This week on Survivor…After loosing Russell to a medical emergency, Galu must elect a new chief. The boy’s of Galu decide to elect Shambo in an effort to entice her to their alliance and prevent a guy/girl split in the future. Shambo readily accepts the nomination and arrives at the reward challenge wearing the symbolic necklace. The reward challenge is a large game of memory, several objects are covered with a lid, one at a time a member from each tribe opens a lid to reveal an object and then selects another lid to lift in hopes of finding a match. If they reveal a match they then must decide whether to keep the object (which may be useful at camp) or to take a point. Galu makes the first match and opts to keep the fire kit. After that both teams opt to take the points and its no surprise that Galu wins reward. Shambo as the newly appointed chief chooses to send Laura to Foa Foa to visit for the day. Shambo tells Laura she chose her as she feels she needs to keep the boys strong for the next challenge. Galu heads out to sea to enjoy sailing on a pirate boat along with a warm cup of meaty stew. Meanwhile at Foa Foa, Laura is greeted warmly and quickly made to feel comfortable. Russell seizes the opportunity to make a final two alliance with Laura as he realizes that in the event of a merge Foa Foa doesn’t have the numbers and he will have to rely on a secret alliance to stay in the games. He then tells Laura not to bother looking for the immunity idol because Ben found it and didn’t play it before he was sent home but the truth is Russell found the idol himself and still has it. At the immunity challenge the tribes have to row a boat out to collect puzzle pieces that are attached to anchors. Foa Foa has an early lead and makes their way back to the beach just ahead of Galu. Jaison is exhausted and struggles to help solve the puzzle and the lead is quickly lost. Galu manages to solve the puzzle and win immunity. Back at Foa Foa, Russell teeters between voting out Liz (he doesn’t trust her) or Jaison for giving up in the challenge. At tribal council host Jeff Probst tells Foa Foa that not only have they lost 8 out of 10 challenges but it is the worst overall performance by a tribe in Survivor history. The votes are read and Liz is sent home. Next week the tribes will merge and things are going to get crazy real fast as everyone fights for individual immunity……stay tuned, you won’t want to miss a moment this game is just getting started!!!!
