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Probst Sighting 2: The Probstening!

Like so many of the challenges these days, tonight's immunity challenge is competition of race and puzzle solving. Contestants must run out to the opposite end of a field wherein they retrieve triangular block...like...thingies that they will rotate to unravel a portion of the puzzle. There are eight pieces in total that must be retrieved before the contestants may begin to decode the puzzle. The physical portion of the challenge is effectively a draw. Timbira returns with their final piece only a moment before Jalapao returns with theirs. Then, a shock occurs when Timbira finally does something right and bungles (I may only assume it's not skill) into the correct answer, thereby ending their losing streak at four. Somehow from Jalapao is going home tonight.

It's time to play It's Anyone But Sandy...but let's be honest. It's going to be Sandy. I blame the far thing beans. Some lip service is given to the idea of voting off Sydney or Stephen. Who are they trying to kid? Heck, the guy they have saying he might vote off Stephen is JT, who is already the dude's BFF. That doesn't even pass the laugh test. Everyone knows it's Sandy.

Skipping to Tribal Council, Sandy discusses how fortunate she feels to have lasted 12 days when she, like Sierra, almost hadn't made it to camp the first day. As she tries to describe her assets, she finds little to talk about, causing her to have to attack instead. She criticizes Sydney for wearing short shorts as a way to distract the boys. Sydney grows overly defensive at this and Taj's face plainly displays the fact that she thinks the attractive woman is just a few singles away from gleefully mounting the stripper pole...and anything else she can get her legs around. Sydney's status in her tribe is not clearly not good, but at least she's not Sandy, who gets all of the other votes and is eliminated from competition. Carolina should be retroactively reinstated. She would have been a much better contestant over the course of the season than disruptive, abrasive Sandy proved to be.

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