I decided to do both episodes in one entry because the episodes flowed into each other.

We start with a brief and I mean brief segment of Rick on Extinction saying that he sees Extinction as a test of his will. On to the reward challenge.

Reward

This challenge begins with the tribes collecting balls on a string to throw on to a rack. The reward this time is PB and J sandwiches. The tribes go through the rope ramble according to Jeff. Then, they lift someone to untie a set of balls. Lesu struggles as usual resulting in the quote that describes how Lesu feels after these two episodes, “dammit Wardog”. Kama win followed by Manu. Kelley gives a questionable confessional calling David as weak as a girl. It didn’t work for Nadiya, it’s not gonna work for you.

Kama

Julia gets her first confessional! She talks about targeting Joe. Ron is on board by in a confessional notes how pathetic Kama is at camp life without Joe. We get a Kama fail montage that was really funny.

Manu

PB AND J POWERS ACTIVATE! The chickens roam free around camp to the point that one walks in on Aubry’s confessional. You know she was thinking about Mark at that point. Aubry is tired of being comfortable and want them to stop drinking the Kama cult kool-aid. Aubry gets her wish as Victoria sets up a fake girls alliance plan with her and Wendy. I think that Victoria is the standout of the season so far and I see her making a real impact of the game.

Lesu

David knows his ass is on the line so he goes to look for the idol. David needs this since he has a two bedroom apartment and a shelf of dvds. Wardog is seeing Lauren deteriorate so he suggests Lauren to Kelley. This is kinda dumb because Lauren and Kelley are so close but desperate times call for desperate majors.

Extinction

Chris finds a box mail and brings it to camp where each player gets a map to an advantage. Rick quickly figures out that folding the map points to the spot. Reem strong arms them into going together but Keith dashes. Eventually, the rest catch up and Chris shoves Keith to get the advantage that allows him to practice for the buyback challenge. It was satisfying to see Keith get shoved since his attitude is grating. I respect his decision but he does not have the charm to back it up. Rick goes to the other spot on the map and gets the power to give extra vote to someone on the losing tribe. Who is that losing tribe?

Immunity

Tribes dive for puzzle pieces then pull their boat to a platform to build a four piece pyramid. The shock of the century happens as Lesu comes from dead last to overtake Manu and get second. Kama wins and Manu is sent to tribal.

Manu

We get back and there is two options: the easy vote in Wendy or the three Kama new player take out Aubry. Victoria and Aubry weigh out the pros and cons of the fake plan to get out Eric. They talk to Wendy who doesn’t immediately accept their deal to be an alliance. Wendy is an awful player. You’re on the bottom in a 4 to 1 scenario, take the deal!. Aubry looks in her bag and Rick gave the extra vote to her. The vote is good to final 7 and through ties. I was thinking that Aubry uses it with Wendy and we get a tie tonight. Aubry talks about maybe she is overplaying and should trust people. OOF

Tribal

The main conversation is how do you find the black cat to your witch. Well, it looks like Victoria put a spell on Aubry because she is voted out 4-1 with an idol and extra vote in her pocket.

Aubry got blindsided! She got too comfortable against her better judgement and should have known better. Aubry makes the easy decision to go to Extinction. The winner is Victoria for pulling that off so well and the loser is no one on that tribe but the returnees in general since there is a precedent that they can be voted out.

Episode 6

Another brief opening with Aubry at Extinction and then the reward challenge

Reward

The tribes have to collect sandbag to throw at targets. No, this is not the same challenge from the first half. The reward is coffee. This challenge is the Wardog sucks challenge because he fails so hard at throwing the bags. Jeff even shades him by saying you can tell who has never thrown a baseball and it flashes to Wardog’s Mets tattoo. Joe does it for FFGCSDT and wins followed by Manu. Yet again, Kelley is salty since Joe is carrying Kama.

Kama

At the Kama Resort and Spa, Joe realizes that he has no one on his side and breaks down. This is the most emotional we have ever seen from Joe. To try to convince his tribe to keep him, he talks to Julia about her being a threat. This is a good tactic since threats will want to stick together. I was with him till he said, “And I will win all the immunities”. That’s a red flag in my mind because if I was a threat, I would want to win immunity to not be the Joe back up target.

Lesu

Everything sucks and Wardog still wants Lauren out. Kelley is getting fed up with Wardog barking orders at them for vote when he sucks in challenges and does nothing around camp.

Extinction

They get another map, this time with holes in it. Rick figures the holes line up to the sail but he is wrong. Reem figures out that the holes are the rocks on the shore and points out the advantage to Keith. He promptly gets it. The advantage is to give another competitor a disadvantage in the comeback challenge. Keith is using it on Chris. Chris makes a joke that Reem practically gave it to Keith and Reem acts like he threatened her life. Reem is going nuts out there and it’s getting on my nerves. Aubry is sitting there awkwardly while this fight happens and wonders who are these crazy people.

Immunity

The twist is that only first place is safe and the two losers go to tribal together aka the Malcolm got screwed twist from Game Changers. Why is Game Changers influencing so many season when the whole fanbase hated the season. I hate this twist and would much prefer two tribal councils. The tribes need to use a Monkey’s fist to pull down puzzle pieces for a slide puzzle. Wardog does awful from taking long on the monkey fist to letting go of the rope when it hooks. It was awkward but accomplished. Kama wins sending Manu and Lesu to a combined tribal.

Manu

Everyone is sticking together as a four. Wendy is clearly not apart of the Lesu group anymore. Rawks are discussed. Gavin is willing, Wendy is willing, Eric is on the fence and Victoria is not willing. I would not be willing to go to rocks because I don’t trust RNGesus to go in my favor.

Lesu

They talk about targeting Victoria but Wardog overrides the plan and switchs it to Wendy. Wendy is the logical move but Wardog did not approach it correctly. He put himself in a position that Lauren will not go to rock for him. Kelley finds an idol and they head to the double tribal.

Tribal 2

Both group talk about how they are gonna stick together. David whispers to Wendy and it’s time to vote. It’s a tie between Lauren and Wendy. Before I move to the revote, can we talk about the spellings of Lauren. I saw Luaren and Lorine. Every begins the whisper and Eric tell David and Wardog he will work with them to avoid rock. Eventually the vote becomes 7-1 against Big Wendy.

Wendy is a great pre merge character and her exit was so adorable with Jeff calling her Big Wendy and giving her a hug. Wendy is an all time bad player and A Tier character. At least we will see her on Extinction since she took the torch without reading the left side of the sign. No one was hurt by her leaving since she is not with Lesu or Kama.

The purple player of the whole double episode was Aurora. Poor girl, in an episode where Julia gets two confessionals Aurora is still invisible.

Next time: Merge and Extinction players fight for a spot back in the game.

Grab your stuff and head back to camp!