You know the drill. All commentary regarding the show tonight stays in this thread until the show has aired in its entirety on the left coast. And, don't forget to have PHUN!!

• In Danger,michel2, 08:08 PM, 05-14-25
• Shauhin wins reward,Flowerpower1, 08:23 PM, 05-14-25
• Win or Not?,michel2, 08:24 PM, 05-14-25
  • RE: Win or Not?,Flowerpower1, 08:38 PM, 05-14-25
• Post reward,Flowerpower1, 08:37 PM, 05-14-25
• Boomerang,michel2, 08:38 PM, 05-14-25
• Post reward,Flowerpower1, 08:47 PM, 05-14-25
• I like Kyle!,michel2, 08:49 PM, 05-14-25
• Hmmmmm....,Flowerpower1, 09:00 PM, 05-14-25
• Post challenge,Flowerpower1, 09:14 PM, 05-14-25
• Now That Was NEW!,michel2, 09:28 PM, 05-14-25
• Votes Shauhin 4 - 2,michel2, 09:29 PM, 05-14-25
• Will the plan work?,Flowerpower1, 09:29 PM, 05-14-25
  • RE: Will the plan work?,michel2, 09:35 PM, 05-14-25
    • Yes....,Flowerpower1, 09:42 PM, 05-14-25
      • Well...,michel2, 09:51 PM, 05-14-25
• Rectification,michel2, 09:31 PM, 05-14-25
• NTOS,Flowerpower1, 09:36 PM, 05-14-25
• Bumping to get over spam,michel2, 08:56 PM, 09-02-25

To me, it seems Eva and Shauhin had dangerously foreshadowing confessionals. Both sounded too confident. OTOH, no peeps from Joe so: Safe?

Takes Joe, duh! One more to take...

Kyle. apologizes to the others, Eva, Mitch, Kamilla.

get letters and the sanctuary.

Confessional Shauhin: Finally I won something, knowing that food and letters were on the line I knew I had to win, food in belly, rejuvenating soul with sleep and then food for your soul...

I was always of the opinion that it's better NOT to win these nice rewards. Being taken is the way to go! Will this be the nail in the coffin for Shauhin?

sure is looking that way! I wonder how many times the winner of the family visit or letters is immediately voted out afterwards?

The guys are hooting and hollering. Shauhin: I haven't eaten in a week, could have given me cardboard with salt on it and I would have been happy. I was looking so forward to reading the letter from my mom. this is what I have been fighting for.

since you have been born, you have achieved so much...

Joe: from JJ. my son writes in the letter, best dad ever. they are crying. I believe in you I want to give you a hug...bravest dad ever...shauhin hugs him...then he said, believe in yourself dad, and he's ten. It is hard to believe in yourself out here, then your 10 year old son says that

Kyle. Kyles dad...says something very poignant, and Kyle says he has never heard his dad say any thing remotely like that in his entire life.

my dad is my best friend. both of Joe and shauhin have lost their dads.
Joe says he couldn't protect his sister, passed to domestic violence. the night she died we fought that night and I never talked to her again. hard to explain that, we always say we love each other when we get off the phone but we didn't that night, never saw her again, living with that has been very difficult

back at camp day 21

see Eva go off. Mitch and Kamilla...Joes gonna get sleep. Mitch cannot believe Joe got to go. he's frustrated with how things are going. it's stupid, thanks for just giving away a million bucks.

kamilla. Mitch is super frustrated with shauhin for giving Joe food and fuel. this might have filled his fate, if Joe wins immunity then shauhin can go

Eva: it feels like the boys went off and left me with my parents. hope they think of me while they are there. meanwhile see kamilla and mitch sleeping in the shelter

Joe and shauhin talk, they say

Joe says tomorrow mitch, next day kamilla then...
tomorrow's vote is key says Joe to shauhin.

shauhin says he's trying to think out loud. no hesitation
shauhin : I have been incredibly patient in this game is it time to risk it all.

shauhin and Kyle talk, we are in the best position sitting in the middle. shauhin says is it go time? shauhin says there is no point in going after each other.

Kyle says that he's been spooked by shauhin ever since he went through my bag...shauhin is thinking out loud....take Joe out at fire? take the fireman out at fire? Only real play at 6 is getting rid of Eva.

Kyle says shauhin helps me out by saying hie's ready to get rid of Joe and Eva.

Kyle: I want to make a move but I don't want to play shayhin's way. the game of chicken is over and I have to beat him at the punch, and he's my punch line...got to take shauhin out.

Just like their confessionals suggested, it will come down to Eva or Shauhin, and I think Shauhin just booked his ticket to the jury.

LAST EDITED ON 05-14-25 AT 09:02 PM (EST)

Eva mitch and kamilla watch the sunrise, and the others come walking down the beach....how was it?

Kyle: the reward was great but couldn't sleep as he was thinking about everything
I need to talk to Camilla, no one knows we are working together.

Kyle tells her I think I have an idea of how to get us both to final four

what if I tell Joe, Shauhin's plan to take out Eva. He wants to make it look like it's Shauhin's plan to take them out, to pit Joe and Eva against shauhin... and he and kamilla will save them. Joe and Eva will be indebted to Kyle and kamilla

Kamilla will tell them that Shauhin told me he wants to make a move. Joe and eva will be indebted to us. Kyle is smart, I couldn't even have thought of that, this actually could work. they will tell Joe that shauhin has an idol too?

they talk about what they would say. to the jury. they will frame shauhin tonight

see Joe at the shelter. well I think it's time.
it's time, let's go do this

coming into this game my motivation is my sister, I applied for her, needed some closure for her, hopefully start some heeling. final six Joanna he says. the night before you passed, there were some things I never got to say to y ou, from the bottom omf my heart, he's crying, I am so sorry for the things I said. I know you didn't mean what you said either and I never got the chance to tell you I love you, so, I love you, and most of all I know I have one job as a brother and I need you to know that I am sorry that I couldn't protect you from that monster. I'm sorry. crying. I'm going to try and win, I love you and I miss you so much.

getting those letters gave me the courage to say that out loud and a chance to say goodbye, needed that closure.

Now that is a smart plan! Eliminate Shauhin but put the blood on Joe and Eva's hands. Now the problem will be to get the credit this move deserves.

....the plan to frame shauhin is going to come to fruition. They have been planning on framing him forever.

Day 23

challenge arena

biggest challenge of the season so far. final 6.

toss sand bag to release a rope, use for balance as you walk down a barrel on a course, move balanced balls through a winding course track. Winner will make F5 and make the S finale.

Go:

use the sand bag to knock down the rope, Joe and shauhin ion first...then Kyle

launch that ball and Joe is through that phase, then Mitch. Joe is on the barrel...then shauhin, then kyleshauhin is doing wellshauhin is first, then crawls under netting, then mitch falls and has to go back. Joe is next in second then Kyle

then shauhin is out of the net, unties his balls...now must work the snake track. Joe has his bag of balls

ball has to be balanced on the poles and must go around the obstacles...very difficult.

Kyle mitch shauhin and Joe on the sane track. kamilla is not even through the barrel

Joe is close to landing the first ball, and he does.

Joe is making early progress. Jiffy says there is a learning curve. a lot of early drops, will get better with every attempt you make. Joe is killing it

Eva has her first ball. Kyle has a ball in too. Joe is navigating, Eva on joes tail. Joe is making this look easy for fourth individual immunity win.

Eva hugs him. see the other losers. he says that's for you Joanna.

One shy of a very elite record.

kamilla: Joe completely smoked everyone in that challenge, I bet it was because it was that he was well fed and rested, so you might go home shauhin!

Day 23

Niu Niu

Another win. Kyle. first step to execute the plan is that Ineed to get to Joe. Joe and shauhin are tight. I needed Joe sort of in a tizzy, but regardless, got to roll up the sleeves and go to work. Kyle says don't freak out. Shauhin flipped.

got mitch and kamilla and then Joe and Eva. basically shauhin showed him an idol, kamilla said. Joe is confused. just so I know, is what he is trying to do at the ned of the day he's trying to knock off Eva or me.

he's leading this right now.
then Joe has to think of why are you telling me this? give me like 30 minutes ...is it true? maybe but it could be a complete lie.

Joe goes and tells Eva

kamilla tells Kyle that shauhin has an idol.

Eva: hearing that shauhin was flipping on us was a punch in the gut, but he's smart enough to know that if he is sitting next to us, he's not winning. Eva tells Joe that he gets a better vibe from Kyle than shauhin. I feel like I can trust Kyle says Eva

Joe goes and talks to kamilla. he showed me beads when he opened his bag. She corroborates what Kyle told them.

kamilla is having fun.

Joe tells kamilla that he's never showed me the idol once. he told us no one can sit at the end next to Joe.

if Joe goes back to shauhin, that kamilla told me you had an idol...it could all go bust.

Joe asks are there any other idols or advantages in play, and shauhin says no. we can all get mitch tonight, says shauhin to Joe. For me, yes, says shauhin.

Joe says right now it feels like there is chaos.

Joe says I even baited him. but his didn't go for it, he stuck with mitch, says Joe.

Shauhin says this should be the fun part of survivor...are we okay? Joe says yes, but shauhin says he's acting like he's bummed when you for sure have a spot in the F5. I felt like I was being put in time out, and I don't like being treated like a child

Shauhin complains to Eva and then to Kyle. Kyle tells shauhin, he's not going to vote eoyu out bro. it makes me want to go after Eva...then shauhin talks about taking out mitch.

Kyle says I hope we can pull off this plan to take out shauhin.
kamilla: tonights vote is crucial. I'd rather go out trying to make a massive move than just getting picked off.

everyone knows that Eva and Joe are a pair, but no one knows we are a pair working so hard.

Joe asks Eva is there any. way that shauhin is not scheming and it's Kyle and kamilla.
Joe says someone is being deceitful, is it Kyle kamilla or shauhin. at tc that is what I have to try and figure out.

I really, really liked the sound effect used as Joe was listening to the distorted voices of Kyle and Shauhin nd also the ghost voices supposedly in his head when he voted. It reflected how it is like playing the game and not knowing exactly who is telling you the truth.

The votes against Mitch were from Shauhin himself who got cold feet and probably Eva who guarded against an idol.

Or will it back fire?

Mitch did you find it to be more difficult than it was at 7? mitch. he laughs, this game has not played out how I wanted it to...hope and pray you don't go home.

Eva feels good about her relationships, thought that she would be taken advantage of ....by trusting them, they trust me
Kyle says there are less places to hide, more paranoia
kamilla. went back to the group that I have been with, I've been true to you, I haven't been chaotic, trying to build that trust
shauhin. the rhetoric you use before you come out is that I will cut throats etc, but when you get here you do not do that, you don';t think of the personal connections
Kyle. what talk about idols and advantages. there is talk about it, I'd be lying if I don't say I am a bit paranoid. see Joe listening.
so many emotions, comes back to trust. shauhin nods. he said he was nodding about the paranoia. if you weren't paranoid enough...see Joe listening to him.
Joe. did you experience any paranoia, if it';s difficult when you have a necklace. but you collect the what ifs, think logically then move forward.

voting.

see Kyle then kamilla, then Joe.

see Joe hesitating at the parchment..

no one plays an idol. see kamilla smile

votes:

shauhin
mitch
mitch
shawhin
Sha-heen
shauhin

see mitch take a deep breath

if not one of you gets up to hug me I'm gonna be issed. Kyle says love you bro.
damn. he sings his song on the way out.

I really didn't get this....if shauhin was ready to break up Joe and Eva, then Joe would have turned against him. Kyle and kamilla could use shauhin to take out Eva and then, Mitch, kamilla and Kyle could. have taken out shauhin/Joe...

where as now, shauhin, who they could have worked with is gone. I think mitch is more with kamilla than with Joe?

I think Kyle & Kamilla are counting on Mitch to eliminate Joe next time but that's dangerous considering Eva's expiring idol. It also makes me wonder why Kamilla voted against Mitch unless she wants to pin it on Joe.

Also, we heard Kamilla on the NTOS say she didn't want Kyle sitting next to her as he'd steal her thunder. Kamilla must hope that Eva and Mitch are in the F3 with her.

I agree they are planning to work with Mitch to get out Joe and Eva, but as you note, she has an advantage and an idol. it's going to be so hard, especially if Joe continues to win immunities.

Yes, and Kamilla knows that sitting next to Kyle will kill her chances.

Did Kamilla vote for Mitch for jury management? Remember that shauhin favored Kamilla too...she didn't vote for him to leave and that would carry favor with Shauhin from the jury?

Eva has the idol but the «Safety without Power» expired. It was good until F6.

While Kamilla's vote could be jury management, I think it's a decoy, as if Kyle didn't tell her the final plan. Or maybe she wants to pin it on Eva or Joe to make them look unaware.

I was actually Kamilla who put down the 2nd Mitch vote. Not sure of her motivation. I'd like to ask her.

Joe: This is it, it's electric
see them walking on the beach...Kyle, Joe, Eva, Mitch, Kamilla

Jiffy: next week on the season finale of Survivor

Jiffy at a challenge: give it everything you've got. see Kyle heading up a wall followed by mitch and kamilla.

kamilla to kyle: My best shot is if we don't sit next to each other
See mitch put his head in his hands. Hearts are going to be broken

Eva in conf: It's an epic showdown
See Mitch, Kamilla, Eva, Joe,kyle

Shauhin and Kamilla voted Mitch everyone else voted shauhin.