Survivor 2013 Caramoan Episode 6 Recap: Tribes And Power Shifts

This week’s episode of Survivor 2013 Caramoan saw a tribe shake-up which resulted in a very uneven tribe power blanace.

At the top of the episode the favorites are still reeling over Brandon Hantz’s elimination. It was their first unanimous vote and someone said “we’re united.” I don’t know if I’d go that far. You were just getting rid of a person who pretty much insisted on going. But OK.

The Tribes right away head off to meet Jeff for a challenge? No, it’s not a challenge. When they arrive he tells them to drop their buffs and that they’re switching tribes. They castaways get eggs that they have to smash on themselves. The color that comes out decides their new tribes.

The New Tribes

• Orange/Gota: Eddie, Reynold, Malcolm, Andrea, Sherri, Erik, Brenda
• Purple/Bikal: Corrine, Phillip, Michael, Matt, Cochran, Dawn, Julia

The Gota Tribe is way more powerful than the other. This is a very uneven shake-up. We can already see where this is going to go. Poor Bikal.

It doesn’t take long for Sherri to start trying to carry over the Reynold and Eddie hate into the new Tribe. But of course Eddie and Reynold are doing the same thing with Sherri. Hilarious and typical.

It’s time for the fist immunity challenge with the new tribes. This should be interesting. Two members will race to roll large crates. Once they’ve retrieved all the crates they have to position them along steps to form the correct phrase, “Fans Vs. Favorites.” First team to finish wins. And as you’d expect Gota is dominating the competition from the start. Bikal not so much.

So it goes without saying that Gota wins immunity and Bikal will head to Tribal Council later. Darn. I was hoping to see if Reynold and Eddie or Sherri would win that little battle to be the first to go from the new tribe dynamic.

So who are the Bikal members going to target? I’d probably say let’s just ditch Phillip so we don’t have to listen to his annoying stories anymore. But they’re no one else is exactly feeling that. So who will it be?

Phillip, Matt and Michael want to target Julia. Or at least I think that’s who they’re targeting. Because Phillip went off on a tangent about all the stupid nicknames he gives people in his alliances. Then Julia stumbles onto Matt and Michael and Cochran’s name comes up. And in typical Survivor fashion, I get confused because they want to make sure no one knows who is getting voted out for suspense reasons. So let’s just get to Tribal Council.

Tribal Council was a bit weird because no one hates anyone and there was no clear target. Yet for some reason, the show spent a lot of time on the chatter. Zzzzz.

The Votes

• Julia: 2
• Dawn: 1
• Matt: 4

Matt becomes the 7th person voted out of Survivor 2013 Caramoan. What a weird Tribal Council.

What do you think of the new teams? Were you surprised that Matt was eliminated?