Jeff then told the rest of the tribe that he had nothing for them and told them to head back to camp. Ken was unable to convince Sugar to change her alliances, but Ken did make sure that Sugar took the idol back from Ace.
Ultimately, Dan was voted out. 0 shares. Before the votes were tallied, Sugar gave the Hidden Immunity Idol to Matty who then presented it to Jeff. The remaining members of Fang, Crystal, GC, and Ken formed their own alliance. Ken felt that Bob reneged on his deal to hand over the immunity necklace at the last Tribal Council. The day after Tribal Council, Matty and Ace made a pact to take each other to the tribal merger as long as Ace could keep Sugar in the game and Matty could keep Ken in the game. The four discussed bringing in Bob to have a majority, though Bob would be kept out of the core alliance of four.
This development proved crucial for the minority Fang alliance, who successfully convinced Kota alliance member Susie that she was on the bottom of her alliance, resulting in the elimination of Kota alliance leader Marcus. Kota ranked Marcus as most important in their tribe followed by Ace, Bob, Charlie, Jacquie, Corinne, Sugar, and Kelly. However, camp life caused her to appear as negative, resulting her in elimination at the season's first Tribal Council. Although Crystal, Kelly, Ken, and Matty believed that the upcoming Tribal Council was the ideal time to blindside Sugar, they decided instead to grant GC’s wish to leave and he was voted out. She joined the tribe that lost the next Immunity Challenge, Fang.During the initial challenge, the first castaway from each tribe to complete it would win individual immunity at their first Tribal Council, while the first tribe to complete the challenge would win reward.There was no Reward Challenge due to a tribal switch.Sugar was exiled after not being chosen for a tribe, and joined the tribe that lost the next immunity challenge.Marcus won the individual immunity challenge, and chose Sugar to receive immunity as well.There was no reward challenge due to the tribal merge.As part of a special event in which all castaways got to see their respective loved ones, nobody was sent to Exile Island.The first Tribal Council vote resulted in a tie.
Before Tribal Council, GC told Matty that he was ready to leave the game. Matty swore on his girlfriend and Ace swore on his mother's life. See? Corinne told the story to Ken, which he believed and he suggested that Bob and Corinne approach Crystal with their plan. To get revenge for forcing him to share the note about the second Hidden Immunity Idol at the feast, Ken decided to blindside Charlie by fabricating a story that Charlie was the brains behind the Kota alliance. The long hours and stressful environment left him feeling depressed and unfulfilled, so he made a change in his early 30s.
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At the new Fang, Corinne felt that the greatest threat to her alliance with Marcus was Matty and she wanted to vote him out next. At the final Tribal Council, Charlie asked Sugar and Susie why they felt they should be voted at the "top of the totem pole" even though they were ranked the second lowest and lowest, respectively, among their tribes before the first tribal switch. The castaways returned to the old Fang campsite, found that they had received new food supplies, and named themselves Nobag ("Gabon" backwards). It became evident that Gillian's tribe, Fang, was weaker, losing many of the reward and immunity challenges even after a tribal switch, but a core alliance between Matty, Ken, and Crystal developed. These two took showmance to the next level. When the castaways opened the locked box, they were instructed to each draw a numbered stone from a bag. At Tribal Council, Crystal confronted Randy over why he disliked her so much. When nobody showed much interest in going to find the idol for fear of looking greedy, Marcus proposed to dig up the Hidden Immunity Idol, but to throw it in the ocean so that nobody could use it. At the feast, a clue for a second Hidden Immunity Idol was tucked under a locked box that the castaways would open after the feast was over. At the Reward Challenge, Ace chose Paloma to hang onto the post. At Fang's Tribal Council, Ken's plan to blindside Ace came to fruition as Sugar cast the deciding vote against Ace and he was voted out. Kota selected Dan to go to Exile Island, where he chose to get a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol, but he was not able to decode the clue to find it. Crystal asked no question of Susie, asked Bob to tell her something that Sugar didn't tell him to do, and asked Sugar why she voted her out. While Bob was watching the video clip from his wife, she paused and said that there was "something I wanted to show you" and moved off-camera. Corinne asked Susie if she would be willing to have her Sugar was sent to Exile Island after not being chosen during the first tribe swap. The eighteen days that Kelly Czarnecki, a 22-year-old retail salesperson from Buffalo Grove, IL, spent in Gabon were hardly the stuff that dreams are made of. Bob told the story to Crystal and showed her the second fake idol. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see my list flip entirely.Hand-crafted reality TV news and recommendations sent most Fridays. Meanwhile, at Kota, Paloma's poor effort at the challenge caused her to be seen as the weakest link in the tribe.
Corinne talked to Bob about joining her alliance of four, though she kept him in the dark about his status in the endgame. Bob won three consecutive immunity challenges, forcing the Fang alliance to turn on themselves and resulting in the eliminations of Crystal and Ken due to their strong strategic prowess.
After the vote, Jeff announced that Fang would be taking their torches back to camp and gave them a flint. Get push notifications with news, features and more. Because "today is all about love" according to Jeff, nobody was sent to Exile Island.