week 11

The tribe has spoken and Brandon is asked to leave the pool immediately.

With Tribal Council looming, the obvious person to go is Dave, after Shambo made a firm decision to vote him out.  “You don’t think she’ll flip, do you?” Mick asks Russell.  “I know she ain’t flippin’,” Russell replies.  John approaches Russell with a suggestion: vote off Mick to fulfill Russell’s promise of voting off one of the Foa Foa members next.  John offers Russell protection by keeping an ear out for any possible blindsides.  “If we do find ourselves outgunned, we can see it coming, we can play the idol and then we’re done,” John suggests.  Russell tries to play off that he does not have the idol, but John is soon able to break him.  “You have it,” says John.  Russell finally admits that he does, in fact, have the idol.  “It was my mistake, but sorry John, you gotta go home for it,” Russell decides. 

Russell begins gunning to vote out John, starting with Dave.  “Is Monica close to John?  Can you tell her without her going to John and saying anything?” Russell asks.  Dave assures Russell that after John turned on his original tribemates by voting for Laura, it was only a matter of time before he got voted out.  With Dave and Monica on board, Russell brings Mick in the loop.  Jaison, however, feels uncomfortable with turning on Shambo, and suggests sticking with their original plan of voting off Dave.
At Tribal Council, Shambo expresses shock when Russell reveals that his entire day was purely strategic.  Jeff Probst calls her out for being naïve to the fact that people are constantly scrambling to stay in the game.  Shambo expresses the utmost confidence that the person she is voting out will in fact be going home.  Ultimately, Shambo is shocked when everyone but herself voted for John instead.  With seven out of the nine votes cast against him, John Fincher, the 25 year-old rocket scientist from Los Angeles, California, became the tenth person voted out and the fourth member of the jury of SURVIVOR: SAMOA.

Next episode:   Two Tribal Councils...Two people going home...With two chances at Immunity...With only 3 episodes to go...Master manipulator Russell pulls the boldest move ever at a Tribal Council.

Mark your calendars - Survivor Samoa Finale is scheduled for Sunday, December 20th.

Quote from this week:

John: I’m confident that nobody is going to vote me off because I didn’t give them a piece of apple pie.”

Aiga				Voted Out Before the Merge:
Brett	~	Cara		Erik	~	Pat
Dave	~	Karen R.		Russell S.	~	Sandy
Jaison	~	Dick		Yasmin	~	Christi
John	~	Brandon		Marisa	~	Brendan
Kelly	~	Karen D.		Elizabeth	~	Cheryl
Laura	~	Linda		Ashley	~	Warren
Mick	~	Maureen		Ben	~	Eric
Monica	~	Tonya		Betsy	~	Nick
Natalie	~	Lauren		Mike	~	Kim
Russell H.	~	Colin
Shannon	~	Erin