Survivor Philippines

After their tribal council, former Ms. Delaware, Katie shares that she feels that she is definitely the weakest link and she must do something to put the odds on her favor. The next day (day 14), Katie and Denise talk about who probably has the immunity idol. Denise says that she could almost guarantee that Jonathan Penner has it. Katie then urges Denise not to trust anyone else and to get rid of Jonathan when the opportunity comes.

At Tandang tribe (day 15), Mike Skupin is making quite a stir for eating their rice even without cooking. He does that thinking that it will cook inside the body at 100 degrees temperature. (Really now?) For Pete, "Skupin is the most useless castaway to return to Survivor and he needs to go home". Artis shares the same sentiment saying "We got no food because of Mike. And because of Malcolm, Mike has become expendable."

The Deal

It's an old school, classic, dirty and gritty Survivor challenge... well, almost. With three members each, the first tribe to push a huge woven ball in the mud pit to their goal three times wins the reward. The reward is a delicious picnic in a dry hut complete with sandwiches, soup, potato chips and brownies. RC and Artis sit out for Tandang.

The first round starts. For Tandang, Lisa, Pete and Skupin battle against Penner, Carter and Denise of Kalabaw. There's a lot of shoving, pushing and taking down between Carter and Pete, Denise and Lisa and Skupin vs. Penner. They are evenly matched, with each pair pinning each other down. Penner's hand goes through between Skupin's leg, with Jeff describing it as "Very intimate way to play this game but totally legal."

The pairs are locked in for a full hour. Until Skupin hatches a plan which is to make a deal - to trade the sandwiches and reward for the rest of Tandang's supply of rice. Jonathan is agreeable with the deal and he assures his tribe that he can catch fish with their boat and spear. Probst tells them that if they got "alternate plan for this, and everybody agrees to it, I'm open, otherwise this will go as planned."

Artis, the birthday boy was asked to weigh in. He disagrees but wouldn't want to share his thoughts about the deal. Abi, tells them to decide whatever they want to do. Carter reluctantly agrees. So, the reward goes to Kalabaw in exchange for all their rice going to Tandang camp. Probst describes what has transpired as "unprecedented."

Day 11


Immunity Found at Last

At the Matsing camp, Malcolm wakes up, irritated with flies or mosquitoes, all-over his face and wishes for the rain to stop. He says that he is at his lowest low at that point of the game. Both him and Denise believe that their only chance is to move forward is to be with another tribe. Denise reads the tree mail, telling them about the reward challenge ahead. The two remaining tribe members  instinctively scour their camp to look for the immunity idol that Russell obviously failed to find. Malcolm knew that it's their last chance to look for it because they might not go back to the camp. Both of them go over the jar that contains the rice. While  Denise is holding the lid of the jar, Malcolm grabs the machete knife and takes off the emblem from the cover. Malcolm successfully finds the idol and rejoices with Denise. He is so happy enough for him to giggle like a school girl. While Denise admits that she would've want it for herself especially when they split up to different tribes.

Matsing Decimated

Jeff Probst welcomes the three tribes at the site of the reward challenge and presents the last remaining members of Matsing tribe. Probst asks Lisa what she thinks about Malcolm and Denise, to which she replies, "It could be a decimated tribe or two individuals who prevailed." But before they go on with the challenge, Probst asks Malcolm and Denise to drop their buffs, to which the former willingly did so after spitting on his buff. Malcolm ends up with Tandang and Denise goes to Kalabaw.

For the reward challenge, it's a one on one, a square off where all a tribe member have to do is to knock his opponent's idol off first. They are fighting for coffee, tea, muffins and chocolate cookies!

For round one, it's Jeff  Kent vs. Malcolm. Kent wins for Kalabaw. Artis wins for Tandang against Dana. Lisa wins against Katie for Kalabaw. Skupin scores for Tandang agaisnt Penner. Denise scores for Kalabaw against RC. Pete gives Tandang a 3-3 tie against Carter. Abi wins for Tandang against Dawson who even went for her hair. "Play like a man, not like a bitch," Abi says.  And in the end, Tandang wins the reward with Malcolm scoring against Jeff Kent. Malcolm says that he is so happy to be with a new tribe and winning the reward for them. Denise, while on a losing tribe again, says that she feels an awesome vibe about her new home. Jonathan however prefers to have Malcolm on their team.