I am the type of person who is all about game play.  I don’t want anyone riding my coattails and for sure I don’t want to ride theirs.  This year that is all to be found on reality tv.  It is a shame that what was once considered the mack daddy of all reality shows has fallen into the same path of destruction as all the others.  

You can argue and say riding coattails is a strategy but is it really?  I don’t think so.  There is no competitive spirit involved in dragging behind another stronger player.  I would personally be embarrassed if I won a game in that fashion but then again, I love to compete and I want to win because I did well and not because someone else took pity on me and that is what the jury members did in the case of Natalie. You all know it as well as I do.

There is no one on that panel who honestly in their hearts believed Nat to be the better player. They just couldn’t stand the fact that Russell beat them and did it so well and none of them ever saw it coming. It was an amazing thing to watch all season.

I’m going to remind all of you that at the beginning of the season we all picked the person we thought would do the best and the least and I said Laura would be among the first to go and I was wrong. She actually controlled the feelings and thoughts of the women for Galu except Sham.

My person to win was Russell based sole on the fact that he owned an oil company and I work in that industry and I never turned back on him. I did think it was crappy to burn Jaison’s socks and wreak havoc on his own tribe but you know what? He had a purpose and a strategy and he never waivered from it. He was a phenomenal player and it was an absolute pleasure to watch him from week to week because let’s face it, without him, the season would have sucked.

What do you think? Is Russell the ultimate sole survivor?

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The first immunity challenge is won by Brett the only member from the original Galu tribe and this is his 3rd win for immunity in a row.

The final four of Foa Foa will now be split up and Jaison is sent to the jury.

The second immunity challenge comes down to Russell and Brett and Russ wins his first immunity necklace and Brett is sent to the jury.

The final 3 are Mick, Natalie and Russ and they are questioned by the jury members.

Natalie wins Survivor Samoa after an amazing speech by Erik and Russell came in second. Of course, Russ should have won as he is one of the best players ever.

Russell does win the $100,000 Viewers’ Choice prize though.

What do you think? Should Natalie have been the winner or did Russell deserve it for controlling so much of the game? Share your thoughts below!

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The reward challenge:  Natalie is captain of the purple team and Russell is the captain of the yellow team.  She chooses Brett as her first pick and Mick second so Jaison and Sham are with Russ.  Russ and Jaison are concerned about how close Nat and Brett have become.  The challenge is pulling an intertwined rope (1 of many) to drop as few coconuts as possible.  The first team to drop 100 coconuts lose.  After the first round it appears the yellow team is going to lose because they drop 19 coconuts to purple’s 4.  As the game progressed however, Russell pulled it together and dropped 0 and Brett was the last one for purple and pushed them over 100 coconuts.  Russ, Sham and Jaison enjoy a huge feast in Samoan village of all kinds of seafood and an entire pig and plot to become the final 3.  Russ says he needs to pull Nat aside when they get back and spend 2 hours with her to get her head right.  They spend the night in the village and sleep on pillows and cover up with blankets.

The Immunity Challenge:  The contestants race to a field where there are 6 different stations.  They have to count the objects in each station and use the numbers as a combination to open a lock and then break a tile.  Russ, Mick, Jaison and Brett all finish counting and race to break the combination.  Mick is wrong and then Jaison is wrong and they go back to recount but Brett is right and wins immunity for the second time.  Jaison decides that Sham is not helping them enough in challenges and she must go.

Russ lies to Sham and tells her the plan is to vote out Mick and then he gets Mick on board to vote her out. 

Tribal Council:  Sham admits she was a traitor to Galu.  There is a lot of talk about it being the end game and Russ claims this is the first time he feels bad about voting someone off.  Russ also says he is going to keep the immunity idol for a souvenir and then Sham is eliminated.  Russ wouldn’t even look at her and I know he did feel bad about the decision.

Well, not as much drama as I was expecting for this episode but it was still pretty good.  In my opinion, Russ should have kept Sham because everyone on the jury dislikes her and probably would have voted for him over her but that isn’t going to happen.  Sunday night is the 2 hour finale so be sure to watch and see if Brett can make it 3 in a row and find out the winner of Survivor Samoa.

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The reward challenge for this Survivor Samoa episode is called coconut nets.  The contestants are split into two teams of three.  The yellow team is Brett, Mick and Natalie and the purple team is Russell, Sham and Jaison.  It looks like each team takes turns pulling a rope out of a configuration that is holding up a load of coconuts.  When the remaining ropes can no longer support the coconuts, they begin to fall down.

Russell is concentrating hard here trying to figure out which rope to untie.  The winners of this challenge was previously thought to be Brett, Mick and Nat but now it looks like the winners are the purple team who will go on an overnight adventure to possibly either Sua Ocean Trench or swimming with the sea turtles at Satoalepai Wetlands.  Wherever they go, it leaves the other team to stay behind and plot.  Perhaps Russell will have to play the last immunity idol Thursday night.  There is no specualtion on the Immunity Challenge for this episode but I will share it if it becomes available, but we do know Brett wins leaving Sham to get the boot.  Hopefully she won’t go down without a fight!  Will Mick and Nat turn on Russ in favor of Brett and force him to play the idol and who will Sham go after in order to save herself?

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The penultimate episode:

There is a reward challenge but not sure what the game is about but the winners are clearly Natalie, Mick and Brett as seen from the pictures below.

The trio leaves by boat and returns later in the day but what the reward is and the location is unknown to me.  Can Brett work his charm on Nat and Mick for a possible Russell boot?

I have no idea what the immunity challenge will be this week but I can tell you that Brett wins.  As you can barely see in the picture, Brett is in the middle on the return to camp wearing the necklace.

So with Brett winning immunity, the person to leave this week will be Shambo.  I heard the producers wanted to devote an entire episode to this particular boot as I’m sure she will not go without a fight.

As far as finale night we are left with 5 contestants and all 4 foa foa’s.  You would think Brett would be the next to go and obviously he would if he had not won immunity again.  So Brett is safe at 5 and Jaison is the next to go after Sham.  When it gets to the final four, Brett is then voted out leaving our final 3 as Mick, Natalie and Russel with Natalie as the projected winner.  The rumor is that Russell does not get a single vote so it appears that for this season of Survivor that the social aspect is way more important then game play.  You also have to consider that the jury members know Russell is a self made millionaire and with Mick becoming a doctor, he will also make good money so that leaves Natalie as the one who needs it the most.  You never can tell what drives the jury to do what they do. 

So this is it for the spoilers for this season.  What do you think of Brett winning back to back immunity challenges to advance his game and why did Russell not get any votes from the jury?

Thank you missyae for all your spoiler info this season.  We hope to see you back for Survivor 20.

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Jaison, Brett and Monica are all laying out on the beach when Jaison completely throws Russ under the bus.  He lets Russ take all the blame for getting rid of the former galus which was smart but then tells them that Russ made 2 million dollars last year, that makes Jaison a traitor in my opinion.  They then discuss Russ being the biggest threat in the game.  If you think so Jaison then make a move and quit hiding behind him.

First immunity challenge

Survivor Bowling Tournament:  3 rounds – The castaways are put into teams of two and whomever knocks down the most pins in two shots moves on to the next round.  First round:  Sham knocks out Natalie;  Russ knocks out Brett; Jaison knocks out Monica; and Dave with our only strike knocks out Mick.  Second round:  Sham beats Russ; Jaison beats Dave.  Final round – Jaison wins immunity for the second time and gives us a BIG smile!!

First Tribal Council

At tribal council John is all smiles and looking extra good after getting all cleaned up for us.  After voting, Danger Dave Ball becomes the fifth member of our jury.  I felt sorry for him because he did play his heart out and Russ made him think they were voting out Sham.  The shock for me was seeing that Monica and Brett also voted for his eviction.  I thought they would stand by him.  I guess everyone really is doing what Russell says.

 Second Immunity Challenge

The bean bag catapult:  the contestants race in the ocean where they untie one of their 3 bags which they take back and place on a piece of wood and jump on a plank to shoot the bag into a basket.  Brett gets his in first followed by Mick and Russell and so it goes until Brett wins immunity.  A good thing for him because he would have been gone had he not won.  Russ felt he was a threat because he is such a nice guy and would get all the votes from the jury. 

When they get back to camp, Monica tries to stir the pot with Russell.  She tells him that Jaison blew his cover on what he does for a living and that he has the idol.  Russ gets pissed and goes berserk.  Monica should have known better after watching Russell work it since the merge.  For a moment it does look like Mick and Jaison are considering it.

Second Tribal Council

Things get good and heated during the council meeting.  Russell pulls out the immunity idol in front of everyone and puts it around his neck.  Sham tells Jeff that Russ got his feathers ruffled by Monica and Russ says that had he and Monica been on the same team, they would have been a force to be reckoned with.  The best part of the whole episode for me was when Russ was writing down Monica’s name and said “stupid, stupid little girl, bad strategy.”  I about fell off the couch.  That was funny.  Monica was just a little too big for her britches for my taste and I did not care for her better than thou attitude.  She made the mistake for going after Russell and she becomes the 6th member of the jury.

A really good episode tonight.  I’m looking forward to next week.  What did yall think?

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The two immunity challenges look promising and I’m guessing Mick will win the bean bag catapult since he is seen so much in the pictures.  Not sure who wins the bowling game but I think Russell might pull it off or maybe Brett.  If Russell wins then he might give his necklace to one of the former foa foas and then pull out the idol for himself.  That would be a bold move.

Whatever happens, it is going to be interesting.  Who do you think will get voted out tonight?  Join us here for the pre and post show discussions.

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