Night 14 continues as the ‘they don’t like Mike’ merged tribe deals with the fallout of the Brady blindside. LOL. Mike in his confessional talks about he’s happy his first big swing connected taking out Brady but we have a whole lot of fallout of the outed plans on how they got there. Mike tells the tribe he’s open to talk about it if anyone wants to and Eric jumps in saying he’s ready to talk too. It’s a whole lot of crickets in response. LOL. Eric and Kilby do talk to each other about how they can’t trust Mike with info now after how the Kristin thing went down with her being told the plan. They talk of how Mike would have been gone if he hadn’t had the idol. Let’s move to a fresh day 15. Thien An talks in confessional about how she really wanted Kristin to go but Mike caused too much chaos. Maggie and Mike then have a convo about everything where she flat out calls him out that she can’t trust him and that nobody else trusts him either. Mike talks of how he had to do what he had to do to get rid of Brady cause he was in trouble with Brady in the game. Carter is ready to take a shot at Mike and makes a pitch to Lewis about starting their own alliance. They want to pick their own people to be in it that aren’t “wishy washy”. They bring Kilby in and he’s all for the alliance. They talk of wanting Cristian, Thien An, and Maggie in the alliance with them. Carter pitches to Maggie and she’s in for it. He pitches to Cristian. Cristian is for it but says they need one more person to make it work while Carter says they don’t need another person because of this. He pulls out the immunity idol showing it to Cristian telling him he hasn’t told anyone else about it. Cristian is in on the plan. Tree mail arrives with the news that everyone will have to pair up in duos with everyone making the decision on their own. Here are the pairs: Cristian/Carter. Maggie/Mike. Jelly/Devin. Kristin/Kilby. Thien An/Eric. Lewis/Sharonda. There are a bunch of strategies in play here with how people are pairing up. Some are wanting to use it as protection in case it’s a vote out of a full duo. For instance, Eric knows he’s a target but Thien An is very well liked and wouldn’t be a target so she’d be great to pair up with cause of that.
We get to the immunity challenge. We learn from Jeff that Brady left to go home to see about his thumb so he will not be a member of the jury. A duo will indeed be going home on a vote at this next tribal council. You can only vote for a pair to go and there will be three stages to the immunity challenge. The first stage is balancing a ball and the top four teams will move on. The one that lasts the longest in this challenge will get an advantage in stage two. Kristin and Kilby are the first duo out. A big wind shows up messing with everyone and that helps take Maggie and Mike out. That sets the four duos that will move on so it’s a battle for the advantage now. Eric starts talking a ton in this challenge just about anything and everything doing his best Drew from Big Brother 28 impression to distract like he did during the endurance comp. The talking appears to backfire as Thien An and Eric go out next. We’re 30 minutes into it at this point and Lewis and Sharonda decide to bail to not appear too much of a threat. 43 minutes in as we have the final two duos and the wind makes another return. Devin and Jelly go out. Carter and Cristian win getting an advantage in stage two. Stage two will be Cristian/Carter, Lewis/Sharonda, Eric/Thien An, and Devin/Jelly. The advantage is not having to transport as many bags across and an advantage with the blocks. The advantage wasn’t really needed as Carter and Cristian just dominate sliding the blocks at the end to win first place. Lewis and Sharonda finish second. Devin and Jelly just barely edge out Thien An and Eric. On to the final phase for immunity. Carter and Cristian vs Lewis and Sharonda vs Devin and Jelly. It’s a block stacking challenge with a ton of balance to it. Carter and Cristian get deep looking like they might win and then drop all their stacks. Lewis and Sharonda steady it to the end winning immunity. After the challenge, we learn how things will play in tribal council. Idols are in play. If one person plays an idol, both are safe with the duo. A shot in the dark from one person is success for the duo. Only one person can play these things but it covers both. Sharonda and Lewis have to send someone on a journey on a boat and they choose Cristian. The reward for this challenge is a spaghetti dinner. They get to pick two more people to go and choose Kristin and Jelly.
On the reward, the group talks of who to target with the vote. Jelly wants to go after Cristian and Carter. Lewis says he wishes that Jelly and Devin hadn’t picked each other cause it puts an even bigger target on the both of them. The feeling is that Thien An and Eric will be off the table for a vote cause of everyone liking Thien An. Back at camp, Kilby and Carter talk of how Devin and Jelly should be the easy vote. Carter talks to Thien An about making sure the salt group (alliance name for the new group) come together on this vote when everyone gets back from reward. Carter talks of how he needs Cristian to solidify this vote though. Speaking of Cristian, he arrives off the boat in a sand spot in the middle of the ocean with instructions. He can earn power but with a risk. He can keep his vote and earn an extra vote but if he fails this task, he loses his vote. He has to figure out a clue before the time glass runs out. There are buoys in the ocean which he learns have letters on them. He gets them organized seeing a clue formed “Dig Under Treemail”. Back at camp, the reward group has returned. Kristin tries to work with Maggie but Maggie says she finds her too intimidating to work with. Sharonda and Jelly talk and Sharonda wants Carter and Cristian out. Cristian arrives back at camp. He tells them all the truth of what happened of how he has to get his vote back. He goes to treemail and of course MIke follows him to which Cristian doesn’t like but what can he do. LOL. Cristian finds what he’s looking for and gets his vote back along with an extra vote. He tells Carter the info and Lewis joins in with their convo. Lewis tells of how at dinner that Jelly was pushing for Carter and Cristian to go. Carter goes to Jelly and Devin knowing this info and tries to hard sell them on why are we making this vote hard saying let’s vote out Kristin and be done with it. Jelly and Devin agree. They’re happy with the idea of it. The salt group meets in full and are going after Jelly and Devin. Thien An, Maggie, and Sharonda talk together and Thien An says she want to vote out Jelly and Devin. Sharonda isn’t on board with that not wanting to do that vote. Sharonda takes that info to Devin and Jelly warning them that they may not have the numbers that they think. Jelly talks in confessional about how she has her immunity idol and may have to use it to protect them with this vote. Sharonda, Jelly, Devin, Eric, and Lewis talk and want to get out Cristian and Carter. This turns to chaos once again with a lot of scrambling before tribal. Kristin is told that her name is coming up from Devin and Jelly. Cristian talks about how he can’t play his extra vote if the shot in the dark is played so there has to be a plan in place there. Cristian is afraid of an idol being played so Carter may have to play his to protect them.
We get to tribal council where Kristin calls out that her name has been brought up as a vote tonight. Kilby and Cristian talk to one another about maybe playing their shot in the dark. We have a whole lot of whispering going on here in this tribal. Cristian gets up and tells Eric he is giving him his extra vote and to vote for Devin and Jelly. We get to the vote. Eric does not play the extra vote with him saying he doesn’t think they need it since the majority is going for Devin and Jelly. Welllll, about that. LOL. Jelly plays her idol which protects her and Devin. Kristin plays her shot in the dark for her and Kilby but it’s not safe. Cristian plays his shot in the dark for him and Carter and it’s…..SAFE. The votes are read and it was going to be Jelly and Devin going home. The idol saves them as they get the majority of the votes. There is one vote for Carter and Cristian which is from Jelly but that is wiped out due to the shot in the dark. That means Devin’s vote decides it and the only unprotected of the votes is Kristin and Kilby sending them home. Wow! That was quite the ride. So, the Devin and Jelly votes were from: Maggie, Lewis, Carter, Thien An, Kilby, Sharonda, Mike, and Eric. That left Devin and Jelly to control who went home amazingly. The extra vote was kept safe as it would have been actually wasted if Eric played it so that is still in play. Quite the save and play with the idol!
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