LAST EDITED ON 10-23-15 AT 02:49 PM (EST)

A HUGE THANKS to SHELDOR!!!

episode      | I | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |total
Abi-Maria T/A| 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 15
Spencer T/B  | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15
Andrew B/A   | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | . | 11
Tasha B/A    | 1$| 1 | . | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11
Kelley T/T   | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10
Jeremy B/B   | 1$| 1 | 1 | 3 | 2$| 2 | 10
Terry T/B    | . | 1 | 2 | 2 | . | 1 | 6
Stephen B/B  | . | 2 | 1 | 2 | . | 1 | 6
Woo T/A      | . | 1 | 1 | . | 2 | 2 | 6
Kass B/T     | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | 2 | . | 5
Joe B/T      | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 5
Monica B/B   | . | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5X
Kimmi B/B    | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | 2 | 4
Ciera B/T    | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | 3
Kelly T/B    | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | 3
Keith B/T    | . | 2 | . | . | . | 1 | 3

Eliminated
Vytas     | 0 | 2 | 2X
Shirin    | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6X
Pei-Gee   | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6X
Jeff      | 1 | 2 | 5$| 3 | 2 | 13X
Monica    | . | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5X

This week the star of the show was Spencer, with the most confessionals. He is the one of the chosen to exemplify the second chance theme. We saw that when he was in old Takeo that he schemed and almost was booted. So with his "second chance" in the second chance season, in the nuBayon tribe, he's employing a different strategy, and that's what all his confessionals were about. Regardless of him being on losing tribes and always seemingly at risk, he manages to escape the boot. Reminds me a little bit of Eliza. Spencer does appear to be one of the stars of this season. To me, the content of his confessionals almost makes it like he is the "journey" player this season. Will Spencer's big take away from the game be maturation and coming of age, rather than the million $? Spencer's confessionals are more than just narrational.

Abi-Maria and Tasha, both with 2 confessionals are also strong players this season. Or, at least important to the story. But, Abi is clearly our villain, and one of Tasha's confessionals were about Abi management, while the other was meatier, telling us about her game playing. I found it fun, now that we know that there is a merge next episode, to hear the foreshadowing with Tasha and Abi. Tasha: In a merge situation she's going to be twice as hard to maneuver. She's a ticking time bomb...

Abi is a strong character this season because she is a black hole that wrecks havoc on everything and everyone, yet, she's still here. She will be a big character for as long as someone is willing to step up and manage her. Tasha has seemingly done most of the work at Angkor and she and Andrew have swung it around. Will Tasha fly under the radar again if she gets on a tribe without Abi? We'll see.

Woo also got 2 confessionals this episode and I felt like it was a hero nod, a sort of redemption edit. He's shown as being grateful to have the second chance to help his tribe, he was shown winning both the RC and the IC for his tribe, I thought, so clearly, the decision to keep him was a wise one. Then, we get his inspiration confessionals. His mom got her second chance and he's going to use that as his inspiration along with all of those that got him here. Woo had a highlight episode. But, Abi is clearly still at odds with Woo. Will Woo write her name down one more time and then get axed? In other words, were the last two episodes the peak of Woo's arc?

The other stars of this episode are at camp nuBayon. Jeremy was chosen as a central figure that they all went to, (Kimmie went to him, as did Stephen, Monica, and Spencer). He strikes me as an "integral" part of this tribe. Jeremy gave narrational confessionals, "who does he trust more?", and then, "what is Monica doing? Why would Monica go do this and that?"

Kimmi got 2 confessionals and she was the one that chose the boot and convinced the others. Kimmi's confessionals were about how annoying Monica was, and then how Monica wants a girls alliance, she's a flipper...Kimmi turned the boot into eliminating one of their own. Will this have major consequences later?

Monica had 2 confessionals as the boot target. At first she was narrational, but her confessional turned into "we could be here another 27 days, and if we just keep eating everything in the water then there won't be a lot left. Not living day to day as she did last time, now she's looking more at the end of the game". This to me was a dead giveaway that she was this episodes boot.

Terry, Kelley, Stephen, Joe all got 1 confessional. Terry is at club Tropical camping trip, loving life, as blind as ever to the people he is surrounded by, while Kelly is still continuing to kick him under the bus, and joining up with everyone but Terry. Joe, who thinks he's playing differently this time, wants to join up with numbers. I wonder if Joe is on crack? If he doesn't have Terry with him, he is the ONLY shield out there. They all tell him, "no, we won't vote you off", and he falls for it. And, what's more, he thinks he's playing a lot better game so far, where I see him as playing the same game. So, Joe's confessional doesn't give me confidence. Here's how I see this: Terry and Joe's stock goes down, Kelley's goes up. Stephen's confessional was strictly narrational.

All others under the radar:
Savage: Had the pinnacle of his edit last episode with the hero challenge, will it be the pinnacle of his game as well?
Kass: Seen but not heard, except she did say, and "be nice to Terry", so shown being sensitive to others, which is different than she played last time.
Ciera: seen but not heard from. She seemed to be the leader of the strategizing, so interesting that we don't get any confessionals from her. This makes me lean toward her NOT being successful. We see others listening to her, but we don't get to hear it from her.
Kelly: For one on the bottom of the totem pole and we heard NOTHING from her...?

AT risk players: Those that MAY have already had the pinnacle of their edit play out: Woo, Andrew, Terry?, Kass?, Stephen?

Players that appear to NOT be significant to the story of the season: Keith*, Kelly, Ciera, Kimmi*

*Kimmi and Keith get confessionals when they have been under the radar, if they go back down, that's a good thing, but if they continue to have confessionals, their arcs could be on their way.