Post by Amanda Kimmel on Sept 2, 2011 20:52:55 GMT -5
Eighteen strangers were abandoned in Malaysia, forced to work together and survive the elements… and each other. They were divided into two tribes of nine.
On Cahaya, wearing a creamy yellow, we had:
On Gelap, wearing dark purple, we had:
Episode One: “A Tribe Full of Nuts”
The eighteen Americans were immediately informed of Redemption Island, a place where people booted before the merge would get a second shot to come back into the game when the tribes merged. They were also informed that each of them would have a “secret partner” that they would be provided the voting history of, and if they guessed who it was they’d get a prize. They were not told that this prize was a 2x nullifier.
The first challenge would collectively test a tribe’s endurance. Morgan, who claimed she was new to ORGs, went first for Gelap and lasted over an hour, passed it to Yve, who passed it to Coach without telling him; Cahaya did worse, as Colleen messed up shortly after starting due to an improvable Proboards glitch. This would send Cahaya to Tribal Council. Colleen was a target for flubbing the challenge, but Sydney’s weird behavior and sex-driven nature annoyed some of her tribemates. Sydney became the target of an alliance led by Colleen, but several others questioned Danni’s activity. At Tribal Council, Colleen’s plan to blindside Sydney failed due to Danni’s self-vote. Danni was voted out 5-4. Sydney was visibly upset by nearly getting voted out.
Episode Two: “Can’t Be Tamed”
The next challenge involved writing fight songs, and Cahaya came out on top. Gelap’s distasteful Cahaya-hating rap sent them to Tribal Council. Tyrone was visibly upset, thinking his tribe had the better song, and challenged the results but was unsuccessful. Rob was getting arrogant about his alliance, which bothered a few of his tribemates coupled with his inactivity and his desire to “fuck” Sydney on the other tribe, a request which she shot down when Rob advanced on her. However, Dave was seen as useless in the challenge, and was also targeted, and Tyrone was criticized for being vocal after challenge results. Morgan’s multiple alliances made her tribe almost certain that she was not a newbie and was, in fact, a major threat. In the end, Dave went to Redemption Island by a 9-0 vote.
Episode Three: “Forget You, Go Home” & Episode Four: “Worthless”
Danni and Dave squared off at Redemption Island, and Danni won because Dave neglected to show for it. At Gelap, Morgan struck an alliance which included herself, Coach, Lex, Elisabeth, and Yve, though Coach and Lex wanted to get rid of Morgan and Elisabeth if they had lost. Cesternino also seemed to draw attention to himself with his dramatic, negative behavior, especially around Sydney on Cahaya. Gelap, however, won the ORG creation immunity and sent a disorganized Cahaya to Tribal Council. They simply voted off the inactive Amber. When they lost the next Immunity, foreshadowed by a “word of the round” at Treemail, they again voted off a lesser active in Yul, though Frosti voted for Alina so he and his secret partner could find each others’ identities. Joe also made several enemies, including Host Amanda, for saying that he did not like the challenges and was too lazy to attempt them.
Episode Five: “Useful as a One-Legged Mule”
Round five brought a much-needed tribe swap:
The new Cahaya was comprised of mostly original Gelap members: Candice, Elisabeth, Frosti, Joe, Lex, Tyrone, and Yve
The new Gelap had an original Cahaya majority: Alina, Coach, Colleen, Morgan, Rob C., Rupert, and Sydney
Now tribemates, Frosti found out that Tyrone was his secret partner, and was the first to obtain a 2x nullifier. Coach and Colleen stayed firm on their pre-game pact to bitch everyone out, while Rob C. and Sydney immediately started arguing, campaigning for the other’s removal, as she did not like his advances and he did not like her rejection. At the immunity challenge, both tribes struggled with penalties because some members failed to show or, in Joe’s case, didn’t even try. Yve incurred a self-vote for not logging on at all for the duration of the challenge and was targeted for being inactive, but Candice had other ideas. Sick of Joe’s laziness and annoyed that he had thrown his part of the challenge, which had cost the new Cahaya a win, Candice pushed to get rid of Joe, to which everyone agreed without question. Frosti, realizing that Joe was doomed, knew that Tyrone would affirm Frosti has his secret partner, so he told him; Tyrone also obtained a 2x nullifier. At Tribal Council, Joe was sent to Redemption Island, a place he didn’t even know existed, and was to face Yul, but he was replaced by Danni who had been unable to do the prior duel.
Episode Six: “The Good, the Bad, and the Inactive”
The following round brought a plate smash and a double Tribal Council. Tyrone was the only one to try on Cahaya, while Colleen won a contest on Gelap between herself, Rob C., Rupert, and Sydney. Rob C. found a 2x nullifier in his backpack, which had been snuck there by Tyrone. Tyrone’s attitude at the challenge also angered people on both tribes. While Cahaya simply threw worthless inactive Yve away, Sydney and Rob C. got into another heated argument at Gelap. When he called her a “whore,” Sydney called him a liar and a molester and threatened to smack him, which irritated him. He called her out, and according to Rob, she threatened to kill him; according to Sydney, he molested her. Colleen, Coach, and Rupert conspired to vote one of them off, but were unsure which would be the better boot because of Sydney’s potential prowess at Redemption Island. They decided to go after the more violent, annoying Sydney, and side with Rob’s sympathies; they informed Morgan of this. Alina tried to go after Rob C., as he was not an original Cahaya and Frosti had signaled his wish for a Cahaya majority at merge. She tried to turn Rupert, who initially agreed but later blabbed to Coach and Colleen about Alina’s plan knowing that he shouldn’t betray his allies even though he had received his own 2x nullifier. After Alina informed Rob that he was the target, he showed his 2x nullifier and agreed to nullify Alina and Sydney’s votes at Tribal. He did, while Alina, having obtained a 2x nullifier also, contemplated using hers to nullify Coach and Rob C’s votes; she also campaigned to Morgan to vote Rob out. Alina later realized that Rupert had been lying to her and decided to retract her nullifier. Sydney was voted out 4-1, and swore revenge on Rob and his friends, even going as far to call Colleen a “slut.”
Episode Seven: “Faster Than the Speed of Stupid”
Back at camp, Alina chewed Rupert out for lying to her, and Rupert tried to blame Frosti but Alina expressed her disappointment in him, saying she thought she could trust him. Colleen was extremely satisfied to have taken Sydney down, but was angry at the comments Sydney had directed at her when she had left. Morgan, having voted for Rob C., told Colleen she had her back, but Colleen didn’t buy it. A fractured Gelap lost the immunity challenge and went to Tribal Council yet again when Rob C. made an impulsive decision to throw the challenge. Rob C. and Colleen conspired to lie to Morgan that Alina was the target when, in reality, they would be voting Morgan due to both her flippiness and hotheaded move which cost them the challenge. Alina was also plotting to get rid of Morgan for similar reasons; the tribe converged on a decision and Morgan was blindsided 5-1.
Episode Eight: “A Very Confused Individual”
The next round, the tribes merged into the Bersama tribe, which is Malay for “together.” An alliance of Candice, Colleen, Coach, and Lex banded together and had Frosti and Rupert along for the ride; they chose to target either Alina or Elisabeth to avoid sending an arrogant Tyrone to Redemption Island. The first immunity challenge was an endurance, which Candice won. The castaways were greeted by none other than Morgan when they returned to camp, as Morgan had won the final Redemption Island duel and re-entered the game; she had a one-round immunity to allow her to integrate into the tribe. Morgan also found a faux immunity idol, but did not do anything with it. The majority alliance decided to target Tyrone, who had made racist comments toward Frosti and was annoying many of his tribemates. They faked targeting for useless Elisabeth in order to stage a blindside. Frosti told Alina that the others, which seemingly included Lex, were targeting her and that the real plan was to boot Tyrone; an increasingly paranoid Alina did not realize that the dominant alliance included Colleen and Candice and planned to nullify one of their votes but was later discouraged. Despite Elisabeth calling several people out at Tribal Council, Tyrone was blindsided 7-3-1, with only Rob C. voting for Elisabeth.
Episode Nine: “The Dumbass Strikes Again”
Upon hearing that Lex had started passing Alina’s name around to others, Colleen and Coach realized that they could not trust him and agreed to start causing havoc as according to their original plan. Morgan decided to give her fake HII to Colleen, who immediately questioned its legitimacy due to Morgan’s behavior. Additionally, six castaways received double votes for good confessionals: Alina, Candice, Coach, Colleen, Frosti, and Morgan. When Lex won immunity (and himself, Coach, and Frosti won bonuses), Coach, Colleen, and Candice decided to go with the original plan of voting out Elisabeth. Meanwhile, Morgan, thinking he was Rupert, told Rob that she wanted to vote him out. This turned a few votes against Morgan, and they all thought that she was too stupid to try to pull anything successfully. Cracks in the majority alliance began to show when Lex wanted to go after Colleen down the line and proposed a final two deal to Rupert. Frosti also decided that he did not like Rob C., and went to Lex and Rupert. The three eventually decided that blindsiding Coach would be the most ideal option to break up the C-team since Coach seemed to have the most rewards, and presented this to Morgan and Elisabeth. Despite this, Morgan thought that she was the target and pushed to oust Rob C., lying that she had won a Hidden Immunity Idol at Redemption Island and claiming to have given one to someone else (the fake to Colleen); this, in fact, made her the target. Meanwhile Rob was convinced that 1) Morgan’s HII could be real and 2) that they’d split the vote between Elisabeth and Morgan to get rid of the idol and one of them. This was, in fact, the plan according to the C-team, but they were unaware of Lex and Frosti betraying them. Alina was extremely untrustworthy and nobody had any idea what she was doing. Rob C., hypothesizing that both Elisabeth and Morgan would play immunity idols, decided to blindside Rupert, but was unable to get any support. An angry Candice began to get paranoid that something was afoul, and found out from Morgan that she was voting Coach; however, Morgan only believed that Lex and Frosti were stringing her along and decided to vote for her closest ally Elisabeth as a means to protect herself. Frosti found out that Morgan blabbed and nearly threatened her life, but maintained his composure. Morgan informed Coach that Lex was targeting him; Coach confronted Lex, who acted smug and denied it, and Coach actually believed him. Morgan and Elisabeth talked and opted to vote for Coach along with Lex and Frosti, while Candice told Coach that splitting the votes would be a bad idea, but he didn’t believe it and called her a moron for suggesting that; ultimately, this was his own demise, and because votes were split, doubled, and nulled, Coach was blindsided hardcore by a crazy 7-3-1 vote. On his way out, he lambasted everyone that voted for him.
Episode Ten: “Like a Bunch of Chickens”
Colleen immediately suspected that Rupert and Frosti had betrayed her and she took her anger out by eviscerating them. She also confronted Lex, having fingered him as a sneaky bastard from the beginning. To raise the spirits, Rob C. tried to have a party at camp, but was unsuccessful; when the tribe went to an auction, however, spirits were higher. The list of items and donations was as follows:
**ALINA donated $500 to Frosti, as she could not make it**
1. Absolutely nothing [MORGAN for $360]
2. Triple vote good until final 6 TC [FROSTI for $400]
3. Let 1 jury member of your choice vote at TC [next 3 TCs] [RUPERT for $460]
**RUPERT donated $40 to LEX**
**MORGAN donated $140 to LEX**
4. Reward blocker [play with vote] [CESTERNINO for $500]
5. Secret: Vote checker [COLLEEN for $400]
6. Dummy item - Bob the rock [FROSTI for $300]
*COLLEEN donated $200 to CANDICE**
7. Tiebreaker vote [any round except F4, including FTC] [LEX for $320]
8. 3x nullifier [next 3 TCs] [CANDICE for $460]
9. Secret: Ask Amanda any one question [LEX for $280]
Lex received information that Colleen had a double vote, a 2x nullifier, and the vote checker via his question to Amanda. Rupert won the Majority Rules challenge, but was approached by Lex to give up his immunity when he got back to camp. Elisabeth, like Morgan before her, mistook Rob C. for Rupert and told him that she wanted to vote him out. Rob C. had aligned with Colleen and Candice, however, and they wanted to blindside Lex to avenge what Lex had done to Coach. Thinking he was in on the plan to blindside Candice, Frosti gave his 3x vote to Rupert to make himself a decoy for Rob C’s reward blocker, but Rupert betrayed Frosti and wanted to get Lex out too, so he gave Frosti’s 3x vote to Colleen so she could use it in her conjunction with her doubler to make her vote count 6 times. Coupled with Rupert summoning Coach to vote, Candice doubling hers, and Colleen Candice and nullifying all votes for Candice, an arrogant Lex was sent to the jury, completely stymied.
Episode Eleven: “Positioned for Greatness”
After Lex left, only a small handful of rewards remained in the game: Frosti had a 2x nullifier, Alina had a double vote and nullifier, and Rupert had a nullifier as well; however, not trusting that Rob C. used his item, Frosti gave his prize to Alina. Alina also made a side alliance with Rob C., but did not trust him. The castaways were stunned at the immunity, when it was revealed that two people would win immunity and two people would be heading to the jury. When the challenge was revealed to be story writing, Frosti and Candice won in a landslide as expected. With each person being able to cast two votes at Tribal, things got hectic. Colleen, knowing that Candice winning immunity put her in trouble, searched for a Hidden Immunity Idol; since the word of the round was “Hidden Immunity Idol,” Colleen figured out the password and was able to locate the game’s only HII. She was also informed that the item she received from Morgan was worthless, and had an enormous grin on her face. While Colleen’s side targeted Alina and Elisabeth, Frosti’s side targeted Colleen and Cesternino. Alina did not agree with Rob C. and Rupert’s pleas to flop and stuck with Frosti. At Tribal, Colleen played her Hidden Immunity Idol to save herself and the fake on Morgan to make Morgan look stupid, and Alina nullified a total of three votes to save her own skin; this sent Rob C. and Elisabeth to the jury by a 4-3-2 decision.
Round Twelve: “Time for the Turnaround”
All rewards had been spent, and each side had three members: Frosti had Morgan and Alina, while Candice, Colleen, and Rupert were still together, though for some extremely stupid reason some people thought Candice and Colleen had betrayed Rupert and Rob C. (they hadn’t even come close to). Rupert used this to fake a final two deal with Morgan and target either Frosti or Candice. When Candice won immunity for the third time, however, Rupert pitched the target as Frosti, but Morgan was dead set on voting Colleen. Knowing that Lex had the power to break any tie and that he would not side with Rupert, Frosti and Alina convinced Rupert that 1) Alina still had two nullifiers, and 2) that the vote was going in multiple directions, when it really was not. Candice and Colleen knew that now was the best time to take out Frosti, given that his two allies were easily beatable in both challenges and jury votes, but Rupert believed that they were voting for Alina while he was still on the fence. In the end, Alina became the target due to a prospective tiebreaker challenge and Lex still having the power to break a tie, as he would be more inclined to side with Frosti than Alina, and Rupert chose to stay true to his alliance. After a 3-3 tie, Lex decided to use his tiebreaker and Colleen was sent to the jury
Episode Thirteen: “The Wambulance”
The next round, Frosti went psychotic and said extremely insulting things against the game and its staff. Initially granted a penalty vote, he contested it and Amanda, to avoid dealing with him, instead banned him from All-Stars and gave him a warning that if he pulled any more shit, he’d be banned for life. For deleting three posts, he was also disqualified from the immunity challenge, which Candice won yet again. Frosti took this personally, and transformed into Twattius Minimus, psychotic midget gladiator! He started slashing stuff. He started lying to Candice about his cock being a Hidden Immunity Idol. He started calling bias, bias, bias, and even threatened to quit the game.
And he got punched in the face.
Episode 14 [Finale]: “That’s Because Candice Can”
After the police came to arrest Frosti and take him away, a new treemail arrived that was a quiz recapping the entire game. Candice won yet another immunity challenge, much to the annoyance of her tribemates. Back at camp, Candice, knowing she was safe, pondered two possibilities: Betray Rupert and have an easy time making the final two, or stay loyal to him and risk getting 3rd place. She initially decided to betray him, and conspired with Morgan and Alina to vote Rupert out, but the thought occurred to her that Colleen would chew her out on the jury if she did, and ultimately could not risk betraying her last ally or the possibility of an Alina-Morgan final two. Playing the Hero, she and Rupert decided to vote for Alina, and told Morgan of their plan at the last minute. Alina was sent to the jury 3-1.
The final three went to the Final Immunity Challenge, which was a monster. Morgan and Rupert struggled immensely on the slider puzzle, which Candice made look easy. Winning her fifth immunity in a row and sixth overall, Candice decided to take Rupert with her to the final two over Morgan, who said she’d be easier to beat. As she left, Morgan changed her mind and delusionally claimed that she would have won the game, and that was why Candice voted her out.
At the Final Tribal Council, Candice emphasized her social game and her challenge performance, as well as keeping her alliance together as a sort of “shepherd.” Rupert, much to Coach and Lex’s disgust, said he wanted to stick with his most trusted allies and play the game for himself.
Morgan was the first juror to ask questions. She thought Candice had relied on immunity to stay in the game while Rupert actually had to put forth effort to make the end, which several jurors giggled at. She asked each of them about her lying about being a first-time player (something nobody bought except for Rupert), to analyze her way of playing the game, and further questions. Candice sugarcoated things while maintaining that she might be seen as having hidden behind immunity, but at the same time she had been playing a strong social game. Rupert said that Morgan showed potential due to her easy win at Redemption Island and that they both played a good game going forward. He also said he would have taken Candice had he won the final challenge in order to keep his promises. He also his defended outwitting, outplaying, and outlasting instead of relying on challenge wins.
Elisabeth asked Candice would be an ideal final two that included neither her nor Rupert; Candice said Colleen and Lex for their outspokenness and crafty manipulations, respectively. Elisabeth asked Rupert why she deserved his vote considering that he rarely acknowledged her, and he dodged the question and admitted to not talking to too many people.
Cesternino queried about Candice’s immunity run, to which she replied that was the main reason why she was in the finals, but that she didn’t just sit back and sleep despite being safe. He asked Rupert about how he was able to pull off flip-floppy gameplay, and Rupert denied it, saying he only flipped on Coach, then contradicted himself and said he “flipped back” on his own volition.
Coach asked the final two to defend their game, explain why they aligned with the people they did, their thought process about every vote in the game, and their impression of his as a player. Candice gave a strong impression and recapped things honestly and straightforwardly. Rupert overplayed his social game and merely recapped who he talked to. He also said that he voted Coach and Lex out to avoid being blindsided later, to which both men shook their heads. He also gave a wrong impression of Coach, which Coach called him out for and proclaimed to be voting for Candice to win.
Tyrone made all kinds of faces for the final two, then asked Rupert to explain why he should win.
He also asked both finalists to put his awesomeness into words, which Candice claimed to be his “boisterous attitude” and Rupert said it was his “wit.” He repeated that he deserved to win because he didn’t rely on challenges but instead gameplay and also said he was continually paranoid about being blindsided and tried his best to avoid it.
Alina asked both contestants if the real versions of themselves would be proud of the way they played the game. Candice said yes, because she didn’t get scared and flip like her awful counterpart, while Rupert said yes because he made the F2 despite his drastically different gameplay. Alina also asked Candice if Rupert deserves to be sitting next to her, to which she had mixed feelings, given that he made two big moves then just followed. Alina also asked Rupert about his true motivation for booting Sydney and if he had planned to flip-flop coming into the game. He admitted to both planning to ditch Sydney and that he planned to blindside Coach and Lex from the beginning, but again denied flipping despite having done exactly that.
Colleen was next. She asked Candice if she was paranoid that she lost a challenge, which Candice said was in fact the case and that she was concerned for her safety. She also asked Candice if she would stay true to their plan, and Candice said it would. When prompted by Colleen, Candice also defended her social and strategic game, and that she was far more than just a challenge dominator. Colleen asked Rupert about his poor performance in the final IC, which Rupert couldn’t defend, and asked what his mission in the game was. Rupert answered saying that it was a “bit of everything” and “to make big moves” though he never expected to make the end.
Lex closed the show. He compared Candice to a bull and Rupert to the fly latching onto the bull’s ass, and outright called Rupert delusional. He accused Rupert of not playing to win and that his true purpose, in referring to Colleen’s question, was to vote himself and Coach out. Lex took credit for blindsiding Coach, and told Rupert to stop with his bullshit. He congratulated Candice on winning, at which point the jury began to vote.
In the end, Candice won the title of Sole Survivor by a surprising vote of 6-2, losing only Elisabeth and Morgan’s votes.
All-Stars were announced as the following:
Candice Woodcock Cody, the prowess. She won five straight immunities (six in total), played a strong social game and thought strategically - enough to end up winning, though oddly by a non-unanimous vote. As the strongest challenge player in the series and a great social player too, she has earned a spot in All-Stars.
Lex van den Berghe, the ginger bastard. He played an aggressive strategic game - he staged an impressive blindside, then was so big of a threat that a ton of rewards had to be used to get rid of him. He's earned a second shot. Also, Coach got him good: i55.tinypic.com/aw2dm1.jpg
Rupert Boneham, the flip-flopper. He played a questionable game. He blindsided his two closest allies out of paranoia (and because they were threats), but in the process gained so many enemies that he was the ideal candidate to take to the final two. Where he lost, though he did get two votes.
Colleen Haskell, the diva. Was in the spotlight since day one when she tried to blindside Sydney. She had strong alliances, played aggressively, thought very creatively and kept her confessional up-to-date. She was also the only one to figure out my Word of the Round secret.
Alina Wilson, the ninja. She may not have been the most social in the world, but she was a thinker, conserving her weapons as she lurked in the shadows looking for her chance to make strike, but never getting that chance. She deserves a shot to get it.
Although it started slow due to inactives, Malaysia was yet another great season. It may not have lived up to its predecessor, but honestly, what could? Malaysia is a good season in its own right, and let's hope that Manchuria is too! [it was]
Love, Amanda
On Cahaya, wearing a creamy yellow, we had:
- Danni, a former beauty queen turned sports commentator
- Joe, a real estate investor
- Alina, an art student
- Rupert, a clinical mentor for troubled teens
- Colleen, an advertising student
- Amber, an administrative assistant
- Yul, a business consultant for Google
- Sydney, a model and aspiring actress
- Frosti, a film student
On Gelap, wearing dark purple, we had:
- Candice, an international service worker
- Coach, a self-proclaimed “adventurist” with his own memoir
- Elisabeth, a shoe designer
- Morgan, a stage performer
- Lex, a freelance writer
- Yve, a homemaker
- Dave, a rocket scientist
- Rob, an insurance projects coordinator
- Tyrone, a firefighter
Episode One: “A Tribe Full of Nuts”
The eighteen Americans were immediately informed of Redemption Island, a place where people booted before the merge would get a second shot to come back into the game when the tribes merged. They were also informed that each of them would have a “secret partner” that they would be provided the voting history of, and if they guessed who it was they’d get a prize. They were not told that this prize was a 2x nullifier.
The first challenge would collectively test a tribe’s endurance. Morgan, who claimed she was new to ORGs, went first for Gelap and lasted over an hour, passed it to Yve, who passed it to Coach without telling him; Cahaya did worse, as Colleen messed up shortly after starting due to an improvable Proboards glitch. This would send Cahaya to Tribal Council. Colleen was a target for flubbing the challenge, but Sydney’s weird behavior and sex-driven nature annoyed some of her tribemates. Sydney became the target of an alliance led by Colleen, but several others questioned Danni’s activity. At Tribal Council, Colleen’s plan to blindside Sydney failed due to Danni’s self-vote. Danni was voted out 5-4. Sydney was visibly upset by nearly getting voted out.
Episode Two: “Can’t Be Tamed”
The next challenge involved writing fight songs, and Cahaya came out on top. Gelap’s distasteful Cahaya-hating rap sent them to Tribal Council. Tyrone was visibly upset, thinking his tribe had the better song, and challenged the results but was unsuccessful. Rob was getting arrogant about his alliance, which bothered a few of his tribemates coupled with his inactivity and his desire to “fuck” Sydney on the other tribe, a request which she shot down when Rob advanced on her. However, Dave was seen as useless in the challenge, and was also targeted, and Tyrone was criticized for being vocal after challenge results. Morgan’s multiple alliances made her tribe almost certain that she was not a newbie and was, in fact, a major threat. In the end, Dave went to Redemption Island by a 9-0 vote.
Episode Three: “Forget You, Go Home” & Episode Four: “Worthless”
Danni and Dave squared off at Redemption Island, and Danni won because Dave neglected to show for it. At Gelap, Morgan struck an alliance which included herself, Coach, Lex, Elisabeth, and Yve, though Coach and Lex wanted to get rid of Morgan and Elisabeth if they had lost. Cesternino also seemed to draw attention to himself with his dramatic, negative behavior, especially around Sydney on Cahaya. Gelap, however, won the ORG creation immunity and sent a disorganized Cahaya to Tribal Council. They simply voted off the inactive Amber. When they lost the next Immunity, foreshadowed by a “word of the round” at Treemail, they again voted off a lesser active in Yul, though Frosti voted for Alina so he and his secret partner could find each others’ identities. Joe also made several enemies, including Host Amanda, for saying that he did not like the challenges and was too lazy to attempt them.
Episode Five: “Useful as a One-Legged Mule”
Round five brought a much-needed tribe swap:
The new Cahaya was comprised of mostly original Gelap members: Candice, Elisabeth, Frosti, Joe, Lex, Tyrone, and Yve
The new Gelap had an original Cahaya majority: Alina, Coach, Colleen, Morgan, Rob C., Rupert, and Sydney
Now tribemates, Frosti found out that Tyrone was his secret partner, and was the first to obtain a 2x nullifier. Coach and Colleen stayed firm on their pre-game pact to bitch everyone out, while Rob C. and Sydney immediately started arguing, campaigning for the other’s removal, as she did not like his advances and he did not like her rejection. At the immunity challenge, both tribes struggled with penalties because some members failed to show or, in Joe’s case, didn’t even try. Yve incurred a self-vote for not logging on at all for the duration of the challenge and was targeted for being inactive, but Candice had other ideas. Sick of Joe’s laziness and annoyed that he had thrown his part of the challenge, which had cost the new Cahaya a win, Candice pushed to get rid of Joe, to which everyone agreed without question. Frosti, realizing that Joe was doomed, knew that Tyrone would affirm Frosti has his secret partner, so he told him; Tyrone also obtained a 2x nullifier. At Tribal Council, Joe was sent to Redemption Island, a place he didn’t even know existed, and was to face Yul, but he was replaced by Danni who had been unable to do the prior duel.
Episode Six: “The Good, the Bad, and the Inactive”
The following round brought a plate smash and a double Tribal Council. Tyrone was the only one to try on Cahaya, while Colleen won a contest on Gelap between herself, Rob C., Rupert, and Sydney. Rob C. found a 2x nullifier in his backpack, which had been snuck there by Tyrone. Tyrone’s attitude at the challenge also angered people on both tribes. While Cahaya simply threw worthless inactive Yve away, Sydney and Rob C. got into another heated argument at Gelap. When he called her a “whore,” Sydney called him a liar and a molester and threatened to smack him, which irritated him. He called her out, and according to Rob, she threatened to kill him; according to Sydney, he molested her. Colleen, Coach, and Rupert conspired to vote one of them off, but were unsure which would be the better boot because of Sydney’s potential prowess at Redemption Island. They decided to go after the more violent, annoying Sydney, and side with Rob’s sympathies; they informed Morgan of this. Alina tried to go after Rob C., as he was not an original Cahaya and Frosti had signaled his wish for a Cahaya majority at merge. She tried to turn Rupert, who initially agreed but later blabbed to Coach and Colleen about Alina’s plan knowing that he shouldn’t betray his allies even though he had received his own 2x nullifier. After Alina informed Rob that he was the target, he showed his 2x nullifier and agreed to nullify Alina and Sydney’s votes at Tribal. He did, while Alina, having obtained a 2x nullifier also, contemplated using hers to nullify Coach and Rob C’s votes; she also campaigned to Morgan to vote Rob out. Alina later realized that Rupert had been lying to her and decided to retract her nullifier. Sydney was voted out 4-1, and swore revenge on Rob and his friends, even going as far to call Colleen a “slut.”
Episode Seven: “Faster Than the Speed of Stupid”
Back at camp, Alina chewed Rupert out for lying to her, and Rupert tried to blame Frosti but Alina expressed her disappointment in him, saying she thought she could trust him. Colleen was extremely satisfied to have taken Sydney down, but was angry at the comments Sydney had directed at her when she had left. Morgan, having voted for Rob C., told Colleen she had her back, but Colleen didn’t buy it. A fractured Gelap lost the immunity challenge and went to Tribal Council yet again when Rob C. made an impulsive decision to throw the challenge. Rob C. and Colleen conspired to lie to Morgan that Alina was the target when, in reality, they would be voting Morgan due to both her flippiness and hotheaded move which cost them the challenge. Alina was also plotting to get rid of Morgan for similar reasons; the tribe converged on a decision and Morgan was blindsided 5-1.
Episode Eight: “A Very Confused Individual”
The next round, the tribes merged into the Bersama tribe, which is Malay for “together.” An alliance of Candice, Colleen, Coach, and Lex banded together and had Frosti and Rupert along for the ride; they chose to target either Alina or Elisabeth to avoid sending an arrogant Tyrone to Redemption Island. The first immunity challenge was an endurance, which Candice won. The castaways were greeted by none other than Morgan when they returned to camp, as Morgan had won the final Redemption Island duel and re-entered the game; she had a one-round immunity to allow her to integrate into the tribe. Morgan also found a faux immunity idol, but did not do anything with it. The majority alliance decided to target Tyrone, who had made racist comments toward Frosti and was annoying many of his tribemates. They faked targeting for useless Elisabeth in order to stage a blindside. Frosti told Alina that the others, which seemingly included Lex, were targeting her and that the real plan was to boot Tyrone; an increasingly paranoid Alina did not realize that the dominant alliance included Colleen and Candice and planned to nullify one of their votes but was later discouraged. Despite Elisabeth calling several people out at Tribal Council, Tyrone was blindsided 7-3-1, with only Rob C. voting for Elisabeth.
Episode Nine: “The Dumbass Strikes Again”
Upon hearing that Lex had started passing Alina’s name around to others, Colleen and Coach realized that they could not trust him and agreed to start causing havoc as according to their original plan. Morgan decided to give her fake HII to Colleen, who immediately questioned its legitimacy due to Morgan’s behavior. Additionally, six castaways received double votes for good confessionals: Alina, Candice, Coach, Colleen, Frosti, and Morgan. When Lex won immunity (and himself, Coach, and Frosti won bonuses), Coach, Colleen, and Candice decided to go with the original plan of voting out Elisabeth. Meanwhile, Morgan, thinking he was Rupert, told Rob that she wanted to vote him out. This turned a few votes against Morgan, and they all thought that she was too stupid to try to pull anything successfully. Cracks in the majority alliance began to show when Lex wanted to go after Colleen down the line and proposed a final two deal to Rupert. Frosti also decided that he did not like Rob C., and went to Lex and Rupert. The three eventually decided that blindsiding Coach would be the most ideal option to break up the C-team since Coach seemed to have the most rewards, and presented this to Morgan and Elisabeth. Despite this, Morgan thought that she was the target and pushed to oust Rob C., lying that she had won a Hidden Immunity Idol at Redemption Island and claiming to have given one to someone else (the fake to Colleen); this, in fact, made her the target. Meanwhile Rob was convinced that 1) Morgan’s HII could be real and 2) that they’d split the vote between Elisabeth and Morgan to get rid of the idol and one of them. This was, in fact, the plan according to the C-team, but they were unaware of Lex and Frosti betraying them. Alina was extremely untrustworthy and nobody had any idea what she was doing. Rob C., hypothesizing that both Elisabeth and Morgan would play immunity idols, decided to blindside Rupert, but was unable to get any support. An angry Candice began to get paranoid that something was afoul, and found out from Morgan that she was voting Coach; however, Morgan only believed that Lex and Frosti were stringing her along and decided to vote for her closest ally Elisabeth as a means to protect herself. Frosti found out that Morgan blabbed and nearly threatened her life, but maintained his composure. Morgan informed Coach that Lex was targeting him; Coach confronted Lex, who acted smug and denied it, and Coach actually believed him. Morgan and Elisabeth talked and opted to vote for Coach along with Lex and Frosti, while Candice told Coach that splitting the votes would be a bad idea, but he didn’t believe it and called her a moron for suggesting that; ultimately, this was his own demise, and because votes were split, doubled, and nulled, Coach was blindsided hardcore by a crazy 7-3-1 vote. On his way out, he lambasted everyone that voted for him.
Episode Ten: “Like a Bunch of Chickens”
Colleen immediately suspected that Rupert and Frosti had betrayed her and she took her anger out by eviscerating them. She also confronted Lex, having fingered him as a sneaky bastard from the beginning. To raise the spirits, Rob C. tried to have a party at camp, but was unsuccessful; when the tribe went to an auction, however, spirits were higher. The list of items and donations was as follows:
**ALINA donated $500 to Frosti, as she could not make it**
1. Absolutely nothing [MORGAN for $360]
2. Triple vote good until final 6 TC [FROSTI for $400]
3. Let 1 jury member of your choice vote at TC [next 3 TCs] [RUPERT for $460]
**RUPERT donated $40 to LEX**
**MORGAN donated $140 to LEX**
4. Reward blocker [play with vote] [CESTERNINO for $500]
5. Secret: Vote checker [COLLEEN for $400]
6. Dummy item - Bob the rock [FROSTI for $300]
*COLLEEN donated $200 to CANDICE**
7. Tiebreaker vote [any round except F4, including FTC] [LEX for $320]
8. 3x nullifier [next 3 TCs] [CANDICE for $460]
9. Secret: Ask Amanda any one question [LEX for $280]
Lex received information that Colleen had a double vote, a 2x nullifier, and the vote checker via his question to Amanda. Rupert won the Majority Rules challenge, but was approached by Lex to give up his immunity when he got back to camp. Elisabeth, like Morgan before her, mistook Rob C. for Rupert and told him that she wanted to vote him out. Rob C. had aligned with Colleen and Candice, however, and they wanted to blindside Lex to avenge what Lex had done to Coach. Thinking he was in on the plan to blindside Candice, Frosti gave his 3x vote to Rupert to make himself a decoy for Rob C’s reward blocker, but Rupert betrayed Frosti and wanted to get Lex out too, so he gave Frosti’s 3x vote to Colleen so she could use it in her conjunction with her doubler to make her vote count 6 times. Coupled with Rupert summoning Coach to vote, Candice doubling hers, and Colleen Candice and nullifying all votes for Candice, an arrogant Lex was sent to the jury, completely stymied.
Episode Eleven: “Positioned for Greatness”
After Lex left, only a small handful of rewards remained in the game: Frosti had a 2x nullifier, Alina had a double vote and nullifier, and Rupert had a nullifier as well; however, not trusting that Rob C. used his item, Frosti gave his prize to Alina. Alina also made a side alliance with Rob C., but did not trust him. The castaways were stunned at the immunity, when it was revealed that two people would win immunity and two people would be heading to the jury. When the challenge was revealed to be story writing, Frosti and Candice won in a landslide as expected. With each person being able to cast two votes at Tribal, things got hectic. Colleen, knowing that Candice winning immunity put her in trouble, searched for a Hidden Immunity Idol; since the word of the round was “Hidden Immunity Idol,” Colleen figured out the password and was able to locate the game’s only HII. She was also informed that the item she received from Morgan was worthless, and had an enormous grin on her face. While Colleen’s side targeted Alina and Elisabeth, Frosti’s side targeted Colleen and Cesternino. Alina did not agree with Rob C. and Rupert’s pleas to flop and stuck with Frosti. At Tribal, Colleen played her Hidden Immunity Idol to save herself and the fake on Morgan to make Morgan look stupid, and Alina nullified a total of three votes to save her own skin; this sent Rob C. and Elisabeth to the jury by a 4-3-2 decision.
Round Twelve: “Time for the Turnaround”
All rewards had been spent, and each side had three members: Frosti had Morgan and Alina, while Candice, Colleen, and Rupert were still together, though for some extremely stupid reason some people thought Candice and Colleen had betrayed Rupert and Rob C. (they hadn’t even come close to). Rupert used this to fake a final two deal with Morgan and target either Frosti or Candice. When Candice won immunity for the third time, however, Rupert pitched the target as Frosti, but Morgan was dead set on voting Colleen. Knowing that Lex had the power to break any tie and that he would not side with Rupert, Frosti and Alina convinced Rupert that 1) Alina still had two nullifiers, and 2) that the vote was going in multiple directions, when it really was not. Candice and Colleen knew that now was the best time to take out Frosti, given that his two allies were easily beatable in both challenges and jury votes, but Rupert believed that they were voting for Alina while he was still on the fence. In the end, Alina became the target due to a prospective tiebreaker challenge and Lex still having the power to break a tie, as he would be more inclined to side with Frosti than Alina, and Rupert chose to stay true to his alliance. After a 3-3 tie, Lex decided to use his tiebreaker and Colleen was sent to the jury
Episode Thirteen: “The Wambulance”
The next round, Frosti went psychotic and said extremely insulting things against the game and its staff. Initially granted a penalty vote, he contested it and Amanda, to avoid dealing with him, instead banned him from All-Stars and gave him a warning that if he pulled any more shit, he’d be banned for life. For deleting three posts, he was also disqualified from the immunity challenge, which Candice won yet again. Frosti took this personally, and transformed into Twattius Minimus, psychotic midget gladiator! He started slashing stuff. He started lying to Candice about his cock being a Hidden Immunity Idol. He started calling bias, bias, bias, and even threatened to quit the game.
And he got punched in the face.
Episode 14 [Finale]: “That’s Because Candice Can”
After the police came to arrest Frosti and take him away, a new treemail arrived that was a quiz recapping the entire game. Candice won yet another immunity challenge, much to the annoyance of her tribemates. Back at camp, Candice, knowing she was safe, pondered two possibilities: Betray Rupert and have an easy time making the final two, or stay loyal to him and risk getting 3rd place. She initially decided to betray him, and conspired with Morgan and Alina to vote Rupert out, but the thought occurred to her that Colleen would chew her out on the jury if she did, and ultimately could not risk betraying her last ally or the possibility of an Alina-Morgan final two. Playing the Hero, she and Rupert decided to vote for Alina, and told Morgan of their plan at the last minute. Alina was sent to the jury 3-1.
The final three went to the Final Immunity Challenge, which was a monster. Morgan and Rupert struggled immensely on the slider puzzle, which Candice made look easy. Winning her fifth immunity in a row and sixth overall, Candice decided to take Rupert with her to the final two over Morgan, who said she’d be easier to beat. As she left, Morgan changed her mind and delusionally claimed that she would have won the game, and that was why Candice voted her out.
At the Final Tribal Council, Candice emphasized her social game and her challenge performance, as well as keeping her alliance together as a sort of “shepherd.” Rupert, much to Coach and Lex’s disgust, said he wanted to stick with his most trusted allies and play the game for himself.
Morgan was the first juror to ask questions. She thought Candice had relied on immunity to stay in the game while Rupert actually had to put forth effort to make the end, which several jurors giggled at. She asked each of them about her lying about being a first-time player (something nobody bought except for Rupert), to analyze her way of playing the game, and further questions. Candice sugarcoated things while maintaining that she might be seen as having hidden behind immunity, but at the same time she had been playing a strong social game. Rupert said that Morgan showed potential due to her easy win at Redemption Island and that they both played a good game going forward. He also said he would have taken Candice had he won the final challenge in order to keep his promises. He also his defended outwitting, outplaying, and outlasting instead of relying on challenge wins.
Elisabeth asked Candice would be an ideal final two that included neither her nor Rupert; Candice said Colleen and Lex for their outspokenness and crafty manipulations, respectively. Elisabeth asked Rupert why she deserved his vote considering that he rarely acknowledged her, and he dodged the question and admitted to not talking to too many people.
Cesternino queried about Candice’s immunity run, to which she replied that was the main reason why she was in the finals, but that she didn’t just sit back and sleep despite being safe. He asked Rupert about how he was able to pull off flip-floppy gameplay, and Rupert denied it, saying he only flipped on Coach, then contradicted himself and said he “flipped back” on his own volition.
Coach asked the final two to defend their game, explain why they aligned with the people they did, their thought process about every vote in the game, and their impression of his as a player. Candice gave a strong impression and recapped things honestly and straightforwardly. Rupert overplayed his social game and merely recapped who he talked to. He also said that he voted Coach and Lex out to avoid being blindsided later, to which both men shook their heads. He also gave a wrong impression of Coach, which Coach called him out for and proclaimed to be voting for Candice to win.
Tyrone made all kinds of faces for the final two, then asked Rupert to explain why he should win.
He also asked both finalists to put his awesomeness into words, which Candice claimed to be his “boisterous attitude” and Rupert said it was his “wit.” He repeated that he deserved to win because he didn’t rely on challenges but instead gameplay and also said he was continually paranoid about being blindsided and tried his best to avoid it.
Alina asked both contestants if the real versions of themselves would be proud of the way they played the game. Candice said yes, because she didn’t get scared and flip like her awful counterpart, while Rupert said yes because he made the F2 despite his drastically different gameplay. Alina also asked Candice if Rupert deserves to be sitting next to her, to which she had mixed feelings, given that he made two big moves then just followed. Alina also asked Rupert about his true motivation for booting Sydney and if he had planned to flip-flop coming into the game. He admitted to both planning to ditch Sydney and that he planned to blindside Coach and Lex from the beginning, but again denied flipping despite having done exactly that.
Colleen was next. She asked Candice if she was paranoid that she lost a challenge, which Candice said was in fact the case and that she was concerned for her safety. She also asked Candice if she would stay true to their plan, and Candice said it would. When prompted by Colleen, Candice also defended her social and strategic game, and that she was far more than just a challenge dominator. Colleen asked Rupert about his poor performance in the final IC, which Rupert couldn’t defend, and asked what his mission in the game was. Rupert answered saying that it was a “bit of everything” and “to make big moves” though he never expected to make the end.
Lex closed the show. He compared Candice to a bull and Rupert to the fly latching onto the bull’s ass, and outright called Rupert delusional. He accused Rupert of not playing to win and that his true purpose, in referring to Colleen’s question, was to vote himself and Coach out. Lex took credit for blindsiding Coach, and told Rupert to stop with his bullshit. He congratulated Candice on winning, at which point the jury began to vote.
In the end, Candice won the title of Sole Survivor by a surprising vote of 6-2, losing only Elisabeth and Morgan’s votes.
All-Stars were announced as the following:
Candice Woodcock Cody, the prowess. She won five straight immunities (six in total), played a strong social game and thought strategically - enough to end up winning, though oddly by a non-unanimous vote. As the strongest challenge player in the series and a great social player too, she has earned a spot in All-Stars.
Lex van den Berghe, the ginger bastard. He played an aggressive strategic game - he staged an impressive blindside, then was so big of a threat that a ton of rewards had to be used to get rid of him. He's earned a second shot. Also, Coach got him good: i55.tinypic.com/aw2dm1.jpg
Rupert Boneham, the flip-flopper. He played a questionable game. He blindsided his two closest allies out of paranoia (and because they were threats), but in the process gained so many enemies that he was the ideal candidate to take to the final two. Where he lost, though he did get two votes.
Colleen Haskell, the diva. Was in the spotlight since day one when she tried to blindside Sydney. She had strong alliances, played aggressively, thought very creatively and kept her confessional up-to-date. She was also the only one to figure out my Word of the Round secret.
Alina Wilson, the ninja. She may not have been the most social in the world, but she was a thinker, conserving her weapons as she lurked in the shadows looking for her chance to make strike, but never getting that chance. She deserves a shot to get it.
Although it started slow due to inactives, Malaysia was yet another great season. It may not have lived up to its predecessor, but honestly, what could? Malaysia is a good season in its own right, and let's hope that Manchuria is too! [it was]
Love, Amanda
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