This one's a combo challenge, involving
digging (apparently for puzzle pieces) swimming and climbing
(also apparently for puzzle pieces, we'd guess), and... you
guessed it: puzzles. From the web promo (thanks again, Anywho), we
see the march in, minus Stacy (out of frame, leading the
pack) and Earl (exiled). The CBS press
photos show the full
line-up, pre-challenge (the one where Stacy is wearing her
buff as a shirt).
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The overhead shots above show the layout of the course, which
is a multi-stage, multiple-elimination affair. The
contestants appear to start on the beach, in some unseen leg. Next, there are
six (Boo is already sitting out) digging in lanes in the
sand. From there, the challenge appears to progress to the water. There are three
towers in the water, presumably this leg requires doing something that involves
climbing the towers, since we see Alex jumping off. Update: birdlady at
MeSS points out, quite reasonably, that the digging lanes are visible in the
press photo of the pre-challenge lineup, so that must be the first leg, and thus
Boo must be sitting out at the start, for some reason.
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Alex has to win to stay in the game, obviously. And
he does make it to the water leg of the challenge. Does he win? Seems unlikely.
Okay, so
who
does? Well, if Yau-Man is being played up as a boot candidate, then Yau-Man seems
like a good guess to win the necklace and protect his hidden idol. Or not, because
as was pointed out to us in email, Earl says "vote Yau-Man out today" in the
previews, but if he's exiled, that would have to be after the IC, which wouldn't
make much sense if Yau-Man had already won (a second form of) immunity. So not
Yau-Man, then.
On second thoughts, the water leg of the challenge does
look rather physical. And as smokeitgood points
out, Boo is
shown wearing the immunity necklace in the late-breaking Probst preview. A surprising
event which has also been spoiled by SurvivorPhoenix.
Apparently birdlady's
original guess that "Boo won the RC, and so got to pass into the second stage
of the immunity challenge?" was correct.
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