Grid Effect

Ravu comes back from TC, and they are in disbelief after watching a woman they hardly knew walk off the island. Some other woman suggests putting egos aside and focusing on winning. She is apparently of the impression that no one else has ever formed such a novel concept. The team seems to be in agreement, Rocky goes crazy with the hyperbole and refers to his team as the biggest group of losers in Survivor history. Way to lift those spirits, Rocky.

Moto decides to paint the floor (They got paint?!) to fend off any infestation. They seem to be eating and relaxing pretty steadily, almost like its a vacation. Moto is pretty energetic while Ravu is famished. Earl comes back from exile island and dances around describing his clue, everyone takes a hint and doesn’t inquire anymore. Michelle uses her glasses and the particularly scorching hot sun to start a fire. See, beautiful and thrifty. With the assistance of her team they get a full fledged campfire going. Rocky says the other team should be frightened because Ravu is “so fired up” right now. Brilliant pun there, Rocky. Bartender college did pay off.

At RC, Ravu gets a flint from Jeff for getting a flame going. They are playing for one of three things: luxury items, fishing gear that Moto apparently already has or fresh fruit. Clearly you go with the non-glamorous item in the gear, we’ll see what they choose.

The challenge features an elaborate slip and slide that they must get across, grab a little ball and throw it in a basket from ten feet away before their opponent. First two to go are some guy named Gary from Moto and Anthony. Gary wins despite foolishly attempting to walk across the wet board. Next two up are Rita from Ravu and Cassandra from Moto, Cassandra collapses onto the Mat and manages to parlay it into a twenty foot slide. Rita wins none the less. 1-1.

Boo from Moto and Rocky from Ravu are next. I get the impression Boo has done this before, he slides across the mat and grabs the appropriately numbered ball all in one motion, Rocky never even has the opportunity to take a shot. 2-1, Moto.

Michelle from Ravu and Stacy from Moto (ala the two attractive asian women) tip toe to the shooting line, they take multiple shots before Stacy puts it in. 3-1, Moto.

Next round is Alex for Moto and Mookie for Ravu, they both get across pretty quickly. Mookie is the first to put it in, in with proper shooting technique. 3-2, Moto.

Next up is Sylvia from Ravu and Liliana from Moto, Sylvia really botches the job here. Liliana takes four shots before Sylvia takes one and manages to put drill it just as Sylvia is stepping up to the shooting line. What a miserable feeling that must be for our current artificially created antagonist. 4-2, Moto.

Next round is Earl from Ravu and Edgardo from Moto. They are as even as anyone has been, Edgardo edges him out though. 5-2, Moto. One more and the game is there’s.

Unfortunately the next round is something of a mismatch for Ravu, as it features Yau-Man, the late 50’s diminutive Asian versus Dre, late 20’s large black man for Moto. Yau-Man hangs tough, however, and Dre actually has a shot bounce out because there are so many balls in his teams basket. No telling how many shots each took, but it’s considerable. Dre ultimately puts the game away despite a valiant effort from Yau. Moto sends Sylvia to Exile and take the fishing gear.

At exile Island, Sylvia is embarrassed by her performance, I really wouldn’t take it so hard. The third clue is helpful, in fact it just tells her where the idol is back at camp. So for the time being it’s pretty worthless.

Moto returns from camp and Dreamz starts referring to Gary (the guy who slipped in the first round of the RC) as papa smurf in an affectionate but annoying manner. Gary responds with a shortness of breath and disorientation. The doctors inspect him and cannot find any evidence of anything serious, the doctors say that if it’s anything than it is musculoskeletal problem. He decides to just rest and see how he feels in the morning. In my limited medical knowledge, I am guessing a panic attack. His team is legitimately concerned.

A visual interpretation of agony

At IC, they are competing head-to-head in a food eating competition, though its obviously misleading as they are going to be eating traditional Fijian cuisine. Rocky goes up against Liliana and tries to swallow a clam whole. She chews and gets it down but Jeff discredits the win on a technicality, in the meantime, Rocky is able to get his down cleanly and Ravu… you know what? I can’t recap this entire challenge, the language is too bizarre…

Dreamz (Moto) eats an octopus before Sylvia (Ravu)
Mookie (Ravu) eats two peanut worms(?) before Lacy (Moto)
Rocky and some random guy from Moto get into a verbal dispute about sportsmanship from the bleachers as Mookie was taunting Lacy. Rocky comes out the victor.
Alex (Moto) eats a sea cucumber before Earl (Ravu)
In case you’re not keeping score that’s 2-2.
Edgardo (Moto) eats some fish eyes before Michelle (Ravu)
Gary (Moto) destroys Anthony (Ravu) in eating pig snouts to clinch a victory. Ravu has yet toowin a challenge, and they might be too far gone to get one now.

Sylvia says she still feels connected to the tribe, but is not sure the feeling is mutual. Since she has the clue about the idol, she knows she has to find it to stay around. Earl gauruantees Yau that Sylvia does not have the idol, but he isn’t aware of just how helpful that clue was. Rocky and Rita decide they are voting off Sylvia, assuming she doesn’t have the idol, if that’s the case then they are giving Anthony the boot. Damn, they are both kind of victims of circumstance. Sylvia, because she built the cabin that the other team is living in, and Anthony, really because match point was scored on him at the latest IC.

They all have negative, disparaging opinions of the state of the tribe. Anthony does not hone up to his poor performance in the IC, whereas Sylvia has been overly-apologetic about her poor performance at RC. Mookie throws it all into the open and says he was pissed off at the tribes performance and singles out Anthony. They exchange a few words, blah, blah, blah; we go to the vote.

Mookie votes for Anthony, saying it’s his attitude.
Michelle votes for Sylvia, and draws little designs in the “S”, she claims she’s just curious about whether or not Sylvia has the Immunity Idol.

Apparently you have to play the Idol before the votes are read, no one plays it, the vote goes as such:
Sylvia
Anthony
Sylvia
Anthony
Sylvia
Anthony
Earl (what the hell?)
and the third person voted off is… Sylvia.

Wow, Ravu is really discombobulating. Has there ever been a more split vote this early in the game? Who the hell voted for Earl?

Sylvia harbors no resentment towards anyone in the game, though claims she has been “had”. Thinks it will be entertaining too watch everyone stab each other in the backs. See, there’s always a silver lining.