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toes in the water and ass in the sand...

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Also, to be clear, toes in the water and ass in the sand is the *EXACT* opposite of a reward to these folks.

Over a 3 day cycle, they maybe spend 2 hours strategizing, 6 hours doing doing challenges, and the other 70+ hours just being bored and not sleeping.

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But with a beer.

Christian single handily ruined me in this pool. Emily you freaking genius.

Pour one out the the tri-lambs.

So up front, I've made the executive decision to award points to the members of Kalo for winning both the immunity challenge and the reward challenge, given that it was such an epic reward, and seemed to be truly a fantastic time for all of them. So if, you have Aubry, Joe, Coach, Genevieve, Crissy, Colby, or Tiff, you're getting +2 for the immunity win and +2 for the reward, as there was no second place reward and they obviously all wanted it really badly - more on that later.

Several people scored double digits tonight, none more impressive than the 1-2 punch of Cheese Sndwch and Triumph Forks, who are right next to each other on the spreadsheet and each racked up 15.5 points. Forks was our leader after Episode 1, and much like Steve Winwood, is back in the high life again, taking the lead with 47 points. Cheese is right on his tail with 44 points. Standings below. As always, if you see a scoring discrepancy, just let me know. I was a liberal arts major at A&M. These things happen.

New Standings (spreadsheet)

40s
TriumphForks 47
CheeseSndwch 44
Eso si 43
CharleyKerfeld 43
rwhitlock3 42
Saxsoon 41
wangus12 40

30s
Mozart 35
agsquirrel97 35
Mrs DoItBest 33
blackgoldag11 31
SZ 30

20s
DoItBest 29
cwpaggie07 28
HTown98 28
Roll the Bones 28
Johnsy3 27
7yrplan 25
veryfuller 25
double aught 25
Ag87H2O 25
Big Al 1992 24.5
Rudyjax 23.5
Quinn 23
rhutton125 23

10s
gravy97 18.5
caleblyn 18
AggieJ2002 16
Counterpoint 14.5


Don't forget about
tx1c 8.5


Breakdown of points for this episode:

Genevieve finds HII: +3
Sends it to Rizgod: +3

Immunity:
Kalo #1: +2 for Aubry, Joe, Coach, Genevieve, Chrissy, Colby, Tiff
Cila #2: +1 for Charlie,Rizo, Jonathan, Devens, Cirie, Kamila, Dee
Vatu #3: -1 for Christian, Emily, Stephenie, Angelina, Mike, Ozzy

Reward:
Kalo #1: +2 for Aubry, Joe, Coach, Genevieve, Chrissy, Colby, Tiff


Mike voted off pre-merge: -5

Surviving Tribal: +0.5 Christian, Emily, Stephenie, Angelina, Ozzy


Survivor stats
Genevieve practically lapping the field now with 15 points through 4 episodes.
Aubry is second with 12 points through 4 episodes.
The only other person with at least 10 points, naturally, is Coach with 10.

Mike White crashes out with -6 this episode and -4.5 for the season. The only person with fewer points is Jenna, who was at -6 when she went home first.

Emily, who got the biggest insult of her life tonight when Mike White referred to her as a "cougar" despite the fact that she's 31, is everything Thanos dreamed of in the universe, currently with zero total points for the season. Perfectly balanced.



Gotta finish some real work and then many observations. Looking forward to yours!

Interesting that Christian decided that he valued a relationship with Emily over Mike, Angelina, and Ozzy. Seems like the type of big move that puts the target on his back, if we don't get another tribe swap. He's certainly been the main character so far this season, so I wonder if he will make it to the merge or flameout beforehand.

Like Quinn said, I think Christian might be overplaying his hand and soon meet his fate. But one of my two biggest takeaways from last night was that Mike White deserved that. True or not, gamesmanship or not, that was a pretty s**tty thing he said to Christian about his gameplay last time with Gabby vs. this time with Emily. Glad Christian made that move.

My other biggest takeaway from last night is that if the Orange team had just held its arch up, given the combined factors of Zac Brown's good looks, guitar playing, spear-fishing ability (more on that in a moment), the copious amounts of alcohol on hand, and Dee's very particular reaction to everything about the reward challenge, despite the fact that he's engaged to zillionaire Kendra Scott, Zac Brown probably could have been the first C&W singer to have sex at the sanctuary with a contestant yesterday. Dee looked ready to hook that up during the leadup to the challenge.

I'm not sure if it was intentional, but I had to laugh at Zac Brown talking about communing with nature and the underwater beauty while at the same time unleashing the spearfishing version of "Painless" that Jesse Ventura and Duke use in Predator to kill the fish. Christ, he looked like he could have shot a whale with that thing.



When Genevieve found the 2nd Billie Eillish idol, I wondered if she would consider also sending it to Ozzy. Since he can't give it away, I thought it could have been a good gambit. What are the odds he would be able to use both of them before getting blindsided?

Despite the blue tribe not being my favorite, it was cool seeing them really appreciate the experience with ZB, from the meal to the tunes. Coach remains a legend at making everything about himself "I've had fresh fish all over the world, obviously", but especially he and Joe and Colby had some real legit "appreciating this stage of life" moments and looks that were great to see.

And they let Tiff talk!

Not an original thought here, but feels like everyone from Cila and Kalo is going to coast into the merge unless they somehow dredge up an immunity challenge that is all about brainpower. Getting rid of Q might have been smart game play, but now Stephenie and Ozzie have to carry a bunch of deadweight in physical stuff. Those dummies could barely get to the boat, meanwhile Jonathan's picking the thing up by himself and throwing it onto the beach.

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TriumphForks said:

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Christian made a huge mistake. I don't even disagree with Mikes parallel with Gabby. My wife actually said that out loud a second before they showed Mike saying it. Emily is a complete loose cannon. After she blabbed her mouth a second time (to Christians detriment) I can't believe he stuck with her in the end. Really wish he just would have went with the plan to get Emily out.

Also, can we get a point any time Jonathan exhibits a feat of superhuman strength during a challenge? What an absolute beast.

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Yeah, Emily is a strange player. She just can't bring herself to trust anyone and it makes her incredibly unpredictable. Just a wishy-washy player with a seemingly complete lack of awareness. After last week, he should have known not to trust her with any delicate information. Even though Mike was a threat, I think Christian would have been better off voting Emily out first. With Ozzy mad now, he's in a bit of a predicament, but if anyone can figure a way out, it would be him.

Agree about Jonathon. Some guys are built but aren't really all that strong. That dude is built like Hercules, and it's not just looks. He has pure strength, and a lot of it.