Survivor Vanuatu - Episode Guide
As Episode 7 opens, we see the Lopevi tribe all working together, pulling their weight, except that is for John K who sits around all day, naps and eats a lot. "He's the type of person who just coasts through the game," notes Chris.
Over at Yasur, Rory greets the morning with a prayer, being thankful that he was not voted off the previous night. His new objective is to get close to Leann and Ami and try to form an alliance.
Ami, however, is very open that they intend to keep the remaining women's alliance intact, even if that means keeping Eliza over Rory. This amazes Rory who resents being played by the women. After his ensuing argument with Ami, Rory decides to institute a "slash, burn and salt the earth policy. If I get voted off this island, the Yasur tribe will burn."
The tribes gather for their next Reward Challenge. This challenge is a race to carry coconut juice from the starting line through a series of obstacles and finally into a glass jar. One tribe member at a time must open a coconut, then race with the juice carried in a shell through a wood crawl, seesaw, wood hurdles and a grid box to pour the juice into the jar. Once the jar is filled, the last member must carry the jar back to their team. The first tribe to deliver their full jar would win the Reward - a visit to the Vanuatu Home Café where they can enjoy coffee, juices, croissants and some love from back home. The winning tribe would also receive a coffee maker and some coffee back to camp.
No one explains how it is supposed to be powered.
This challenge seems to take forever. Interestingly, realizing she could never make it through the course, Scout, cracks open her coconut and deliberately spills all of the juice on the ground so that the next tribe member can begin immediately. Yasur fills their jar just ahead of Lopevi and Leann manages to bring the full jar back to the starting line despite an almost disastrous fall. Yasur finally has won another Reward.
As Lopevi is sent home, the Yasur tribe gets to visit the Home Cafe Vanuatu where they all first notice a bulletin board full of pictures of the tribe members, their families, friends and pets from back home. It was a chance to the whole tribe to bond. They also each receive a letter from back home. Ami, whose real job is a coffee barrista assumes that role in the cafe and serves brew to her fellow tribesmen. All shares tears of joy and sad remembrances. Ami gets a photo of her little brother who was killed in a car accident seven years previously. Even Rory joins the others with a tear. At last, the new Lopevi tribe seems united and eager to face the challenge ahead.
Over at Lopevi, the two women, Twila and Julie realize that they are the odd members out since the four men appear to be pretty solid. Sarge had offered Twila safety in his alliance. Sensing this would leave her as the only target, Julie claims the same thing, hoping it will keep Twila and her united. Her strategy appears to work.
Tree mail arrives and each team is given a slingshot and marbles to practice with for the upcoming Immunity Challenge. Sarge tries to teach the men how to shoot. There is no doubt in Sarge's mind that the men of Lopevi will prevail in this challenge.
As the tribes gather for the Challenge, Jeff explains that the Challenge involves each tribe member utilizing the slingshot to shoot at tiles hung at a distance. Each tile represents one of 20 squares on the ground that forms 5 lanes to the finish map. As a tile is broken, the corresponding square is turned over. Once a row is cleared, that player moves to the finish mat. The first team to break all 20 tiles and move their team to the finish mat wins immunity.
To everyone's surprise this is a challenge made for Rory who demonstrates an uncanny ability to shoot the slingshot with precision. Yasur takes a lead that they never relinquish and wins immunity and another three days of safety for Rory, who is quickly becoming a viewer favorite.
Back at the Yasur camp, all are happy, but Ami is upset that their win may mean that Julie or Twila go home. Meanwhile, following their earlier argument, Rory has targeted Ami as the one he wants to get off next.
Lopevi returns to camp and must decide on whom to vote off the island. After this eviction each tribe will be left with five members. Yasur has four women and one man, so the women of Lopevi feel sure that the men of Lopevi will vote one of them off the island to even the number of men and women at five each. John, worried, that he may be the target appears to make an alliance with Chris and Twila to vote off Chad, the teacher who has a prosthetic leg and who John fears may ultimately get many sympathy votes should he make it to the end.
At Tribal Counsel when the votes are tallied it is John who is voted out of the game by a vote of five to one. Interestingly, this now leaves the island with six women and four men, which could spell trouble if the tribes merge soon.
Over at Yasur, Rory greets the morning with a prayer, being thankful that he was not voted off the previous night. His new objective is to get close to Leann and Ami and try to form an alliance.
Ami, however, is very open that they intend to keep the remaining women's alliance intact, even if that means keeping Eliza over Rory. This amazes Rory who resents being played by the women. After his ensuing argument with Ami, Rory decides to institute a "slash, burn and salt the earth policy. If I get voted off this island, the Yasur tribe will burn."
The tribes gather for their next Reward Challenge. This challenge is a race to carry coconut juice from the starting line through a series of obstacles and finally into a glass jar. One tribe member at a time must open a coconut, then race with the juice carried in a shell through a wood crawl, seesaw, wood hurdles and a grid box to pour the juice into the jar. Once the jar is filled, the last member must carry the jar back to their team. The first tribe to deliver their full jar would win the Reward - a visit to the Vanuatu Home Café where they can enjoy coffee, juices, croissants and some love from back home. The winning tribe would also receive a coffee maker and some coffee back to camp.
No one explains how it is supposed to be powered.
This challenge seems to take forever. Interestingly, realizing she could never make it through the course, Scout, cracks open her coconut and deliberately spills all of the juice on the ground so that the next tribe member can begin immediately. Yasur fills their jar just ahead of Lopevi and Leann manages to bring the full jar back to the starting line despite an almost disastrous fall. Yasur finally has won another Reward.
As Lopevi is sent home, the Yasur tribe gets to visit the Home Cafe Vanuatu where they all first notice a bulletin board full of pictures of the tribe members, their families, friends and pets from back home. It was a chance to the whole tribe to bond. They also each receive a letter from back home. Ami, whose real job is a coffee barrista assumes that role in the cafe and serves brew to her fellow tribesmen. All shares tears of joy and sad remembrances. Ami gets a photo of her little brother who was killed in a car accident seven years previously. Even Rory joins the others with a tear. At last, the new Lopevi tribe seems united and eager to face the challenge ahead.
Over at Lopevi, the two women, Twila and Julie realize that they are the odd members out since the four men appear to be pretty solid. Sarge had offered Twila safety in his alliance. Sensing this would leave her as the only target, Julie claims the same thing, hoping it will keep Twila and her united. Her strategy appears to work.
Tree mail arrives and each team is given a slingshot and marbles to practice with for the upcoming Immunity Challenge. Sarge tries to teach the men how to shoot. There is no doubt in Sarge's mind that the men of Lopevi will prevail in this challenge.
As the tribes gather for the Challenge, Jeff explains that the Challenge involves each tribe member utilizing the slingshot to shoot at tiles hung at a distance. Each tile represents one of 20 squares on the ground that forms 5 lanes to the finish map. As a tile is broken, the corresponding square is turned over. Once a row is cleared, that player moves to the finish mat. The first team to break all 20 tiles and move their team to the finish mat wins immunity.
To everyone's surprise this is a challenge made for Rory who demonstrates an uncanny ability to shoot the slingshot with precision. Yasur takes a lead that they never relinquish and wins immunity and another three days of safety for Rory, who is quickly becoming a viewer favorite.
Back at the Yasur camp, all are happy, but Ami is upset that their win may mean that Julie or Twila go home. Meanwhile, following their earlier argument, Rory has targeted Ami as the one he wants to get off next.
Lopevi returns to camp and must decide on whom to vote off the island. After this eviction each tribe will be left with five members. Yasur has four women and one man, so the women of Lopevi feel sure that the men of Lopevi will vote one of them off the island to even the number of men and women at five each. John, worried, that he may be the target appears to make an alliance with Chris and Twila to vote off Chad, the teacher who has a prosthetic leg and who John fears may ultimately get many sympathy votes should he make it to the end.
At Tribal Counsel when the votes are tallied it is John who is voted out of the game by a vote of five to one. Interestingly, this now leaves the island with six women and four men, which could spell trouble if the tribes merge soon.
