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| Reward
challenge: Tribal switch,
then land-based obstacle course - La Mina wins |
TV Guide says: "The
four tribes are combined into two after the 15 remaining
castaways pick their team members school-yard style,
when two people appointed to choose the others one at
a time." From the
TV Guide channel preview,
it appears the two remaining tribes will be La Mina (orange,
originally older men) and Casaya (purple, originally
older women). Since orange and purple obstacles are behind
Probst as he starts the picking process, we'd guess the
RC immediately follows the switch to new tribes. The
new tribal lineups show alternating male-female arrangements
(Nick-Misty-Austin and Aras-Cirie-Bobby), so the pick
probably follows an alternating-gender chain pick strategy,
as in Palau.
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Who ends up where? Update: From the web
promo, the new
tribes are fairly clear.
Purple tribe (Casaya): Shane, Aras,
Bobby, Melinda, Cirie, Danielle and Courtney
Orange tribe (La Mina): Dan, Terry,
Bruce*, Nick, Austin, Ruth
Marie, Misty and Sally.
* Bruce seems to be sitting out the challenge, so it's
not clear which tribe he belongs to. Fom process
of elimination (assuming 4 men per tribe), we'd assume
he's on Casaya. But we agree with VolcanicGlass's
point that there appear to be eight light-colored disks
(toward which he steps), and seven darker ones (toward
which Bobby steps). Update: HaroldBalzaccio's
"Nova Scotia feed" transcript says Bruce gets picked
last, and is exiled until after TC. He'll join the IC-losing
tribe (which would be Casaya) next episode.
 The
challenge itself appears to be an obstacle course, where
the point seems to be collecting
the wooden snakes that
were shown in the TV Guide Channel preview (at right).
The race actually appears fairly even: in the scene
where Cirie falls on top of Bobby, La Mina (with Jeff
Probst trailing them) are visible just ahead of Casaya.
Probst is also shown keeping pace with Casaya, as Aras
jumps off an obstacle.
But we think the key shot is of
an exhausted Aras (and a sad Courtney), versus Austin's
fairly chipper "This
isn't just all fun and games" confessional. We'll
say La Mina wins. From a NY
Daily News article, La Mina
should win a Hawaiian sling (which gets lost), and that
fits HaroldBalzaccio's
"Nova Scotia feed" transcript. So... that's
that.
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| Exile: Bruce |
 Late-breaking footage in a Tuesday-aired TV ad (at right),
however, suggest it might be Bruce after all. Flowerpower at
Blows and VolcanicGlass both
seem to think the shot of Bruce's karate moves might
have been taken at Exile Island (VG also points out possible
matching island backgrounds). Plausible, we guess, although
it makes trying to figure out which tribe Bruce ends
up on even more confusing.
Update: Again, from HaroldBalzaccio's
"Nova Scotia feed" transcript at Sucks, Bruce
appears to be exiled for the entire episode, as a result
of being the last person (not) picked.
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| Immunity
challenge: Zombie rescue - La Mina wins |
New shots of Bobby and Casaya in
boats at the immunity challenge appeared in a new TV
ad that aired 2/7/06, captured by VolcaniGlass at SurvivorPhoenix (some
of which we've borrowed below, thanks, VG). These new
images make it clear that this challenge closely resembles
the "skeleton
rescue"
challenge described in the TV Guide Channel preview (vidcaps
of which are shown below, bottom row):
| Zach Jensen - Art Director: "These
boats are actually part of a challenge. They've
got a glass bottom, we made these boats in here,
some of the lads knocked [them] together. So yeah,
it's to do with the searching for skeletons, in
the, in coffins underwater, and transporting them
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Who wins? Well, Terry
seems to be doing fairly well at lugging the "coffin"
underwater (Tom Westman, v2.0). So we'd guess La Mina
ought to win. And if Melinda is the boot (see below),
they must.
Update: yes, they do, but as HaroldBalzaccio's
"Nova Scotia feed" transcript at Sucks says,
it actually is "zombie rescue". See the thread for more
details.
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| Boot: Melinda |
Assuming a La Mina win in the IC
(which would keep alive the "Shane wants to quit" theme),
somebody from Casaya has to be going home. The challenges
are still pretty physical at this point, so Casaya's
previous bizarre choice of the strong Tina notwithstanding,
people seen as physical liabilities would probably be
first on the block.
That might be difficult to call, but thanks to ChillOne,
we can eliminate everyone except Melinda and Bobby from
contention. And really, the only sane choice there would
appear to be Melinda. Even though Danielle
might want to show the guys a thing or two, it seems
unlikely she'd intentionally boot Bobby over Melinda
this early on. Especially when they've only had to live
with his "Bob Dawg" schtick for less than three
days. If Melinda gets exiled, that might lead to a little
more excitement at vote time, though. Update: We've been
told that the boot is Melinda.
Observe or ignore as you see fit.
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