You mean the Fans strategy? The Faves voted out Yau Man, one of the physically weaker members of their tribe, but a smart cookie.

Oops. You are correct. I obviously have not had enough coffee.

No, the romances don't get split up - I mean the couples don't split, they are separated from each other, 2 and 2. (BTW I hear Amanda & Oz are still together, that's nice.)

New Arai - Alexis, Eliza, James, Jason, Jonathan, Kathy, Natalie, Parvati

New Malakal - Amanda, Ami, Chet, Cerie, Erik, Joel, Ozzy, Tracy

Reward Challenge - Build it Up, Tear it Down. Intense reward challenge leaves Jonathan and possibly others (Parvati, Chet) seriously injured, but don't count him out.

Immunity Challenge - Cat & Mouse

No word yet on exile or boot.

Oh and Amanda catches a shark.

How did she not win last time?!

Don't ask me, I thought she should have.

New Malakal throws the challenge and boots Joel.

NICE. Joel might look like just a big strong guy, but he's a bigger manipulator than Johnny Fairplay ever was.

OK, updating for tonight.

Tribe swap appears to occur via pick-a-rock, separate bags to pick from by gender.

Reward Challenge is Cat & Mouse. Survivors are randomly put on same sex pairs attached by a rope. 2 teams on the field at a time and they try to steal each other's flags. Looks like James & Jason, Eliza & Parvati, Joel & Chet, Ozzy & Erik. Quite a rough game, some people (Chet) get dragged all over. Reward is a grill & steaks.

IC - throwing stone objects. Build It Up looks like it's being held for next week?

Future episodes:

Looks like Jonathan's leg gets infected and he gets med-evaced out next week. Chet may be the boot next week.

The following week looks like Kathy's week to go nuts & try to cut off her fingers, another med-evac.

Tracy goes out pretty soon.
Eliza is the first juror.
James makes the jury.
Natalie goes far - at least as far as the family reward.

Joel was a smart boot for the winners; not so much for winning challenges. But he was a goon. Cerie seems to be running things for now. Jonathan's leg looked pretty bad. (Does anyone else think he sounds like Hawkeye Pierce from MASH?)

Yes, I do think Jonathan sounds like Hawkeye!

I was glad to see Joel go - strong as he is, he and Chet could have caught the flag if he hadn't just kept dragging him and instead had worked together. And he may well have lost the other challenge for them too, with his interference. Good riddance!

Missed the show last night. How did Jonathan hurt his leg?

Stuck it with a stick during a brutal shallenge.

I'm not sure Cirie is "running things", but she's being active, AND SMART. She knew if they booted weaker first, she was the target.

I can't stand her. I wish she was voted off.

the way joel drug chet around was soooo crazy!!...poor guy, kinda felt sorry for him, and the conversation that they had was priceless!! ..."I hit my head back there" "I dont care" "I know"...what a classic!! ...hehe and Amanda catching that shark!! wow...what a girl, she should win it all!!

I thought the shark was already dead, being caught in the net and not being able to breathe. No way she actually killed the shark, they don't die easy (unless they get caught in a net and can't swim).

The girl put out the net, caught the shark, and brought it home dead. Oh, and sharks do die really easily. Pull one out of the water in a net and let it sit on the shore for a while, and it will die.

I thought it was still moving when they were holding it up. It was just a sand shark though wasn't it?

So she pulled a live shark out of the water by the tail. Not buyin' it.

Not that hard to pull a live shark out of the water by a net, and then carry it by the tail once it is out of the water for a while.

Have you ever been fishing?

She brought back a shark which they grilled and had for dinner. Sounds good to me, especially since the team that won the reward almost had it washed away due to poor campfire location.

It's hard to believe that people who are supposed to be such great fans of the show don't have enough smarts to position the camp better.

Or, who've been on an island more than, oh 3 days, haven't figured out when the tide is coming in......

Spoken like a true veteran of the Jersey Shore. I always have to laugh at the people who plop themselves down below the obvious water line and then get upset when the tide comes in.

My whole life. I could do it. I just don't think amanda could.

How many days did they have their fire washed away before the favs merged with them and came over and said, duh, we should move the camp, this is bad?