ozzy a question, and Brandon's uncle and former contestant Russell Hantz, who commented on Brandon's game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":1,"episode_summary":"On Day 1, the eighteen castaways arrived on a truck at a beach. Jeff divided the tribes into men, Manono, versus women, Salani. Jeff revealed the existence of the Hidden Immunity Idol and that Redemption Island will not be used this season after being used in the last two seasons. Jeff then told the tribes that they had sixty seconds to strip everything of value from the truck. While the women of Salani were busy gathering goods, Michael stole several of their assembled supplies. After the scramble for supplies was done, Jeff tossed the two tribes a map to their camps and the tribes headed off in different directions.\nDuring Salani's trek through the jungle, Alicia formed an alliance with Chelsea, Kat, Kim, and Sabrina. The women arrived first and discovered the two tribes were camping on the same beach. Later the first day, Matt warned Colton that either he could use his \"women\"  connection to advance the Manono tribe or find himself the odd man out and be one of the first to be voted out. Matt also formed an alliance with Bill, Jay, and Michael. After Jay got Manono's fire started, the women tried to negotiate with the men for fire, but their efforts failed. Late that night, Monica and Christina crept into Manono's camp and stole an ember to start a fire, but the fire died out by morning. \nOn Day 2, Christina brokered a deal with the men for fire in exchange for weaving twenty palm fronds for the men. While Alicia agreed to the deal, Christina's bargaining upset her and she vowed to vote out Christina first. Sabrina found a Hidden Immunity Idol intended for the Manono tribe. Before the next Tribal Council, Sabrina gave the idol to Colton, telling him to make a big move in the game.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One at a time, the castaways would jump from a 25-foot (7.6 m) high tower into a net below. Once all of the tribe's castaways complete the jump, the tribe would move on to cross a balance beam and after that a rope bridge. The first tribe to have all of their members across the rope bridge and their tribe flag raised would win immunity and flint.At the combined Reward/Immunity Challenge, Kourtney injured her wrist while landing in the net during the tower jump. When Jeff noticed that Kourtney was kneeling and in obvious pain while waiting her turn on the balance beam, he called a stop to the challenge to tend to Kourtney. The Survivor Medical Team determined that she had a possible broken wrist and pulled her from the challenge to get an X-ray for further diagnosis. Jeff told the tribes that since the challenge requires nine castaways to start and finish, Manono wins by default. However, he gave the men the option to continue the challenge with a nine versus eight competition as a gesture of goodwill. The men declined and took the Tribal Immunity, much to the disappointment of the women. \nThat night, at Tribal Council, a vicious argument broke out between Alicia and Christina over the deal made over the fire and palm frond mats. Jeff told the women that Kourtney suffered multiple fractures of her wrist that would require surgery, she was medically removed from the game, and they would not have to vote anybody out. They received flint."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":2,"episode_summary":"When Alicia and Christina returned to camp after Tribal Council, the two tried to clear their mutual animosity.  Alicia still did not care for Christina but she focused on Nina to be voted out next as her alliance needed Christina to win challenges. On the morning of Day 4, Sabrina was appointed the leader of the tribe. The day's tree mail had two large crates for the tribes and instructions to take them to a neutral location where they were to be opened. The tribes opened the instruction package and it told them that this would be the first do-it-yourself Reward Challenge. Bill read the challenge rules and the tribes began.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribes would untie a series of knotted ropes to free a metal ring. The first tribe to free the ring would win a tarp along with the rope and crate from the challenge.The challenge was closely fought with Manono pulling out the win. Afterward, the men worked on improving their camp but Colton hung out with Salani. The women shooed Colton away to have a women-only meeting. He returned later to tell them he felt alone in the game and that he wanted to spend as much time with the women as he could. The women told him that was not an option for strategic reasons. Later that night, Colton told Jonas, Leif, Tarzan, and Troyzan that he was going to play the Hidden Immunity Idol at the next Tribal Council and that they could blindside Matt or Michael. Colton decided to go along with this \"misfit alliance\" until he could join up with the women.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes would line up side-by-side on a balance beam out in the ocean. One at a time and starting with the castaway furthest from the finish platform, the castaway would have to move across the balance beam and around the other tribe members. Should any three castaways touch each other at the same time, the crossing castaway would have to jump into the ocean and start over from the beginning. Should the crossing castaway fall into the ocean, they would have to start over from the beginning. The first tribe to have all of their members on the finish platform would win. Challenge from Survivor Vanuatu.At the Immunity Challenge, Manono easily defeated Salani. The women struggled from the start; only getting Monica across to the finish platform by the time the men completed the challenge. Back at camp, Kat apologized to the tribe for her over enthusiasm at taking the lead spot in the challenge and struggling in that spot until Monica took over. Nina told Chelsea that Kat was the weakest link in the tribe and that the tribe should vote for Kat. Chelsea told Kim that she agreed with Nina's assessment, but was concerned about picking off members of their alliance so early in the game. At Tribal Council, the tribe discussed what life experiences Kat and Nina brought to the tribe and the alliance of five. When the voting came, the alliance of five stuck together, voting Nina out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":3,"episode_summary":"With a massive storm heading in, Colton and Jonas stopped by the women's camp the night after Tribal Council to see if the women wanted to stay in the men's shelter. However, the women decided to tough it out and got pounded throughout the night by the storm. The next morning, the women went over to the men's camp to warm up.\n\nReward Challenge: Facing off in a one-on-one competition, a castaway from each tribe would memorize a series of items at a station. Once a castaway thought they had the series memorized, they would pull a handle, concealing the items. The two castaways would then run to a second station to duplicate the memorized series. When a castaway thought they had the sequences correct, they would move to a finish station for validation by Jeff. The first castaway to correctly duplicate the series would score a point for their tribe. If neither castaway got the series correct, the castaways would repeat the process until one of them succeeded. The first tribe to score five points wins fishing gear and a canoe with paddles.At a rainy Reward Challenge, Sabrina defeated Matt, Monica defeated Colton, Alicia defeated Jay, Kat defeated Troyzan after seven tries, and Christina defeated Bill to sweep the challenge for Salani. As a second storm rolled into the campsites, several of the women went to the men's camp to get fire and shelter, which annoyed the men. When the men asked for the use of the canoe in return for fire and shelter, the women declined to agree to any deal.\n\nImmunity Challenge: One member from each tribe would work as a caller to guide three pairs of blindfolded fellow castaways around an obstacle course to pull a rope attached to a bucket at five water towers. The buckets would release a puzzle bag. Once all five puzzle bags are retrieved, the caller would assemble the puzzle. The first caller to assemble the puzzle would win for their tribe.At the Immunity Challenge, Manono had a huge lead, but Sabrina managed to assemble the puzzle before Bill, with the help of other Salani members. Back at camp, the misfit alliance debated over voting out Matt or Bill. Colton wanted to vote out Bill but Tarzan suggested Matt for being the most dangerous player. When Jay stopped by to see what the misfit alliance was talking about, they invited him to vote with them. Outnumbered, he agreed to join their voting bloc. When Matt arrived, the six of them got quiet, so he left. He then tried to re-establish his perceived power in the tribe by trying to strike a deal with Troyzan, but it backfired on him as the proposal annoyed Troyzan. At Tribal Council, Colton told the tribe that he had a Hidden Immunity Idol and that he was going to play it. When the vote came, Colton did not play the idol as the misfit alliance, plus Jay and Bill, all voted Matt out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":4,"episode_summary":"When Manono returned to camp, Tarzan and Troyzan celebrated their blindside of Matt and agreed to target Bill next. On day 9, Jonas and Troyzan asked to use the women's net to fish in exchange for half the catch, but were rebuffed.\n\nReward Challenge: One castaway at a time would use a large slingshot to fire a coconut at a 5×5 grid of targets. The first tribe to knock out 5 targets in either a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line would win a choice of one of three rewards: a mattress, blankets and pillows; a tarp; or donuts, coffee, sugar, and creamer.The Reward Challenge was won by Salani and they selected the tarp as their reward. Back at camp, Leif told Bill that Colton wanted to vote Bill out at the last Tribal Council. When Michael told Colton that he saw Bill and Leif having a conversation, Colton confronted Leif about what he told Bill. After Leif admitted that he told Bill about being targeted, Colton told Leif that he picked the wrong side and that his fate in the game was sealed. Leif knew that he lost the trust of his alliance and had to regain their trust.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes would divide into pairs and, cuffed together, race across interspersed teeter-totters to solve increasingly difficult puzzles,  each time collecting a key. Once three keys were collected, the last castaway would use the keys to unlock three locks and raise their tribe's flag in victory.When the Immunity Challenge treemail arrived in the form of a puzzle, Kat and Alicia argued when Alicia thought Kat was questioning her puzzle solving skills. At the challenge, Alicia and Chelsea struggled at solving the first puzzle, even with the help of looking at the men's completed puzzle, and the men had an easy win. Back at camp, Sabrina told Kim that Alicia was the weakest link and she had to go, which unsettled Kim. At Manono, Leif confided in Bill that he had been targeted by the tribe for removal prior to the Challenge. Bill tried to make peace with Colton, but Colton refused any conversation and an argument ensued. After the confrontation, Colton proposed to the other men that they give the Tribal Immunity to Salani, go to Tribal Council, and vote out Bill. Angry at Leif for the perceived betrayal, Colton and Tarzan told Leif that he was going to be voted out next and browbeat the rest of the men into giving up Tribal Immunity. Manono became the first tribe in Survivor history to voluntarily give up tribal immunity, which left Jeff awestruck. He then grilled the men on why they were there, especially since there was no reward for them. Leif appeared to throw himself at the mercy of his alliance, and Colton and Bill argued over Bill's choice in careers, Colton's prejudices, and their different lifestyles. When the vote came, Colton's control of his tribe was apparent and Bill was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":5,"episode_summary":"When the tribes arrived for the Reward Challenge, Jeff shocked the castaways by announcing a tribe redistribution. The new tribes would be selected by the castaways smashing an egg against their bodies which would reveal their new tribe's color. After all of the eggs were smashed, the new Manono consisted of Alicia, Christina, Colton, Jonas, Leif, Monica, and Tarzan while the new Salani was Chelsea, Jay, Kat, Kim, Michael, Sabrina, and Troyzan.\n\nReward Challenge: Working in teams of four, the tribes would race to fill and carry a bucket of water from a water tower filling station to a container. The bucket would have several holes in it which the castaways would have to plug to prevent water from running out of the bucket. The first tribe to have enough water in their container to tip a seesaw and raise their flag would win peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, coffee, and the right to live at the current campsite. The losing tribe would have to move to a new campsite.The new Salani then went on to win a closely fought challenge. Jeff tossed Manono a map to their new campsite and they headed out. At the new Manono camp, Colton and Alicia were disappointed at their new tribe's members. Colton promised the girls he was with them, but also told Jonas that he was with the men all the way. Colton told Alicia that he wanted to vote out Christina next, which made her suspicious of his true loyalties. Alicia was fine with one of the women being voted out next as long as it was not her. Later, Colton changed his mind and wanted to target Monica. At the Salani campsite, Jay and Troyzan formed an alliance with Kim. On day 14, Kim went looking for the Hidden Immunity Idol and found it. She told Chelsea about her find and they plotted their next moves in the game.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Three members from each tribe would race to fetch a ball in the water and shoot it into a basket. The tribe would score a point for every basket they make. The first tribe to score three points would win.  Challenge from Survivor: Tocantins.At the Immunity Challenge, the new Salani won their second challenge in a row. Back at Manono, Alicia and Colton shifted their attention to voting out Monica. They told Christina and Monica that the vote was going against Tarzan and told the others that the true vote was going against Monica. At Tribal Council, Alicia and Colton's plan came together and Christina watched in stunned disbelief as Monica was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":6,"episode_summary":"When Manono returned to camp, Alicia and Colton gloated at Christina over their blindside of Monica; telling Christina that she had no chance of any alliances in the game and that she was going to be voted off next ahead of any other castaway.\n\nReward Challenge: One castaway from each tribe would race up to the top of a stack of crates. The castaway would then bounce a coconut off of a net trampoline to hit one of five targets. The castaways would then race back to the start line where another castaway would take their turn. The first tribe to knock out all five targets would win a trip to a Survivor-style ice cream parlor.Salani continued their winning streak at challenges by winning the Reward Challenge while Manono crumbled due to Christina's lack of effort in the challenge. During the challenge, Colton screamed at Christina and called her an idiot. While Salani was enjoying their reward, Alicia and Colton continued their ridiculing of Christina, with Colton telling Christina that she could enjoy her last two days in the game, quit, or jump in the camp fire. While Alicia, Colton, and Tarzan were off talking, Christina tried to get Jonas and Leif on her side by telling them that Alicia has an alliance with the other women. Alicia came back without Christina noticing and the two had a confrontation over Christina's play in the game.\nDuring the middle of night on day 15, Colton woke up complaining of a severe headache and pain in his right side. Christina tended to Colton, which he took as a ploy to stay in the game. Tarzan, a plastic surgeon, determined that Colton had initial signs of appendicitis, though it could also be something benign. Colton walked out of camp thinking that he was dehydrated. Christina found him curled up on the ground and called the Survivor Medical Team. Ramona, the Medical Team doctor, diagnosed possible appendicitis that required immediate evacuation for further tests. Jeff told Colton the option to give the Hidden Immunity Idol to somebody was completely his. He called the Manono tribe together to say goodbye to Colton. Before Colton left he told his tribe to \"Go get 'em\" and that he was keeping the hidden immunity idol as a souvenir, which angered Alicia. The departure of Colton caused strategy shifts by Alicia and Jonas. Alicia felt that Colton screwed her over by keeping the idol. Jonas thought some of the power in the tribe had shifted to him and that it might be better to vote out Alicia instead of Christina due to Alicia's alliance with the other women.\nOn day 17, treemail stated that both tribes would be going to Tribal Council. While Salani made some wild speculations about what was to occur during a vote at Tribal Council, at Manono, Leif was the swing vote between Alicia and Tarzan voting for Christina or Christina and Jonas voting for Alicia. At Tribal Council, Jeff told the two tribes that Colton had been medically evacuated from the game after being diagnosed with acute appendicitis and taken to a hospital for surgery. The two tribes discussed how Colton's departure affected the game. When Alicia and Tarzan told Salani that Colton kept the hidden immunity idol, the Salani tribe was suspicious that Manono might not be telling the truth. Jeff then shocked the tribes for a second time by telling them to drop their buffs as the tribes were merged. He tossed the castaways a new set of black buffs and the discussion continued over the strategy of the individual phase of the game. The yet-to-be-named merged tribe departed Tribal Council to return to their original camp site."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":7,"episode_summary":"When the newly merged tribe returned to camp from Tribal Council, the merger feast was waiting for them. The next morning, the castaways decided upon the tribe name of Tikiano. Tarzan approached Michael about reforming the original male Manono alliance along with Alicia. Michael told Tarzan that he was in, but in reality he was not as he wanted to stick with the post-switch Salani tribal alliance.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would be split into two teams. One at a time, four members of each team would race through an obstacle course of digging and crossing underneath a log and crawling under a wooden rack. They would then dig up a bag of puzzle pieces buried in the sand and race back through the obstacle course. Once all four bags were retrieved, the two remaining team members would use the pieces to assemble a puzzle. The first team to assemble their puzzle would win pizza, beer, and a secret note to be read after the feast.For the Reward Challenge, the castaways were split into the orange team of Alicia, Chelsea, Christina, Jay, Sabrina, and Troyzan versus the blue team of Jonas, Kat, Kim, Leif, Michael, and Tarzan. Leif started off first for the blue team and struggled under the log, giving the orange team a huge lead. However, the lead was squandered when Sabrina was slow retrieving the fourth bag of pieces and Michael was able to catch up. The challenge came down to the puzzle assembly stage where Christina and Troyzan faced off against Jonas and Tarzan. Momentum swung back and forth between the two pairs, but Christina and Troyzan managed to pull off the win. After the winning six enjoyed their feast, they read the secret note, which said that there was another Hidden Immunity Idol hidden back at camp. The six agreed to keep the note secret between themselves. Back at camp, Michael told Jonas about Tarzan's plan to reform the original Manono alliance, which was news to Jonas. Jonas confronted Tarzan about it and the two had a vocal argument. Tarzan declared he was dropping his alliance with Jonas and he was dropping out of the tribe. Troyzan woke up early on day 19 to go searching for the new Hidden Immunity Idol and found it.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each castaway would have to stand on a small wooden log while balancing a ball on a wooden disk. At regular intervals, a ball would be added until the castaway would be balancing three balls. Should any of the balls fall off the disk or if they step off the log, the castaway would be out of the challenge. The final castaway to remain standing on the log without dropping any of the balls would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Troyzan beat out Kat for the first Individual Immunity. The post-switch Salani tribe agreed to vote out Jonas for being the biggest threat among the post-switch Manono tribe. Kim told Troyzan that she was thinking of voting out Jonas. Troyzan told Jonas that his name was on the chopping block, which made Jonas start to scramble to swing the vote away from him to Kat. Jonas apologized to Tarzan, which patched up the friction between them and Tarzan resumed his alliance with Jonas. After Chelsea and Tarzan clashed over laundry, Chelsea wanted to shift her alliance's vote from Jonas to Tarzan. At Tribal Council, Jonas tried to deflect votes from himself and on to Michael by openly declaring that he was voting for Michael. Tarzan was not happy that Jonas threw Michael under the bus. Jonas then told Tarzan that they did not have the necessary votes to vote out Kat. Kat asked Tarzan what she had done to deserve the votes and Tarzan said that Jonas was lying. Tarzan stated that the tribe should vote out Jonas and then added, \"If they wanted to vote me off, that's fine! But I'm voting for Jonas tonight for what he did!\" The tribe then discussed the social interaction of Jonas and Tarzan within the tribe. When the vote came, the post-switch Salani alliance stuck to their first plan and Jonas became the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Jay and Troyzan were concerned that their choice to align with the post-switch Salani alliance was going to backfire on them should all of the women align together against the men. They agreed that one of the women had to be voted out next.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would be split into two teams. One at time, a castaway would slide down a large water slide and then race out into the ocean to retrieve a crate. The next castaway would then slide down the slide and would help all team members who had gone down the slide to retrieve another crate. The process would repeat until five crates were retrieved. The teams would then use the crates to assemble a puzzle. The first team to assemble their puzzle would win a trip to an oasis with a barbecue and 7 Up.At the Reward Challenge, the tribe divided into teams by schoolyard pick of Alicia, Chelsea, Kat, Jay, and Troyzan versus Christina, Kim, Leif, Michael, and Sabrina. Tarzan was not picked and sat out the challenge. The challenge was closely fought with the team of Christina, Kim, Leif, Michael, and Sabrina taking the win. During their reward trip, Kim and Sabrina agreed that their alliance with Chelsea could control the game with the other three women by voting out Michael. They would deceive Troyzan into thinking Michael was voting him out. Back at camp, the losing team also talked about whom to vote out next. Troyzan suggested Christina and Jay agreed, while Kat suggested Michael. This made Jay and Troyzan more nervous about an all women alliance. The next day, Tarzan annoyed several members of the tribe when they thought he took a piece of their shelter to use as firewood. Tarzan took Chelsea aside to ask her if she was biased against him because he was a plastic surgeon and she was unhappy with her breast implants. This made Chelsea want to vote out Tarzan as soon as possible, but she knew that the better strategy was to vote out the bigger threats and she thought Tarzan was not a threat. Kim put the plan she agreed upon with Sabrina into effect by telling Troyzan that Michael said Troyzan was a threat to win the game and that he needed to be voted out. Troyzan bought the story and agreed to vote out Michael.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would race across a ladder bridge while guiding three bags of puzzle pieces along a rope wrapped around the bridge. The first four castaways to complete the first stage would move on to the second stage where they would assemble a complex puzzle. The first castaway to complete their puzzle would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Alicia, Jay, Kim, and Troyzan moved on to the final stage where Jay came from behind to take the win. Back at camp, Chelsea asked Jay what he thought about voting for Michael in front of Alicia and Christina, which made Jay even more suspicious of his post-switch Salani alliance was not real and that the women were going to vote out the men. Kim went to do damage control with Jay and Michael by telling them they should vote out Christina and the rest of the post-switch Manono tribe next. Jay's nervousness made Kim consider changing the plan and vote out Christina instead of Michael to keep the post-switch Salani alliance together. At Tribal Council, the alliance of Chelsea, Kat, Kim, and Sabrina stuck to their plan to take out Michael and he was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: The tribe would be split into two teams to play a variation of ladder toss with five rungs. Each castaway would throw the bola once to attempt to score for their team. The team with the highest score would win a boat trip to a secluded island to enjoy a local barbecue.Day 23's treemail announced the second do-it-yourself Reward Challenge. The tribe drew rocks to divide into teams of Alicia, Jay, Kat, Tarzan, and Troyzan versus Chelsea, Christina, Kim, Leif, and Sabrina. The team of Alicia, Jay, Kat, Tarzan, and Troyzan won the challenge after Kat and Tarzan scored a combined six points while Christina was the only one to score a single point for her team. While on their reward trip, Jay told Kat that the post-switch Salani alliance had to stick together and vote out Alicia, Christina, Leif, and Tarzan, but Jay was still suspicious that the women were going to eliminate the men first. The next day, Alicia, Chelsea, Kat, Kim, and Sabrina agreed that Jay or Troyzan would be voted out next. However, Chelsea was apprehensive about the plan as she had told both Jay and Troyzan that they could trust her. This upset Alicia, Kat, and Sabrina as they thought Chelsea should not have made any agreement with the men. Meanwhile, Jay and Troyzan agreed that one of the women of the post-switch Manono had to be voted out. Jay then talked to Chelsea, Kat, Kim, and Sabrina and got them to agree to vote out Alicia. However, the four girls lied to Jay and Kim told Alicia that she was safe. Jay trusted the four girls' promise, but Troyzan was suspicious.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would stand on a log, one arm above their head with their wrist tethered to a bucket of water on top of a platform. The castaway who could stand there the longest without tipping the bucket would win. During the challenge, Jeff would tempt the castaways to quit with offerings of food.At the Immunity Challenge, Tarzan dropped out of the challenge as soon as Jeff told the castaways that the challenge was on. Christina dropped out next. Sabrina dropped out when Jeff offered two cookies and a glass of milk. Kat and Kim dropped out for four cupcakes and a glass of milk. Alicia told Chelsea that she would drop out so that Chelsea could win. Before Jeff revealed the next food item, Alicia agreed to drop out without seeing the item. She ended up with a bowl of candy and chocolate. After 45 minutes, Troyzan fell out. Jay stepped off for chicken wings and beer. The challenge came down to Chelsea and Leif. Chelsea told Leif that he would be less of a threat in the game if he stepped off. Jeff offered up three hamburgers, potato chips, and a beer. After checking in with Chelsea that her promise was true, Leif stepped off, giving Chelsea the win. Leif gave Chelsea a bite of his bribe. Back at camp, Chelsea and Kim agreed to split the vote between Jay and Troyzan in case one of the played a Hidden Immunity Idol. Kim assured Jay and Troyzan that neither of them were being voted out. Troyzan was still suspicious about Kim and retrieved his Hidden Immunity Idol to play at Tribal Council. Troyzan told Jay that the women were playing them, but Jay still did not believe that the women were going to betray them. Troyzan also told Jay that he was going to play his Hidden Immunity Idol and asked him to vote for Kim. Jay told Kim about Troyzan's plan and told her that they should vote out Alicia. At Tribal Council, the women's alliance stuck to their plan of splitting the vote between Jay and Troyzan. Troyzan played his Hidden Immunity Idol, negating the two votes against him, but a blindsided Jay received five votes and became the third member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After the betrayal at Tribal Council, Troyzan decided that he was going to play the rest of the game with the attitude of him versus everybody else.\n\nReward Challenge: Instead of a Reward Challenge, a Survivor Auction was held. Items won include food and drinks, letters from home, a shower, and an advantage at the next immunity challenge.Day 26's treemail had envelopes with $500 in cash for a Survivor Auction. Money and items won could not be shared. Alicia spent $500 for a letter from home (from her dad), which she read out loud to the tribe. With the price fixed at $500, Jeff offered the other castaways their letters. Tarzan bought his and decided to keep the letter private. Troyzan was tempted to buy his letter from home, but felt that he had to play the rest of the game on his own. While Christina had enough money to buy her letter, she did not. The others could not afford their letters as they had bought an item earlier in the auction. Egged on by the others, Christina got into a bidding war with Troyzan over the advantage at the next Immunity Challenge. After Troyzan won the item, Sabrina commented that he would still be voted off next. Troyzan told the tribe that he felt that the bidding was another sign that the game had turned into the rest of the tribe versus him. Kat broke the tension by telling Jeff that she still had money left and urging him to continue the auction. The last item for bid, a mystery item, was bought by Kat for $160. The note stated that she had bought the cake for the entire tribe and that they had 60 seconds to eat it. When Troyzan got back to camp, he went off hunting for a new Hidden Immunity Idol without any regard for the others noticing. Not finding an Idol, Troyzan decided to feign that he found it.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would replay previous challenges. In the first stage, the castaways would race to untie knotted ropes to free a ring. The first four to finish would move on to the second stage where they would race up to the top of a stack of crates and bounce coconuts off of a net trampoline to hit three targets. The first two to hit all of their targets would move on to the final stage where they would use a slingshot to fire a coconut at a 3×3 grid of targets. The first castaway to knock out 3 targets in either a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Troyzan revealed that the advantage he had won at the Survivor Auction won him a first-round bye in the challenge, allowing him to jump immediately to the second stage. He was joined by Tarzan, Kim, and Christina in the second round. Troyzan and Tarzan moved on to the final stage. The final stage was a close match between the men, with Troyzan taking the win. The women were upset at Troyzan for his posturing and trash talk after the win. Back at camp, Chelsea and Kim discussed their plans at Tribal Council now that they could not vote out Troyzan. They decided that they could not vote out one of the women as that would cause too much chaos and either Leif or Tarzan was going to go next. Troyzan told Alicia, Christina, Leif, and Tarzan that they were on the outside of the strong alliance of Chelsea, Kat, Kim, and Sabrina and this was their opportunity to vote out Kim to take control of the game. At Tribal Council, Troyzan continued his confrontation with Chelsea and Sabrina over his new attitude in the game. Troyzan repeated his pitch that the weaker five should join together to vote out the other four. When the voting came, only Leif joined in voting against Kim. The women, along with Tarzan, stuck to the plan of eliminating one of the men, sending Leif to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":11,"episode_summary":"When the tribe got back to camp, Tarzan decided to align himself to the women so that they would vote out Troyzan first.\n\nReward Challenge: Each castaway would fill out a questionnaire about their opinions on the others. Then, they must predict the most common answer to each question. Each castaway with a correct prediction would be allowed to cut a section of rope holding up a doll of the castaway they want eliminated. Three cuts of the rope would send the doll into a fire where it would burn, thus eliminating that player from the challenge. Last person left with their doll not burned wins a helicopter trip to an island and a picnic.At the Reward Challenge, Troyzan went out first, followed by Tarzan, Chelsea, Kat, Sabrina, and Christina. The challenge came down to Alicia and Kim, with Kim taking the win. Jeff then asked Kim to pick one person to join her and she picked Alicia. Jeff then told her that she had one more person to take and she chose Chelsea, which upset Kat, as Kat and Kim had promised to choose each other. Troyzan used Kim's choices to tell Christina, Kat, and Sabrina that it shows exactly where they stood within the women's alliance. While the three were on their reward, they decided that they had to do some damage control when they returned. Meanwhile, back at camp, Troyzan focused on getting Kat to realize that she should feel slighted for not being taken on the reward. Sabrina tried to calm Kat down and get information on how loyal Christina would be to the women's alliance. When the three women got back from the reward, Kim tried to patch things up with Kat.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Playing in rounds and facing off in pairs, the castaways would slide across a slippery surface to retrieve a rope ring. They would then toss the ring onto a pole. The first castaway to toss their ring onto the pole would move on to the next round. In the second round, there would be two rings to retrieve and toss onto the pole. In the final round, there would be three rings to retrieve and toss onto the pole.  This challenge is a spin-off from Survivor: Fiji.In the first round of the Immunity Challenge, Chelsea defeated Alicia, Kat defeated Sabrina, Tarzan defeated Troyzan, which brought out cheers from the women, and Kim defeated Christina. In the second round, Chelsea defeated Kat and Kim defeated Tarzan. In the final round, Kim defeated Chelsea. Back at camp, just in case Troyzan had an Immunity Idol, Kim and Sabrina came up with a plan to split the vote between Troyzan and Christina. Kat was unhappy nobody asked her opinion on what to do and did not want to be seen as a follower or weak player. Sabrina told Christina that, while votes were going to be cast against her, that she was not going to be voted out. Christina told Troyzan about the split vote, which gave Troyzan an opening to get the vote to go against Christina. At Tribal Council, the possible divisions amongst the women's alliance was discussed. When the vote came, the core women's alliance stuck to their split vote plan and Troyzan was not able to get any additional votes to go against Christina. Therefore, Troyzan became the fifth member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: The castaways and their loved ones would be tethered together and attached to one end of a thick rope. The thick rope has other ropes woven around it and several poles. The castaways and loved ones would have to untangle the ropes to allow them to progress along the thick rope. The first castaway and loved one to reach the end of the thick rope would win the castaway and their loved one would go on a picnic.Day 31's treemail was a Sprint HTC Evo 3D containing videos from the castaways' loved ones: Sabrina's brother Tony, Alicia's sister Leticia, Chelsea's dad Ken, Christina's dad Sung, Kim's sister Beth, Kat's cousin Robby, and Tarzan's wife Terri. When the castaways arrived at the Reward Challenge site, Jeff brought out their loved ones for a reunion. Jeff then went over the challenge rules. Kat and Robby just barely beat out Kim and Beth in the challenge. Jeff told Kat to pick one other pair to join them on the picnic and she selected Kim and Beth. Kat was then told to pick another pair and she picked Alicia and Leticia. Kat explained that she picked Kim and Alicia because she wanted to spend time together as friends. Chelsea, Kim, and Sabrina thought it was a mistake that Kat did not pick Christina and Tarzan on the picnic. While on the reward, Kim considered bringing Alicia and Kat to the final three. Alicia and Kat wanted to vote out Sabrina ahead of Christina, but Kim was unsure if she could vote against Sabrina. Back at camp, Sabrina was very upset at Kat's choices and brought up the idea of voting out Kat. Chelsea agreed with Sabrina and asked Tarzan about what he thought of voting out Kat. Two days later, Chelsea and Kim agreed to vote out Sabrina next instead of Kat.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would stand on a log on the edge of a platform over the water with their arms behind them hanging onto a handle. The handle would be tied to a rope. At regular intervals, Jeff would turn a crank that would uncoil more rope which would lower the castaways closer to the water. The last castaway that hangs onto the handle without falling into the water or stepping off the log would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Kim beat out Kat to win Individual Immunity for the second time in a row. After Kat's strong showing in the challenge, Alicia changed her mind about voting out Sabrina first and wanted to vote out Kat. Alicia approached Kim about it, but Kim wanted to vote out Sabrina first. Chelsea and Kim went off together to discuss their options of voting out Kat or Sabrina. At Tribal Council, Kat's choices at the Reward Challenge and the performances of the castaways at the Immunity Challenge were discussed. When the vote came, Chelsea and Kim decided to vote against Kat and she was voted out unanimously."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":13,"episode_summary":"When the tribe returned to camp, Tarzan tried to secure himself a spot in the final four by talking to Kim about voting out Chelsea and Sabrina next. He offered himself as the final jury member and told Kim that he could persuade the rest of the jury to vote for her. Kim agreed that taking Alicia and Christina to the final three was her best option, but was not sure she could vote out Chelsea. When Alicia joined the conversation, the two told her the same plan. However, when Kim walked away, Tarzan told Alicia that he would persuade the jury to vote for her over Kim. The next day, Chelsea thought Alicia, Christina, and Tarzan were in an alliance to the final three. She tried to convince Christina that Tarzan could not go to the final three as all of the men of the jury would vote for Tarzan. Christina told Alicia, Kim, and Tarzan about her conversation with Chelsea. Kim was concerned that Chelsea had blown her double dealing with the trio of Alicia, Christina, and Tarzan and the pair of Chelsea and Sabrina. Kim told Chelsea about what Christina had done, which upset Chelsea. Kim told Chelsea that the game was now Chelsea, Kim, and Sabrina versus Alicia, Christina, and Tarzan.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would race to collect three disks from three poles. The castaway would have to circle around the pole at each station to unscrew the disk from the top of the pole. Once all three disks were retrieved, they would use the disks to solve a combination lock that would release a flag. The first castaway to raise their flag would win an overnight trip on a sailboat with a three course meal.The Reward Challenge was won by Chelsea. Chelsea went back on her promise to Christina and instead took Sabrina and Kim on the reward. While the three were on reward, Alicia and Christina were upset about Chelsea's choices and wanted to vote out Chelsea if she did not win Individual Immunity. Tarzan told Alicia and Christina that Kim and Chelsea were deceiving them and that they should take him to the final three. Alicia wanted to hear what Kim would say after she returned from the reward. The next day, Alicia and Kim talked and they discovered that Tarzan had told them both the same story about swaying the jury votes in their favor. They agreed that they couldn't let Tarzan play both sides or they would look like morons. The two told Christina about Tarzan's plotting.\n\nImmunity Challenge: With one arm tied behind their backs, the castaways would work to solve a three section puzzle in the shape of a fish skeleton. The castaways would link together fish hooks to retrieve a bag of puzzle pieces that would complete one of the three sections. After one section is complete, the castaways would retrieve another bag of puzzle pieces until all three sections were complete. The first castaway to solve the entire puzzle would win.Alicia beat out Kim in a closely fought Immunity Challenge. Back at camp, Alicia was unsure if she should go with Tarzan and vote out Chelsea or to believe Kim and vote out Tarzan. At Tribal Council, Tarzan's game play and suitability to take to the final three were discussed.  When the vote came, the women decided to vote out Tarzan and he was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Immunity Challenge: The castaways would begin by untying a series of knots that would open a gate. The castaways would then cross a balance beam maze. At the end of the maze, the castaways would bounce along a cargo net to retrieve five puzzle piece bags. Once all five bags were retrieved, the castaways would use the pieces to solve a puzzle that would give them three clues to the numbers of a combination lock. The castaways would then climb a tower to solve the combination lock which would raise a flag. The first castaway to raise their flag would win.Kim and Sabrina talked about considering voting out Chelsea and taking Christina to the final three. At the Immunity Challenge, Kim came from behind during the puzzle stage to win her third Individual Immunity. Chelsea told Kim that she wanted to vote out Alicia and take Sabrina to the final three. Kim was not sure if she would vote out Chelsea or Alicia. Kim told Sabrina that she wanted to vote out Alicia. Kim then told Alicia and Christina that she was going to vote out Chelsea. At Tribal Council, the women made their pitch to Kim to align with her side. When the vote came, Kim's true allegiance came out and she voted Alicia to the jury by a vote of 3–2.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would use a long pole to maneuver a wooden bowl around a metal rod structure. They would then balance the bowl on the top of the structure. The structure is mounted on a spring, so the structure would sway if the castaway touches the structure while maneuvering the bowl, possibly toppling the bowls from the top of the structure. The first castaway to stack ten bowls on top would win.When the women returned to camp, Kim apologized to Christina for lying to her for so long. Day 38's treemail instructed the final four to take the traditional journey honoring the castaways voted out before heading to the final Immunity Challenge. Kim beat out Christina for the final Individual Immunity. Back at camp, Christina accepted her fate to being voted out and did not try to convince Kim take her to the final three. Kim was still unsure if she should take Christina or Sabrina to the final three. At Tribal Council, Jeff tried to get Christina to make a pitch to stay in the game, but she refused to make much of an effort. Her fate was sealed and she became the last member of the jury.\nChelsea, Kim, and Sabrina enjoyed the traditional day 39 breakfast. At the final Tribal Council, the jury made their statements to the three and questioned the three about their game play. Chelsea was lambasted as being anti-social and was seen as one of Kim's pawns, Sabrina's game was questioned about her quiet gameplay and her weak performances in immunity challenges, while Kim was criticized for making too many direct blindsides and betraying several people in the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US24","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Nearly a year later, the votes from the jurors were read live; Kim was named Sole Survivor, having received votes from all the jurors aside from Leif and Troyzan, who voted for Sabrina. This gave Sabrina second place, and Chelsea placed third with no votes. The castaways reunited to discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The fifteen new castaways, already divided into three tribes, were brought in by boat; the three returning castaways were introduced and assigned to these tribes. The tribes were then given sixty seconds to offload as many supplies from the boat to rafts to start their camps. At Matsing, Russell, who had taken a leadership role in his previous appearance, tried to step away from that role, but still ended up making most of the tribe's decisions, irritating the others. Russell found a clue for the hidden immunity idol, and while successful in hiding it, was caught reading the clue by Zane. Russell asserted that anyone looking for the idol would be voted out. The new castaways in Kalabaw immediately targeted Jonathan as their first elimination, while Jonathan began searching for the hidden immunity idol, coming across the clue for it. Dawson recognized Jeff Kent as a baseball player, but kept this information to herself. On Tandang, Michael formed an alliance with RC, Abi-Maria, and Pete; Michael also privately told Lisa that he recognized her from her acting career.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The tribes would be divided into pairs. The first pair from each tribe would be tethered together and have to race through the jungle and up a cargo net to retrieve two paddles. The next pair of castaways would use the paddles to paddle a boat out in the ocean to a buoy where they would dive to release a chest and swim it back to shore. All six castaways would then push the chest up the beach to a puzzle assembly mat. The final pair of castaways would use the pieces inside the chest to assemble a puzzle. The first two tribes to complete their puzzle would win immunity. The first-place tribe would win a complete fire-starting kit of wood, flint, and lighter fluid. Second-place would win flint only.At the Reward/Immunity challenge, Kalabaw edged out Tandang to win, while Matsing ended up losing the challenge. At Matsing's camp, the tribe blamed their loss on Russell for poorly choosing roles for the challenge; Zane then asked the tribe to vote him out because he said he did not do well at the challenge. Zane claimed this was a plan to gain the tribe's sympathy and to instead vote for Russell. Zane, Malcolm, and Denise considered if Russell had the hidden immunity idol already and swapping votes to flush it out. At tribal council, the tribe focused on Russell's poor leadership, which he apologized for being the self-described dictator of the tribe. When the vote came, Zane was sent home unanimously. Before the tribe left, Jeff Probst gave them flint."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At Matsing, Angie and Malcolm's overnight cuddling made Roxy think they were becoming a dangerous pair and she wanted Angie voted out to break up the pair. At Tandang, RC found the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol, which she shared with Abi-Maria. However, their alliance was an uneasy, suspicious one as Abi-Maria thought RC might be making side alliances with Michael. The tribe thought Lisa spent a lot of time looking for the Hidden Immunity Idol, but in reality, she was just wandering out of camp to be by herself as she felt she was an outsider in her tribe. Over at Kalabaw, Jonathan found the Hidden Immunity Idol: a token on the lid of a box at camp.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Going on in pairs, the tribes would pull a sled to three stations to retrieve puzzle pieces. Once all the pieces are retrieved, one castaway would work as a caller to help two castaways solve three large puzzles. The first two tribes to complete their puzzle would win immunity. First place wins reward of blankets, pillows, and a tarp. Second place wins reward of a tarp only.In the closely fought combined Reward/Immunity Challenge, Tandang beat out Kalabaw, while Matsing again came in third. Back at camp, Roxy pulled Russell aside and began to campaign against Malcolm and Angie. Russell seemed to agree with her, and he later had the same conversation with Denise. At Tribal Council, Roxy called out the pair of Angie and Malcolm as being more than just friends, which the two denied. When the vote came, the tribe voted out Roxy."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":3,"episode_summary":"The uneasy alliance between Abi-Maria and RC continued at Tandang. Abi-Maria told Pete about the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol. They found the idol while the rest of the tribe was hunting for clams. Pete talked to Lisa about joining with Abi-Maria to blindside Michael and neutralize RC. Over at Kalabaw, the tribe discovered the missing emblem on the rice container, correctly guessing it had been the Hidden Immunity Idol and that Jonathan had found it. Jonathan later told Jeff Kent that he had the Hidden Immunity Idol in order to try to gain Jeff Kent's trust, but Kent was still leery of Jonathan.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One castaway at a time, the tribes would dive in the ocean to a puzzle wheel attached to a rope. Once eight puzzle wheels were retrieved, the tribe would use the wheels to solve a puzzle. The first two tribes to complete their puzzle would win immunity. First place wins reward of a fishing kit and a canoe. Second place wins reward of a smaller fishing kit.At the combined Reward/Immunity Challenge, Kalabaw and Tandang continued their dominance in the challenges over Matsing, whose failure was attributed to both Angie and Russell physically giving up at the challenge. At Tribal Council, the vote came down to a decision for Denise and Malcolm to send Angie or Russell home. They chose Angie and she was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":4,"episode_summary":"At Tandang, Pete stirred up trouble in the tribe by planting the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol in RC's bag where it fell out in front of everybody. Abi-Maria immediately thought that RC had betrayed her. A bewildered RC tried to talk to Abi-Maria about it, but Abi-Maria refused to talk to RC. Over at Kalabaw, the new castaways' plan to vote out Jonathan fell apart when Jeff Kent changed his mind about aligning with Jonathan now that Jonathan had the Hidden Immunity Idol. The two along with Carter formed an alliance while they were out fishing. Back at camp, the women of Kalabaw were suspicious of the men going out on their own and formed their own alliance. Russell continued to look for the Hidden Immunity Idol at Matsing's camp, causing Denise and Malcolm to become suspicious that he might already have it and considered voting him out at the next Tribal Council to blindside him.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One at a time, the castaways would carry two large pots of rice on a bamboo pole across an obstacle course. At the end of the course, the castaway would place the two pots on a stand and return to the starting mat. The castaways would take turns until six pots were placed on their stands. The entire tribe would then cross the obstacle course. One tribe member would then swing a ball attached to a rope to smash all six pots. The first two tribes to smash their six pots would win immunity. First place wins reward of steaks, vegetables, spices, a pot, and utensils. Second place wins reward of vegetables, salt, pepper, and a pot. The tribes could optionally trade the rewards in for a tarp.At the Immunity Challenge, Matsing had the lead for much of the obstacle course stage, but lost to Kalabaw at the final stage, and went to their fourth Tribal Council in a row. After the challenge, Kalabaw decided to trade out their reward. Back at the Matsing camp, Denise and Malcolm agreed to vote for Russell, but would try to make Russell feel comfortable heading into Tribal Council just in case he had the Hidden Immunity Idol. At Tribal Council, all were concerned that they were going home, but in the end, Russell was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Anticipating a possible tribal absorption, Denise and Malcolm looked for and found the Hidden Immunity Idol before heading to the Reward Challenge; Malcolm took possession of the idol. Prior to the Reward Challenge, Matsing was declared defeated by the other two tribes. Malcolm was transferred to Tandang, and Denise to Kalabaw.\n\nReward Challenge: Facing off one against one in a fenced off circle, a castaway from each tribe would hold a wooden idol on top of a platform that they would hold in one hand. They would use the other free hand to attempt to knock their opponent's idol off the platform. The castaway whose idol hit the ground last would score one point for their tribe. The first tribe to score five points would win muffins, cookies, coffee, biscuits and tea.Malcolm scored the final point of the match for the Tandang win, earning respect from his new tribe and leading Pete to tell Malcolm about the idol. At Kalabaw, Dana started suffering from stomach pains. Jeff Probst and the Survivor medical team were brought in, and though the team had cleared Dana to continue playing, she opted to leave the game to prevent her illness from worsening.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes would race through an obstacle course down a ramp to a pit filled with water, up a hill, and then a rope net climb. The tribes would then untie knots to release a draw bridge. One person from each tribe would then chop through a block of wood to release a rope which would release a large pile of bamboo puzzle pieces. The tribes would search through the pieces to find ones with letters printed on them. Two castaways from each tribe would then use the lettered pieces to solve a puzzle. The first tribe to solve the puzzle would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Tandang narrowly beat out Kalabaw, who lost time due to Katie's weak performance on the first obstacle; she would apologize for this later at camp. Denise told Jeff Kent that she would join the men's alliance; the four discussed voting out Katie or Dawson. At Tribal Council, the tribe discussed performance at challenges. When the vote came, Dawson was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":6,"episode_summary":"On day 15, the Tandang tribe was upset at Michael for him being partially responsible for the tribe's food being quickly depleted. \n\nReward Challenge: Facing off three on three, the tribes would try to push a large wood ball across a mud field to their goal. The tribe would score a point for pushing the ball to the goal. The first tribe to score three points would win a trip to a picnic with sandwiches, soup, potato chips, and brownies.During the first round of the Reward Challenge, Michael, Pete, and Lisa faced off against Jonathan, Carter, and Denise. The six fought to a standstill for over an hour when Jonathan proposed a deal: Kalabaw would give up all of their remaining rice in exchange winning the reward. Jonathan told his tribe that the deal was okay because he promised that he could catch fish. Michael persuaded his tribe to hear out Jonathan's proposal and after some discussion, Tandang agreed to the deal. At the reward, Kalabaw was surprised by an undeclared extra reward of letters from home. Back at the Tandang tribe, Artis, Abi-Maria, and Pete were livid at the deal struck at the challenge and blamed Michael for speaking for the tribe even though they felt he brought nothing to the tribe. The next day, Jonathan only caught a couple small fish, which caused a lot of grumbling among the tribe.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Two tribemates from each tribe would alternate launching balls from a slingshot while the remaining four tribemates have to catch the balls with handheld nets. Catching a ball would score one point for their tribe. The first tribe to reach five points would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Tandang came back from a 4–2 deficit to defeat Kalabaw, again largely due to Malcolm's contributions. When Kalabaw returned to camp, Jeff Kent and Carter discussed if now was the time to make the big move against Jonathan or to vote out Katie for being the weakest in the tribe. At Tribal Council, Jeff Kent and Carter voted against Katie, and she was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":7,"episode_summary":"On day 17, two boats arrived at Tandang and Kalabaw's beaches to take them to a new beach, and the tribes merge. Jeff Kent's past was kept a secret, while Lisa was recognized by Jonathan, who assured her he would keep it a secret. While airing out the tribe's clothes, Lisa accidentally discovered Malcolm's Hidden Immunity Idol. Malcolm then took Lisa aside to do damage control, and she told him she would keep her knowledge of the idol a secret after he promised to take her to the Final Three along with Denise. Still wanting to vote out the returning players first, particularly Jonathan, Jeff Kent sided with the Tandang tribe and followed Malcolm's plan to split the next Tribal Council vote between Jonathan and RC – to either vote out Jonathan or force him to use the Hidden Immunity Idol. Meanwhile, Jonathan tried to get Michael to flip to the Kalabaw side. Michael and RC discussed flipping, telling Jonathan they could not work with Pete and that they wanted him gone. Michael then talked to Jeff Kent about the possibility of joining Kalabaw to vote out one of the former Tandang tribe members, but Jeff Kent told Michael that he really wanted to vote out Jonathan. Michael agreed to follow Jeff Kent's lead.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would hold on to a metal rod to which one end of a rope is spooled around. The other end of the rope is attached to a bucket overhead, weighted down with 25% of the castaway's body weight. The castaways would try to hold on to the rod and stop it from spinning, which would unspool the rope. The last man and woman to prevent the rope from unspooling and letting the bucket hit the ground would win.At the first Individual Immunity Challenge, Denise and Carter took the first Individual Immunities. At Tribal Council, Abi-Maria laid out her perceived betrayal by RC; alliances and the complexities and ramifications of flipping allegiances were then discussed. After the vote was taken, Jonathan pulled out his Hidden Immunity Idol, successfully foiling Jeff Kent's plan to take him out.  Still, the plan to split the votes came to fruition, and with the five votes against Jonathan negated, RC was blindsided and sent to be the first member of the Jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Jonathan confronted his old Kalabaw alliance about their betrayal against him. With an obvious desire for the new players to vote out the returning players, Michael told Jonathan that they should bide their time and be on the look out for cracks amongst the new players in order to stay in the game longer.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would divide into two teams. One at a time, a castaway from each team would swim out into the ocean to attach a line to a fish trap and then dive down to unhook the trap. The other team members would then pull on the line to bring the fish trap and castaway back to the beach. The teams would repeat this until four traps are retrieved. One castaway would then dig into the sand to retrieve a key which would be used to unlock a frame. Two team members would then use puzzle scroll pieces from the fish traps to assemble a banner. The first team to correctly assemble their banner would win a river cruise and a picnic.At the Reward Challenge, the team of Denise, Jeff Kent, Jonathan, Lisa, and Malcolm took the win.  On day 22, Lisa approached Michael and told him that she had discovered Malcolm's Hidden Immunity Idol. She proposed that they stay loyal to the original core Tandang alliance and blindside Malcolm.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would race over and under an obstacle course to untie three bags of puzzle pieces. The first three castaways to cross the finish line with their puzzle bags would move on to the second stage. In the second stage, the castaways would use the pieces to assemble the puzzle. The first castaway to complete their puzzle would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Pete, Jeff Kent, and Jonathan advanced to the second stage after Jonathan dove over the finish line just ahead of Michael. Jonathan then came from behind during the puzzle assembly stage to take a critical Individual Immunity. With Jonathan being immune, the new players all agreed to vote out Michael. Lisa told Pete that Malcolm had the Hidden Immunity Idol and that they should blindside him. Looking for confirmation, Pete confronted Malcolm, who denied it. Pete believed him and instead proposed that they vote out Jeff Kent. Malcolm got agreement from Michael, Jonathan, and Artis to vote out Jeff Kent. Jeff Kent got word that he was a target, and tried to arrange for Pete to be voted out. \nAt Tribal Council, Malcolm said that Lisa threw him under the bus by revealing that he has a Hidden Immunity Idol, which Lisa admitted to. Malcolm, to deter the others from voting against him, pulled out his Hidden Immunity Idol to show the entire tribe and claimed he would play it that night; Abi-Maria also pulled out her Hidden Immunity Idol. Lisa continued to pitch for the core Tandang alliance to stick together, while Jonathan pitched the plan of the core Kalabaw alliance plus Malcolm and Michael to vote out one of the core Tandang members. After the votes were cast, neither Malcolm nor Abi-Maria played their Idol but neither of them needed it as both alliances switched to their backup plans: the Tandang alliance voted for Jeff Kent, while the Kalabaw-Matsing coalition voted against Pete. However, Jonathan was unaware that the plan had changed and voted against Abi-Maria, thus splitting the Kalabaw-Matsing alliance's votes; with all five original Tandang members' votes, Jeff Kent became the second member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Jonathan tried to get Lisa to flip to the Kalabaw side by appealing to her past history and how she would appear to the television audience watching the game. Lisa was unsure if she would stay loyal to Tandang or flip.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribe would split into two teams of four. One at a time, the castaways would cross a mud obstacle course and dig into a mud pit to retrieve one of four bags filled with three balls. Once all four bags were collected, the team would have to shoot all twelve balls into a basket. The first team to put all twelve balls into the basket would win a trip to a village where the team would have a feast while delivering school supplies and toys.At the Reward Challenge, the teams were divided by school yard pick with Artis, Lisa, Michael, and Pete going up against Carter, Denise, Jonathan, and Malcolm with Abi-Maria sitting out. The team of Carter, Denise, Jonathan, and Malcolm won by a wide margin when Jonathan dug out all four of his team's bags making it easier for the following team members to complete the obstacle course stage. While the four were on their reward trip, they agreed that they needed to work on Lisa and Michael on changing to their side. Back at camp, Pete wanted to talk to Lisa and Michael about the Tandang alliance situation, but instead Abi-Maria ripped into Lisa for being naive.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would balance a long wooden paddle on a pivot point. They would then roll a ball along the shaft and try to balance the ball on one of six spots on the paddle. The first castaways to have six balls balanced on the paddle at the same time would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Michael dominated the challenge to take the win. Denise suggested to her alliance that they vote for Artis to guard against Abi-Maria playing her Hidden Immunity Idol or giving to Pete as she figured that Abi-Maria would be too selfish to give it to Artis. Jonathan continued his appeal to Lisa and also approached Michael about flipping. At Tribal Council, the previous Tribal Council was discussed. Lisa said that she felt that the Kalabaw alliance was more gracious about her big move than her own alliance, but stated that she wanted to stay loyal to her tribe. However, this wasn't good enough for Abi-Maria and she said that she didn't trust Lisa to stay loyal. But when the voting came, Lisa did stay loyal and it was Michael who flipped to the Kalabaw side, blindsiding Artis."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":10,"episode_summary":"The day after Tribal Council, Lisa told Abi-Maria that their alliance was off as she felt her time on the island would be better if she were aligned with the former Kalabaw instead of being distrusted by Abi-Maria and Pete.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribe would be divided into two teams. Two drums, one for each team, would be inside three circled off areas. Facing off one on one, the castaways would run from circle to circle flipping their drum face up while flipping their opponent's drum face down. The castaway would score one point for their team when all three of their drums were face up at the same time. The first team to three points would win a trip to another island where they would enjoy a spa and a feast.At the Reward Challenge, the team of Abi-Maria, Carter, Malcolm, and Pete beat Denise, Jonathan, Lisa, and Michael. On day 27, Malcolm told Michael that his preferred final four was the two of them along with Denise and Lisa. Michael talked to Lisa about whom she trusted more: Malcolm and Denise or Jonathan and Carter. Lisa said she trusted Jonathan more so they approached Jonathan about going to the final three, but Jonathan did not want to agree to a final three at the time. With Jonathan passing on the opportunity, the group of Denise, Lisa, Malcolm, and Michael agreed to go to the final four together.\n\nImmunity Challenge: In the first round, the castaways would maneuver a buoy through a rope maze. The first five to complete the stage would move on. In the second stage, the castaways would maneuver a buoy along a rope wrapped around a balance beam while staying on the beam. The first three to finish would move on to the final round. In the final round, the castaways would maneuver a buoy through several obstacles in the water. The first castaway to finish would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Malcolm, Jonathan, Denise, Michael, and Carter moved on to the second round. Michael, Carter, and Denise moved on to the final round where Carter edged Michael for Individual Immunity. The Kalabaw six agreed to split the vote between Abi-Maria and Pete in case that Abi-Maria played her Hidden Immunity Idol. Abi-Maria and Pete tried to stir things up by getting Lisa, Carter, Jonathan, and Michael to flip and vote for Malcolm, but Lisa, Carter, and Jonathan turned them down flat. Michael considered flipping as Malcolm would be a big threat in the game. At Tribal Council, Michael did not flip and the vote was split three votes apiece against Abi-Maria and Pete, but Abi-Maria played her Hidden Immunity Idol. With her votes negated, Pete was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":11,"episode_summary":"On day 29, tree mail contained envelopes with $500 for each castaway, signaling that the day's Reward Challenge would be a Survivor Auction. Money and items won could not be shared. Knowing that she was next to be voted out, Abi-Maria held out of the bidding until she saw a note, which she immediately bid at $500. Carter opted to exchange his baked potato for the bags of rice and beans to feed the entire tribe. Abi-Maria decided that she would try to stir things up in the tribe by feigning that the advantage she won in the game was much more than it really was. She told Malcolm that she was not going to the jury at the next Tribal Council, implying that she had another Hidden Immunity Idol.\n\nImmunity Challenge:  At the beginning of each stage, the castaways would be asked a question and if they got it wrong, they would have to carry an extra 5% of their body weight during that and the following stages. In the first stage, the castaways would be attached to a rope and would have to maneuver over and under a hitching post. The first five to complete the stage would move on. In the second stage, the castaways would navigate through a thicket of bamboo poles while attached to a rope. The first two to complete the stage would move on. In the final stage, the castaways would climb a multi-level obstacle and untie rope gates at various points. The first castaway to complete the obstacle would win.At the Immunity Challenge, she continued this feint when she faked that the note she won at the auction was a two part note. She stated that one part of the note awarded her a double-bye into the final stage of the challenge, and that she would keep the other part to herself. She then tore up the note. Denise and Lisa got the question wrong and added the extra weight to begin the challenge. With five moving on to the second stage, it was only Lisa who was left behind. At the second stage, Denise got her question wrong again, making her extra weight 10%, while Carter and Michael added 5%. Jonathan and Carter moved on to face Abi-Maria in the third stage. Carter got the question wrong again, adding to his burden. Well rested and without any weight, Abi-Maria breezed through the stage to take Individual Immunity. Back at camp, the alliance of Denise, Lisa, Malcolm, and Michael agreed to vote out Jonathan.  But Lisa was again wavering and told Jonathan all about the alliance's plans. She told him that she would be staying loyal to her alliance and to do that magic he does to try to save himself. Jonathan told Carter and Abi-Maria that they were going to vote for Denise, so as to circumvent the possibility of Malcolm playing his Idol, and then went to work on lobbying Michael. Jonathan told Michael that Lisa told him everything and that he was the swing vote. At Tribal Council, Jonathan continued to lobby Lisa and Michael to vote out Denise, but his pleas failed and he became the fifth member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: Pairing up with their loved ones, the castaways would toss a muddy bag to their loved one. The loved one would then throw the bag at one of five bamboo targets. The first loved one who knocks down all five targets would win an overnight stay by the loved one at camp.The castaway's loved ones joined them on day 31's Reward Challenge: Michael's son Michael Jr, Carter's mom Bianca, Denise's husband Brad, Lisa's brother Justice, Abi-Maria's mom Vera, and Malcolm's brother Miles.  Malcolm and his brother Miles won the challenge. Jeff Probst told Malcolm to pick another castaway and their loved one to stay overnight at camp and he picked Lisa and her brother Justice. Michael then told Malcolm to ask Probst to let him pick another. Probst granted the request and Malcolm selected Michael and his son, also named Michael. While talking with Lisa during the loved ones' overnight stay, Justice reminded her that Survivor was a game and that gave her renewed confidence that she could really play the game. She then planned a second attempt at blindsiding Malcolm by teaming up with Michael, Carter, and Abi-Maria and told her plan to Michael and his son.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Out in the ocean, the castaways would race across a balance beam to a platform. They would then use a hook to retrieve three underwater bags. Once all three bags were retrieved, the castaways would take the bags and swim ashore. They would then untie the bags and use the sticks and ropes contained within to fashion a pole long and strong enough to knock over a target. The first castaway to knock over their target would win.However, this plan was spoiled when Malcolm won the Immunity Challenge. With the plan spoiled, Lisa and Michael were forced to remain loyal to Malcolm and the alliance of four had to decide between Carter and Abi-Maria. Abi-Maria continued her feint about having a fourth Hidden Immunity Idol. Carter told the alliance of four that they had previously said that they wanted to play with people who deserved to be there instead of who they can beat and that he deserved to be there more than Abi-Maria. At Tribal Council, the alliance of four decided that Carter was too much of threat and he was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Abi-Maria continued her bluff about having another Hidden Immunity Idol and talked to Lisa about voting out Denise.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would race up and over a slide and run into the ocean to retrieve two bundles of rings. Once the bundles were retrieved, they would toss five rings onto pegs. The first to toss all five rings to the pegs would win a helicopter ride to a boat which would take them to see a whale shark along with pizza and soft drinks.At the Reward Challenge, Michael took the win and selected Malcolm and Lisa to accompany him on the reward. While on the reward, Malcolm proposed to Lisa and Michael that they go to the final three together. The two agreed, though Lisa kept her options open about making a different alliance. On the morning of day 36, Denise woke up with severe pain on the left side of her neck which she surmised was from a bite.\n\n Immunity Challenge: The castaways would use two planks to cross a rope bridge while collecting two puzzle pieces along the way. If a survivor falls, they would have start the rope bridge part over. Once across, they would use the two pieces to complete a labyrinth maze. The first castaway to complete the labyrinth maze would win.Denise managed to work through the pain to be competitive in the Immunity Challenge. And despite being the only one to fall off the rope ladder stage of the Immunity Challenge, Malcolm came from far behind during the puzzle assembly stage to take his second Individual Immunity in a row. Back at camp, Abi-Maria talked to Michael about voting out Denise. Afterwards, Michael and Lisa discussed their options of keeping Abi-Maria in the game. Lisa wanted to take Abi-Maria to the final three as she figured that Abi-Maria would not win, but Lisa also wanted to keep Denise around so that the remaining three would have a chance at beating Malcolm in the final Immunity Challenge.  At Tribal Council, Abi-Maria continued to pitch to Lisa and Michael that she was their best hope to take to the final three as she couldn't win. But when the vote came, Michael and Lisa stuck to their alliance with Denise and Malcolm and Abi-Maria was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Reward Challenge: The castaways would run an obstacle course of a balance beam, over a wooden pyramid, a bamboo thicket, a second balance beam, and up a wood ramp to collect three puzzle bags. The castaways would then use the puzzle pieces to assemble a puzzle. The first castaway to finish the puzzle would win an advantage at the final Immunity Challenge.Day 37's tree mail announced an unexpected Reward Challenge. The challenge was closely contested, with Malcolm edging out Denise. Jeff Probst gave a sealed note with details of the challenge advantage to Malcolm to be opened at the Immunity Challenge. Back at camp, Denise asked Malcolm if he was willing to commit with her to forcing a tie vote between herself and Lisa at the next Tribal Council, but he hesitated in committing to the deal. This made Denise suspicious of Malcolm's loyalty and forced her to strike a deal with Lisa and Michael to vote out Malcolm.\n\n Immunity Challenge: A long wooden dowell rod, about one and a half inches in diameter, was cut into different sized segments. On the center segment a notch has been cut on which rests a metal ball. The castaways would have to hold up the segments by squeezing them between two handles.  After five minutes, the contestants were allowed to set the cylinders down and a new round started with two additional segments. After the cylinder was nine segments long, the final round would last as long as the castaways held out. The castaway who held up their segments the longest without allowing the ball to drop from the center segment would win.Day 38's tree mail announced the traditional journey honoring the castaways voted out before heading to the final Immunity Challenge. Malcolm's sealed note stated that he would be given a mulligan in the challenge. If he were to drop the ball, he would be allowed to replace the ball and resume the challenge. Malcolm quickly used up his second chance when he dropped his ball during the three segment stage. With Malcolm using his second chance, all the castaways reset to redo the three segment stage. Malcolm struggled after the reset and dropped the ball for a second time. With just 30 seconds to go, Denise dropped her ball, leaving Lisa and Michael to fight it out.  The two made through the five segment stage and to the seven segment stage, where Lisa finally dropped her ball, giving Michael the win. Back at camp, both Malcolm and Denise made their pitch to Michael and Lisa to keep them in the game. At Tribal Council, the two alliances of Lisa/Michael and Denise/Malcolm and who could win the game were discussed. In the end, Michael and Lisa chose to keep Denise in the game, sending Malcolm to the jury.\nDenise, Lisa, and Michael enjoyed the traditional day 39 breakfast. Before the three headed to the final Tribal Council, they set their shelter ablaze. At the final Tribal Council, the three made their opening statements to the jury. The jury made their statements to the three and questioned the three about their game play. Artis took his statement to attack the three for betraying alliances. Carter asked Michael why he voted him out. Pete questioned Lisa over her perceived betrayal of the former Tandang members. He questioned Denise about why she played a better game than Lisa or Michael. RC questioned Michael about his role in her being sent to the jury. Malcolm also questioned Denise about why she played a better game than the other two. Jeff Kent asked Michael if he was a person who made things happen, watched things happened, or wonder what just happened. He then asked Lisa to give him examples of her not playing in the middle and being assertive. Abi-Maria asked all three why they deserved her vote. Jonathan spent his time attacking the final three and revealing Lisa's past as a television star to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US25","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, before the votes were read to cast, Jeff Probst asked for a moment of silence out of respect for the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting which happened two days earlier. The votes from the jurors decided that Denise was the Sole Survivor by a vote of 6–1–1 over Lisa and Michael. The castaways discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":1,"episode_summary":"After the ten Favorites were introduced to the ten Fans, the two tribes immediately started the Reward Challenge.\n\nReward Challenge: Facing off two on two, the tribes would try to retrieve a ring and return with it to their starting flag. The tribe would score a point when one of their members had one hand on the ring and one hand on the flag pole. The first tribe to score four points would win flint and 20 pounds (9.1 kg) of beans. By Any Means Necessary challenge from Survivor: Palau.While the Fans won the first round, the Favorites swept the next rounds to take the win. At the Gota camp, Matt and Shamar argued over whether to concentrate on building a shelter or making fire. The two patched things up after Shamar stepped in with the correct technique for starting fire with the fire-saw method. Pairs of alliances formed between Reynold & Allie and Eddie & Hope, and the four then agreed to align together. The snuggling overnight between the pairs caused the other three women of Gota (Julia, Laura, and Sherri) to align. Michael said he would align with the three women, but really kept his options open along with Matt. Over at the Bikal camp, Francesca decided that she was not going to be voted out first again and tried to make as many alliances as she could. She even said that she would \"eat [a] rock\" that she found on the ground if she went home first again. Meanwhile, Phillip gathered up an alliance with Andrea, Cochran, Corinne, Dawn, and Malcolm. He offered Erik a take-it-or-leave-it option to join the alliance, but Erik did not like the strong arm tactic.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Two members from each tribe would climb up a four story tower. Once each pair got on their designated story, they smashed crates on a platform beneath them. The crates would shatter on impact to release sandbags. Once all three crates were tossed over, the pair would return to the start and another pair would race to the next floor. Once all of the crates were retrieved, two castaways would retrieve the sandbags. One castaway would then try to toss six sandbags into six targets. The first castaway to get a sandbag in all six targets would win immunity for their tribe.At the Immunity Challenge, the Favorites got an early lead during the tower stage, but Reynold made short work of the sandbag tossing stage to give the Fans the win. Back at camp, Francesca tried get the tribe to vote for Phillip, while Phillip wanted his alliance to vote out Francesca. Brandon, Brenda, and Erik agreed to vote with Francesca, but Brandon and Erik suddenly got spooked by Andrea (who was playing both voting blocs) and wanted to vote her out instead. At Tribal Council, Phillip's alliance of six voted for Francesca, due to her threatening strategy and she was voted out, making her the only player to be the first voted out twice.[10]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":2,"episode_summary":"After returning to camp, Brandon was upset about the vote against Francesca and told Erik that he wanted to channel his uncle, Russell Hantz, and play the game dirty. However, he changed his mind the next morning. Over at Gota, Shamar's laziness at camp was annoying the tribe and the alliance of Allie, Eddie, Hope and Reynold wanted to vote him out. Sherri wanted to keep Shamar in the game to strengthen her own alliance so she told him that he was part of her alliance and to keep annoying the alliance of four.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Three tribe members would be pulled on a raft by three other tribe members to a platform out on the ocean. The three would then dive down to release bamboo sticks in a cage to free nine rings. Once all nine rings were freed, the three would board the raft again to be pulled back to the beach with the rings. The remaining three tribe members would then toss the rings onto three posts. The first tribe to have three rings on their posts would win immunity and fishing gear. Sea Salvage challenge from Survivor: China.At the combined Reward/Immunity Challenge, the Fans struggled during the ring collection stage giving the Favorites the win. Once the Fans returned to camp, Reynold and Shamar had a public argument over what Reynold saw as Shamar's poor attitude. Matt considered joining the alliance of Allie, Eddie, Hope and Reynold in voting out Shamar, but Sherri tried to get him to vote against Allie.  Reynold went looking for the Hidden Immunity Idol and found it. Laura noticed a bulge in his pocket just before they were heading off to Tribal Council, but she did not have enough time to warn her alliance and flush the idol. Instead, she outed Reynold's idol during Tribal Council. Reynold confessed to having the idol and said that he would play it then to get rid of it. But when the vote was about to be read, he pocketed the idol. He regretfully watched, however, as Matt joined Sherri's alliance and voted against Reynold's closest ally, and Allie was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Tensions were high at the Gota camp after Tribal Council as neither Reynold nor Shamar were happy about how the voting went. Shamar was unhappy with his standing in the game and considered quitting, but decided against it due to the loyalty his alliance showed him. Over at Bikal, Corinne and Malcolm went looking for the Hidden Immunity Idol and found it.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The tribe would race out into the ocean and climb over and into a bamboo cage. The tribe would then have to untie a door on the cage and drag a heavy chest through the door and back to the beach. Once back onto the beach, the chest would be placed on top of a track. The tribe would then have to use a ring tied to the end of rope to snag three segment of the track to complete the track. The first tribe to place the chest on their finish platform would win immunity and a reward of two chairs, pillows, a blanket, a tarp, and rope.The combined Reward/Immunity Challenge was a closely fought contest won by the Favorites. Worried that her poor performance during the challenge would put a target on her back, Laura suggested to her alliance that they split the vote between Eddie and Hope to flush the Hidden Immunity Idol. This would force a three-way tied vote between Eddie, Hope, and Shamar, and the alliance would then vote out Hope during the revote. Shamar hinted to Hope that she should vote for Eddie and save herself, but she went to Julia instead and told her that Shamar had revealed the alliance's plans. Again concerned about being voted out, Laura told Reynold that she could secure Julia's vote and vote out Shamar. But when the vote came at Tribal Council, the alliance of six stuck to their original plan, resulting in a three-way tie before eventually voting out Hope."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":4,"episode_summary":"At Bikal, Phillip told Brandon, Erik, and Brenda that they were part of his alliance in an effort to contain them, though in reality they were not truly part of the alliance.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribes would use planks to transport two tribe members from one platform above water to another platform a short length away. Once both tribe members were across, all eight tribe members will climb up and over the platform, swimming out to a smaller tower. The first tribe to climb the last tower and get all eight tribe members on or above the top deck would win a visit by a local bushman who would show them how to improve their camp and cook a feast.  United We Stand challenge from Survivor: Cook Islands.The Reward Challenge was closely fought with the Favorites just edging out the Fans. After Gota returned to camp, Shamar continued to annoy his tribe with his laziness around camp. During the afternoon, some sand scratched his eye. After a storm rolled in overnight and pounded the tribe, Shamar's condition worsened and the Survivor Medical Team was called in. The Medical Team determined that Shamar had scratched his cornea and he needed to be pulled from the game to be looked at by a specialist.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Five tribe members would swim out one at a time to a platform, climb a tower and leap off it to smash a tile that releases a key. The castaway would then retrieve the key and return to the beach, allowing the next tribe member to go. Once all five keys were collected, two tribe members would use the keys to unlock a chest full of sandbags. They would then use the sandbags to knock off blocks stacked on a wall. The first tribe to knock off all their blocks would win. Smash and Grab challenge from Survivor: Cook Islands.The Fans lost the Immunity Challenge even though Reynold's accurate throwing during the sandbag throwing stage nearly gave them a huge come from behind victory. Back at camp, Matt suggested that Gota should keep the tribe physically strong and vote out Laura instead of voting out Eddie or Reynold. At Tribal Council, Gota discussed voting for being physically strong at challenges versus staying loyal to alliances. When the vote came, Reynold played his Hidden Immunity Idol, but it was not needed as the majority alliance decided to keep the tribe physically strong and sent Laura home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":5,"episode_summary":"On the night of day 10, Brandon told his tribe that he was volunteering to be voted out because he felt he was being selfish for leaving his family at home without him. He told the tribe that he considered sabotaging the camp as a way to get them to vote him out, but instead decided to tell them upfront to vote him out. However, by the next morning, Brandon had changed his mind and was back to staying in the game for his family.\n\nReward Challenge: Two members from each tribe would hold on to a rope that would suspend a net. The castaways from the other tribe would attempt to toss coconuts into the net which would weigh it down. The castaway who held on to the rope the longest without letting the net touch the ground would win steaks, sausages, vegetables, condiments, and wine for their tribe. Net Bucket challenge from Survivor: Samoa.At the Reward Challenge, Phillip was the last one holding up his net, giving his tribe the win. When Gota returned to camp, everybody went looking for the new Hidden Immunity Idol. Reynold found it and told Eddie that he had it. Over at Bikal, Brandon became upset that Phillip was taking credit for the win at the Reward Challenge and the two argued over what Brandon called Phillip's dictatorial attitude. The two tried to smooth things over and shook hands, but Phillip wanted Brandon voted out as soon as possible. The tension continued to simmer between them until day 13 when things came to a boil. Phillip told Andrea that he was considering throwing the challenge. Andrea passed this along to Brandon. Phillip and Brandon stepped away from camp to again try to settle things between them. Phillip told Brandon that he was not sure he could trust him. Brandon told Phillip that the Stealth R Us nicknames were demeaning and nobody liked him. Phillip said that if that was true, the tribe would vote him out. Brandon then told Phillip \"let me give you a reason to vote me out\" and then proceeded to dump the tribe's rice and beans onto the ground.\nWhen the tribes gathered for the Immunity Challenge, Jeff asked several castaways how they were coping with the conditions. Brandon asked to step off the tribe mat to address Gota. He told them that he was going to give them a second chance and to not let Phillip get to the end of the game. Corinne raised her hand and spoke for the tribe stating that they wanted to forfeit the challenge and give up Tribal Immunity. This sent Brandon over the edge and he went off on his tribe. To ease tensions, Jeff called over Brandon to his side to let him have his say, but the meltdown continued. With things not settling down, Jeff had Erik hand the Tribal Immunity to Julia from Gota and stated that they will have a Tribal Council immediately without torches and fire at the Immunity Challenge site. Voting was done verbally. Brandon voted for Phillip, while the others unanimously voted for Brandon and he was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":6,"episode_summary":"On day 14, when the tribes arrived at what looked like a challenge, they were instead surprised by a tribal swap. With a smashing of paint filled eggs, the new Gota became Andrea, Brenda, Eddie, Erik, Malcolm, Reynold, and Sherri. The new Bikal was Cochran, Corinne, Dawn, Julia, Matt, Michael, and Phillip. The new tribes did not partake in a challenge, but instead returned to their camp sites. At the new Gota, Eddie and Reynold told Erik and Malcolm that Sherri had been gunning for them from day 1 and they would be happy to join the Favorites in voting her out. Meanwhile, Sherri told her side of the story to Andrea and Brenda. Andrea and Malcolm later shared notes about the factions within the former Gota. Over at the new Bikal, Phillip approached Julia about flipping to the Favorites after the tribal merge. Corinne and Dawn were not happy that Phillip was talking possible alliances with Julia.\n\nImmunity Challenge: In pairs, the castaways would race across a field to retrieve six large crates painted in their tribe's colors. Once all six crates were retrieved, the tribes would have to stack the crates into a staircase with \"Fans vs. Favorites\" properly aligned along the sides. The first tribe to complete the staircase and get all of their members up the staircase to the top of a platform would win. Crate Outdoors challenge from Survivor: Tocantins.The Immunity Challenge was thoroughly dominated by Gota. With Brandon gone, Phillip and Corinne wanted to turn their attention to voting the other out, but they were stuck with each other as they had to keep the Favorites alliance in the majority. Phillip told Matt and Michael that he was voting for Julia and that they could join the Stealth R Us alliance if they followed one of his orders some time in the future. Matt and Michael told Julia that they would join her in voting for Dawn, but were really going to vote for Julia. The Favorites discussed voting out Julia or Matt, who was suggested to be a target by Cochran to break up his alliance with Michael. When the voting came at Tribal Council, the Favorites decided to vote out Matt and he was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":7,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Phillip and Corinne still wanted to vote each other out as soon as possible. Cochran told Phillip that now was not the time to turn on a fellow alliance member and to wait until the merge. When tree mail arrived and announced that the challenge would be one of physical strength, Phillip boasted that he could beat anybody at feats of strength.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribes would be clipped together by a rope carrying 20 pounds (9.1 kg) sand bags each. They would start on opposite sides of the course, racing through knee-deep water to catch the other tribe. If a tribe member drops out they must give their sandbag to someone from their tribe. The first tribe to tag a member from the other tribe would win a trip to another island where they would be a coffee bar, cookies, croissants, and brownies. Hot Pursuit challenge from Survivor: Palau.However, when the Reward Challenge came, Phillip faltered, dragging his tribe to a decisive defeat. Back at camp, Cochran was concerned about Julia's ties to Phillip and wanted to make sure that one of the Fans was voted out. Phillip thought he had managed to get Julia to flip alliances and to keep that agreement to herself. However, she felt bullied by Phillip and she told Dawn that she felt she had to go along with Phillip's orders. Dawn told Phillip about this and he now wanted to vote Julia out since she had disobeyed his orders to keep it quiet. Over at Gota, Malcolm approached Reynold about setting up an alliance between them, Eddie, and Erik after the merge. Feeling that he could trust Malcolm, Reynold told Malcolm that he had the Hidden Immunity Idol.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Three tribe members from each tribe would paddle out in a boat and then dive into the ocean to retrieve a statue. Once the statue is returned to the beach, it would be placed as the bottom of a tower. Three other tribe members would then use a grappling hook to retrieve five keys. Once all five keys were retrieved, the three would use them to unlock the tower. All of the tribe members would then pull on a rope to raise the statue to the top of the tower. The first tribe to have their statue at the top of the tower would win.At the Immunity Challenge, Bikal gave Gota a better fight than at the Reward Challenge, but Gota again prevailed. The division between Corinne and Phillip reared up again when Corinne did not want to go with her alliance's split vote plan to guard against the Hidden Immunity Idol. Corinne preferred to vote out Julia immediately. Phillip preferred to vote out Michael. At Tribal Council, the vote came out a split between Michael and Julia. On the revote, Julia was sent home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":8,"episode_summary":"On day 20, a boat arrived at the Gota beach announcing the tribal merge. The boat took the Gota tribe to the Bikal beach where the newly merged tribe took part in the traditional merger feast. Malcolm named the tribe Enil Edam; unbeknownst to the tribe, this was to honor his mother Madeline, as Enil Edam is Madeline spelled backwards. Phillip told Andrea that they, along with Cochran and Dawn, could take themselves all the way to the Final Four. Corinne plotted with Malcolm about blindsiding Phillip, and they planned to gather a majority voting bloc comprising Corinne and Michael plus Malcolm's new \"alpha male\" quartet with Erik, Eddie, and Reynold. Their master plan was to vote along with the Favorites in eliminating Sherri before turning on Phillip at the following Tribal Council.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would participate in a local delicacy food eating challenge. The first round would pit two groups of six castaways eating beetle larvae with three castaways moving on from each group. The second round would be the advancing six eating shipworms with three castaways moving on. The third round would be the three castaways eating baluts with two moving on. In the final round, the two castaways would eat pig brains. Pesky Palate challenge from multiple seasons, including Borneo, The Australian Outback, and Pearl Islands.At the Immunity Challenge, Andrea, Malcolm, Eddie, Cochran, Phillip, and Michael advanced to the second round. Malcolm, Eddie, and Cochran then downed the shipworms to advance to the third round. Eddie struggled with the balut giving Malcolm the opportunity to face off against Cochran in the final round. The final round was a close and fast competition, with Cochran barely defeating Malcolm and taking the win, upon which he celebrated giddily. Back at camp, Phillip told Corinne that he wanted to split the vote between Reynold and Eddie, but since she needed both of their votes and wanted to keep them from being nervous, she lobbied to vote out Sherri, aiming to keep the eventual plot to blindside Phillip under the surface. Trying to gather support to blindside Phillip, Corinne talked to Dawn about joining the blindside. Worried about how her reluctance to share important information in her previous appearance resulted in the systematic elimination of her alliance, Dawn decided to relay the information to Cochran, and it travelled through the Stealth R Us' members until it reached Phillip. The core Stealth R Us alliance was concerned that Corinne did have the numbers to blindside Phillip, and went to work to blindside Corinne instead. Phillip told Sherri that she could advance in the game by voting for Corinne. Erik became the swing vote with Andrea telling him to vote for Corinne, while Malcolm told him to vote for Sherri. At Tribal Council, Erik decided to side with Stealth R Us, sending Corinne out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":9,"episode_summary":"After Sherri's show of loyalty to the Stealth R Us alliance at the last Tribal Council, Phillip declared her a member of the alliance.\n\nReward Challenge: Divided into two teams of five, one member from each team would stand on a small platform in the ocean to defend a net. The four members of the opposing team would then leap off a second platform one at a time into the ocean while trying to throw a ball past the defender and into the net. For every ball they get into the net, they would score one point for their team. The first team to score five points (edited in episode to show four points due to time constraints)[35] would win a trip to a waterfall which the castaways would rappel down and then enjoy a picnic lunch. Jump Shot challenge from Survivor: Nicaragua.The Reward Challenge was won by the team of Cochran, Eddie, Erik, Michael, and Reynold who defeated Andrea, Brenda, Dawn, Malcolm, and Phillip. Sherri was not picked during the school yard pick and sat out the challenge. While on their reward, Eddie, Michael, and Reynold pitched to Cochran an all guy alliance, but that did not appeal to Cochran as he did not want to join in an alliance with the Fans. While the others were on their reward, Malcolm approached Sherri and Dawn about splitting off from the Stealth R Us alliance and taking control of the game. However, the two women reported Malcolm's try to make a big move to Andrea and Phillip. Seeking to punish Malcolm for his disloyalty, the core alliance told Malcolm that the Stealth R Us alliance would be splitting the vote between Eddie and Reynold when in reality they would be voting for Malcolm. While on a trip to a lagoon, Eddie tried to get Andrea on his side and to vote with him.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribe members would be in the ocean under a metal grate as the incoming tide rises. As the tide rises, the breathing space under the grate grows smaller. The last castaway to remain under the grate would win. Last Gasp challenge from Survivor: Palau.At the Immunity Challenge, it came down to Brenda and Andrea. Although Andrea battled the water extremely hard, Brenda's handmade snorkel helped her outlast Andrea to take Individual Immunity. This also marked the first time a woman won this challenge. Back at camp, Malcolm started a plan to target Andrea. Keeping up the fake split vote ploy, Dawn told Malcolm that she would vote with him if Reynold showed her the Hidden Immunity Idol. Reynold did, but then also threatened her that if he felt she would not vote with them that he would play the Idol. This did not go over well with Dawn. Eddie told Andrea that her name was being discussed to be voted out. This caused Andrea to panic and she ran to her core alliance to beg them to change their voting plan. She wanted them to abandon the vote against Malcolm and instead vote for Michael as the safe vote. At Tribal Council, Phillip announced that Sherri was part of the Stealth R Us alliance and also said that anybody who is disloyal to the alliance would get voted out. After the votes were cast, Jeff asked if anybody wanted to play a Hidden Immunity Idol. Reynold stood up to play his Idol, but Malcolm told him to \"hold up bro\", and persuaded Reynold that after Phillip's speech about being disloyal, it was obvious the alliance had voted for Malcolm and that Reynold should give Malcolm the Idol. Reynold tossed the Idol over and Malcolm played it. But when the votes were read, the Idol went for naught as the alliance ceded to Andrea's wishes, voting out Michael who became the first member of the Jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":10,"episode_summary":"When the tribe returned to camp after Tribal Council, the Stealth R Us alliance went off to have a private conversation and left Eddie, Malcolm, and Reynold back at the camp. The Stealth R Us alliance agreed they could now freely vote out any of the three as they had no Hidden Immunity Idol, but unbeknownst to them, Malcolm still had one. While off at the lagoon on day 26, Dawn accidentally lost her retainer, which contained her bottom teeth. She yelled for Brenda to come help her and threatened to quit if her teeth were not found. Brenda dove down into the lagoon and found the retainer. The two formed a sympathetic bond after the incident with Brenda saying that she was solidly behind Dawn.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribe would be divided into two teams of five. One at a time, the teams would race through an obstacle course of balance beams, a water slide, and a mud pit. They would then retrieve a bag of balls in the mud and cross a pit full of rice. Once five bags were retrieved, all of the team members would untie the bags and shoot the balls into a basket. The first team to shoot all twelve of their balls into the basket would win a trip to a resort and lunch. Muddy Waters challenge from Survivor: Philippines.At the Reward Challenge, the team of Cochran, Dawn, Erik, Phillip, and Reynold easily defeated the team of Andrea, Brenda, Eddie, Malcolm, and Sherri. The next day, Dawn continued to unravel as she was sure that Andrea would turn against the Stealth R Us alliance and blindside her at the next Tribal Council. Her paranoia made Cochran and Phillip concerned, but things turned around the next day after Dawn got some sleep. The Stealth R Us alliance agreed to split their vote 4–3 against Reynold and Malcolm just in case one of them had a Hidden Immunity Idol.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Competing in two heats of five, the castaways would race across a platform, dive into the ocean, swim under the platform with the aid of a rope, climb back up onto the platform, retrieve a ring and put it on a post on the other side of the platform. They would have to complete two laps of this course. The first two castaways to finish their heat would move on to the final round. In the final round, the castaways would have to complete five laps on the course to win. Keel Hauling challenge from Survivor: Pearl Islands.At the Immunity Challenge, Reynold and Andrea won their heat over Cochran, Dawn, and Sherri. Before the second heat was to be run, Phillip said that he was opting out of the challenge due to the underwater stage of the challenge reminding him of a childhood incident. With the second heat down to four, Malcolm won the heat and Eddie should have joined him, but he missed the post with his second ring, allowing Brenda to join the final round. In the final round, it was neck and neck until the end where Reynold defeated Malcolm. With Reynold's win spoiling the Stealth R Us voting plan, they switched to a vote split between Eddie and Malcolm. But their plans were further spoiled when Malcolm found a Hidden Immunity Idol in full view of Andrea, Dawn, and Eddie. The Stealth R Us alliance decided to stick with the split vote plan. At Tribal Council, Eddie thought he was sure to go home, but the Stealth R Us alliance was stunned when Malcolm pulled out his second Hidden Immunity Idol and gave it to Eddie. There was a lot of whispering among the alliance as they tried to figure out how they were going to vote now that all three outsiders had immunity. Malcolm announced that his \"Three Amigos\" of himself, Eddie, and Reynold were going to vote for Phillip, due to the fact he was sucking the life out of the game, labelling Phillip a \"Fun-sponge\". Phillip told his alliance that they should continue their original split voting plan just in case Eddie and Malcolm did not play their Idols. But when the vote came, they did play them. Everybody in the Stealth R Us alliance except Erik kept to the split vote plan, leaving their votes discarded. The 4 majority votes against Eddie were voided, and Phillip, who had the 2nd highest number of votes, was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":11,"episode_summary":"With Phillip out of the game, Erik saw his departure as an opportunity to make a move while Cochran and Brenda were shocked and uncertain about their futures. Day 29's tree mail announced the Survivor Auction. Everybody purchased at least one item, with Malcolm and Cochran being the biggest winners by purchasing a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol and an advantage at the Immunity Challenge, respectively. The next day, Andrea followed Malcolm all day to prevent him from finding the Hidden Immunity Idol.\n\nImmunity Challenge: With one hand, the castaways would hang on to a rope with several knots tied into it. The rope would be tied to one end of a heavy log. The other end of the log would be connected to a pivot point on a platform that the castaways would stand on. The castaways would start at the knot closest to the end of the log. Every five minutes, they would change hands and move one knot further down the rope. This would increase the angle of the log at the pivot point and increase the weight that the castaways would have to hold. The castaway who held on to the rope the longest would win. Drop a Log challenge from Survivor: Samoa.At the Immunity Challenge, Cochran's advantage was revealed to be that any time during the challenge, he could move up two knots on the rope. He used this advantage to ultimately defeat Eddie and take his second Individual Immunity. Back at camp, Malcolm tried to get Sherri to flip and join the Three Amigos alliance and promising to take her to the final three. Meanwhile, Reynold tried to get Erik to flip. But when the vote came at Tribal Council, Sherri and Erik stuck to their alliance and the vote was split three votes a piece to Andrea, Malcolm, and Reynold. On the revote, the tally was unanimous and Malcolm was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Day 31's tree-mail announced a surprise Immunity Challenge instead of the Reward Challenge that the castaways expected. When they got to the challenge site, Jeff announced that it would be a combined Reward/Immunity Challenge.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The castaways would stand barefoot on wooden slats on an a-frame that was floating out in the water and try to remain balanced on top of the a-frame. After 15 minutes, the castaways would move up to a second set of slats making balancing more difficult. After another 15 minutes, the castaways would move to the top of the a-frame where they would have to balance until the end of the challenge. The last castaway remaining on the a-frame would win immunity and a reward of information in the game. Bermuda Triangles challenge from Survivor: Marquesas.With the castaways balanced on the first set of slats, Jeff offered up a plate of donuts and a glass of milk to whoever jumped off. Erik and Eddie agreed to jump off together. When the castaways moved up to the second set of slats, Jeff offered three hot dogs and a soda, which Cochran took. Thirty minutes into the challenge, the castaways moved to the top of the a-frame where Dawn, Sherri, and Reynold fell off, leaving Andrea and Brenda to fight it out. They tried to negotiate for one of them to win, but neither wanted to step off. They continued the challenge for three hours when they agreed to share the reward note and to make up their own fourth stage of the challenge by lifting their left foot off the top of the a-frame. Jeff counted down to this new fourth stage and Brenda fell off the top shortly thereafter to give Andrea the win. Back at camp, the reward note turned out to be a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol. Andrea shared the clue with her whole alliance and they went looking for the idol. Erik found it and handed it over to Andrea. Brenda's determination to stick it out in the challenge made Andrea suspicious of Brenda as she could be a big threat in future challenges. Andrea pushed Cochran, Dawn, and Sherri to blindside Brenda instead of splitting the vote between Eddie and Reynold. But when Tribal Council came, the Favorites did not blindside Brenda and instead sent Reynold to the jury.\nAfter Tribal Council, Andrea was still lobbying hard to Cochran about blindsiding either Brenda or Dawn. Cochran told Brenda and Dawn about Andrea's plan. Brenda immediately turned against Andrea.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would maneuver a buoy through a rope maze to a post. They would then untie a series of knots to release a key. The key would open a chest that contained a set of ladder rung puzzle pieces. The first castaway to assemble their ladder and climb to the top of the tower and raise their flag would win. Great Escape Run challenge from Survivor: Vanuatu.Erik won the Immunity Challenge by a blowout over Brenda. Back at camp, Andrea continued to push for a blindside. Cochran figured out that Andrea wanted to take Eddie to the final three, possibly displacing Cochran in the final three. Suspicious that Andrea was leaving him out of her plans, Cochran talked to Brenda, Dawn, and Sherri about blindsiding Andrea. Just in case Andrea got paranoid at Tribal Council and played the Hidden Immunity Idol, Cochran got his alliance to split the vote between Andrea and Eddie. Andrea told Erik that she would like to go to the final three with him. Erik was not sure if he should join Brenda and Cochran in blindsiding Andrea or joining Andrea in voting out Brenda. At Tribal Council, the timing of a \"big move\" was discussed. When the vote came, Erik made his \"big move\" and decided to vote against Andrea. Andrea was not paranoid enough to play her Hidden Immunity Idol, so she was blindsided, and took it with her to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Day 35's treemail was a Sprint HTC Evo 4G LTE containing videos from the castaways' loved ones: Brenda's dad Raymond, Dawn's husband David, Sherri's husband Jared, Cochran's mom Arlene, Eddie's dad Edward, and Erik's brother Richard.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways and their loved ones would spin around in circles to unscrew three rails. They would then assemble the rails into a ladder to play a variation of ladder toss. The first pair to have three bolas on their ladder wins a trip with their loved ones to a boat anchored offshore with a BBQ. Ladder Tree Golf challenge from Survivor: One World.At the Reward Challenge, Brenda's dad Raymond scored the last point to take the win. Jeff called Brenda over and gave her the offer to select one other castaway to join them and Brenda selected Dawn. Jeff then pulled out a second HTC Evo 4G LTE that had a video announcing that, not one, but two loved ones were on the island for the visit. Jeff then told Brenda that she could give up both her and Dawn's visit with their loved ones in exchange for the other four castaways to see their loved ones on the boat. Brenda called the decision a \"no brainer\" and gave up the reward. While the four were enjoying their visit, Dawn was livid that she missed out on her loved ones' visit back at camp because of Brenda. When the castaways returned from the visit, Cochran was concerned that Brenda's gesture would protect her for the rest of the game and would even get her votes at the final Tribal Council.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would stand on a log on the edge of a platform over the water with their arms behind them hanging onto a handle. The handle would be tied to a rope. At regular intervals, Jeff would turn a crank that would uncoil more rope which would lower the castaways closer to the water. The last castaway that hangs onto the handle without falling into the water or stepping off the log would win. Splash Back challenge from Survivor: Nicaragua.At the Immunity Challenge, the challenge came down to Brenda and Dawn. Dawn tried to cut a deal to end the challenge early since Eddie had not won and they would send him to the jury. However, Brenda did not agree to the deal and the challenge continued. Dawn would eventually outlast Brenda to take Individual Immunity.  In addition to being concerned with Brenda as a growing possible jury threat, Cochran was also aware of two separate final 3 deals involving his main ally Dawn- one of Dawn, Erik, Brenda, and another of Dawn, himself, and Sherri, and that Brenda had already begun campaigning with the others to oust him the following vote off should Eddie go this one as planned.  Back at camp, Cochran tried to sell Dawn and Sherri on sending Brenda home. Sherri readily agreed, while Dawn was conflicted on what to do. When the vote came, Dawn followed through with Cochran's plan and voted out Brenda.  A shocked Brenda would turn towards Dawn and Cochran and state \"I was honest with you guys, I was genuine with you guys\", before dissolving into tears on the walk off."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":14,"episode_summary":"As the tribe was leaving Tribal Council, Erik became dizzy. After the Survivor Medical Team checked him out, the doctors gave him an IV to stabilize him against a possible starvation state and pulled him from the game. When the four returned to camp, Cochran approached Eddie and they talked about taking Sherri to the final three. Day 37's treemail announced a Reward Challenge with an advantage in the game.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways would use one hand to hold on to a rope to steady a balancing board. With the other hand, they would build a house of cards with wooden tiles on one end of the balancing board. The first castaway to build a tall enough house of cards to reach the finish mark would win an advantage at the final Immunity Challenge. House of Cards challenge from Survivor: Gabon.At the Reward Challenge, all of the castaway's house of cards collapsed at least twice, until Cochran finally built a house tall enough to reach the mark. Back at camp, Eddie and Sherri agreed to take Cochran to the final three, while Dawn was being paranoid about being voted out. Cochran tried to reassure her that she was not going to be voted out, but he considered voting her out. Day 38's treemail announced the traditional journey honoring the castaways voted out before heading to the final Immunity Challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would race up a three-story tower to retrieve a bag of puzzle pieces tied to a post and then slide down a water slide. Two more puzzle piece bags would need to be retrieved before the castaways could start on their puzzle. The first castaway to assemble their puzzle would win.Cochran's advantage turned out to be that his puzzle piece bags would not be tied to a post. While the advantage gave Cochran a huge lead into the puzzle assembly stage, he squandered it as the other three caught up to him, but he was able to recover and beat out Dawn for the final Individual Immunity. Back at camp, Cochran's decision came down to either bringing Dawn or Eddie to the final three. Sherri was not deemed any threat at all to win, and was thus completely safe. He chose to take Dawn, fearing Eddie's popularity with many of the male members of the jury, and Eddie became the final member of the jury.\nCochran, Dawn, and Sherri enjoyed the traditional day 39 breakfast. At the Final Tribal Council, the three made their opening statements to the jury. The jury made their statements to the three and questioned the three about their game play. Malcolm told Dawn that she should own up to her game play and asked Cochran what quality he had that allowed him to advance in the game that Malcolm did not have. Eddie asked Sherri if she felt she got carried to the final three to which she replied forcefully she did not only to invoke laughter from several jury members, Dawn about how she could declare herself a strong player when she was seen as weak at camp, and Cochran about how the game had changed him going forward in life and asked if he would ever go on a bro date with the Three Amigos. Phillip \"revoked\" Sherri's membership in Stealth R Us, told Dawn that he would not vote for her, and Cochran that he played a good game. Erik asked Dawn about the damage she caused in her game play. He got into a major argument with Sherri about her game play until Sherri told him to sit down since he would not vote for her anyway. Michael asked Dawn and Cochran why Dawn was perceived as being a villain while Cochran was not. Reynold used his time to tell Dawn he thought she was a fraud and asked what she really thought of him. Andrea asked Cochran to choose an animal that he played the game most like and told Dawn she was proud of her game. Brenda asked Cochran why she should vote for him after he had orchestrated her elimination right after the selfless family visit gift she had given him and the others and he replied that getting rid of her was purely a strong game move and hoped she would respect that as a fellow player, and asked Dawn to remove her dental appliance in front of the jury to show that she would have stayed in the game if she had not recovered it."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US26","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Nearly a year later, the jury vote went unanimously for Cochran and he became the Sole Survivor by a vote of 8–0–0. The castaways discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst. For the first time in Survivor history, only castaways who made it to the jury phase were invited onto the main stage, creating a controversy after the reunion show aired."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The ten pairs of returning players and their loved ones were dropped off in ten separate locations as part of the Day Zero twist to spend the night together without a tribe. The next morning, Jeff Probst welcomed the 20 castaways to the game and announced that they would not be playing the game with their loved ones, but against them. The castaways split into their tribes and Jeff sprung a second twist on them that they would immediately vote out a member of their tribe. Tadhana voted out Laura B., while Galang voted out Candice. Jeff then announced that Redemption Island was back in play, but with a twist that the loved one of the castaway could switch places with them. Rupert immediately stepped forward to take his wife Laura's place and she joined his tribe, Galang. After discussing it between themselves, John did not switch with his wife, Candice. At their new campsite, Brad arranged an all-male alliance at Tadhana.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Six castaways from each tribe would race out into the ocean and over a set of three obstacles to a boat. They would then dive down to untie knots to free the boat. The castaways would paddle the boat back to shore and deliver a chest with three bags of puzzle pieces.  The other three members of the tribe would then assemble the puzzle pieces into a ship's wheel which would be used to raise a flag. The first tribe to raise their flag would win immunity and a reward of flint.Gervase struggled with the swimming part of the challenge, requiring assistance from Aras, which gave Tadhana a huge lead at the end of the boat stage of the challenge. The lead was squandered during the puzzle stage as Laura M., Monica, and Tina worked efficiently to solve the puzzle to give Galang the win. Gervase's excessive celebration at the win did not go over well with Tadhana and that put a target on his niece, Marissa, despite her comments against her uncle's actions. The boys’ alliance knew from day one that they wanted to vote out one of the women and was trying to decide between Katie, who was seen as ineffective at the puzzle stage of the challenge, and Marissa, who was guilty by association for Gervase's excessive celebration. In the end, the boy's alliance went with Marissa and she was sent to Redemption Island in a unanimous vote."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At Galang, Colton was unhappy that the tribe didn't want to talk strategy and seemingly not playing the game, so he tried to stir up trouble by telling various castaways that others were targeting them. However, the tribe saw through his attempts at stirring up trouble and wanted the camp to remain drama free. Aras, Gervase, Monica, Tina, and Tyson formed an alliance. Over at Tadhana, Rachel tried to secure her position among the men's alliance while Ciera tried to swing the vote to Rachel by suggesting to others that she had an alliance with John.\n\nRedemption Island Challenge: The castaways would use a long pole to maneuver a wooden spool through a metal rod structure. They would then balance the spool on the top of the structure. The structure is mounted on a spring, so the structure would sway if the castaway touches the structure while maneuvering the spool, possibly toppling the spools from the top of the structure. The first two castaways to stack ten spools on top would remain in the game.Jeff announced that the first finisher would be able to give a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol to any castaway of their choice. Candice and Rupert were close to finishing the duel when Rupert's stack toppled over. Candice cruised to finishing first, while Rupert was unable to recover, allowing Marissa to continue on. Candice gave the clue to Hidden Immunity Idol to John. Back at camp, Vytas suggested to his alliance that they vote out Rachel in order to tempt Tyson into taking her place and weakening Galang in the process. John didn't want to vote out Rachel as if Tyson did switch at the duel, it would mean more competition to Candice.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Three castaways would roll a fourth castaways in a barrel to four platforms to retrieve four bags of balls. Once all of the bags were retrieved, the remaining castaways would roll the balls up a ramp and into six targets. The first tribe to have a ball in all six targets would win immunity and a reward of fishing gear.The challenge was closely fought with Galang edging out Tadhana. The next day, the guys went with Vytas' suggestion and sent Rachel to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":3,"episode_summary":"At Galang, Colton was still upset that the other players were not strategizing with him. When the tribes got to Redemption Island, Tyson saw through Tadhana's idea of weakening Galang by voting out Rachel so he could switch places with her. However, the couple agreed not to switch. Tyson then called out Brad for voting out Rachel, who fired back at the whole Galang tribe and stated that it was hard to vote out their fellow tribe members. But Brad was immediately rebuffed by Marissa, who said that Tadhana had voted out the two strongest women when they had the opportunity to vote out the weaker members of their tribe, making more sense and causing less tension. Brad told her that this was part of the game, but Marissa responded by cursing at him. Suddenly, Colton began to break down crying and told everybody that he wanted to quit. Jeff lambasted Colton for quitting, and even claimed that Colton faked appendicitis during Survivor: One World, making him a two-time quitter. Colton denied this and then departed the game, taking his buff with him.\n\nRedemption Island Challenge: The three castaways would stack wooden blocks like a line of domino tiles while avoiding bars that would topple the tiles that were already stacked. Once all of the blocks were properly stacked, the castaway would start a chain reaction which would release a ball that would smash a plate.  The first two castaways to break their plates would remain in the game.Candice took first place for the second time, while Marissa barely edged out Rachel after over 45 minutes of work. Candice gave John the second clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Facing off one-on-one, the castaways would battle sumo style using padded bags to try to knock their opponent off a platform and into the ocean to score a point for their tribe. The first tribe to five points would win immunity and a reward of a Tarp, pillows, blankets, mosquito net, rope, and a hammock. Tribe could also opt to win fishing gear instead.During his match-up with Hayden, Tyson popped his right shoulder out. The Survivor Medical Team cleared him to remain in the game but advised he sit out the remainder of the challenge. Laura M. defeated Ciera in the final round to give Galang their third straight win. Back at camp, John lobbied to vote out Ciera as she didn't do as much work around camp as Katie. After John walked away, Brad proposed that they vote out John as Brad was worried that if Candice continued to win at Redemption Island, Brad would lose his control over John when Candice returned to the game. Brad organized the others to vote for John, but said that he didn't want to vote for John himself. Vytas and Hayden saw through Brad trying to get the tribe to do his dirty work and considered blindsiding Brad instead. However, at Tribal Council, they stuck to voting for John and he was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":4,"episode_summary":"When the castaways arrived at the Redemption Island duel, there was still a lot of anger towards Brad with Candice flipping the bird at him. Candice, John, Brad, and Monica argued about who was responsible for the castaways being sent to Redemption Island.\n\nRedemption Island Challenge: The castaways would maneuver a buoy along a rope twisted around a horizontal ladder. At the end of the rope, the castaway would untie a key from the buoy and use the key to unlock a bag of puzzle pieces. The first two castaways to solve their puzzle would remain in the game.John came in first followed by Candice after Marissa faltered at the puzzle. At Candice's suggestion, John gave Monica the clue to the location of the Hidden Immunity Idol. However, at Brad's urging, Monica burned the clue in the ceremonial buff burning urn without looking at it. Back at the Tadhana camp, Brad started to feel the heat from his tribe members about continually voting out their loved ones, so he decided that Caleb should be the next to go since Colton had already quit the game. Caleb, Hayden, and Vytas agreed to vote off one of the girls, but were wary of being \"Johnned\" by Brad. They wanted to keep Brad into the merge as that would take the heat off them. Over at Galang, Gervase and Tyson formed an alliance since their loved ones were now out of the game.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The castaways would paddle out into the ocean to retrieve five crates tied to the bottom of the ocean. Once all five crates were returned to the beach, the castaways would use the crates to build a staircase. Two castaways would then solve a puzzle revealing the combination on a wheel that would lead them to a key. The key would unlock a handle to raise a flag. The first tribe to raise their flag would win immunity and a reward of tea, coffee, croissants, and biscotti. Tribe could also opt to win fishing gear.Tadhana again got off to an early lead, but lost when Laura M. again beat out her daughter Ciera during the puzzle stage. When Tadhana returned to camp, the men went off to strategize over whom to vote out. However, Brad lingered around camp and told the girls that he was going to vote for Caleb. Brad then joined the rest of the guys, but his slowness in joining them made the men suspicious of a plot by Brad. After some discussion, Brad agreed to vote for Ciera. At Tribal Council, after Brad admitted that it would be easy to vote out somebody without a loved one on the other tribe, Caleb announced that he would be voting for Brad and that other men on his tribe could vote for whomever they wanted. Brad said that he would not vote for Caleb. After all votes were read, Brad and Ciera had each received 3 votes. On the revote, in which Brad and Ciera were ineligible to participate, Vytas changed his vote to Brad, sending him to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Over at Tadhana, everybody in the tribe tried to figure out where Caleb stood after the surprise shift in power from the last Tribal Council. When the tribes got to Redemption Island, Monica asked Brad to let her take his place, but he refused.\n\nRedemption Island Challenge: The castaways would disassemble a crate and use the pieces to build a bridge. Once the bridge was complete, they would disassemble the bridge and use some of the pieces to solve a puzzle. The first two castaways to solve their puzzle would remain in the game.John took first place and Brad edged out Candice. John gave the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol to Monica, but she again burned it in the ceremonial buff burning urn.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The castaways would face off one against one and slide down a water slide to retrieve a ring. They would then toss the ring onto a post to score a point for their tribe. The first tribe to score five points would win immunity and a reward of steaks, vegetables, spices, and a wok. Tribe could also opt to win fishing gear.Tadhana got their first win. Back at camp, the alliance of Aras, Gervase, Monica, Tina, and Tyson were set to vote out Laura B. until Aras suggested that they pass on the easy vote and instead vote for Laura M. Aras thought that by voting out Laura M., she could defeat Brad at the Redemption Island duels and secure Monica's future loyalty in the game. At Tribal Council, the alliance went with Aras' plan and Laura M. was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":6,"episode_summary":"At Galang, Tyson and Gervase discussed how long they would wait until they took out Aras as they were concerned that Aras and Vytas would dominate the game after a tribal merger.\n\nRedemption Island Challenge: The castaways would race along a balance beam to collect four bags containing 100 numbered puzzle pieces. After a bag was collected, they would lay out the pieces in numerical order and then retrieve the next bag. The first two castaways to have all 100 pieces correctly placed would remain in the game.Laura M. cruised to first place while second place was narrowly taken by John over Brad. Laura M. gave the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol to Vytas, but he immediately burned the clue. After Laura M. and John left the Redemption Island Arena, Jeff announced that there would be a tribal switch and that they would draw buffs for new tribes. The new Galang became Kat, Katie, Laura B., Monica, Tina, and Vytas while the new Tadhana became Aras, Caleb, Ciera, Gervase, Hayden, and Tyson.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Working two at a time, the tribe would race out to a cage on the bottom of the ocean, untie knots to release a gate, and retrieve a fish trap. Once three traps were retrieved, two castaways would use puzzle pieces contained in the traps to assemble a puzzle. The first tribe to assemble their puzzle would win immunity and a reward of fixings for a picnic: bread, ham, roast beef, cheese, condiments, and brownies.Laura B. and Tina nearly threw away the challenge when they failed to remember to bring back the first fish trap. Tina nearly redeemed herself when she and Monica made up a lot of ground during the puzzle stage, going so far as thinking they had completed the puzzle twice, but Tadhana persevered and took the win. Back at camp, the women agreed to vote out Vytas, but Kat became irritated at Monica talking strategy too much and approached Tina about voting out Monica instead. Tina became concerned about Kat's loyalty and told Monica and Vytas about Kat's suggestion. Monica confronted Kat about it, but Kat denied everything. At Tribal Council, Kat pleaded for the tribe to keep her in the game and continued to deny that she suggested Monica be voted out. Vytas took the opportunity to deflect the vote away from him by pointing out that he was open and honest with the tribe while Kat was not. When the vote came, the women decided to eliminate Kat and she was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":7,"episode_summary":"At the Redemption Island duel, Kat broke down after she entered the arena. Hayden said that his relationship with Kat was more important than the game. Jeff told him to prove it by putting him on the spot to switch with Kat. After Kat told Hayden that he had a better chance of winning the game, they did not switch.\n\nRedemption Island Challenge: The castaways would untie a series of knots to release a machete. They would then use the machete to cut a rope which would release a bag of puzzle pieces. The pieces would then have to be assembled into a puzzle the shape of a flame. The first two castaways to solve their puzzle would remain in the game.John cruised to victory, while Laura M. beat out Kat to take second place. John gave the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol to Monica who continued the practice of burning it. At the Tadhana camp while Aras was away, Tyson organized the ouster of Aras, perceiving him as a threat, and the group of Caleb, Ciera, Gervase, Hayden, and Tyson agreed to go to the final five together.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Four castaways would be chained together by their ankles and have to navigate through an obstacle course to collect bags of balls and chains. Once all the bags were collected, one castaway would assemble the balls and chains into bolas to be used in a game of ladder toss. The first castaway to get three of their bolas onto the ladder would win immunity and a reward of fried chicken, biscuits, corn on the cob, macaroni and cheese, iced tea, and lemonade.The challenge was a close competition with the tribes tied throughout the challenge until Tyson edged out Tina during the ladder toss stage to give Tadhana their third straight victory. Back at the Galang camp, Laura B. took it upon herself to tell Vytas that he was going to be voted out next as she thought it would be the honorable thing to do. However, the other women did not look kindly upon Laura B. speaking for the girls alliance without consulting them first. Monica felt that she couldn't trust Laura B. while Tina was concerned about Laura B.'s unpredictability. At Tribal Council, the tribe debated voting out Vytas or Laura B. When the vote came, the women turned against Laura B. and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":8,"episode_summary":"After returning to camp from Tribal Council, Monica was not happy about being told by Tina that she was fifth in line among an alliance of Tina, Katie, Aras, Vytas, and Gervase.\n\nRedemption Island Challenge: The castaways would hang onto a pole as long as they can. The last castaway left hanging without touching the ground would return to the game.John slid off the pole first followed by Laura B. With the win, Laura M. returned to the game and Jeff announced the tribal merger. Jeff gave the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol to Laura M. and she promptly burned it. Back at camp, Ciera told her mother about the individuals alliance she struck with the castaways who had their loved ones leave the game. Tyson found the Hidden Immunity Idol using the clues that Hayden told him when the tribes switched. Aras and Vytas talked and thought their alliance with Tina, Katie, Monica, Gervase, and Tyson was strong and that they should vote out Laura M. or Ciera next. Meanwhile, Monica talked to Tyson and he told her about the individuals alliance's plan to take out Aras and Vytas due to their threat level and strong ties with Tina and Katie.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Jeff would display a series of symbols to the castaways; they would then have to recreate the sequence from memory. If a castaway chose an incorrect symbol, they would be out of the challenge. The last castaway remaining would win immunity.Vytas narrowly beat his brother to take the first individual immunity. Aras got his alliance to agree to split the vote between Laura M. and Ciera in case there was a Hidden Immunity Idol in play. At Tribal Council, the castaways discussed shifting alliances among the individuals and the blood pairs. When the vote came, the individuals alliance revealed itself; joined by Laura M. and Ciera, they voted Aras out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":9,"episode_summary":"When the castaways returned from Tribal Council, Tina called out Monica and Tyson for the blindside against her alliance with Aras, but several of the tribe members defended themselves by telling Tina that Aras also had several alliances.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would participate in the classic Survivor food eating challenge. In the first round, six castaways would move on after eating 40 mealworms. In the second round, two castaways would move on after eating 3 ounces (85 g) of pig intestines. In the last round, the two castaways would eat two grubs. The first castaway to finish their grubs would win immunity.In the final round of the challenge, Monica and Gervase downed pig intestines where Gervase faced the same food he was unable to eat in Survivor: Borneo. While he tried to finish the challenge this time, history repeated itself and Monica was victorious. The alliance of seven decided to split the vote 4–3, with the four men voting for Vytas and the three women voting for Katie, to guard against the Hidden Immunity Idol. Tyson, who had the Hidden Immunity Idol, did not tell his alliance that the split was unnecessary as he did not want to put a target on himself. Vytas tried to scramble and get the vote to be 4–3 between Katie and himself. At Tribal Council, Vytas and Monica argued about Monica's status in the game. This upset Monica and she changed her vote to Vytas, but he already had the majority of votes and was sent to Redemption Island by a vote of 8–1–1. Monica's anger-fuelled vote against Vytas did not go over well with Gervase and he thought she should stick to the agreed upon plan.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would balance the tip of a sword on a shield. Then would then stack coins on top of the sword's handle. The last castaway to keep their stack of coins balanced would win immunity.Katie won the challenge, so Tina ran off trying to find the Hidden Immunity Idol, knowing that she was sure to be voted out, but not knowing that Tyson already had it. With Tyson still keeping his Idol discovery a secret, the alliance of seven had to trail Tina to make sure she didn't find the Idol. Gervase and Tyson became concerned that Monica was being too paranoid about being voted out and was a loose cannon. At Tribal Council, Tina pointed out to Monica that she was on the bottom of the alliance hoping that the alliance of seven would blindside Monica. Tina also tried to bluff that she had the Hidden Immunity Idol. When the votes were counted, the alliance of seven sent Tina to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":10,"episode_summary":"When the tribe returned to camp after Tribal Council, Ciera told her mom, Laura M., that Katie or Monica had to go next, but Ciera was also willing to vote out her mother if it furthered her own chances in the game.\n\nRedemption Island Challenge: The castaways would use a grappling hook to retrieve three bags with a ball inside. They would then use one of the balls to complete a labyrinth maze.  The first two castaways to complete the labyrinth would remain in the game.Tina had a huge lead after collecting all three bags in four throws of the grappling hook, but her ball fell into a hole near the end of the labyrinth maze, allowing Vytas to take the win. Tina recovered from the delay to take second place over Aras, who became the first member of the jury. Vytas gave the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol to Katie, who did not burn it like past recipients. The clue lead Katie to the spot of the Idol, but she did not know that Tyson already had it. Tyson told Caleb and Hayden that the guys should vote for Laura M. without telling Ciera so that Ciera would be spared from voting for her mom. Ciera told her mom that she had a better chance at winning the game and it may be necessary to vote her own mom out if the number of castaways got down to six. Laura M. was not happy about the idea of being voted out from an individual player's point of view, but she was proud that Ciera was growing and showing her strength of character.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The castaways would stand on small platforms and hang on to a rope while leaning backwards over the ocean. The rope would have knots tied along its length. After a while, the castaways would have to move further down the rope to the next knot, increasing the angle at which they were hanging over the water. The last castaway to hang onto the rope would win immunity and a reward of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, french fries, and soda.Monica defeated Tyson to take her second individual immunity. When Jeff told her that she could invite one person to share the reward, Monica instead told Jeff that the Individual Immunity was more important to her than the reward and that she would like to give the reward to the rest of the tribe and forgo her share. Jeff agreed to the deal. After Tyson told Ciera that the guys were voting for Laura M. and she agreed that she could vote for her mom, Ciera started to make moves to keep her mom in the game. She figured out from Katie that she did not have the Hidden Immunity Idol and tried to persuade her alliance to vote out Katie. This caused Tyson to be concerned that Ciera was becoming a stronger player and that the alliance had to stick with the plan to vote out Laura M. At Tribal Council, the alliance (including Ciera) did stick with the original plan and Laura M. was sent back to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Redemption Island Challenge: The castaways would bounce four blocks along a rope tunnel to retrieve them. The blocks would then need to be stacked so that one color didn't show more than once on each column. The first two castaways to solve their puzzle would remain in the game.Laura M. and Vytas got out to a big lead over Tina during the block retrieval stage. Laura M. finished her puzzle first and then proceeded to help Tina finish her puzzle while trying to prevent Vytas from finishing his. With Laura M.'s prompting, Tina finished just seconds ahead of Vytas and he went to join his brother on the jury. Laura M. gave the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol to Ciera and she resumed the practice of burning the clue. Tyson began rounding up votes against Katie, but Hayden and Caleb had a different idea and wanted to blindside Tyson. Hayden and Caleb told Katie about their plan and she agreed as it would keep her in the game. When Hayden and Caleb told Ciera about their plan, she agreed to vote with them. However, she didn't trust them and immediately told Tyson about their plans. She told Tyson that all of her remaining votes would be for whomever Tyson told her to vote for. Tyson told her that they would vote for Caleb and filled Gervase in on the plan.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would hold on to a metal rod to which one end of a rope is spooled around. The other end of the rope is attached to a bucket overhead, weighted down with 25% of the castaway's body weight. The castaways would try to hold on to the rod and stop it from spinning, which would unspool the rope. The last castaway to prevent the rope from unspooling and letting the bucket hit the ground would win immunity.Jeff gave the castaways the option of sitting out the challenge and eating a feast of steak, chicken, sausage, bread and drinks. Ciera, Gervase, and Tyson chose to eat. Monica defeated Hayden for her third individual immunity. Concerned that Ciera had flipped on them, Hayden and Caleb approached Tyson to ask him if he was going to blindside them. Hayden and Caleb said that Ciera was playing both sides and trying to get the four men against each other. They told Tyson that they should vote for Ciera. Tyson thought their story was believable, but wasn't sure he could trust them. Tyson told Gervase about Hayden and Caleb's story and he was not sure whom to trust either. At Tribal Council, Tyson played his Hidden Immunity Idol, but no votes were cast against him. When the votes were read, Tyson and Gervase decided to trust Ciera, and Caleb was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Upon returning to camp after Tribal Council, Hayden told the tribe that everybody would come in second behind Tyson at the end of the game. The alliance of Ciera, Gervase, Monica, and Tyson agreed to vote out Hayden next.\n\nRedemption Island Challenge: The castaways would use 150 wooden tiles to construct a house of cards. The first two castaways to either construct a tower 8 feet (2.4 m) tall or have the tallest tower after 30 minutes would remain in the game.Laura M. completed her house of cards first. Caleb was leading Tina as time was expiring, but with seconds left to go, his tower collapsed and Tina, who had been struggling, took a knee to ensure that her stack would not fall from a winning position. As a result, Caleb became the third member of the jury. Laura M. gave the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol to Ciera, who shared it with her alliance. Everybody went looking for the Idol, but Tyson found it and kept the discovery to himself again. Hayden talked to Gervase about blindsiding Tyson. Gervase told Hayden that he would only go along with it if Ciera agreed to vote Tyson.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: While balancing a ball on top of a pole, the castaways would run a three stage obstacle course. At the end of the first and second stages, the castaways would attach a segment to the pole making the pole longer and more difficult to balance. At end of the obstacle course, the castaways would release a key to a box of sandbags. They would then use the sandbags to knock over nine bamboo targets. The first castaway to knock over all their targets would win immunity and a reward of ice cream and root beer.Gervase edged out Monica in a close competition. Jeff told Gervase to pick one castaway to join him in the reward and he picked Monica to return the favour as Monica previously gave up her reward to the whole tribe. Jeff told him to pick another, and after some indecision, selected Tyson. Seeing the snubbing of Ciera as a possible opening, Hayden talked to her about blindsiding Tyson, but she refused to break from her alliance. At Tribal Council, Hayden used Monica's and Gervase's slip-up about Ciera being fourth in the alliance to try to convince Ciera to vote for Monica and that if she joined him and Katie, Ciera would be in the final 3. Gervase argued that her alliance had always had her back while Hayden and Katie had both previously voted for her. When the vote came, Ciera decided to break from her alliance, forcing a 3–3 tie between Hayden and Monica. Jeff called for a revote and the vote was tied again. Jeff told Ciera, Gervase, Katie, and Tyson that they must unanimously agree to vote out Hayden or Monica or they would draw rocks. Ciera explained to her alliance that she voted for Monica because she felt she was fourth in the alliance and, unless Tyson and Gervase would join her vote, she would draw rocks. When nobody budged from their position, Ciera, Katie, and Tyson drew rocks to break the stalemate. Katie drew the white rock and she was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Upon returning from Tribal Council, Tyson, tired of Monica over-strategizing, revealed to Monica and Gervase that he again had found the Hidden Immunity Idol and, thus, they did not have to worry about the next vote.\n\nRedemption Island Challenge: The three Redemption Island inhabitants would use rope to tie together sticks in order to make a pole to retrieve three keys. The first two castaways to retrieve all three keys and unlock three locks would remain in the game.Laura M. cruised to victory while a hesitant Tina came in second over Katie. Laura M. gave the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol to Ciera, which she shared with Hayden. The two went looking for it, but when they could not find it, Hayden reasoned that Tyson already had it. Ciera and Hayden agreed that the best plan of action would be to try to break Monica from her alliance with Gervase and Tyson by telling her that the two guys were just leading her on and that Tyson had her on a leash.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Starting from a platform out in the ocean, the castaways would guide a buoy along a rope and around an obstacle. Once on shore, the castaways would untie a bag of puzzle pieces. The first castaway to solve their puzzle would win immunity and a reward of a choice from a menu of steak, lobster, pizza, or a hamburger to be delivered to camp.Ciera came from dead last during the swimming stage to solve the puzzle first, earning her first individual immunity. At Tribal Council, Monica was the swing vote and both sides tried to convince her to join them and that the other side was lying. When the vote came, Monica stuck with her original alliance and Hayden was sent to Redemption Island."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":14,"episode_summary":"After the tribe returned from Tribal Council, Tyson tried to secure Monica's allegiance by offering her the Hidden Immunity Idol, but she told him to keep it.\n\nRedemption Island Challenge: The castaways would balance one foot on one end of a seesaw while a vase was balanced on the other. The last castaway to keep their vase balanced on the seesaw would return to the game.Hayden dropped his vase after 15 minutes to become the fifth member of the jury. Tina then outlasted Laura M. to rejoin the game and to send Laura M. to the jury. Tina kept the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol. She and Ciera went looking for the idol in vain, so they turned to working on Monica to turn on her alliance.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would pull on a rope attached to an unbalanced table to keep the table level. They would stand a wooden block on end and have to hold on to the rope to keep the block upright. They would then retrieve one of nine wooden blocks from three stations while keeping all the blocks on the table upright. Once the block was retrieved, the castaway would have to stack the block on the table and retrieve the other blocks. Should any of the blocks fall, the castaway would have to return to the table and restack the blocks. The first castaway to have all ten blocks standing for a three count would win immunity.Tyson defeated Gervase and Monica. Back at camp, Tyson wanted Gervase and Monica to decide between themselves to vote out Ciera or Tina. The argument between them became rather heated. At Tribal Council, Ciera and Tina resumed their pitch to Monica to join them. When the vote was about to be read, Tyson gave his Hidden Immunity Idol to Gervase and he played it. The votes against Gervase was negated, but he did not need the added protection of the Idol as Monica had voted for Ciera and she was sent to the jury. Monica was furious that Tyson gave the Hidden Immunity Idol to Gervase without telling her.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways would race through an obstacle course and a water slide to retrieve six bags of puzzle pieces, two at a time. They would then use the pieces to solve a puzzle which would give them clues to solve a combination lock. The first castaway to unlock the combination lock and raise their flag would win immunity.Tyson won individual immunity for the second time in a row. Tina told Monica that she should make a big move and vote for Gervase, forcing a fire making tie breaker, but Monica decided to stick to her original alliance and Tina became the last member of the jury.\nOn day 39, the final three enjoyed the traditional breakfast and then headed off to the final Tribal Council. The three made their opening statements to the jury and then Jeff opened the floor to the jury to make their own statements and ask questions. Vytas told Tyson that he was not going to get his vote, that Gervase playing \"old school\", as noted in his opening statement, meant that he was not adapting to the game; and that he was unsure of whom he was going to vote for. After Tyson said in his opening statement that he played the game without malice, Katie asked him about the malice in his comment that she was headed to the jury after they drew rocks. Tyson said that that was his one regret in the game and apologized for it. Caleb asked Gervase about his big move in the game and Monica about revealing something about herself. Ciera asked Tyson if he viewed himself as a villain or hero, while she asked Gervase if he ever considered voting out Tyson. Laura M. asked Monica about who she was and about being vulnerable. Tina asked the three to pick one word to describe themselves, with Monica picking \"generous\", Gervase picking \"honorable\", and Tyson picking \"fun-loving\". Hayden asked Tyson if he had the Hidden Immunity Idol when he drew rocks and Monica about what the jury's perception of her was as he felt that nobody really knew her. Finally, Aras asked the final three about whom they felt he should vote for if not themselves and why; Monica and Gervase picked Tyson, and Tyson picked Monica."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US27","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, the votes of the jurors were revealed, with Monica garnering one vote, which was from Vytas, and Tyson receiving the rest, earning the title of Sole Survivor in a 7–1–0 vote. The castaways discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":1,"episode_summary":"All three tribes were asked to designate a leader. David, Sarah, and LJ were chosen for the Brains, Brawn, and Beauty tribes respectively; they then had to pick their tribe's weakest player as David, Sarah, and LJ respectively chose Garrett, Trish, and Morgan. All three were flown by helicopter to their camps, while the remaining tribe members had to walk there. Upon arriving at camp, the weakest players had to choose between an extra bag of rice for the tribe or a clue to a hidden immunity idol. Garrett and Morgan chose to look for the Idol, but only Garrett found one, while Trish chose the extra bag of rice. Brice began to bond with Morgan after noticing bonds were forming between LJ and Jeremiah, and Alexis and Jefra. At the Brawn camp, Woo recognized Cliff as a basketball star, but the tribe didn't care about Cliff's past. Sarah confronted Tony, as she pegged him as being a cop, but he denied it and claimed to be a construction worker. At the Brains camp, J'Tia was leading the tribe in building their shelter despite coming across as bossy.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The tribes would start at one end of a course with a wagon. Along the way, they would retrieve keys from a tall post with a long pole to unlock three trunks with puzzle pieces inside, and put the trunks on the wagon. After getting all three trunks, the tribes would have to disassemble the wagon and push the pieces of the wagon and the trunks either through or over a fence, then climb over the fence themselves. They then would re-assemble the wagon, put the trunks on board, and drag the wagon through more obstacles. Once at the finish, two tribe members would take the pieces out of the trunks and assemble the vertical puzzle. The first two tribes to finish would get immunity; the first-place tribe would also get a fire-making kit, while second place would get flint to make fire.At the challenge, the Brawns and the Beauty tribe took a big lead; by the time the Brains tribe began the puzzle, the other tribes were almost finished. The Beauty tribe finished first with the Brawn tribe coming in second. At the Brains camp, Kass and David debated over whom to vote out: Kass wanted J'Tia out for her poor attitude and work ethic, while David wanted to target Garrett, who he saw as a threat later in the game. Garrett was conflicted between voting for J'Tia and David after being selected by David as the weakest tribe member. J'Tia and Tasha agreed to Garrett's plan, but Spencer was paranoid about David potentially having an idol and believed J'Tia was the easier vote. In the end, Spencer sided with Garrett and David was voted out.\nAfter the vote, Kass found herself in a swing vote position, sitting between Spencer and Garrett, and J'Tia and Tasha, eventually allying with the former. At the Brawn camp, Cliff and Woo bonded, while Tony wasn't fond of Cliff's popularity within the tribe. Trish and Lindsey argued over workload. Tony built a hiding spot in the shelter, named the \"Spy Shack,\" to eavesdrop on his tribe's conversations. At the Beauty camp, Jeremiah and Morgan bonded, while Brice attempted to solidify an alliance with them.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The tribes would race out into the ocean and climb over and into a bamboo cage. The tribe would then have to untie an underwater door on the cage bottom and drag heavy fish traps through the door and back to the beach. Once on the beach, they must retrieve puzzle pieces inside the fish traps. After that, one member from each tribe must assemble a rotating fish themed gear puzzle. The first two tribes to finish would get immunity; the first-place tribe would receive a deluxe fishing kit, including nets, lures, worms, along with a pan and spices, while second place would receive fish lures, weights, and line.At the challenge, the Brawn and Brains tribes took an early lead over the Beauty tribe. The Brawn tribe placed first while J'Tia of the Brains tribe struggled with the puzzle. The Beauty tribe managed to come from behind and place second, thanks to LJ's work on the puzzle, sending the Brains to their second consecutive Tribal Council. After the challenge, Tony found a clue to the hidden immunity idol in the reward and ended up finding the idol. At the Brains camp, Garrett, not wanting anyone to have private talks with each other, began an open discussion with the tribe on whom to send home as he, Kass, and Spencer had agreed on voting out J'Tia. Tasha argued with Garrett, as she wanted to strategize and believed Garrett was not playing the game correctly. When Tasha attempted to privately talk with Kass about voting out Garrett, Garrett and Spencer followed them. With her tribe distracted, J'Tia dumped most of their rice into the fire due to being angry about her tribe wanting to vote her out. At Tribal Council, Garrett got into an argument with J'Tia and Tasha, and outed his alliance with Spencer and Kass. In the end, Kass flipped, siding with the other women to vote out Garrett, who had left his hidden idol back at camp."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Spencer questioned the rest of his tribe if J'Tia would have been voted out if Garrett had not had an open discussion about the vote. Tasha said she planned to vote for J'Tia until Garrett revealed his alliance that didn't involve her. At the Brawn camp, Tony admitted to Sarah that he's a police officer, which she earlier suspected and he denied. The two formed an alliance, naming it \"Cops-R-Us.\" Tony lied to Sarah, claiming that Cliff and Lindsey suggested an interest in getting Sarah out of the game. A rain storm came down on the castaways throughout the night and following day. At the Beauty camp, LJ ventured off during the storm in search of the hidden immunity idol and eventually found it. At the Brains camp, they all practiced throwing water to each other from coconut-to-coconut based on their challenge clue.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: One tribe member closest to the ocean would collect a bucket of water. They then had to work with their tribe to pass the water to each other by throwing it in the air and catching it in their buckets, with the final member eventually dumping the remaining water into a container which, when filled, would drop and release a ball. Two tribe members would then use the ball to complete a circular maze with the winning tribe receiving a tarp and other comfort items along with immunity while the second place tribe would receive immunity and a tarp.The Brawn tribe finished first with the Brains tribe coming in second. At the Brawn tribe, Tony found a clue in their reward to the hidden immunity idol and hid it, as he already had found the idol. The Beauty tribe began looking to Tribal Council as LJ asked the tribe if anybody wanted to go home, but received no responses. The alliance of LJ, Jeremiah, Jefra, and Alexis decided to split the vote between Brice and Morgan in case of a hidden immunity idol, while the two outsiders attempted to sway Jeremiah into voting with them for Alexis. At Tribal Council, Jeremiah stayed loyal to LJ, forcing a three-way tie between Morgan, Brice, and Alexis. On the revote, Brice was unanimously eliminated."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":3,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council, Morgan approached Jeremiah in front of the entire tribe to question his reason for voting with LJ, Alexis, and Jefra rather than siding with herself and Brice. Jeremiah defended himself saying that his first alliance was with LJ, Alexis, and Jefra, and he felt Brice was too much of a social threat. Morgan worked on convincing Jefra and Alexis that Jeremiah had actually been the one organizing the vote for Alexis. Back at the Brains' camp, they again practiced for a challenge based on the clue they received in tree-mail.\n\nReward challenge: One member of each tribe would act as a caller while two other blindfolded tribe members would navigate the course to retrieve five items and a flag, eventually working with a third blindfolded tribemate to hoist the items up to the caller's platform. The winning tribe would receive three egg-laying hens and a rooster, while the second-place tribe would receive a dozen eggs.Throughout the challenge, the Beauty and Brains tribes were neck-and-neck while Brawn constantly trailed. However, after the Beauty tribe won the challenge, J'Tia of the Brains struggled with hoisting the last item, a flag, resulting in the Brawn tribe catching up and eventually placing second. At the Beauty camp, Jeremiah pulled out a note from their reward in front of the tribe, a hidden immunity idol clue which he read out loud. He proceeded to kill the rooster for the tribe to eat by ripping its head off. At the Brawn's camp, Sarah conspired to get Cliff out of the game due to Tony's lie to Sarah about Cliff targeting her, convincing Woo and Trish to throw the upcoming immunity challenge to do so.\n\nImmunity challenge: All tribe members would take turns diving into the water to retrieve buoys. Once all five are collected, tribe members must throw them into a basket floating in the water. Two tribe members would stay in the water to retrieve any buoys that miss the basket; the person throwing could not throw until they had all un-scored buoys on their platform.The Beauty tribe came in first place. Despite the attempts of several Brawn tribemates to throw the challenge, they finished again in second place, sending the Brains tribe back to Tribal Council. Kass and Tasha weighed their options and considered whether they would vote for Spencer, who was outside their women's alliance but their best challenge competitor, or J'Tia, who was in their alliance but also a challenge liability who had dumped their rice in a prior fit of rage. In the end, Kass and Tasha sided with Spencer, voting J'Tia out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":4,"episode_summary":"The Brains tribe comes back to camp pleased with their decision to vote out J'Tia at Tribal Council. The next day, the tree mail suggested a reward challenge for food. When the tribes arrived to the challenge, host Jeff Probst told the castaways to drop their buffs, as the three tribes were being redistributed into two tribes. The entire \"Brawn\" tribe, with the exception of Sarah, joined two \"Beauty\" members, LJ and Jefra, to make up the new Solana tribe. Sarah would be joined by the three remaining \"Brains\" (Kass, Spencer, Tasha) and the remaining \"Beauty\" members (Jeremiah, Alexis, Morgan) to make up the new Aparri tribe.\n\nReward challenge: One member of each tribe would hang on to a post. Two members of the opposing tribe would attempt to remove them from the post and drag them across the sand to the finish line. The first tribe to get the member of the other tribe across the finish line would receive one point. The first tribe to score two points wins coffee and pastries.The new Solana tribe won the challenge 2–1 after Cliff proved too heavy for Spencer and Jeremiah to shift. Back at the Solana camp, LJ and Trish formed a bond after both found out they were from Massachusetts. This led to the chagrin of her fellow \"Brawn\" allies, who were concerned that Trish would abandon their alliance. Meanwhile, at Aparri, the former Brains tribe found themselves in a power position after Alexis, Morgan, and Jeremiah each sought out their own new alliance of four with them.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe uses a puzzle log to break through two wooden walls; then, they must turn, pull and push the puzzle log to navigate a maze that is worked into the surface of the log. Once the log is cleared from the maze station, the first tribe to hit a gong at the end of the course wins immunity.At the immunity challenge, the Aparri members overcame Solana's early lead to win immunity. While most of the original Brawn tribe wanted to vote out LJ, Trish decided to join LJ and Jefra in voting out Cliff. She encouraged Tony to join her newly formed alliance and eliminate former NBA player and potential post-merge challenge threat Cliff, though Tony appeared hesitant. LJ was prepared to play his hidden immunity idol, but chose not to do so. In the end, his idol wasn't needed after Tony and Trish joined him and Jefra, forming a majority and eliminating Cliff, much to Lindsey and Woo's surprise."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":5,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Trish approached Lindsey to explain why she flipped from their alliance. The two instead engaged in a heated argument, resulting in Lindsey walking away from camp. Jeff met up with Lindsey and she informed him that she was pulling herself from the game fearing that, if she stayed any longer, she might do something that she wouldn't want her child to see. Soon after, Jeff stopped by Solana's camp to inform the tribe of Lindsey's decision to leave.\n\nReward challenge: Facing off one against one in a fenced off circle, a castaway from each tribe would hold a wooden idol on top of a platform that they would hold in one hand. They would use the other free hand to attempt to knock their opponent's idol off the platform. The castaway whose idol hit the ground last would score one point for their tribe. First tribe to four points would get to raid the other tribe's camp.The Solana tribe won the reward challenge and selected Tony and Woo to go to the Aparri camp and pick two items they'd like to take. Tony and Woo opened two notes given to them at the challenge: one informing them of the items they could choose from and the second being a clue to the hidden immunity idol at their own camp. Instead, Tony pretended they were given a clue to assign to a member of the Aparri tribe, giving it to Jeremiah in an attempt to make him a target. Jeremiah later realized that the clue was the same one he had received while on the original Solana tribe and therefore useless to him at Aparri, though Spencer and Alexis appeared skeptical about that claim.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe would build a staircase out of wooden poles, then climb it to reach a bamboo maze. Upon exiting the maze and sliding down a bamboo slide, one tribe member would maneuver a key through a rope obstacle, using the key to unlock a machete to release puzzle pieces. Two more tribe members would then solve a puzzle to reveal the solution to a combination lock. The first tribe to unlock their flag would win immunity.Despite quickly falling behind on the staircase portion, the Solana tribe came out victorious due to LJ's and Woo's puzzle-solving skills, and won immunity. At the Aparri camp, Alexis attempted to convince the rest of the tribe to vote out Jeremiah, believing him to be the most likely person to turn against them after the merge. Spencer saw through Alexis's scheming and felt she came across as fake, along with the worry that Alexis would rejoin former Beauty allies LJ and Jefra at the merge. At Tribal Council, it was discussed that tribal cohesion was necessary in order to win challenges, which brought up past conflict between Jeremiah and Morgan. Ultimately, Jeremiah was spared over Alexis, who was voted out unanimously."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":6,"episode_summary":"On Day 17, both tribes were anticipating a merge. Their assumptions proved correct after tree mail instructed the former Solana tribe to move to the Aparri beach. Upon arrival, the merge was confirmed and they were informed of a new hidden immunity idol with unspecified \"different powers.\" With the new tribe totaling 11 members, each former tribe attempted to solidify their numbers ahead of the first individual immunity challenge. Despite some tension between Kass and Sarah, the former Aparri tribe had a one-member numerical advantage, so Tony attempted to get his former Brawn ally Sarah to flip to the Solana alliance.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would stand barefoot on wooden slats on an a-frame that was floating in the water and try to remain balanced. After 15 minutes, the castaways would move up to a second set of slats, closer together. After another 15 minutes, the castaways would move to the top of the a-frame where they would have to balance until one person remained, who would then win immunity.Woo held out against Tony to win immunity. Sarah decided to remain loyal to the former Aparri tribe, but encouraged her allies to vote for Tony. When questioned by Tony about her allegiances, Sarah remained non-committal and he realized she would not turn to their side. Instead, Trish—who had overheard an argument between Sarah and Kass—questioned Kass about her role in the alliance and asked who from the former Aparri she would most likely vote for. When she answered with Sarah, Trish told her that the former Solana tribe would vote for Sarah per Kass' request, leaving the option for Kass to vote with them on the table.\nAt Tribal Council, Tony revealed his hidden immunity idol and announced that it was a \"community idol\" to help any member of his alliance. Spencer then publicly announced for the Aparri alliance to switch their votes to \"the other one.\" Thinking that \"the other one\" was LJ, Tony played his idol on him. LJ repaid the favor by playing his own idol on Tony, ensuring that both men were safe from the vote. \"The other one\" turned out to be Jefra, wasting both idols. However, Kass ended up turning on the Aparri alliance to send Sarah to the jury. In the resulting fallout, Spencer openly stated that Kass had \"zero chance of winning the game.\""}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":7,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Spencer expressed his resentment towards Kass for voting against their alliance, though Kass remained pleased with her decision. The next day, tension grew after Kass called Morgan out for being lazy and spending all day laying in the shelter instead of contributing around camp.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of five, the castaways would jump off a platform into the water and navigate a teeter-totter and balance beam. Once on land, the teams would untie knots on a treasure chest and then carry it to a tower, climb up the tower individually and pull the chest up. Two members from each team would then solve a puzzle. The first team to solve the puzzle would be taken to an Outback Steakhouse and enjoy a feast including steak, baked potatoes, and s'mores.The team of Jefra, Jeremiah, LJ, Morgan, and Spencer won the reward challenge. During their reward, Spencer found a clue to a hidden immunity idol in his napkin and slipped it into his pocket without anyone noticing. Back at camp, Spencer went off in the rain to read his clue and look for the idol, only to be followed by Woo. After the two met up and Spencer began walking away, Woo picked up the pants Spencer had left behind and discovered his idol clue when it fell out of the pants. Woo ran back to camp with the clue and informed everyone about Spencer's discovery, prompting everyone to begin searching for the idol. Eventually, Spencer found the idol when Kass—who was supposed to be watching him—briefly turned her back. Upon reading the sheet of parchment that came with the idol, Spencer learned that it was not the idol with \"different powers\" mentioned in the merge feast announcement.\n\nImmunity challenge: Castaways would stand on a wooden frame, balancing a block between their head and the top of the frame without the assistance of their hands. The last contestant with their block remaining would win immunity.After approximately an hour and a half, Spencer outlasted Tasha to win immunity.  Back at camp, Spencer attempted to convince Kass to flip back over to their alliance and vote out Tony. The new Solana alliance planned to target Morgan, feeling that she was too lazy around camp and if anyone had found an idol, they would not give it to her. At Tribal Council, Jeff made note of Kass' unpredictability, leading to both alliances feeling uneasy. In the end, Kass stuck with her new alliance and Morgan was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":8,"episode_summary":"After receiving four votes at the previous Tribal Council, Tony went into a tirade upon returning to camp. Even though he was in the majority alliance, he was concerned that he might be the next to go for being perceived as a threat. Tony decided to shift the target onto his ally LJ by trying to get LJ to break the alliance's final six deal, telling LJ that he was concerned about the possibility of Woo having a hidden immunity idol. Once LJ proposed blindsiding Woo to mitigate Tony's paranoia, Tony had the leverage he needed to try to send LJ out of the game.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into three teams of three, the castaways would release twenty sandbags and toss them through a net tube. Once the sandbags have been manipulated through the tube, one castaway would toss them onto a trampoline toward five targets. The first team to land a sandbag in every target wins a trip to a spa with massages, showers, and food.Tony, Spencer, and Jeremiah won the reward challenge. At the spa, Tony told Spencer and Jeremiah that things in his alliance were not as tight as they seemed, and offered them both the opportunity for them to all work together in the future. Tony then promised Spencer and Jeremiah protection at the next Tribal Council. Back at camp, LJ, Trish, and Jefra discussed Tony's increasing paranoia. Tasha tried to talk strategy with LJ, but LJ didn't feel he could benefit from Tasha's help and ignored her request to go for a walk.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would test their memory by having to memorize a series of colored tiles shown by Jeff. The castaways would have to show back the tiles in order. If they showed the wrong color, they would be out of the challenge. The last castaway to show all of the correct tiles would win immunity.Tasha's memory proved strongest, winning the immunity challenge. LJ proposed splitting the vote between Spencer and Jeremiah to his alliance in case of a hidden idol. Tony, however, decided to make his move against LJ by telling people about LJ's plot to vote Woo out, although Trish was conflicted after LJ told her a similar story about Tony earlier on, and tried to convince Tony to hold off on his plans. At Tribal Council, there was talk of the need to play an individual game. In the end, Tony and Woo betrayed their old alliance, voting with Spencer, Jeremiah, and Tasha to send LJ to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":9,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, a blindsided Jefra confronted Tony and Woo about their betrayal of LJ, and questioned her standing within their alliance. Jefra voiced her concern to Trish about her distrust of Tony but, unbeknownst to them, Tony was hiding in nearby bushes listening in.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of four, the castaways would race out in a boat to collect paddles, tied to crates in the water. After returning the boat to shore, two members per team would solve a word puzzle using letters written on the oars of the paddles. The first team to assemble the paddles to reveal the correct phrase would win a trip to Callao Cave, where they would have a barbecue lunch.Although they were slightly behind after the paddling portion, the team of Jefra, Jeremiah, Spencer, and Tasha won reward after the latter two solved the puzzle. Back at camp, the losing team noted that Jefra was the only one of their alliance on the reward, and worried that she would flip on them after her reaction to LJ's elimination. Despite Tony's attempts to strategize, Trish and Woo went to gather food. After climbing up a large papaya tree, Woo fell out of the tree but was mostly unharmed, save for a bruised tailbone. At Callao Cave, Jeremiah, Spencer, and Tasha tried to convince Jefra to align with them. The four were given a surprise reward of letters from home; Jefra's letter from her mom reminded her to not let her emotions and kindness rule her, and she agreed to align with the minority alliance.\n\nImmunity challenge: The contestants would stand on a beam while balancing a ball on a pole. After 10 minutes, the remaining contestants would move their feet to a narrower section and hands lower down the pole. After another 10 minutes, those still in the challenge would move to the narrowest section with their hands at the bottom section of the pole. The last castaway with their ball still balanced on the pole would win immunity.In the third stage of the challenge, Tasha outlasted Spencer and Woo to win her second consecutive individual immunity. After the immunity challenge, a paranoid Tony ransacked the forest to find another hidden immunity idol, which he eventually found under a large tree. Upon uncovering it, he discovered that it was the idol with \"different powers,\" with the ability to be played after the votes are read. Trish and her alliance attempted to console Jefra and stop her from flipping. Their attempt was successful, and Jefra confessed to Jeremiah that she was not going to be voting with them. Spencer told Tasha and Jeremiah that he had a hidden idol, and they decided to vote against Woo. At Tribal Council, Spencer played his idol on himself, but it was all for naught as the majority alliance targeted Jeremiah, sending him to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Upon returning to camp, Kass told Spencer that she knew he had a hidden immunity idol because of how he had acted towards her. The next day, the tribe received their money for a Survivor Auction.\n\nSurvivor Auction: Trish first bought a movie-style meal of popcorn, candy, and a soft drink, and then later bought a covered item that turned out to be a simple bowl of rice and glass of water. Kass, for the minimum price of $20, bought a steak sandwich. Woo, for $40, bought a plate of ribs in barbecue sauce. Jefra bought a Quesadilla with guacamole and a margarita. Spencer and Tony both spent $500 on a potential advantage in the game, and drew between a white rock and a black rock, with the black rock determining who would get the advantage. Tony drew the black rock. Tasha ultimately spent no money.Tony's advantage, rather than an advantage in the immunity challenge as expected, instead turned out to be a clue for another regular hidden immunity idol, which he later found and showed to his alliance. Meanwhile, Tasha spent time with the three other remaining women on the tribe, as Spencer put into Tony's head the idea that the women may form an all-woman alliance and pick the guys off, also mentioning that Jefra tried to blindside Tony in the last vote.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways had to dig in a circle of sand until they found a rope, which ran underground and was tied to five bags. Once the castaways pulled all five bags up and out of the ground, they had to untie the bags, each releasing one ball. They would then have to maneuver the balls, one at a time, down a small maze and navigate them into five holes. The first castaway to land all five balls won immunity.Tasha narrowly defeated Woo to win her third consecutive immunity challenge. Afterwards, the majority alliance solidified a plan to vote Spencer out. However, Tony explored a different option and discussed voting Jefra out with Woo and then Spencer, feeling it would be the better option as to avoid an all-woman alliance. Spencer explained the plan to Tasha, who agreed to vote with them. Tony became nervous when Spencer continued looking for a hidden immunity idol. Spencer outed Jefra at Tribal Council for her wanting to flip on Tony before the previous vote, which she admitted to. In the end, Tony and Woo sided with Spencer and Tasha to send Jefra, the last Beauty remaining, to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":11,"episode_summary":"The morning after Tribal Council while the men were talking about Tony's career as a police officer, Tony commented about how Kass may not be feeling well since she was sleeping in. Kass—who was actually awake—misheard him and believed that he was saying bad things about her, leading to a confrontation between the two. In the heat of their argument, Tony dared Kass to vote for him at the next Tribal Council, admitting that he had a special hidden immunity idol, and threatened that Kass would go home if she wrote his name down.\n\nReward challenge: The castaways were split into two teams of three, and would take turns throwing sandbags at a wall of wooden blocks that formed a puzzle, and when one puzzle was completely knocked down, the two teams would switch and begin rebuilding their respective puzzles. The first team to finish their puzzle would serve as Survivor ambassadors and deliver school supplies to a local school, followed by a meal of burgers and hot dogs.The team of Spencer, Kass, and Woo initially fell behind, but Spencer managed to pull ahead with Kass's help and win the reward. During the lunch, Spencer brought up the possibility of voting for Tony. Kass agreed with the idea, but Woo appeared reluctant. After returning to camp, Spencer relayed the plan to Tasha of Spencer, Tasha, Woo, and Kass splitting their four votes between Tony and Trish, voting out Trish if Tony played his idol. Meanwhile, Woo lied to Tony that Spencer and Kass, while on reward, agreed on voting out Tasha. Tony seemed skeptical due to Spencer and Tasha's alliance and subsequently believed that Woo was lying to him in preparation for a blindside.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would have to count various items at each of six different tables, and then input those numbers into a combination lock to unlock a metal rod, which they would use to smash a tile. The first castaway to unlock their rod and smash their tile would win immunity.Spencer won immunity, ending Tasha's winning streak. Back at camp, the four dissenters further elaborated their split-vote plan, with Spencer and Woo planning to vote for Tony, while Tasha and Kass would vote for Trish. Spencer, doubting Tony's claim that he had a special idol, said that if Tony didn't play his idol, they would vote for Tony on the revote. Kass began considering whether or not Tony's erratic behavior could make him a good person to bring to the finals, believing he may receive no votes because of his bad reputation. At Tribal Council, despite taunting from Kass and Spencer, Tony ultimately did not play either of his idols while Kass and Woo stayed with Tony and Trish, voting out Tasha and sending her to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":12,"episode_summary":"The morning after Tribal Council, with Spencer now the sole member of his alliance remaining, Tony informed Woo that he planned on taking Woo and Kass to the final three, believing that Kass would get no votes from the jury. Later, Tony went on a walk with Kass, telling her that Woo told him about Kass's plan to blindside Tony, but forgave her and promised her that he would take her and Trish to the final three. Kass returned to camp to tell Woo, angering Tony and causing Woo to doubt where he stands with Tony.\n\nReward challenge: The five castaways would have to repeatedly roll around in a mud pit, then scrape all of the mud off of their bodies and into a bucket, though they were not allowed to carry it. The castaway with the heaviest bucket would win pizza and soft drinks delivered to them at camp.Tony won the challenge, with his bucket fully overflowing with mud and chose Trish to share the reward with him. While the two of them ate, Spencer, Kass, and Woo once again began planning to vote out either Tony and Trish, saying that the pair was inseparable. Woo seemed more willing to go along with this plan due to his new distrust of Tony. Kass stated that she would prefer to vote out Trish due to her loyalty to Tony, calling Trish a \"goat,\" a comment Trish heard from the other side of camp.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would have to unbraid three ropes to release a key, which they would then use to unlock a chest full of ladder rungs. They would then build a ladder up to the second level, where they had to fit a series of boards onto the correct pegs in order to build a staircase to the third and final level. There, the castaways had to solve a slide puzzle depicting the season's logo. The first castaway to solve the puzzle would win immunity.Although Tony had a large lead in the building portion of the challenge, Spencer caught up and passed Tony on the puzzle, winning immunity and foiling the alliance's plan to take him out. Back at camp, with tensions already high, Trish yelled at Kass for calling her a goat, and also for her tendency to get into fights with everyone, only to play the victim afterwards. The argument continued at Tribal Council. Tony revealed both idols, wearing the \"special idol\"—falsely insinuating it can still be played at the next Tribal Council—and using the regular idol on himself before the votes were read. Ultimately, Trish was unanimously sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The final four returned to camp after voting Trish out, with Tony explaining that his vote for Trish was purely strategic, but admitted he was sad to get rid of his closest ally. Tony continued his bluff that his special idol guaranteed him a spot in the final three, but Kass was doubtful about its purported rules. The next morning, the final four castaways were given a feast and visited by their loved ones: Kass' husband, Woo's cousin Mikey, Spencer's sister Taryn, and Tony's best friend Arnold. Arnold explained that Tony's wife, his original loved one choice, decided to stay home with their four-month-old daughter, which led to Tony crying over missing his family.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would stand on a pole in the water, lowering a bucket to get water to fill a bamboo chute, which would raise a key. Upon retrieving the key, the castaway would swim back to shore and unlock puzzle pieces. The first castaway to solve the puzzle would win immunity.Despite being the last person to release their key, Kass made a huge comeback on the puzzle portion to win immunity. Knowing he was likely the target, Spencer told Tony that he believed that there would be two finalists instead of three, and that Tony would likely be voted out by Kass or Woo if either won the final challenge. At Tribal Council, Spencer pled his case but it fell on deaf ears as he was voted out, with Tony revealing that his special idol had already expired. Host Jeff Probst revealed that Spencer was correct in assuming that there would be a final two before sending the final three back to camp.\nUpon returning to camp, Kass and Woo agreed that Tony could beat either of them at the Final Tribal Council, and vowed to take each other to the end if Tony lost the final challenge.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would navigate a massive maze filled with turnstiles—some working, some not—to retrieve four medallions. The four medallions would open a chest filled with cogs. The first castaway to correctly arrange the cogs and raise a flag would win immunity and a guaranteed spot at the final Tribal Council.Kass and Woo were neck-and-neck in assembling their cogs, but Woo barely edged Kass out to win, earning the sole vote at that night's Tribal Council. Tony attempted to appeal to Woo's values of honor, loyalty, and integrity, telling Woo that eliminating him—an ally of his since the start of the game—would invalidate those values. Kass stressed her unlikeliness to win in urging Woo to honor their pact made the previous night. She claimed that Tony would just put a spin on things, by telling the jury that he did all the work while Woo was just his sidekick. At Tribal Council, Woo decided to uphold his values and made Kass the final member of the jury.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, Woo's decision to take Tony to the end was constantly questioned by some of the jurors, while Tony was repeatedly berated for his multiple betrayals throughout the game. To conclude the night, Spencer spoke to the jury in defense of Tony's ferocity, incessant idol-hunting, and voting decisions, and pleaded to his fellow jurors to vote for Tony over Woo."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US28","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Months later, when the votes were read, it was revealed that the jury awarded Tony the victory with eight of the nine votes, with only Tasha voting for Woo to win.   Probst also confirmed Woo's million dollar mistake when he asked the jury members (including Tony) who they would have voted for between Kass and Woo, with 8 of 9 raising their hand for Woo. Another controversy came from Tyler Perry who wanted either Spencer or Tasha to find his idol before Tony found it."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The nine pairs of loved ones were marooned separately in Nicaragua, and given only flint to survive the night. The next morning, the castaways gathered at Hero Arena, where they were split up into two tribes: Coyopa and Hunahpu. The tribes were immediately given their first reward challenge, to be completed by one representative per tribe. After winning rock-paper-scissors, Hunahpu earned the right to choose their rep, and Jeremy volunteered. Host Jeff Probst revealed that Jeremy would be competing against his loved one, his wife Val.\n\nReward challenge: The duelists, tethered to ropes tied through a wooden cube, would untangle the ropes attached to them to release two rings. They would then use the rings and ropes to lasso two wooden platforms. First castaway to retrieve both their platforms would win flint and a bag of beans for their tribe.Jeremy won the duel and, as a result, Val was sent to Exile Island. Jeremy also had to choose someone from his tribe to join Val; he chose Keith. Upon arriving at the Hunahpu camp, Jeremy quickly made alliances with Missy, Kelley, and Natalie. At Coyopa, Dale, the oldest member of his tribe, struggled to fit in and, during a trip to the well, found and pocketed a mysterious wooden fragment, unsure of whether or not it was a hidden idol. Dale later won favor with his tribe after successfully making fire with his glasses. On Exile Island, Val and Keith chose urns to see who would get a clue to a hidden immunity idol; Val picked the urn containing the clue, and lied to Keith about what the note actually was. Back at Coyopa, Wes correctly identified his tribemate John as John Rocker, former relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves baseball team. While Wes hoped that this would forge an alliance between the two, John became wary of Wes's newfound knowledge, and considered voting him out. At the immunity challenge, Keith and Val rejoined their tribes from Exile Island.\n\nImmunity challenge: All nine tribemates would crawl under an obstacle, then retrieve three bags of pieces hung high above. The tribe would then use the pieces to ascend several stories of a massive tower, first by throwing a rope onto a hook then climbing the rope, the second by assembling and climbing up pegs, and the third only using their bodies. At the top of the tower, four tribemates would solve a puzzle using the remaining pieces. The first tribe to successfully complete the puzzle would win immunity.Coyopa used John's height and strength to take an early lead, however they struggled at the puzzle and lost the challenge. At Hunahpu, Jeremy apologized for sending Keith to Exile Island, and promised to make it up to him. At Coyopa, Dale became wary of Nadiya for her backstabbing gameplay on The Amazing Race. The tribe was divided by gender lines, with Josh, perceived by Nadiya as \"one of the girls\" for being gay, caught in the middle. He was approached by Baylor, who decided to stick with him and not necessarily the other women. The women decided to target Dale due to his age, and the men targeted Nadiya. At Tribal Council, Josh voted for Baylor while Baylor flipped on the girls, joining the other four men to form a majority of five to send Nadiya out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":2,"episode_summary":"As the Coyopa tribe returned to camp after voting out Nadiya, Josh explained to Baylor that he voted for her to remove suspicion that the two were working together, although Baylor still felt scared by Josh's move. The next morning, at Hunahpu, the tribe realized that they had lost their flint, with Jon owning up to the misplacement. Before the reward challenge, John beat Reed in rock-paper-scissors, giving Coyopa the right to pick the representatives for the duel; John volunteered for Coyopa, setting a matchup between himself and his girlfriend, Julie.\n\nReward challenge: The duelists would balance a ball on a disc attached to a pole while maneuvering a series of obstacles, returning to the start if they drop their ball. Then, they will roll three balls to land in a series of holes. The first duelist to land all three balls in the holes would receive fishing gear for their tribe.Julie won in a blowout victory, and chose Jeremy to join John on Exile Island. Before the tribes left, Hunahpu attempted to bargain with Jeff for a new flint, offering their remaining supply of beans for trade. Jeff vocalized that the trade was poorly planned and unbalanced, in turn putting Hunahpu's newly-won fishing gear on the line, which the tribe reluctantly accepted as trade. At Coyopa, with John exiled, the tribe discussed his past as a baseball player, and Dale brought up the controversial statements he made about minority groups. At Exile Island, Jeremy picked the urn with the clue, but shared it with John under the proviso that they protect each other's loved ones upon returning to camp.\n\nImmunity challenge: Facing off one-on-one, the castaways would battle sumo style using padded bags to try to knock their opponent off a platform and into the ocean to score a point for their tribe. The first tribe to five points would win immunity.With a score of 5–4, Coyopa lost their fourth consecutive challenge. Upon returning to camp, John attempted to secure an alliance with Val, however she lied to him, claiming that she had two hidden idols that would keep herself and Jaclyn safe that night. John decided to look for the hidden immunity idol using Jeremy's information, which he found. John, still believing in Val's idols, organized a split vote between Val and Baylor with three men joining Jaclyn and Val in voting for Baylor, deemed untrustworthy after voting out Nadiya, and two men joining an unsuspecting Baylor in voting for Val to flush one of Val's idols. At Tribal Council, Val and Jaclyn attempted to rally support against Baylor, publicly accusing her of playing both sides, while Val was called out for claiming to have two idols in hopes she would play one. The split vote plan went awry after Josh switched his vote to Val, resulting in a tie between her and Baylor. Since Val had no idols to play, she was left vulnerable during the re-vote, and was voted out for her duplicity."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Upon returning to camp, Josh revealed to John that he had switched his vote to Val at Tribal Council, explaining that if he had voted against Baylor, Val would have been safe without needing to play an idol. The next morning, at Hunahpu, Drew attempted to lead an effort to improve their shelter roof, but quickly gave up and took a nap, much to the ire of his tribe. At Hero Arena, upon seeing that his wife had been voted out, Jeremy called out the men's alliance on Coyopa; John publicly apologized to Jeremy for being unable to save Val as he had promised him on Exile Island, making Josh suspicious of John's loyalty.\n\nReward challenge: The duelists would travel across a rickety balance beam while transporting wooden squares on a paddle. The first duelist to stack six of the squares onto the other side of the beam would win a tarp, a hammock, a mattress, pillows and blankets for their tribe, with the option of trading the reward for fishing gear.Coyopa won rock-paper-scissors to choose their duelist; Wes volunteered to compete, thinking he could beat his father, Keith. Wes' assumption was correct, winning the challenge and sending Josh to Exile Island with Keith; Coyopa, with their first challenge victory under their belt, chose the fishing gear over comfort. Back at Hunahpu, a scorned Jeremy outed John's past baseball career and derogatory remarks against minority groups, alienating John's girlfriend Julie from the tribe. At Exile Island, Keith shared the idol clue with Josh, and the two bonded despite their vastly different ways of life. At Coyopa, John effectively used the fishing gear to provide for his tribe, but Baylor still attempted to convince the majority alliance to turn against him.\n\nImmunity challenge: Two members of each tribe would be tethered together and race through a wooden obstacle course to retrieve a ball, and then attempt to shoot it into a basket. The first tribe to win three rounds would win immunity.With the score tied 2-2, Jon and Natalie edged out Wes and Alec to win Hunahpu's third consecutive immunity challenge. When Natalie began trash-talking Coyopa after her tribe's victory, John Rocker reacted by mocking her in front of everyone. Natalie called Coyopa to rally against Rocker, calling him a racist and a bigot, and he responded by telling her, \"if you were a man, I'd knock your teeth out.\" Back at camp, John attempted to throw Baylor and Jaclyn off his scent by claiming he was going to blindside Dale while, in actuality, he and the other men would send Baylor home. After John revealed his idol to Josh, Josh decided that John had to go for his volatility, and attempted to convince Alec and Wes to blindside John. Ultimately, despite some accidental tip-offs at Tribal Council, John decided not to play his idol and was voted out with it in his pocket."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":4,"episode_summary":"With the Coyopa tribe in good spirits after voting out John, Dale felt he was now on the outs after being the only one not to vote against John. At Hunahpu, Natalie found the flint that they had earlier lost. At Hero Arena, some Hunahpu members reacted with cheers and applause after noticing that John had been voted out. Drew attempted to trade the old flint with Jeff to get the fishing gear back while the rest of his tribe appeared embarrassed and took no part in the negotiation, but Jeff quickly shut it down.\n\nReward challenge: The duelist would use a grappling hook to grab three bags of balls, and then use a catapult to launch the balls into five baskets. The first duelist to get a ball into each basket would win either a feast of sausages, popcorn, and s'mores for their tribe, or a tarp, a hammock, a mattress, pillows and blankets.Jon volunteered for Hunahpu after they won rock-paper-scissors to choose their duelist, pitting him against his girlfriend, Jaclyn. Jon narrowly won the challenge, and Drew volunteered to go to Exile Island with Jaclyn; Hunahpu chose the comfort items over the feast. At Exile Island, Drew revealed to Jaclyn that he planned to throw the next immunity challenge to get rid of untrustworthy players on Hunahpu. At Hunahpu, Keith went searching for the hidden immunity idol; as he was unsuccessful, he assumed that Jeremy—the only other person from his tribe to have been to Exile Island—had found it, and voiced his suspicions to his tribemates. Reed ratted Keith out to Jeremy, while Keith eventually found the idol.\n\nImmunity challenge: Four tribemates would swim out to retrieve rings tethered in the water. Once the four rings were retrieved, the other two tribemates would toss the rings onto a post. The first tribe to land all four rings would win immunity.While the tribes were neck-and-neck, Drew intentionally botched the ring tossing to give Coyopa their first immunity challenge win. Back at camp, Jon proposed getting rid of the players without loved ones, for fear that they would outnumber the couples at the merge, with Julie as his first target. Drew vehemently proposed getting rid of Kelley, whom he perceived as the strongest manipulator of a potential women's alliance, while Jeremy tried to get support to vote Keith out. Despite being outnumbered by the men, the four women banded together to take advantage of the men's disorganization, and targeted Drew. At Tribal Council, Jeremy called out Keith for going straight to the other tribemates regarding Jeremy's potential idol, and not discussing it with him directly. Kelley, Keith, Drew, and Julie all received votes, but Drew was sent out of the game after receiving votes from the women and Jeremy."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":5,"episode_summary":"After returning from Hunahpu's first Tribal Council, Jon, having lost his closest tribal ally in Drew, attempted to reintegrate within the tribe. At Hero Arena, instead of a duel taking place, Jeff announced a tribe swap. On the new Coyopa tribe were pairs Kelley and Dale, Missy and Baylor, and Jon and Jaclyn, with Keith as the only single castaway; Hunahpu's only pair was Josh and Reed, joined by singles Natalie, Jeremy, Wes, Alec, and Julie. The new Hunahpu tribe lamented their nearly-depleted supply of rice, while Natalie and Jeremy were afraid that they would be in the minority against the three former Coyopa members—Alec, Josh, and Wes—and Reed, Josh's boyfriend, so they attempted to sway Alec to form an alliance of those whose loved ones had already been voted out. At Coyopa, Missy and Dale quickly butted heads over rice portioning, and Missy thought about targeting Dale after hearing that he had tried to vote out her daughter, Baylor. Before the immunity challenge, a starving Hunahpu once again considered bartering with Jeff, this time for more rice.\n\nImmunity challenge: The tribes would race to dig up a bag containing two keys, then crawl through mud and use the keys to open the gate. Once through the gate, the tribes would shake a pole to release sandbags; two tribe members would then throw the sandbags on a wobbly suspended platform. First tribe to get ten bags on the platform wins immunity.Hunahpu held onto their early lead to land ten sandbags on the platform before Coyopa even threw one. After their victory, Hunahpu attempted to make a deal with Jeff for more rice, and Jeff promised to visit their camp the next morning to resolve the situation. Back at Coyopa, Dale and Missy targeted each other; Jon and Jaclyn, knowing that they held the power, pledged loyalty to both Missy and Baylor, and Dale and Kelley. While Jaclyn voiced concern with trusting Baylor, having already been betrayed by her once, she also conceded to Dale's sneakiness. At Tribal Council, Kelley and Dale voted against Baylor, but the other five aligned against them; with three of their votes, Kelley was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":6,"episode_summary":"After his daughter's elimination, Dale again found himself on the bottom of his tribe. He showed Jon the wooden fragment he had found early on, claiming it was an immunity idol and he would not be the next one voted out. At Hunahpu, the starving tribe was visited by Jeff, who reprimanded the tribe for being incredibly mismanaged and demanded all of their reward comfort items, hatchet, hammer, a pot, and their extra flint in exchange for a new bag of rice; Hunahpu conceded to the trade. At the reward duel, since there were no intact pairs on opposite tribes who had yet to duel, the tribes were tasked to send their strongest competitor; Hunahpu sent Reed, while Coyopa chose Baylor.\n\nReward challenge: The blindfolded duelist would race through a series of obstacles to a station where they would tactility study a mask. They would then untie three bags of puzzle pieces, one at a time, and race back through the obstacles to a second station, where they would blindly recreate the mask with the puzzle pieces; while all of the pieces fit, only seven were colored and shaped correctly. The first duelist to correctly recreate the mask at the second station would win a grill, charcoal and skewers of meat and vegetables for their tribe.Reed handily defeated Baylor to win the challenge for Hunahpu; while he initially chose to send Julie to Exile Island with Baylor, Natalie volunteered. Back at Coyopa, Jon told Missy and Baylor about Dale's idol, thrusting a backup target on Keith. At Exile Island, Baylor shared the idol clue with Natalie. At Hunahpu, despite enjoying the reward, the tribe was still upset with the rice trade, and were forced to brave out a storm that night without their tarp, with Julie in particular having a very hard time.\n\nImmunity challenge: The tribes would race over a tall wall and work together to push a wooden cube toward a series of posts. At each post was a bag of scrolls; after the tribes collect three bags, two tribe members would assemble the scrolls vertically to form an image. The first tribe to successfully complete the scroll puzzle would win immunity.Although Coyopa entered the puzzle portion with a lead, Jon and Missy got caught up with one piece, allowing Hunahpu to pull from behind and win. Dale, knowing his poor standing in Coyopa, offered Jon his idol if he survived the night's vote, and asked him to vote against Missy. Baylor suggested to Missy, Jon, and Jaclyn that they split their votes between Keith and Dale out of fear of Dale's idol. While Dale reminded the others about Baylor's betrayal of the women at the first Tribal Council, the four followed through with their vote splitting plan, and Keith joined Jon and Jaclyn in voting against Dale, sending him out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":7,"episode_summary":"The morning after Tribal Council, Missy confessed to Keith that she and Baylor voted against him solely as a precaution against Dale’s potential idol, which made an upset Keith question his place in their alliance despite their apology. At Hunahpu, two factions made themselves clear in preparation for the merge: Josh and Reed’s majority alliance with Alec and Wes, and the “singles” alliance of Jeremy, Natalie, and Julie. Later that day, the tribes merged and enjoyed a commemorative feast. In the ensuing strategic scramble, Jeremy reconnected with Missy, and added her, Baylor, Jon, and Jaclyn to his alliance, while Keith aligned with his son Wes and his alliance.\nThe next morning, Josh continued to consolidate his alliance and target Jeremy. Josh tried to realign with Baylor but, despite Josh’s earlier protection of her, Baylor found herself torn between her allegiances with Josh and her mother, Missy; while Baylor voiced her uneasiness in betraying Josh, Missy told Baylor to not let her emotions rule her. Josh, noting that Baylor would be impossible to control with Missy around, decided to cajole Jon and Jaclyn instead. The tribe noticed that some of the leftover trail mix from the merge feast was missing, and started searching everyone's bags for it. Jon found it in Julie's bag, and the tribe ate it out of anger for her selfishness; when Julie returned from a walk, the tribe gave her the cold shoulder.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would balance a ball on a disc attached to knotted ropes, moving their hands up a knot every few minutes to increase difficulty. After 25 minutes, a second ball would be added. Castaways would be eliminated when a ball fell off their disc; the last castaway with all balls remaining would win immunity.Keith outlasted Wes to win the first individual immunity of the game. Upon returning to camp, Julie overheard Alec making fun of her for taking the trail mix, and later told Missy that she was considering quitting due to missing her eliminated boyfriend John and feeling alone; while Missy implored Julie to stay in the game for at least one more night, Julie perceived that Missy's support was only because she needed Julie to vote with their alliance that night, and felt further alienated. After weighing offers from both sides, Jon and Jaclyn decided to join Josh’s couple-heavy alliance and blindside Jeremy, however, Julie decided to officially quit the game after a quick talk with Jeff outside camp. Jeff informed the rest of the castaways of Julie's decision and cancelled that night's Tribal Council, leaving Josh and Jeremy's feud intact for at least three more days."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":8,"episode_summary":"The remaining competitors were upset at Julie for quitting and postponing a Tribal Council, but Jon and Jaclyn reaffirmed their commitment to vote out Jeremy. At the reward challenge, the tribe was divided into two teams; Missy was not chosen and thus ineligible for the reward.\n\nReward challenge: The two teams would load heavy puzzle pieces onto a track and push them to the base of a tower; they would then assemble the tower from the pieces to build a temple structure. One teammate would run to the top of the temple to unlock a statue, and the whole team would then hoist the statue to the top of a structure to unlock a flag. The first team to unlock their flag would win a trip to a taco bar and a feast including chicken, pork, steak, beer, and margaritas.The team of Reed, Keith, Wes, Jeremy, and Natalie maintained their lead to win the challenge; they chose to exile Jon. At the taco bar, the winners enjoyed their reward, but the combination of players from the two different factions resulted in awkward exchanges, although Wes' overeating and subsequent sickness alleviated some tension. Back at camp, Josh again pleaded with Baylor for her vote but, even after reminders of his protection of her on the old Coyopa tribe, she refused to vote with Josh's alliance. On Exile Island, Jon found a new hidden immunity idol after receiving a clue. After the reward winners returned to camp, the rest of the tribe was turned off by Wes, Alec, and Keith's candid discussion of their bodily functions, and misogynistic behavior toward the women, which alienated Jaclyn and pushed her toward the women and Jeremy's alliance. While Keith thought they should talk strategy with Jaclyn, Alec convinced him not to, confident in Jon's loyalty.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Jeff would display a series of symbols to the castaways; they would then have to recreate the sequence from memory. If a castaway chose an incorrect symbol, they would be eliminated. The last castaway remaining would win immunity.The challenge came down to rivals Josh and Jeremy, with Jeremy coming out on top. Upon arriving to camp, Jon told Jaclyn about his idol, while Josh's alliance shifted their target to Baylor. Jaclyn persuaded Jon to betray Josh's alliance for their poor treatment of her in Jon's absence and for the men's potential as challenge threats. Keith told Missy that Baylor was his alliance's target, and the two parents squabbled over their on-island parenting methods. At Tribal Council, Jaclyn and Jon evaluated their swing vote status, and members of both sides publicly pleaded for their votes; Jaclyn announced her disappointment in Josh's alliance for disrespecting her when Jon wasn't around, and that led to them ultimately siding with Jeremy's alliance to send Josh to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":9,"episode_summary":"After his boyfriend Josh's elimination, a livid Reed vowed to rebound while the rest of his tribemates dealt with the repercussions of Jon and Jaclyn officially joining Jeremy's alliance. \n\nReward challenge: The tribe was divided into two teams of five; one member per team would face off on a wobbly beam and try to knock the opponent into the mud pit below. The winning competitor would earn a point for their team; first team to five points would win a yacht ride down the San Juan del Sur coast and enjoy a feast of sandwiches, cocktails and champagne.After a 4-4 tie, Baylor defeated her mother Missy to win the challenge for her, Alec, Reed, Jeremy, and Natalie. Natalie and Jeremy decided to give up their spots on the reward to Jon and Jaclyn out of gratitude and to ensure their loyalty, while the reward-goers decided to exile Jeremy. On the yacht, Jon and Jaclyn were thankful for Jeremy and Natalie's sacrifice, but understood that it was still a game move. On Exile Island, after an unsuccessful idol hunt, Jeremy had to endure two restless, rainy nights, which left him drained of energy and suspicious that Jon had found the idol; back at camp, Jon was worried about Jeremy's return for that very reason.\n\nImmunity challenge: Only using their feet, the castaways would unspool a rope to release a pile of blocks and then, still only with their feet, stack the blocks into three rows on a rotating circular platform. First castaway to stack three rows and then place a flag in the center of their platform would win immunity.After Reed and Keith faltered with their final blocks, Baylor was able to stay steady and win immunity. Nervous that he was going to follow his boyfriend out of the game, Reed decided to stir up trouble and searched through  Keith's bag. He found the instructions for playing a hidden immunity idol, and showed it to Jaclyn, Missy and Baylor. Meanwhile, Jeremy attempted to catch Jon lying about the hidden idol, which led to a paranoid Jon telling Missy about his idol and trying to blindside Jeremy, forgoing the original plan of splitting the votes between Reed and Keith. At Tribal Council, Jaclyn announced her suspicion that one of Wes and Keith had an idol, which resulted in a shouting match of Keith and Wes against Jon and Jaclyn about the latter flipping to Jeremy's alliance, and Wes and Keith's treatment of the women of the tribe. Ultimately, Keith decided not to play his idol and received votes from Natalie and Jeremy, but Jon, Jaclyn, Missy, Baylor and Reed united to blindside Jeremy out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Reed tried to reconfirm the need for he, Keith, Wes, and Alec to stick together, while Jon told Natalie about his idol in order to retain her loyalty despite blindsiding Jeremy, her closest ally. Natalie agreed to remain in the alliance, but knew she would eventually have to betray Jon.\n\nReward challenge: The tribe was divided into two teams of four; each teammate would swim to a platform, where they would climb it and leap off while grabbing a key. Then, they would swim out and untether puzzle pieces. Once all four teammates retrieved their puzzle pieces, they would have to find the key that unlocks the puzzle's base, and then assemble the statue puzzle. The first team to assemble the statue would win a trip to a nearby village, where they would serve as Survivor ambassadors and deliver baseball equipment to the children, followed by a meal of popcorn, burgers and hot dogs.Alec, Jon, Jaclyn, and Reed won the challenge after Missy, Baylor, Natalie, and Wes struggled with unlocking the puzzle base. As Missy had never yet been on a reward trip, Reed volunteered to give up his spot to her; the reward-goers exiled Wes. Back at camp, Reed and Keith decided to target Jon at the next Tribal Council, while Natalie and Baylor searched for a hidden immunity idol with the clues they were given on Exile earlier in the game, leading to Natalie finding the idol.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would balance their feet on a narrow perch while holding handles above their heads, with the last player remaining winning immunity.While many of the castaways succumbed to food temptations, Reed outlasted Natalie after three hours to earn immunity. Back at camp, Reed played double agent and, along with Alec, convinced the rest of the tribe to split their votes between Keith and Wes, allowing Reed, Wes, Keith, and Alec to vote Jon out despite being at a numerical disadvantage. While Jon was skeptical of Reed's loyalty, Missy convinced Jon to trust him. At Tribal Council, Reed went along with pretending that he was voting against Keith and Wes, prompting Keith to tell Reed to \"stick to the plan.\" This led to Missy and Jon's alliance whispering amongst each other wondering if Reed and Keith were working together, and if Reed was trustworthy. After the votes were cast, Natalie encouraged Jon to play his idol, which he did, and Keith played his. The four votes cast against Jon were negated, as were the three cast against Keith, sending Wes to the jury with only two votes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":11,"episode_summary":"After returning to camp, Jaclyn thanked Natalie for telling Jon to play his idol; Jon privately berated Jaclyn for giving Natalie praise, thinking it would make him look bad if he reached the final Tribal Council.\n\nReward challenge: Each round, the castaways would be asked a series of questions about any player who reached the merge. The castaways who correctly answer the question would then chop a rope belonging another castaway; when a castaway's rope was chopped three times, they would be out of the challenge. The last player remaining would win a horseback ride followed by a barbeque and overnight stay at a resort.After the minority alliance of Reed, Alec, and Keith were eliminated, the remaining five openly began consulting each other to determine the winner and whom to exile. Jeff decided to stop the challenge, as the majority alliance decided to award Missy with the victory. Jon volunteered to be exiled, and Missy was given the choice to take two more castaways with her on the reward; she picked Baylor and Natalie, leaving Jaclyn alone at camp with the minority alliance. After a comment from Reed about how he still likes Jaclyn despite her siding with the other alliance, Baylor retorted, resulting in Reed calling Baylor a brat, angering Missy. At Exile Island, Jon found another idol, while Jaclyn, scorned after being left behind from the reward, again considered flipping alliances in Jon's absence as she feared Missy, Baylor, and Natalie would eventually vote out her and Jon.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would balance a long wooden paddle on a pivot point. They would then roll a ball along the shaft and try to balance the ball on one of six spots on the paddle. The first castaways to have six balls balanced on the paddle at the same time would win.Keith stayed steady to win immunity. Upon returning to camp after two days on Exile, Jon went for a chat with Jaclyn, but snapped at her after she started talking strategy. An angry Jaclyn stormed away and refused to talk to Jon, while both sides attempted to sway the pair to their side, noting the difficulty in making decisions with a pair that refuses to communicate with each other. At Tribal Council, Jon and Jaclyn decided to stay with their alliance, and Reed was eliminated in a unanimous vote."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":12,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Jon and Jaclyn resolved their argument, while Alec, as one of the two remaining outsiders, lamented his poor standing in the game. \n\nReward challenge: The castaways would stand on a block while stabilizing a ball against a hanging piece of wood. If a castaway fell off or dropped their ball, they would be eliminated; the last player remaining would win a meal of spaghetti, chicken parmesan, garlic bread, wine, and dessert delivered to them at camp, along with a night in a king-sized canopy bed.Natalie outlasted Jaclyn to win the challenge and, after exiling Alec, chose to share the reward with Jaclyn and Jon in order to keep their trust while she tried to blindside Jon for betraying Jeremy. The ploy seemed to be working when Jon told Natalie about his new hidden immunity idol; Natalie told Baylor about her plan to blindside Jon, who agreed to it despite Jon's closeness with Baylor's mother, Missy.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would pull on a rope attached to an unbalanced table to keep the table level while travelling to a station with ten wooden blocks, transferring the blocks to the table one at a time. The transferred blocks must remain upright or else the castaway would have to return to the table and restack the blocks before moving on to the next block. The first castaway to have all ten blocks standing for a count of three would win immunity.Jon narrowly defeated Keith to win immunity, throwing Natalie's plans into disarray. The majority alliance of five decided to split the vote between Keith and Alec just to be safe, with three votes on Keith to take out the proven challenge threat. Alec, to save himself, decided to open up emotionally to Baylor, talking about his loneliness after his brother Drew's early elimination. Natalie considered deviating from her alliance's plan and voting for Alec instead, which would spare Keith and ensure his loyalty during her impending coup. At Tribal Council, Natalie decided to follow through with her move, switching her vote to Alec and sending him out of the game, much to Missy, Jaclyn, and Jon's surprise."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":13,"episode_summary":"After voting Alec out, Natalie lied to Jon and Jaclyn, claiming to have misunderstood the instructions regarding the split vote plan, which they believed. Natalie then told Keith that she had spared him from elimination and wanted to blindside Jon. \n\nReward challenge: The castaways would be divided into two teams of three; the teams, tethered to each other at the waist, would race through a series of obstacles, then fill a bucket with water and head over a giant teeter-totter. Then, they would pour the water into a larger bucket; once the bucket is filled, it would lower a gate. The team would then head through the gate and solve a puzzle. The first team to correctly solve the puzzle would win a day at a spa, including a shower, massage, and meal.Missy twisted her ankle on the teeter-totter, slowing her, Jon, and Keith down, but the trio worked quickly on the puzzle to win the challenge. Jon gave up his reward to Baylor, and both Jon and Natalie volunteered to be exiled, but ultimately Natalie was sent. Back at camp, Jaclyn told Jon she was suspicious of Natalie for voting against Alec, but Jon still believed it was a mistake. Before the immunity challenge, a medical team member looked at Missy's swollen ankle. She was cleared to remain in the game, but was unable to compete in the challenge.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would hold onto handles while balancing on a teeter-totter supporting a vase. If the vase fell, the castaway would be eliminated. The last castaway remaining would win immunity.After a gust of wind knocked over Jon's vase, Natalie won immunity. After the challenge, Natalie told Keith her plan to split the votes between Jaclyn and Jon to avoid Jon's idol, and coached Keith to remain calm at Tribal Council to avoid him getting scared and running his mouth as he had earlier in the game. Baylor and Natalie tried to convince Missy to join them, but Missy told them she couldn't do that, refusing to break her promise to Jon. At Tribal Council, Keith pretended that he was on his way out and Jaclyn and Jon admitted that they felt safe, with Jon discussing his plans for his speech at the final Tribal Council. Missy conceded that she was loyal to a fault, but decided to vote against Jaclyn, forcing a three-way tie in votes between the couple and Keith. Upon the revote, Jon was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":14,"episode_summary":"After her boyfriend's elimination, Jaclyn expressed her anger when Missy, Baylor, and Natalie tried to rationalize their betrayal of Jon; Missy and Baylor later reinforced their desire to go to the end with Natalie.\n\nReward challenge: Each castaway would unspool a rope until they felt they had enough slack to continue on the course. They then would assemble a bridge by placing wooden poles in open slots across two beams. Once across, they would throw sandbags to knock down ten stacked circular blocks. The first castaway to finish would win an advantage in the next immunity challenge.Due to Missy's injury, she sat out of the challenge. Keith maintained his lead over Natalie to win the reward and exile Jaclyn. Back at camp, Keith used his advantage — access to a practice table for the upcoming challenge—and practiced as long as he could. Before the immunity challenge, Missy and Baylor further discussed sticking with Natalie, as she was likely to survive the next Tribal Council with her hidden immunity idol. Natalie, however, conspired with Keith and Jaclyn to break up the mother and daughter pair as the last remaining set of loved ones.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway would maneuver a ball across a series of obstacles on a table course. The first castaway to transfer three balls to the other side of the table would win immunity.Having spent hours practicing, Keith was able to win the challenge before the others could even get a single ball across. Back at camp, Jaclyn informed Natalie of her plan to vote for either Missy or Baylor, and promised she would take Natalie to the end, while Baylor asked Natalie to play her idol on Missy to be safe. At Tribal Council, Natalie decided to play her idol on Jaclyn after confirming with her that Jaclyn had followed through with their plan. The three votes against Jaclyn were negated, and Baylor was sent to the jury, leaving no pairs remaining.\nHaving betrayed Missy and eliminated her daughter, Natalie made sure that Missy was not angry with her; Missy understood that it was just a game, and that Natalie did what she had to do to further herself. Natalie then confirmed with the other women that Keith was still the next to go.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways would race down a tower and maneuver through obstacles to retrieve bags of puzzle pieces; once all five bags of pieces were retrieved, the castaways would use them to solve a puzzle of the season's logo. However, three pieces would be missing; the castaway would then head down the tower, find the numbers that correspond to the missing shapes, and use the numbers to open a combination lock. The first player to unlock their flag would win immunity.With Missy sitting out of the challenge, Natalie and Jaclyn fought hard to prevent Keith from winning immunity. While Keith and Natalie were neck-and-neck in retrieving their puzzle pieces, an exhausted Jaclyn was able to pull from behind to finish the puzzle and open the lock to win immunity. While Keith targeted Missy, Natalie was afraid that — after making big moves at the last two Tribal Councils — she would be an easy target. Missy and Jaclyn indeed discussed eliminating Natalie, with Jaclyn conceding that that's what Jon would do if he were still in the game. At Tribal Council, while Natalie admitted that she had a chance to win, and thus was a threat to the others, the women stuck to their initial plan and Keith became the final member of the jury.\nAt the final Tribal Council, Missy stressed the importance of loyalty in her game despite turning on Jon, Jaclyn discussed her diagnosis of MRKH syndrome, which prohibits her from having children, and how she has been persevering despite it, while Natalie explained that she managed to persist and make big moves despite her twin sister being voted out first. Jaclyn was probed about making moves primarily with others, and Reed concluded the night by comparing Missy to a \"wicked stepmother\" for her perceived entitlement and for making the minority alliance members feel unnecessary and subpar."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US29","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months after the final Tribal Council, at the live reunion, it was revealed that Natalie won the game with Josh, Jeremy, Wes, Alec, and Keith's votes, while Jaclyn received Jon and Reed's votes to place second, while Missy came in third after only receiving Baylor's vote to win."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":1,"episode_summary":"As the game began, Jeff Probst asked each tribe to pick a representative, who would then choose another tribe-mate with whom to make a big decision; Joaquin and So stepped up for the White Collar tribe, Dan and Mike for the Blue Collar tribe, and Will and Jenn for the No Collar tribe. At camp, the pairs were given a choice between a big bag of beans or a smaller bag of beans and a clue to the hidden immunity idol. Only Joaquin and So decided to take the clue, subsequently lying to their tribe about their decision, raising suspicion. Dan and Mike told their Blue Collar tribe the truth about their decision, though Sierra was skeptical. At the No Collar camp, Vince bonded with Jenn over their mutual outlook on life but bickered with Joe over how to build the shelter. \nThe following day, the Blue Collar tribe also argued about the shelter, with Dan complaining over his tribemates' choices; Rodney and the women agreed that Dan would be an easy target to eliminate first, but Dan found an ally in Mike. At the No Collar camp, Joe earned his tribe mates' admiration, particularly Jenn's, by making fire without flint. Vince took Jenn aside to make sure that she was still loyal to him, causing Jenn to doubt whether Vince was a viable alliance partner. At the White Collar camp, Carolyn suspected So was looking for the hidden immunity idol, but successfully found it herself, citing knowledge of past seasons' hiding spots as her guide.\n\nReward/immunity challenge: The tribes raced down a platform through a pile of hay and high stepped through an obstacle. Each tribe had to unlock a ladder; to release it, they chose to either untie a series of knots or unlock three locks with a ring of 20 keys. The tribes then used the ladder to navigate a platform and then retrieve one of three puzzles: an easy 50-piece puzzle, a medium-difficulty 10-piece puzzle, or a very difficult five-piece puzzle. The first tribe to complete their puzzle won immunity and a fire-making kit, while the second-place tribe received immunity and flint.White Collar and No Collar were neck-and-neck until Shirin from the White Collar tribe struggled on the 50-piece puzzle; the other two tribes found success with the 10-piece puzzle and won immunity. While Shirin seemed to be an easy target for the White Collar tribe's first vote, So decided to target Carolyn for not stepping up to either the ladder releasing or puzzle solving tasks during the challenge; to save herself, Carolyn told Tyler about her idol. So and Joaquin believed that they were in an alliance with Max and Tyler, but Max's true loyalty was with Shirin and Carolyn, who attempted to get Tyler to join them in voting off So. At Tribal Council, Shirin called Joaquin and So out for their lie regarding the clue to the hidden immunity idol, while So admitted that Carolyn was her target, which prompted a heated debate between the two. Tyler ultimately decided to join Carolyn, Max, and Shirin, as So became the first player voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At the Blue Collar camp, Dan lost his underwear in the water after getting hit by a wave; his attempts to make light of the situation led Lindsey to further believe he was creating a character out of himself. On the White Collar tribe, Max and Shirin took off their underwear around camp, making Tyler uncomfortable. On the No Collar tribe, Hali and Jenn's attempts to get to know Nina were complicated by Nina's deafness, and tensions increased when Hali and Jenn decided to go skinny dipping without asking her, leading to a public outburst from Nina out of frustration.\nWhile the Blue Collar tribe played makeshift basketball around camp, Mike insisted that the tribe continue to work, annoying Rodney in the process. At the No Collar camp, Vince voiced his frustrations about Joe to Nina, and Vince's attempt to talk to Joe about his behavior around camp only served to further their enmity. With an alliance formed between younger tribe members Hali, Jenn, and Joe, Vince, Nina, and Will considered sticking together.\n\nReward/immunity challenge: One tribe member at a time manoeuvred a buoy through a series of obstacles in the water. Once all five competing tribe members had retrieved their buoys, one member attempted to toss them into a cylinder basket. The first tribe that shot all five buoys into the basket won immunity and a large fishing kit, while the second tribe won immunity and a smaller fishing kit.After No Collar's Will struggled in the water, the other two tribes pulled ahead to win immunity. Back at camp, Vince told Nina that he was worried about Will's health due to his weight and asthma, but was considering blindsiding Joe, as voting Will would keep the tribe strong but put the younger alliance in power. The younger alliance tried to recruit Will to split the vote against Nina and Vince—out of fear for a hidden immunity idol—to ultimately eliminate Nina on the re-vote; Will was hesitant to vote against Nina, his closest ally. Will told Nina and Vince about the vote-splitting, and they decided to target Jenn due to her perceived untrustworthiness and Joe's challenge prowess. However, Nina later told Will that Vince was concerned for Will's health, and had considered voting him out. At Tribal Council, Will decided to stick with the young alliance while going against their vote-splitting plan, voting for Vince and sending him out of the game rather than the alliance's planned target, Nina."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":3,"episode_summary":"After Will's rogue vote sent Vince home, Joe questioned Will's loyalty while a teary Nina told the tribe that she knew she was next to go. Joe tried to make Nina feel comfortable, but she admitted that she was not as free-spirited as the rest of her tribe. At the White Collar camp, Shirin annoyed her tribe-mates with her tales of seeing howler monkeys having sex in the trees. The next day, the White Collar tribe sans Carolyn looked for the hidden immunity idol, but were unsuccessful as Carolyn had already found it. Shirin proposed a truce, but Joaquin didn't trust her and continued searching with Tyler; though Tyler knew that Carolyn had the idol and Joaquin was on the outs, he continued searching anyway to keep Joaquin's trust as he considered betraying Shirin for her behavior. At the Blue Collar camp, Dan's attempts to be funny upset Rodney after Dan jokingly insulted his mother. Later, Mike voiced his frustrations with his tribe-mates' work ethic, provoking arguments between him and Rodney, Sierra, and Lindsey, the last of whom insulted Mike's religious views.\n\nReward/immunity challenge: Each tribe carried a large bucket with holes to a water tower, filled the bucket, and raced back to a barrel to dump out the water. The first tribe to fill up their barrel won immunity and lounge chairs, blankets, pillows, and a tarp. The second tribe won immunity and a tarp.The No Collar tribe fell behind quickly, which prompted Joe to send Nina back from the water tower to the barrel; the strategy proved ineffective, and they lost their second consecutive challenge. Back at camp, Joe apologized to Nina for implementing the faulty strategy and assuming she would slow the tribe down. Will and Nina both campaigned to vote the other out. Though the original plan was to eliminate Nina, Hali and Jenn considered voting Will out instead after he had proven himself unpredictable by voting Vince out. At Tribal Council, Nina claimed that her tribe perceived that she was weak because of her deafness, though the tribe argued that wasn't the case. When Will discussed his poor challenge performance, Nina took the opportunity to openly campaign against him. She then discussed her previous white collar background and how she felt she had been placed on the wrong tribe. After a pep talk from Hali, Nina affirmed that she would try and fit in with her tribe mates, although she would never get the chance as she was voted out after receiving votes from Jenn, Will, and Joe."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":4,"episode_summary":"After voting out Nina, the No Collar tribe affirmed their loyalty to each other, though Will felt he would be the next to go if they lost again. At the Blue Collar camp, Rodney noted his respect for Mike despite their previous disagreements. \n\nReward challenge: One member of each tribe acted as a caller while two other blindfolded tribe members navigated the course to retrieve five items, including a flag, eventually working with a third blindfolded tribe-mate to hoist the items up to the caller's platform. The winning tribe received three egg-laying hens and a rooster, while the second-place tribe received ten eggs.During the challenge, the Blue Collar tribe's platform dropped on Kelly's forehead; after a brief medical examination she was cleared to continue in the challenge. The No Collar tribe finished in first place while the White Collar tribe took second. The victorious No Collar tribe celebrated Will's birthday by eating one of their chickens from the reward. Jenn, a vegetarian, felt uncomfortable with the killing and roasting; she went searching for the hidden immunity idol, which she found, while the tribe feasted. At the Blue Collar camp, Kelly received six stitches from her injury at the challenge, but her bravery throughout the ordeal earned Mike's respect, and the two affirmed their alliance. Rodney's remarks that women should hold themselves to a higher standard than men caused a heated argument between him and Lindsey. At the White Collar camp, Shirin continued to alienate her tribe-mates with her behavior, which caused Carolyn to consider betraying Shirin and her closest ally, Max. \n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe-mate was tethered to a rope; one at a time, they navigated through a series of obstacles; once all four tribe-mates completed the course, they grabbed a bag of balls, and used them to navigate a vertical maze. The first two tribes to get all three balls to the top of the maze won immunity.All three tribes were neck-and-neck throughout the challenge, but the No Collar and White Collar tribes narrowly won, sending Blue Collar to their first Tribal Council. Lindsey and Sierra campaigned against Rodney for his misogynistic behavior, while Rodney retaliated by targeting Lindsey. At Tribal Council, Dan, Mike, and Kelly decided to align with Rodney, splitting their votes between Lindsey and Sierra in case of a hidden immunity idol; the vote was initially tied, with two votes each on Lindsey, Rodney, and Sierra, but Lindsey was eliminated after a unanimous revote."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":5,"episode_summary":"After receiving two votes and losing her closest ally, an upset Sierra felt isolated from her tribe; Dan's attempts at justifying voting for her only upset her further. At the reward challenge, the three tribes were redistributed into two tribes of seven: Blue Collar tribe members Dan, Mike, Rodney, and Sierra were joined by Joaquin and Tyler from White Collar, and Joe from No Collar to form the new Escameca tribe, while No Collar tribe members Hali, Jenn, and Will were joined by Carolyn, Max, and Shirin from White Collar, and Kelly from Blue Collar to become the new Nagarote tribe.\n\nReward challenge: Two tribe-mates from each tribe alternated launching balls from a slingshot while the remaining five tribe-mates had to catch the balls with handheld nets; catching a ball would score one point for their tribe. The first tribe to reach five points won a box of kitchen supplies, including pots, pans, oils spices, and sausages, and all of the rewards from the now-abandoned White Collar camp.The new Escameca tribe quickly won the challenge, five points to Nagarote's two. At the Nagarote camp, the former No Collar and White Collar tribe-mates, three people apiece, vied for Kelly's vote; the No Collar alliance took a more laid-back approach, while former White Collar Shirin acted quickly. Later, Shirin's behavior got on her new tribe-mates' nerves. Max was stung on both feet by a stingray; after putting his wart-covered feet in the tribe's cooking pot on Jenn's advice, he was perceived as selfish. At Escameca, Dan, Mike, and Rodney realized that Sierra had all the reason to abandon them for their new tribe-mates, and attempted to bring her back into their fold. Sierra indeed vocalized her desire to align with Joaquin, Joe, and Tyler, though Joaquin and Rodney began to bond. Later, Dan attempted to apologize to Sierra for his previous behavior, but again only further alienated her after ignoring Mike's advice on how to approach her.\n\nImmunity challenge:  Two members from each tribe placed pots on a sled and dragged it through a series of obstacles, placing the pots on stands at the end of the course. Once all eight pots were in place, one tribe-mate used a wrecking ball to smash the pots. The first tribe to smash all eight pots won immunity.Tyler and Joaquin quickly gave Escameca an early lead, which they maintained to handily win the challenge. Back at camp, Shirin and Max targeted Will for his weakness in challenges, telling Carolyn and Kelly their plans. Though Kelly agreed, Carolyn decided to betray her former White Collar tribe-mates, joining the No Collar alliance instead. Kelly, realizing that Carolyn was no longer with Shirin and Max, also abandoned them. At Tribal Council, the new alliance of five put their votes on Max, sending him out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":6,"episode_summary":"The morning after Max's blindside, Shirin, his closest ally, attempted to figure out why Carolyn betrayed them; Carolyn claimed that it was because the two excluded her from strategic conversations. After Hali admitted that it was because the two were annoying,  Shirin vowed to reintegrate with her tribe. At Escameca, Rodney and Joaquin aligned based on their common lifestyles. \n\nReward challenge: The tribes raced up a tower and through a series of obstacles. At the top, one tribe-mate at a time launched sandbags from a catapult toward targets on the field below. The first tribe to hit all six of their targets won an overnight trip to a turtle sanctuary and enjoyed a feast.Though Escameca was first to the top of their tower, Nagarote came from behind to narrowly win the challenge. On the reward, Shirin bonded with her tribe-mates. The next day, at Escameca, Joaquin tried to align with Sierra; though Sierra was prepared to align with Joaquin and Tyler, she was perturbed by Joaquin's friendship with Rodney. Rodney later plotted with Mike to throw the immunity challenge to get rid of Joe for being a physical and social threat at the merge, which Mike considered in order to protect his closest ally, Kelly, on the other tribe. \n\nImmunity challenge: One castaway from each tribe faced off to memorize a series of six items at a station. Once a castaway thought they had the series memorized, they pulled a handle, concealing the items. The two castaways then ran to a second station to recreate the sequence. The first castaway to correctly recreate the sequence scored a point for their tribe. If neither castaway got the series correct, the castaways repeated the process until one of them succeeded. The first tribe to score three points won immunity.After the tribes were tied with two points apiece, Mike blatantly threw the final match to Kelly to give Nagarote the win. Back at camp, Rodney continued to target Joe; though Joaquin and Tyler agreed to the plan, Mike and Dan decided to betray him and align with Joe instead to break up Rodney and Joaquin's partnership. Sierra found herself as the swing vote, but ultimately decided to side with Dan, Joe, and Mike to eliminate Joaquin."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Left out of the plans to vote out Joaquin, Rodney felt betrayed by his Blue Collar allies. Mike informed Rodney that they eliminated Joaquin to protect Rodney from being duped, though Rodney claimed that he was trying to reel Joaquin in, not vice versa, and berated Mike for not trusting him. The next morning, the two tribes were merged, and enjoyed a commemorative feast. At the feast, Shirin asked about Joaquin's blindside and was informed that he and Rodney had grown too close. Realizing that pairs were being targeted, Carolyn planned to downplay her partnership with Tyler going forward. \nAt the merged camp, Mike and Kelly celebrated their reunion as Kelly realigned with her former Blue Collar tribe-mates. Joe rejoined former No Collar allies Hali and Jenn, and the three brought Shirin into their fold. With Kelly noticeably realigning with her former tribe, the alliance of four attempted to align with Tyler and Carolyn instead. Will, the fourth former No Collar, was courted by Rodney, who proposed a final four deal with him, Kelly, and Carolyn. Rodney conspired for the four to initially vote with the Blue Collars but later betray Dan, Mike, and Sierra to avenge Joaquin. Amidst all the scrambling, Tyler and Carolyn found themselves the swing votes between the Blue Collar and No Collar alliances; Rodney and Mike plotted to target Joe first, though a vexed Rodney told Mike that they wouldn't be in this mess had Mike not spared Joe at the previous Tribal Council.\n\nImmunity challenge:  Each castaway held onto a 13-feet[20] tall pole as long as possible without falling off. The last castaway remaining on their pole won immunity.After an hour, Joe outlasted Jenn and Carolyn to win the first individual immunity of the game, foiling the Blue Collars' plan. The Blue Collar alliance shifted their target to Jenn instead to split up her and Hali, though they told Will that Hali was the target to see if he was trustworthy; the alliance of Joe, Hali, Jenn and Shirin targeted Kelly. Tyler and Carolyn entertained offers from both alliances, while a nervous Jenn revealed her idol to Hali, considering playing it. At Tribal Council, Will, Carolyn, and Tyler all voted with the Blue Collar alliance—Will for Hali and the rest for Jenn—but Jenn played her hidden immunity idol, negating the seven votes against her and eliminating Kelly instead."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":8,"episode_summary":"After Jenn's successful idol play sent Kelly out of the game, Rodney blamed Mike for changing the target from Hali to Jenn, and tried to convince Will, Tyler, and Carolyn to turn on Mike once the minority alliance—Hali, Jenn, Joe, and Shirin—was out of the game. Rodney later blatantly disrespected the minority alliance, and bickered with Shirin over food portioning.\n\nReward challenge: The castaways went across a balance beam to transport three bags of puzzle pieces to a platform. The first three castaways to transport all three of their bags advanced to the next round, where they used the pieces to complete a puzzle shaped like an anchor. The first castaway that completed their puzzle won an afternoon of ziplining followed by a pizza lunch.Joe, Mike, and Hali advanced to the final round, where Joe won his second individual challenge in a row. Given the choice to take four other castaways with him on the reward, Joe chose to take Carolyn, Tyler, Will, and Shirin to earn their trust and bolster his minority alliance. Joe found a clue to a hidden immunity idol in a bottle Carolyn was drinking from; he managed to trick her into giving him the bottle and took the clue, but Tyler spotted him. The next morning, Joe shared the clue with Tyler, but Mike saw them sneak off and spied on them; Tyler told Mike about the clue to keep the Blue Collars' trust. Though Joe couldn't find the idol, Mike decided to frame him by claiming that he saw Joe find it, which sidelined Joe from continuing his search; Mike continued looking, and eventually found the idol.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways navigated a puzzle piece through three slide mazes, and then used that piece to complete a sliding puzzle. The first castaway to complete the slide puzzle won immunity.Though Dan twice believed that he had completed the sliding puzzle, he was wrong both times; Joe won the challenge, continuing his winning streak. Shirin and Sierra told Hali and Jenn about Dan's condescending comments, and Sierra considered leaving her Blue Collar alliance for a girls alliance; Shirin lobbied Tyler to take Dan out and weaken the dominating Blue Collars as she thought it was their only opportunity to do so. At Tribal Council, Dan stated that \"flippers never win,\" but Shirin claimed that his comment was just a fear tactic to discourage voting against him. However, neither Tyler nor Sierra flipped, and the Blue Collar alliance—Will, Tyler, and Carolyn included—targeted Hali, and she became the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":9,"episode_summary":"After losing her closest ally in Hali, a despondent Jenn was ready to get voted out. Shirin then told the others that she would vote for Mike to win the game, in the hopes that it would turn him into a target. Later, she lobbied with Mike and Sierra to vote out Carolyn, who was perceived to have Rodney, Tyler, and Will on her side.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of five, one castaway at a time raced through a series of obstacles in the water. After all five teammates were at the end platform, one teammate at a time used a grappling hook to retrieve rings in the water. The first team to retrieve all five of their rings won an afternoon away from camp to enjoy a buffet of chocolate.The teams were neck-and-neck at the grappling portion, but the team of Dan, Mike, Shirin, Sierra, and Tyler pulled ahead to win reward. Back at camp, the losing team ate one of the chickens, which again alienated vegetarian Jenn, although the mood was lifted by Rodney's impressions of Mike and Dan; Joe sensed, via his impressions, that Rodney wasn't fully onboard with his alliance, and considered plotting with him to overthrow Mike. Jenn told Joe that she would give him immunity if she won the challenge since she was ready to leave.\n\nImmunity challenge: Castaways stood on a wooden frame, balancing a block between their head and the top of the frame without the assistance of their hands. The last contestant with their block remaining won immunity.Tyler outlasted Jenn and Mike to win immunity. Shirin, predicting the majority alliance of seven would split their votes against Joe and Jenn, created a plan wherein she and Joe would vote for Jenn, which would send a willing Jenn out of the game instead of Joe, the majority alliance's intended target. Mike told Shirin to vote against Joe; Shirin was conflicted between voting against Jenn and ruining the majority alliance's plans, or voting against Joe to take out the proven challenge threat and earn the majority alliance's trust. Joe created a fake immunity idol with stashed materials; Mike found him and claimed that he would switch his vote to Jenn if Joe gave him his idol. Joe gave Mike his idol, but Mike stuck with his alliance at Tribal Council, playing the fake idol on Will and voting against Joe; Shirin also voted against Joe, and he became the second member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Rodney told his alliance of Carolyn, Tyler, and Will that it was time to target Mike; unbeknownst to them, Mike overheard the conversation.\n\nSurvivor Auction: Will bought a covered item which turned out to be a buyout from the auction, and was sent back to camp immediately. Shirin bought chicken and waffles, Jenn bought a large bowl of rum punch,[27] Sierra bought beef souvlaki, and Rodney bought a steak. Sierra bought a letter from home for $20; everyone else was given the chance to buy their letters for the same price. Carolyn, Dan, and Mike were holding out for a possible advantage in the game, but decided they would all buy their letters from home together; Mike sneakily reneged on the deal, but relented after he was called out. Carolyn, Dan, and Mike spent $480 on the potential advantage, and drew rocks, with the white colored rock determining who would get the advantage, ultimately being Dan.Dan's advantage was that he had earned an extra vote at any Tribal Council of his choice up until the final five.[28] Upon returning at camp, Will found a clue that led him to a hidden box filled with rations, including electrolytes, and chose to share them with the rest of the tribe. Mike, having angered others by initially backing out on buying his letter from home to win the advantage, told his close allies that he had only done so because he had overheard Rodney planning his betrayal, which led to an argument between him and Rodney, and upsetting his allies Dan and Sierra; Mike later joined the minority alliance of Jenn and Shirin. Jenn, Mike, and Shirin suspected that Will hadn't given the tribe his full supply of rations, and suggested he was stashing food. Tyler informed Will, who subsequently lashed out at Shirin, verbally attacking her on a personal level.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway used metal tongs to transport a ball across a series of teeter-totters to a stand. The first castaway to get all six of their balls to their stand won immunity.Before the challenge began, Will asked Jeff if he could get his letter from home in exchange for sitting out of the challenge. Jeff agreed provided every other castaway approved; all did except for Shirin. Mike won the challenge, thwarting Rodney's plan. Suspecting that Sierra would remain loyal to Rodney's alliance, Jenn, Mike, and Shirin lobbied Dan to join them and vote out Carolyn, while Rodney's alliance—Sierra included—decided to split the vote between Jenn and Shirin. Dan found himself the swing vote, though the majority alliance questioned his loyalty, while Carolyn considered playing her idol due to Dan's hesitance. At Tribal Council, Shirin and Will reignited their argument, during which Shirin tearfully recounted her past as a victim of domestic abuse. Carolyn held on to her idol as the votes were split between Shirin and Jenn, with Mike and Shirin also voting for Jenn to send her out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Dan and Sierra discussed Mike's claims that they were at the bottom of the majority alliance; Dan later attempted to comfort Shirin about Will's comments at the previous Tribal Council.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two groups of four, the teams were given four barrels, two wood planks, and rope to cross the beach without any part of their bodies or the planks touching the ground, or else they had to restart. The first team across won a trip on a catamaran, complete with a feast of hamburgers and pie.After the team of Mike, Sierra, Shirin and Rodney accidentally placed a plank on the ground, they decided to each roll on a barrel to make up time, but they were unable to do so and Carolyn, Dan, Tyler, and Will won the challenge. Back at camp, Sierra campaigned to Rodney to get rid of Tyler for being a threat and to take Shirin to the end because no one would vote for her to win, though Rodney did not believe that Tyler was a threat nor did he trust Shirin. On the reward trip, Carolyn, Tyler, and Will did their best to make sure Dan stayed loyal to them. \n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway held onto a rope handle attached to 25% of their body weight as of the beginning of the game. If the rope unspooled and the weight dropped, a bucket of water dropped on the castaway's head and they were eliminated; the last man and woman remaining won immunity.Carolyn and Mike outlasted Shirin and Rodney to win immunity, again thwarting the majority alliance's plans. Though the majority alliance targeted Shirin, she lobbied Dan and Sierra to take out Tyler. Tyler searched through Dan's bag and discovered his extra vote advantage, and later informed Carolyn. Mike attempted to realign with Dan, his former closest ally, but was unsuccessful, and Mike considered playing his idol on Shirin. At Tribal Council, Shirin told everyone that getting rid of her would be a bad idea and that they should get rid of Tyler. Right before the vote, Mike unveiled his hidden immunity idol and claimed that he would give it to Shirin, and that she was going to vote for Tyler and he was going to vote for another member of the dominant alliance, and told the other members of the alliance to vote for Tyler to ensure their safety. Ultimately, Mike did not play the idol for Shirin, but the dominant alliance called his bluff and Shirin was voted out, though Tyler and Will voted against Dan."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":12,"episode_summary":"The dominant alliance—everyone except for Mike—regrouped to discuss the previous Tribal Council. Although Tyler and Will had voted against Dan, they explained to Dan their reasoning, which he accepted. The next day was Rodney's birthday, and he hoped that he would finally get to go on a reward trip to celebrate; Will told Rodney that he would give up his potential spot on the trip to make it happen.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of three, the teams unspooled ribbons around a maypole to release a key to unlock planks. They then used the planks to assemble a ladder, and climbed up it to retrieve a bag of balls and navigate through an obstacle course. One teammate then used a foot-operated catapult to launch the balls into a series of nets. The first team to get a ball in all five nets won a trip to a local orphanage, where they delivered supplies to children and enjoyed a feast.Will was not chosen to participate in the challenge. Rodney forgot to bring the balls with him on the obstacle course, losing a lot of time for him, Dan, and Tyler, but they later caught up on the ball-launching portion. However, Mike was able to come from behind to win reward for him, Carolyn, and Sierra. No one decided to give up their reward to Rodney, which provoked his ire. After enjoying the reward trip, Carolyn considered aligning with Mike. Back at camp, an upset Rodney plotted that he would pretend that he wanted to quit the game in hopes that Mike would not play his idol and would be blindsided, though no one else believed it would work. When Carolyn, Mike, and Sierra returned, Rodney began his charade, which Mike saw right through. Tyler, knowing that Mike would likely vote against him, asked Carolyn to play her idol on him.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways leaned backward on a perch while holding onto a knotted rope, moving their hands farther down the rope at regular intervals. The last castaway remaining won immunity.Carolyn outlasted Mike and Tyler to win immunity. Carolyn proposed to Dan, Rodney, and Sierra that they split their votes between Mike and Tyler, but Carolyn also plotted with Tyler and Will to blindside Dan due to the extra vote advantage he won at the Survivor Auction. Mike told Carolyn that he was voting for Tyler, and she found herself torn between betraying her long-time ally Tyler or getting rid of Dan and his advantage. At Tribal Council, Mike again claimed he would play his idol, which he ultimately did, voiding the four votes against him; Carolyn and Sierra joined Mike in voting against Tyler, and he was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Having used his hidden immunity idol, Mike knew that he would be voted out unless he won immunity or found a new ally. Though Dan, formerly Mike's closest ally, felt confident with his new alliance, Carolyn considered working with Mike to blindside Dan to ensure the target stayed off of her, telling Mike about Dan's extra vote advantage.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of three, the castaways raced through a series of obstacles, untied knots to release a drawbridge, then used a hatchet to release puzzle pieces; the first team to solve the puzzle won a helicopter tour of Nicaragua and a surf and turf lunch.Both teams were stuck on the word puzzle for over half an hour until Carolyn was able to decipher host Jeff Probst's clues to win the challenge for her, Mike, and Will. Carolyn openly considered giving up her reward to Rodney, who had yet to go on a reward trip, but ultimately decided against it. On the reward trip, Mike proposed a final three deal with Carolyn and Will, which Carolyn entertained, though Will was more hesitant. Mike told them that he did not want to lose to Rodney due to his attitude and outbursts, and they agreed. Back at camp, an irate Rodney targeted Carolyn for not giving up her reward to him. After returning from the reward, Mike tried to convince Sierra that Dan wouldn't take her to the end of the game.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways used a grappling hook to retrieve three bags; they then used a ball in one of the bags to navigate a table maze. The first castaway to navigate their ball to the center of the maze won immunity.Mike was the first to the table maze and, despite Sierra nearly catching up, ultimately maintained his lead to win immunity for the third time. The majority alliance (sans Carolyn) settled on voting for Carolyn as a threat, while lying to Mike and saying that Dan was the target due to his advantage; Mike then used this to try to tell Dan that he was the target, but Dan didn't believe him. Mike then tried to work with Carolyn and Sierra, telling them that Rodney and Will were siding with Dan, and Carolyn considered playing her hidden immunity idol. At Tribal Council, Dan decided to use his extra vote advantage, but Carolyn countered by playing her hidden immunity idol. The five votes against Carolyn were voided, and Dan was sent to the jury with Mike and Carolyn's votes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Despite the fact that her allies Rodney, Sierra, and Will voted against her but Mike did not, Carolyn decided to regroup with her old alliance and continued targeting Mike. Before the reward challenge, the castaways were reunited with their loved ones: Carolyn's husband Joel, Mike's mother Deborah, Rodney's father Rodney Sr., Sierra's father Danny, and Will's wife Monifa.\n\nReward challenge: The castaways crawled through a net and slid tiles down a shuffleboard, then balanced the tiles on a machete through an obstacle course; once all the tiles were through, the castaway used them to solve a combination lock. The winning castaway won an afternoon at camp with their loved one and an advantage in the next immunity challenge.Mike won the challenge, and enjoyed the afternoon with his mother.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways were blindfolded in the center of a large maze and raced to find four medallions in the corners of the maze. The castaway who found four medallions and then found the immunity necklace won immunity.The morning of the challenge, Mike had 30 minutes to practice navigating the maze blindfolded with Deborah there to guide him, but they struggled. At the challenge, Carolyn, Rodney, Sierra and Will helped each other, but Mike's advantage paid off and he won the challenge. Mike made a final three deal with Carolyn and Sierra, and another with Rodney and Will; at Tribal Council, Sierra mentioned that she was a threat, and ultimately Carolyn joined the men to vote her out.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways untied knots to open a gate, then raced up a large tower to retrieve a key; after sliding down a waterslide, the castaways then navigated a vertical obstacle course and used the key to unlock a bag of puzzle pieces. After retrieving three bags of puzzle pieces, the castaways used the pieces to build a lighthouse puzzle; the first castaway to complete their puzzle won immunity.Mike maintained his early lead to win his fifth and final immunity challenge. Rodney and Will stuck together and decided to vote Carolyn out, but Mike told Carolyn that he was going to force a tie with her against Rodney, and encouraged her to practice making fire to win the tiebreaker challenge. At Tribal Council, Mike forced the tie between Carolyn and Rodney; after an hour, Carolyn won the fire-making tiebreaker challenge to join Mike and Will in the finals, and Rodney became the final member of the jury.\nAfter enjoying a feast for making it to the end of the game, the final three faced the jury for their final Tribal Council. Joe told the finalists what they needed to do for the jury to earn his vote, while Hali asked Carolyn how her role as a mother disadvantaged her in the game; Carolyn explained that she fought hard despite being much older than most of the other castaways. Rodney asked Will how he was true to himself, and Will explained that he used his social game and giving nature to compensate for his lack of Survivor knowledge; he then asked Carolyn to explain the moves she made on her own, and she said it was blindsiding Tyler and Dan. Tyler asked Mike what he brought to the game socially, and Mike admitted that his social game wasn't as strong as he would've liked to be; Tyler asked Carolyn to redeem herself for backstabbing him after 30 days of being closest allies, and Carolyn stated that she had to or else he would've won, but that it was the most difficult decision she made.\nSierra asked Will which of the other finalists' traits he wanted; he said Mike's work ethic and Carolyn's analytical skills. Jenn called the jury out for being bitter against Mike's manic, back-against-the-wall gameplay, and pled for them to vote for him to win. Dan chastised Mike for not caring about the people sent to the jury, and Mike told Dan that he regretted losing his trust after his actions at the Survivor Auction, and apologized to him; Dan accepted the apology. Shirin castigated Will for comments he made about her family, and praised Mike for defending her, though she stated that, as a superfan of the game, she was going to vote based on their games; Shirin likened each of their games to an animal: Mike's to a howler monkey, Carolyn's to a stingray, and Will's to a dead fish."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US30","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months after the final Tribal Council, at the live reunion, it was revealed that Mike won the game with Hali, Joe, Jenn, Shirin, Tyler, and Dan's votes, while Carolyn and Will tied for second with one vote each; Carolyn with Sierra's, and Will with Rodney's.\n\nThe cast for Survivor: Cambodia was also revealed, as chosen by public vote. Of the five Worlds Apart candidates, Joe and Shirin were chosen to be among the 20 competitors to play in the following season; Mike was ineligible due to his victory, and Carolyn and Max were not selected. At the end of the reunion, Joe, Shirin and the other 18 chosen castaways were immediately put on a bus to begin their trip to Cambodia."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":1,"episode_summary":"After visiting the temples of Siem Reap, the 20 returning castaways were divided into two tribes: Bayon and Ta Keo.\n\nReward challenge: The tribes ransacked a boat for supplies and loaded them onto a raft. They then paddled their raft to a second boat 100 yards away; the first player to reach the second boat won an extra bag of rice for their tribe.Woo won the rice for Ta Keo. At Ta Keo, some immediately began setting up camp, while others started strategizing. Vytas, as in his original season, tried to form bonds with the women, which Shirin noticed, and began targeting him for his perceived smugness. He later irritated the other younger women while trying to teach them yoga. Abi-Maria lost her bracelet, which she later found in Peih-Gee's bag; though she told the rest of her tribe that she was wary of Peih-Gee, Peih-Gee was able to clear the air. Jeff Varner and Peih-Gee found themselves caught between the \"old school\" players who set up the camp's shelter—Kelly Wiglesworth, Terry, Vytas, and Woo—and the \"new school\" strategists—Abi-Maria, Kelley Wentworth, Shirin, and Spencer. Wentworth found a clue to a hidden immunity idol, which revealed its exact location in the structure of the upcoming immunity challenge.\nUpon arriving at the Bayon camp, Jeremy quickly made alliances with Andrew, Keith, Joe, and Tasha. Joe earned his tribemates' admiration, particularly Andrew's, by making fire without flint, while Stephen struggled with camp setup. He later searched for a hidden immunity idol, but was unsuccessful, and his absence from camp was noted by the rest of his tribe.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The tribes guided a lit raft through shallow water, lighting torches on their path with a fire on the raft. Upon reaching shore, the tribe set down their rafts at a gate; one tribemate crafted a pole of sticks and twine to reach through the gate to retrieve a key. The first tribe that unlocked their gate and set the final torch ablaze won immunity and a fire-making kit. The challenge was based on \"Quest for Fire,\" the first challenge from Borneo, the first season.Joe retrieved the key first for Bayon, and they won the challenge. While her Ta Keo tribemates were distracted, Wentworth was able to retrieve the hidden immunity idol. Ta Keo was immediately sent to Tribal Council, with no time to scramble. At Tribal Council, the old-schoolers targeted Abi-Maria for her volatility at camp, while the new-schoolers targeted Vytas. Jeff Varner and Peih-Gee aligned with the new-schoolers, and Vytas was the first player voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Though he voted with the new-schoolers to eliminate Vytas, Jeff Varner conspired with the old-schoolers to target Shirin and Spencer for their cunning. Abi-Maria's abrasive social behavior alienated her from her tribe; after she overheard Peih-Gee and Shirin talking negatively about her, Abi-Maria confronted Peih-Gee, and the argument resulted in their alliance making fun of Abi-Maria. A vulnerable Abi-Maria was comforted by Terry, and the two aligned. The next morning, Abi-Maria and Jeff Varner solidified their plans to switch to the old-school alliance, putting them in power.\nOn Bayon, Joe solidified his role as the tribe's provider, but his skills made him a target of Stephen's. Andrew tearfully recounted meeting his now-wife, which prompted Jeremy—missing his pregnant wife—to wander off. After Stephen speculated that Jeremy was looking for a hidden immunity idol, Andrew comforted Jeremy and discussed targeting Stephen for constantly thinking about the game.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The tribes raced up and down three A-frames carrying ropes, then four members used them to pull a heavy wooden crate filled with puzzle pieces across a ramp. Two tribemates then used the pieces to solve a puzzle; the first pair to complete it won immunity and camp tools for their tribe. Yank Yer Hank challenge from Samoa.Bayon won the challenge. Back at camp, the now-strengthened old-school alliance recruited a reluctant Kelley Wentworth and Peih-Gee to split up Shirin and Spencer. Though Shirin apologized to Abi-Maria for not defending her when she was being made fun of, Abi-Maria refused to deviate from the plan. At Tribal Council, both Shirin and Spencer pleaded to their tribemates to save them; ultimately, Spencer was spared as Shirin was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":3,"episode_summary":"The morning after Shirin's elimination, the tribes were redistributed from two to three. Jeremy, Kimmi, Monica, and Stephen were joined by Kelly Wiglesworth and Spencer on Bayon, while Kelley Wentworth and Terry were joined by Ciera, Joe, Kass, and Keith on Ta Keo. Abi-Maria, Andrew, Jeff Varner, Peih-Gee, Tasha, and Woo formed the new Angkor tribe, and had to build a new camp from scratch.\nAt Angkor, the tribe struggled with building another camp amidst the harsh weather. Though Andrew and Tasha were in the minority as the only former Bayon members, they made individual deals with their new tribemates to protect them at the merge, and also noticed the tension between Abi-Maria and Peih-Gee. Ta Keo celebrated their tribe strength, but Wentworth campaigned against Terry, the only other retained Ta Keo member. At Bayon, Spencer attempted to build social relations with his new tribe, and succeeded with Jeremy. Jeremy found the clue to an idol hidden at the upcoming immunity challenge.\n\nImmunity challenge: The tribes pushed a wagon across an obstacle course, and retrieved three keys from tall posts to unlock three trunks with puzzle pieces inside, and put the trunks on the wagon. After getting all three trunks, the tribes disassembled the wagon and pushed the wagon and trucks either through or over a fence, then climb over the fence themselves. They then re-assembled the wagon, put the trunks back on board, and dragged the wagon through more obstacles. Once at the finish, two tribe members used the pieces to assemble a vertical puzzle. The first two tribes to finish won immunity. Draggin' the Dragon challenge from Cagayan.Jeremy snagged Bayon's idol during the challenge. Ta Keo held onto their lead to place first, with Bayon placing second. After losing the challenge, Jeff Varner attempted to send a message to Wiglesworth on Bayon, but Tasha caught him and called him out. Jeff Varner then revealed that Andrew and Tasha had made multiple deals with the former Ta Keo members. Back at Angkor, the former Ta Keo members tried to stay strong against Andrew and Tasha, who targeted Jeff Varner; however, Abi-Maria decided to align with the former Bayon members, which provoked Peih-Gee, and each of the two tried to rally support to eliminate the other. At Tribal Council, Andrew and Tasha aligned with Abi-Maria and Jeff Varner, and they sent Peih-Gee home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":4,"episode_summary":"After returning from Tribal Council, Jeff Varner proclaimed his loyalty to his tribemates, but Tasha continued to campaign against him. Abi-Maria confronted Woo for voting against her twice. At Bayon, Jeremy lied to Stephen about finding the idol.\n\nReward challenge: One representative per tribe raced out into the water to retrieve one of three sandbags, and then jumped on a plank like a seesaw to launch it into a net above them. The first to get all three sandbags into the net tribe won a grill, wok, sausages, and spices for their tribe, while the runner-up's tribe received a wok and vegetables. Walk on Water challenge from Samoa.Savage won the challenge for Angkor, Terry placed second for Ta Keo, and Jeremy lost for Bayon. At Ta Keo, Kass made Kelley Wentworth a necklace as a belated birthday gift in an attempt to rehabilitate her previous, cutthroat image. On Bayon, Spencer told his new tribemates to get rid of Kelly Wiglesworth for her connections from the old Ta Keo tribe, but Monica did not trust him.\n\nImmunity challenge: One castaway from each tribe worked as a caller to direct their blindfolded tribemates in collecting 16 large puzzle pieces from a field. Once all of the puzzle pieces were collected, the entire tribe worked together to assemble the puzzle. The first two tribes that completed their puzzle won immunity. Blind Leading the Blind challenge from All-Stars and Heroes vs. Villains.During the puzzle solving, Jeff Varner dropped a puzzle piece on his toe. Bayon finished first, followed by Ta Keo. Abi-Maria, Andrew, and Tasha affirmed their majority alliance, but while Andrew and Tasha tried to target Jeff Varner for being both a physical liability and a threat to Abi-Maria's loyalty to them, Abi-Maria wanted to vote out Woo for having previously voted against her. At Tribal Council, both Jeff Varner and Woo pledged loyalty to the majority alliance, but they chose to eliminate Jeff Varner unanimously."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":5,"episode_summary":"At Bayon, Monica argued with Kimmi about taking too many clams from the ocean, which led to Kimmi complaining about Monica to Stephen.\n\nReward challenge: Three tribemates rolled a fourth in a barrel to three flagpoles to unspool bags of balls. Once all of the bags were retrieved, one tribemate rolled the balls up a ramp and into six targets. The first tribe to have a ball in all six targets won fruit, juice, chairs, pillows, blankets, a hammock, a tarp, and candles, while the second-place tribe won a tarp. Barrel of Monkeys challenge from Blood vs. Water.Ta Keo placed first, with Angkor in second. Back at Ta Keo, the entire tribe aligned, except for Terry. At Bayon, Jeremy and Spencer continued to bond. On Angkor, Woo earned sympathy from Andrew and Tasha after telling them about his mother's heart transplant, but Abi-Maria was annoyed by the perceived tactic.\n\nImmunity challenge: The tribes raced up a tower and through a series of obstacles. At the top, one tribemate at a time launched sandbags from a catapult toward targets on the field below. The first two tribes to hit all five of their targets won immunity. Gone Shootin'  challenge from Worlds Apart.Angkor finished first, followed by Ta Keo. The four original Bayon members chose to target Kelly Wiglesworth over Spencer. Monica tried to recruit Kimmi for a women's alliance, targeting Spencer; Kimmi told Jeremy and Stephen about Monica's plan. Ultimately, Monica was betrayed by Jeremy, Kimmi, and Stephen for being unreliable, and she became the fifth person voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Host Jeff Probst visited the Ta Keo camp to inform Terry that his son Danny had been hospitalized, and Terry was subsequently pulled from the game to be with his family. The next morning, the tribes were shuffled again: the new Bayon tribe was composed of Jeremy, Joe, Keith, Kelley Wentworth, Kimmi, Stephen, and Tasha, while Abi-Maria, Andrew, Ciera, Kass, Kelly Wiglesworth, Spencer, and Woo formed the new Ta Keo tribe. Kass and Spencer, nemeses on their original season, were reunited, and Wentworth found herself the sole original Ta Keo tribemate with six original Bayon members.\n\nReward challenge: Castaways went head-to-head against a member of the other tribe, sliding down a slippery narrow path to retrieve a ring. The first player to throw their ring onto a post won a point for their tribe; the first tribe to three points won a picnic with chicken, mac and cheese, and brownies. Slide Show challenge from One World.Wiglesworth beat Wentworth in the final round to win the challenge for Ta Keo. On Ta Keo, Andrew brought together his Angkor allies Abi-Maria and Woo and original Bayon tribemates Ciera and Kass to target Spencer. Andrew told his alliance that they would tell Spencer that Ciera was the target, which alarmed her. At Bayon, Joe promised Wentworth—his ally from Ta Keo—that he would try to keep her safe, and targeted Kimmi. Stephen ratted Joe out to Jeremy and Tasha and campaigned to eliminate him, but Jeremy was reluctant to do so.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each tribe sent an equal number of representatives in a race to eat local Cambodian delicacies. The first tribe to have all their representatives finish won a point for their tribe; first tribe to four points won immunity. Pesky Palate challenge from multiple seasons, including Borneo, The Australian Outback, Pearl Islands, and Blood vs. Water.Tasha defeated Kass in the final round to win immunity for Bayon. Back at Ta Keo, Andrew's alliance confirmed their plan to target Spencer with Ciera as the decoy, but Ciera was frightened that Andrew's true allegiance was with Woo over his original Bayon tribe, and convinced Abi-Maria and Kass to target Woo. Kass decided—though she wanted Spencer gone—that Woo was the more pressing threat, and alerted Spencer to Andrew's plan. At Tribal Council, Abi-Maria, Ciera, and Kass teamed up with Spencer to vote Woo out.\n\nMonths after Terry returned home, his son received a successful heart transplant."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":7,"episode_summary":"The morning after Woo's elimination, Andrew believed that Kass' betrayal proved that she was no longer loyal to the original Bayon tribe. Later that morning, the tribes unexpectedly merged, forming Orkun, the largest tribe in Survivor history at 13 members. Andrew and Jeremy rekindled their original Bayon alliance with Kimmi, Stephen, and Tasha, with the addition of Kelly Wiglesworth, while Kass and Kelley Wentworth attempted to reform their alliance from the second Ta Keo tribe, securing Ciera and bringing Abi-Maria into the fold. Both alliances vied for the votes of Joe and Keith, who had been in both initial alliances, and Spencer, who had no solid allies; Joe and Spencer teamed up to determine their allegiance for the upcoming vote.\nTo secure the majority, Kass attempted to strategize with Tasha, but Tasha lied to her about the Bayon alliance as vengeance for Kass betraying her in their original season. Kass caught on to Tasha's deception, and tried to patch things up the next morning. Tasha admitted that she did not trust Kass, and the two discussed their feud in front of the rest of the tribe. Ciera then lied to Jeremy and Joe, telling them that Andrew and Woo had discussed getting rid of them.\n\nImmunity challenge: Castaways stood on a beam while balancing a ball on a pole, held with one hand. After 10 minutes, the remaining contestants moved their feet to a narrower section and lowered their hand down the pole. After another 10 minutes, those still in the challenge moved to the narrowest section with their hand at the bottom section of the pole. The last castaway with their ball still balanced on the pole won immunity.  Hard to Handle challenge from Cagayan.Joe outlasted Spencer to win individual immunity. Joe, Keith, and Spencer sided with the Bayon alliance and the nine decided to split the vote between Ciera and Kass in case of a hidden immunity idol. The alliance of Abi-Maria, Ciera, and Kass correctly deduced that the others were going to split the vote, and attempted to get Spencer to join them in voting against Tasha, which would send her home. At Tribal Council, Ciera and Kass' alliance crumbled, and Kass became the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Though Andrew and Jeremy celebrated Kass' elimination and planned to target the minority alliance of Abi-Maria, Ciera, and Kelley Wentworth, Stephen plotted with Ciera to betray his alliance and blindside Joe.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of six, the castaways paddled out into the ocean to retrieve four large puzzle cubes with colored sides. Once all four pieces were returned to the beach, the castaways had to stack the cubes such that there would be no repeating colors on each side. The first team that solved their puzzle won an afternoon at a café to enjoy coffee and desserts. Rove, Rove, Rove Your Boat challenge from Blood vs. Water.The team of Ciera, Keith, Wentworth, Kelly Wiglesworth, Kimmi, and Joe won the challenge. On the reward trip, Ciera discussed trying to break up Andrew, Jeremy, Stephen, and Tasha, which piqued Joe's interest. Back at camp, Stephen talked to Jeremy, Spencer, and Tasha about getting rid of Joe unless he won immunity again, but Andrew overheard him, and ratted Stephen out to Joe upon the latter's return from the reward trip.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways balanced a ball on a disc attached to knotted ropes, moving their hands down a knot every 10 minutes to increase difficulty. After 30 minutes, a second ball was added. Castaways were eliminated when a ball fell off their disc; the last player with all of their balls remaining won immunity. Take the Reins challenge from San Juan del Sur.Joe outlasted Keith to win immunity again, foiling Stephen's plan. Andrew and Joe recruited Wiglesworth and the minority alliance to eliminate Stephen, but Jeremy attempted to veto their plan because of Stephen's loyalty to him throughout the pre-merge, and tried to keep the target on the minority alliance. At Tribal Council, Ciera and Wentworth implored the majority alliance to jump ship and target the alliance's core, but they held strong and all voted against Wentworth, opting not to split the vote. However, Wentworth played her hidden immunity idol, and Andrew was eliminated with the minority alliance's three votes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":9,"episode_summary":"After Kelley Wentworth's successful idol play, the majority alliance scoured the camp looking for a replacement idol, while Abi-Maria, Ciera, and Wentworth—collectively referred to by all as “the Witches”—continued to look for divisions in the majority alliance.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of five, each team assembled a staircase out of wooden poles, then climbed it to reach a bamboo maze. Upon exiting the maze and sliding down bamboo, one tribe member maneuvered a key through a rope obstacle and then used it to unlock a machete to release puzzle pieces. Two more tribe members then solved a puzzle to reveal the solution to a combination lock. The first tribe that unlocked their flag won a day trip to a spa. Styx challenge from Cagayan.Abi-Maria was not chosen to compete. The team of Jeremy, Keith, Wentworth, Kelly Wiglesworth, and Kimmi struggled assembling their poles, allowing Ciera, Joe, Spencer, Stephen, and Tasha to coast to an easy victory. Ciera tried to convince the others on the reward trip to make a move against Jeremy but, back at camp, Jeremy found a clue to another hidden immunity idol. The clue told Jeremy the idol's exact location outside of camp, but required him to go there that night, after the challenge winners returned from the spa; he did so, and found his second hidden idol. Stephen later noted the bond between Joe and Wiglesworth, and conspired with the Witches to vote together at the upcoming Tribal Council to split them up.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways stood barefoot on wooden slats on an a-frame, floating in the water, trying to remain balanced. After 10 minutes, the castaways moved up to a second set of slats, closer together; after another 10 minutes, the castaways moved to the top of the a-frame. After another 10 minutes, the castaways had to stand on one foot until one person remained, who would then win immunity. Bermuda Triangles challenge from Caramoan and Cagayan.During the challenge, host Jeff Probst revealed buoys in the water; the first castaway to touch their buoy would win an advantage in the game, but all who jumped off forfeited their shot at immunity. Spencer and Stephen jumped off, and Stephen edged out Spencer to win the advantage. Joe outlasted Abi-Maria to win his third consecutive immunity challenge. Stephen's advantage was that he had the right to “steal” another player's vote at any Tribal Council until the final five,[35] prohibiting them from voting, while allowing him to vote twice. While the majority alliance decided to split their votes between Ciera and Wentworth, with the latter as the main target, Stephen tried to convince Jeremy and Spencer to join him and the Witches to vote against Wiglesworth. Though they were initially hesitant to risk alienating the rest of their alliance, they followed through with Stephen's plan at Tribal Council, and Wiglesworth became the third member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Though Jeremy, Spencer, and Stephen voted against Kelly Wiglesworth, they assured the rest of their alliance that they were still with them against the Witches, chalking their decision up to the strategy of forming temporary \"voting blocs\" that justified different factions teaming up from vote to vote.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of five, three castaways from each team faced off against each other in a river to retrieve a ball and throw it into their team's net to score a point. The first team to score three points won a feast and a trip to a Cambodian circus. Basket Brawl challenge from Tocantins.Abi-Maria, Ciera, Joe, Spencer, and Tasha won the challenge. While Ciera led the charge on the reward trip to target Stephen because of his advantage, the castaways back at camp discussed targeting Joe once his immunity streak ended. The rain continued to take its toll on the castaways, deteriorating their mental and physical health. Before the immunity challenge, host Jeff Probst gave the castaways the chance to forfeit the challenge in exchange for an enhanced shelter with a waterproof roof, courtesy of a construction crew, provided at least five players chose to forfeit. The castaways made their choice without being able to consult each other; only Joe and Keith opted to compete, giving the tribe the enhanced shelter.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways balanced on a block with one foot while stabilizing a ball against a hanging piece of wood. If a castaway fell off or dropped their ball, they were eliminated; the last player remaining won immunity. Ballin' A Jack challenge from San Juan del Sur.Joe beat Keith to win immunity again. Jeremy, Kimmi, and Stephen decided to target Ciera as the most dangerous of the Witches, but the Witches recruited Joe, Keith, Spencer, and Tasha to blindside Stephen, with two votes on Kimmi in case of Stephen's advantage. Joe, Spencer, and Tasha told Jeremy of the plan; though he tried to dissuade them, they followed through with the Witches' plan at Tribal Council. However, Jeremy played one of his idols on Stephen, negating the five votes against him, and Ciera was eliminated with Jeremy, Kimmi, and Stephen's votes. After saving Stephen, Jeremy told Spencer that he would do the same for him."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Back at camp, Jeremy reiterated to Spencer that he would have saved him as he did Stephen, but Spencer was uncertain.\n\nReward challenge: Jeff told the castaways a story about Cambodian history. The castaways then ran through a maze to one of five stations, each with a question about the story. Each station had three bags of medallions wrapped in cloth that corresponded to possible answers; the correct answer had golden medallions, whereas incorrect ones had wooden medallions. The first castaway to retrieve all five gold medallions won a trip by helicopter to a resort on another island, where they would enjoy a feast. Folklore challenge from Borneo and Africa.During the challenge, Kelley Wentworth found a hidden immunity idol clue packaged with a medallion. Stephen edged out Spencer to win, and took Jeremy and Tasha with him on the trip. Though Tasha had voted against Stephen in the previous Tribal Council, Stephen told her and Jeremy about his vote stealing advantage, and the three reaffirmed their alliance. Back at camp, Abi-Maria, Joe, Keith, Kelley, and Spencer decided to align against the reward-goers and Kimmi. Kelley's clue told her that an immunity idol was hidden underneath the newly-rebuilt shelter, and she retrieved it when everyone else was out of the camp.\n\nImmunity challenge: Only using their feet, the castaways would unspool a rope to release a pile of blocks and then, still only with their feet, stack the blocks into three rows on a rotating circular platform. The first castaway to stack three rows and then place a flag in the center of their platform would win immunity. The Game is Afoot challenge from San Juan del Sur.Spencer won the challenge, ending Joe's immunity streak. With Joe eligible to be voted against for the first time all game, Stephen spearheaded the effort to eliminate him, but Joe's new alliance of five—including Spencer, unbeknownst to Jeremy's alliance—decided to target Stephen again. At Tribal Council, Stephen used his advantage to steal Joe's vote, giving his bloc—him, Jeremy, Kimmi, and Tasha—five of the nine votes. However, believing Spencer to be with them, they split their votes between Abi-Maria and Joe in case of a hidden immunity idol, allowing Abi-Maria, Kelley, Keith, and Spencer to send Stephen to the jury with only four votes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":12,"episode_summary":"With four men and four women remaining, Kimmi organized a women's alliance between her, Abi-Maria, Kelley, and Tasha to eliminate Joe next and then take over the game. At the reward challenge, the castaways were visited by their loved ones: Abi-Maria's mother Vera; Jeremy's wife and San Juan del Sur castaway Val; Joe's father Pat; Keith's wife Dana; Kelley's father and San Juan del Sur castaway Dale; Kimmi's father Robert; Spencer's girlfriend Marcella; and Tasha's cousin Christina.\n\nReward challenge: The castaways dug up dirt to unearth a rope, then untied three bags of puzzle pieces. They then spun around a post to unlock a fourth bag, and then brought the four bags across a balance beam, untying a fifth bag on the way. They then used the puzzle pieces to solve a vertical word puzzle; the first castaway to solve the puzzle got to bring their loved one back to camp to enjoy a barbeque.Kelley won the challenge, and chose to share her reward with Abi-Maria, Joe, Keith, Kimmi, and their loved ones. While they enjoyed the feast, the three non-chosen castaways—Jeremy, Spencer, and Tasha—made a final three deal.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways held onto the bottom of a pole while balancing a wooden statue on top, while adding additional foot-long sections to the pole at regular intervals. The last man and woman remaining won immunity. Over-Extended challenge from Samoa.Kelley won immunity for the women. Joe and Keith were the last men remaining; Joe passed out due to fatigue, though was cleared to remain in the game, and Keith won immunity. Though Joe had passed out during the challenge, the other castaways still targeted him for being a physical threat. Tasha told Jeremy and Spencer about the girls' alliance, and the two considered changing their target to Abi-Maria for her chaotic nature and to prevent the women from outnumbering the men. However, at Tribal Council, Jeremy and Spencer stuck to the original plan, and Joe was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":13,"episode_summary":"When the final seven returned to camp, they realized that Keith was the only one who had not voted against Joe, having voted for Tasha instead, which set Tasha against Keith. Jeremy and Spencer continued to worry about a women's alliance.\n\nReward challenge: Each castaway unspooled a rope until they felt they had enough slack to continue on the course. They then assembled a bridge by placing wooden poles in open slots across two beams. Once across, they threw sandbags to knock down a stack of blocks. The first to knock off all their blocks won a trip to the temples of Siem Reap, where they enjoyed a feast and a traditional Cambodian ceremony. Money Box challenge from San Juan del Sur.Keith won the challenge, as he had in San Juan del Sur, and chose to bring Kelley and Spencer with him. On the trip, the three made a final three pact, and plotted to bring in Abi-Maria to secure the majority at the next Tribal Council. Back at camp, Abi-Maria, Jeremy, Kimmi, and Tasha discussed eliminating Keith; Jeremy was hesitant to eliminate another man, but Kimmi and Tasha assured him that there was no women's alliance. Later, Jeremy and Tasha asked Abi-Maria to leave so they could talk privately; she refused, which annoyed them, and they considered targeting her instead.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways raced out through an obstacle course in the water, then swam to retrieve a key; after crossing the course again to return to shore, they used the key to unlock five puzzle pieces. The first castaway that solved the puzzle won immunity. Troubled Water challenge from Vanuatu and Cook Islands.Spencer solved the puzzle in a matter of seconds to win. Tasha became exhausted in the water and had to be rescued and treated by medical.  Although she was shaken by the incident she was able to continue in the game.  The reward challenge winners recruited Abi-Maria to vote against Tasha, whereas Jeremy, Kimmi, and Tasha switched their target from Keith to Abi-Maria due to the latter's volatility throughout the game. Both sides believed Spencer to be with them, but at Tribal Council, Spencer voted against Abi-Maria to send her to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Though Keith and Kelley thought they were next to go after the other four eliminated Abi-Maria, Kimmi decided to jump ship, and plotted with Kelley and Keith to convince the others to split the vote so the three of them could blindside Jeremy or Spencer.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways raced to assemble puzzle steps on a staircase. After correctly placing all the steps, the castaways then raced to the top to complete a sliding puzzle. The first player to solve their puzzle won immunity. Step on Up challenge from Thailand and Redemption Island.Spencer maintained his lead to win immunity. While Kimmi secretly planned with Keith and Kelley to blindside Jeremy, Spencer and Tasha figured out her plan, though Jeremy was unconvinced. At Tribal Council, Spencer publicly revealed that he, Jeremy, and Tasha were not splitting the votes; Kelley played her hidden idol, but Jeremy countered by playing his. Both Jeremy and Kelley were targeted by the other alliance, and all votes were voided.\nAfter a brief deliberation, in which Kimmi was admonished by her former alliance, the castaways re-voted, with Spencer, Jeremy, and Kelley immune. The second ballot was tied between Kimmi and Tasha. The four others told host Jeff Probst that they were not going to change their votes, thus the tie was deadlocked. Probst explained the rules: the four non-tied castaways had to unanimously decide to eliminate Kimmi or Tasha, or else the two tied would become immune; since Keith would then be the only one of the remaining four not immune, he would be eliminated by default. Jeremy and Spencer immediately said that they would not agree to eliminate Tasha, thus the only options were for Keith and Kelley to agree with them to eliminate Kimmi, or to disagree, which would eliminate Keith. Ultimately, Keith and Kelley chose the former, and Kimmi was eliminated.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways raced through obstacles to retrieve six bags of puzzle pieces. The first castaway to retrieve all six bags and solve the puzzle won immunity. Out on a Limb challenge from South Pacific.Kelley defeated Keith to win immunity. Back at camp, Kelley made Keith a fake idol, and a paranoid Jeremy told Keith to vote against Spencer. At Tribal Council, Keith chose not to reveal the fake idol and Jeremy stayed loyal, sending Keith to the jury.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways, with one hand tied behind their back, dropped a ball into a metal chute, which traveled down a spiraling metal track and exited out of one of two points. The castaway would have to catch the ball and drop it back into the chute at the top. Every few minutes, an additional ball would be added to the track until seven balls were simultaneously going around the track. A turnstile gate in the middle of the track would rotate, causing the balls to alternate exiting out of the two exits. If a ball exited the track and was not caught, the castaway was eliminated; the last one remaining won immunity. Simmotion challenge from Tocantins.Jeremy beat Spencer to win the final challenge. Kelley campaigned against Spencer at Tribal Council, and Spencer retorted that he would convince the jury to not vote for Jeremy to win if he took Kelley to the end. Jeremy honored his alliance with Spencer, and Kelley became the final member of the jury.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, Spencer and Jeremy were admonished for their respective actions in Kelley Wentworth and Kimmi's final Tribal Councils, while Tasha was asked to defend the perception that she did Jeremy's dirty work. When asked what their second chances were about and if they achieved that, Tasha said it was about building better relationships with her allies, Spencer said it was about maturing from Cagayan and developing interpersonal skills, while Jeremy stated that he was doing it for his family, including his unborn son, and that he struggled with keeping his wife's pregnancy a secret for the entire game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US31","episode":15,"episode_summary":"Months later, at the reunion, it was revealed that the jury unanimously voted for Jeremy to win."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The eighteen new castaways, divided into three tribes of six, were given two minutes to ransack a boat filled with supplies and load them onto their rafts. Upon arriving at camp, Jason from the Brawn tribe formed multiple alliances, including one with Jennifer and Scot and another with Cydney, and targeted Alecia for her perceived weakness. Later, a bug crawled into Jennifer's ear, which caused her pain, but Scot was able to pull it out. On the Brains tribe, Debbie was unable to back up her claim about knowing how to make fire without flint, and Aubry, Liz, Neal and Peter formed an alliance against the older Debbie and Joe. Aubry had a panic attack and was consoled by her tribe mates, but they worried about her behaviour. The women of the Beauty tribe—Anna, Julia and Michele—quickly bonded. Though they considered recruiting Tai to be the fourth member of their alliance, they lost trust in him after they caught him looking for a hidden immunity idol.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The tribes swam out to a boat, where members dove down one at a time to retrieve paddles. They then paddled to shore where they converted their boat to a cart, then pulled it up a track. They then chose between two options: assembling a puzzle, or stacking balls while standing on a wobbly platform. The first two tribes to complete their chosen final tasks won immunity. The first tribe to win also won a fire-making kit and a tarp, while the second-place tribe won flint.Darnell lost the Brawn tribe's diving mask, which caused them to struggle retrieving their paddles; though they recovered during the cart-pulling portion, Alecia panicked on the puzzle and they lost the challenge. Back at camp, Alecia and Darnell were targeted due to their struggles in the challenge. Scot told Alecia not to scheme because they were voting against Darnell, but she continued to campaign for her safety, which angered him and Cydney. At Tribal Council, Darnell's pleas convinced Cydney and Jason to vote against Alecia, which caused a tie between her and Darnell. But on the revote, Darnell was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At the Beauty camp, Tai found the hidden immunity idol inside a locked box buried beneath a tree, with instructions to find the key at the top of another tree, but he was unable to retrieve the key. He later bonded with Caleb despite their vastly different personalities and lifestyles. On the Brains tribe, Debbie continued to annoy her tribe with her constant bragging, while Joe and Liz fought over camp life. At the Brawn camp, tribe outsider Alecia gave the tribe fire after trying for five hours.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The tribes raced down a river to retrieve a 300-pound log, and then carried it through a series of obstacles. At the end of the course, the tribes removed balls attached to the log, then launched them with a slingshot. The first tribe to hit their two targets won immunity and fishing gear, while the second tribe to do so won immunity and a smaller fishing kit.Beauty placed first, with Brains in second. Back at the Brawn camp, Jason and Scot continued to target Alecia. However, Jennifer convinced Alecia and Cydney to form a girls' alliance and target Jason, though she later had second thoughts. At Tribal Council, Jennifer revealed that there had been multiple plans floating around, which alarmed Jason and Scot. After being questioned, Jennifer outed the girls' plan to vote Jason out and blamed Alecia, who denied it. Ultimately, Alecia, Cydney and Jason decided Jennifer couldn't be trusted, and she was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Though she was spared again at Tribal Council, Alecia was still on the outs of the Brawn tribe. She found a clue to the hidden immunity idol, which she shared with Cydney, but Cydney secretly tipped off Jason and Scot, and all four raced to claim the idol for themselves. With Scot's help, Jason snatched the key to unlock the idol. At the Beauty camp, Tai also retrieved the key to unlock his tribe's hidden immunity idol; Jason, Scot and Tai discovered that two hidden immunity idols could be combined into a \"super idol\" that could be played after the votes are read at Tribal Council.\nLater at the Beauty camp, Tai reluctantly helped kill one of their chickens, but was comforted by the rest of his tribe except for Nick, who offered no empathy. Nick's attitude set the girls against him, and Anna asked Caleb to join up with the girls to vote Nick out. On Brains, Liz and Peter decided to betray their initial alliance with Aubry and Neal, who they perceived as bigger threats and less loyal than Debbie and Joe. However, Debbie and Joe disapproved of Liz and Peter's arrogance, and aligned with Aubry and Neal against them.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: The tribes jumped off a platform and swam out to a boat, where they retrieved three bags of rice. They then pushed the bags through a hole in a wooden gate, then went back to the beach through a balance beam. After retrieving three balls from the rice bags, they used them to navigate a vertical maze. The first two tribes to get all three balls to the top of the maze won immunity; the first-place tribe also won a choice between comfort items, including pillows and blankets, or items from home, with the other option going to the second-place tribe.Beauty placed first, while Brawn beat Brains by mere inches to win their first challenge. Back at the Brains camp, Liz and Peter planned to eliminate Neal for being the biggest perceived threat to them. Though they conspired with Debbie and Joe to split the votes between Aubry and Neal in case of an idol, Debbie and Joe didn't trust them, and told Aubry and Neal of the plan. At Tribal Council, Peter revealed the plan to eliminate Neal but, when the votes were revealed, they were tied two apiece between Aubry, Liz, and Peter. On the revote, Liz was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":4,"episode_summary":"After Liz's elimination, Peter vowed to turn on his Brains tribe-mates once the tribes were swapped or merged.\n\nReward challenge: The tribes dug themselves under a log and then raced to a sandpit, where they dug up three bags of balls; one tribe-mate then rolled the balls up a ramp. The first tribe to roll their balls into the six slots won a kitchen set including pots, spices and coffee, while the second-place tribe won a smaller kitchen set.After the tribes dug in the grueling heat for nearly an hour, the Brains tribe placed first, with Beauty in second. During the challenge, Debbie was treated for heat stroke and exhaustion, but recovered. Following the challenge, Caleb and Cydney were also treated for this; Caleb was medically evacuated from the game after his heart rate continued to drop. Back at the Brawn camp, Alecia confronted Scot for telling her to \"keep cheerleading\" during the challenge, which further alienated her from her tribe-mates. \n\nImmunity challenge: Two tribe-mates raced into the jungle and climbed up a ladder to retrieve puzzle pieces; the two other tribe-mates swam out into the ocean and dived down to retrieve more puzzle pieces. Two tribe-mates then used the pieces to solve a puzzle; the first two tribes to solve the puzzle won immunity.After the Brawn tribe lost yet again, Scot openly claimed that Alecia had no chance of surviving the upcoming Tribal Council. Jeff offered to hold an elimination vote on the spot if the tribe would unanimously agree to it, but Alecia bluntly told Jeff there was no way she would go along with that. Later that night, the tribe carried forward Scot's take that Alecia had no chance, so Jeff wrapped up the discussion quickly and Alecia indeed was voted out unanimously."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Neal found the Brains tribe’s hidden immunity idol. Later that day, the 13 remaining castaways were shuffled by random draw into two tribes of six, with the leftover castaway exiled to the former Brawn camp and joining the tribe who lost the next immunity challenge the day after their Tribal Council. The Chan Loh tribe was Brains Debbie and Neal, Brawns Cydney and Jason, and Beauties Michele and Nick; the Gondol tribe was Brains Aubry, Joe and Peter, Beauties Anna and Tai, and lone Brawn Scot; Julia was exiled. On both tribes, the Brains and Brawn planned to eliminate a Beauty due to Beauty Julia joining the losing tribe. At Gondol, Scot and Tai bonded, as did Cydney and Debbie on Chan Loh.\n\nImmunity challenge: Two members per tribe swam out and retrieved a net with fish-shaped puzzle pieces. Two more members untied the pieces and put them on hooks attached to a beam, then brought the beam to the last two members, who used the pieces to solve a puzzle. The first tribe to solve their puzzle won immunity.Chan Loh won immunity. Back at the Gondol camp, Aubry, Joe and Peter continued their plan to eliminate a Beauty, while Tai and Anna recruited Scot to get rid of Peter for his arrogance; Tai revealed his idol to Anna and Scot, and planned to use it that night to forgo the tie. However, Aubry told Scot that the target was Anna, and Scot—knowing that both Jason and Tai had idols, and that they could be combined—tried to convince Tai not to play his idol. At Tribal Council, Tai listened to Scot, and they joined the Brains to vote Anna out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":6,"episode_summary":"After Anna's elimination, Peter considered betraying fellow former Brains Aubry and Joe, and conspired with Tai to vote Joe out next. At Chan Loh, Debbie tried to align with Nick. Before the reward challenge, Julia officially joined the Gondol tribe.\n\nReward challenge: One tribe-mate swam out to untie thirty buoys; they and three other tribe-mates then brought them back to shore to the final two tribe-mates, who shot them into a basket. The first tribe to get ten buoys into their basket won a picnic.Michele lagged on untying the buoys for Chan Loh, and Gondol won the challenge. Back at camp, Michele—already distraught after her ally Anna's elimination—worried that her performance in the challenge would make her a target, but Debbie assured her that she was safe, and the two aligned against Jason. Nick told Michele not to align with Debbie, but Michele didn't appreciate Nick's patronizing attitude. At Gondol, Peter recruited Julia for his new alliance. Joe, wary of Peter's behavior, confronted him and the two argued.\n\nImmunity challenge: After the tribes ran through an obstacle course, two members used poles to move wooden blocks across a net. The entire tribe then stacked the blocks; the first tribe to build a freestanding stack with all their blocks won immunity.Chan Loh narrowly won immunity. Back at the Gondol camp, Aubry and Joe realized that voting Peter out would cost the former Brains their majority, and realigned with Peter to vote Julia out as to not alienate new allies Scot and Tai. However, after Peter broke the news to Scot and Tai about changing the target from Joe to Julia, they and Julia decided to target Peter instead. To avoid a tie, Julia and Tai tried convincing Aubry that Peter had been targeting her. At Tribal Council, though Aubry initially wrote down Julia's name, she crossed it out and voted for Peter instead, joining Julia, Tai and Scot in sending him out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Back at Gondol, Scot reprimanded Aubry and Joe for being untrustworthy: Joe for voting against Julia and Aubry for changing her vote. The next day, at Chan Loh, Cydney and Jason spotted a bulge in Neal's pocket, and assumed he had a hidden immunity idol. Later that day, the tribes merged. The four remaining Brains (Aubry, Debbie, Joe and Neal) realigned, as did the three Brawn (Cydney, Jason and Scot). Needing six votes to form a majority, both sides courted the Beauties; Tai and Julia quickly joined Scot and the Brawn alliance, while Michele and Nick entertained offers from both sides. To gain Nick's trust, Scot told him and Jason about Tai's idol. Debbie's brazen attempts to align with the Beauties alienated them, and a worried Neal revealed his idol to Aubry, as the two considered using it at the next Tribal Council.\n\nImmunity challenge: Castaways stood on a log while balancing a ball on a wooden disc; after a certain period of time, additional balls were added. The final castaway to remain on their perch with all balls on their disc won immunity.Nick won the challenge; back at camp, he and Michele decided to team up with the Brawn alliance, believing them to be less likely than the Brains to earn the jury's votes at the end of the game. The Brawn-Beauty alliance formulated a plan to split the votes between Aubry and Neal to flush out Neal's idol. However, before Tribal Council, Jeff and a doctor visited the camp to inspect some of the castaways' injuries. Neal was evacuated from the game after the doctor judged that an infected wound on his knee could possibly worsen and affect his joint, and Tribal Council was cancelled. Neal left the game with his hidden immunity idol, and became the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":8,"episode_summary":"After Neal's evacuation, the three remaining Brains — Aubry, Debbie and Joe — tried to find dissent within the seven-person Brawn-Beauty alliance.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of five, the castaways used two stepping poles to transfer one teammate from one platform to another. Then, all five teammates had to fit on a small platform together; the first team to do so won an afternoon of ice cream at camp.Debbie, Julia, Nick, Scot and Tai handily won. Jason and Scot later worried about a women's alliance, and decided to split their alliance's votes between Aubry or Debbie, with Debbie going home. Nick consulted with Julia to ensure there was no women's alliance but Cydney overheard, and ratted him out to Jason and Scot. Though Cydney and Jason tried to talk it over, Cydney felt untrusted.\n\nImmunity challenge: Castaways balanced on a narrow perch while holding a handle. If a castaway removed a hand or a foot, they were eliminated; the last castaway remaining won immunity.Five minutes in, host Jeff Probst offered food to anyone willing to drop out of the challenge; Jason, Joe, Michele and Scot took the offer. Nick publicly admitted that he felt safe and that a Brain would be going home that night, and dropped out immediately once all the Brains had been eliminated. Tai defeated Cydney to win immunity. Back at camp, Nick told Aubry to vote against Debbie, but Cydney decided to rally the women against Nick. However, the Beauty girls, Michele and Julia, debated between remaining with the Beauty-Brawn alliance or joining the other women. At Tribal Council, Tai accidentally revealed that two idols could be combined to form a super idol, which increased suspicion on the Brawn-Beauty men. Tai then deviated from the plan and voted against Jason, while the five women and Joe united to send Nick to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Back at camp, the minority alliance of Jason, Scot and Tai regrouped, and Jason and Tai officially revealed their idols to each other. As revenge for Nick's blindside, Jason and Scot hid the tribe's axe and machete and extinguished the fire; Tai was uncomfortable with the sabotage, and the other tribe-mates were able to recover.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of four, each team were tied together to a rope; after unspooling themselves, they unclipped themselves from the rope and threw sandbags at a series of blocks. The first team to knock all their blocks off the ledge earned a Chinese food lunch.The tribe took Jeff's offer to choose their own teams. Julia chose to join the minority alliance's team, while Joe opted to sit out; he predicted that Aubry, Cydney, Debbie and Michele would win, and would enjoy the reward with the winners if he was correct. Jason, Julia, Tai and Scot won the challenge. Julia's choice made the other girls suspicious of her; during the reward feast, Julia admitted that she wanted to work with the men, believing she had a better chance to defeat them at the end of the game. Though Debbie thought Julia was loyal, Aubry and Cydney disagreed, and considered voting Julia out. Aubry told Debbie that voting Julia out would circumvent the idols, but Debbie refused to target Julia. Tai decided to join his alliance in sabotaging the tribe, and doused the fire. \n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways placed blocks in a line while avoiding ropes that would topple the tiles that were already placed. Once all of the blocks were properly stacked, the castaway would start a domino effect that would drop the last tile on a platform at the other end. The first castaway to do so won immunity.Julia won the challenge, thwarting Aubry and Cydney's plan. Debbie told all the women, including Julia, to split the votes between Scot and Tai, with Scot as the main target. Julia then told Scot the plan, and he told her to vote against Cydney. Perturbed by Debbie's volatility, Aubry and Cydney decided to target her, and tried to recruit Joe and Michele; Michele agreed, but Joe did not. Needing one more vote, the women then tried to recruit Julia instead. At Tribal Council, Jason and Tai revealed their idols, and Jason said that he and Scot would play rock-paper-scissors to determine who between the two would play it that night. Scot won rock-paper-scissors, but he and Jason gave it to Tai instead, who didn't play either idol. Ultimately, Julia joined Aubry, Cydney, and Michele in voting Debbie out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Tai returned Jason's idol. The next day, the minority alliance of Jason, Scot and Tai stopped sabotaging the camp in order to gain allies; Scot apologized to Aubry, and tried to recruit her to eliminate Cydney for dismantling the Brawn-Beauty alliance, but she was noticeably hesitant.\n\nReward challenge: Contestants used one leg to balance a stack of pots on a teeter-totter, competing only against those vying for the same reward of three choices: a letter from home; a hamburger, fries, cookies and beer; or an advantage in the game.Julia beat Joe to win a letter from home and Michele outlasted Scot and Jason for the meal. Tai defeated Cydney and Aubry for the advantage: an extra vote at any Tribal Council of his choice up until the final five. Playing both sides, Julia proposed to Aubry and Michele that they vote against Tai to flush out his idol. Aubry, suspicious of Julia, asked Tai to join forces instead, but when Tai revealed this to his allies, they changed their target to Aubry; Tai felt alienated from his alliance and reconsidered his loyalties.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways held weighted discs against structures to either side of them using only their fingertips. The last castaway remaining won immunity.Jason defeated Aubry to win immunity; back at camp, he gave Scot his hidden immunity idol, and they and Tai planned to form the super idol that night. Julia told Scot and Jason about the plan to flush Tai's idol, and the three planned to betray Tai later on as they felt he was unbeatable with the jury. However, Aubry — wanting to work with Tai and not Julia — recruited Cydney and Joe to switch the target to Scot instead; needing one more vote, she propositioned Tai, who weighed both options. At Tribal Council, Tai voted against Scot; Scot received the most votes and was eliminated after Tai refused to form the super idol, joining the jury with Jason's idol in his pocket."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":11,"episode_summary":"After eliminating Scot and taking out Jason's idol, the new majority alliance of Aubry, Cydney, Joe and Tai celebrated their victory, with Jason as their next target, while a confused Julia and Michele lamented being left out of the plan. The next day, Tai tried to rationalize his betrayal to Jason, explaining that he was afraid that he and Scot were going to betray him, but it failed to diffuse Jason's anger.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into pairs and tethered together at the waist, the teams raced through an obstacle course to retrieve three rings. The first pair to throw the rings onto a hook won a helicopter ride followed by a picnic.The pairs were divided by random draw; Jason did not compete. Cydney and Michele narrowly defeated Joe and Tai, and brought Aubry with them on the reward. On the reward, Michele tried to reintegrate with her old alliance, and Aubry and Cydney discussed teaming up with Michele to eliminate Tai for being too likable and powerful, but only once Jason and Julia were gone. At camp, Jason and Julia plotted to recruit Cydney and Michele to eliminate Tai at the next Tribal Council.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways raced out to a platform that featured a series of symbols with corresponding numbers. They then raced back to their stations and used the numbers that corresponded with the symbols provided to select one of eight keys; the correct key would unlock a series of puzzle pieces with letters on them. The first castaway to spell the correct word won immunity.Michele beat Julia to win immunity. Back at camp, the majority alliance — Michele included — chose to target Julia over Jason for her challenge and social prowess, but Cydney and Michele later debated between voting against Julia or Tai. At Tribal Council, a nervous Tai considered playing his idol; ultimately, Tai kept it, and Cydney and Michele voted against Julia, sending her to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":12,"episode_summary":"After Julia's elimination, Tai revealed his advantage to Aubry and Joe, while sole outsider Jason urged Cydney and Michele to think about taking him to the end over Aubry or Tai. Michele hoped that, by voting out her closest ally in Julia, she had gained trust within her alliance, but Tai considered blindsiding Michele for her likability.\n\nReward challenge: Separated into groups of three, castaways raced one by one through a water obstacle course to reach a large, floating table maze. Once all members of the team were present, the castaways untied a ball and, using only themselves as balance points, manoeuvred it into the centre of the maze. First team to lodge all three balls won a picnic and a trip to a local sanctuary to visit rescued animals.Jason, Michele and Tai won the challenge. On the trip, Jason's positive attitude strengthened Tai's resolve to eliminate Michele. At camp, Joe's bossy demeanour irritated Cydney.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways held a rope attached to an unbalanced table to keep the table level, while maneuvering between two platforms retrieving and stacking blocks with letters on them; if their stack dropped, they had to restart. The first castaway to stack all eight blocks in correct order, spelling \"IMMUNITY\", won the challenge.Cydney won the challenge. Back at camp, Tai reinforced his desire to vote Michele out; though Aubry agreed, Cydney didn't appreciate Tai's brusque attitude, and she revealed his scheme to Michele. At Tribal Council, Tai claimed Michele was at the bottom of their alliance; he used his extra vote advantage to vote against Michele twice, but the rest of his alliance abandoned his plan and sent Jason to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":13,"episode_summary":"After Jason's elimination, Tai tried to make amends with his alliance after he was left out of the plan, and confronted Aubry about her betrayal.\n\nReward challenge: Castaways raced to a wooden ladder in the jungle to retrieve sandbags, and then raced back to a series of targets. They then launched the sandbags into the targets; once a castaway ran out of sandbags, they had to wait until all others ran out before retrieving them. The first castaway to launch a sandbag into each of their five targets won an overnight trip to a spa, where they enjoyed a feast.After everyone else ran out of sandbags, Joe took his time and won the challenge with his final toss. He chose Aubry to join him on the trip; when given the chance to bring another castaway, Joe deferred to Aubry, who picked Cydney. On the trip, Joe proposed a final three alliance, and claimed that Aubry would automatically win against him and Cydney; Aubry privately realized that Cydney was a bigger threat to win than Tai, and considered betraying her. Back at camp, Michele and Tai attempted to reconnect, and the two decided to team up against Aubry. However, after returning to camp the next morning, Aubry reconciled with Tai, and the two decided to go to the end with Joe, while Cydney and Michele teamed up against Aubry and Joe. Joe began feeling ill as a result of the previous day's feasting; after his condition kept worsening, the medical team withdrew him from the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Having lost Joe and, as a result, their majority alliance, Aubry and Tai decided to target Michele for her close personal relationships with the jurors, while Cydney and Michele targeted Tai.\n\nReward challenge: The castaways crawled through a net and slid tiles down a shuffleboard, then balanced the tiles on a machete through an obstacle course; once all the tiles were through, the castaway used them to solve a combination lock. The winning castaway won a protein-rich meal.Aubry won the challenge, and chose to share her reward with Cydney to ensure Michele lost the next immunity challenge but while they enjoyed the meal, Michele talked to Tai about breaking up Aubry and Cydney's partnership.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways raced between a platform in the ocean and a tower to retrieve three keys to unlock the two higher levels of the tower and then a bag of puzzle pieces. The first castaway to solve the puzzle won immunity.Michele came from behind to win the challenge, narrowly beating Tai. Aubry changed her target to Cydney and pled with Tai to vote with her and force a tie, while Michele and Cydney proposed getting rid of Aubry as the best likely speaker in front of the jury. At Tribal Council, Tai voted against Cydney, forcing a tie between her and Aubry. Aubry defeated Cydney in the fire-making tiebreaker to make Cydney the final member of the jury. The tree mail on Day 38 hinted at a final two, but Aubry, Michele and Tai were shocked when Jeff announced that they had made the final three and no one would be voted out that night; and that instead of immunity, the challenge would be played for the right to vote out a jury member at Tribal Council that night.\n\nReward challenge: The castaways balanced on an unstable beam while using a forked pole to stack balls and stands. The first castaway to stack all six balls won the power to eliminate a juror.Michele narrowly defeated Aubry to win the challenge. She considered eliminating Joe for his unfaltering loyalty to Aubry, Neal for his loyalty to Aubry and persuasiveness, or Scot for being the victim of Tai's biggest move in the game. At Tribal Council, the jury members were surprised that no one had immunity, and received another shock when Michele revealed the juror removal twist to them. In the end, Michele chose to remove Neal from the jury.\nThe next night, at the final Tribal Council, Tai was criticized for his erratic gameplay and misplaying his advantages, Aubry was praised for her transformation throughout the game, and Michele was reprimanded for coasting through the beginning of the game but was praised for working her way back into the majority after being left out of Scot's elimination."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US32","episode":15,"episode_summary":"A year later, at the live reunion, Michele was awarded the title of Sole Survivor with Debbie, Scot, Julia, Jason, and Cydney's votes, Aubry placed second with votes from Nick and Joe, and Tai placed third after receiving no votes to win. After the reveal of the final vote, the castaways discussed the season with host Jeff Probst. During Tai's discussion about his kindness to animals especially the relationship with Mark the Chicken, Sia made a surprise appearance and announced that she is donating $50,000 to Tai and another $50,000 to the charity of his choice."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The 20 new players were divided into two tribes of 10 based on age: those 33 and older formed the Gen X tribe, while those 31 and younger formed the Millennials tribe. Immediately, the tribes were given a few minutes to grab supplies scattered in the jungle. During the scramble, Jessica from the Gen X tribe found an envelope. At camp, she learned that she had found a \"legacy advantage,\" which would give her an unspecified advantage in the game on Day 36; if she were voted out before then, she would privately will it to someone else following her elimination. Both tribes had difficulties setting up their camps due to a severe storm, even after being given tarps for assistance and shelter. After the storm was upgraded to a cyclone, both tribes were evacuated to a safe location for the night, and returned to their camps the following morning.\nAt the Millennials camp, Zeke led the tribe in building the shelter and making fire. Taylor flirted with Figgy and bonded with Jay; the three aligned, and later added Michelle to their alliance. However, Hannah and Mari were wary of Taylor's alliance and Mari began rallying her other tribemates against them. At the Gen X camp, Rachel's bossiness annoyed her tribemates while David struggled with camp setup; his paranoia led to him searching for a hidden immunity idol, which caused his tribe to distrust him.\n\nReward/immunity Challenge: The castaways completed an obstacle course; at two points in the challenge, each tribe could opt to take a \"shortcut\" to make a portion easier. After completing the obstacle course, two tribemates solved a puzzle; the difficulty of the puzzle increased with each additional shortcut taken. The first tribe to complete their puzzle won immunity and fire in the form of flint.The Gen X tribe took both shortcuts while the Millennials took one; while the Gen X tribe completed the obstacle course first, they lost their lead after David and Rachel struggled on the puzzle, and the Millennials won immunity. Back at camp, an alliance of Bret, Chris, Jessica, Lucy, Paul, and Sunday formed, and—following an impassioned plea of loyalty from David—they decided to target Rachel. At Tribal Council, David, Ken and the majority alliance of six split their votes between Rachel and her only ally, CeCe, in case of a hidden immunity idol; no idols were played, and Rachel became the first castaway voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At the Gen X camp, David managed to make fire, but both Chris and Paul targeted him for elimination; however, David was able to find the tribe's hidden immunity idol. David later showed Ken the idol, and the two aligned with CeCe against Paul. Paul fell ill from heat exhaustion but, following a visit from the medical team, was cleared to remain in the game. At the Millennials camp, Taylor and Figgy's mutual attraction continued, but Michaela overheard the two kissing and outed them the next morning; this alarmed Jay, Figgy and Taylor's closest ally. Michaela and Figgy proceeded to argue.\n\nReward/immunity challenge: One at a time, five tribe members swam out to a platform in the water; as they jumped off, they grabbed a key. After all five keys were gathered, the other four competing tribemates used the keys to unlock a diving mask, and then took turns diving down and unlocking five rings in the water. Then, two of the divers threw the rings onto a series of targets; the first tribe to get a ring on all five of their targets won immunity and a tarp.The Gen X tribe won immunity. Back at camp, Zeke worked to break up Figgy and Taylor, telling his other tribemates to vote out Figgy. Jay alerted Michelle, and they decided to target Mari for her intelligence: Michelle recruited Will, and Figgy and Michaela made amends. During Tribal Council, Jay and Michelle quietly tried convincing Hannah to change her vote to Mari; after much noticeable hesitation, Hannah joined the new majority and cast her vote against Mari, who became the second person voted out, leaving Adam and Zeke in shock."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":3,"episode_summary":"After switching her vote to eliminate Mari, Hannah apologized to Adam and Zeke and expressed a desire to still work with them, but they were frustrated with her for refusing to leave them alone after betraying them. The next day, both tribes were instructed to send four representatives, chosen by random draw, to a summit: Figgy, Jay, Taylor and Will went for the Millennials, while CeCe, Chris, David and Paul went for the Gen X tribe. After the eight feasted, CeCe and David privately chatted with Figgy and Taylor, telling them that Paul was their tribe's leader; David later pledged loyalty to Taylor if they ever ended up on a tribe together, and vowed to turn against his Gen X tribemates. After returning to camp, Figgy and her allies decided to target Zeke while Adam tried convincing Michaela to rejoin her initial alliance and split up Figgy and Taylor, which she considered. At the Gen X camp, the minority alliance of CeCe, David, and Ken continued to campaign against Paul.\n\nReward/immunity challenge: Five tribemates carried 40-pound bags filled with coconuts and sandbags through an obstacle course, and then transported them across a balance beam. Then, two tribemates separated the sandbags from the coconuts and threw the sandbags at a series of puzzle blocks on a table. After clearing their table, the last two tribemates then reassembled the puzzle. The first tribe to do so won immunity, blankets, pillows, a hammock and two lounge chairs.After CeCe struggled on the balance beam, the Millennials gained a lead that they were able to maintain to win the challenge. Back at camp, the majority alliance targeted CeCe; however, after Paul made an offhand comment to Jessica about how he would align with men over women, the women in his alliance—Jessica, Lucy, and Sunday—considered voting him out. At Tribal Council, they joined the minority alliance to eliminate Paul from the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":4,"episode_summary":"The morning after Tribal Council, Lucy told Chris and Bret that betraying Paul was Jessica's idea, and Chris, Bret, Lucy and Sunday targeted Jessica for being untrustworthy. While his Millennials tribemates hunted for food, Adam looked for the hidden immunity idol and found a clue to its location.\n\nReward challenge: Two members per tribe raced to retrieve a ring in the water; a tribe scored a point when one of their members had one hand on the ring and one hand on their tribe's starting pole. The first tribe to score three points won steaks, sausages, spices, and vegetables.The Gen X tribe won the challenge in the fifth round. At the Millennials camp, Adam found the hidden immunity idol. At the Gen X camp, Lucy told David and Ken that Jessica was the next target, but demanded that they not talk to anyone else about the plan; Ken did not appreciate Lucy's bossiness and considered making a move against her.\n\nImmunity challenge: Three tribemates, one at a time, raced through a series of obstacles to a chair, where five other tribemates used a pulley system to lift them across a vertical structure to retrieve ten puzzle pieces. Once all thirty pieces were retrieved, the three retrievers used them to solve a word puzzle. The first tribe to do so won immunity.After 45 minutes on the puzzle, the Millennials won the challenge. Back at the Gen X camp, CeCe, David, and Ken tried to rally support against Lucy, but Ken was unable to convince Jessica that Lucy was targeting her. Jessica discussed Ken's claims with Lucy and was further dissuaded after Lucy told her to vote against CeCe. Ken and Lucy later argued: Ken about Lucy's attitude and Lucy about Ken's attempts to vote her out. David considered playing his idol on Jessica to secure her as an ally, which would put his alliance with CeCe and Ken in the majority. After an argumentative Tribal Council, Ken joined Bret, Chris, Lucy and Sunday in voting against Jessica while Jessica voted against CeCe. However, David played his hidden immunity idol on Jessica, nullifying the five votes against her and sending Lucy out of the game with David and CeCe's votes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":5,"episode_summary":"After David played his hidden immunity idol to save Jessica, she vowed to be loyal to David and Ken and told Ken about her legacy advantage. The next morning, the Gen X tribe looked for the rehidden immunity idol, which David found. Later that day, the castaways were redistributed into three tribes: CeCe, Chris, David, Michelle and Zeke formed the Vanua tribe, at the Millennials camp; Adam, Figgy, Jessica, Ken and Taylor formed the Takali tribe, at the Gen X camp; and Bret, Hannah, Jay, Michaela, Sunday and Will formed the Ikabula tribe, receiving an extra member due to having to build a camp from scratch. \nAt Takali, Figgy implored Taylor to hide their romance from their new tribemates, while Adam and Ken bonded. At Vanua, Chris and Zeke bonded over their mutual home state of Oklahoma, and Chris's experience playing on the 2000 Oklahoma Sooners football team. At Ikabula, Gen X-ers Bret and Sunday struggled to integrate with the Millennial majority, and Michaela made fire for the tribe.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways dove underwater to retrieve buoys. Once all five buoys were retrieved, the tribe then threw the buoys into a basket on a floating platform; they also had the option to throw a hook onto the platform to drag it closer. The first two tribes to land all five buoys in their basket won immunity.After CeCe and David struggled to secure their buoys, Vanua lost the challenge. Back at camp, the Gen X majority of CeCe, Chris and David chose to target Michelle over Zeke, but Chris decided to join the Millennials to target CeCe instead for her poor challenge performances. Chris told David about the plan in an attempt to engender trust, which David agreed to. However, after a paranoid Michelle tried to convince CeCe to target David, David realized that he would be the weakest member of the tribe once CeCe was gone and considered using his new idol to save CeCe, but at Tribal Council, David kept with Chris' plan and CeCe was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":6,"episode_summary":"At Ikabula, Jay and Will found the hidden immunity idol, but were caught by Michaela. As the tribes assembled for the reward challenge, Figgy expressed joy upon discovering that her ally Michelle had not been voted out.\n\nReward challenge: Three tribemates were blindfolded while a fourth directed them through a course to retrieve a series of puzzle pieces. Once all the pieces were retrieved, one of their blindfolded tribemates—as directed by their caller—completed the puzzle. The first tribe to finish their puzzle won pie, cookies, brownies, milk and iced tea, while the second tribe won a plate of cookies.Vanua placed first while Ikabula placed second. Hannah suffers a panic attack while sitting out but is cleared to continue. Back at Vanua, Zeke considered targeting Michelle due to Figgy's comments before the challenge. At Takali, Figgy and Taylor decided to tell Jessica and Ken about their relationship.\n\nImmunity challenge: Two tribemates raced through a series of balance beams to retrieve three bags of coconuts each. A third tribemate then opened the bags to retrieve three billiard balls, and then joined another tribemate to navigate the three balls through a labyrinth. The first two tribes to land all three balls at the end of the table won immunity.Michaela's leadership led Ikabula to victory; she then coached Zeke and Michelle, which allowed them to win the challenge for Vanua. Back at Takali, Adam found himself caught between staying loyal to the Millennials by voting with Figgy and Taylor against Ken, or breaking up the relationship by voting with Jessica and Ken against Figgy. Ultimately, at Tribal Council, Adam cast the deciding vote against Figgy, sending her out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":7,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Adam talked to Taylor about betraying him and eliminating Figgy, but Taylor still plotted revenge. At Vanua, David told Zeke that he trusts him more than Chris and showed him his hidden immunity idol in order to secure his loyalty.\n\nReward challenge: The tribes maneuvered three balls through a series of obstacles, and then threw them on top of a wooden structure. The first tribe to get all three balls on top of their structure won a steak lunch cooked by a professional chef, while the second tribe to finish won a plate of kabobs.Vanua placed first and Ikabula placed second. At Takali, Jessica and Ken considered betraying Adam for the less-strategic Taylor. At Ikabula, Bret continued to lie about his occupation—claiming he was a funeral director instead of a police officer—but Hannah and Jay were suspicious, correctly deducing that he was a cop. \n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways threw coconuts into a basket; once enough coconuts were in the basket, a scale would tip releasing three two-digit numbers; one tribemate would then use the numbers to solve a combination lock and unlock a slingshot. The castaways would then use the slingshot to launch sandbags at targets; the first two tribes to hit all five of their targets won immunity.Takali and Vanua won the challenge, sending Ikabula to their first Tribal Council. Michaela rallied the Millennials together to split the votes between Bret and Sunday, with Bret leaving on the revote. However, Michaela's long-term plans alarmed Jay and Will, who worried about her impressive strategic mind and challenge performances, and considered voting her out to eliminate a major threat to win. At Tribal Council, Jay and Will teamed up with Bret and Sunday to blindside Michaela from the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":8,"episode_summary":"After being left out of the plan to eliminate Michaela, Hannah felt on the outs of the Ikabula tribe. The next morning, the three tribes merged into one, Vinaka, and enjoyed a celebratory feast. Jay, Michelle and Taylor reformed the core Millennial alliance along with Will, Jay's closest ally from Ikabula; David reunited with Ken and Jessica, as did Chris with Bret and Sunday, while Millennial outsiders Adam, Hannah and Zeke teamed up. \nWhile the tribe feasted, Adam found an advantage: the ability to steal a reward from another player following a reward challenge. Later that night, Taylor stashed food from the feast, but was overheard by several others; as Taylor snacked, Adam came over in an attempt to align, telling Taylor about his advantage and targeting Will, telling Taylor that Will was Jay's new closest ally. However, out of revenge for Adam voting out Figgy, Taylor told Jay about Adam's plan. Jay then told Will, and the two decided to target Adam; however, they were overheard by Zeke.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways balanced on a narrow perch with their hands above their heads, shackled to a bar attached to a bucket of water. If the bar was pulled downward, the bucket would drop and the castaway would be eliminated from the challenge; the last player remaining won immunity.After an hour-and-a-half, Will outlasted Jessica to win immunity, foiling Adam's plan. Chris, David and Zeke—allies from the Vanua tribe—brought their factions together against the core Millennial alliance; while Zeke wanted to target Taylor, David and Chris suggested voting against Michelle as the least-likely to have a hidden immunity idol. Shortly before Tribal Council, a paranoid Adam again talked to Taylor about aligning, which alarmed Adam's allies. However, at Tribal Council, the Millennial outsider-Gen X coalition kept to their plan, and Michelle became the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":9,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, the minority alliance of Jay, Taylor and Will tried to recruit more allies; despite being in opposing alliances, Adam and Taylor promised to protect each others' secrets—Adam about Taylor's food stash and Taylor about Adam's reward-stealing advantage—and Jay reconciled with Hannah.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of six, four teammates raced through an obstacle course to retrieve a key to unlock a box; they then dragged the box through the rest of the course. At the end, one teammate used a machete to open the box to release five bolas, which the two other teammates then threw onto a target; the first team to get all five bolas on their target won a cheeseburger lunch at a poolside resort.Bret, Chris, David, Ken, Sunday and Taylor won the challenge. On the trip, Sunday reflected on her lack of trust in David, Jessica and Ken. At camp, Jay tried talking to Adam, but Adam taunted Jay about Jay being in the minority alliance; after Jay told Adam's allies about his comments, they considered betraying him. The next day, Sunday and Bret discussed targeting Jessica; Sunday recruited Jay, who promised support from his alliance members Taylor and Will.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways balanced a ball on a wooden bow while standing on a slanted, increasingly narrow beam, moving farther down as the challenge progressed; if they or the ball fell, they were eliminated. The last castaway remaining won immunity.Ken defeated Taylor to win immunity. Back at camp, the majority alliance decided to split their votes between Jay and Taylor in case of a hidden immunity idol. Sunday realized that her plan to target Jessica was infeasible at that point, and warned Jay. Taylor then told Jay about his stolen food stash and Adam's advantage. Jay encouraged Taylor to tell their tribemates about Adam's advantage in order to spark distrust. At Tribal Council, Taylor falsely claimed that Adam had eaten the food with him, and also revealed Adam's advantage, which Adam confirmed. Ultimately, the majority alliance stayed loyal while the minority alliance turned on each other out of fear; Jay chose not to play his idol and Taylor was voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After Taylor's elimination, Jay returned Taylor's hidden food stash to the tribe, while Will tried building trust with Zeke by telling him about Jay's idol, which Zeke then told his alliance about. Chris, Bret and Sunday decided to turn against David, Jessica and Ken, and targeted Jessica.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of five, the teams stood on a raft and used a rope to pull themselves to an obstacle course, where each teammate retrieved one key. Once on shore, they used the keys to unlock four large cubes with colored sides; the castaways were to stack the cubes such that there would be no repeating colors on each side. The first team to do so won a pizza lunch.Adam, Bret, Hannah, Sunday and Zeke won the challenge. On the reward trip, Bret and Zeke bonded; at camp, David rallied Ken and Jessica against Chris. \n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways used a pole to balance a statue on a ledge while standing on an increasingly narrow beam, moving farther down as the challenge progressed. If they or the statue fell, they were eliminated, and the last castaway remaining won immunity.David defeated Zeke to win immunity. Back at camp, both alliances tried courting Hannah and Zeke, though neither told Jay about their plans in order to goad him into playing his hidden immunity idol. At Tribal Council, Jay chose not to play his idol; he voted against Jessica, but the other Millennials sided with David's alliance to send Chris to the jury.\nAfter Tribal Council, Bret—having lost his closest ally in Chris—tried aligning with Zeke, who suggested they eliminate David for being a strategic threat. The next morning, David tried aligning with Bret against Zeke, but Bret told Zeke about David's plan and Zeke told Bret about David's idol; Zeke then tried recruiting Adam and Hannah but both were hesitant.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into three teams of three, the castaways relay raced through an obstacle course with their hands and feet shackled together; once all three teammates completed their portions of the course, they were unshackled and completed a snake-shaped puzzle. The first team to solve their puzzle won a helicopter tour of Fiji followed by a picnic.Before the challenge, the castaways drew rocks to determine teams; the castaway who drew the white rock earned exemption from the challenge and automatically went on the reward trip with the winners. David drew the white rock, and Bret, Sunday and Zeke won the challenge. On the reward trip, Bret came out to Zeke, and the two and Sunday affirmed their alliance against David. Hannah later told David about Zeke's plan, and the two decided to target Zeke.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways stood behind a cage door and blindly maneuvered the handle through a maze on the other side; after unlocking their door, they completed a slide puzzle. The first castaway to finish their slide puzzle won immunity.Jay won the challenge before anyone else was able to unlock their gate. Back at camp, Jessica and Ken confirmed their allegiance with David, while Zeke talked to Hannah about his plan; after she was visibly reluctant to work against David, Zeke decided to target her instead. He recruited Jay and Will to join him, Bret and Sunday, while Hannah tried recruiting Adam to join her, David, Jessica and Ken, and force a tie. At Tribal Council, David and Zeke's alliances openly quarrelled and whispered amongst themselves about their respective plans. Before the votes were read, David stood up to play his hidden immunity idol, but decided to play it for Ken after Adam claimed that he overheard Zeke's alliance planning to vote for him. Adam joined David's alliance in voting against Zeke, but Zeke's alliance voted against Hannah, and the vote was tied. \nDuring the revote, Zeke openly asked Jessica to switch sides to avoid a deadlocked tie, but everyone stayed loyal and the votes were tied again. Per the rules, the non-tied castaways were given a few minutes to come to a unanimous decision as to whom to eliminate between Hannah and Zeke, but they were unable to do so. As a result, the non-tied and non-immune castaways drew rocks; the castaway who drew the black rock was eliminated. Jessica drew the black rock and was sent to the jury; after her elimination, she privately chose to give her legacy advantage to Ken."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":11,"episode_summary":"After a heated Tribal Council, Zeke's now-majority alliance with Bret, Jay, Sunday and Will solidified a deal to pick off David's alliance one by one. The next morning, Ken found the legacy advantage that Jessica had left for him. Before the reward challenge, the castaways were joined by their loved ones: Sunday's husband, Jeff; Bret's father, Don; Jay's sister, Melanie; Hannah's mother, Liz; Adam's brother, Evan; David's father, Doug; Ken's brother, William; Zeke's father, Sam; and Will's mother, Irene. Adam told his tribemates that he would not use his reward stealing advantage to deprive the challenge winner of time with their loved one.\n\nReward challenge: The castaways were attached to a rope threaded through a series of obstacles; the first castaway to finish the course won a private barbeque lunch back at camp with their loved one.Jay won the challenge and chose to share his reward with Will, Sunday, Adam and their loved ones. Adam's brother shared information about their mother's battle with cancer. To show his gratitude to Jay for sharing the reward with him, Adam gave Jay the reward stealer. The next day, Will told David that he was willing to change allegiances and eliminate Zeke for being a strategic threat.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways used two metal handles to hold a metal bar in tension above a tile; the last castaway holding their bar won immunity.Adam defeated Jay to win the challenge. Back at camp, David's alliance, with the addition of Will, targeted Zeke. Zeke, suspicious of David's calm demeanor, decided to target Ken out of fear that David had found another hidden immunity idol. Will told Ken that Zeke's alliance was voting against him, and a paranoid Ken outed Will's duplicity, putting both alliance's plans in disarray. At Tribal Council, both alliances openly vied for Will's vote. Zeke's alliance voted against Hannah, but Will decided to betray them; Adam played his hidden immunity idol on Hannah, negating the four votes against her, while Zeke was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":12,"episode_summary":"After Zeke's elimination, Will was determined to keep changing allegiances to eliminate threats and prove he deserved to win the game. The next morning, Bret and Sunday approached Adam about aligning to eliminate David, Jay and Will.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways transported ten discs across an obstacle course and then rolled them down a ramp into a slot. The first castaway to get all ten discs in their slot won immunity.Jay won the challenge. Back at camp, Jay and Will tried rallying people against David, but Adam targeted Will for his strategic unpredictability; at Tribal Council, Bret and Sunday joined Adam, David, Hannah and Ken to eliminate Will from the game.\nWith the last of his allies gone, Jay tried aligning with Adam; they discussed targeting David, but Adam was still hoping to eliminate Jay.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways dropped a ball down a bean machine and worked on a puzzle as it rolled down; if they failed to grab the ball as it exited the board, they had to take a time penalty before launching the ball again. The first castaway to solve their puzzle won immunity.Ken won the challenge after Adam gave him advice on the puzzle to prevent David and Jay from winning. Jay targeted David while David's alliance decided to target Sunday to hinder her alliance members from bringing her to the end of the game as a perceived easy opponent in the jury vote. However, Adam plotted to split the votes between David and Jay to eliminate both Jay's idol and a major threat to win; he told Jay to play his idol, and confided in him about his mother's cancer battle. Before Tribal Council, Hannah tried to convince Adam to vote against Sunday in order to keep their alliance strong. At Tribal Council, Jay played his hidden immunity idol but only received one vote, while Adam and Hannah stayed loyal to David and Ken and sent Sunday to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":13,"episode_summary":"In the middle of the night, David crafted a fake hidden immunity idol, and hid it in a marked coconut; the next morning, Jay spotted and retrieved it, believing it to be real. Ken discovered that the legacy advantage was immunity for that night's Tribal Council, to be played after the votes were cast but before they were read.\n\nReward/immunity challenge: The castaways raced through an obstacle course while collecting a bag of puzzle pieces. Using the numbers on the pieces, they solved a combination lock to release a key that would unlock a second set of puzzle pieces to complete a hanging bat puzzle at the end. The first castaway to solve their puzzle won immunity and a steak lunch for them and two other castaways.David won the challenge, but Jay used the reward stealer to choose the reward participants; he picked David for winning the challenge and Adam for giving him the reward stealer. During the meal, Jay campaigned against Bret for his connections on the jury, and David considered keeping Jay in the game to deflect attention from himself as a threat to win. At Tribal Council, Jay played the fake idol while Ken played the legacy advantage on himself. Jeff tossed the fake idol into the fire pit after declaring that it was not a hidden immunity idol, though he called it \"a work of art but has no value in this game\". Jay's vote against Ken was negated, while everyone else came together to send Jay out of the game.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways moved a buoy along a rope through obstacles in the water. Upon reaching shore, they transported puzzle pieces across a teeter-totter and then used the pieces to solve a word puzzle; first to do so won immunity.Ken won the challenge. Adam and Bret decided to target David; Adam then searched for a hidden immunity idol, which he found. David, Hannah and Ken affirmed their final three deal and decided to target Adam for being a larger threat than Bret to win the final challenge. Adam then told Hannah about his new idol and plan to eliminate David, but Hannah told David and Ken. At Tribal Council, Adam played the idol on himself, but Hannah, David and Ken voted against Bret to send him to the jury.\nBack at camp, a frustrated Adam told Hannah that, if David made it to the final tribal council, he would win the game; though she had repeatedly spared David, she agreed with Adam and promised to vote against David the next night.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways used a long pole to maneuver a series of wooden bowls around a metal rod structure; they would then balance the bowls on the top of the structure. The spring-mounted structure would sway from the wind or if bumped, which could topple the stack of bowls. The player with the most bowls after thirty minutes or the first to stack thirteen bowls on top won immunity.After 30 minutes, Hannah and Ken were tied with 10 bowls each; they then competed in a five-minute runoff, which Ken won. With David vulnerable at that night's vote, Adam and Hannah tried convincing Ken—David's closest ally since the start of the game—to betray David. Though Ken was hesitant, he ultimately joined Adam and Hannah in voting David out at Tribal Council, making David the final member of the jury.\nThe next night, the ten jurors questioned Adam, Hannah and Ken about why they deserved to win. All three were lambasted—Ken for not turning on David until it was too late; Adam for being on the wrong side of several votes; and Hannah for foiling earlier plans to eliminate David despite his status as a threat to win—while Adam was praised for making decisive strategic decisions, though both Hannah and Ken defended their roles in making those decisions. In his final answer of the night, Adam emotionally revealed his mom's cancer diagnosis and how it motivated him to play."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US33","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Months later, it was revealed that the jury unanimously voted to award Adam the title of Sole Survivor over Hannah and Ken. During the reunion, Adam revealed that his mother died an hour after he returned home from the game, and pledged to donate $100,000 of his winnings to cancer research. Several contestants spoke of their personal transformations during the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":1,"episode_summary":"Jeff welcomed the 18 new castaways to the 35th season of Survivor. He explained to them that they have been divided into three tribes based on the positive traits most associated with them by others: Heroes, Healers, and Hustlers. \n\nReward Challenge: On the beach nearby, each tribe has an urn which is on fire and is 15 feet in the air. Each tribe is allowed to gather as many supplies as they can until Jeff rings the bell on the boat. Then, each tribe must get all six members on their boat and paddle to the beach. When they get to shore, they must lift one person high enough to light their torch. The first tribe to light their torch wins fire in the form of a massive fire making kit that will be waiting for them back at their camp. The second tribe to light their torch will win flint. The losers will go back to camp with no fire-making tools.During the challenge, Ryan found a secret advantage. The Healers and Heroes came in first and second respectively, while the Hustlers went completely off course. The Healers tribe had no problem creating fire with their kit, while Jessica developed an attraction towards Cole. The next day, Mike decided to look for a hidden immunity idol, but Joe became suspicious of Mike's absence and confronted him over what he had been doing. At the Heroes tribe, a majority formed among Alan, Ashley, Ben, and JP, but Alan was at odds with Ashley and JP over their closer bond, calling them a \"power couple\" before accusing JP of having an idol. At the Hustlers tribe, Patrick and Ali aligned, while Ryan learned his \"secret advantage\" was a \"super immunity idol\" that could be played after the votes were read. This advantage could only be used at the first Tribal Council, meaning he would have to anonymously will it to someone on the losing tribe if his tribe won immunity. Ryan informed Devon of this advantage and offered to use it on him in the event they end up at Tribal Council, forming a final 2 deal.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways will race up a cargo net to the top of a tower. Each tribe will then pull a heavy cart up the tower, then hop in and quickly roll down to the bottom. At the bottom will be three different table mazes. The first tribe to reach the mazes will get first choice of which maze they want to tackle. The second tribe will get to choose between the remaining two mazes. The last tribe will be left with the maze that remains. Next, they will work together as a tribe to get their maze to the top of an even taller tower. Once at the top of the tower, two players from each tribe will maneuver three balls through their maze. The first two tribes to finish win immunity.After Ben and Chrissy's poor maneuvering of the maze, the Healers and Hustlers won immunity, sending the Heroes to Tribal Council and forcing Ryan to will his advantage. At the Heroes camp, the majority decided to send Katrina home over Chrissy, but the tension between Alan and Ashley still lingered. Alan later approached Chrissy and Katrina with a plan to vote out Ashley, and tried to convince Ben to join them. Ben tried to assure Alan that Ashley and JP were loyal to them, but Alan was still paranoid about the potential couple. Before Tribal Council, Chrissy learned that she had been given the secret advantage.\nAt Tribal Council, Ashley called Alan out for his irrational behavior, while Alan openly stated that he did not trust Ashley or JP and warned his other tribemates about them becoming a power couple. He also divulged that the initial discussion was between voting out Chrissy and Katrina. Ultimately, the plan to vote out Katrina was followed and she became the first person voted out in a unanimous vote."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Chrissy felt more secure about her spot in the game after Katrina's elimination. At the Hustlers camp, Simone was pleased with her conquering of the outdoors, but her bragging and laziness set most of her tribemates off, while Ali approached Simone about working together. At the Healers camp, Cole and Jessica bonded over a fishing trip, while Joe began looking for a hidden immunity idol. After misinterpreting the clue as pointing towards the fishing raft, Joe had Cole help him find the idol. At the Heroes camp, JP established himself as the tribe’s provider to keep the target off his back, while Chrissy formed an alliance with Ben after weighing her options. Back at the Hustlers camp, Patrick tried to amuse his tribemates by acting boisterous around camp, but Lauren saw him as too unpredictable to keep around and voiced her concerns to Ali.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Three members of each tribe will swim out to a floating net ring. They will then dive down and maneuver a bundle of puzzle pieces through a cage. Once a tribe has collected all three bundles, the two remaining tribe members will use those pieces to solve a sign post puzzle. The first two tribes to finish win immunity. In addition, the first tribe to finish wins a fishing kit with traps, net, knife, line, lures, and sinkers. The second tribe to finish wins a smaller fishing kit with lines and lures.Despite the Hustlers starting the puzzle first, Simone’s inability to assist resulted in the Healers & Heroes placing first and second respectively. Simone apologized to the tribe for costing them the victory and asked Lauren to join her in voting out Patrick. Patrick and Ryan agreed on voting out Simone, while Ali weighed her options with Ryan.\nAt Tribal Council, Patrick and Simone each pled their case, with Patrick stating tribe strength was important while Simone stated that trust was more important. In an accidental slip-up, Patrick said he could trust most of his tribemates, when he meant to say “all,” raising some concern amongst his tribemates. However, Patrick was spared, and Simone was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":3,"episode_summary":"The morning after Simone’s elimination, Ryan and Patrick agreed on a guys’ alliance with Lauren as their first target, while Lauren still wanted Patrick gone, as Patrick’s social game was lacking. Patrick also openly searched for a hidden immunity idol, which caused his tribemates to distrust him. Ali tried to convince Patrick to calm down, and he appreciated that she was looking out for him. At the Heroes camp, Ben and Chrissy were torn between voting out JP or Alan. Ben was wary about JP and Ashley’s perceived status as a power couple, while Alan struggled with camp life. At the Healers camp, Cole and Jessica’s mutual romantic interest continued. Joe believed that Mike would be a unanimous target, but Cole told Jessica about Joe’s idol. After Joe complained about the way Roark prepared food and threw it away instead of offering it to his tribemates, Cole prematurely leaked the idol information to Roark and Desi, to Jessica’s shock and dismay.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: All tribe members race through a series of obstacles. They use sandbags to knock blocks off a ledge. Next, they will stack those blocks one on top of the other. The first two tribes to finish win immunity. In addition, the first tribe to finish wins four live chickens. The second tribe to finish wins a dozen eggs.The Heroes placed first, while the Healers placed second despite forgetting a block. Patrick’s refusal to swap out during the throwing segment led to another loss for the Hustlers, and he apologized for his actions in the challenge. Lauren was angry with Patrick, and the way he responded to her asking if she was the target due to his selfish competitiveness in the challenge set her off even more. Ali, Devon, and Ryan debated whether to vote out Lauren or Patrick.\nAt Tribal Council, Lauren passionately campaigned for Patrick’s elimination. Patrick promised to integrate with his tribe better, but they never gave him the chance; after being voted out unanimously, Patrick had harsh words for his former tribemates as his torch was snuffed, and he became the third person eliminated from the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":4,"episode_summary":"On day 9, the castaways were surprised when Jeff announced a tribe swap. The new Levu tribe consisted of Heroes Alan & Ashley, Healers Desi & Joe, and lone Hustler Devon. The new Soko tribe consisted of Heroes Chrissy & JP, lone Healer Roark, and Hustlers Ali & Ryan. The new Yawa tribe consisted of lone Hero Ben, Healers Cole, Jessica & Mike, and lone Hustler Lauren. Jeff also announced a winner-take-all reward challenge to test how well the new tribes worked together.\n\nReward Challenge: Three members of each tribe will be attached to a braided rope and must work together to untangle themselves and progress through a course. They will then use the rope to hook a sled and pull it back to them. The two remaining tribe members will use the pieces on the sled to solve an upright puzzle. The first tribe to finish wins a feast of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and an individual bag of potato chips for each tribe member.By a narrow margin, Jessica and Mike solved their puzzle for Yawa first, winning reward for their tribe. As the new Yawa tribe members got to know each other better, Jessica discovered a secret advantage in her bag of chips that allowed her to block a person from voting, to be used only at the next Tribal Council. She told Cole and Mike to build trust and keep the original Healers tribe intact, but Cole used the information to gain trust with Ben and Lauren, confusing the latter as to why he would tell her about it. She told Mike, who confronted Jessica and Cole about telling Lauren. After initial denials, Cole admitted only to telling Ben, which upset Jessica. At the new Soko tribe, Roark worried about her position within the tribe as the lone Healer, while Ryan and Chrissy aligned after he told her he was the one who gave her the super idol for the first Tribal Council. At the new Levu tribe, Ashley and Alan put aside their differences to target a Healer, while Joe told Devon the Heroes were targeting him so that he would side with the Healers, but Devon saw through the lie.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each tribe will race out to a large crate of puzzle pieces. Next, they will maneuver their crate through a series of obstacles. Once they reach the finish, they will unlock their second set of puzzle pieces. They will arrange those pieces so to complete a giant puzzle. The first two tribes to finish win immunity.Yawa easily finished first, while Soko placed second. At the Levu camp, Devon was the swing vote; he asked Ashley if she was targeting him, which she denied. Desi overheard the conversation and relayed it to Joe, who presumed that Devon would side with the Heroes. In an effort to get the target on his back so he would play his immunity idol, Joe confronted his entire tribe, and a heated argument ensued between him and Alan. Desi tried to convince Joe to give her his idol to gain her trust, while Devon saw that he received Jessica’s advantage, not to be opened until voting took place.\nAt Tribal Council, Joe targeted Ashley as the weakest link, while the old Heroes & Healers each campaigned for Devon’s vote. Devon opened his advantage and was shocked to learn his vote had been blocked. Before the votes were read, Joe stood up to play his idol. After some deliberation, he decided to play it for himself after catching Ashley’s facial expression, and the two votes against him were negated. The Healers’ votes went against Alan, and he was eliminated."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":5,"episode_summary":"At the Yawa camp, the loud crackling of bamboo in the fire reminded Ben of his difficult time in the United States Marine Corps. He removed himself from the camp to clear his head, while his tribemates showed concern for his well-being.\n\nReward Challenge: The contestants will have their arms and legs bound together and must slither through the sand while pushing a ball relay style through the course. When they reach the finish, the remaining tribe member will shoot five balls into a very high and narrow basket. The first tribe to finish will win iced coffee, pastries, extra coffee, and tea to take back to camp. The second tribe to finish gets one jug of iced coffee.Levu easily cruised to first place, and Yawa placed second after Ryan struggled for Soko in the challenge. Devon still felt threatened by Joe and pledged his allegiance to Ashley, and they discussed bringing in Desi against Joe. At the Soko camp, Ryan apologized for losing the challenge for his tribe, but relied on his social game to further himself. Roark still felt uneasy about her position within the tribe and aligned with Ali, who suggested to Ryan that they target Chrissy. Ryan was reluctant to turn against Chrissy, but he kept his options open. At the Yawa camp, Cole annoyed his tribemates with his poor eating manners, while Mike and Jessica discovered a hidden immunity idol at the water well.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The contestants will swim out to a boat and retrieve three bags of rice, push them through a hole and transport them across a balance beam to shore. They must then tear open each bag to retrieve three balls and maneuver them through a balance maze. The first two tribes to finish win immunity.Yawa placed first and Levu placed second, sending Soko to their first Tribal Council of the season. Chrissy approached Roark about strategy for the first time, but Roark targeted Chrissy for her poor challenge performance; to save herself, Chrissy told JP that Roark proposed an all-girls’ alliance, and JP instantly agreed to vote out Roark. Ali again talked to Ryan about voting out Chrissy, and Ryan realized he was the swing vote. At Tribal Council, Roark and Chrissy each campaigned against the other, but ultimately, Ryan sided with Chrissy to eliminate Roark from the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Ali confronted Ryan over why he left her out of the vote against Roark, and a defensive Ryan replied that he was scared of Ali and Roark’s bond. Ali and Ryan subsequently got into an argument. At the Yawa camp, Mike caught a small fish and accidentally dropped it in the fire, but he recovered it and even shared the fish with his tribemates, while Cole ate a bigger fish for himself, annoying Ben. Cole continued to agitate his tribemates by arguing that he hadn’t been eating enough.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways will race through an obstacle course; pairs of castaways will carry a buoy using poles across a teeter-totter balance beam, which will release a key that is used to unlock the tribe’s boat. They must untie the knots and pull the boat to a platform where one tribe member will use a slingshot to knock down two targets. The first tribe to finish wins 10 pizzas and soft drinks, and the second tribe to finish wins one cheese pizza to share.Soko placed first and Yawa placed second after Levu was unable to recover from their bad start. Ryan anticipated a merge and considered blindsiding JP for being a physical threat. At the Levu camp, Ashley tried to turn Desi against Joe, and Desi considered making that move. Meanwhile, Devon tried to keep an eye on Joe to make sure he wouldn’t scheme, but when he turned his back, Joe found a clue to a hidden immunity idol. That night, while everyone else was asleep, Joe followed the clue to the idol’s location. At the Yawa camp, Cole passed out from hunger, but after Mike and Jessica tended to him, he felt fine. Ben and Mike subsequently discussed getting rid of Cole due to his perceived weakness.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribe must work together to balance a plate using 5 ropes, 4 of which are held by the tribe (1 by each member). Players must make their way to the center, one by one, and stack blocks that spell “IMMUNITY.” The first two tribes to finish win immunity.Each tribe lost their stack at least once, but Yawa and Levu won the challenge, sending Soko to Tribal Council once again. Ryan and Chrissy were torn between voting out JP or Ali; Chrissy did not trust Ali, but recognized JP as a physical threat. At Tribal Council, the tribe discussed the impending merge and how JP’s laidback approach to strategy made him tough to read. In the end, Ryan and Chrissy voted against Ali, sending her home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Chrissy felt like she was in a power position due to both Ryan and JP wanting to work with her. At the Levu camp, the tribe's food supply was depleted. When the tribes arrived at what looked like a reward challenge, Jeff announced the merge, as well as a large steak feast. During the feast, Chrissy became irritated at Joe's mannerisms and tried to realign with Ben, who was worried that the others might hear their conversation.\nAt the new camp, Cole unsuccessfully attempted to find an advantage while building the new shelter. The Healers reunited, with plans to bring in Ben and Lauren from the old Yawa tribe, while the Heroes & Hustlers aligned against the Healers. Devon approached Lauren about turning against the Healers, but she instantly told Mike. Devon also approached Chrissy and Ben about voting out either Joe or Cole; Ben still wanted Cole gone for personal reasons, while Jessica and Mike warned Cole that he was in danger.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Using centrifugal force, the castaways must keep a ball spinning within a wheel as they stand on individual balance beams. At regular intervals, the castaways will be made to step forward onto narrower parts of the beam. If at any point the ball drops or a castaway falls off the beam, the castaway loses the challenge. The last castaway with a spinning ball wins immunity.Desi outlasted Ashley to win the challenge. Cole apologized to Ben, who pretended to forgive him and realized he might have to continue with Cole to benefit his own game. Mike suggested to the rest of the Healers that they target Chrissy due to her intelligence, while Lauren tried to convince Ben to stick with the Healers. Chrissy and her allies came up with a \"Plan B\" to vote against Jessica in case of an idol.\nAt Tribal Council, Joe went off on the tribe and openly wore his idol from the Levu camp. Before the votes were read, Joe played the idol for himself, but didn't receive any votes, while Ben and Lauren sided with the Heroes & Hustlers to blindside Jessica."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":8,"episode_summary":"The Healers lamented being in the minority, while Lauren found the secret advantage Cole looked for after the merge. She learned that she could vote twice at a Tribal Council of her choice, provided she abstained from voting at the next Tribal Council.\n\nReward Challenge: Randomly divided into two teams of five, castaways must race to the top of a tower. At the top of the tower, they will have to use a slingshot and sandbags to hit five targets. The first team to hit all five targets, indicated by a flag being released, wins a spaghetti dinner on a private island. In addition, the castaway drawing the odd-colored rock will join them.Since Joe drew the white rock, he got to join the winning team of Chrissy, Cole, Devon, JP, and Ryan. Jeff revealed the feast would be served family-style, meaning players would eat one at a time and must leave enough food for the next person, with Joe choosing the order. Joe ate last and suggested that Devon eat first, in an attempt to build trust with Devon. While eating, Cole found a clue to the location of a new hidden immunity idol under the plate, and he made sure to cover it up using a nearby cloth. However, Chrissy and Ryan both discovered the clue, and Ryan hid the plate in the bushes after he was finished eating. Back at camp, Ryan took advantage of Cole going off on his own and quickly found the idol, then asked Chrissy to cover up his tracks. Cole dashed in to ambush Chrissy before most of the tribe joined them. Ben believed he saw Cole find it and began to target him again.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Standing on a narrow beam and using a long pole, castaways must balance a statue. At regular intervals, they will move further away from the statue. If at any point, they fall from the beam or drop their statue, they are out of the challenge. The last person left standing wins immunity.Cole outlasted JP to win the challenge, foiling the plans of the majority alliance. Ben suggested splitting the vote between Joe and Desi, who had proven to be a strong competitor. Joe tried to convince Ryan and Devon to blindside Ben, whom Joe perceived as the leader of the alliance, but Ben overheard the conversation. Ben confronted Joe, who accused him of swearing on the Marines; this angered Ben, and the two got into a heated argument. Lauren told Ben of her advantage and how it would prevent them from splitting the votes at that night’s Tribal Council; Ben then asked Mike to join his alliance in voting out Joe in fear of the vote split causing a scenario where he would be voted out.\nAt Tribal Council, Joe reignited his argument with Ben, who opened up about his time after the Marines. During the vote, Lauren was able to play her advantage without being caught, Cole and Mike joined in the majority alliance's split-vote plan, and the votes were tied at 4 apiece between Joe and Desi while Ben and Lauren each received a stray vote. On the revote, Desi received 7 votes to Joe's 1 and became the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":9,"episode_summary":"The next morning, Mike pitched an idea to the majority alliance to blindside Cole at the next Tribal Council. Meanwhile, Lauren told Ben about her successful advantage play, and Ryan told Devon about his immunity idol.\n\nReward Challenge: Randomly divided into two teams of five, three castaways will swim out to a tall ladder, climb it, leap into the water, and retrieve a key on a buoy. Once they have the keys, the next two will unlock a chest containing balls. They will then have to score five baskets to win a feast on a luxury yacht.The team of Chrissy, Cole, Joe, JP, and Mike won the challenge. Joe hoped to use the reward to sway Chrissy and JP to his side, but his efforts were for naught. At camp, Joe capitalised on his tribemates' perception of him as obnoxious and abrasive by calling Ashley a goat in order to make them believe he would never win a jury vote at Final Tribal and thus they would not vote him out. Ryan told Ben about his idol, and while Ben was excited about his ally finding it instead of Cole, he also realized it would make Ryan a threat to him in the future. Ben told Devon, who started to lose trust in Ryan because he wasn't the only one who knew about Ryan's idol.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways will have to stand up slightly in a squatting position, releasing the safety from their apparatus holding up an urn of water above a fire. Should they stand too high, their urn will extinguish their fire, or if they go too low, will release a flag eliminating them from the challenge. The last castaway standing wins immunity.Lauren outlasted Cole to win immunity. Back at camp, Ben wanted to split the vote between Cole and Mike, but Chrissy and Ashley were fed up with Joe. Ben was very adamant about wanting to vote out either Cole or Mike, causing some discord among the majority. After Chrissy was shut down by Ben about Joe's status as a threat despite being widely disliked, she discussed deviating from Ben's plan and voting out Joe with her allies and Mike.\nBefore Tribal Council started, Mike told Joe to follow his lead. Chrissy confronted Joe about insulting her and Ashley before Mike outlined the hypocrisy in her argument, stating that, by keeping Joe in the game, the rest of the castaways were not playing with moral character. Joe accused everyone else of not playing the game at all, and Mike brought up the fact that the majority had 4 Heroes and 3 Hustlers, meaning the Hustlers would be picked off one by one at that point after voting out the rest of the Healers. Ashley countered Mike's point by outlining that his comment was just as hypocritical as Chrissy's opening one, that nobody is just a number and that morals and relationships do serve a purpose in the game. Before the votes were read, Mike played his idol for himself, but received only 2 votes. Ultimately, Ben got his way, and everyone else voted Cole out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After the heated Tribal Council, Mike revealed his blowup was a calculated plan to ensure the vote went against him so he would play his idol.\n\nReward Challenge: Using only their feet, castaways must unwind a rope to release blocks that they will use to assemble a three-tiered tower with a flag in the middle. The first castaway to complete their tower will win an aerial tour of the Sacred Islands and a feast of cheeseburgers, fries, and beer.Lauren won the challenge and chose to share the reward with Devon, Ben, and Ashley. At camp, Ryan and Chrissy discussed voting out Ben and Lauren after Joe and Mike. While on reward, Lauren revealed she chose Devon, Ben, and Ashley due to her plans for a 4-person alliance to shake up the game, and they were in agreement. The castaways on the reward trip received letters from home. The next morning at camp, while reading his letter, Ben stumbled upon a clue to the location of a new hidden immunity idol, which he eventually found.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Perched on a roof-shaped structure, castaways will have to balance on narrow beams. After 20 minutes, castaways will move up the structure, standing on a narrow beam. If at any point a castaway touches the structure with any body part other than their feet, or they fall off, they are out of the challenge. The last person left standing wins immunity.Before the challenge started, Jeff tempted the castaways with food; Devon, Ben, and Lauren sat out, and Ashley won immunity. Back at camp, Lauren’s new alliance prepared their revolt, with Devon assigning Ben to be their “double agent”, voting against Mike, while Lauren and Ashley asked Joe and Mike to join them. At Tribal Council, Lauren’s alliance put their plan in motion, completely blindsiding JP and sending him to the jury.\nAfter Tribal Council, a stunned Chrissy and Ryan confronted their former allies about leaving them out of the vote. Ryan tried to make amends with Devon, but he was unable to do so.\n\nReward Challenge: Randomly divided into two teams of four, castaways will swim out to a boat. They will then paddle to shore, collecting 4 bags of logs along the way. Back on shore, they will use the logs to push out puzzle pieces from a chute. The first team to finish their puzzle wins a spa trip with a feast.The team of Ashley, Ben, Devon, and Joe won the challenge. On the reward trip, Ashley considered turning against Ben. Back at camp, Ryan unsuccessfully tried to sway Mike to his side, and Chrissy also failed with Lauren.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Using a driving wheel, castaways drive a key hanging on an urn through a series of obstacles. The key will unlock a set of puzzle pieces. Using the driving wheel, they must transport the puzzle pieces to the finish. The first person to solve the word puzzle “INVULNERABLE” wins immunity.Chrissy won the challenge. At camp, Lauren told her alliance about her second vote, and Devon told Mike and Joe that they would use it to split the votes between Ryan and Ben, when in reality, the alliance planned to stick together to blindside Joe. In private, Ashley told Lauren and Devon she was having second thoughts about staying loyal to Ben.\nAt Tribal Council, Ben continued his charade of being on the outside, but he warned Joe and Mike that they were on the bottom of the new alliance. Before the vote, Ryan played his idol but received only 2 votes. Ultimately, the alliance of 4 stuck together and sent Joe to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Chrissy angrily confronted Ben about his betrayal, and they got into an argument. When the castaways arrived at the reward challenge, they were reunited with their loved ones: Ashley’s father Jim, Ryan’s father Steve, Mike’s wife Bari, Lauren’s sister Sunny, Chrissy’s husband Keith, Devon’s mother Sonia, and Ben’s wife Kelly.\n\nReward Challenge: The castaways will conduct this challenge with their loved ones. Each person will have a bag with black and white marbles. Both the castaways and their loved ones must draw the same-colored marble to remain in the challenge. The last pair left standing wins a Survivor barbeque and quality time with each other.All except Ben and Chrissy failed to match on the first round. In the second round, Ben failed to match while Chrissy was able to. After winning reward, Chrissy chose Ryan, Mike, and Ashley, as well as their loved ones, to join her and her husband. Chrissy later revealed she chose Ashley because she felt that Ashley would be the easiest to turn against the majority. Ben made a fake idol in hopes that Chrissy would find it, while Lauren found half of a real idol, showing it to Ben and Devon, with the other half hidden at the immunity challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must support two discs, weighted by wind chimes, supported by two posts with only their fingertips. If they drop their discs, they are out of the challenge. The last person left standing wins immunity.Devon conceded immunity to Ashley for a massage, stating that they were a tight alliance, to the others' concern. Lauren picked up the second half of the idol at the challenge, but was seen by Ben. Ashley continued to talk to Devon and Lauren about blindsiding Ben, but he overheard the conversation. After they agreed on voting out Chrissy, a paranoid Ben realized how much power Lauren had in the game, between her idol and the extra vote. He got Mike and Ryan on board with voting out Lauren and tried to convince Chrissy, but she was still angry with him. She told Mike she wanted Ben out, and Mike told Ashley and Devon that Ben had told Chrissy about Lauren’s power. Devon warned Lauren that she was in danger, and Lauren gave the other half of the idol to Mike to show him she trusted him.\nAt Tribal Council, Devon said he stepped down at the immunity challenge to show his trust in his alliance, not including Ben. Ben subsequently confronted his tribemates about potentially voting him out, and he said flat-out that he would vote for Lauren. Lauren revealed she left her extra vote at camp, while Ben revealed his fake idol. Mike then tossed the half of Lauren’s idol that he had into the fire. While the tribe openly quarreled among each other, Ryan whispered to Mike that Lauren had to go, but Devon walked over to Mike with the intention to turn against Ben; this made Chrissy walk to Ryan to say she was on board with voting out Lauren. She refused when Mike and Ryan asked her to vote out Ben. In the end, everyone voted for Ben. However, unbeknownst to the others, Ben also had his real idol; he played it on himself, and for the first time in Survivor history, a unanimous vote was successfully negated. Ben’s sole vote sent Lauren out of the game, much to the shock of the other jury members, except Joe."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":12,"episode_summary":"After the hectic Tribal Council, the tribe dynamic was Ben vs. everyone else. Ben woke up early the next morning to search for a new hidden immunity idol, and nobody followed him, as they believed he wouldn't find it.\n\nReward Challenge: Randomly divided into three pairs, castaways are clipped to a rope and must maneuver together through three obstacles. Once they have reached the end of the course, they will unclip themselves and attempt to throw rings onto a target. The first pair to get all five rings on the target wins an overnight stay at a private island with a feast.Devon and Chrissy won the challenge; Jeff instructed them to take one more person, and Chrissy suggested to Devon that they select Ryan. They did so, much to Ashley's shock and chagrin. Mike was also frustrated, as he saw himself as a swing vote. Ben tried to talk strategy with Mike and Ashley at camp, but neither of them wanted any part of it. On reward, Chrissy proposed a final 3 deal with Ryan and Devon. She also considered voting out Ashley before Ben, out of fear that she has built better relationships in the game than Ben.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must first climb a ladder and go down a cargo net. Then will then have to traverse a series of obstacles, where they will then untie a bag containing sandbags. Using the sandbags, they must get one into a basket, which will release the first ladder on a tower. One the second level, castaways will then use a ball and rope to pull down a second ladder. On the top of the tower, castaways then have to solve a cog puzzle. The first person to finish the puzzle and hoist their flag wins immunity.Chrissy won immunity. Ben continued his search for an idol, while Ashley suggested splitting the vote between Ben and Mike. Chrissy began campaigning for Ashley's elimination, but Mike desperately wanted Ben out, while Devon was reluctant to turn against Ashley. Ben eventually found a clue saying the idol was hidden under the shelter.\nAt Tribal Council, final 3 discussions and potential plans were brought up. Devon continued campaigning against Ben, who subsequently revealed he did find the idol. He convinced Ashley to vote for Mike, and when Devon said he didn't believe Ben would play the idol, Ben presented the idol to Jeff to play on himself before the votes were to be cast. Ashley did vote for Mike, but everyone else, including Devon, blindsided Ashley, sending her to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":13,"episode_summary":"As the tribe returned from Tribal Council, Chrissy, Devon, Mike, and Ryan reinforced their desire to vote out Ben, who searched for a newly hidden idol all night. He found it early the next morning, marking his third consecutive idol discovery. Chrissy attempted to bury the hatchet with Ben in order to keep herself in the game in case Ben won immunity (not knowing he had found another idol), but Ben still wanted to vote her out.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways will swim out and then climb a stack of crates. Jumping off the crates, they must grab a bag of keys. Castaways will then swim to a balance beam, and cross it, while getting a second set of keys. Using their keys, castaways will unlock their puzzle. Castaways must move balls around so they match the corresponding color in the chute. The first person to solve their puzzle wins immunity and a feast of comfort food.Chrissy won immunity and chose to share her reward with Mike and Devon. They searched for an idol clue on reward, but they were unable to find one. Chrissy told Mike and Devon about her super idol from the first Tribal Council, and planned to trick Ben into thinking she had found a new idol so that he wouldn't search for one himself. Ben let them think he believed them, but the joke was on them, as he had found the real one that morning. Devon felt uneasy about Ben's nonchalant attitude about getting voted out at the next Tribal Council, and he told Ryan he was considering voting against Mike, but Ryan tried to talk him out of it.\nAt Tribal Council, Chrissy pulled out her now-defunct super idol and continued her charade, while Ben continued acting as though he would get voted out that night. Before the votes were read, Chrissy offered her idol to her alliance; Mike was prepared to play it to continue the sham, but Ben pulled out his idol to play on himself, negating the three votes against him and shocking the other four players. Devon did vote against Mike, but Ben voted against Devon, creating a tie. Ben, Chrissy, and Ryan went to revote; Mike, the last Healer remaining, was eliminated after receiving two votes to Devon's one.\nAfter Mike left Tribal Council, Jeff surprised the final 4 by revealing there was one more twist left in the game. Upon returning to camp, the castaways were on edge about what the twist might be.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways will have to stack letter blocks on a wobbly platform. The first person to correctly spell \"Heroes,\" \"Healers,\" and \"Hustlers\", without any upside down letters wins immunity and is guaranteed a spot in the Final Tribal Council.Chrissy tied the record for most individual immunity wins by a woman, winning her fourth challenge after several drops by all castaways. Chrissy also received the twist, which was revealed to be a final game advantage. This gave her the power to choose one person to bring to the Final Three with her, with the other two castaways going to a fire-making challenge to determine who would get the last spot in the Final Three and who would be the last jury member. Chrissy felt like Devon would have a better chance to beat Ben than Ryan would; she told Devon and Ryan her plans with the advantage, and Devon broke the flint while practicing his fire-making skills.\nAt Tribal Council, Chrissy revealed her advantage to the jury and Ben. She voted to take Ryan to the end, and Ben won the ensuing firemaking challenge, making Devon the final member of the jury.\nChrissy, Ben, and Ryan enjoyed the traditional Day 39 breakfast. That night, the finalists and the jurors convened for the Final Tribal Council. Like he did in Game Changers, Jeff led a moderated discussion that focused on the three aspects of the game, \"Outwit,\" \"Outplay,\" and \"Outlast.\" During the discussion, Ryan was chastised for his perceived laziness at camp and his weak post-merge strategic game, Chrissy was praised for her challenge prowess, and Ben was applauded for his strong strategic game; however, both Chrissy and Ben were castigated for their poor social games, with Ben taking most of the heat. Ben opened up to the jury about his post-traumatic stress disorder and how he had learned to live with it, stating that he hoped to help show fellow veterans that while life after the military is difficult, there is more to look forward to in the future."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US35","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Several months later, at the live reunion show, Ben was named the Sole Survivor in a 5–2–1 vote. Chrissy finished in second place with Ashley and Mike's votes, and Ryan came in third after receiving Devon's vote."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":1,"episode_summary":"Host Jeff Probst explained the Ghost Island premise to the 20 new castaways upon their arrival, saying that they had a chance to reverse the curse of bad Survivor decisions if they were to visit Ghost Island. Jeff instructed each tribe to choose a leader: Malolo selected Brendan, while Chris volunteered for Naviti. Jeff also told the castaways they would only start with a machete, pot, a fishing kit, and a smaller supply of rice. \n\nReward Challenge: A designated runner will have to race through a series of obstacles to dig up three sets of keys. Then, a designated puzzle solver will use the keys to unlock a slide puzzle.  The first person to finish their puzzle wins a massive shelter building kit reward for their tribe. Additionally, the losing tribe will be forced to forfeit their fishing kit. However, if the tribe leader decides to forfeit the challenge during the puzzle solving portion, their tribe will get to keep the fishing kit, but the opposing tribe will get 20 eggs and flint in addition to the shelter building kit.For Malolo and Naviti, respectively, Michael and Sebastian were selected to run the course, while Laurel and Desiree were selected for the puzzle. Chris pulled the lever on Desiree, preserving Naviti's fishing kit, but giving the larger reward to Malolo. As the Malolo tribe set up their shelter and got to know each other, Jacob openly stated his intention to search for a hidden immunity idol, causing his tribemates to distrust him. He also poured some of the tribe's rice in his dirty sock to see if a clue was hidden in the jar, though there was not. Meanwhile, at the Naviti camp, a power struggle started between Chris and Domenick, who questioned Chris's decision to forfeit the opening challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each tribe will have to race across a net bridge to where two bags are hanging. Working together, they will then need to untie the bags to obtain a pair of ropes. Using the ropes, the tribe will need to slide a sled full of big puzzle pieces through a course. At the end of the course, they will need to solve a cube puzzle to win immunity.Naviti won the challenge, and also received a flint reward, as Malolo already had flint after winning the first reward challenge. For winning the immunity challenge, Naviti had to send one person from Malolo to Ghost Island, where they would be immune from the vote; Naviti sent Jacob after he declared Malolo was the best tribe in Survivor history. On Ghost Island, Jacob had to break an urn to play a game for an advantage; if he lost, he would have to forfeit his vote at the next Tribal Council. He subsequently won a game of chance which gave him Sierra's legacy advantage from Game Changers. He had to will it to someone from Naviti, and he chose Morgan. He also made a fake idol. At Malolo, the tribe had to come up with a new plan, as Jacob was their intended target. Gonzalez rallied votes against Donathan for being the tribe's weakest link, but at Tribal Council, her paranoia got the better of her as she whispered to her tribemates, asking who they were targeting that night. Although everyone told her they were targeting Donathan, it was revealed that they had lied to her, and Gonzalez was unanimously blindsided, becoming the first person voted out.\nAt Naviti, Domenick searched for a hidden immunity idol in the middle of the night, which he eventually found; it was revealed to be Andrea's idol from Caramoan. The next morning, he attempted to bury the hatchet with Chris, but the tension still lingered between the two. Domenick told Chris he found an idol moments after telling him the opposite, which caused Chris to distrust him. At Malolo, Jacob kept the legacy advantage information to himself and told his tribemates he found an idol on Ghost Island, but that he had left the paper behind, making Brendan suspicious.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Two pairs from each tribe will race through a series of obstacles in the water. They will then have to dive to release two sets of buoys. Another member will need to gather all of the marked buoys to the finish, where the last four members will need to get all eight in a basket to win immunity and a comfort reward of chairs, pillows, blankets, and a washboard.Naviti easily won after James could not even dive a foot in the water. Donathan panicked before eventually diving down and releasing the buoys for Malolo. Naviti sent Donathan to Ghost Island, and the urn he smashed was a dud. At Malolo, Stephanie considered working with Jacob to blindside Michael, but Jacob spilled the beans about the legacy advantage to Stephanie. At Tribal Council, Libby and Michael voted against James in case Jacob did indeed have a real idol, but ultimately, the tribe stuck to the original plan, sending Jacob out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":2,"episode_summary":"The morning after Jacob's elimination, Jeff announced a tribe swap. The new Malolo tribe consisted of Bradley, Brendan, Chelsea, Desiree, Jenna, Kellyn, Michael, Sebastian, and Stephanie. The new Naviti tribe consisted of Angela, Chris, Domenick, Donathan, James, Laurel, Libby, Morgan, and Wendell. At the new Naviti tribe, Chris tried to rally votes against Domenick, but his attitude set Angela and Libby off. Morgan was suspicious of Chris, and she and Libby aligned. At the new Malolo tribe, Bradley's complaining over Malolo's shelter got on some people's nerves, while Michael and Brendan found one of James's idols from China.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways will need to jump between three sets of raised ramps to a sand pit, where they will need to dig out a heavy ladder. Using the ladder, one tribe member will need to retrieve a monkey's fist on top of a tripod, which they will use to climb the first ramp of the tower. The tribe will then need to hoist each other to the top of a second ramp, where two members will need to solve a tiki head puzzle to win immunity and a tarp.Malolo won the challenge; after they couldn't decide who from Naviti to send to Ghost Island, the Naviti members drew rocks to determine who would go. Chris drew the odd-colored rock, foiling Domenick's plan to blindside him. On Ghost Island, the urn Chris smashed was empty, and he opened up about his mother's struggle with multiple sclerosis. At Naviti, Angela wanted to stay strong with her old tribe members and vote out Libby, but Wendell saw Angela as Chris's \"right-hand man\", and started to rally votes against her. Meanwhile, Domenick showed his fake idol to the former Malolo members to build trust with them, but James didn't believe him and, seeing an opportunity to control the vote as Naviti was set to turn on Angela, pitched an idea to the other former Malolo members to vote out Morgan, which Libby objected to. However, at Tribal Council, Libby reluctantly sided with the majority, sending a shocked Morgan out of the game. Before her exit, Morgan willed the legacy advantage to Domenick."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":3,"episode_summary":"While attempting to regroup after Morgan's blindside, Domenick told Wendell he found a real idol. The next morning, he found the legacy advantage willed to him by Morgan.\n\nReward Challenge: Two members of each tribe will start at their tribe flags on shore. Once told, they will need to make their way out into the water to get a ring. At least one castaway must be touching both the ring and their tribe's flagpole simultaneously to score a point for their tribe. The first tribe to score three points wins a feast of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with ice cold milk.Before the challenge, Jeff revealed that someone would visit Ghost Island and return before the immunity challenge, meaning they would also be vulnerable if their tribe were to visit Tribal Council. Naviti won the challenge and immediately chose to have Malolo draw rocks; Kellyn was sent to Ghost Island immediately after she explained that being separated was her worst Survivor fear. Although the urn she smashed allowed her to play the game of chance, she decided not to risk losing her vote. At Naviti, a confused and angry Chris learned from Angela about Domenick's alliance's betrayal; they planned on aligning with the former Malolo members, but Donathan talked to Wendell about working together and Laurel talked to Domenick, who revealed his idol to her.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways will have to swim out to a bamboo cage, hop over and dive in the cage to release a door underwater. They will then need to take a chest in the cage ashore, and race it across a track. On the track, tribes will need to use a grappling hook to connect a missing piece of the track allowing them to get the chest to a perch. Using the balls in the chest, they will need to get all five of them on top of a narrow perch to win immunity.Although Malolo had a huge lead through the chest-carrying stage, Naviti pulled off a massive comeback and edged out Malolo during the ball-tossing stage to win immunity, largely thanks to Chris's efforts. Stephanie was put off by Bradley's arrogant attitude and was even more offended when Bradley flat-out told her there was no hope for her alliance. The Naviti majority wanted to weaken the other alliance and Chelsea proposed voting out Michael or Brendan; the Naviti alliance proceeded to debate on which of the two to vote out. Michael revealed his idol to Stephanie and Jenna, which gave the alliance hope. At Tribal Council, Brendan declared Sebastian and Chelsea to be on the bottom of an alliance led by Bradley, and Michael encouraged them to flip after he pulled out his idol, falsely calling it a double immunity idol in an attempt to throw the opposing alliance off their game. Before the votes were read, Michael played his idol for Stephanie, but the Naviti majority voted against Brendan instead, sending him out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Michael apologized to the Naviti alliance if they felt offended by his gameplay, and he was upset with himself about making the wrong decision over whom to play the idol for.\n\nReward Challenge: Tribes will need to hop over a series of tables to a pile of large sandbags. They will then need to search through the sandbags to find a lever. Pulling the lever will release sixty smaller sandbags, which tribes will collect and use to hit a target that spins, raising a flag. The first tribe to raise all three flag wins coffee and pastries.Chris led Naviti to an easy victory. The tribe instantly decided to go to rocks to determine who from Malolo would go to Ghost Island. Stephanie was sent to Ghost Island; her urn was empty. At Naviti, Chris and Donathan bonded over having to take care of their families. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Starting on the beach, one runner from each tribe will grab a boogie board attached to a large spool of rope and race across a series of floating balance beams to a set of four satchels with numbered tiles. Grabbing only one satchel, the runner will get on the boogie board in the water, where their tribemates will have to reel them onto shore. Once the runner returns to shore, another person goes out. Once they have all four satchels, tribes will make their way to the finish deck, where they will use the numbered tiles to solve a combination lock, obtaining a key, which unlocks the tribe's sliding puzzle. The first tribe to finish their puzzle wins immunity.Naviti won immunity yet again. The Naviti majority debated on who to vote out; they decided that Jenna was an easy, safe vote, but Michael was the biggest threat. Jenna flirted with Sebastian to save herself, while Michael pled his case to Bradley, saying they needed him for the challenges. Desiree searched Stephanie's bag for an advantage and didn't find one. At Tribal Council, each of the original Malolo members pled their case, and Stephanie was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":5,"episode_summary":"On Day 15, Jeff announced another tribe swap. The new Malolo tribe consisted of Angela, Desiree, James, Kellyn, and Michael. The new Naviti tribe consisted of Bradley, Chelsea, Domenick, Donathan, and Libby. A third tribe, Yanuya, consisted of Chris, Jenna, Laurel, Sebastian, and Wendell. On the newly formed Yanuya tribe, Chris's ego rubbed his new tribemates, especially Laurel, the wrong way. On the new Malolo tribe, Angela was still angry from her old tribemates' betrayal; she and James proceeded to inform their new tribemates about the cracks in the old Naviti tribe. Meanwhile, James was wary of Michael, as Michael had voted against him at Malolo's second Tribal Council. On the new Naviti tribe, Domenick immediately didn't trust Libby and voiced his concerns to Bradley.\n\nImmunity Challenge: One person from each tribe will be a caller, while the rest of the tribe is blindfolded. The caller, using only verbal commands, will need to lead their tribemates to three bags of puzzle pieces. Once they have all three bags, the caller will have two members of their tribe solve the puzzle, while blindfolded. The first two tribes to solve the puzzle win immunity.Wendell forgot one of Yanuya's bags, but he made up for the deficit, leading his tribe from last to first place, and Naviti placed second. Desiree was upset with herself over her poor leadership in the challenge, but Kellyn suggested to her and Angela that they vote out James, who later tried to bring Angela to his side. After a talk with Angela, Kellyn was skeptical of Angela's loyalty, but at Tribal Council, Angela stayed loyal and Michael joined the former Naviti members in blindsiding James out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":6,"episode_summary":"At Malolo, knowing he was the sole outsider, Michael searched for a hidden immunity idol. He managed to find Ozzy's fake idol from Micronesia, now a real idol.\n\nReward Challenge: All members of the tribe will have to pull on rope on a balance beam to suspend a disc. They will have to stack blocks spelling \"REWARD\" on the disc with a skull on the top and another on the bottom, while pulling on the rope. If anybody falls off their balance beam or their block stack falls, they must start over. The first two tribes to finish their stack win; first place gets a grill, steaks, chicken kabobs, and spices. Second place gets chicken kabobs.Malolo lost yet another challenge. For placing first, Naviti had the power to send someone from either Yanuya or Malolo to Ghost Island; they unanimously decided to send Kellyn, since she had been there before. On Ghost Island, Kellyn was again given a game of chance to play. She was to pick from three urns instead of two; two held advantages, while one would cost her vote at the next Tribal Council. She won the vote stealer from Game Changers that Michaela failed to find, now downgraded to only an extra vote. At Naviti, Bradley's condescending attitude towards Donathan and Domenick rubbed them the wrong way. At Yanuya, Wendell took advantage of an opportunity to look for an idol while his tribemates were asleep. He spotted a unique tree and discovered a map to a hidden immunity idol at its base, which he then found. The idol was revealed to be the immunity necklace that Erik gave to Natalie in Micronesia and getting voted out. At Malolo, the tribe burned their flag's banner under Desiree's lead to reverse the curse of their losing streak.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Contestants must swim to a floating platform, run up it and jump off into the water. They must collect a set of floating rings and bring them back. Three people must swim over to a platform with the rings, and then toss the rings on to a floating target. The first two tribes to toss all their rings onto the target win immunity.Yanuya placed first and Malolo finally ended their losing streak, sending Naviti to Tribal Council. Bradley targeted Libby, but Chelsea talked to Libby about voting out Bradley. She and Domenick were later torn between voting out Libby or Bradley, but ultimately, they decided to unanimously vote Bradley out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":7,"episode_summary":"On Day 20, the three tribes merged on Naviti's beach. Although the Naviti members initially planned on picking off the Malolo members, Chris and Domenick were still at odds; Wendell tried to play moderator, to no avail. Jenna and Libby considered whether to side with Chris or Domenick. Chris found a note randomly placed in his buff, which led him to find a clue in tree mail, saying the idol was on Ghost Island; he would travel there late that night while everyone else was asleep. He found J.T.'s Game Changers idol in plain sight, but it was only good at the next Tribal Council. However, a game of chance allowed him to extend the life of the idol for up to 5 extra Tribal Councils; there were 10 chests to choose from. He extended the idol once, but lost his vote at the next Tribal Council.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways must hold a boom pole over their head with a tiki statue at the end, while standing on a narrow perch. Every few minutes, the castaways will step forward. If they fall off the perch or their tiki statue drops, they are out of the challenge. The last person standing wins.Kellyn outlasted Libby to win immunity. Back at camp, Chris gathered everyone except Domenick and Wendell in an attempt to dictate a split vote between  those two in case Domenick played his idol. While they were alone, Wendell told Domenick about his idol. Donathan immediately told them about Chris's plan to split the votes, while Desiree gathered the Naviti women to discuss a blindside of Libby, since everyone might be voting for either Chris, Domenick, or Wendell. At Tribal Council, Domenick openly wore his fake idol, then played the Legacy Advantage on himself, while Chris decided not to play his idol. Desiree and Angela voted against Libby, but everyone else voted against Chris, making him the first member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Libby was concerned as to why she received votes again, while Wendell told Laurel about his idol, making her wary of his power in the game.\n\nReward Challenge: Divided into two teams of six via schoolyard pick, castaways will have to race across a floating balance beam to shore. Once they are ashore, they will need to use a slingshot to knock over six blocks on a perch using sandbags, with each member being required to launch at least once, then return to the beginning of the balance beam, where someone else goes out. The first team to knock all six blocks over win a feast of tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and margaritas.The team of Angela, Chelsea, Donathan, Laurel, Libby, and Wendell won reward. They immediately had the others draw rocks for Ghost Island, with Jenna getting exiled; her urn was empty. While on reward, Libby asked why she received votes, and Angela said the others were wary of her bond with Michael. Back at camp, Michael talked to Angela about blindsiding Wendell. However, after Michael told her she was the only person left out of the loop on the last vote, Angela wanted to \"stir the pot\" and lied to her old Naviti tribemates about Michael saying that Kellyn and Chelsea didn't trust Angela, planning to target him. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways would have to eat exotic dishes and show their empty tongues to finish, in which a certain number of fastest finishers would advance to the next round. The castaway that finishes all stages wins immunity.Angela defeated Michael in the final round to win immunity. Angela's allies tried to sway Donathan to their side with an idea to split the vote between Michael and Libby. Michael pitched to the other former Malolo members to vote out Wendell, while Domenick assured Libby she was safe. Wanting to make a move and even the playing field, Donathan told Libby of Naviti's plan to split the vote between her and Michael, making Libby unsure of whom to trust. At Tribal Council, the Malolo plan fell through as they joined the original Navitis in splitting the vote against Libby and Michael. Michael played his idol, negating seven votes, sending Libby to the jury with four votes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":9,"episode_summary":"The morning after Libby's elimination, Desiree plotted with the old Malolo members to bring in Chelsea and Angela to overthrow the Naviti majority because she felt like she was on the bottom, but Laurel was skeptical. \n\nReward Challenge: Divided into two teams of five via schoolyard pick, two members of each team will start in a canoe in the water, while the remaining three members are locked in a cage on a floating platform. The two paddlers will have to rescue their teammates, each of whom has a key. Once all three caged members are rescued, they will return to shore. Using the keys the teams have collected, they will unlock a large circus net that is holding puzzle pieces. They will have to carry the puzzle pieces to a frame, where they will solve the puzzle. The first team to finish their puzzle wins a helicopter flight to a bluff overlooking the islands and a picnic lunch.Since Donathan was not picked, he had no shot at reward but was ineligible for Ghost Island. The team of Chelsea, Jenna, Kellyn, Michael, and Sebastian won the challenge; Angela got sent to Ghost Island via rock draw. While on reward, Michael told Chelsea, Kellyn, and Sebastian he was willing to work with them as an extra number, but Kellyn wanted to stay strong with Naviti and pick off the Malolo members. On Ghost Island, Angela played the game of chance but lost her vote after choosing the wrong chest. At camp, Laurel told Domenick about Desiree potentially turning on them, and Domenick told Kellyn, who was shocked. Michael started searching for an idol, and Donathan joined him, eventually finding Scot's idol from Kaôh Rōng. It was powerless unless Tai's matching idol from the same season, which was hidden under the shelter, completed the idol. After a while, Donathan found the second half of the idol but was forced to tell the other old Malolo members about it as several tribemates shuffled in and out of camp. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The players will balance a ball on a disc attached to two ropes they must hold up. The last person standing with the ball still on the disc wins immunity.Chelsea won immunity. Kellyn confronted Desiree and Chelsea about them wanting to turn on her, prompting Desiree to chew out Laurel in front of everyone else. Desiree adamantly tried to convince Kellyn she was loyal, while Domenick suggested a strong guy's alliance with Michael, to Kellyn's chagrin. At Tribal Council, Desiree and Laurel reignited their argument, but while Chelsea joined Desiree in voting against Michael, the rest of the tribe sent Desiree to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Domenick expressed his gratitude toward Laurel for saving him, Wendell, and Kellyn, but Kellyn still wanted to pick off the old Malolo members. Meanwhile, Chelsea felt she was in danger since she had been blindsided by the previous vote. Domenick also considered turning against Wendell before looking for an idol. He found the fake idol Jay played in Millennials vs. Gen X, which still had no power, but Domenick had the opportunity to use it to trick the other players with it. Before the challenge, Jeff announced a random draw of two \"tribes\" for that day only, each of which would go to Tribal Council, meaning two people would be eliminated that night and Ghost Island was not in play.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways must pull up on a bar to keep a ball wedged between a set of jaws. If they release the bar, the lower jaw will fall, causing their ball to fall out. Once their ball falls, they are out. The last person remaining from each team wins immunity. Additionally, the last person left standing overall allows their team to view the results of first team's Tribal Council and vote second.Orange consisted of Domenick, Kellyn, Laurel, Michael, and Wendell, while Purple consisted of Angela, Chelsea, Donathan, Jenna, and Sebastian. Chelsea won immunity for Purple, but immediately dropped out before Domenick outlasted Wendell for the other immunity necklace and the right for Orange to visit Tribal Council last.\nBack at camp, Michael asked to borrow Donathan's idol, but Donathan immediately refused. To save himself, Michael told Kellyn he had an idol and would definitely play it. Kellyn bought Michael's ploy and told Domenick, who didn't believe it. She then told Chelsea and Wendell, and planned on using her extra vote to vote against Laurel twice, but Wendell considered turning on Kellyn to save Laurel. Meanwhile, Sebastian, Chelsea, and Angela planned on voting against Jenna, but they told her they would vote against Donathan. A paranoid Jenna tried to trick Donathan into playing his idol for her instead of himself at Purple's Tribal Council, while Donathan targeted Sebastian.\nAt Purple's Tribal Council, Donathan played his idol on himself, negating Jenna's vote against him, and the Naviti members sent Jenna to the jury. At Orange's Tribal Council, Kellyn used her extra vote, creating a 2–2 tie between Laurel and Michael; on the revote, Michael was unanimously sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Back at camp, Kellyn revealed to the others that she used her extra vote against Laurel, after being pressed by Domenick about there being six votes at a five-person Tribal Council. At the reward challenge, the castaways were reunited with their loved ones: Wendell's father Wendell I, Kellyn's brother Klay, Donathan's aunt Patty, Angela's daughter Paige, Chelsea's sister Sydney, Laurel's brother Frank, Sebastian's sister Grace, and Domenick's wife Kristin.\n\nReward Challenge: While racing across a series of obstacles, castaways must untie and grab a sandbag. They will then attempt to throw that sandbag on a narrow table. The first castaway to get their sandbag on their table wins a feast of ribs, chicken, burgers, pastries, and ice cream with their loved one.Sebastian won reward and chose to share it with Domenick, Wendell, Donathan and their loved ones. Sebastian also had to send one of the other four to Ghost Island where an advantage will be available off the bat, unless he or one of the other reward participants volunteers to give up their reward. Wendell volunteered, and he received Malcolm's final immunity challenge advantage from Philippines. On reward, Domenick tried to align with Donathan and Sebastian, but Donathan was wary. At camp, Kellyn was bitter about not getting chosen for reward or for the advantage on Ghost Island; she and Angela plotted a girls' alliance out of revenge. Laurel weighed the pros and cons of turning on Domenick and Wendell.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each castaway must balance a small metal ball on a wooden cylinder, while holding the center cylinder in place with two wooden handles. After a certain amount of time, new pieces of the wooden rod will be added, making it harder to balance the ball on the center cylinder. The castaway who balances their ball the longest wins immunity.Domenick won immunity. He and Wendell planned on bringing in Laurel to blindside Chelsea for being a physical threat, while the women wanted to bring in Donathan to blindside Wendell, who Chelsea felt was the biggest threat in the game. Donathan and Laurel privately weighed their options; Donathan was antsy to make a move, but Laurel wanted to stay true to her alliance with Domenick and Wendell. At Tribal Council, Donathan revealed there were cracks in the Naviti alliance, putting his tribemates on edge. In the end, Donathan and Laurel voted against Chelsea, sending her to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Donathan approached Kellyn with a plan to turn against Domenick and Wendell. \n\nReward Challenge: The castaways will be divided into three teams of two, where they will place a wooden spool onto a track which will roll to the bottom of the structure where one castaway will grab it and place it back onto the track. At regular intervals, more spools will be added, making it more difficult. If a spool drops, they're out of the challenge. Last team left standing wins the right to deliver supplies to a local Fijian school on Yanuya along with a meal of fried chicken and chocolate cake.Domenick and Wendell won reward; they chose Laurel to join them and sent Sebastian to Ghost Island. There was a 3 in 4 chance of getting an advantage, and Sebastian won Kellyn's misplayed extra vote that came back into play. While on reward, Laurel was secretly ready to turn on Domenick and Wendell. Back at camp, Donathan told Wendell he would cast his jury vote for Domenick over him, in hopes that they would turn on each other, but they saw through the plan. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways will have to race out to two sets of tied planks, and use them to create a bridge to cross. Once they've crossed their bridge, castaways will have to complete two sets of ladders to climb a tower. At the top of the tower, they will then solve a slide puzzle. The first person to finish their puzzle wins immunity.Wendell finished the puzzle first, but Laurel called Jeff's name first; by that rule, Laurel won immunity. She wanted to stick with Domenick and Wendell out of gratitude, and the three of them targeted Kellyn. However, a paranoid Donathan asked Domenick and Wendell if they were going to blindside him, making them reconsider their plans. Donathan then caught Domenick rummaging through his bag and giving Wendell something, prompting him to go back to Kellyn. Domenick, Wendell, Sebastian, and Angela debated on whether to vote out Donathan or Kellyn at the hammock. At Tribal Council, Donathan's paranoia took over, and an argument ensued between him and Wendell, as Domenick urged everyone else to stick to the \"hammock plan.\" The vote was initially tied between Donathan and Kellyn, but Kellyn was sent to the jury on the revote."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The final 6 returned to camp, where Sebastian secretly plotted on making a move against Domenick and Wendell, who in turn targeted him for his likeability. \n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways must race through a large skull-shaped maze to collect three sets of bags. Once they collect all three bags, they must use the puzzle pieces to finish a vertical puzzle. The first castaway to finish their puzzle wins immunity and a steak dinner with baked potato, bread, and dessert.Wendell won immunity and chose to share reward with Sebastian and Angela. This upset Laurel, who voiced her anger to Domenick. Sebastian told Donathan and Angela he would use his extra vote to blindside Domenick, but Angela told Domenick, who considered playing his idol. Meanwhile, Donathan told Laurel about Sebastian's plan. At Tribal Council, Domenick outed Sebastian's extra vote and revealed his two idols, saying both were real when, in reality, one is fake. Wendell then pulled out his idol and offered to work with Donathan, who refused. Domenick presented the fake idol to Jeff before the votes were cast and chose not to play his real idol, and he was successful in fooling his tribemates. Sebastian didn't use his extra vote and was sent to the jury. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways will swim out to a platform, then cross a series of obstacles, collecting two sets of puzzle pieces. Using the puzzle pieces, castaways must finish a four-piece pyramid puzzle. The first castaway to finish their puzzle wins.Wendell won immunity again. Donathan told Domenick he'd take him to the end after getting asked, while Wendell considered giving his idol to Angela, Donathan, or Laurel, but he and Domenick realized Laurel was their biggest threat in immunity challenges. At Tribal Council, Domenick played his idol on himself, while Wendell played his idol for Laurel, negating one vote against her. Ultimately, Donathan was unanimously sent to the jury.\n\nImmunity Challenge: While standing on a wobbly beam, castaways must use a long fork to stack six sets of balls between stands on a free-standing structure. The first castaway to complete their stack wins.Everyone dropped their stack at least once, but Domenick managed to win his third immunity challenge, as well as the right to choose who to take to the end with him. The final 4 ventured to Ghost Island, where Laurel tried to convince Domenick that she wouldn't beat Wendell in the fire-making challenge. Angela tried to convince Domenick that Laurel was a bigger threat in the Final Tribal Council. A note told Domenick to choose one of three voting urns to be used at the Final Tribal Council, all of which were cursed due to a contestant taking the wrong person to the end; the urns were from The Australian Outback, Game Changers, and Cagayan. He chose the Cagayan urn. He also privately considered giving his immunity necklace to Angela and taking on Wendell himself in the fire-making challenge. However, he chose to keep immunity and brought Laurel to the end; Wendell won the fire-making challenge, making Angela the 10th member of the jury.\nDuring the Final Tribal Council discussion, Laurel was largely ignored by the jury, who saw her as riding Domenick and Wendell's coattails when she could've made a move to blindside them. Meanwhile, Domenick was reprimanded for his actions at the Tribal Council where Sebastian was voted out. Much of the jury tried to figure out whether Domenick or Wendell were primarily responsible for controlling their alliance's moves. The jury went to vote, and Jeff surprised everyone by saying he would read the votes right then at the Final Tribal Council. For the first time in Survivor history, the vote was tied; Domenick and Wendell each had five votes. Jeff confirmed that Laurel would cast the winning vote as the 11th and final jury member."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US36","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Nearly a year later, at the live reunion show, Wendell was named Sole Survivor, as Laurel had cast her vote for him. Also, comedian Kevin Hart showed a special preview of TKO: Total Knock Out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":1,"episode_summary":"Host Jeff Probst explained the theme of the season before asking the Goliath tribe to choose who they perceived to be the weakest man and weakest woman on the David tribe, and to choose their own strongest man and strongest woman. They picked Christian & Lyrsa from the Davids and John & Alison from their tribe to run a reward challenge. The Davids got to choose which tribe completed which task in the challenge.\n\nReward Challenge: One pair from each tribe will have to cross either a balance beam over water, plank bridge, or two person balance beam, then go through a crawl under, net tunnel, or rope tunnel, then transfer 30 sandbags from one platform to another, complete a slide puzzle, or complete a 15 piece puzzle. Once they are done, they will climb out to get a shelter-making kit. The first tribe to get the kit wins it.Christian's quick solving of the slide puzzle led him and Lyrsa to win the kit for the Davids. At their camp, Pat took charge of building the shelter, but his bossy nature got on some of his tribemates' nerves. Nick spent more time making alliances rather than helping at camp, which frustrated Carl. Bonds formed between Christian & Gabby, Elizabeth & Lyrsa, and Carl & Davie. On Goliath, Dan felt an attraction towards Kara, while Natalia was put off by Natalie's orders to build the shelter despite not working herself. Everyone searched for an idol, which Dan, Kara, and Natalia eventually found, and Dan kept. Throughout the first few days, heavy rain pounded both tribes.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways will have to sprint through an obstacle to a sand pit where one person from each tribe will have to dig under a log. After getting through the log, the first person will grab a machete and chop rope to release a set of ladders. The second tribe will have to untie knots instead. They will then pole vault on a platform. Once everyone is across the pole vault, they will then need to solve a number puzzle. The first tribe to finish their puzzle wins immunity and flint.Goliath held off David's comeback to win immunity. The boat ride back to the David camp encountered rough waters, and Pat sustained a back injury that required the medical team's attention. Medical decided that Pat's injury was too severe for him to continue, and they evacuated him from the game. Jeff then cancelled Tribal Council and gave David flint. The epilogue at the end of Pat's final words revealed that he received treatment after production for this season concluded, and has since made a full recovery."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":2,"episode_summary":"The cyclone continued through the night, and Jeff provided a firemaking kit and tarp to each tribe. At the David camp, Christian and Nick aligned, and Davie found an idol. Carl, wanting to keep the tribe strong, targeted Lyrsa. Elizabeth warned Lyrsa that she was in danger, and she responded by targeting Carl. At the Goliath camp, Dan and Kara's connection raised red flags with their tribemates. Jeremy found Dan's idol hidden in his coat and told Mike about it. Still, most of the tribe affirmed their desire to vote out Natalie, but John told her that she was a target, in an attempt to align with her. Jeremy then tried to convince Natalie to change her ways, but it only made him want to target her more. \n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One member from each tribe will climb a ladder using two rungs to retrieve a key, which will unlock their boat. They will then paddle out to retrieve bags of puzzle pieces and return to shore where five castaways will need to balance a table and complete a block puzzle. The first tribe to finish their puzzle wins immunity and a fishing kit.Goliath won the grueling challenge. Bi and Jessica told Gabby that Lyrsa would go home, but Gabby was paranoid over the lack of further information. Elizabeth suggested targeting Jessica for her social connections to Carl, Bi, and Davie. Christian and Nick were the swing votes; at Tribal Council, they voted against Jessica, sending her out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Bi blamed Gabby for Jessica’s blindside, and Nick played off of that to keep the heat off him. Christian and Gabby continued to bond. At the Goliath camp, a paranoid Jeremy held a tribal meeting to put an end to the side conversations happening within the tribe, and his feud with Natalie continued. Mike became wary of Jeremy's behavior, and considered turning against him.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One member of each tribe would have to untangle a rope. Then, three members would have to work together to untangle three ropes. Following this, two members of each tribe would attempt to use the ropes to lasso and pull in a platform on which two members will build a four-piece pyramid puzzle. The first tribe to finish their puzzle wins immunity and comfort items.David won the challenge. Bi sprained her MCL, but was cleared by medical to continue. Most of the Goliaths were set to vote out Natalie, but Angelina vehemently campaigned for Jeremy’s elimination, arguing that he would become a bigger threat in the future. At Tribal Council, Angelina got her way, and Jeremy was unanimously voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":4,"episode_summary":"When the tribes congregated on day 10, Bi announced her withdrawal from the game due to her MCL sprain, not wanting to risk further damage as an athlete. After Bi left, a tribe swap took place. The David and Goliath tribes were respectively renamed Vuku and Jabeni, while a third tribe, Tiva, was introduced. Vuku consisted of Alec, Davie, Elizabeth, Kara, and Natalia. Jabeni consisted of Angelina, Lyrsa, Mike, Natalie, and Nick. Tiva consisted of Alison, Christian, Dan, Gabby, and John. Carl was exiled after drawing an empty package, and the Goliaths held a 3–2 majority on all three tribes.\nOn Exile Island, Carl followed a clue to a new advantage called an idol nullifier. He would play it against a person he believed would play an idol at any given Tribal Council, and if he was correct, the idol would be voided. If he was wrong, the advantage would be wasted and remain anonymous. At Vuku, Davie tried to get Alec on his side, while Elizabeth bonded with Kara, to Natalia’s chagrin. At Jabeni, Natalie’s bossiness persisted, while Nick and Mike aligned. At Tiva, Christian befriended Dan and John, and Gabby felt like she was on the outs.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One member from each tribe would sit on a wheelbarrow, directing two blindfolded members to push them through a series of obstacles: first a set of speed bumps, then a maze, and finally a balance beam. At the end of the beam, the caller would retrieve a ball, then direct the two other blindfolded members to navigate the ball through a table maze and into a slot. The first two tribes to get their ball into the slot would win immunity, but the first tribe to finish would also win a reward of pastries and coffee.Tiva placed first and Jabeni placed second. Elizabeth immediately had Davie help her look for an idol, but unbeknownst to her, he had already found it at that campsite. The Goliaths initially decided to stick together, which prompted Davie to tell them that Elizabeth targeted Natalia, in an effort to save himself. However, this increased Natalia’s paranoia, and Alec considered siding with the Davids to blindside her. At Tribal Council, Alec began whispering to Elizabeth, much to his Goliath allies' surprise. He decided to betray the Goliath alliance, voting with Davie and Elizabeth to eliminate a bitter Natalia, who falsely believed Kara was in on the plan. Carl then joined the Vuku tribe, giving the Davids a 3–2 advantage."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":5,"episode_summary":"The morning after Natalia’s blindside, Kara questioned her place in the game and felt like an outcast. Another cyclone rocked the camps; all the castaways were evacuated to a safe location, putting the game on hold. After the storm subsided, all three camps were completely demolished.\n\nReward Challenge: Two tribe members will use poles to knock out sandbags from an overhanging net. Once they have all their sandbags, they will untie a slingshot used to get the sandbags into two baskets, which will raise a flag. The first tribe to finish wins chickens, and the second tribe to finish wins a dozen eggs.Vuku placed first and Jabeni placed second. At Jabeni, Natalie and Lyrsa argued over when to boil the eggs. At Vuku, Kara threw Alec under the bus to the former Davids, causing Elizabeth to mistrust Kara. At Tiva, Dan, John, and Christian formed an alliance they dubbed the “Brochachos.” Dan searched for an idol at the new camp and found a clue saying the idol was hidden at the challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes will have to race over an obstacle. They will then need to raise a ladder, where one person will take a rope, which the remaining members will use to close a bridge. Once they are across the bridge and down a fireman's pole, one person will need to untie a bag containing a ball. They will then use the ball and attempt to navigate it through a vertical snake maze to get the ball into a slot. The first two tribes to complete the maze win immunity.Vuku placed first and Tiva placed second, and Dan was able to snatch the idol without being caught. The Goliaths initially agreed on voting out Lyrsa, but Nick was offended when Angelina and Natalie asked for his or Lyrsa’s jacket in exchange for sparing them; he and Lyrsa then tried to convince Mike to turn against Natalie. At Tribal Council, Mike cast the deciding vote against Natalie, sending her out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":6,"episode_summary":"The following morning, Angelina revealed her vote against Lyrsa was just a ruse to try and get Natalie’s jacket, turning the tribe against her. At Tiva, Christian tried to catch some fish but came up empty-handed.\n\nReward Challenge: One tribe member from each tribe is strapped to a bag full of coconuts, which is carried by the remaining three members of the tribe. They will race out to the beach, where the person strapped will climb over an obstacle to get four rings on a balance beam, while the other tribe members will need to hold up the coconut bag in order to create slack. They will then toss the rings onto four pegs; the first tribe to do this wins cooking utensils, spices, herbs, and kebabs. The second tribe to finish wins two kebabs.Tiva placed first and Jabeni came from way behind to place second after Vuku blew their massive lead during the tossing stage. At Tiva, Gabby confided in Alison about her fears of being on the bottom, and they bonded. At Vuku, the bamboo on the shelter bed was a strain on Elizabeth’s already sore back, and her attempts to resolve the situation put her at odds with Carl and Davie.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes will need to carry a large saucer to a water tower to fill it with water. They will then need to carry it back to fill a well to release puzzle pieces. The first two tribes to finish their puzzle on the saucer win immunity.Tiva and Vuku blew out Jabeni. Lyrsa showed hesitance to work with Angelina when asked, making Angelina target her in retaliation. Lyrsa tried to turn Mike against Angelina, while Angelina tried to turn Nick against Lyrsa. Mike and Nick weighed their options; at Tribal Council, they voted to eliminate Lyrsa from the game, giving the Goliaths the overall majority."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":7,"episode_summary":"On day 18, the three tribes merged on Tiva’s beach. Carl told Angelina about Alec flipping on Natalia before beginning to rally votes against Elizabeth. Dan and Kara were reunited, and some of the Goliaths (especially Angelina and Dan) wanted to stick to original tribal lines. Angelina campaigned against Christian as the perceived leader of the Davids. However, Alec had other ideas and established a cross-tribe alliance between himself, Alison and Mike from the Goliaths and Christian, Gabby and Nick from the Davids; Christian dubbed the alliance the \"Strike Force.\" Elizabeth was annoyed by Dan and Kara whispering late into the night and told Alec that she was considering blindsiding Dan, but Alec told Dan, which set him against Elizabeth.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways must swing a long pendulum through a frame around a statue while standing on a beam. If at any point their statue tips over, their pendulum stops moving, or they step off the beam, they are eliminated from the challenge. The last person standing wins immunity.Alison outlasted Elizabeth to win immunity. Dan convinced the Goliath alliance to change their target back to Elizabeth; though Angelina continued to rally against Christian, her Goliath tribemates were unwilling to change their minds. Upset about not getting her way and feeling like her allies were undermining her, Angelina told Elizabeth about the other Goliaths targeting her. An angry Elizabeth then went to Gabby, who pitched an idea to blindside Angelina. At Tribal Council, Angelina was accused of jury management (particularly by Gabby) when asked about her conversation with Elizabeth, but ultimately, Elizabeth was unanimously sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Angelina lied to her tribemates saying Elizabeth went to her about who the target was, but everyone saw through her ruse. The next morning, Mike questioned Gabby's commitment to the Strike Force due to her comments at the previous Tribal Council, and considered betraying the alliance. Davie and Nick found a clue to an advantage, which Nick found with Carl's help; the advantage gave Nick the ability to steal another player's vote at an upcoming Tribal Council, prohibiting them from voting and allowing him to vote twice. Carl also told Davie and Nick about his idol nullifier, but Davie stayed quiet about his hidden immunity idol.\n\nReward Challenge: Divided into two teams of six via schoolyard pick, each castaway has to hold a ten pound sandbag tied to a trough above them. Every fifteen minutes one person must drop out of the challenge, giving their bag to someone else on their team. The team that outlasts the other wins twelve pizzas back at camp.Alec, Alison, Christian, Gabby, John, and Nick won reward. Mike pulled aside the rest of the Goliaths and suggested targeting Christian for his strong gameplay, which Angelina took as sexism due to a man suggesting the same idea she did and getting more people on board with it.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways must stand on a small perch while holding a buoy with two handles. The last person left standing wins immunity.Dan won immunity. Angelina was paranoid over the possibility of Christian having an idol, and Alec told Nick that Christian was in danger. Nick and Davie debated playing their advantages to save Christian, but were hesitant to use them so early in the game. At Tribal Council, Nick chose not to use his vote stealer, but Davie played his idol on Christian. Angelina begged Dan to do the same for her, which he did. The Goliaths' seven votes against Christian were nullified. The Davids split their votes between John and Angelina; Carl and Gabby's votes against Angelina were negated, but Christian, Davie and Nick's votes against John sent him to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":9,"episode_summary":"After John's blindside, Alec, Alison, and Kara held a discussion on the beach to regroup, making Dan feel left out. After a disagreement, Kara distanced herself from Dan.\n\nReward Challenge: Randomly divided into 2 teams of 5 (with one castaway having no chance at reward), castaways must traverse an obstacle course, solve a combination lock, and complete a snake puzzle to win a feast of burgers and beverages.Alec, Dan, Davie, Kara, and Mike won reward. Gabby tried to turn Alison against Dan, while Mike affirmed his desire to stay loyal to the Goliaths. The Davids woke up early to search for a new idol, which Christian found.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways must cross three balance beams while balancing a ball on a paddle, then guide each ball, one at a time, down a curved track to sink it in a hole. The first to do this wins immunity.Alec won immunity. Kara worked on convincing the Davids to join in a split-vote scenario between Angelina and Dan, but Alison decided to stick with the Goliaths' original plan to eliminate Christian. While the Goliaths planned their strategy, the Davids debated which of their advantages to play: Nick's vote stealer, Christian's idol, and Carl's idol nullifier. At Tribal Council, Nick used his advantage to steal Alison's vote, prompting Alec and Kara to vote against Angelina. Dan played his idol for himself, but Carl used his idol nullifier against Dan, sending him to the jury with the Davids' six votes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After another big blindside, Angelina vowed revenge against the Goliaths for Alec and Kara's votes against her. Nick and Davie woke up early the next morning to search for a new idol, and Nick found a clue saying the idol was on the other side of the island and that he’d have to wait until dark to find it.\n\nReward Challenge: Randomly divided into 2 teams of 5, castaways will race out to a rope bridge. Once everyone is across the bridge, they will need to toss a set of poles onto rungs. The first team to do this wins a Survivor picnic with wraps and wine.Alec, Alison, Christian, Gabby, and Mike won and discovered letters from home while on reward. At camp, Carl began to rally votes against Alec for being a physical threat, but Gabby disliked how Carl suggested it openly in front of Kara, Alec's fellow Goliath. Nick snuck off that night and retrieved the idol with only Davie knowing.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways will balance their feet on a narrow perch while holding a handle above their head. If at any point, they let go of their handle or a foot comes off the perch, they are out of the challenge. The last person left standing wins immunity.Before the challenge, Jeff tempted the castaways with food, which Angelina, Carl, and Nick took. Christian outlasted Alec after more than 5 hours for immunity. Carl continued to campaign against Alec, but Gabby and Christian considered turning against Carl. However, at Tribal Council, Alec was unanimously sent to the jury.\nAfter Tribal Council, Christian comforted Alison, who was saddened over Alec's elimination.\n\nReward Challenge: Divided into 2 teams of 4 via schoolyard pick (with one castaway having no chance at reward), castaways will swim to a platform and dive into the water to release two lines of buoys. They will need to find the five marked buoys, which they will get into 5 nets. The first to do this wins an afternoon cruise and a feast.Carl, Davie, Kara, and Mike won reward. At camp, Gabby plotted with Christian and Alison to vote Carl out. That night, Carl suggested to Kara that they vote out Alison next, but Kara secretly was not on board; Carl also prepared to tell Gabby that Angelina would be the target so that Gabby wouldn’t be paranoid. The next day, since the tribe’s rice supply was running low, Angelina prepared to negotiate a trade with Jeff without consulting her tribemates, proposing all the fishing gear, most of the cookware, and most of the comfort items for more rice, to which the tribe ultimately agreed despite not liking her approach.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways will race over an A-frame while collecting a string of blocks. They will then spin a pole to get another string and cross a balance beam that has a third string. They will use the blocks to solve a word puzzle; the first to solve their puzzle wins immunity.Angelina’s offer was immediately refused, and Jeff asked one castaway to forfeit their shot at immunity to get the rice, which Angelina did. Davie edged out Alison for immunity. Gabby and Christian decided to make the move against Carl, while the rest of the Davids targeted Alison. Mike was the swing vote to decide whether Carl or Alison would be eliminated; at Tribal Council, he voted to send Carl to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Nick was upset with Christian over Carl’s elimination. The following morning, the castaways were reunited with their loved ones: Davie’s mother Hazel, Alison’s mother Willa, Kara’s brother Eric, Nick’s father Jim, Gabby’s mother Encarnita, Angelina’s mother Anna, Mike’s boyfriend Josh, and Christian’s girlfriend Emily.\n\nReward Challenge: Randomly divided into pairs, castaways will race through the water and crawl under an obstacle. Once on shore, pairs will need to dig for a ring of keys to release a pair of balls. The first pair to get their balls on a narrow perch win a barbecue with their loved ones.Angelina and Nick won reward, choosing Davie and Mike to join them. They voiced their intentions to reach the final 4 together, but Davie was concerned over his place in the alliance. At camp, Gabby told Alison and Kara she wanted to blindside Christian and play a more independent game.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways will have to balance on a narrow perch, while balancing a pole in their palm connected to a bucket of water. If their bucket falls or they step off the perch, they are out of the challenge. The last person left standing wins.Kara outlasted Davie for immunity. Christian targeted Alison, while Gabby tried to sway Nick and Davie into blindsiding Christian. While Nick was on board, Davie told Christian he was in danger. Mike suggested to Nick and Angelina that they target Gabby in case Christian had an idol, and Nick confirmed that Christian did. At Tribal Council, Christian played the idol on himself after some consideration, negating 5 votes, and Gabby was sent to the jury with Mike and Angelina’s votes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Nick made a fake idol and \"found\" it under the raft in front of Angelina, Christian, and Mike so that they wouldn't search for a real one. However, Davie was leery of Nick's ruse and searched for an idol himself. He also told Christian that Nick possibly had two idols and that he planned to blindside Nick.\n\nReward Challenge: Attached to a rope, castaways will need to first race through a series of obstacles to untangle their rope. If they have enough, they will then need to go through a second set of obstacles in order to reach a table of sandbags. Using the sandbags, they must attempt to knock down a tower of blocks. The first castaway to completely knock down their block tower wins a helicopter ride to the Malamala Beach Club.Davie won reward and chose Nick and Kara to join him. Angry over not getting picked, Angelina selfishly made the rest of the rice to get back at them. On reward, Davie told Kara he was ready to bring in Alison and Christian to make a move against Nick. Kara went to Alison about the plan, but Alison also went to Mike, who was uncertain about turning against Nick. The next morning, Davie continued his search for an idol and found a clue. The idol Davie found was only good for the next Tribal Council, but he could wager his next vote for a chance to extend the idol's worth for two more councils; he chose not to.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways must stand on a small log while balancing a ball on a wooden disc. At regular intervals, more balls will be added onto the plate until there are three balls, which will increase difficulty. If at any time a ball falls off the disc or a castaway loses their footing on the log, they will be eliminated. The last castaway standing wins.Mike outlasted Alison for his first individual immunity win. Nick realized that Alison was a physical threat, but Mike tried to target Christian. Nick told Davie his raft idol was fake, and Davie agreed to vote against Alison with him. Mike then pulled Nick aside and told him that Davie had targeted him earlier, before trying to get Nick on board with voting out Christian before Davie. Mike also tried to get Kara to vote out Christian with him. At Tribal Council, Davie played his idol on himself, prompting Nick to play his fake idol to get a read on his tribemates' reactions. He then played his real idol on himself but received no votes. Davie negated only 2 votes, and Christian was sent to the jury with 3 votes."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The next morning, everyone searched for an idol, with Angelina finding a clue saying the idol was on top of a tall rock and that she needed to dig out a ladder to get it. She dropped the clue while retrieving the ladder, and she was unable to get the idol. She then manipulated her tribemates again, saying she had a big fall.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways will have to race through a series of obstacles. They will then need to toss a ball on a rope to release a set of stairs. After, they will need to attempt to build a staircase, allowing them to get on top of a tower. Finally, they will solve a 63-piece puzzle. The first person to finish their puzzle wins immunity and a feast of spaghetti and cake.Nick edged out Kara for immunity and chose to share his reward with Angelina and Mike. While on reward, Angelina directed Nick and Mike to help her get the idol, which she did. Nick and Angelina both wanted Alison out, and Angelina coldly told Alison she was on the chopping block, but Mike tried to turn the vote against Davie for being a jury threat and a close ally to Nick. Mike played to Angelina's ego, as he knew she felt like she controlled the last 2 votes, so that Angelina would vote against Davie. At Tribal Council, Angelina joined in Mike's plan to send Davie to the jury, blindsiding Nick. \nAn angry Nick confronted Angelina and Mike over Davie's blindside, and worked to ensure Alison would go home next.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways will stand on a perch, and use a leaky bucket to fill a chute to obtain a key. Once they have a key, they can unlock a set of block puzzle pieces. First castaway to finish their puzzle wins.Nick won immunity again. Angelina told Mike to tell Alison and Kara to vote Angelina out so that she'd play her idol; Angelina then made a fake idol for Alison to find, out of a personal dislike towards her and wanting to embarrass her to add insult to injury. Kara got an idea to blindside Mike for his strong social game, and Nick considered joining her in that move. Meanwhile, Alison found the fake idol, much to Angelina's pleasure. At Tribal Council, Mike was offended when Alison, going along with Kara’s proposal to get out Mike, called him a threat. Alison played the fake idol, which was tossed into the fire, and Angelina played her real idol but negated no votes. Alison voted against Mike, but everyone else sent Alison to the jury.\n\nImmunity Challenge: With one hand tied behind their back, each castaway must drop a ball into a metal chute. The ball will travel down a spiraling metal track and exit out of one of two points. The contestant must catch the ball and drop it back into the chute at the top. At designated intervals, an additional ball is added to the track until eight balls are simultaneously in play. If a ball exits the track and is not caught at any time, the castaway is eliminated from the challenge. The last person standing wins.Nick won his third consecutive immunity challenge. He voiced his intention to take Angelina to the end, as he felt he would have a harder shot winning against Kara and Mike. This prompted Kara and Mike to practice making fire. Mike ultimately beat Kara in the challenge to join Nick and Angelina as finalists, making Kara the final member of the jury.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, Angelina focused on her rice negotiation, deceit and manipulation. She was chastised for constantly bringing up the rice negotiation. Nick highlighted on his social game and his role as an underdog, as well as opening up about his mother's death from a drug overdose. He was praised for his big moves at tribal and his immunity wins, but was criticized for playing a weaker social game toward the tail end of the season. Mike said that, even though at the beginning he was mostly there for the experience instead of the money, he was the one who orchestrated several late votes, and played the strongest social game. The jury praised his social game, although his treatment towards Alison at her elimination was questioned, as well as his inactivity around camp."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US37","episode":14,"episode_summary":"At the live reunion show, Nick was named Sole Survivor in a 7-3-0 decision. The castaways discussed the season with Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The 14 new players were divided into two tribes, Kama and Manu, and introduced to the four returning players: Joe and Aubry joined Kama, while David and Kelley joined Manu. The tribes were given a few minutes to retrieve supplies off a boat before paddling to their camps; Keith from Manu struggled with swimming, while Ron from Kama found a secret advantage. At camp, Ron followed the clue to an \"Advantage Menu\", giving him the choice of one of three advantages, to be used at any point until after the third Tribal Council: the ability to steal the other tribe's reward; an extra vote; or individual immunity at Tribal Council.\nAt Kama, Joe earned his tribe mates' admiration, particularly Aurora's, by making fire without flint. Eric and Gavin bonded over a desire to eliminate the returning players, and targeted Aubry. At Manu, Kelley and Lauren bonded. Wendy revealed to the tribe that she has Tourette syndrome. Reem bonded with Keith and Wendy, but the rest of her tribe mates were frustrated by her micromanaging; while Reem and Wendy helped teach Keith to swim, the rest of the tribe aligned against them.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The tribes ran through an obstacle course, after which six tribe mates solved a large slide puzzle. The first tribe to solve the puzzle won immunity and flint.Kama won the challenge. At Manu, Reem targeted Kelley and Lauren for being an obvious pair, but her overbearing attitude made Keith decide to turn on Reem and Wendy. At Tribal Council, Reem became confrontational, and the tribe split the votes between Reem and Wendy, with Reem becoming the first player voted out of the game. After her elimination, Reem was given an opportunity to remain in the game; she accepted the offer, and was sent to the Edge of Extinction."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At the Edge of Extinction, Reem explored the barren locale. At Manu, Wendy—Reem's closest ally—continued to campaign against Kelley, while David and Rick aligned, and considered joining Wendy's plan. Kelley then led an open hunt for the hidden immunity idol in order to prevent Wendy from finding it; Lauren—Kelley's closest ally—found the idol but kept it a secret from the rest of her tribe, including Kelley. At Kama, Aubry tried bonding with the new players, but Julia, Ron, and Victoria found her attempts disingenuous. Julie later tried leading Julia and Victoria on a hidden immunity idol search in order to improve the gender balance regarding idol finds.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: Castaways swam out toward a cage to retrieve a 400-pound snake filled with numbered discs. Once the snake was brought back to shore, another tribemate used the discs to solve a combination lock and unlock eight rings; castaways then tossed rings onto a series of eight paddles, in order. The first tribe to have rings on all paddles won immunity and their choice of cooking gear or fishing gear.After Keith struggled with swimming and tossing the rings for Manu, Kama won the challenge and chose the fishing gear. At Manu, Kelley and Wendy continued to target the other. Keith pledged his loyalty to Chris, which convinced Chris to join David, Rick and Wendy against Kelley, but Wardog tried convincing Chris to get rid of Keith to keep the tribe strong and to keep larger targets in the game. At Tribal Council, the tribe stayed united to vote out Keith. After his elimination, Keith struggled to make a decision about remaining in the game, while Reem considered quitting on the Edge of Extinction due to the isolation."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Keith took the offer to go to the Edge of Extinction and reunited with Reem. The next morning, they followed a map up a long set of stairs to find a day's worth of rice, and realized that they would have to make the climb daily to get food.\n\nReward challenge: Tribemates assembled a wheelbarrow and then navigated it through an obstacle course while collecting sandbags. They then reassembled the wheelbarrow into a slingshot, and used the sandbags to hit a series of targets. The first tribe to knock down all four of their targets won either luxury items or chickens.Despite Wendy injuring her ankle during the challenge, Manu won their first challenge and chose the chickens. Back at camp, Wendy conspired to set the chickens free but was sidelined due to her injury. At Kama, the new players minus Aurora (dubbed the Kama Six) aligned against Aurora, Aubry and Joe, but Aubry found the tribe's hidden immunity idol.\n\nImmunity challenge: Four players per tribe pulled three tribemates in a boat, who retrieved keys from a tower. At shore, they used the keys to unlock a three-stage ship's wheel puzzle. The first tribe to complete their puzzle won immunity.Kama won the challenge. At Manu, Wendy hid the tribe's flint to prevent her tribemates from cooking the chickens. While Kelley, Lauren, and Wardog targeted Wendy, David and Rick decided to blindside Kelley instead, and recruited Chris and Wendy. With the majority secured, David told Chris not to tell Wardog about the plan, but Chris did anyway, which prompted Wardog to target Chris instead for his disloyalty, believing him to be the mastermind of the plot against Kelley. David and Rick, frustrated by Chris' untrustworthiness, considered joining Wardog's plan; at Tribal Council, they joined the plan to eliminate Chris. Chris then took the opportunity to head to the Edge of Extinction."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":4,"episode_summary":"At the Edge of Extinction, Chris was confronted by Reem and Keith, both of whom he helped vote out, but he later earned their respect by catching fish. At Manu, everyone decided that Wendy was the next target, while Wendy returned the flint but continued conspiring to release the chickens. That day, the tribes gathered, and Kama was shocked to see Chris voted out as he was the most physical person on Manu. The remaining players were swapped into three new tribes: Aurora, Joe, Julia, Julie, and Ron remained on Kama; Aubry, Eric, Gavin, and Victoria joined Wendy on Manu; while the rest of Manu—David, Kelley, Lauren, Rick, and Wardog—became the new Lesu tribe, having to build a new camp from scratch.\nAt Kama, Aurora and Joe tried to form a majority alliance with Ron, but Ron instead conspired with Julia to search through Joe's bag to confirm he didn't have a hidden immunity idol. At Manu, Wendy told her new tribemates everything about her former tribe, and then released the chickens, much to everyone else's frustration. At Lesu, Lauren fell ill and stopped eating.\n\nImmunity challenge: The tribes scaled two large A-frames, and then pulled on rope to release a box of puzzle pieces. Two tribemates then used the pieces to solve a puzzle. The first two tribes to solve the puzzle won immunity.Kama and Manu won the challenge. Back at camp, Lauren and Kelley targeted Rick for being the most likely to ingratiate himself with the other tribe after the merge, while David and Rick targeted Lauren for her sickness. Wardog was the swing vote; at Tribal Council, he joined Lauren and Kelley to eliminate Rick, who took the offer to go to the Edge of Extinction."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Reward challenge: The tribes ran through an obstacle course and retrieved four bolas. The first tribe to throw all four bolas on their post won peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, extra condiments, bread and milk, while the second tribe to do so won a plate of sandwiches.Kama and Manu won the challenge. At Kama, Joe continued to provide for the tribe, which made Ron reconsider the plan to eliminate him. At Manu, the majority alliance of Eric, Gavin, and Victoria decided to target Aubry first over Wendy; Victoria then pretended to align with Aubry and Wendy against the men. Though David was the obvious target on Lesu, Wardog tried to convince Kelley to eliminate Lauren, her closest ally, for her illness. At the Edge of Extinction, the castaways found coded maps that led to a pair of advantages. After Rick deciphered the map, the quartet decided to explore together after eating, but Keith snuck off to try and claim the advantages for himself. The others eventually caught up to him; Chris wrestled Keith to claim one advantage, while Rick found the second. Chris's advantage gave him a series of planks and twine as \"practice\" for an upcoming challenge to re-enter the game, while Rick's advantage gave him the power to anonymously send an extra vote to a member of the tribe attending the next Tribal Council.\n\nImmunity challenge: Tribemates dove into the water to retrieve two puzzle pieces before loading them onto a pontoon. Once the pontoon was ashore, castaways used the pieces to build a pyramid-shaped puzzle. The first two tribes to build their puzzle won immunity.Kama placed first, while Lesu came from behind to win their first immunity challenge. Rick secretly sent the extra vote advantage to Aubry, which she found in her bag before Tribal Council. Aubry discussed blindsiding one of the men with Victoria and Wendy, but Wendy was reluctant to commit to a plan. At Tribal Council, Aubry voted against Wendy, but was blindsided by the rest of her tribe, being voted out without playing her idol or extra vote; she chose to go to the Edge of Extinction.\n\nReward challenge: Castaways jumped over a series of tables to a pile of large sandbags, which they searched through to find a lever. Pulling the lever released sixty smaller sandbags. They then used the sandbags to unspool two targets, raising flags. The first tribe to raise both flags won coffee and pastries, while the second tribe to do so won coffee and cookies.Kama placed first and Manu placed second. At Kama, Joe lamented the elimination of fellow returning player Aubry, and feared that he was next. He attempted to earn trust with Julia by talking to her about how they were both being viewed physical threats. At Lesu, Wardog continued to campaign against Lauren, but Kelley was frustrated with his constant scheming. At the Edge of Extinction, the castaways received another coded map, which Rick again deciphered. Reem and Keith found him looking in the ocean; Reem spotted the advantage, which Keith retrieved. The advantage allowed Keith to penalize another castaway during the upcoming reentry challenge. Chris remarked about Reem letting Keith grab the advantage, which led to Reem yelling at Chris.\n\nImmunity challenge: Tribes raced through an obstacle course while maneuvering a bag along a rope, and then threw a monkey's fist through a hoop to release a gate. Once through the gate, two tribemates solved a slide puzzle. The first tribe to solve the puzzle won immunity, sending the other two tribes to Tribal Council.Kama won the challenge, sending Lesu and Manu to a joint Tribal Council to eliminate a single castaway. Manu plotted to convince David to join their side to avoid a deadlock tie. At Lesu, Wardog suggested targeting Wendy in hopes that her tribemates would not risk going to a lottery tiebreaker to save her, though Kelley and Lauren were again frustrated by his refusal to listen to anyone else's ideas. The Lesu members looked for the hidden immunity idol, which Kelley found and shared with Lauren, who in turn told Kelley about her own idol. At Tribal Council, Manu voted against Lauren while Lesu voted against Wendy, and the votes were tied. Before the tiebreaker ballot, Eric, Gavin, and Victoria conferred with Lesu and decided to band together, unanimously eliminating Wendy on the revote. Wendy went to the Edge of Extinction; the following morning, the near-extinct castaways were instructed to board a boat to return to the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":6,"episode_summary":"The day after the joint Tribal Council, the tribes were merged and the Edge of Extinction was officially revealed. The six near-extinct castaways arrived to compete in a challenge to return to the game. Keith used his advantage to penalize Chris during the challenge, giving him 30 knots to untie before completing the final part of the challenge.\n\nEdge of Extinction challenge: The competitors raced through an obstacle course to untie a bag with bamboo and twine, which they used to create a pole long enough to retrieve a key through a gate. Once through, they navigated a ball up a vertical maze. The first player to get their ball to the top of the maze returned to the game.Rick won the challenge and returned to the game. After the merged tribe, Vata, departed for a celebratory feast, the near-extinct castaways were given the chance to return to the Edge of Extinction to await a second re-entry challenge. All five castaways took the offer but, back at the Edge, Keith and Wendy decided to raise the sail and quit the game. For winning the re-entry challenge, Rick secretly earned two halves of a powerless hidden immunity idol; he was to give one half to another player and, if both players remained in the game following the next Tribal Council, the idol would gain its power. He gave one half to David, his closest ally. Kelley, Lauren, and Wardog tried to permeate the Kama majority by targeting Rick again; Aurora and Joe — the Kama minority alliance — were open to Kelley's plan, but Julie was appalled by their cruelty of sending Rick back to the Edge right after he returned.\n\nImmunity challenge: Castaways held a vertical pole over their head with a tiki statue at the end, while standing on a narrow beam. Every few minutes, the castaways stepped forward to a narrower part of their beam. Castaways were eliminated if they fell off the beam or dropped their statue; the last player remaining won immunity.Julie outlasted Lauren and Joe to win immunity. Back at camp, Julie targeted Kelley and told Rick about Kelley's plan. Ron asked Joe about that night's target, but Joe's vague answers frightened Ron. Ron then approached his Kama Six alliance about targeting Joe for being a physical threat. At Tribal Council, it was revealed that all remaining players on the Edge of Extinction — including Reem, Chris, and Aubry — would attend Tribal Council as members of the jury. Joe and Kelley's alliances split their votes between David and Rick while David and Rick voted against Kelley, but the Kama Six decided to blindside Joe, who went to the Edge of Extinction."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":7,"episode_summary":"After Joe was eliminated by the Kama Six, Aurora — the lone Kama outsider and Joe's closest ally — lamented their betrayal, but considered sticking with the Kama Six as long as they had power. The alliance of Kelley, Lauren and Wardog plotted to align with Aurora and former Manu allies David and Rick to force a tie, but David and Rick had aligned with Kama Six leaders Eric and Ron for long-term safety.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of six, four teammates swam out to a platform to retrieve two sets of wooden puzzle pieces and brought them to shore, where the two remaining teammates used them to solve a puzzle. The first team to solve their puzzle won a reward of Chinese takeout.The team of Aurora, Eric, Julia, Rick, Wardog and Victoria won the reward. Back at camp, David agreed to reunite with Kelley's alliance, but Rick — upset over having been voted out by them on the Lesu tribe — refused to do so, preferring to stick with the Kama group. At the Edge of Extinction, a coded note led Aubry to two advantages: a pole with rope as practice for the next re-entry challenge, and an extra vote to assign to another player.\n\nImmunity challenge: Castaways stood on a wooden frame, balancing a block between their head and the top of the frame without the assistance of their hands. The last contestant with their block remaining won immunity.When only Aurora, Victoria and Lauren remained, Lauren fainted. While the medical team checked on Lauren, Aurora tried to negotiate with Victoria for safety after the Kama Six's betrayal, but was rebuked by her tribemates for doing so while Lauren was unconscious. Lauren recovered, and Aurora won the challenge. Back at camp, Aurora found the extra vote that Aubry had secretly gifted her. The Kama Six (with Aurora, David and Rick) planned to split the votes between Lauren and Kelley, but Wardog spoke with Gavin and Julia about Eric and Ron's deal with David and Rick, claiming that Eric and Ron were keeping around David and Rick as allies for when the Kama Six had to turn on each other. A suspicious Julia talked to Eric about voting out David that night, but Eric's refusal prompted her, Gavin and Victoria to consider turning on Eric and Ron. At Tribal Council, Rick joined the Kama plan to split the votes between Lauren and Kelley, but Aurora, Gavin, Julia and Victoria flipped and voted with Kelley's alliance plus David to blindside Eric, who went to the Edge of Extinction."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":8,"episode_summary":"After they were left out of Eric's blindside, Julie and Ron attempted to reintegrate with their Kama alliance. Julie expressed to Ron and Rick that she felt Julia was running the show and was going to win the game. Gavin aimed to team up his alliance (including Julia and Victoria) with Kelley, Lauren and Wardog; his first target was David, but Julia was unsure about aligning with another tight trio. David and Rick reconciled and realigned with Julie and Ron.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways balanced a ball on a wooden bow while standing on a slanted, increasingly narrow beam, moving farther down as the challenge progressed; if they or the ball fell, they were eliminated. The last castaway remaining won immunity.Gavin outlasted David to win the challenge. Kelley's alliance tried to change the target from David to Ron, prompting Julia to try and reunite the Kama alliance and target Kelley, which frustrated Gavin. The Kama alliance's quiet behavior alarmed David and Kelley's alliances; their fears were further exacerbated by Julia and Aurora's comments at Tribal Council, prompting them to begin forming a new plan on the spot, resulting in a lengthy, chaotic series of discussions. Rick suggested that the remaining Lesu members, with Ron and Julie, turn on Julia and Aurora, who he felt were running the game. Initially, Wardog threw out flipping on Kama by targeting Aurora. However, Julie once again threw out Julia's name, prompting Wardog to switch the vote to Julia. Ultimately, David gave his half of the hidden immunity idol to Rick, who played the full idol on David, negating Aurora's vote against him; Julia voted against Kelley and Aurora voted against David, while the rest of the tribe turned on Julia and voted her out, who went to the Edge of Extinction."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":9,"episode_summary":"After Julia's elimination, Wardog created a new majority alliance with Gavin, Julie, Lauren, Kelley and Ron, targeting Aurora who they felt had cost Julia her game. Before the immunity challenge, the castaways were given the opportunity to sit out of the challenge in exchange for pizza; Lauren, Kelley, Victoria and Ron took the offer.\n\nImmunity challenge: Castaways squatted over an urn of water above a fire. If they stood too high, their urn would extinguish their fire, while if they dropped too low, a flag would release; both eliminated them from the challenge. The last castaway remaining won immunity.Aurora outlasted David to win the challenge. With Aurora immune, Wardog's alliance decided to target David instead. David and Rick decided to target the tight alliance of Kelley, Lauren and Wardog, and tried to recruit Aurora, Julie, Victoria and Ron. Julie and Ron found themselves in the middle. At Tribal Council, David and Rick voted for Wardog, but everyone else voted out David, who went to the Edge of Extinction.\nAt the Edge, the castaways were given another clue. David deciphered the clue and found an advantage in the next immunity challenge, to be given to a remaining player; he chose Rick.\n\nImmunity challenge: Castaways navigated balls down a dimpled paddle; the first to get all five of their balls in the dimples won immunity.Rick's advantage gave him only four balls to secure instead of five, and he won the challenge. While Wardog's alliance initially planned to go through on their earlier plan to target Aurora, Wardog decided to betray Kelley for being the last returning player remaining, recruiting Aurora, Rick, Ron and Victoria. To try and secure Ron's loyalty, Aurora gave him her extra vote. At Tribal Council, Wardog's new plan held strong and Kelley was blindsided; she went to the Edge of Extinction, where she told the others about her and Lauren's idols."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":10,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Gavin confronted Wardog about being excluded from the plan to blindside Kelley, prompting Gavin to target Wardog. Rick proposed an alliance with Ron and Wardog as the biggest remaining threats to take out lesser targets, while Ron and Julie reconciled after voting separately.\n\nReward challenge: Divided into two teams of four, two members of each team swam to a platform, where they pulled themselves under and untied a set of rings. They brought the rings to a second platform, where the remaining two team members tossed the rings onto three floating pegs. The first team to land all three rings won a trip to the Sabeto mud pits and a feast.Julie, Lauren, Rick, and Wardog won the challenge. While on the reward trip, Julie and Lauren considered working together against Wardog, although Lauren felt Rick was a bigger threat than Wardog. At camp, Ron gave the extra vote back to Aurora, but they disagreed over rice rations, while Victoria and Gavin discussed with them about voting out Rick before Wardog.\n\nImmunity challenge: Castaways raced over a series of frames while holding a buoy. They maneuvered a second buoy through a rope tunnel, then untied a third buoy and crawled under a net. They used the keys attached to the buoys to unlock their puzzle pieces. The first person to finish their star puzzle won immunity.Rick won immunity, thwarting the majority's plan. Gavin began to rally votes against Wardog, who discussed targeting Aurora with Julie, Rick and Ron. At Tribal Council, Rick and Wardog voted for Aurora, but everyone else voted out Wardog, who went to the Edge of Extinction."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":11,"episode_summary":"After Tribal Council, Rick confronted Ron for lying to him about the plan against Wardog; to repair their relationship, Ron gave Rick the Advantage Menu he found during the marooning but, unbeknownst to Rick, it had long-expired. At the reward challenge, the players were joined by their loved ones: Rick's wife Becca, Julie's husband Mark, Lauren's father Joey, Ron's husband Lloyd, Victoria's father Roch, Aurora's brother Shane and Gavin's wife Carly.\n\nReward challenge: The castaways retrieved ocean water with a bucket and tossed it to their loved one, who would use another bucket to catch the water and pour it into a third bucket attached to a seesaw. The first pair to tip their seesaw won a picnic.Ron and Lloyd won the challenge, and chose to share the picnic with Gavin, Julie and their loved ones. Knowing he was in danger, Rick searched for a hidden immunity idol; Aurora searched through his bag, but was caught when Rick returned to camp. Rick continued his search and found a clue that told him the idol was hidden in a tree above the tribe's shelter; he retrieved it that night while his tribemates slept.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways stood on footrests against two walls, bracing themselves with armrests; the last castaway standing won immunity.Gavin won immunity. With the tribe united against Rick, the others made contingency plans in case Rick played an idol. Julie and Ron told Rick to vote Aurora, and assured him that the Advantage Menu was real. Victoria and Lauren planned to split their votes between Rick and Ron, as the perceived next-biggest threat, and let Aurora and Gavin know their plans. As it was the last night Aurora could play her extra vote, she gave it to Gavin to ensure that it remained in play throughout a tiebreaker due to his immunity, though Gavin considered betraying his alliance by not voting Ron after he had shared the loved ones reward with him. At Tribal Council, Rick tried to use the Advantage Menu for individual immunity, but was informed by Jeff that it has already expired on Day 8. He berated Ron and Julie for trying to embarrass him before playing his idol on himself, negating the four votes against him. Rick had voted against Aurora, but Gavin (voting twice) and Lauren voted against Ron, who went to the Edge of Extinction."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Rick searched for, and found, another hidden immunity idol.\n\nReward challenge: Each castaway shot two balls into an overhead track and race through an obstacle to catch the ball before it hits the ground. Then, they dug their way under a log before attempting to land the balls on top of a narrow perch. The first castaway to land their two balls on their perch won a helicopter tour over Fiji, followed by a feast at a luxury pool resort.Gavin won and chose Lauren and Victoria to join him, which made Aurora feel like the outsider of their alliance. While on reward, Lauren considered keeping Julie, perceiving her to be easier to beat in the end. \n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways slid lettered discs through a slot, and then transported them over balance beams using two handles. After they had all their tiles, they used them to solve a word puzzle. The first person to solve the puzzle won immunity.Rick won immunity. Lauren attempted to convince Gavin to vote out Aurora over Julie, as she felt she had a better shot beating Julie in the end then Aurora. She was willing to vote Aurora without Victoria's consent, but Gavin wouldn't commit without Victoria, who was unsure about leaving Julie and Rick both in the game together and also felt that Lauren was secretly working with Julie. At Tribal Council, Rick revealed his idol and said he would play it for Julie in an attempt to get the others to flip. When the vote came, he kept his idol, and the rest of the tribe voted out Aurora, who went to the Edge of Extinction."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The castaways arrived at the second and final Edge of Extinction re-entry challenge.\n\nEdge of Extinction challenge: The near-extinct castaways were attached to a rope woven through a series of obstacles. They then guided two balls through a table maze. The first one to finish returned to the game.Chris won the challenge, and the other Edge of Extinction castaways were officially eliminated. Chris and Rick reconnected, while Victoria plotted to vote Chris out right away. Chris told Lauren he knew of her idol.\n\nReward/Immunity challenge: Castaways traversed a series of obstacles, solved a combination lock, and completed a vertical puzzle. The first to complete their puzzle won immunity and a steak and chocolate cake meal.Julie won and chose Chris and Lauren to accompany her on reward, which made Rick wary of Julie's loyalty. During the reward meal, Chris claimed that the jurors believed that Rick and Victoria were the biggest remaining threats. This prompted Lauren to want to blindside Victoria. Meanwhile, Victoria plotted to work with Rick because she felt Julie and Lauren would realize they had a better shot beating Chris in the end than her or Gavin. Later, Rick revealed his idol to Chris, who in turn revealed that he had received the same two-part powerless hidden immunity idol that Rick had received earlier in the game. Needing to give one half to another player to give the idol power provided both halves survived the next Tribal Council, Chris gave one half to Rick. Chris then attempted to convince Lauren to play her idol on him in order to impress the jury. At Tribal Council, Rick played his idol, and Lauren played her idol on Chris, negating three votes against Rick and one vote against Chris. Chris and Rick's votes against Victoria sent her to the jury.\nThe next morning, Rick found yet another idol and hid two fake ones; Julie and Lauren found them and believed them to be real. However, they eventually deduced one was fake as two idols were played in the previous Tribal Council, and they saw Rick find one. Rick also gave Chris his half of the two-part idol, giving it power.\n\nImmunity challenge: Each castaway raced through a giant obstacle course with six stations over different obstacles and collected six bags of puzzle pieces along the way. They used those pieces to solve a puzzle. The first to finish their puzzle won immunity.Rick won his fourth immunity challenge. He and Chris targeted Lauren as they felt she had played the most strategic game out of her, Gavin, and Julie. Knowing he and Chris both had real idols, and Julie and Lauren both had fake ones, Rick decided to strike a deal with Gavin by giving his immunity idol in exchange for Gavin taking him to final tribal if he won final immunity. Gavin agreed to the deal despite questioning if he would follow through on his side of it if the time came. This prompted Chris to play his idol on himself, negating three votes. Chris and Rick's votes against Lauren sent her to the jury.\n\nImmunity challenge: The castaways stacked lettered blocks on an unbalanced table while pulling on a rope to keep the table balanced while retrieving their blocks. The first contestant to stack their blocks to spell \"FINAL 3\" won immunity, along with the right to determine the competitors for the fire-making challenge to determine the third finalist.Chris won the challenge. He helped Gavin and Julie practice making fire, but at Tribal Council, he decided to give immunity to both of them so that he could face Rick in the fire-making challenge himself. His reasoning was to show the jury he earned his spot in the final 3 in a riskier fashion. Chris defeated Rick, making him the final member of the jury.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, Gavin highlighted on his social game, Julie claimed that her emotions were part of her strategy, and Chris said he played the best game he could with the 13 days he was in it. Gavin was praised for never having his name written down at tribal, but criticized for not making big moves throughout the game. Julie mostly faced criticism for letting her emotions get the best of her strategy. Chris was praised for making big moves when he re-entered the game, but Gavin pointed out that Chris had an unfair advantage since he was out of the game for so long."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US38","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Nearly a year later, at the live reunion show, Chris was named the Sole Survivor in a 9-4-0 jury vote over Gavin and Julie, respectively. The castaways then reunited to discuss the season with host Jeff Probst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The two tribes, Lairo and Vokai, were dropped off at their camps with no introduction by Jeff, and several members wondered about the \"Island of the Idols\" theme. At Lairo, Tom bonded with Elaine and Vince, and the other seven members agreed to align against them. Missy felt more secure in aligning with the women, so she told Elaine her name had been mentioned for elimination. Elaine's sense of humor caught the attention of her tribemates, especially Ronnie; he proceeded to propose an alliance with her (masking his true intention of voting her out first), but she distrusted him.\nAt Vokai, Janet led the tribe in making fire without flint. Jason quickly began searching for an idol, but Molly and Dan noted his absence from camp and targeted him. Jack bonded with Tommy, who subsequently bonded with several of his other tribemates. Kellee and Molly were put off by Dan's \"touchy\" behavior, voicing their concerns to Janet. Dan and Kellee later smoothed things over, though Kellee was still wary of Dan.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Tribe members climbed over a net and slid down a slide. One tribe member then used a grappling hook to lower a bridge. On the other side, the tribemates formed a human ladder for one person to drop two ropes, so that the rest of the tribe could meet them on top of the tower. There, three tribe members had to solve a village puzzle. The first tribe to assemble their puzzle correctly won immunity and flint.Vokai ran away with the victory during the puzzle portion of the challenge. Jeff had a Lairo member randomly draw the name of a tribemate to be sent to the Island of the Idols; Elaine drew Elizabeth's name. Jeff also said Elizabeth would return in time for Tribal Council that night. At the Island of the Idols, an excited Elizabeth was greeted by Boston Rob and Sandra, who taught her how to make fire. Elizabeth made fire after struggling, then accepted an offer to take on Rob in a fire-making challenge for an idol good at the next two Tribal Councils. Elizabeth lost the duel and therefore, her vote as well. Before she left, Rob and Sandra told her to randomly draw a Vokai member's name (which remained unrevealed) to be the next visitor to the Island of the Idols.\nBack at camp, Chelsea conferred with Elaine, Tom, and Vince, who targeted Ronnie. Elaine was targeted by some of the other tribe members, but after pledging her loyalty to them, Aaron targeted Vince instead. Elizabeth returned to camp and withheld the information about Rob and Sandra, as well as the fact that she lost her vote. At Tribal Council, Rob and Sandra watched the proceedings from a concealed alcove; Elaine continued to plead her case, while Ronnie made a case for tribe strength. Ultimately, Ronnie was blindsided by the rest of his tribe, sans Aaron and Elizabeth (the latter of whom cast no vote), becoming the first person eliminated from the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":2,"episode_summary":"The aftermath of Lairo's first Tribal Council was tense, with Vince questioning why he received votes and Aaron expressing frustration about being left out of the loop. Missy reassured him that he would be safe, but Aaron was skeptical. The following day, Chelsea stumbled upon an idol while gathering firewood. At Vokai, Noura's quirky behavior was a concern to her tribemates, while Jack, Jamal, and Molly were tightly aligned. A boat came in to pick up Kellee for Island of the Idols, as her name had been drawn by Elizabeth previously. Upon arriving, Kellee was greeted by Rob and Sandra, who told her more about themselves and said that her test would determine how well she paid attention socially. Rob offered Kellee an idol good for two Tribal Councils if she could correctly answer 4 of 5 questions; her hesitance made Rob offer the idol for 3 councils if she could get 3 of 5 right. Kellee ultimately won the challenge, but at camp, she also kept Rob and Sandra a secret in favor of a lie about a choice between urns.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The teams swam to the ocean floor to release a ladder. They had to use it for a respective teammate to climb up and unhook a bag containing three balls. Once ashore, the tribe used the ladder as a bridge to a table, where one member had to land all 3 balls into targets. The first tribe to do so won immunity and spices.Lairo won the challenge. The vote initially was a toss-up between Jason and Noura; Molly wanted Noura gone first, but Jamal saw Jason as a more dangerous player. Lauren saw an opportunity to target Molly for her perceived social prowess, roping in several tribe members, though Tommy was reluctant to make waves at the tribe's first vote. At Tribal Council, Jason and Noura both pled for their tribemates to spare them. Ultimately, Lauren’s plan came to fruition and Molly was voted out, leaving Jamal and Jack shocked."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Now in the minority of Vokai, Jack tried to reintegrate with his tribemates, while Jamal attempted to shift the target off himself by targeting Dan, though Janet grew wary of Jamal's scrambling. At Lairo, the men were wary of a women's alliance and attempted to align with Vince, who secretly wasn't on board. Karishma, who wasn't as keen on the women's alliance, accidentally cut her hand with the machete and felt alienated from the tribe afterwards. A boat came to pick up Vince for Island of the Idols, and after Vince left, Dean openly suggested splitting the vote in case Vince were to find an idol, which made Karishma paranoid. At the Island of the Idols, Rob and Sandra tested Vince's ability to remain calm under pressure by challenging him to sneak into Vokai's camp after dark to light a torch from their fire without being caught. Vince accepted the challenge, but due to rain which had put out Vokai's fire, resorted to taking ash from the fire pit instead, which satisfied Rob and Sandra. Vince was given an immunity idol good for his next two Tribal Councils.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One member from each tribe swam to a net to retrieve a key. This allowed their tribemates to meet them at a teeter-totter. Once up there, the tribes maintained their balance on the teeter while two members grabbed a bag of puzzle pieces on each side. They then used the key to unlock the remaining puzzle pieces inside a crate. The first tribe to solve the resulting fish puzzle won immunity plus comfort items and a tarp.Vokai overtook Lairo in the puzzle to win the challenge. The women debated voting out Vince or Tom (due to wanting to keep Aaron and Dean around for challenges), while Vince told a paranoid Karishma to vote against Tom. At Tribal Council, Karishma whispered to some of her tribemates but was called out by Tom. Vince brought his idol but didn't play it, and the women stuck together to send him out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":4,"episode_summary":"After narrowly surviving the vote, Karishma was still uneasy about her position in the tribe, while Aaron and Missy were concerned about a potential power couple in Dean and Chelsea. At Vokai, Jamal searched for an idol while his tribemates were occupied, which he eventually found. Unlike the previous visits to Island of the Idols, Vokai had to come to a unanimous agreement on whom to send, or else the tribe would randomly draw a name. Noura eventually volunteered; upon arriving, Rob and Sandra gave her a chance to prove her powers of persuasion by explaining the next immunity challenge would have one tribe member call out directions to others who would all be blindfolded; their challenge to Noura was to persuade her tribe to make her the caller. If successful, she would gain an advantage to block a tribemate from voting, or otherwise would lose her vote. She agreed instantly, but upon returning to camp, her disjointed explanations of why she should be the caller created distrust among the tribe.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One castaway from each tribe was their caller, directing their blindfolded tribemates to collect keys by pulling down a bucket of water. Once all three keys have been collected, the caller brought their tribe to a puzzle; they directed one blindfolded tribemate to solve the puzzle. The first to do so for their tribe won immunity plus an assortment of baked goods and caffeinated accessories (the reward component was not shown in the episode).Vokai had Noura sit out. Lairo nearly came from way behind, but a mistake in the puzzle proved costly, and Vokai won the challenge. Aaron tried to convince his tribemates to vote out Dean to break up the \"power couple\", but several others wanted to vote out Karishma. Missy sensed that some of them were scared to turn on Dean so quickly, so she proposed voting out Chelsea instead. At Tribal Council, Missy's plan worked; Chelsea didn't play her idol and was blindsided with it in her pocket."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Dean questioned his tribemates over Chelsea's blindside, eventually deducing it was Missy who orchestrated the vote. Upon arriving at a challenge site, the tribes were randomly reshuffled; the new Lairo tribe consisted of Dean, Jack, Jamal, Janet, Karishma, Kellee, Noura, and Tom, while the new Vokai tribe consisted of Aaron, Dan, Elaine, Elizabeth, Jason, Lauren, Missy, and Tommy.\n\nReward Challenge: Tribemates' arms and legs were bound together as they made their way over a sand hump. Over the hump were two more tribemates to repeat the process on two occasions. Once all three pairs finished the course, the last two tribemates completed a vertical fire puzzle. The first tribe to finish their puzzle won an Applebee's feast.Vokai continued their challenge dominance even with new members. At Lairo, Dean and Tom respectively bonded with Kellee and Janet, while Karishma eagerly pled her loyalty to the five Vokai members. At Vokai, Elaine and Missy fake-fought to entertain their new tribemates, while Aaron bonded with Tommy in hopes that it would break the 4-4 stalemate in the tribe.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways swam out to a giant ladder jutting out over the water, climbed it, leapt into the water, and dove down to retrieve buoys. They used the buoys to score three baskets. The first team to score three baskets won immunity.Vokai won immunity again. Dean and Tom were willing to cut Karishma due to her weakness in challenges, while Vokai debated voting out a threat in Dean or Tom, or preserving tribe strength with them. Noura had lost her vote from her unsuccessful test at Island of the Idols, but Vokai still had a 4-3 majority in the tribe. At Tribal Council, Dean was left out of another vote as Tom was sent out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Despite being in a 5-2 majority, Noura approached Dean about turning against Jack and Jamal, but Dean was wary of her eagerness to flip. At Vokai, Aaron told Jason he was ready to jump ship to avoid going to rocks.\n\nReward Challenge: Six members of each tribe pulled a sled with sandbags and one person on top. Once they are through the course, have collected a key, and unlocked a slingshot, the rider used it to knock down three targets. The first tribe to knock down all three targets won chickens.Elaine was picked to sit out for Vokai, meaning she would also be sent to the Island of the Idols. Vokai won the challenge. At the Island, Elaine accepted Rob and Sandra's challenge before even hearing what it was. The two instructed her that she had to retrieve a vote-blocking advantage that was hidden at one of the stations at the upcoming immunity challenge without being caught; being caught or not retrieving the advantage would cause her to forfeit her vote at the next Tribal Council. At Lairo, Jack offhandedly mentioned the word \"du-rag\" in Jamal's presence, but immediately realized the ramifications of what he said. Jack offered an apology, which Jamal accepted.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes dug under a cage, then transported it while attempting to gather five balls. Upon finishing the course, they threw the balls into five targets. The first tribe to score all five won immunity.Elaine was able to snatch the advantage, and Lairo came from behind to win immunity. Elaine told Elizabeth, Aaron, and Missy about her advantage, but Aaron internally debated whether to flip. At Tribal Council, Elaine revealed her advantage, leading to whispering amongst the Lairo and Vokai alliances. Ultimately, Elaine blocked Jason's vote, and Aaron stayed loyal to his original tribe, sending Jason home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Lauren felt betrayed by Missy, to whom she felt close, after her alliance's successful blindside of Jason. At Lairo, Noura tried to organize a girls' alliance against Jamal. Janet was selected for Island of the Idols; Rob and Sandra's challenge to her was to play a game to test her ability of calculated risk. If she won, she would receive an advantage where she could forgo any single Tribal Council up until the final seven (in which case she would be immune); if she lost the game, she would lose her vote. Janet decided not to play due to concern over being a future target because of the advantage. Back at Vokai, Tommy and Lauren tried to turn the Lairo members against Dan, but Missy saw through their scheme.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribe members tossed coconuts into a basket to ultimately make a tower of puzzle pieces to collapse. They used those heavy pieces to solve a puzzle that reveals the season's logo. The first tribe to correctly assemble the puzzle won immunity.Vokai edged out Lairo as both tribes were placing the final piece of the puzzle. The Vokai majority plus Karishma agreed to vote out Dean, but Kellee got an idea to turn against Jamal or Jack using her idol. As that night was the last opportunity to play it, she discreetly gave the idol to Dean. At Tribal Council, Jamal voiced concerns of a potential girls' alliance, but Kellee took the comment as being sexist, leading to a healthy discussion about respect for women. When the time came to vote, Kellee voted against Dean to cover herself; Dean played the idol to negate 5 votes, but this prompted Jamal to play his idol on Noura. Jamal's idol went to waste, while Noura joined Dean in voting out Jack, who became the first member of the jury.\nThe episode concluded with a tribute to two-time contestant Rudy Boesch, who died the weekend prior to the episode's release."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Kellee located a hidden immunity idol on the Lairo beach, prior to both tribes receiving notice about the merge into Lumuwaku. At the celebratory merge banquet, Kellee met with Missy for the first time, discovering both had issues with how Dan behaved around them. This led to a long discourse between the merged tribe over Kellee's accusations against Dan, requiring production to speak with the contestants as a whole and individually, warning Dan about his behavior. In the meantime, Tommy talked to Janet and Kellee about aligning with Aaron, Missy, Elizabeth, and Elaine, but Kellee was skeptical because she felt those were the four most dangerous players in the game. Despite this, Kellee had bonded with Missy on the beach, to Tommy and Lauren's concern. Kellee decided not to vote out Dan for his behavior and put her feelings aside to target Missy. However, Lauren told Missy about the plan, causing Missy to believe Kellee was lying about Dan. Missy instructed Elizabeth to lie to Janet about Dan.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each contestant had to hold up a board with three balls placed in holes along it. The board was held over spokes that would poke the balls out of the holes if lowered too far, and also had a latching mechanism to prevent the board from being raised. The last player with any balls remaining on their board won.Aaron won the challenge, with Kellee targeting Missy as the biggest remaining threat, but decided to target Dan instead after Jamal and Janet agreed to. Kellee felt uneasy about Dan's calm demeanor before Tribal and searched for a merged tribe idol, which she found. At Tribal, the situation around Dan was discussed. Kellee opted not to play either idol, and while Dan received five votes, Missy's turn led to Kellee's elimination.\nAfter Kellee's blindside, Dan quickly tried to learn why he was targeted by Missy, Elizabeth and Janet. Both Missy and Elizabeth admitted that they did not actually have any issues with him. Janet also apologized to her ally Dan, explaining that he had been targeted based on his reputation. Missy and Elizabeth gaslit Janet after everyone assumed the incident was made up by Kellee and Janet. The following morning, Janet found a new immunity idol. Near camp, Jamal saw a note and took it, finding that it would send him to the Island of the Idols. There, Rob and Sandra explained that by grabbing the note, he already lost his vote for the next Tribal Council, but gave him the opportunity to sabotage another player, giving him blank paper and pencil to write anything he wanted. He used the blank paper to create a fake Legacy Advantage, claiming that it could be played when there are 9 or 6 castaways remaining. Back at camp, Jamal claimed that he had found a special advantage that he had to write down and give another player, giving this to Dean. However, this painted more of a target on Jamal, as Dean and the rest of the tribe weren't convinced of Jamal's story.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Each contestant held a rope tether behind their backs while hanging over water, and had to stay in that position as long as possible. Periodically, the amount of rope was lengthened, making it more difficult to hold their position. Immunity was given to the last man and woman standing.Aaron and Missy won immunity. Jamal, at the bottom of his alliance and without a vote, scrambled for some support before Tribal, while Janet became concerned she would be targeted. At Tribal, the situation from Dan and Kellee came up again, leading to a long discussion on appropriate behaviors. Janet even considered quitting due to Elizabeth and Missy's playing on Kellee's accusations against Dan, but was talked out of it. After the vote, Janet played the idol, but it was unnecessary as the tribe had sent Jamal to the jury with six votes to Janet's two and Karishma's three."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Karishma continued to struggle with the elements and at camp, but she discovered an idol. She lied about feeling ill to her tribemates, since they had her gather coconuts and she only had collected two in an hour.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The tribe was randomly divided into two groups: Aaron, Dan, Dean, Janet, Lauren, and Noura made up the purple group, while Elaine, Elizabeth, Karishma, Missy, and Tommy made up the orange group. Each castaway balanced on a beam while spinning a ball around a frame using centrifugal force. The last castaway left standing from each group won immunity, but the last one left standing overall won peanut butter & jelly sandwiches for their group, as well as the right for their group to visit Tribal Council last to view the results from the first one.Noura won immunity on purple but immediately dropped out afterward in her elation, leading to orange winning reward; Elaine also won immunity. Several of the purple team members agreed to vote out Janet, but Aaron's name was also brought up due to his status as a physical threat. Dean was reluctant to expose himself as a physical threat by voting out Aaron, but at Tribal Council, he joined the rest of the group in sending Aaron to the jury.\nMeanwhile on orange, Karishma and Missy clashed when the former felt bullied as they tried to talk strategy. Missy targeted Tommy due to his strategic and personal bond with Lauren, but Elaine came up with a plan to target Missy. At orange's Tribal Council, Karishma and Missy's conflict was brought up. Ultimately, Karishma joined Elaine and Tommy in blindsiding Missy from the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Dean grew concerned of a \"goat\" alliance banding together to take out threats, and he attempted to align with Tommy and Elizabeth. He also wrote his own fake legacy advantage to give his tribemates the perception that he'd get rid of the potentially real one Jamal gave him earlier. The tribe had to unanimously select a person for Island of the Idols or go to random draw; Lauren immediately volunteered, which upset Karishma, as she wanted to go. On the Island, Lauren's test was to predict the winner of the upcoming immunity challenge; Rob and Sandra told her about the challenge, which gave castaways the option to sit out and eat. Rob eventually offered to have Lauren pick two potential winners, and she chose Noura and Elizabeth. Lauren then told her tribemates about the challenge, attempting to get only Noura and Elizabeth to compete.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways held a metal bar to keep an overhead ball in place. If the ball dropped, that castaway was eliminated. The last one standing won immunity, but castaways could give up their shot at immunity for a breakfast feast.Elizabeth, Karishma, and Noura competed, with Noura outlasting Elizabeth for her second consecutive immunity win. Lauren received an idol good for the next two Tribal Councils for her correct prediction. The tribe considered voting out a threat in Elizabeth or an easy target in Karishma. Karishma attempted to rally Elizabeth to take out Dan, but Lauren overheard their conversation and foiled Karishma’s plan. This made Dan want to switch the target from Elizabeth to Karishma, which he expressed to his alliance. At Tribal Council, Dean played the fake legacy advantage he wrote, and Karishma played her idol. This prompted Lauren to play her idol, but no votes were cast against her. Seven votes against Karishma were negated, and a 1-1 tie between Elizabeth and Janet led to Elizabeth being unanimously sent to the jury on the revote."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":11,"episode_summary":"On day 31, the castaways were met by their loved ones: Lauren's husband Matt, Tommy's girlfriend Nicole, Karishma's husband Drew, Noura's sister Lana, Janet's husband John, Dean's mother Lori, Dan's 13-year old son Ryan, and Elaine's girlfriend Tonya.\n\nReward Challenge: Randomly divided into pairs, castaways completed an obstacle course from the water to the sand to ultimately toss a bag onto a small stand. The first pair to do this won time with their loved ones.Janet and Tommy won reward; they selected Dan and Lauren, as well as their loved ones, to join them on reward. Those four players aligned and agreed to target Elaine first, while the four left at camp (Dean, Elaine, Karishma, and Noura) aligned as well, with Noura going on a tirade about not being chosen for the reward. The latter group targeted Lauren as the biggest social threat and searched for a new idol, which Elaine found in front of them.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways stood on a small block while stabilizing a ball against an overhanging piece of wood. If at any point they lost their concentration or balance, their ball dropped, eliminating them. The last person left standing won immunity.Lauren outlasted Elaine for immunity. Though Karishma was again targeted as an easy vote, a split-vote proposal opened the door for the four left out of the reward to orchestrate a blindside against Tommy, upon Elaine's suggestion. Noura's paranoia that Tommy may also have an idol made Dean uneasy about working with her, and at Tribal Council, he ultimately whispered to Tommy that Elaine, Noura, and Karishma had targeted him. This led to open whispering that culminated in Noura loudly revealing the alliance's plans, not to trust Dean, and that Elaine found an idol. Lauren grew frustrated that Noura had not told her alliance of this information before tribal, which prompted her, Dan, Janet, and Tommy to consider voting Noura out. With her idol exposed, Elaine was forced to play it, but the tribe had agreed to their initial plan of sending Karishma to the jury, with Noura receiving three votes after her outburst."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":12,"episode_summary":"As retaliation against Dean for leaking the previous tribal's plan to Tommy, Noura hid Dean's shoes. The next morning, Janet, Tommy, Dean, and Elaine searched for a new idol, which Janet found and showed to Tommy. Dean saw them looking down at something and correctly surmised they had it. Elaine told Lauren that Tommy, Dan, and Dean could potentially be plotting a guys' alliance, and Tommy was indeed wary of Lauren's status as a social threat and sought to align with Dan and Dean. \nThe next person for Island of the Idols was to be selected by random draw; Janet drew Dean's name. When he arrived, he was offered a coin flip for one of three advantages of his choice: an idol nullifier, an extra vote, or an idol good for the next Tribal Council that couldn't be played for himself. Dean won and chose the idol nullifier. At camp, Dean told everyone he lost his vote, but privately told Tommy the truth, which concerned Tommy about Dean's surging gameplay.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways spun themselves to unspool rope from around their waist, then had to cross a balance beam while dizzy. On the beam is a puzzle piece; once through the course, castaways had to solve a word puzzle. The first to do so won immunity.Dean barely beat out Elaine for immunity. Elaine was nervous about being voted out and pitched her case to Lauren, while the majority targeted Elaine with Dan voting Noura as a backup in case any idols or advantages were played. At Tribal Council, an emotional Elaine opened up about her experience and was consoled by her tribemates. Though she again pled her case to stay, saying she would be a bigger target than other threats like Lauren and Janet, Elaine was sent to the jury.\nThe following morning, Jeff arrived at camp and informed the remaining castaways that Dan had been removed from the game after an undisclosed incident and would not serve on the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The final five were instructed to pack their belongings and get on a boat for Island of the Idols. Rob and Sandra told them that would be their home for the rest of the game, but they had one last test for the players not disclosed to them. Tommy caught on and asked Dean for assistance due to being color-blind, but Dean followed the clues for himself and located an idol. During this, Dean and Tommy made a Final Two deal.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways used a long stick to dislodge ropes that would be used as steps on a ladder. Once up the ladder, castaways had to navigate two balls through a table maze. The first to land both balls won immunity and a feast of steak, baked potatoes, and vegetables.Dean won immunity and chose to share his reward with Noura, as a gesture of putting their differences aside. They made a final 2 deal, but unbeknownst to Noura, Dean had one with Tommy as well. Janet was targeted, but she tried to convince Tommy to turn on Lauren due to her strong social gameplay. Dean contemplated whether to play his idol nullifier, debating whether Lauren or Janet was a bigger threat for his game. At Tribal Council, Janet played her idol and Dean played his nullifier, and Janet was unanimously sent to the jury.\nTommy took Noura aside and tried to convince her that his firemaking skills were limited, in case Noura were to win final immunity; in reality, Tommy felt confident in his firemaking ability.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways had to balance a stand while placing letters to spell out “Island of the Idols” without any typos or backwards letters. The first castaway to lock their stand in place with all letters correctly placed won immunity and the right to take one other castaway to the end with them.Dean maintained a slight lead over Noura throughout the challenge, but dropped nearly every block late in the challenge. Noura held on to win her third immunity necklace. She began a long explanation of who she would take to the end with her, ultimately choosing Tommy; Lauren was offended that Noura said she was her “number 1” but was forcing her to make fire, leading to an argument during which Noura threatened to hide the machete. At Tribal Council, Noura indeed took Tommy to the end, citing that she needed someone to beat Lauren at fire. Dean won the firemaking challenge, making Lauren the final jury member.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, Tommy’s social game was praised, but he was questioned over the big moves he had made as opposed to Dean, who was praised for his immunity wins and finding advantages late in the game. However, Dean was called out by Tommy and Noura for riding coattails for much of the game and questioned over saying the line he wouldn’t cross was making final 2 deals (though he had done so numerous times). Noura wasn’t taken as seriously by the jury due to her perceived erratic and emotion-based gameplay."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US39","episode":14,"episode_summary":"Several months later, Tommy was named the Sole Survivor in an 8–2–0 vote over Dean and Noura, respectively, and won the US$1 million prize. Probst later announced that Sia, a singer and fan of Survivor, had given Jamal Shipman $15,000 and Elaine Stott and Janet Carbin $100,000 each."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":1,"episode_summary":"Twenty returning winners arrived in Fiji to play an All-Winners season of Survivor. The two tribes of 10 (Dakal in red and Sele in blue) were informed that the grand prize this season would be $2 Million, and that the Edge of Extinction was in play. Lastly, Jeff introduced the Fire Tokens to the cast, where at their camps the tribes found out they could use their fire tokens to buy advantages and luxury items whenever they were at challenges.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: In duos, the tribes compete to retrieve a ring on a post in the water. The first person to bring the ring to their tribe's post and touch it scores a point for their tribe. The first tribe to score 3 points wins flint and immunity. By Any Means Necessary challenge from Palau, Panama, Micronesia, Heroes vs. Villains, Caramoan, Millennials vs. Gen X, and Ghost Island.After Sele's loss at the immunity challenge, Rob and Parvati realized they would be an unexpected duo. The new school players scrambled to put out a name, with Adam and Denise's early \"looking for water\" separation putting a target on their backs. When Ben approached Rob for strategy talk, he spilled that Danni had been suggesting Rob as one of the options. Rob confronted Danni and, impressed with her honesty, formed an old school alliance with her, Ethan, and Parvati. When Adam found out that Denise and himself were targets, he tried to shift the target onto players with previous relationships like Natalie and Jeremy, the two having previously played together in San Juan del Sur. While the tribe scrambled before Tribal Council, Rob and Parvati were dumbfounded that they were not the targets.\nAt Tribal Council, Denise and Adam pushed for prior relationships to be targeted over second-time players. Eventually, a majority of the old school alliance decided to send Natalie to the Edge to split up her and Jeremy. As Natalie left Tribal Council, she chose to bequeath her fire token to Jeremy.\nDuring Natalie's first day on the Edge, she received an advantage and luxury item menu and was informed of finding ways to earn new fire tokens. Following a clue left by the Edge Sail, she discovered a hidden immunity idol that works for the next three Tribal Councils, which she could sell to anyone on the losing tribe. The first two days were relaxing for Dakal, with Sandra and Tony patching things up from Game Changers, and Yul & Sophie gathering other first-time returners Wendell and Nick into a group.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The tribes must paddle out from shore to retrieve a bag full of numbers, before returning to a series of obstacles in the water (first leaping off boxed stairs into the water, then climbing over a rolling pillar, and lastly getting over a cargo net incline before reaching the shore). At their tribe's station, one member must unlock three rings using the 3 two-digit numbers in their bag. Afterward, two members must toss their rings to hang on paddles. The first tribe to successfully toss all 3 rings onto their paddles wins immunity. Blue Lagoon Bustle challenge from Blood vs. Water and Game Changers.Sele claimed victory at the challenge, which also gave Denise her first-ever win at a tribal immunity challenge. At Dakal on Day 3, Yul and Sophie started recruiting the former Game Changers trio (Sandra, Sarah, and Tony) to target Amber, Kim, and Tyson. Sandra discovered an offer for an idol had appeared in her belongings for a fire token, which she accepted, correctly guessing that Natalie had made the offer from the Edge. Prior to the season, Tyson, Rob, Jeremy, and Kim had played in a televised Poker tournament with Tyson casually suggesting an alliance if the four of them were to play Survivor again. Kim and Amber felt the early pace of the game was overwhelming, with Kim shocked to find herself being actively left out of strategic talk by the majority of Dakal. At Tribal Council, all three tried to convince the tribe that there was no Poker Alliance in the game, with Amber and Kim trying to convince others to take out Nick for being the most recent winner. It was to no avail, with the disconnected players and the Game Changers trio sending Amber to the Edge fearing her natural alliance with her husband Rob at Sele. Before arriving at the Edge, Amber chose to bequeath her fire token to Rob."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Early on Day 4, Rob from Sele discovered he had received a fire token, voicing his concerns to Parvati that it might mean either Amber or Sandra had been sent to the Edge. Later in the day, Ben worked on his social game by showing Denise how to look for an idol, which she eventually found. However, the idol was split into two halves. She had to give one half to tribemate before sundown. After choosing Adam to discuss tactics with, he convinced her not to share the idol with her suggestion, Parvati, but with Adam instead.\nAt Dakal, Kim still felt she was on the bottom of the tribe and went on an idol hunt of her own. She found the Dakal split idol and revealed it to Sophie as an attempt to gain trust with a person in the majority. Despite a rocky first season playing together in Cagayan, Sarah and Tony sought to use their six-year friendship to solidify a true trustworthy \"Cops-R-Us\" alliance.\nOn the Edge of Extinction, a new advantage clue had Amber and Natalie searching high and low throughout the island. After giving up for the day, Natalie discovered a \"safety without power\" advantage hidden inside the water well. The advantage allowed a player to leave Tribal Council and return to camp before the votes are cast to protect his or herself. Natalie chose to sell it to Jeremy for a fire token. He accepted the deal, guessing that it came from Natalie and realizing that the Sele tribe wasn't fully aware of the potential of the fire tokens.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The tribes pushed a large wagon across an obstacle course, retrieved three keys from tall posts to unlock three heavy trunks with puzzle pieces inside, and put the trunks on the wagon. After loading  all three trunks on the wagon, the tribes disassembled the wagon and pushed the wagon and trunks either through or over a fence. They then climbed over the fence themselves. They then re-assembled the wagon, put the trunks back on board, and dragged the wagon through more obstacles. Once at the finish, two tribe members used the pieces to assemble a vertical circular puzzle. The first tribe to finish wins a spice kit and immunity. Draggin' the Dragon challenge from Cagayan and Cambodia.After seeing that his wife had been voted out, Rob fumbled in the puzzle portion of the challenge, leading to Sele's blowout loss. Since old school players were at a numerical disadvantage, Parvati and Rob wanted to target new school players, primarily Jeremy or Ben as outsiders. Danni felt vulnerable as her alliances and Parvati were leaving her out of conversations. Danni revealed to Ben, in front of Ethan, that there was an old school alliance in her attempts to plead her case. Ben suggested Danni as the best to vote out due to her scrambling, while Danni started to pitch a Parvati vote to Rob. Jeremy and Michele tried to recruit Adam to join in the plan.\nAt Tribal Council, the Sele tribe spoke about the rapid pace of the game and that the old school players were struggling to keep up. Parvati spoke about an old school and new school divide, and Ben revealed Danni's slip-up earlier in the day as an example of Sele's paranoia. The resulting paranoia amongst Sele led Rob to ask the entire tribe to dump their bags and expose if they had an idol. Denise and Adam kept their idol halves hidden from the view of their tribemates while the rest of Sele revealed the contents of their bags. After a flurry of whispering among players, the entire tribe voted out Danni for her scrambling. Before arriving at the Edge, Danni bequeathed her fire token to Denise."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":3,"episode_summary":"After eliminating Danni, Adam sought to unite the new school players against Rob, Parvati, and Ethan, who he felt were running the tribe. Denise felt secure about her position in the tribe thanks to an extra fire token from Danni and her full idol (Adam had returned his half to her). At Dakal, the tribe continued to flourish thanks to Sandra netting a shark. Despite this, Tyson worked to gather numbers against Sandra in an attempt to get back on the plus side of the numbers. Yul had mixed feelings and ultimately told Sandra about Tyson's plot. The three players on the Edge had a chance for a fire token; Natalie deciphered the clue and found a paper stating there was a \"vote steal advantage\" hidden in an opposing tribe member's torch; she anonymously offered the advantage to Sarah on Dakal. After accepting the offer, Sarah had Tony camouflage her and she was able to retrieve the \"vote steal\" from Sele's torches.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways jumped between three sets of raised ramps, having to re-start if they fell. Tribes then dug a heavy ladder out of a sand pit, propped it upright so that one member could retrieve a monkey's fist on top of a tripod. They tossed the monkey's fist through a target in order to climb the first ramp of a tall tower. Afterwards, tribemates used their bodies to hoist each other to the top of a second ramp. Once at the top, two members solved a tree puzzle. The first tribe to finish their puzzle won immunity as well as chicken kebabs and a grill. Along the Watchtower challenge from Ghost Island.Dakal edged out Sele for the victory. At camp, Adam, despite being in the majority with the new schoolers, attempted to get Denise, Ethan, and then Rob on board with voting out Parvati, to Rob's confusion and frustration. Jeremy was also wary of Adam and wanted to vote him out, but Michele had misgivings -- she insisted that despite Adam's duplicity they should preserve the new schoolers' numbers, suggesting an alternative strategy of weakening Rob and Parvati by blindsiding their close ally Ethan. At Tribal Council, the old schoolers voted against Adam, but Michele's plan came to fruition and Ethan was sent to the Edge of Extinction. Ethan chose to bequeath his fire token to Parvati."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Adam was stunned by Ethan's blindside and found himself as the outsider of Sele. Rob and Parvati feared the worst now that it was just them against the new schoolers. While Adam tried to regain his tribe's trust by doing more chores around camp, Rob convinced Jeremy and Michele that Adam was still playing both sides. On Dakal, morale was high thanks to the tribe's winning streak, but Tyson suspected that Yul had been leading an alliance of one-time winners against the people with connections. Tyson tried to warn Sandra and Tony to no avail as Sandra was still angry that Tyson threw her name around days ago. However, Sarah felt that keeping Tyson around was a good move for her since she had bonded with him. On the Edge, the four inhabitants were given a task to carry twenty logs, one at a time, from the top of the mountain back down to camp before sundown. They all struggled mightily, with Ethan almost fainting and requiring medical intervention near the end point, but all four completed the task and earned a fire token each.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Three tribe members sat in a boat to which the other four members are tethered as swimmers. The swimmers towed the boat to a tower, where three sets of keys are to be collected. The tribes then headed to a platform, where they used the keys to unlock puzzle pieces. Two members of each tribe then used the pieces to solve a block puzzle. The first tribe to do so won immunity as well as four egg-laying chickens. Beyond the Wheel challenge from Edge of Extinction.Dakal built up a substantial lead on the puzzle as Sele repeatedly struggled to get any of the keys. Adam managed to pull through and get all three himself. Afterwards on the puzzle, Rob and Michele breezed past Nick and Sarah, who had to undo initial piece placement, and won Sele their second challenge. Back at Dakal, Tyson targeted Nick for struggling on the puzzle as it was the same one he succeeded on back in David vs. Goliath. The rest of the tribe considered voting out Tyson. However, Tony wanted to assemble a group of big threats including Sarah, Kim, and Sandra to keep Tyson as shields for themselves. Although Sarah and Kim were on board, Sandra had doubts as she felt Tyson was too dangerous. At Tribal Council, Tyson voted for Nick, who voted for Kim on the chance Tyson had an idol. The rest of the tribe voted to send Tyson to the Edge. As Tyson left, he bequeathed his fire token to Nick."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Yul confided in Sarah and Wendell regarding his friend and former castmate Jonathan Penner's wife's ALS diagnosis. Upon arriving at their marooning site, the castaways were redistributed into three tribes of 5: Dakal consisted of Denise, Jeremy, Kim, Sandra, and Tony; Sele consisted of Michele, Nick, Parvati, Wendell, and Yul; Yara consisted of Adam, Ben, Rob, Sarah, and Sophie.\nOn Dakal, Denise and Jeremy bonded with Kim, hoping to bring her into an alliance against Sandra and Tony. On Sele, Michele and Wendell, who previously dated, awkwardly reunited; she and Parvati agreed to target Wendell if it benefited their game. On Yara, Adam, Ben, and Rob shakily attempted to stick together to keep a majority against Sarah and Sophie. The tribe's search for an idol at the new camp resulted in Sophie finding it; she had to give half to a tribemate before sundown, and she chose Sarah.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes had to traverse an obstacle course and stack four colored blocks so that no color repeats on one side. The first two tribes to finish won immunity. Block in a Hard Place challenge, puzzle from Samoa, South Pacific, Blood vs. Water, Cambodia, and Millennials vs. Gen X.Sele and Dakal came from behind to respectively place first and second, as Yara blew their large lead during the puzzle. Adam convinced Ben and Rob to target Sarah instead of Sophie, but Rob aimed to keep the entire tribe together at camp to avoid the potential for scrambling (a tactic that he had used to great personal effect in Redemption Island), much to the annoyance of several of his tribemates. Sarah gave Sophie her half of the idol back and debated playing her vote steal. At Tribal Council, neither Sarah nor Sophie played their advantages, but they weren't needed as Adam and Ben joined them in blindsiding Rob, who bequeathed his two fire tokens to Parvati before heading to the Edge."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":6,"episode_summary":"The Yara tribe celebrated a Rob-free morning after Tribal Council, with Ben improving his social game by bonding with Sarah and Sophie. Adam, however, felt that his position has weakened despite the necessary move to eliminate Rob. On the Edge, the castaways were given a clue to another advantage, which Tyson figured was hidden in the rocky tidal area near camp. Retrieving an idol nullifier, he sold it to Parvati on Sele for a fire token. He used the token to acquire a jar of peanut butter for himself.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Starting from the shore, the tribes swam out to a boat and brought back three bags of rice. Before reaching their tribe mat, they pushed their bags through a wooden structure they had to climb over. Once on shore, they tore through their bags to collect 3 balls. Lastly, one tribe member navigated their balls to the center of a pulley maze. The first tribe to successfully land all 3 balls in the center of their pulley maze won immunity plus a food reward of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Rice Race challenge from Kaôh Rōng and Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers.With Yara narrowly beating Sele to win immunity, Sele and Dakal were left to scramble for Tribal Council after seeing that Rob had been sent to the Edge. Wendell and Michele's history saw the two struggle to make a plan when Michele told Wendell that she was considering voting for him so Parvati would bequeath her fire tokens to her. Wendell tried to sell his vote to Parvati for her fire tokens, but she chose to use that information to recruit Nick into making a big move. The vote sale was brought up in Tribal Council when Parvati tried to highlight Wendell's potential to betray Nick and Yul, but the men stuck together to send Parvati to the edge, voiding her idol nullifier. On her way out of Tribal Council, Parvati chose to bequeath her tokens to Michele.\nMeanwhile, on Dakal, Tony was left spooked by Rob's elimination, retreating to a new Spy Shack by Dakal's water well. Denise tried to solidify a bond with Kim and Sandra about protecting the women, knowing that she was the likely target if the tribe stuck to original tribal lines. Once out of hiding, Tony rallied Jeremy, Sandra, and Kim together to protect big threats. Sandra was skeptical about the idea knowing that she had connections on the other tribes, and decided to sell her idol to Denise for two fire tokens if she'd vote out either Tony or Jeremy. The two successfully negotiated a deal where Denise paid one fire token to Sandra before tribal with the idol, and would pay the second token after tribal. At Tribal Council, Jeremy tried to explain that it would be pointless to stick to original tribal lines, but remained nervous with Denise about the original Dakal trio's intentions. When Jeff asked the tribe if anyone wanted to play an idol, Denise stepped up and played Sandra's idol on herself. After returning to her seat, she surprised Dakal with her original idol and used it to protect Jeremy. When the votes were read, the entire Dakal tribe (plus Jeremy) had voted for Denise, with her sole vote sending a stunned Sandra to the Edge. Leaving Tribal Council, Sandra bequeathed her new fire token to Yul."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Sandra immediately decided to raise the sail on the Edge, believing she would have no chance of winning a challenge to get back in the game. The others on the Edge received a clue for four fire tokens hidden on top of the mountain; Tyson found one, but Rob found the other three. At Sele, Yul began to grow wary of Wendell's loyalty after the latter's open negotiation at their Tribal Council for fire tokens. Michele gave Wendell a fire token to extend trust to him, although she regretted it after he talked down to her. At Dakal, Kim considered siding with Jeremy and Denise against Tony if it would further her game. At Yara, Adam was convinced that Sarah or Ben had an idol; his paranoia turned his tribemates, specifically Sarah, against him. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes carried a large saucer to a water tower to fill it with water. They then carried it back to fill a well to release puzzle pieces. The first two tribes to finish their puzzle on the saucer won immunity. Dishwalla challenge from David vs. Goliath.Yara maneuvered through the course more slowly than Dakal and Sele (making them less susceptible to spilling water), which proved to be effective as they finished first. Dakal earned second place over Sele by a narrow margin. Nick was frustrated with Wendell's trash-talking at the challenge, which he thought may have cost them the victory. Yul's plot to coax Wendell into giving Michele a fire token made Nick concerned about Yul's strategic prowess and ability to plan ahead, making him and Michele swing votes on whether to vote out Wendell or Yul. At Tribal Council, they chose to send Yul to the Edge; when tasked with bequeathing his fire tokens, he chose to split the two between Sarah and Sophie, giving them one each."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Edge of Extinction challenge: The competitors raced through an obstacle course to untie a bag with bamboo slats and twine hidden in the sand, which they tied together to create a pole long enough to retrieve a key on the other side of a gate. Once through, they navigated a ball up a vertical maze. The first player to get their ball to the top of the maze returned to the game. The remaining seven became the first members of the jury. Back in the Saddle challenge from Edge of Extinction.All except Amber (who had given her token to Rob), Parvati, and Yul purchased an advantage to have their bags already dug up, with Natalie and Rob using the rest of their tokens for an idol if they won their way back into the game. Tyson beat Rob by inches and joined the newly merged Koru tribe. While setting up camp, Wendell and Jeremy befriended each other, but Jeremy joined with Ben, Tony, and Tyson against the less flashy players like Wendell and Nick. Meanwhile, Denise's huge move of single-handedly voting out Sandra raised concern among her tribemates.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways held onto a tall pole for as long as they could. If they fell off, they were out of the challenge. The last man and woman left standing would each win immunity and a fire token. Get a Grip challenge from Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Tocantins, Heroes vs. Villains, South Pacific, Blood vs. Water, Worlds Apart, and Game Changers.Denise and Jeremy emerged victorious. Most of the remaining men targeted Nick over Wendell upon Jeremy's insistence that Wendell would work with them. Sophie was concerned at Jeremy's power, and shifted the majority’s target onto his closest ally Wendell. Jeremy came to realize Wendell was being targeted over Nick and attempted to shift the vote to Adam instead, seeing Adam as an easy vote that the whole tribe could agree on. Adam grew paranoid over his spot in the game, but at Tribal Council, a reluctant Jeremy, along with the rest of the group except the post-swap Sele members, blindsided Wendell. Before arriving at the Edge, Wendell split his two fire tokens between Michele and Nick."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Nick and Michele were livid about Wendell's elimination; while Nick, tired of being seen as the easy vote, vowed revenge, Michele tried to talk him out of doing something rash. Adam reflected on the similarity of a fleur-de-lis he noticed on the Tribal Council voting podium and Denise's split immunity idol from Day 4. Seeing an opportunity to gain trust with Michele, Adam told her he believed that there was an idol on Jeff's podium at Tribal Council.\n\nReward Challenge: Two teams of five were chosen through a schoolyard pick. Jeremy chose Adam, Nick, Tony, and Tyson to form the red team, while the blue team was led by Kim and consisted of Ben, Michele, Sarah, and Sophie. Denise, who was not chosen, was exempt from the challenge and had no shot at the reward. Castaways swam to retrieve a net filled with fish-shaped puzzle pieces. Once they brought it to shore, they carried the pieces to the final stage where they had to complete their puzzle. The first team to finish won Chinese takeout. New School challenge from Kaôh Rōng and Game Changers.Kim, Ben, Michele, Sarah, and Sophie won reward, but Sarah decided to give her spot to Nick, as it was his birthday the day before and he had gotten blindsided by the last vote. Despite her claim that it wasn't to further her game, Denise and Jeremy felt it was a strategic move, and Adam expressed concern about Sarah's reputation for blindsiding friends. On the Edge, Parvati and Danni located an advantage that would give a player the chance to flip a coin for immediate immunity at any Tribal Council up until the final seven, shared the knowledge with others and chose to sell it to Michele for her four fire tokens.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways had to stand on three-dimensional triangular forms floating in the ocean, moving further up the side as the challenge progressed. Falling off or touching the form with any body part other than their hands would eliminate a castaway. The last one standing won immunity and a fire token. Bermuda Triangles challenge from Caramoan, Cagayan,  Cambodia, and Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers.Kim won the challenge. The alliance of \"big threats\" agreed on splitting the vote between Nick and Adam, but Ben convinced them to split between Nick and Michele instead. Meanwhile, Nick convinced Tyson that Sophie was coming against him, but Adam rallied numbers against Sarah, Sophie's closest ally, instead. When Kim found out people were targeting Sarah, she worked with Tyson to flip the vote on Adam for having the ability to sway decisions. Adam's claim that Ben and Sarah were too close led to an argument with Ben, and several castaways scrambled to figure out a plan, with Tyson's name thrown around in the crossfire. This continued into Tribal Council; while the others whispered freely, Adam and Ben's conflict boiled over, with Ben getting mad at Adam for suspecting Sarah had an idol from when they were on Yara. Before the votes were read, Adam attempted to play the voting podium symbol believing it to be an idol, but was wrong and subsequently voted out. Adam bequeathed his fire token to Denise before going to the Edge."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":10,"episode_summary":"On day 24, the castaways were greeted by their loved ones; unlike previous seasons where one person would meet them for a reward challenge, entire families made the trip. Jeff also gave all the castaways time with their loved ones at camp. Meanwhile, on the Edge, those castaways were met by one or several loved ones each as well.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways held a rope to balance a wobbly table while stacking blocks spelling the word \"immunity\"; if any blocks fell, that castaway would have to re-stack them. The first to correctly stack all eight blocks and stand on the starting platform won immunity and two fire tokens. A Bit Tipsy challenge from Kaôh Rōng and Game Changers.Tony won the challenge. At camp, Jeremy sought to break up a strong duo in Sarah and Sophie. Sarah wanted to get Kim out thinking she would win the game in the end, but Tony felt Tyson was the more pressing threat. Tony then got an idea to blindside Jeremy for his strong strategic game and coming after Sarah. Jeremy sensed something was up and considered using his \"safety without power\" advantage. Meanwhile, Sophie tried to talk Sarah into using her steal-a-vote. Two five-person alliances emerged among the scrambling: Denise, Jeremy, Kim, Michele, and Tyson targeted Sophie; Ben, Nick, Sarah, Sophie, and Tony targeted Jeremy. At Tribal Council, more whispering commenced. When Jeff said it was time to vote, Jeremy and Sarah both played their advantages. With Jeremy gone, the other alliance discussed who they were going to switch their vote to. Sarah took Denise's vote, and Kim played her idol from Dakal on Denise to negate two votes. While Sophie received two votes herself, Tyson was sent back to the Edge with five votes after Michele flipped; he had no fire tokens to bequeath."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Jeremy was upset about Tyson's elimination, as he was relying on him as a shield. Jeremy and Ben got into an argument, with each telling the other that they were the next biggest threats left. Early the next morning, Tony snuck out of camp and found an idol. Wanting to go back to the chaotic gameplay he used back in Cagayan, Tony pledged loyalty to the minority alliance, but Denise and Kim grew skeptical. On the Edge, Natalie and Parvati found a bottle containing a clue to the whereabouts of another advantage. They realized it was hidden underneath the shelter, and Parvati distracted the others while Natalie found an \"Extortion\" advantage; this allowed her to force somebody to pay a number of fire tokens or else they would be forced to sit out of the immunity challenge and would lose their next vote. She played it against Tony, who had three, but was able to obtain one each from Jeremy, Nick, and Ben to match the six-token fee. To cover up the fact that she had the 50-50 safety coin, Michele told Tony she had spent her fire tokens on an advantage for if she was sent to the Edge. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways balanced a statue on a slanted table using a pole. At regular intervals, they would move further away from the statue. If the statue fell off, that person would be eliminated. The last person left standing won immunity and two fire tokens. 10 Foot Pole challenge from Millennials vs. Gen X and Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers.Tony won his second immunity challenge in a row. Back at camp, Sarah approached the majority alliance with a plan to split the votes between Jeremy and Michele on the chance the former played an idol. Jeremy told the minority alliance that he wanted to vote Ben off, but Denise and Kim secretly decided to flip over to the majority and vote against Jeremy. However, Tony decided to take the opportunity to blindside somebody and approached Nick, Jeremy, and Michele about blindsiding Sophie who he felt was too tight with his closest ally Sarah. While Nick was up for it, Jeremy showed reluctance, because he wasn't sure if he trusted Tony when he told him that Denise and Kim were about to betray him. At Tribal Council, the majority alliance (including Denise and Kim) stuck to the plan and split the votes between Jeremy and Michele. However, Jeremy and Michele joined Tony and Nick, blindsiding Sophie and sending her to the Edge with an unused idol in her pocket. Sophie split her two fire tokens between Sarah and Kim."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":12,"episode_summary":"An irate Sarah scolded Tony for leaving her in the dark at the last vote; to regain her trust, Tony told Sarah of his idol. He also told Ben, and evolved his \"spy shack\" strategy by making a \"spy nest\" in the trees, which only Sarah was aware of. Ben and Jeremy's conflict continued, while Kim rallied tribemates into voting Tony out next. Ben found an idol while searching with Tony, although Tony caught Ben trying to hide it from him. At the Edge, the 11 castaways were tasked with carrying 20 coconuts (one at a time) from one side of the island to the other. The first six to complete this task would earn two fire tokens each. The placements were Natalie, Sophie, Yul, Parvati, Tyson, and Wendell, with the other five (Danni, Amber, Rob, Adam, and Ethan) not earning any fire tokens.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways stood on a narrow beam while holding one arm above their head to keep a bucket of water from falling onto them. The last man and woman left standing each won immunity and two fire tokens. When It Rains, It Pours challenge from Africa, All-Stars, Micronesia, Heroes vs. Villains, One World, Millennials vs. Gen X, and David vs. Goliath.Jeremy, Ben, and Sarah fell out early. During the challenge, Jeff offered peanut butter and cookies to anyone who would drop out. Kim and Michele accepted the offer, giving Denise immunity, while Tony accepted Nick's request for a fire token if Nick would drop out. This gave Tony his third consecutive immunity win. Back at camp, everyone initially agreed to vote Jeremy out. However, when Ben told Tony that Kim had been trying to make a move against him, Tony switched the plan, working to convince Ben, Sarah, and Jeremy to blindside Kim. Michele sensed Jeremy was still in danger and loaned him her 50/50 coin flip. At Tribal Council, Tony and Jeremy whispered to each other, leading to another live tribal. Amongst the whispers, Kim expressed concern that Tony, Sarah, and Ben were running the game, Sarah got a sense she was in trouble, and Denise lashed out when Jeremy tried to start a conversation with her, saying she wanted to get the vote over with. After the votes were cast, Tony openly offered to play his idol for Sarah while Jeremy mulled playing the coin flip. No advantages were played, and Sarah joined the men in sending Kim to the Edge. Kim split her three tokens between Sarah, Michele, and Denise."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Jeremy gave \nMichele's 50/50 coin back to her. The next morning, Sarah and Tony convinced Ben to target Nick rather than Jeremy, who they wanted to keep as a shield. \n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways must throw a ball up a track and move across trip lines to catch it. If they fail, they have to go back and throw it again. Once they have thrown two balls over and caught them, they must dig under a pole and get both balls through, before they solve a slide puzzle. The first castaway to do so won immunity and two fire tokens.Nick won the challenge, foiling Tony's plan. Back at camp, Tony and Sarah were reluctant to vote out Jeremy, since that would expose them as the two largest threats left. As Michele's advantage was common knowledge among the tribe at this point, the majority agreed to split the votes between her and Jeremy, while Jeremy tried to rally tribemates against Ben. Nick emerged as a swing vote; at Tribal Council, Michele played the advantage and successfully negated two votes, while Jeremy was sent to the Edge. He bequeathed his two tokens to Michele.\nMichele, left out of another vote, confronted Nick about where his loyalties were. The next morning, she attempted to get the alliance of Ben, Sarah, and Tony to turn against each other by telling Sarah that Tony would be unbeatable at the end. At the Edge, Natalie continued her dominance at finding advantages; this new one would be sold to a castaway in order to give another competitor a disadvantage at the upcoming immunity challenge. She sold this to Nick for 8 tokens, and since he had only 6, he asked Michele to loan him the remaining two.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways must place blocks in a straight line while avoiding trip wires that leave for less space the farther down they are. They then must push a block so they all fall like dominoes and land on a gong. The first to do so won immunity and two fire tokens. Domino Effect challenge from Gabon, Redemption Island, Blood vs. Water, Kaôh Rōng, and Game Changers.Nick anonymously willed the disadvantage to Ben, meaning he would have to set up a 30% longer line of blocks. Michele won the challenge, thwarting the majority's plan to oust her. As it was the last day to use fire tokens, Denise proposed everyone eat the rest of the rice so she could buy more and be more prepared for the second re-entry challenge if she were to get voted out. Ben and Denise had targeted Nick, while Michele and Nick targeted Denise. Tony's spy nest allowed him to listen in on Denise forming a final three with Sarah and Ben, which made him talk to Sarah about possibly voting out Denise instead. However, at Tribal Council, he and Sarah joined Denise and Ben in sending Nick to the Edge.\nOn Day 35, both groups were informed that the second and final re-entry challenge would take place today, and the group from the Edge prepared accordingly. Yul, Parvati, Wendell, Tyson, and Sophie each bought one advantage, and Natalie, having amassed sixteen tokens, bought three advantages, a jar of peanut butter, and a hidden immunity idol that she gave to Tyson, with whom she shared her peanut butter."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US40","episode":14,"episode_summary":"The remaining competitors on the Edge of Extinction arrived at the second and final re-entry challenge.\n\nEdge of Extinction challenge: The castaways were attached to a rope woven through a series of obstacles. They then guided two balls through a table maze. The first one to finish returned to the game. Second returnee challenge from Edge of Extinction.Natalie won the challenge, and the other Edge competitors became official members of the jury. Natalie reconnected with Michele, who was on the outside of the foursome containing Tony, Sarah, Ben, and Denise. Natalie informed Michele that she had an idol and vowed to use it to further both of their interests. She also told the remaining castaways that the jury was convinced Tony would win if he made it to the end in an attempt to shake up their alliance. This frustrated Sarah, who felt she wasn't receiving credit for making the same moves as Tony because she was a woman. \n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must race through an obstacle course and a giant water slide to retrieve three sandbags one at a time. The sandbags contain puzzle pieces to a three-tiered puzzle; the first to complete the puzzle won immunity.Despite falling behind early, Michele won the immunity challenge. Worried about a potential idol, Tony tried to convince his allies to split the votes between Natalie and Denise, but they dismissed his concerns and planned to pile all their votes on Natalie. After Natalie played her idol at Tribal Council, Tony and Ben were forced to play theirs, and all four votes for Natalie plus two for Ben were negated. With Denise and Sarah the only two eligible to receive votes, Denise was sent to the jury in a unanimous revote.\nTony spent the following night searching the island for idols, but failed to locate one. Natalie began her own search at dawn and successfully found an idol.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways must race from a platform in the ocean and traverse a ramp obstacle, then cross a balance beam without falling, retrieving a key halfway across. The key unlocks two sandbags, which the castaways must toss onto a small target. The first to land both of their sandbags on the target won immunity.Tony won his fourth immunity challenge. He then convinced Sarah to engage Natalie in strategy talk at the water well while he spied on the conversation from his spy nest. Sarah convinced Natalie to reveal her idol and shared the news with Tony and Ben. The threesome initially planned to vote for Michele, but Ben gave Sarah permission to vote him out to help her game, feeling that his Survivor journey was complete. Sarah switched her vote to Ben at Tribal Council, sending him to the jury over Michele after Natalie's irrelevant idol play on herself.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The castaways, with one hand tied behind their back, must drop a ball into a metal chute, which travels down a spiraling metal track. A turnstile gate in the middle of the track rotates with every ball, causing the ball to alternate exiting out of the two exits. The castaways must catch the ball and drop it back into the chute at the top. Every few minutes, an additional ball is added to the track until up to seven balls are active on the track. If a ball exits the track and is not caught, the castaway is eliminated; the last one remaining won immunity. \"Simmotion\" challenge from Tocantins, Cambodia and David vs. Goliath.Natalie won the final immunity challenge. Tony, Michele, and Sarah all practiced fire that afternoon as Natalie contemplated her decision. At Tribal Council, Natalie elected to take Michele with her to the Final 3 and force Tony and Sarah to make fire. Despite an early lead by Sarah, Tony came back and won the challenge, making Sarah the final member of the jury.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, all three finalists highlighted their unique journeys to the end: Tony's dominant strategic play, Michele's underdog story playing from the bottom, and Natalie's resilience on the Edge and hard work earning advantages. The jurors agreed that Natalie dominated the Edge of Extinction portion of the game, but felt Tony had a much stronger social and strategic game. They awarded Tony the title of Sole Survivor and the $2 million prize in a 12–4–0 vote over Natalie and Michele, respectively."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The 18 new castaways were welcomed by Jeff before being informed of their first challenge, as well as the fact that they would start with meager supplies.\n\nReward Challenge: Tribes had to find six paddles then jump into the ocean toward their boat. After unclipping the front and back of their boat, tribe members worked together to paddle around a buoy and to a flint. The first tribe to get the flint won it as well as a pot and a machete.Luvu jumped to an early lead, while Yase did not put up a contest. However, Luvu failed to unclip the anchor of their boat, leading to Ua pulling away with the victory. While setting up the tribe's camp, JD started Ua's fire and forged bonds with his tribemates, but some of them saw his attempts as overbearing. Shan, however, approached JD for an alliance.\nAs punishment for losing the opening challenge, Luvu and Yase had four hours to either solve a puzzle or nominate two tribe members to carry ocean water to fill two large buckets. Both tribes selected the latter task; Danny and Deshawn went for Luvu, while Voce (reluctantly) and Xander went for Yase. While both pairs were successful, Naseer reported to his tribemates that he believed the former pair were looking for an idol during the task, which set the two of them against Naseer. At Yase, Abraham expressed concerns about Tiffany's performance in the opening challenge, and Liana relayed this to Tiffany.\nOn Day 2, the three tribes were asked to pick a representative to take a journey; Danny volunteered for Luvu, JD was sent for Ua by random draw, and Yase agreed on Xander. The three bonded during a long walk, then were faced with a private decision to risk or protect their vote. Only Xander was shown choosing to risk, meaning he received an extra vote advantage. JD's story about protecting his vote upon coming back to camp was not believed by Ricard.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes went over a net climb and under a low beam, then worked together to transport large bags of puzzle pieces using a push cart. They then maneuvered the cart up flights of stairs with the bags before solving a 3D jigsaw puzzle. The first tribe to finish won immunity.  The losing tribes had to forfeit their flint until the next immunity challenge.Luvu came from behind to win the challenge. At Yase, Abraham worked on convincing the tribe to vote out Tiffany to preserve strength, while Tiffany searched for an idol. Evvie, who had bonded with Tiffany, likewise tried to sway tribemates to vote out Abraham. At Ua, Sara and JD targeted each other; while Ricard sided with Sara, Brad stated that Sara and Shan were on the chopping block due to faltering in the puzzle. Meanwhile, Shan was torn on who to vote out.\nAt Yase's Tribal Council, tribe strength was discussed, and a new twist was introduced to the viewers. Shot in the Dark allowed castaways to take a 1 in 6 shot at being safe from the vote, but if they took the chance, they would lose their vote. Xander discovered his extra vote, and Yase stayed united to vote out Abraham. At Ua's Tribal Council, whispering between Sara and Shan started a live tribal in which Brad was targeted for his earlier statement against the two women, while JD tried to convince Shan that voting out Brad was a bad idea. Shan convinced JD to vote for Sara, and told Sara not to use her Shot in the Dark. During the vote, it was revealed that JD did risk his vote to earn the advantage, and Sara was ultimately voted out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At Ua, JD and Ricard discussed voting out Brad by the water well, but Brad eavesdropped on the conversation from the bushes. He told Shan, who relayed Brad’s suspicions to Ricard. At Luvu, Deshawn struggled with starting a fire, so Naseer stepped in to help, earning Sydney’s respect. At Yase, Tiffany expressed how exhausting the season was for her, and Xander searched for an advantage. He found a “Beware” advantage: an idol that only works when someone from all three tribes found their respective ones (having to say a secret phrase at a challenge to confirm the idols are in power). Until then, Xander would not be able to vote at Tribal Council. He told Voce and Evvie, the latter of which told Liana and Tiffany in hopes of forming an all-girls alliance.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Tribe members must traverse an obstacle course in the ocean, with the first member unclipping a key underwater. Once all tribe members are across, they would solve a turtle puzzle. The first two tribes to finish won immunity and fishing gear.  The losing tribe had to forfeit their flint until the next immunity challenge.Xander said his secret phrase, but was met with silence from the other tribes. Luvu placed first and Ua placed second after Tiffany struggled for Yase in the challenge. For placing first, Luvu had to send someone from Yase and someone either from their own tribe or from Ua to go on a journey. They chose Evvie, then Deshawn volunteered. During their time together, Evvie told Deshawn how idols worked this season and expressed that her vote was crucial, urging him to risk his so he could get an extra vote and that they could work together in the future. Back at Yase, the girls planned on blindsiding Xander until Tiffany grew paranoid over Xander playing an idol (though it didn’t have power yet), proposing voting out Voce instead. This made Evvie and Liana consider voting out Tiffany to preserve strength, but at Tribal Council, the women stuck together to blindside Voce from the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":3,"episode_summary":"All of the Ua tribe searched for the idol which was found by allies Brad and Genie. Brad also disclosed their discovery to Shan so as to build trust. Additionally, Brad found a second “Beware” advantage requiring him to travel to a separate island or else lose his vote. Tiffany had likewise found a similar note on Yase, as did Sydney on Luvu. Once on the separate island, the three were faced with a decision: a steal-a-vote or a tarp. If all three chose tarp, all three tribes would receive a tarp. If all three chose steal-a-vote, all three lost their next vote. A split decision meant those who chose tarp would get nothing and those who chose steal-a-vote got the advantage; only Brad chose the steal-a-vote. At Luvu, Naseer proposed blindsiding Danny, but that turned Sydney against him for strategizing too much.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Tribe members must cross a rope bridge over the water one-by-one, then dig up a large bag of sandbags from a sand pit on the beach. Once retrieved, they had to toss the sandbags onto overhead platforms. The first two tribes to successfully land all five sandbags won immunity plus fruit. The losing tribe had to forfeit their flint until the next immunity challenge.Brad said his secret phrase before the challenge started, but no one on Luvu had yet found the idol. Luvu and Yase won the challenge. JD and Ricard agreed to vote out Brad, while Genie targeted JD. Brad lost his vote due to Luvu’s idol being undiscovered. Shan was the swing vote; at Tribal Council, she sided with JD and Ricard to blindside Brad with two advantages in his pocket."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Tensions grew between Genie and the rest of the Ua tribe after they left her out of Brad’s elimination, with Genie declaring she would no longer provide for the rest of the tribe.\n\nReward Challenge: Tribe members tossed a ball onto an overhead track, then maneuvered through a rope obstacle to catch the ball before it hit the ground. Once all four balls are retrieved, tribes had to toss them onto a high, narrow beam. The first tribe to finish won a visit with a local survivalist, and the second tribe to finish won a fish to share.Ua and Yase cruised to an easy victory while Heather struggled for Luvu in the challenge. An emotional Heather was consoled by her tribemates and Jeff after the challenge. The four Yase members enjoyed their fish reward and witnessed baby turtles moving to the ocean, while at Luvu, Erika proposed voting out Sydney to Deshawn. However, Deshawn, aligned with Sydney and Danny, revealed to them that he was contemplating throwing the challenge to blindside Erika.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes swam to shore with a heavy bag of blocks, which they untied on the beach. They used the blocks to push out smaller blocks through a tunnel, one of which had a key to a chest that had three rings. The first two tribes to toss all three rings onto hooks won immunity; the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint until the next immunity challenge.Despite Deshawn and Danny’s efforts to throw the challenge, they placed second with Yase coming in first. The alliance of JD-Ricard-Shan initially planned to stay strong and vote out Genie, but Shan got an idea to convince JD to again give her his extra vote for Tribal Council by acting paranoid, putting her and Ricard in the middle. At Tribal Council, they sided with Genie to send JD out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Genie found a new \"Beware\" idol and immediately showed Ricard and Shan to use as a group idol for the merge, but Shan had her keep it concealed and hidden so that she could secretly make a fake idol and obtain the real one for herself. She would say the phrase to see if anyone from Luvu had found their idol and would keep the idol hidden so that she could still vote. She also gave her extra vote to Ricard in case it wouldn't need to be used yet. At Luvu, Deshawn and Danny tried to recruit a reluctant Naseer to help them throw the next immunity challenge to vote out Erika, while at Yase, Tiffany and Liana searched Xander's bag and discovered his extra vote on top of his idol.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Tribes worked together to get all three members over a net, then one member would unspool a key from three knotted ropes. The key unlocked a machete that would chop a rope, releasing sandbags. The sandbags would be used in a slingshot to knock over two distant targets. The first two tribes to knock over both targets won immunity; the first tribe to finish also won a larger tarp, while the second tribe to finish won a smaller tarp. The losing tribe had to forfeit their flint until the next immunity challenge.Naseer said Luvu's secret phrase, having found the tribe's idol the day before, putting all three idols in power. Yase placed first and Luvu stayed undefeated to place second. Yase sent Shan to the summit and Liana volunteered to join her. They bonded and agreed to work together, with Shan telling Liana that if she were to be voted out that night, Ricard (her closest ally) could not be trusted as he would have voted her out with Genie. Shan also told Liana to risk her vote, as Shan would protect her own vote. Liana discovered a new advantage called \"Knowledge Is Power\"; she could ask only one tribemate if they had an advantage or idol, and if they did, she could take the advantage for herself.\nUpon returning to Ua, Shan asked Ricard for her extra vote back, but Ricard came to believe she would blindside him, leading to a disagreement. At Tribal Council, Shan was once again the swing vote, debating between voting out her closest ally Ricard for his strategic prowess or voting out the more loyal Genie. She ultimately stayed true to her day-one alliance partner to eliminate Genie from the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Shan and Ricard continued to argue about who was to hold onto the extra vote, though Ricard ultimately gave it back to Shan the morning after Genie's elimination. All three tribes received treemail hinting at a merge, but when they convened, Jeff stated everyone had to earn their way into the merge.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: In teams of five chosen by random draw, castaways removed a large, heavy boulder from the sand, then maneuvered it across various obstacles to ultimately retrieve a key. Teammates then worked together to scale a tower and unlock puzzle pieces. The first team to solve the puzzle won a feast, immunity from the first merged Tribal Council, and the right to choose one of the two castaways who drew a rock that didn't match either team color to join them.Naseer and Erika drew the odd rocks, and the team of Danny, Deshawn, Evvie, Ricard, and Sydney won the challenge; they chose Naseer to join them. Following the feast, Danny, Deshawn, Liana, and Shan made a final four deal. For not being chosen, Erika was sent to Exile Island with meager supplies and was visited by Jeff, who informed her of a choice she had to make. She could either let the game continue as is, or \"go back in time\" and transfer the winning team's immunity to the other castaways and herself by smashing an hourglass Jeff provided to her."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Erika rejoined her tribemates the next morning at the first individual immunity challenge and revealed she chose to smash the hourglass, taking immunity away from the winning team and giving it to herself, Heather, Liana, Shan, Tiffany, and Xander.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The non-immune castaways had to build a block structure and place a flag in the center using only their feet. The first to accomplish this won immunity.Ricard barely beat Evvie and Sydney to win immunity. Upon returning to camp, Liana turned against her old Yase tribemates, and Evvie was targeted by a majority of the tribe for being the biggest perceived threat from the Yase three. Those three targeted Deshawn for similar reasons, and Deshawn's paranoia led him to suggest voting out his longtime ally Sydney as a backup option.\nAt Tribal Council, Liana used her Knowledge Is Power advantage to ask Xander if he had an idol, but he had secretly given that and his extra vote to Tiffany for safekeeping, rendering Liana's advantage useless. After some last-second scrambling among the castaways, Deshawn discovered his extra vote from his summit visit, using it to cast two votes against Evvie, and Sydney took her Shot in the Dark (which turned out to be unsuccessful). Tiffany prepared to play Xander's idol for Evvie, but Xander talked her out of it. In the end, it wouldn't be needed as Luvu turned on their own, sending Sydney home over Evvie."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Now fully merged as Viakana, the tribe saw three of its members, the former Yase alliance, plead their case separately to their new tribemates, but Deshawn remained unwilling to work with them as they voted for him the night before.\n\nReward Challenge: The tribe was divided into two teams of five by random draw, with one castaway ineligible for reward. Each team member swam out to a ramp, then dove to release two buoy puzzle pieces. They then pulled a boat to a platform, where they used the puzzle pieces to build a pyramid. The first team to finish their pyramid won grilled cheese sandwiches and chips.Erika drew the odd rock again, but Xander offered to sit out in her place. He searched the sit-out bench for an advantage but was unable to find it, and the blue team (Danny, Deshawn, Erika, Evvie, and Ricard) won the challenge. After the feast, Ricard aggravated Shan by eating a piece of a papaya that Naseer collected for the losing tribemates.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways stood on a beam with a block over their head. If the block fell or they stepped off, they were out. The last one left standing won immunity.Jeff offered the castaways to sit out for a single serving of rice, or enough rice to last three days if seven people stepped out of the challenge. After renegotiating it to five, Shan and Naseer agreed to give up their shot at immunity, but nobody else budged. Xander offered to step down if four castaways took the offer, and Ricard did the same, giving the tribe the rice. Evvie outlasted Heather for immunity. At camp, the majority agreed to split the votes between Xander and Tiffany. Naseer’s name was thrown out as a decoy vote, but his reaction made the majority change that to Heather. Deshawn worried that Naseer was a bigger threat than Xander, but Shan shut that down quickly, offending Deshawn. The plan to make Heather the decoy vote got back to Heather, who confronted Shan and realized that she has been leading to where everyone was voting.\nAt Tribal Council, Heather initiated a live tribal just before voting was to commence, seemingly turning her tribemates against her. During tribal, Shan again frustrated Deshawn after shooting his idea down. In the end, Xander and Naseer opted not to play their idols, and while both of them along with Heather received votes, the majority decided to play it safe as Tiffany was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Naseer and Heather argued over the latter's attempts to sway the vote onto Naseer at the previous Tribal Council, while Shan set her sights on Erika as an under-the-radar strategist. Deshawn again felt as though Shan was bossing him around.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: The ten remaining castaways drew for two groups of five to each attend Tribal Council to vote off one person: Evvie, Danny, Deshawn, Liana, and Xander made up the blue group, while the yellow group consisted of Erika, Heather, Naseer, Ricard, and Shan. Castaways stood on a narrow perch with their hands on the back of an overhead bar behind them. The last one left standing from each group won immunity, but the last one left standing overall won a stew reward and the right for their group to visit Tribal Council second.Erika won immunity but dropped out soon afterward, and Xander outlasted Deshawn for immunity. The yellow group was exiled to Ua's camp, where Naseer told Heather she would be the one to go. This prompted Erika to approach Ricard and Shan about blindsiding Naseer and flushing his idol while he felt comfortable; Ricard was more willing to join Erika than Shan was. At yellow's Tribal Council, Heather acted as though she would be voted out, and Naseer didn't play his idol. Shan used her extra vote to cast one each against Heather and Naseer, resulting in a 3-3 tie that led to a revote, in which Naseer was unanimously sent to the jury.\nWith the blue group, Danny, Deshawn, and Liana targeted Evvie as the only non-immune tribemate outside their alliance, but Deshawn considered flipping to Evvie and Xander to blindside Liana. However, at blue's Tribal Council, Deshawn stuck with his allies to send Evvie to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":10,"episode_summary":"The following morning, Deshawn and Shan reconciled and affirmed their intent to reach the end of the game together.\n\nReward Challenge: Starting on platforms in the middle of the ocean, castaways traversed a series of obstacles, maneuvering a rope along with them on their way back to shore. At the end of the course, they solved a star-shaped puzzle. The first castaway to complete their puzzle won pizza and a night at a Survivor sanctuary.Ricard won and chose to share the reward with Shan, Heather, and Xander. At camp, Danny and Deshawn contemplated blindsiding Ricard due to his close partnership with Shan.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways stood on narrow beams with three sections, each section narrower than the last. The castaways had to balance a ball on a wooden disc, and at regular intervals, they had to step onto a more narrow section of the beam, and move their hand further down the disc's handle. If the ball dropped or they fell off their beam, they were out. The last castaway standing won immunity.Ricard beat out Xander to win the challenge, forcing the majority to come up with a new plan. Ricard and Shan agreed that they would have to cut ties to benefit their own strategic games, and the former met with Erika on splitting the vote between Shan and Liana. Those two voted against Erika at Tribal Council, but the rest of the tribe followed through with their split-vote plan, causing a tie between Shan and Liana. On the revote, Shan was unanimously sent to the jury, her idol having gone unplayed."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Both Liana and Deshawn were upset following Tribal Council, the former for her closest ally being blindsided and the latter for being called a snake by Shan upon her exit. The four outside the alliance of Danny-Deshawn-Liana agreed to align. The next morning, Danny confided in Deshawn about the passing of his father 25 years earlier and how he has slowly been letting go of the negative emotions surrounding it.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways balanced a ball on a cylinder and held it in place with two wooden handles on each side. At regular intervals, more cylinders would be added. The last person left standing with their ball intact won immunity. The first person to fall out of the challenge would be forced to participate in a game of chance called Do or Die, which could eliminate them from the game without voting. Castaways could opt out of the challenge and be safe from Do or Die, but would not be immune from the potential vote.Heather and Liana chose not to participate, and Deshawn immediately fell out first. After Erika dropped, Ricard and Xander were eliminated within milliseconds of each other, giving Danny the win. In case Deshawn became safe from Do or Die, the new majority targeted Liana as the only non-immune player from that alliance while the other three targeted Ricard as the biggest perceived threat. However, Erika privately considered flipping to blindside Ricard. At Tribal Council, Deshawn became emotional over his vote against Shan, leading to a healthy discussion about racial equality among the tribe. Deshawn had a 1-in-3 chance at safety, and he chose the correct box to become immune from the vote. Ultimately, Erika stayed with her alliance and Xander used his extra vote, sending Liana to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Xander and Danny agreed that Ricard was their biggest threat, while Deshawn talked with Erika about an alliance.\n\nReward Challenge: Divided into two teams of three, one teammate dove into the water to release buoys. All three would collect one each of three buoys that looked lighter than the others. Once all three teammates are across, they would shoot the buoys into netted targets. The first team to land all three buoys won their choice of chicken and vegetables or sweets.The team of Deshawn, Erika, and Xander won the challenge and chose the protein. They discussed going to the final three together due to their differing styles of gameplay, with Deshawn trying to convince Erika that her and Heather's games would be seen as too similar by the jury. At camp, Danny searched for an idol but came up empty, and Ricard noted his absence from camp.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways would spin around to unspool rope from their waist, then traversed an obstacle course while dizzy. At the end is a word puzzle. The first castaway to solve their puzzle won immunity.Ricard won his third immunity challenge, thwarting everyone's plans to vote him out. Danny and Deshawn accepted the fact that they would have to turn on each other for safety, but at Tribal Council, Deshawn again attempted to convince Erika to make a move against Heather, causing some tribemates to vote against him instead of Danny. After a 3-3 tie vote, Danny was unanimously sent to the jury on the revote. After Danny left, Probst told the final five they would start over on a new island with more meager supplies than before."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US41","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The five finalists were left on a separate island with no shelter and meager supplies, where they withstood a rainy night. They were each given a word scramble puzzle via treemail, which provided a hint to the location of an advantage hidden on the beach. Erika found the advantage, which gave her an advantage in the next immunity challenge.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Castaways must use a long pole to knock strands of rope off of a bamboo lattice. They must then use said ropes to construct two sets of rope ladders, climb the ladders and solve a 75-piece puzzle. The first castaway to finish the puzzle won immunity and a food reward.Erika won the challenge, thanks to her advantage that allowed her to start with both of her ladders already partially completed. She was permitted to take one player with her on the food reward; she chose Heather. The consensus was that Ricard was too dangerous to keep in the game, but Xander considered playing his idol for Ricard to make a big move for the jury. However, he elected to play it for himself, and Ricard was unanimously voted out.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways balanced on a curved platform, holding a rope that stabilized a small ledge in front of them. They must assemble a six-piece block tower atop the ledge, moving one block at a time across the platform. The first castaway to complete their block tower and return to the starting position without it falling won immunity.Xander won the challenge, and the other castaways made their pitches to him for Tribal Council. Deshawn and Heather both stressed that Erika was the biggest threat left in the game, while Erika downplayed her threat level. Xander believed Erika was a strong firemaker and did not want her to get the opportunity to win the firemaking challenge, so he elected to take her to Final 3 with him. Deshawn and Heather competed in the firemaking challenge; Heather had a strong flame early that faltered, allowing Deshawn time to build his own flame and burn through the rope, advancing to the Final 3 seconds before Heather’s own rope burned. Heather became the final member of the jury.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, jurors questioned Xander’s social awareness; he was criticized for misreading the jury’s perception of Erika and underestimating her gameplay by giving her a free pass to the end. Deshawn’s emotional decision-making was also criticized, with Shan and others lamenting his decision to break up their alliance too early. The final jury vote was 7–1–0, with Danny voting for Deshawn and everyone else voting for Erika, awarding her the $1 million and the title of Sole Survivor.\nImmediately after the final vote reading, the jury and the finalists discuss the season with host Jeff Probst in the \"Survivor After Show\"."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":1,"episode_summary":"Jeff welcomed the 18 new castaways before announcing their first reward challenge.\n\nReward Challenge: One member from each tribe raced into the jungle to untie two paddles. A second member then raced along the beach to retrieve the rest of the paddles, but each were met with a decision to either grab the paddles immediately, or untie 20 knots for individual advantages. Once all paddles were obtained, tribes rowed around a buoy before collecting bamboo sticks which would be used to retrieve a flint. The first tribe to get the flint won it plus a pot and a machete.Daniel injured his shoulder but was cleared to continue after the challenge concluded. Drea, Hai, and Lindsay agreed on taking the secret advantage, and Taku’s large lead going into the final stage was squandered to Ika. Taku and Vati were met with a “savvy” or “sweat” task to complete in four hours to obtain basic supplies. Both chose “savvy” and successfully completed a puzzle in which they had to count how many triangles were within a large triangle. Drea, Hai, and Lindsay learned they each possessed an \"advantage amulet,\" which gave the trio one extra vote among the three of them. If only two of those castaways remained in the game, the advantage would upgrade to a steal-a-vote. If only one of those castaways remained, the amulet would become a full idol. This advantage would be good until the Final Six.\nAt Ika, two alliances of three (Drea-Rocksroy-Romeo and Swati-Tori-Zach) formed, but some tribemates were put off by Rocksroy’s method of leadership when building the shelter. Tori went off on her own to gather food for the tribe, but some saw this as her looking for an idol. At Vati, bonds between Jenny & Mike and Hai & Lydia led Chanelle to propose an alliance with Daniel. At Taku, Jackson opened up to his tribemates about being a transgender man.\nOn Day Two, one representative from each tribe went to a summit: Maryanne from Taku, Jenny from Vati, and Drea from Ika bonded on their journey before deciding to risk or protect their vote. Jenny protected hers, while Drea and Maryanne risked, meaning they each received an extra vote. On the morning of Day Three, Jeff arrived at Taku to talk about Jackson's underlying medical condition which required the use of lithium, something about which Jackson did not tell production in advance. The worry of lithium withdrawal, which could have caused side effects, prompted his removal from the game.[9]\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes swam to a boat where they gathered three heavy chests floating in the water, which they pushed under nets after arriving on land. Two tribe members used puzzle pieces inside the chest to assemble a giant dragon puzzle. The first two tribes to solve their puzzle won, while the last-place tribe had to forfeit their flint.Taku and Vati won the challenge. At Ika, Zach became a target due to faltering in the puzzle, but Romeo, whom Zach had bonded with, tried to sway votes onto Tori instead. At Tribal Council, Zach took his Shot in the Dark but was unsuccessful, and the rest of the tribe voted him out."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":2,"episode_summary":"At Ika, Drea told Swati and Tori about her extra vote in an effort to establish a girls' alliance, but her growing power worried Swati, who tried to convince Tori to vote out Drea next. At Taku, Maryanne's youthful energy endeared herself to her tribemates but also sparked concern. Jonathan and Omar bonded, and the former was also tightly aligned with Lindsay. Marya opened up to the tribe about the death of her brother, a nurse, at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. At Vati, Hai struggled with eating a crab due to being a vegan. Mike searched for an idol and found the Beware idol seen in the previous season. He told Jenny and Daniel, but the latter talked to Chanelle about blindsiding Mike before the idol had a chance to get power.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: One tribe member directed two pairs of blindfolded tribemates to bags of puzzle pieces. Afterwards, they brought their four tribemates to a station to direct them in solving a puzzle. The first two tribes to finish won immunity; the first-place tribe won a large fishing kit, the second-place tribe won a smaller fishing kit, and the last-place tribe had to forfeit their flint.Vati and Ika won the challenge. The alliance of Jonathan, Lindsay, and Omar debated voting out Marya or the more outgoing Maryanne, the latter of whom searched for an idol. At Tribal Council, everyone acknowledged a personal fondness for each other, but it was Marya who was sent home following a failed Shot in the Dark."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Maryanne told her tribemates about her extra vote after Tribal Council before everyone searched for an idol the following morning. Maryanne found Taku's Beware idol in front of Omar and accepted it. At Vati, Daniel asked to see Mike's idol to get a better understanding of it, but he accidentally misplaced it, to Mike's frustration, though they found it soon afterwards. Chanelle and Daniel were in the middle between the two pairs of Jenny & Mike and Hai & Lydia.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Tribe members swam to a marker in the ocean and dove down to retrieve a ladder, which they used to hoist another tribe member to a key, which they used to unlock sand bags when they arrived on land. The first two tribes to land five sand bags on floating platforms won immunity; the first-place tribe won tools and fruit, the second-place tribe won a smaller set of both tools and fruit, while the last-place tribe had to forfeit their flint.Taku easily finished first largely due to Jonathan's efforts, while Vati and Ika struggled in the turbulent waters. Jeff halted the challenge, having the two tribes come to shore while production retrieved their keys in the water and continuing from that point. Ika barely beat Vati for second place. Taku was tasked to send one member from Vati and one from either their own tribe or Ika to the summit; they chose Chanelle and Omar. Though Chanelle expressed the importance of her vote to Omar, she decided to risk her vote, as did he. Jenny and Mike targeted Lydia, while Hai and Lydia targeted Jenny. Chanelle telling Daniel she risked her vote led to some scrambling before Tribal Council, during which Mike and Chanelle could not vote (due respectively to the Beware idol and to unsuccessfully risking the vote). Daniel voted against Lydia to force a 2–2 tie, which was deadlocked after neither Hai nor Daniel switched their vote. Daniel started the ensuing discussion by stating he did not want to go to rocks, leading Hai to declare he would not change his vote. After some arguments amongst the tribe, Daniel ultimately joined Hai in eliminating Jenny."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Following Tribal Council, Chanelle told the tribe that Daniel was the one who told her that Mike had found an idol and lost his vote. Hai pulled Mike aside later that night and formed a three person alliance with himself, Mike and Lydia.\n\nReward Challenge: In groups of three, tribe members raced to untangle themselves from braided ropes, through and over various obstacles before using rings to hook and pull towards them a wooden sled. From the sled they collected balls and attempted to land all four into a vertical cage target. The first tribe to finish won ten fish.Taku won reward by a landslide thanks to Jonathan's efforts. Other tribe members pointed out Jonathan's dominance in recent challenges. Back at camp, Maryanne and Omar voiced frustration with Jonathan's comment about their tribe being a \"tight four\". Jonathan noted that he could be a shield for others moving forward. \nAt Ika, the tribe was irritated with Rocksroy's bossiness around camp. Due to Drea's extra vote, Swati approached Tori with a plan to bring in Rocksroy. Tori mentioned Drea's extra vote to Rocksroy, who relayed the conversation to Drea. Once it got back to Swati, she became frustrated with her ally for sharing too much information.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Two members from each tribe were tethered to a boat, and hauled the remaining members in the boat through the water to a platform. Two other members leapt into the water attempting to grab keys, before entering the boat again and getting pulled to a floating platform, where they used the keys to unlock puzzle pieces and solve a hanging fish puzzle. The first two tribes to finish won immunity, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Taku cruised to another easy victory, and Vati barely finished second over Ika. Rocksroy wanted to vote out Tori for being untrustworthy, but Swati's name came up after it was revealed that she had told each of her tribemates that they were her \"number one.\"  Upon learning the target had shifted from Tori to herself, Swati threw Tori under the bus to Drea, who wasn't sure whom to believe. At Tribal Council, Swati called out Tori for trying to blindside Drea, causing Tori to argue that Swati had tried to blindside Drea first (two episodes prior). After a failed Shot in the Dark, Swati was sent home, though Rocksroy had voted for Tori."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Romeo explained to Rocksroy the tribe’s reason for targeting Swati, reassuring him they’re still tight, though Tori desired to jump ship. The next morning, Drea searched for, and found, Ika’s idol along with Romeo. At Taku, Maryanne and Lindsay’s endless talking annoyed Jonathan, who got into an argument with Maryanne. At Vati, Hai and Lydia believed Chanelle was more dangerous, but the tribe questioned whether Daniel’s shoulder injury was as severe as he claimed following a fishing trip. Mike remained reluctant to say his secret phrase and potentially put a target on his back, but all phrases were said at the challenge the next day, putting all three idols in power and giving the respective castaways their vote back.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Tribes raced over a raised net obstacle before one member untangled a braided rope interlaced with a key via slide puzzle. The key unlocked a machete that gave them access to sandbags, which they used to slingshot two distant targets. The first two tribes to hit both targets won immunity as well as large and medium tarps respectively, while the last place tribe had to forfeit their flint.Ika and Taku won immunity, with Jonathan making a comeback after Omar’s slow puzzle section. Lydia and Rocksroy were selected for the summit; they purposefully withheld information about their tribes, causing both players to protect their vote. Chanelle and Daniel each pled their case to their tribemates, while Hai, Lydia, and Mike planned to split the vote in case a Shot in the Dark was played. At Tribal Council, Chanelle voted against Mike, and the vote was tied at two apiece between her and Daniel; on the re-vote, Daniel was unanimously sent home, though Mike was unhappy about the stray vote against him."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Mike's trust in Chanelle diminished upon learning she was the one who voted against him, while at Ika, Tori annoyed Rocksroy with questions about his summit trip. Drea and Romeo, listening in on the conversation from camp, felt wary of trusting Tori moving forward. When the tribes met on Day 12, Jeff announced they were in the individual stage of the game, though they weren't yet merged.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Divided into two teams of five by random draw, team members raced to unearth a large boulder before navigating it through a series of obstacles, standing on it when necessary to grab keys, which they used after they scaled to a top of a tower to unlock puzzle pieces and assemble a 75-piece Survivor 42 logo puzzle. The first team to complete the puzzle won immunity at the next Tribal Council, the new merged tribe buffs and an Applebee's feast reward.Lindsay and Rocksroy drew the odd rocks, and the team of Hai, Jonathan, Maryanne, Lydia, and Tori won reward; they selected Lindsay to join them, exiling Rocksroy. The other five (Chanelle, Drea, Mike, Omar, and Romeo) were left at Vati's beach while the winning team feasted. Drea and Mike agreed to look out for each other. When the challenge winners got back to the Vati camp, many new friendships were formed, and the tribe (except for Chanelle and Tori) agreed to align against the two of them."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":7,"episode_summary":"On Exile Island, Rocksroy was met by Jeff, who offered him to either leave things as is or smash an hourglass to reverse the outcome of the previous challenge, giving himself and the losing team immunity. Rocksroy chose to smash the hourglass.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The non-immune castaways held a rope to balance a wobbly table while stacking blocks spelling the word \"immunity\"; if any blocks fell, that castaway would have to restack them. The first to correctly stack all eight blocks and stand on the starting platform won immunity, while the remaining five non-immune castaways would be vulnerable at the last pre merge Tribal Council.Tori won immunity, thwarting the plans of the majority. With Chanelle and Tori both safe, the tribe scrambled to come up with a new plan. Romeo and Lydia sought to vote out a big physical threat in Jonathan while he was unsafe, but Hai wanted to keep Jonathan as a shield. Maryanne's name was thrown out by Jonathan to give the perception that Taku wasn't a tight four, but Omar (without a vote due to his summit visit) tried to convince tribemates to blindside Lydia to keep his closer allies in the game. The vote at Tribal Council revealed he was able to accomplish this; no advantages were played, and Lydia was voted out. Afterwards, Jeff told the remaining 11 castaways that they were officially merged."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":8,"episode_summary":"At the new merged tribe, Kula Kula (a name suggested by Omar),[3] Romeo grew paranoid about his spot in the game after being in the minority, while Maryanne's insecurity manifested despite her Taku tribemates telling her they still had her back. The following morning, Mike and Omar bonded.\n\nReward Challenge: Divided randomly into two groups of five (with one castaway having no chance at reward), team members took turns jumping off a platform into the water before guiding a buoy on a rope through various obstacles and onto a platform. When all buoys were collected groups attempted to land all five into a floating basket target. The first team to finish won peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and potato chips.Maryanne drew the odd rock, but Drea offered to sit out in her place. The team of Chanelle, Jonathan, Mike, Rocksroy, and Tori won reward, and Drea found a Beware advantage at the sit-out bench (her fourth total advantage). She found it was the \"Knowledge is Power\" advantage, which allowed her to ask any castaway if they had an idol or advantage, and if they did, they would have to give it to her. Omar told the majority alliance as well as the outsiders he was with them, putting himself in the middle.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways held a buoy by supporting it with two rods on a narrow platform. If the buoy fell or the castaway stepped off the perch, they would be eliminated from the challenge. The last standing castaway won immunity.Before the challenge, Jeff negotiated with the tribe for four days worth of rice in exchange for some castaways sitting out of the challenge. They eventually agreed on four castaways (Drea, Lindsay, Maryanne, and Omar), and Tori won her second individual immunity. The vote came down to Chanelle or Romeo; Hai pushed for Romeo due to his paranoia leading him to consult several tribemates, but Mike lobbied to oust Chanelle. At Tribal Council, Tori joined the majority under Mike's lead to send Chanelle to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Hai confronted Romeo about the stray vote he received at the last Tribal Council. Romeo denied casting the vote, but privately said he wanted to make Hai paranoid. Rocksroy approached Mike and Jonathan about forming an all-male alliance, which they agreed to; however, Omar and Hai did not appear receptive to the idea.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Castaways, divided into two teams of five by random draw, balanced on floating A-frames, moving up onto narrower footholds after regular intervals. If a castaway fell off the platform or touched the structure they would be eliminated from the challenge. The longest lasting castaway from each group won immunity, while the longest lasting castaway overall won vegetables and beef kebabs for their team, along with the advantage of going to Tribal Council second.Hai and Jonathan won immunity, with Jonathan also winning reward for his team, and Hai's team being exiled to Taku's camp. On one team, the tribe initially agreed to vote out Romeo, but Omar approached Hai and Mike about voting for Rocksroy as he would be harder to get rid of later in the game. On the other team, Jonathan hatched a plan to vote out Drea by using Maryanne as a decoy vote, but Maryanne and Lindsay were put off by his aggressive scheming and Tori tipped off Drea that she would be the true target.\nAt the first Tribal Council, Rocksroy was voted out unanimously. Upon seeing this at the second Tribal, Drea and Maryanne expressed discomfort about the first two jurors being Black and refused to vote for one another, playing their idols before the votes were even cast. Jonathan, Maryanne and Drea chose to express their votes aloud for Tori or Lindsay rather than use private ballots. Tori played her Shot in the Dark, which failed, and she became the third member of the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Though he had joined in the vote against Rocksroy, an upset Mike confided to Omar that he felt Hai had controlled that vote. Lindsay told Omar about Jonathan's brash strategizing, and they considered severing ties with him. They searched for a new idol; Lindsay was in the right location and failed to spot the idol, but Maryanne retrieved it later.\n\nReward Challenge: Castaways swam ashore and traversed a wooden obstacle before collecting a sandbag and balancing it on a pedestal, then crossing a seesaw, before attempting to land it on a small platform. The first castaway to finish won an overnight stay at a sanctuary with a feast.Lindsay won and selected Omar and Mike to join her. While on reward, they were surprised with videos from their loved ones at home. Omar told Mike a lie that Hai considered Mike his puppet, angering Mike.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways stood on a narrow beam while balancing a ball on a wooden bow. At regular intervals they would move down to a narrower section of the perch, making it harder to balance. If a castaway dropped their ball or stepped down from the platform they would be eliminated. The last standing castaway won immunity.Lindsay won immunity. The vote came down to strategic threat Hai or physical threat Jonathan. Hai tried to convince Jonathan he had an idol (really a fake) he would play for him; Jonathan pretended to fall for it but told Omar he didn't trust Hai. Omar debated which of the two was the bigger threat to him, but at Tribal Council, Romeo was the only one left out of the vote as Hai was sent to the jury. With that vote, Drea and Lindsay's amulet advantage became one steal-a-vote between the two of them."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Players discussed tribe dynamics now that Hai was gone, with Romeo and Maryanne perceived to be at the bottom of the seven. The other players made a Top 5 pact, but Mike secretly wanted to target Drea as she was too powerful with all of her advantages. Jonathan also started to get on people’s nerves as his hunger made him unpleasant to be around, and Lindsay convinced others to target him if he failed to win immunity at the next challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways stood on a narrow perch with their hands on the back of an overhead bar behind them. The last one left standing won immunity. The first person to fall out of the challenge would be forced to participate in a game of chance called Do or Die, which could eliminate them from the game without voting. Castaways could opt out of the challenge and be safe from Do or Die, but would not be immune from the potential vote.Jonathan and Lindsay opted to compete while everyone else sat out, and Jonathan won immunity. Lindsay decided to join Mike in targeting Drea because Lindsay’s amulet would become a full idol if Drea were voted out. However, Omar began to feel concerned about Mike’s control in the game and considered targeting him. Drea told Omar about her Knowledge is Power advantage and planned to use it against Mike that night.\nAt Tribal Council, Lindsay survived the Do or Die game. Drea used her Knowledge is Power advantage to ask Mike if he had an idol, but Mike said no, having been tipped off by Omar earlier and given him his idol to hold. Drea used her extra vote on Mike, but everyone else besides Romeo voted for her, sending her to the jury. Lindsay's amulet thus matured into an immunity idol as the only one remaining in the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Omar returned Mike’s idol to him and they reaffirmed their desire to work with one another, but Mike suspected Omar would come after him next and began rallying others against Omar. Meanwhile, Lindsay continued targeting Jonathan and reaffirmed her desire to beat him in the next immunity challenge. Jonathan felt suspicious of his old Taku allies and knew it would soon be time for them to turn on one another.\n\nReward Challenge: Castaways unspooled themselves from a rope wheel before traversing a mesh net and a balance beam, collecting a key along the way. They then used the key to unlock puzzle pieces, which they used to assemble a stacked block puzzle. First to finish won their choice of two rewards back at camp: chicken and vegetables or chocolate chip cookies and cake.Omar won reward, and Jeff informed him that he could share the chicken and veggies with two people or the cookies and cake with three people; he chose to share the latter with Romeo, Maryanne and Mike. Jonathan and Lindsay discussed the upcoming vote and the plan to vote out Mike, but secretly they wanted to vote each other out. Mike told Maryanne about Lindsay’s idol, which made Maryanne believe that she couldn’t trust Lindsay as much as she thought.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways raced through an obstacle course and over a bridge containing puzzle planks, which they untied and used to assemble a staircase puzzle. They then maneuvered a bag of balls up a pole, before rolling them through a table maze and landing both into separate holes. First to complete the maze won immunity.Lindsay won immunity. Her plan was to vote out Jonathan, but Maryanne felt more threatened by Omar and approached Mike about voting him out instead. Mike believed that Lindsay would use her amulet to save Omar and that Romeo was thus the safer vote, but Lindsay secretly wanted to save her idol to prevent it from re-entering circulation. Maryanne hatched a plan to split the votes between Omar and Romeo, using her extra vote to get out Omar.\nAt Tribal Council, Lindsay declined to play her amulet, and Jonathan and Romeo each received two votes, but Romeo plus Maryanne’s double vote blindsided Omar, sending him to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US42","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The final five castaways were taken to a new island to start over with nothing. The next morning, they each received a word scramble puzzle, giving a clue to the location of a secret advantage. Lindsay solved the puzzle first and found the advantage, which gave her an advantage in the next immunity challenge.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Castaways raced through an obstacle course to six separate stations containing bags of puzzle pieces, then freed the bags of knots before completing a circular puzzle. First to complete the puzzle won immunity, as well as a reward of pasta and garlic bread to be shared with one other person.Despite Lindsay’s advantage giving her fewer knots to untie, she lost immunity to Mike by one puzzle piece. Mike shared his reward with Jonathan, and they discussed voting out Lindsay next. Lindsay pleaded with Mike to save her, reminding him of the promises he’d made to her previously. Maryanne also reminded Mike of his promise to play his idol for her, and she considered using her own idol to save Lindsay. At Tribal Council, Mike played his idol for Maryanne, who neglected to play her own, and Lindsay was sent to the jury.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways, with one hand tied behind their back, dropped a ball into a metal chute, which traveled down a spiraling metal track. A turnstile gate in the middle of the track rotated with every ball, causing the ball to alternate exiting out of the two exits. Castaways must catch the ball and drop it back into the chute at the top. Every few minutes, an additional ball was added to the track until up to seven balls were active on the track. If a ball exited the track and was not caught, the castaway was eliminated; the last one remaining won immunity.Romeo outlasted Jonathan to win immunity. Mike told Romeo that he had no hard feelings about being forced to make fire, and strategized with him about whether to take Jonathan or Maryanne. Romeo elected to take Maryanne with him to final 3, and Mike beat Jonathan in the firemaking challenge, sending Jonathan to the jury.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, the three finalists highlighted their different paths to the end: Mike making strong social bonds and flashy strategic moves, Maryanne managing her threat level and keeping her options open, and Romeo fighting to stay alive from the bottom. Mike was criticized for breaking his word to several players, Romeo was criticized for being paranoid and flighty, while Maryanne was criticized for being overly emotional and putting herself in danger. However, after Maryanne highlighted her growth in the game and her strong under-the-radar moves such as finding the secret merge idol, the jury voted in her favor 7–1–0 over Mike and Romeo, awarding her the $1 million and the title of Sole Survivor.\nAfter the votes were read, castaways enjoyed champagne and pizza while discussing the game with Jeff in a Survivor after-show."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The 18 new castaways arrived in Fiji to begin Survivor 43.\n\nReward Challenge: Two tribe members raced into the jungle for crates. Two other tribe members then retrieved a boat full of crates from the ocean. The last two members would assemble the crates to make a cube, which one tribe member would climb to retrieve a flint hanging above them. The first to obtain the flint won it, as well as a pot and machete, for their tribe. The two losing tribes would have to complete either a \"savvy\" or \"sweat\" challenge at camp within a time limit to earn their supplies.Vesi won reward. As Vesi set up their camp, Noelle bonded with Justine, while Cody, Jesse, and Nneka aligned and were wary of Justine's perceived ability to manipulate. Vesi struggled with starting their fire. Coco chose \"sweat\" while Baka chose \"savvy\", and both were able to complete their tasks in time. The women aligned on both Coco and Baka, with the Coco women bringing in James for a majority. Also on Coco, Karla and Geo bonded due to both being LGBT+. Karla, Gabler, and Dwight went to the summit, where Karla protected her vote. Gabler's risk paid off in the form of an idol good for his next two Tribal Councils (which he immediately let the entire tribe know about), while Dwight lost his vote. Cody and Jesse distrusted Dwight's story upon his return to camp.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes traversed an obstacle course, with one member opening the way at each obstacle. The first to get to the table game portion got their choice of one of three games, while the second got to pick between one of the remaining two. The first two tribes to complete their chosen table game won immunity, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Coco and Vesi won the challenge. Gabler, who struggled in the challenge, publicly declared he would take his Shot in the Dark rather than playing his idol. However, Elie didn't want to vote out Gabler due to his work ethic and tried to talk Jeanine into voting out Morriah, perceiving her as the physically weakest. Morriah brought Sami into her alliance, and they discussed blindsiding Owen. However, at Tribal Council, Morriah was voted out unanimously."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":2,"episode_summary":"A heavy storm rolled into Baka's camp soon after Tribal Council, which especially took a toll on Gabler. Sami proposed a guys' alliance with Gabler and Owen while Elie and Jeanine were away from camp. At Coco, Geo and Ryan's friendship strengthened, while Karla found herself in the middle between the girls' alliance with James and her alliance with Geo and Ryan. At Vesi, Jesse and Dwight were likewise in the middle between the pairs of Justine-Noelle and Cody-Nneka.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Tribes swam towards a bamboo cage, where they retrieved a heavy floating snake filled with numbered discs and hauled it to shore. Once on land, another tribe member used the discs to solve a combination lock and release puzzle pieces, which two tribe members used to assemble a giant Survivor 43 puzzle. The first two tribes to finish won immunity, as well as large and small fishing gear rewards respectively, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Baka and Coco won the challenge. Nneka was targeted due to struggling throughout the challenge, but Jesse and Dwight had different ideas of whom to align with. Dwight wanted to side with the girls, but Jesse was more wary of Justine. Cody found a beware advantage and opened it, forcing him to retrieve beads from the bags of his willing tribemates to make an idol bracelet or else he'd lose his vote. With Dwight already without a vote, Cody scrambled to earn his vote back, which he was able to do before Tribal Council. Jesse ultimately chose to side with Cody and Nneka to send Justine home after her and Noelle's split vote sealed their alliance's fate."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Though Dwight's trust in Jesse lessened, he still hoped to work with him and Noelle. At Baka, Sami informed Gabler that Elie and Jeanine searched his bag for information about his idol, turning Gabler against the women. At Coco, Karla found the same beware advantage Cody found on Vesi and decided to open it after initially leaving it; she was able to barter for the required beads to obtain Coco's idol bracelet.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Three tribe members jumped into the water off a high platform one at a time, then off a stack of floating crates before retrieving a submerged buoy with a key attached. Once every member retrieved their buoy, the remaining two tribe members used the keys to unlock puzzle pieces and solve a turtle block puzzle. The first two tribes to finish won immunity, as well as large and small toolkits and fruit platters respectively, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Baka and Coco won the challenge. Noelle, James, and Owen were sent to the summit, where Noelle promised loyalty to the men if all three were to make the merge. As such, James and Owen protected their votes, allowing Noelle to earn a steal-a-vote advantage. Cody and Jesse were reluctant to vote out Nneka but acknowledged the need for strength in challenges. At Tribal Council, they sided with Dwight and Noelle to send Nneka home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Gabler got on his tribemates' nerves at Baka with his overbearing demeanor.\n\nReward Challenge: One tribe member used sandbags to completely knock down a stack of wooden blocks, before using two of the blocks to traverse across an area without their feet touching the ground. Once that castaway finished, the three remaining tribe members attempted to land sandbags on different sized disc shaped platforms. The first tribe to finish won ten fish, as well as a camp raid, a reward where they could steal one item from a losing tribe's camp.After Vesi's victory, Noelle asked Jeff if they could trade the fish since they didn't have their flint; Jeff agreed to trade them an earlier reward, and they could still partake in the raid. Though Baka had the better fishing kit, Cody sought to weaken the still-intact Coco tribe by taking their machete, which some of his tribemates objected to. Instead, Cody used Coco's machete as leverage to negotiate for multiple food items, causing Karla to think Cody got more than he bargained for.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes raced to knock heavy sandbags off tables while searching for a key, before using it to unlock a net crawl, and transport four large puzzle pieces underneath it. Once across, they used the pieces to form a perfect cube, then disassembled it, hauled the pieces to the top of a tower via cargo net and reassembled it into a triangle. The first two tribes to finish won immunity, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Vesi placed first, then openly provided oral advice to Baka so they could complete their puzzle before Coco. With their first Tribal Council looming, Geo wanted to vote out Cassidy, while the women's alliance with James decided to vote out Geo. However, Lindsay's paranoia got the better of her as she hounded tribemates on whether or not she was safe, which raised red flags with her allies. At Tribal Council, Geo cast a stray vote against Cassidy, while everyone else united to send Lindsay home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Cassidy's trust in Geo diminished after learning he voted for her at the previous Tribal Council. Cassidy and Karla spoke about blindsiding him or Ryan should Coco lose again. Jeanine and Elie found Baka's idol bracelet, and reluctantly shared it with Owen after being caught. Elie informed Sami of the advantage, and Jeanine bartered successfully for all of her required beads. Gabler was irritated about helping Jeanine secure an immunity idol after Sami told him about the advantage after the fact.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Four tribe members were tethered together with ropes and navigated across several wooden obstacles, before filling a pot with water, crossing a seesaw and emptying it into a bucket, then running back and crossing again until they had emptied enough to drop a barrier. Once through, one tribe member rolled three balls up a ramp, attempting to have them land on a small ledge. The first two tribes to finish won large and small tarps respectively, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Vesi and Baka won the challenge. Geo, Jesse, and Jeanine were sent on a journey, where they all risked their votes, and Geo won a \"Knowledge is Power\" advantage which allowed him to ask any castaway if they had an idol or advantage, and if they did, they would have to give it to him. Ryan claimed he threw his portion of the challenge as a way to easily eliminate Cassidy, and lied to her about her safety at the upcoming vote. Karla and James were open about voting Ryan or Geo, but also considered voting out Cassidy as she grew paranoid as the day went on. At Tribal, Karla and James voted with Cassidy to blindside Geo."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Coco and Vesi's treemail instructed them to gather their belongings and venture to Baka's camp.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Divided into two teams of six by random draw, team members raced to clear a sled off of sandbags and debris, before dragging it across a course collecting six large boxes, which they used to create a staircase and collect a key. Once retrieved, teams scaled up a ramp, where two members used the key to unlock puzzle pieces and solve a honeycomb word puzzle. The first team to finish won immunity at the upcoming tribal council, the merged tribe buffs and merge feast, while the losers would be vulnerable at the last pre-merge Tribal Council.Noelle drew the odd rock and chose to back the blue team of Dwight, Gabler, Karla, Jeanine, Jesse, and Ryan. That team came back and won, granting Noelle additional immunity. The other group targeted Cody as the only non-immune Vesi member, but Gabler threw Elie under the bus for searching his bag earlier. Elie intended to work with her old Baka tribemates and the old Vesi tribemates to split the votes between Cassidy and James but told the latter she wanted to work with Coco, though James did not trust her. Gabler's targeting of Elie and her multiple deals got back to most of the tribe, and at Tribal Council, Jeanine chose to keep her idol. No other advantages were played, and Elie was blindsided before the other 12 officially made the merge."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":7,"episode_summary":"The merged tribe name was decided to be Gaia, which Cassidy proposed the name after her cat. Jeanine was saddened to see Elie voted out at the previous Tribal Council, but played it off as a blessing in disguise to her fellow tribemates as not to paint herself as a target. The tribe received treemail asking them to split into partners for the upcoming immunity challenge. Not wanting to cause conflict, they drew rocks to make the pairs.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Pairs of castaways raced through a twisted cylindric rope tunnel, dug up puzzle planks and a flag, and returned to their mat. The first four pairs to finish moved on while the last two were eliminated. The remaining teams raced up a cargo net with their puzzle planks and used them to cross a bridge and raced to their mat. The first two teams to finish moved on, while the last two teams were eliminated. In the final section, the last four castaways competed individually, holding onto a rope handle attached to a bucket containing 25% of their body weight as of the beginning of the game. If the rope unspooled, the bucket would break a tile, and that castaway would be eliminated. The last standing castaway won immunity.Gabler outlasted Cody to win immunity. Several former Baka and Vesi members suggested Ryan be voted out as a physical threat, and Noelle rallied for James to be sent home for his social prowess. Karla and Jesse were wary of Noelle calling the shots, and Cody suggested Dwight be voted out to weaken Noelle. Several tribe members found a clue to an advantage under their shelter, and James immediately retrieved it, finding it to be Knowledge is Power. Dwight informed his allies of James's potential advantage, and they swapped their advantages around to prevent them from being stolen: Cody gave his idol to Jesse, Jeanine gave her idol to Dwight, and Noelle gave her steal-a-vote advantage to Owen. At Tribal Council, the majority sided with Cody, sending Dwight home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":8,"episode_summary":"As revealed in a flashback, Dwight had passed Jeanine's idol to Jesse before being blindsided, and thus Jesse had two idols in his possession as he still held Cody's idol as well. While Ryan established himself as a tribe provider, Sami surmised he would be on the bottom as the only Baka member in the majority alliance of seven, and he considered deviating from that group.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways balanced a ball on a disc by holding a pole underneath it. At regular intervals, additional sections of pole were added, making it more difficult. If their ball dropped, they would be eliminated from the challenge. The last person left standing won immunity. Before the challenge, Jeff offered the tribe four days' worth of rice if five castaways sat out of the challenge.Cassidy, James, Jesse, Karla, and Sami sat out, and Owen outlasted Cody for immunity. Ryan consulted his tribemates on voting out Jeanine, but Sami proposed blindsiding Ryan due to his physical prowess. James was wary of flipping on Ryan so soon and wished to stay with the seven, which Cassidy disagreed with. At Tribal Council, most of the tribe stuck together to send Jeanine to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Owen was upset that James had told him to vote for Ryan even though Jeanine was voted out.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Castaways, divided into two teams of five by random draw, held a metal brace to keep a ball in place. If they lowered the bar, the ball dropped from its perch, and that player was eliminated. The longest lasting castaway from each group won immunity, while the longest lasting castaway overall won peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for their team, along with the advantage of going to Tribal Council second.Karla and Cody won immunity, with Cody also winning reward for his team. The blue team was exiled to Vesi's camp, where James and Owen's rivalry resulted in a heated argument at camp. Noelle sought to make a big move and told Owen and Sami that she would use her steal-a-vote against Owen, using her two votes and Sami's vote to blindside James. Sami then tried to convince Karla to vote out James as well. At Tribal Council, Noelle used her advantage and Karla joined the majority, sending James to the jury.\nAt the red group, Cassidy and Ryan targeted each other again. Cody and Jesse brought Gabler into their alliance, and the three of them weighed the pros and cons of keeping Cassidy or Ryan. At Tribal Council, they sided with Cassidy to send Ryan to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Noelle and Owen expressed uneasiness over Sami telling Karla about voting out James.\n\nReward Challenge: Castaways spun on a metal frame to drag a buoy past a marker. Then while dizzy, they traversed a net obstacle and balance beam, collecting a sandbag along the way, before attempting to land it on a disc atop a tall pole. The first castaway to finish won an overnight stay at a sanctuary, along with a feast and letters from home.Noelle came from behind to win reward. She chose Sami, Jesse, and Owen to join her. Sami proposed voting out Cassidy next, while at camp, Cassidy tried to convince Cody and Gabler to vote out a rising threat in Noelle.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways held a handle with one hand to balance a table while using their other hand to build a house of cards high enough to reach a marker. The first castaway to complete their tower won immunity.Cassidy won immunity. Gabler told Noelle that Cassidy had targeted her, and amidst the scrambling, Jesse worked on ensuring the votes would be split between Karla and Sami so that his alliance could pull off the blindside on Noelle. However, right before Tribal, Gabler urged Karla to take caution with the tight duo of Cody and Jesse calling the shots. At Tribal Council, most of the tribe made the move against Noelle, sending her to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Karla confronted Sami about the stray votes she received at the last Tribal Council. He eventually admitted to writing her name down, and Owen rued about being on the wrong side of many of the previous votes. The next morning, a clue about an advantage in their jungle was revealed, and Cody found it to be the \"Choose Your Champion\" advantage, which let him bet on one of his fellow castaways to win the next immunity challenge, and if they did, he would also get immunity. He bet on Owen to win.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways hung underneath a grated steel barricade in the ocean as the tide rose. As the challenge wore on, it would give them less room to breathe, making it more difficult. If a player surfaced from the grate, they would be eliminated from the challenge. The last castaway remaining won immunity.Karla and Owen both outlasted the high tide, and a decision was made to grant them both individual immunity, additionally granting Cody immunity through his advantage. Karla initially wanted to target Cassidy, much to the delight of Sami. Jesse and Cody wanted to vote out Sami however, feeling that a single vote against Cassidy from Karla could weaken their relationship. At Tribal Council, Sami was sent home unanimously after a failed Shot in the Dark attempt."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Owen told Cassidy that Karla had plotted against her, leading Karla to desperately try and convince Cassidy otherwise. Jesse corroborated Owen's story, however, giving Cassidy incentive to target her old ally.\n\nReward Challenge: Divided into two teams of three by random draw, one castaway guided two blindfolded teammates from inside a large ball across an obstacle course. Once at the end, the guiding castaway would lead their blindfolded partners in completing a table maze. The first trio to finish won a trip to the sanctuary, which included iced coffee and pastries.Cody, Karla, and Owen won the reward. Karla told Cody and Owen she didn't have an idol, but Cassidy told Gabler and Jesse at camp that Karla did have one, leading the men to make a final four deal.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways raced across several obstacles collecting numbered tiles, which they eventually used to open a combination lock and access a key. Once through, they then crawled under a net, and scaled up cargo meshing to the finish, where they used the key to unlock puzzle pieces and solve a hanging bat puzzle. The first castaway to finish won immunity.Cassidy barely beat out Cody for immunity. Cody hatched a plan with Karla for both of them to say they'll play their idols but hold on to them so that Gabler or Owen would be blindsided. However, Cody revealed to them that it was a ruse so that the men could blindside Karla while she felt safe. Cody looped Jesse in on the plan, who instead considered blindsiding Cody as his fellow strategic leader. Cody asked for his idol back so that he could show Karla proof, leaving Jesse on edge over the vote. At Tribal Council, Jesse had gotten Cody's idol back and used it on Owen, leading Karla to play hers on herself; the vote revealed that Jesse had swayed Gabler and Owen into blindsiding Cody onto the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US43","episode":13,"episode_summary":"On their new island, the final five were given a word scramble which would lead them to an advantage. Karla nabbed it right before Owen could and found it was a challenge advantage.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Castaways guided a buoy across several wooden obstacles in the ocean before arriving onshore and untying lettered blocks. They then transported the pieces using handles across a balance beam, then returned and crossed again until they had brought them all to the end, where they used the letters to unscramble an eight word phrase. The first player to finish won immunity, along with a trip to the sanctuary, which included a meal of steak, vegetables and wine.Karla's advantage was that 10 of her blocks were already across the beam, but Owen was able to unscramble the phrase first to win his third immunity challenge. He chose Cassidy to join him, and they agreed on voting out Karla, despite Owen's apprehension about Jesse's flashy gameplay. At Tribal Council, Jesse revealed Jeanine's old idol before the vote, leading to a live tribal in which Jesse tried to convince Karla and Gabler to vote out Cassidy. However, he played the idol for himself to negate Karla's vote against him, sending Karla to the jury.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways used a pronged spear to navigate fifteen ceramic dishes through a narrow slot on a metal structure, which was attached to a spring and wobbled if disturbed. Once through the course, they would have to then stack them on top of each other, before continuing with their next dish. The first castaway to successfully stack all dishes won immunity.Cassidy won her third immunity necklace, and Gabler & Owen both tried to convince her to let them make fire against Jesse. Jesse likewise tried to convince Cassidy that facing him in the challenge herself would boost her resume (secretly believing she would be easy to beat at fire), but Cassidy took Owen to the end. Gabler easily defeated Jesse, sending him to the jury.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, Cassidy highlighted her moves of the season in eliminating several of the jury members, but James, Karla, Jesse, and Cody called her out for making those moves behind their shadows and not directing them herself. Owen was praised as an underdog for not giving up, but criticized for never having control of the strategic game. Gabler highlighted his social bonds, saying they allowed him to know what was going on among several alliances and be on the right side of the majority of the votes, as well as claiming the Elie vote as his move. The jury sided with Gabler, naming him the Sole Survivor in a 7–1–0 vote; Cassidy received James's vote to place second. During the aftershow, Gabler pledged to donate the full sum of his million-dollar prize to support veterans in need by giving it all away to a collection of veterans' support organizations with which he'd partnered."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The 18 new castaways arrived in Fiji to begin Survivor 44.\n\nReward Challenge: Pairs of tribe members raced under obstacles in the sand to collect puzzle pieces, and then repeated until each player had gone once. Afterwards, two tribe members used those pieces to complete a block puzzle before trying to remove three large rings from a tall pole. The first tribe to finish won flint, while the second tribe to finish had their choice of either a \"Savvy\" or \"Sweat\" challenge to complete for their supplies, leaving the last tribe with whatever option was not chosen.Soka won the challenge and Ratu finished second. The challenge was briefly stopped to tend to Bruce after he injured his head, but he was cleared to continue. However, he was pulled from the game later that night. At Ratu, the tribe elected to complete the \"Sweat\" challenge, with Brandon and Matthew dragging a net between two stations transporting coconuts. At Tika, Helen and Carson successfully completed the \"Savvy\" challenge. All three tribes also found a locked cage at their camp with a mystery advantage inside.\nThe next day, boats arrived at each tribe's beach to take one member to a summit; Lauren, Matt, and Sarah were chosen. They were individually given a 1-in-3 chance at an advantage; guessing wrong meant losing their vote at the next Tribal Council, but they could elect to pick twice. Sarah lost one vote but received an \"Inheritance\" advantage to secretly inherit all advantages and idols played at one Tribal Council; Matt lost two consecutive votes; and Lauren received a \"Bank Your Vote\" advantage, giving her the option to give up her vote at one Tribal Council in exchange for an extra vote to be used in the future. During the summit, Ratu decided to search for the key to their cage; Brandon found it and elected to publicly open the cage and retrieve the advantage, which was a hidden immunity idol along with a fake one. Matthew also injured his shoulder while attempting to climb a jagged rock.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes paddled boats around distant buoys in the ocean before jumping into the water to retrieve a large chest on the sea floor. After hauling it ashore, tribe members pulled it across a ramp and then opened it for a key, which they used to unlock puzzle pieces and solve a giant sliding block puzzle. The first two tribes to finish won immunity, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Soka and Tika won immunity. During the challenge, Brandon was temporarily pulled by the medical team due to heat exhaustion and Matthew learned from Claire that Lauren may have lied about what she got from the summit. Back at Ratu, Matthew shared this information with the tribe and many agreed to target Lauren; however, the women secretly wanted to blindside Brandon to flush his idol, bringing in Kane to help. At Tribal Council, Lauren elected to use her Bank Your Vote advantage, while Matthew and Jaime played their Shot in the Dark; Jaime's succeeded. Brandon played his idol, negating two votes against him, and his lone vote sent Maddy home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Brandon's trust in Kane diminished after finding out he was the other player that voted against him. At Soka, Matt felt drawn to Frannie, opening up the truth of how he lost his next two votes. Meanwhile, when everyone was not looking, Danny found the key to the tribe's caged idol. After grabbing the real idol, he placed the fake idol back in the bag, just before Claire and Matt went to investigate. At Tika, Carolyn likewise found the key to the cage but left the package open, resulting in everyone suspecting each other of opening it, not suspecting Carolyn whatsoever.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Tribe members raced over a wooden obstacle before untying sandbags searching for a ball. Once found, one tribe member scaled up a tower to release rope, which remaining members pulled to raise a bridge so the member could cross and open it for the rest of the tribe. Afterwards, tribes raced to the finish, where one member used the ball to complete a vertical snake maze. The first two tribes won immunity along with large and small fishing gear rewards respectively, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Ratu and Soka won the challenge. The alliance of Carson, Helen, and Sarah agreed to vote out Carolyn (though Sarah was without a vote), while Carolyn and Yam Yam tried to convince Carson to blindside Helen. At Tribal Council, Carolyn declined to play her idol and Carson flipped, sending Helen home."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Carson admitted to Sarah that he flipped, but still wanted to work with her, though Sarah was skeptical. At Ratu, Jaime discovered an idol with Matthew, but Matthew revealed via a confessional that it was a fake and that he had found the real idol prior. At Soka, Matt and Frannie's connection continued, leading the other four to align against them. Matt found the key Danny hid and fell for the ruse after Danny had placed the parchment saying it was an idol back in the bag; Danny proceeded to tell the tribe that Matt found the idol.\n\nImmunity/Reward Challenge: Tribe members swam out to a large wooden cube in the ocean, which they navigated through the water to two poles and collected keys off metal spirals. Ashore, tribes dug under a log and used one of the keys of unlock a rotating platform, where they solved a colored box puzzle so the boxes stacked without any repeating colors on any side. The first two tribes to finish won immunity, as well as large and small tool kits and fruit platters respectively, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Claire volunteered to sit out a third consecutive challenge, and Ratu and Tika won. The tribe agreed to vote out Claire for her lack of contribution at camp and in challenges, but Frannie secretly considered a girls' alliance alongside Matt to blindside Josh, who had not approached many people strategically. At Tribal Council, Claire played her Shot in the Dark, which failed, and she was voted out unanimously (with Matt unable to vote)."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Josh believed himself to be in the middle of two alliances (Danny & Heidi and Matt & Frannie), but the four of them planned to target him next. At Tika, the idol cage had a makeshift \"X\" mark in it, while another one was hidden, revealed to be Carolyn's work. Sarah ultimately found the fake idol after locating the other mark.\n\nReward Challenge: One tribe member at a time climbed a structure and hit a faraway target with sandbags using a slingshot. The first two tribes to hit all five targets won large and small tarps respectively, with the first placing tribe also getting to choosing which members from each tribes got to attend the summit.Soka and Ratu won reward. Carson, Jaime, and Josh were sent to the summit. Each of them was given an idol that was good until all surviving castaways were living together on one beach, but all three also learned that they were forced to switch to a different tribe. Carson went to Ratu, Jaime to Soka, and Josh to Tika. At Ratu, Matthew told Carson that Jaime found an idol in front of him, leaving out that it was a fake. At Soka, Danny searched Jaime's bag to see if she had any advantages but came up empty. At Tika, Sarah figured Josh was a surgeon due to an earlier comment about needing to have steady hands, but Josh told his new tribemates that he was a personal trainer, which led to their distrust of him.\n\nImmunity Challenge: One tribe member at a time traversed an obstacle course in the ocean, jumping to retrieve keys in the process. After retrieving all their keys, tribes unlocked pieces to a manta ray jigsaw puzzle. The first two tribes to solve their puzzle won immunity, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Soka and Ratu won immunity. Yam Yam directed a plan to vote out Josh with Carolyn as the decoy vote, but that did not sit well with Carolyn, so she and Josh contemplated making a move against Sarah using Josh's idol that he told Carolyn about. At Tribal Council, Josh played the idol on himself to negate two votes, and Carolyn joined him in blindsiding Sarah, leaving Yam Yam shocked."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Yam Yam and Josh were in conflict over the vote, but bonded later due to their respective coming out stories. Josh also told Yam Yam he had another idol (really a fake) and showed him the note from his journey. At Ratu, Matthew's shoulder injury was not improving, while Carson and Kane bonded. At Soka, Jaime tried to align with Frannie.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Three tribe members were tethered together with ropes and navigated across several wooden obstacles, before filling a pot with water, crossing a seesaw and emptying it into a bucket, then running back and crossing again until they had emptied enough to drop a barrier. Once through, two tribe members navigated three balls through a table maze, attempting to lad them all in different holes. The first two tribes to finish won immunity, with the first placing tribe getting to choose which member from each tribe went on a journey, and the last place tribe having to forfeit their flint.Ratu and Soka won the challenge, with Jeff asking Matthew to stay behind so medical could examine his shoulder. Brandon, Danny, and Carolyn were chosen for the journey, and they got to enjoy a small food reward. Brandon and Danny bonded, making Carolyn feel excluded. She immediately mouthed to Yam Yam that she was on board with him against Josh (due to Brandon and Danny wanting to include Josh in their newly formed \"strong guys\" alliance) and told him the note Josh had was the same one he showed her before the previous Tribal Council. Yam Yam was torn on who to side with, but Jeff arrived at Tika shortly before Tribal Council saying Matthew had decided to leave the game due to his injury. Thus, Tribal Council was cancelled for that night."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":6,"episode_summary":"All three tribes received treemail to convene at Ratu's beach, ending the tribal stage of the game and rendering Carson and Jaime's summit idols useless. Josh's claim that he had an idol circulated around the tribe, with some questioning the validity of his claim.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Divided into two teams of six by random draw, team members raced to unearth a large boulder before navigating it through a series of obstacles, standing on it when necessary to grab a key, which they used after they scaled to a top of a tower to unlock puzzle pieces and assemble a tree puzzle. The first team to complete the puzzle won immunity at the next Tribal Council, the new merged tribe buffs and a merge feast reward.Brandon, Carolyn, Carson, Frannie, Jaime, and Matt won the challenge. Carolyn's attempt to convince her teammates that Josh's idol was fake fell on deaf ears, and a plan to vote out Josh with Kane as a backup was formed. Carson told Kane that his name came up, raising red flags with his allies, while Josh tried to recruit allies to vote out Yam Yam. At Tribal Council, most of the tribe voted out Josh, and the remaining 11 were officially merged."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":7,"episode_summary":"At the merged tribe, Va Va (a name coined by Yam Yam for the Fijian meaning of '44'), Brandon revealed to Matt that the birdcage had a real and a fake idol, leading Matt to deduce the one he had was fake and that Danny had set him up at Soka.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Divided into two teams of five by random draw (with one odd castaway getting to pick their team), castaways stood on a narrow platforms while balancing a ball at the end of a long pole. At regular intervals, they would move onto narrower parts of the beam, making it harder to balance. If castaway dropped their ball or stepped off the platform, they would be eliminated from the challenge. The longest-lasting castaway from each team won immunity, with the longest-surviving castaway overall winning a peanut butter and jelly sandwich reward for their team, as well as group immunity, letting that group spectate the upcoming Tribal Council while not voting.Frannie outlasted Brandon to win immunity for herself, Carolyn, Danny, Heidi, and Kane; Carson also won due to correctly predicting the winning team after drawing the odd rock. Brandon also won immunity as the last one standing from his team. The losing team was exiled to Soka's beach, where Matt felt vulnerable due to leaving his bag at the merged camp. The Ratu majority of Brandon, Jaime, and Lauren were in control, leaving Yam Yam and Matt to plead their cases. The winning team received a note saying a new advantage was hidden in a birdcage with several keys scattered around the jungle; Heidi found the correct key leading her to a \"Control a Vote\" advantage; she would pick someone at the upcoming Tribal Council and direct them to cast a vote for whoever she wanted.\nAt Tribal Council, Heidi used her advantage to have Lauren vote against Yam Yam; upon Lauren asking, Jeff confirmed that Lauren's extra vote would be her own to cast if she chose to play it. However, she chose to hold onto her advantage, and Brandon and Jaime sided with Yam Yam to send Matt to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Frannie was left devastated after Matt's elimination. Carson woke up feeling ill the next morning while Danny sought to break up the Ratu alliance by targeting Lauren and flushing her extra vote. Treemail on Day 15 instructed the castaways to divide into pairs for the next immunity challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The five pairs would maneuver themselves through a tangled net one-at-a-time, then dig up three planks from a sand pit. The first four pairs to do this used those planks to cross a rope bridge. The first two pairs to make it across made it to the final round, where they would compete as individuals. The final four stood on narrow footholds, and at regular intervals, the footholds would get narrower. The last person left standing won immunity.Lauren won immunity, outlasting Danny and thwarting his plan. The vote came down to Ratu vs. Soka, with Tika in the middle; Ratu targeted Frannie while Soka targeted Brandon. Danny told his allies about his idol and planned to play it for Frannie, but Heidi leaked this to Carson and Yam Yam, causing chaos for the Soka alliance. At Tribal Council, Carson and Yam Yam voted for Frannie, but Carolyn deviated to join Soka; Danny played his idol on Frannie to negate six votes, and a blindsided Brandon was sent to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Kane and Danny began searching for a new idol; the rest of the tribe soon joined them, and it was found by Heidi. Treemail alluded to a negotiation for rice, and though Danny tried to convince everyone to compete, Carson had other ideas.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways stood with one leg on a narrow perch, bracing a ball with a handle against a narrow piece of wood. If a castaway stepped down or dropped their ball, they'd be eliminated from the challenge. The last standing player won immunity. At the challenge, Jeff offered a large bag of rice to the tribe if four players would sit out, sacrificing their own chance at immunity.Carson, Lauren, Kane, and Heidi sat out, giving the tribe the rice. Frannie outlasted Danny for immunity. The Ratu alliance planned on bringing in Tika to split the vote between Danny and Heidi, then passed their advantages along in case of a potential Knowledge is Power being played. Lauren gave her extra vote to Jaime so that she could cast twice against Heidi, while Jaime gave her fake idol to Kane, still believing it to be real. Frannie tried to convince Danny to align with Ratu to blindside one of the Tika trio, which Danny was not receptive to. At Tribal Council, last minute strategic confirmations initiated a live tribal. Jaime used the extra vote, but it was for naught as Soka and Tika joined forces to send Kane to the jury with Jaime's fake idol in his pocket."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Frannie and Jaime were frustrated about being left out of the Kane vote. Carson lied to Jaime that Kane told others about her idol.\n\nReward Challenge: Castaways spun on a metal frame to drag a buoy past a marker, before crossing a balance beam while dizzy, attempting to untie and collected two balls. Once through, players raced to the finish, where they attempted to land both balls on top of a raised trough. The first castaway to finish won a trip to the sanctuary, which included a Mexican themed meal, a night's stay with amenities as well as letters from home.Frannie won reward and selected Carolyn, Lauren, and Heidi to join her. They enjoyed their food and letters from home while discussing a possible Danny blindside. Back at camp, Jaime told the others that her \"idol\" went home with Kane, but they did not believe her.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways, with their arms bound and feet tethered together wriggled over mounds of sand while using their mouth to bite a ring and drag a buoy along the way. Once they had reached their mats, they unbound their hands and maneuvered the buoy through a rope course to the finish, where they untied puzzle pieces and completed a star puzzle. The first castaway to finish their puzzle won immunity.Carson won immunity. Danny proposed that they target Frannie due to her strength in challenges, and a plan was formed to split the vote with Jaime to flush her idol. Yam Yam and Carson schemed to target Frannie without telling Carolyn the plan, fearing that they had grown too close. Carolyn suggested flipping the vote onto Heidi, but at Tribal Council, Frannie was sent to the jury, leaving Carolyn and Heidi in the dark."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Carolyn was upset with Carson and Yam Yam over leaving her out of the Frannie vote but made up with them the next morning. Danny started making moves to eliminate one of the Tika trio with Yam Yam as his first target.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways hung underneath a grated steel barricade in the ocean as the tide rose. As the challenge wore on, it would give them less room to breathe, making it more difficult. If a player surfaced from the grate, they would be eliminated from the challenge. The last castaway remaining won immunity.Yam Yam won immunity, forcing Danny to target Carson instead. Carolyn felt uneasy that her ally might go home, so she told Carson about her idol and mulled playing it for him to eliminate Danny. At Tribal Council, Carolyn got into a minor argument with Danny and Lauren over gameplay. She then played her idol for Carson to negate two votes against him, and though the remaining Ratus voted against Heidi in case of an idol, the Tika trio sent Danny to the jury (with Carolyn's vote crossing out Lauren's name)."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Carolyn confessed to finding the Tika idol on the second day and covering her tracks, causing the other players to realize that she was a stronger player than they thought. The next morning, Jaime woke up early to look for an idol; Carson saw her and recruited Carolyn to look for it as well. Heidi also joined in the search, despite already having an idol of her own.\n\nReward Challenge: In teams of three, two blindfolded players maneuvered a third teammate suspended within a giant ball through an obstacle course. That player then directed their blindfolded teammates to solve a table maze. First trio to finish the maze won a trip to the Survivor Sanctuary for food and other luxuries.Carson, Lauren, and Yam Yam won reward. At the Sanctuary, Carson and Yam Yam promised Lauren that they were willing to vote out Carolyn, and Yam Yam privately considered it. Back at camp, Jaime attempted to convince Carolyn to flip on her Tika allies, but Carolyn told Carson about this immediately when he returned, swearing her loyalty.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Players balanced a ball on a small platform by holding ropes to steady it. At intervals, players had to step further back, making it more difficult to balance the platform. Last player with their ball standing won immunity.Lauren won immunity. Carolyn attempted to convince Heidi to vote for Jaime, which Heidi considered in order to save her idol and secure her safety. However, Carson and Yam Yam considered flipping on Carolyn, believing she was a bigger jury threat despite being a valuable ally. At Tribal Council, Heidi played her idol, despite receiving zero votes. Carolyn received two votes, surprising her, but the Tika alliance held strong and Jaime was sent home.\nJeff then informed the final five that they would be traveling to a new beach to start over from scratch, but anticipating this, the players had brought all their supplies from camp."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US44","episode":13,"episode_summary":"The final five players arrived at their new island and celebrated making the finale. All five searched for an idol or an advantage through the night and morning, but found nothing. Lauren and Heidi believed Carson was the biggest threat remaining and attempted to convince Yam Yam and Carolyn to vote him out.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Players raced through an obstacle course collecting keys, which they used to unlock a chest to lower a ladder, then climbed the ladder to solve a block puzzle. First person to solve the puzzle won immunity and a trip to the Survivor Sanctuary for a food reward.Carson won immunity, and elected to take Yam Yam with him to the Sanctuary. They discussed whether to target Lauren or Carolyn, while back at camp, the girls contemplated whether to target Yam Yam. Upon returning to camp, Yam Yam sensed tension from the others and realized he was in danger. However, at Tribal Council, Carolyn remained Tika loyal, and Lauren was voted out.\n\nImmunity Challenge: With one hand tied behind their backs, players dropped a ball into a spinning track with a turnstile at the middle, depositing the ball at alternate exits. Players must then catch the ball and return it into the track, adding additional balls at intervals. Last player not to drop any of their balls won immunity.Heidi outlasted Carson to win immunity. She was unsure of what she was going to do that night, and all players practiced firemaking that afternoon, with Carson struggling the most. At Tribal Council, Heidi chose to send herself to firemaking against Carson, where she set a record for the fastest fire to send Carson to the jury.\nThe final three enjoyed a breakfast feast the final morning ahead of their Final Tribal Council. The jury grilled players on their social, strategic, and physical games. Heidi highlighted her risk-taking late in the game and how she used other players as shields to stay safe. Carolyn discussed her physical and mental struggles on the island, using her emotions as a strength rather than a weakness. Yam Yam took strategic credit for voting out people who voted for him and highlighted his social game, making bonds with each member of the jury. The jury voted 7-1-0 in favor of Yam Yam over Heidi and Carolyn, respectively, awarding him the million dollars and the title of Sole Survivor.\nAfter the votes were read, Jeff and the players discussed the game while enjoying pizza and champagne in a special after-show segment."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The 18 new castaways began their adventure.\n\nReward Challenge: Two tribe members moved sandbags and rope out of a crate then retrieved a key. The next pair rowed out to another key. The final pair used those keys to unlock two poles, which were used to retrieve a flint. The first tribe to free their flint won it, plus a pot and machete.Reba won the challenge, with Brandon being tended to by medical afterwards. Brando & Jake for Belo and Kaleb & Sabiyah for Lulu volunteered for Savvy and Sweat challenge, where both pairs were tasked to do two challenges within a time limit: transport logs down the beach, and then free a flint from a puzzle structure. The first pair to do both tasks won their supplies for the tribe while the losing pair got nothing. While both pairs were able to complete the Sweat portion of the challenge, both failed to complete the Savvy puzzle. At Lulu, Emily believed Kaleb and Sabiyah were hiding an advantage after the pair told their tribemates that they didn't win the camp supplies. When Brandon rejoined his tribe, Hannah told him that she wanted to quit. At Belo, Katurah, Kellie, and Kendra aligned together while Bruce struggled to rein in his leadership tendencies, despite saying that he didn't want to be seen as a leader. At Reba, Sifu was caught looking for an advantage and eavesdropping on his tribemates' conversations. Austin found a Beware Advantage and was tasked with deciphering a secret phrase on his tribe's flag in the middle of camp; until he completes all of the tasks, he would be unable to vote at Tribal Council.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribe members completed an obstacle course which involved a mud pit and dropping a crate by throwing coconuts in a net before completing a Survivor logo jigsaw puzzle. The first two tribes to finish won immunity while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Belo and Reba easily won immunity. At Lulu, Emily campaigned against Kaleb due to his tight alliance with Sabiyah, but the rest of the tribe wanted Emily out first due to her abrasiveness. However, at Tribal Council, Hannah decided to quit regardless of the outcome; with her tribemates' blessings and a verbal vote from the rest of the tribe, she became the first person to leave the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Emily was on the outs and began searching for an idol the morning after Hannah's quit; the others stayed close by while searching themselves. Brandon found Lulu's Beware Advantage but gave it to Sabiyah, not wanting to lose his vote. Emily tried to make amends and bond with her tribemates, succeeding with Kaleb, while Sabiyah and Brandon deciphered their clue to a tree but could not retrieve the idol. At Belo, Bruce's \"fun uncle\" persona endeared himself to Jake but earned Katurah's ire, while Brando and Kellie found themselves in the middle after they saw the value to both remaining pairs. At Reba, a majority alliance formed between Drew, Julie, Austin, and Dee. Austin deciphered the phrase on his Beware Advantage but did not yet find the idol.\nThe tribes were tasked with sending one player each on a journey. Bruce for Belo, Brandon for Lulu, and Drew for Reba went; Brandon divulged Lulu's tribe dynamics while Bruce remained silent. The three were then given a challenge that would give them an advantage if they won, but took their vote if they lost. Bruce elected to protect his vote and not play; Brandon lost, while Drew won a Safety Without Power advantage (good until the Final 10 Tribal Council) that he immediately told his tribemates about, proposing it to be used to benefit all of Reba. This led Austin to disclose his advantage to Drew, solidifying their alliance.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One at a time, three tribe members smashed a target to release a key, then crossed a balance beam. Once all three keys were retrieved, the remaining two tribe members would use the keys to open puzzle pieces to solve a coral-shaped jigsaw puzzle. The first two tribes to finish won immunity plus a large fishing kit for the winning tribe and a smaller fishing kit for second place. The losing tribe would have to forfeit their flint.Reba and Belo placed first and second respectively in a close finish after Brandon faltered in the puzzle. The majority alliance of Sabiyah, Kaleb, and Sean got the idol out of the tree, but had to burn wax surrounding it; without flint to start a fire, Sabiyah was without a vote that night, as was Brandon due to losing the journey challenge. Sabiyah hoped for Emily to go, but Kaleb and Sean lobbied for tribe strength by ousting Brandon. Emily gave Sabiyah her Shot in the Dark to build trust. At Tribal Council, Brandon was sent home unanimously."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Emily deduced that Sabiyah did not vote, leading to more distrust between the two. At Belo, Jake had a brief medical episode but felt fine afterward. Kendra then tried to align with Jake. At Reba, Austin and Drew's search for the idol raised red flags with Dee.\n\nReward Challenge: Tribe members ran ashore and, one-at-a-time, tossed a ball onto an overhead track, maneuvering across ropes to catch the ball before it fell off the end. Once they all accomplished this, they tossed the balls to try and land one in a target, dropping three hooks that they would toss rings onto. The first tribe to land all three rings won a large fruit platter and the right to raid one of the other two camps, while the second tribe to finish won a smaller fruit platter.Lulu and Reba won the challenge. Lulu chose to have Kaleb raid Reba, where he took some of their fishing gear and obtained information on Reba's dynamics. Kaleb was to give a Goodwill advantage to a member of Reba that would restore one lost vote; he chose Drew, who gave it to Austin and disclosed it to Dee and Julie. Meanwhile at Lulu, Sabiyah tried to convince Sean and Emily to blindside Kaleb due to his social prowess. At Belo, Brando and Kellie grew wary of Katurah's vendetta against Bruce. At Reba, Dee and Julie found the idol which they gave to Austin since he had the note. Austin discovered it was only good for one Tribal Council, though he could sacrifice a vote to extend it to the individual stage of the game, or sacrifice two votes to extend the idol to the final five.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes raced out with a cart, and one member retrieved keys from high up using a pole. The keys unlocked heavy puzzle pieces that went on the cart. They disassembled the cart to get the pieces through a barricade then reassembled the cart. They then used the pieces to assemble a large cube puzzle with the help of an appointed caller. The first two tribes to finish won immunity while the losing tribe had to forfeit its flint.Lulu lost yet another challenge. Sabiyah came clean to Emily about her lack of a vote, causing Emily to tell Kaleb to vote Sabiyah to save himself. At Tribal Council, Sabiyah burned the wax surrounding her idol in the arena's fire, but when she went up to the voting booth, she discovered that her idol had the same restrictions and powers as Austin's. She chose to sacrifice her vote to extend the life of the idol, but she did not play the idol. This backfired against Sabiyah as Emily and Kaleb joined forces to blindside her out of the game."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Sean tried to do damage control after being in the minority of the last vote, but Emily did not buy it. The next morning, the first tribe swap of the new era took place: Belo consisted of Austin, Brando, Drew, Emily, and Kendra; Lulu consisted of Bruce, Jake, Kaleb, Katurah, and Kellie; Reba consisted of Dee, J. Maya, Julie, Sean, and Sifu.\nAt Lulu, Bruce recognized the campsite as being Tika's from last season, making him emotional. Jake and Kaleb discussed aligning, while Katurah tried to sway Kaleb into voting out Bruce. At Belo, Austin and Drew tried to bring Emily into their alliance. At Reba, the four in the majority searched Sean's bag for an advantage and discovered he didn't have one. J. Maya bonded with Sean and targeted Sifu.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes carried a heavy cage from the ocean to the beach. Once the cage was placed at a designated spot, one tribe member dug themselves under the cage to be the rebounder while the rest of the tribe shot balls to score into three baskets. The first two tribes to score all three balls won immunity while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Lulu and Belo won the challenge. J. Maya tried to convince Dee and Julie to blindside Sifu, who hoped to stay Reba strong and vote out Sean. Dee and Julie were torn on who to vote out. At Tribal Council, Sean changed course and stated he wanted to quit; despite Dee making a last-ditch effort to turn against Sifu, Sean was sent home after his throwaway vote on Dee, though Sifu wondered who had voted for him."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Sifu asked where the vote for him came from, and Dee stated she didn't vote for him, even though she did. Eventually, J. Maya confessed to it just to put it behind the tribe. Dee and Julie debated siding with Sifu or J. Maya for the future. At Lulu, Bruce's bossiness wore on tribemates' nerves. At Belo, Drew was unreceptive to an attempt to align by Brando.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One at a time, three members from each tribe raced through an obstacle course to find three keys. Another tribe member used one of the keys to unlock a long hook with which they released sandbags. Finally, each tribe had to use their sandbags and a slingshot to knock down three targets. The first two tribes to finish won immunity and spreads of fresh fish, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint. The first winning tribe also got to select three people, one from each tribe, to go on a journey.Reba and Lulu won the challenge. J. Maya, Kellie, and Austin were selected for the journey, where they had to come to a majority decision on sandwiches or an amulet advantage that would increase in power the fewer of them holding it remained in the game. Austin unsuccessfully tried to sway the women into the sandwiches, and the advantage gave the group one extra vote. Brando offered his Shot in the Dark to Drew so that they could vote out Kendra, but Drew refused. The resulting he said-he said made Emily unsure of which side to trust. At Tribal Council, Austin sacrificed one vote to extend his idol's power then used the Goodwill advantage to gain his vote back; Emily ultimately stuck with Austin and Drew to send Brando home, much to Kendra's surprise."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":6,"episode_summary":"Kendra sought revenge on Emily after her ally Brando's blindside. The following morning, Bruce found an idol under Lulu's shelter. Treemail instructed the three tribes to convene on Reba's beach to start the individual phase of the game. The former members of Reba affirmed their intent to target J. Maya, since voting her out would burn the fewest bridges among the tribe, but Bruce's paranoia over not being approached for strategy unnerved several tribemates.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Divided into two teams of six by random draw (with one castaway drawing the odd rock and not participating), one player at a time crawled through the mud under a heavy net and moved to a heavy cart. When all team members made it to the cart, they pushed it across the field and over obstacles to a tower, collecting sandbags as they went. Using the sandbags, they built a pile on the cart in order to get up the tower to retrieve a key. They then slid down a net and ran to a large rock. Using teamwork, they climbed the rock to reach a platform. Using the key, one player unlocked puzzle pieces. Two players then solved the puzzle, revealing clues to a word puzzle. Two other players then used the clues to solve the word puzzle. The winners received their merge tribe buffs, immunity, and a food reward at the Survivor Sanctuary.Katurah chose to back the blue team of Austin, Bruce, Drew, Julie, Kendra, and Sifu; they won the challenge, giving Katurah immunity. J. Maya became the consensus target of that group, but Kendra and Bruce tried to shift the target onto Kaleb due to his social prowess. Emily warned Kaleb that his name came up, and at Tribal Council, he openly called J. Maya the biggest threat. This led the entire tribe (sans Austin, who sacrificed his vote to extend his idol for the final five) to vote Kaleb, but his successful Shot in the Dark negated all votes against him. The ensuing scramble saw J. Maya targeting Emily, but the rest of the tribe voted J. Maya out. The remaining castaways merged, with Austin and Kellie's amulets upgraded to one steal-a-vote."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Back at camp, Kaleb celebrated his luck at the last Tribal Council, while Bruce publicly called Katurah out for her hesitation in voting Kaleb out. Kendra and Katurah expressed their interest in targeting Bruce next, while Kellie disagreed, viewing him as a shield that could protect her and her allies in the future.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: In their first individual immunity challenge, survivors were divided into two groups by random draw. Survivors had to hang on to a tall pole for as long as possible, with whoever lasting the longest from each group winning immunity. The last person remaining of everyone also won a visit to the Survivor Sanctuary for a food reward for their group. Additionally, that winning group would go to Tribal Council second, with each group voting someone out separately; the winning group's voted out member would join the jury, while the losing group's voted out member would not.The first group was made up of Bruce, Drew, Emily, Kellie, Kendra, and Sifu, with the second group consisting of Austin, Dee, Jake, Julie, Kaleb, and Katurah. Dee won immunity as well as the reward for her group, while Kellie won immunity for her group. Kellie's group settled on the prime targets of Bruce and Sifu due to Bruce's bossiness and Sifu's wildcard reputation; however, with the threat of Bruce's idol and his potential as a shield, they chose Sifu, voting him out unanimously. With the other group, Dee used her newfound immunity power to establish Kaleb as the clear next target. On the other hand, Kaleb and Jake planned on roping Katurah into voting Julie, forcing a split vote and relying on Austin to flip on the revote. However, Katurah sided with Dee after learning that Bruce's idol was kept from her, and Kaleb was sent home, becoming the first jury member."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Jake confessed to being the other vote against Julie, causing Julie to lose trust in Jake. The remaining women discussed aligning against the men. Treemail the next morning alluded to the return of the Survivor Auction, but castaways had to find bamboo tubes containing money. Bruce ended up with the fewest tubes.\n\nSurvivor Auction: Jeff pulled a random number between 6 and 15 out of a bag to determine how many items would be up for bid; this number would be undisclosed to the castaways. The person with the highest amount of money left at the end of the auction would lose their vote at the next Tribal Council. Despite having the lowest amount of money going into the auction, Bruce had the highest amount remaining and lost his vote.Emily hinted to Drew that a women's alliance was in the works, and Bruce became the primary target.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways held onto a rope tethered to one third of their pre-game body weight. At regular intervals, they would move one knot down, making it heavier. If they let go of the rope, they were eliminated. The last person left standing won immunity.Bruce won immunity, foiling the tribe's plan to oust him. They settled on targeting Jake instead, but Drew got an idea to gather his Reba 4 alliance and Emily to target a strong player in Kellie so that they could safely split the next vote between Bruce and Jake in case of any advantages. At Tribal Council, Jake played his Shot in the Dark which failed, but Drew's plan came to fruition, sending a shell-shocked and devastated Kellie to the jury. With that vote, Austin's amulet matured into a full idol, giving him two idols, and Drew's Safety Without Power expired."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":9,"episode_summary":"Kendra wanted Dee out for going against their girls' alliance, while Bruce was hurt upon discovering that Kellie had been targeting him. Treemail the next morning instructed the castaways to divide into three groups and hinted at \"panic and anxiety\"; this prompted Austin to lend one of his idols to Julie.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: The teams ran this challenge in stages. In the first stage, castaways traversed two balance beams holding a ball on a disc before retrieving three ropes from a sand pit. The last place team would be eliminated from the challenge and all three lost their vote, having to go on a journey to try and earn it back. In the second stage, castaways traversed an obstacle by hooking ropes in front of them, then tossed three balls on a target. The first team to land all three balls won a trip to the sanctuary with rotisserie chicken and the right to compete for individual immunity. In the final stage, castaways had their arms outstretched with their fingertips bracing two discs. If a disc dropped, that castaway was out. The last one left standing won immunity.Austin, Emily, and Katurah were the first team eliminated, while Bruce, Julie, and Kendra won reward. Bruce won his second straight immunity challenge. At the journey, Austin earned his vote back by solving a math problem while Katurah and Emily were unable to do so; however, Austin told the tribemates outside of his alliance that he had also failed. At camp, Dee wanted to vote out Kendra upon realizing the latter had targeted her, but most of the tribe wanted to stick with the safe vote and send Jake home. At Tribal Council, the tribe instead followed Dee's lead to send Kendra to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Bruce told Katurah and Jake that he had given Kellie his idol to avoid a potential Knowledge is Power being played, but told Katurah that it was a ruse to get people off his scent.\n\nReward Challenge: Castaways grabbed a ball on their way through several obstacles, then maneuvered that ball through a table maze. The first person to land their ball in the center won an overnight trip to the sanctuary with a turkey dinner and letters from home.Emily won the challenge and selected Julie, Katurah, and Dee to join her. Meanwhile, Jake grew frustrated with people giving him the run-around in the game, so he proposed Drew as a target, which led to conflict between the two.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways held themselves on a slanted board over water, bracing themselves with narrow handholds. If they fell, they were out. The last one left standing won immunity.Austin outlasted Bruce for immunity. The majority agreed to target Bruce over Jake, while Emily tried to convince Bruce that she was targeting Julie as she was well-liked among the tribe, in an effort to get Bruce to not play his idol. At Tribal Council, Bruce did not play his idol, and he was sent to the jury with it in his pocket."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":11,"episode_summary":"The tribe celebrated voting out Bruce, while Austin and Dee's relationship grew. Emily admitted to making Bruce feel comfortable enough to not play his idol, which increased her threat level in her tribemates' eyes. The next morning, the tribe was tasked with sending one member on a journey; the tribe drew rocks, and Emily drew the odd rock. She was given a chance for an immunity advantage if she could solve the \"Savvy\" puzzle from day 1, but she chose to protect her vote and not participate. At camp, Julie was revealed to still be holding onto Austin's idol that expired at final 5 (whereas the amulet in Austin's possession expired at final 6), and Drew suggested she make a big move with it, which put Julie on alert. She tried to gather support to vote out Emily.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways untangled rope from a starting point then took it over and under beams once they felt they had enough to make it to a sandbag throwing station. They used three sandbags to knock over lettered blocks, which they used to spell \"resourcefulness\" on both sides forming an arch. The first castaway to successfully spell the word won immunity and a barbeque reward at camp.Drew won the challenge and chose to share the reward with Jake and Austin. They determined that Julie was the biggest threat, while everyone else besides Dee agreed. Austin didn't want to burn the bridge with Dee, so he told her that Julie was the target. Dee then told Julie, who was angry and targeted Austin out of revenge. Dee instructed her to vote for Emily instead, as she didn't want to lose Austin, while she would join the others in voting Julie to not tip off her allies that she told her about the plan. At Tribal Council, Julie played the idol to negate all 6 of her tribemates' votes. Austin chose to keep his idol, and Julie's vote sent Emily to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Katurah searched for a new idol; Austin and Dee followed suit.\n\nReward Challenge: Tribe members started on platforms in the water. They then had to swim and walk to shore through the water to a barrel. Tipping the barrel on its side, they had to climb on and using hanging ropes to steady themselves, using their feet, they rolled the barrels down a track collecting three keys along the way. At the end of the track, they used the keys to unlock a slide puzzle. The winner would chose two other members to join them on a helicopter ride out to a sand spit for a picnic.Austin won reward and chose to share it with Dee and Katurah in hopes that Drew and Jake would keep Julie from strategizing against him. Instead, Jake found the idol and vowed to make a big move with it.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways balanced on one foot on a platform with the other foot on one end of a hinged beam with a ball on the other end. The last tribe member with a ball still on the beam won immunity.Dee won immunity. Jake tried to convince Julie to blindside Drew, but unbeknownst to him, Dee and Katurah were plotting the same thing. Austin and Drew targeted Julie. At Tribal Council, Austin played his amulet idol on himself since it would expire after that vote. However, no votes were cast against him, and his closest ally Drew was sent to the jury. Following Tribal Council, the final five were sent to a new camp with minimal supplies."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US45","episode":13,"episode_summary":"At their new camp the morning after, the final five found a combination box on the beach with instructions for an advantage reward. They competed for the advantage by racing out to stations and counting the number of objects at each station and used those numbers to solve the combination on the box. Jake was the first tribe member to enter the correct sequence of numbers thus winning the advantage.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways had to low crawl under an obstacle and then dig up a machete. Using the machete they cut a rope dropping a pile of sandbags which they tossed into three baskets releasing a set of numbers. They then used that set of numbers to release a set of keys which were then used to unlock a set of puzzle pieces. The first one to solve the puzzle won immunity and a reward.Jake's advantage was that he only had to land one sandbag rather than three, but he squandered this lead after forgetting to bring his keys to the puzzle station, then overlooking a puzzle piece. Austin won the challenge and chose Jake to join him for the reward of a steak dinner at the Survivor Sanctuary. \nKaturah tried to sway people into voting out Dee, while Jake wanted to make a huge impact on the game with his idol. At Tribal Council, everyone that could receive votes received at least one; Jake played his idol for Katurah, but despite her wanting to get Dee out, she switched her vote to send Julie to the jury. Upon returning to camp, Jake was upset that Katurah had made him swear on his family to vote against Dee, leading to an argument.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways had to maneuver through a grid of ropes while using a long pole to place ceramic bowls on a perch. The perch was attached to the rope grid so any disturbance would topple the bowls off the perch. The first one to stack all their bowls on the perch won immunity.Dee and Jake were neck-and-neck until Jake dropped everything late in the challenge. In his frustration and rush to get back, he accidentally broke the challenge, resulting in a disqualification. Dee held strong to win her third individual immunity necklace. Back at camp, Katurah, Jake and Austin each had a chance to plead their case with Dee. Dee made it clear she would take Austin, but reconsidered after Austin told her of Jake's lackluster fire making ability. However, she took Austin, and Jake defeated Katurah to send her to the jury.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, Dee and Austin each pled their cases with the moves they made, while Jake's game wasn't as highlighted due to his lack of control. Dee revealed that she did not tell Austin about her telling Julie to play her idol, which swung the jury in her favor. They awarded Dee the million dollars and the title of Sole Survivor in a 5–3–0 vote over Austin and Jake."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":1,"episode_summary":"The 18 new castaways began their adventure.\n\nReward Challenge: In pairs, tribe members raced under a cargo net and tunneled through sand underneath a wooden beam before collecting large puzzle pieces and returning to the starting mat. Once every member collected their piece, tribes used them to build a three-dimensional block puzzle, which they stood on top of to retrieve a stick of flint off a tall pole. The first tribe to finish won the flint and other supplies, while the second tribe to finish had their choice of either a \"Savvy\" or \"Sweat\" challenge to complete for their supplies, leaving the last tribe with the other option.Nami won the challenge. Siga, the second tribe to finish, chose Savvy. Back at camp, Jelinsky and Q were chosen to do Sweat for Yanu, which was to haul sea water using buckets that had holes in them. The back and forth was tough for both, and Jelinsky decided to quit with more than half their time left. At Siga, Ben and Charlie also failed at the Savvy word scramble puzzle. At Nami, Venus was caught by Randen after trying to find an idol, as he thought she was being sneaky. \nDuring Day 2, the tribes had to choose one person to go on a journey. Jelinsky from Yanu volunteered. Siga chose Maria, and Nami chose Tevin. The three were taken to a beach where they had to draw a card and try to convince the torch cardholder they were holding the vote card. Maria drew the torch card. Jelinsky, who had the skull, tried to convince Maria but gave up quickly and forfeited his vote at the upcoming Tribal Council. Maria and Tevin gained an extra vote advantage.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Tribes raced up a ramp to untie a giant 500-pound dummy gecko, lifting it up and over a barricade before dragging it through a tunnel and hauling it to the top of a platform, clasping it into place. Once at the top, tribes unlocked puzzle pieces, which they used to build a large Survivor 46 puzzle. The first two tribes to finish won immunity, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Nami and Siga won immunity. At camp, Jess shared she wasn't confident in her performance in the game. Jelinsky feigned nervousness but still felt confident that he would stay. Tiffany then found a Beware Advantage and solved the clue for the location of the key to unlock a hidden immunity idol. At Tribal Council, while tribe members spoke about difficulties connecting socially with Jess, they voted unanimously for Jelinsky to be the first person eliminated from the game.[12][13]"}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":2,"episode_summary":"Bhanu confided in Kenzie that he did not feel secure in the game. Meanwhile, Q and Tiffany were concerned about Kenzie's threat level because she easily made connections with people. At Nami, tribemates felt they couldn't connect with Venus. At Siga, Ben successfully made fire to the delight of everyone. Tim was concerned about Maria's extra vote advantage. While having an alliance with the women, Charlie and Maria made a strong pair together, effectively putting the two of them in the middle.\nBack at Nami, both Venus and Randen felt unsafe so they went on idol searches, and Randen found the Beware Advantage. He also approached Venus for an alliance. At Yanu, when Kenzie pulled Jess and Bhanu for a chat where she thought to take out Q and Tiffany, Jess saw this as an opportunity and told Q about the plan, which made him become even more cautious with Kenzie as an ally.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One tribe member cut a rope, releasing two wheels before attaching it to a wagon. Tribes pushed the wagon to a sandpit, where they dug up two chests and loaded them on the wagon. Tribes then ran through a zig-zag path and used the puzzle pieces inside the chests to spell the word \"persistence\" in a freestanding arch. The first two tribes to spell the word correctly with no pieces falling won immunity and fishing gear (a large kit for first place and a smaller kit for second place), while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.After the grueling puzzle, Yanu lost again. Despite Nami's win, Venus was angry because the wagon was dragged over her toe. At Yanu, tribemates were concerned that Jess would play her Shot in the Dark, so they made a fake idol. Tiffany tried to direct Jess to the location of their fake idol, but she didn't see it. Q devised a plan to sneak it to her directly instead. Jess was worried at first, so she talked to Tiffany about voting Kenzie out, but Tiffany recognized her plan. At Tribal Council, a paranoid Bhanu whispered to Kenzie and Tiffany, but Jess was sent home after playing the fake idol."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":3,"episode_summary":"Despite being saved, Bhanu still felt paranoid, though Q gave him a pep talk. At Siga, Jem discovered a Beware Advantage. At Nami, Venus targeted Hunter, feeling he had the most social connections out of everyone on the tribe. Meanwhile, Randen woke up having the medic check him out as he felt numb on one side of his body and was unable to move his hand.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Tribes raced out into the water and swim through a series of obstacles (a net crawl, a barrel roll and crate staircase) before moving back to the beach where they had to dig for a sack of beanbags. The first two tribes to toss all of their beanbags onto a spiral platform won immunity and both small and large tool kits respectively, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Yanu lost yet another challenge. Jeff then informed the tribes that they would be sending one member for a journey. For placing first, Nami chose the participants; Liz from Nami, Ben from Siga, and Bhanu from Yanu went. Bhanu broke down and disclosed all of Yanu's dynamics to Ben and Liz. The challenge began with each player picking a rock, with the two who pulled blue rocks from the bag competing in a timed puzzle. Ben and Bhanu were the two competing, but both were unable to complete it in the time limit, so they both lost their vote in the next Tribal Council.\nAt Yanu, Tiffany and Kenzie talked Q out of falling on his sword due to his poor tossing segment. Coming back from the journey, Bhanu kept quiet with his tribemates that he lost his vote. He decided to let Q know, and Q considered keeping Bhanu rather than a social threat like Kenzie. Before Tribal Council, Jeff showed up at the Nami camp, sharing that the medics who had checked out Randen earlier were concerned with the way his condition seemed to be progressing, and thus he was medically evacuated from the game. As a result, Yanu's Tribal Council was cancelled."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":4,"episode_summary":"Tribemates were disappointed with how Bhanu had confessed to Ben and Liz about the dynamics of the Yanu tribe. Day 8's treemail alluded to a reward challenge for food, which Yanu hoped to trade for an earlier reward.\n\nReward Challenge: Tribes paddled boats through the water, untying a key which they used once ashore to unlock rings and remove them from a tall pole. Once completed, members tunneled under a wooden beam and attempted to throw the rings back onto another pole. The first two tribes to finish won ten and five fishes respectively, along with means to prepare them.Yanu and Nami won the challenge. From Yanu, Q tried to train Bhanu on how to be more strategic and spill less information. At Siga, Maria found the locked box and the whole tribe dug, to no avail. Jem convinced Maria and Moriah that Tim was hiding the Beware Advantage from them. At Nami, Tevin became concerned about Soda's social prowess, so he suggested to Hunter and Liz that they vote her out if they lost the immunity challenge.\n\nImmunity Challenge: One at a time, tribe members climbed a cargo net and leaped into the ocean before scaling a stack of crates and jumping in again. Two members from each tribe then dove down during their turn to release buoys. Once every member had swum to the end, one member attempted to throw three buoys into basket targets. The first two tribes to finish won immunity, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Yanu fell short once again. Knowing he was to go home that night, Bhanu tried to find an idol, but came up empty. At Tribal Council, Bhanu shared his life story and was comforted by his tribemates before being sent home without a formal vote."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":5,"episode_summary":"Yanu lamented their continued losing status, and Q hinted to Kenzie that he wanted out of the game, but it was a ruse to make her feel comfortable enough to not play her Shot in the Dark. At Nami, Venus kept watch over Hunter as he searched for an advantage, but he was able to find the re-hidden Beware Advantage without her noticing. At Siga, Tim believed that Jem was the one who moved the Beware Advantage, but she denied it.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: One at a time, tribe members raced through a three tiered obstacle course, collecting bags with keys along the way, one of which they used when all members had finished to release a hook and drop a sack full of sandbags. Afterwards, every member used a slingshot to launch sandbags at faraway targets. The first two tribes to finish won immunity and large and small pastry and fruit rewards respectively, while the losing tribe had to forfeit their flint.Nami placed first yet again and Yanu finally broke their losing streak. Hunter, Tim and Q were picked to go on a journey. The men discussed a final six strategy in which they each picked a plus-one. They then agreed on Hunter competing in the challenge, arranging twenty Survivor logos in chronological order within a certain amount of time, but he failed and lost his vote.\nAt Siga, the women targeted Ben. Jem followed the Beware Advantage's note to an idol. Her method of convincing Ben and Tim she was on their side only made them distrust her more. Charlie and Maria were in the middle; Charlie hoped to work with Ben, as they had grown close, but Maria wanted to work with the women. At Tribal Council, they sided with the men and blindsided Jem with an idol in her possession, using Maria's extra vote to do so."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":6,"episode_summary":"On Day 12, the tribes were notified that the individual phase of the game was to commence. Hunter found Nami's idol before Siga and Yanu were brought in. Yanu realized they were in the middle; Siga targeted Venus while Nami targeted Moriah.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Divided into groups of six by random draw, with one odd member waging their safety on the outcome of the challenge, teammates raced under a muddied cargo net to a cart, which they maneuvered over obstacles, collecting sandbags along the way which they piled to access a tall platform. One member untied a bag of keys, which they used after descending a rope net and scaling a large boulder to unlock chests full of puzzle pieces and complete a circular puzzle. The first team to finish won immunity, the merged tribe buffs and a merge feast, while the losing team would be vulnerable at the next Tribal Council.Ben, Hunter, Kenzie, Q, Tevin, and Tim won the challenge. Tiffany also won due to correctly predicting them to win. The Yanu three correctly deduced that Siga was the tighter tribe and hoped to break that alliance up. At Tribal Council, Moriah disclosed that she was on the bottom of the Siga vote, which led everyone to distrust her since she had earlier said that vote was unanimous. She played her Shot in the Dark which failed, and only Charlie had voted Venus while everyone else voted out Moriah."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":7,"episode_summary":"Charlie admitted to voting Venus, to Q's chagrin. During the night, Ben had a panic attack and was comforted by Kenzie.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways, divided into two teams of six by random draw, balanced on floating A-frames, moving up onto narrower footholds after regular intervals. If a castaway fell off the platform or touched the structure they would be eliminated from the challenge. The longest lasting castaway from each group won immunity, while the longest lasting castaway overall won coffee, sandwiches and pastries for their team, along with the advantage of going to Tribal Council second.Ben, Hunter, Kenzie, Q, Tiffany, and Tim made up one group; Charlie, Liz, Maria, Soda, Tevin, and Venus made up the other group. Kenzie and Maria won immunity, with Maria winning reward for her group. The Yanu three were in the middle, but Q's bossiness and penchant for flip-flopping in his decision-making earned Kenzie and Tiffany's distrust. At Tribal Council, the Yanu three and Hunter voted out Tim.\nWith the other group, Charlie was seemingly the easy target for the Nami four, but Tevin hoped to blindside Soda. Maria felt more inclined to vote out Venus, but at Tribal Council, everyone followed Tevin's lead and sent Soda to the jury, though Tevin himself voted Venus."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":8,"episode_summary":"Venus took credit for Soda's blindside, but Liz also claimed she wanted Soda out from the beginning. The next morning, Q asked Charlie if he wanted to join the alliance of six established at the journey. Later, Tiffany suggested to Tevin that they include Maria as a potential target; Tevin brought this to Q's attention, causing Q to want to blindside Tiffany.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways held onto a tall pole using footholds for as long as they could. If they touched the ground, they would be eliminated from the challenge. The last remaining castaway won immunity.Jeff offered a large bag of rice if four people sat out or if two sacrificed their votes. Though Q and Liz were willing to sit out, no one else wanted to. Hunter won the challenge, and Q was frustrated since multiple people lasted very little time in the challenge when they could have sat out for the rice. At camp, multiple people were on board with the plan against Tiffany, but Liz started rallying people against Tevin. That plan circled back to Q, and at Tribal Council, Q asked to be voted out since he felt responsible for someone else's dream ending due to the shifting in plans. This caused a live Tribal during which Tevin and Hunter tried to switch the plan to the easy vote in Venus, but everyone else joined Liz's plan to send Tevin to the jury."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":9,"episode_summary":"The fallout of the previous Tribal Council led to everyone being furious with Q for his antics, with Tiffany severing ties with Q completely after he revealed that she had an immunity idol. The next day, tree mail revealed that the final nine must split into teams of three.\n\nImmunity Challenge: The nine remaining survivors were broken up into three teams of three each. The immunity challenge was run in three stages. For the first stage, one at a time, players crossed a hinged balance beam and grabbed a pair of handles. They then used the handles to transfer a buoy across a second zig zag balance beam. Once everyone was across, they worked together to dig up three rope rungs. The first two teams to finish moved on to the second stage. In the second stage, teams used the rope rungs to build a bridge. Once everyone was across, they each had to land a ball on a ring mounted on a pole. The first group to finish moved on to the third stage where they competed against each other for individual immunity. Stage three consisted of the players standing on a narrow ledge with their hands holding onto a handle behind their head. If a hand or foot came off the handle or ledge, that player was out. The last player still on their perch, won immunity.Team purple had Maria, Hunter, and Charlie. Team orange had Kenzie, Ben, and Tiffany. Team green had Q, Liz, and Venus. Team orange was eliminated in the first stage. Team green lost in the second stage. Hunter, Maria and Charlie then went head-to-head in stage three with Charlie outlasting Hunter to win immunity.\nBack at camp, Kenzie tried to rally a blindside against her ally Tiffany so the idol could be flushed out, but Charlie got spooked when Tiffany threatened to play it so she would not be burdened by it. Instead, Charlie suggested voting out Hunter, who did not have immunity and was seen as a physical threat in future challenges. Even though Hunter vowed to play his idol, he ultimately did not do so. This proved to be a fatal mistake after the vote was tied between him and Q, with Hunter being sent to the jury on the revote."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Liz was upset over being left out of the plan against Hunter, while Maria talked to Q about aligning.\n\nReward Challenge: Castaways traversed an obstacle course starting by jumping over a series of tables and crawling through obstacles. They then untied a bag of sandbags and tossed them into one end of a woven net tunnel and used their hands to pull them out the other end. Once all the sandbags were through the tunnel, they grabbed one last sandbag and crawled under a net. At the end of the course, they tossed the sandbag onto a small perch atop a high pole. The first person to land their sandbag won an Applebee’s feast at the Survivor Sanctuary.Q won the challenge and chose to share reward with Tiffany, Maria, and Kenzie. Liz had a visceral meltdown over not being chosen, as she hadn't been able to eat much food on the island due to her allergies. While Q attempted to rebuild trust with Tiffany and Kenzie, neither were on board with realigning with Q.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways held a bar attached to an overhead bucket that contained 25% of their pregame body weight. If a castaway let their bucket drop, they were eliminated. The last person standing won immunity.Jeff again offered rice if four people sat out, but later offered an individual portion of rice for each castaway who sat out. Liz took the individual rice. Charlie won his second straight immunity necklace. Though most of the tribe wanted Q gone, Maria looped in Charlie, Ben, and Q for a blindside against Tiffany before trying to convince Liz to join the plan. At Tribal Council, Maria's plan worked, and Tiffany was blindsided after not playing her idol."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":11,"episode_summary":"Maria’s threat level skyrocketed after orchestrating Tiffany’s blindside, and even Charlie mulled turning against her. Everyone searched for an idol the following morning, and Venus found it.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways balanced a ball on top of a pole while navigating over and under obstacles before adding more length to the pole and crossing a balance beam. Once at the end, they maneuvered two additional balls across a horizontal snake maze, attempting to drop them into two separate targets. The first to finish won immunity, as well as a pizza reward, which they were able to share with two other tribemates.Maria won the challenge and chose to share reward with Ben; after being unable to choose between Q and Liz, the former won rock-paper-scissors to join them on reward, making the others livid. Q proposed that he and the Siga 3 vote out Venus, while those out of the reward targeted Q. Venus hinted to Charlie that she had “something up her sleeve”, which made him wary of trusting her. At Tribal Council, Venus became the third consecutive player sent to the jury with an idol going unplayed."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":12,"episode_summary":"Ben admitted that he had voted Kenzie due to misunderstanding the vote, but their bond still persisted after Kenzie helped him through another sleepless night. The next morning, Charlie and Maria privately mulled turning against each other.\n\nReward Challenge: Castaways high-stepped through a wooden obstacle  before untying a bag with a ball and guiding it on a rope through a horizontal ladder. Afterwards, they freed their bag and crawled under an obstacle to the finish, where they used it to complete a table maze. The first castaway to finish won a Chinese takeout reward with love letters from home.Charlie won the challenge and chose to share reward with Liz and Kenzie. At camp, Q found a new hidden idol and told Maria about it. When Charlie and Maria reconvened, each believed the other to be loyal to them, though each were ready to vote the other out.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways climbed to the top of a tall tower in ocean and dove into the water, traversing a submerged rope bridge and crossing a balance beam before swimming to the end, where they raced to complete a dolphin block puzzle. The first castaway to finish won immunity.Maria won the challenge convincingly, forcing Charlie to target Q instead. Liz and Kenzie hoped to vote out Q but kept their options open after Maria and Q targeted Charlie as a big threat. At Tribal Council, Q chose not to play his idol, and he became the fourth consecutive player to be voted out with an idol in his pocket."}
{"version":"US","version_season":"US46","episode":13,"episode_summary":"Maria tried to convince Charlie that the others had turned her against him, though Charlie saw through the ruse.\n\nReward/Immunity Challenge: Castaways crawled through a muddied tunnel and removed rope from a plank full of holes before releasing a monkey's fist to lower a bridge and untie a key. Once at the finish, they used the key to unlock puzzle pieces and solve a word puzzle, which revealed directions to find a numbered code that opened a combination lock and allowed them to strike a gong. The first to finish won immunity, as well as a reward of pasta, garlic bread, dessert and wine.Kenzie solved her puzzle first but couldn't figure out the code, so Liz raced back to retrieve Kenzie's plank so that Kenzie could beat Maria in the challenge. She decided to share her reward with Ben, and they agreed to vote out Maria. At camp, Maria tried to sway Charlie and Liz into voting out Ben, believing him to be a harder player than he was perceived as. At Tribal Council however, Maria was sent to the jury unanimously.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Castaways threw a ball upwards into a ramp full of pegs before beginning to complete a block puzzle. When the ball ricocheted to the bottom of the table, they would have to grab the ball and throw it into the mechanism again before being able to continue. If the castaway missed grabbing the ball, they would have to wait a time penalty before collecting their ball and continuing. The first to complete their puzzle won immunity.Ben won the challenge. He felt that Liz was the biggest threat and debated whether to pit Charlie or Kenzie against her in fire. He decided to bring Charlie to the end, and Kenzie defeated Liz to send her to the jury.\nAt the Final Tribal Council, the jury weighed Charlie's strategic game and Kenzie's social game, while Ben was viewed as a follower who got lost in the shuffle multiple times. In the end, Kenzie was named the Sole Survivor in a 5-3-0 vote over Charlie and Ben; Soda, Hunter, and Liz voted for Charlie."}
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{"version":"US","version_season":"US47","episode":10,"episode_summary":"Expecting fallout from orchestrating Sol's elimination, Genevieve was still upset when an emotional Teeny suggested any alliance between them was broken. Tired of feeling betrayed and disregarded by the other castaways, Teeny vowed to avenge Sol. Rachel, angry with Sam for informing Sol about the plan after she asked him not to, was told by a scheming Andy that Genevieve considered her a threat.\n\nReward Challenge: Randomly divided into three teams of three, and with their legs bound together and their hands bound at the waist, they took turns slithering their way over two sand humps pushing a ball ahead of them using only their head. Once all three teammates made it to their mat, they unbound their limbs and, taking turns, rolled a ball across a table and up an incline trying to land it in a hole. The first team to land all three balls in the hole won a food reward of wraps, veggies, juices and more at Survivor Sanctuary.Kyle, Rachel, and Sam won reward. Privately, Rachel and Sam debated who to target; Rachel was keen to oust Genevieve, but Sam hoped to blindside Gabe due to his status as Tuku's strategic leader and their numbers advantage. Kyle also preferred Gabe, who he correctly suspected was coming after him. Back at camp, Andy tried to deepen the wedge between Sue and Kyle by claiming that Kyle had disparaging nicknames for her and Caroline.\n\nImmunity Challenge: Survivors stood on a narrow wooden perch while balancing a ball on a wooden disk. At intervals, additional balls were added. Survivors were eliminated if they fell off the beam or dropped a ball. The last one remaining won immunity.Prior to the challenge, Jeff offered a bag of rice if four contestants would sit out the challenge. Caroline offered two Shots in the Dark, which Jeff refused, but he was then surprised when Kyle offered all remaining Shots in the Dark. Gabe talked a reluctant Sam into agreeing after everyone else (except Rachel, who already used hers) did so. Kyle won his fourth immunity necklace, thwarting Sue's plan to oust him. The vote came down to Gabe or Genevieve for their status as threats, and Caroline mulled turning against her day one ally, knowing it meant endangering her relationship with Sue. At Tribal Council, all but Sue sent Gabe to the jury."}