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Anyway, Sherri continues that “I am wholeheartedly with the ‘favorites’” and “Phillip is the Shamar on this tribe." But wait, wasn’t Shamar her Phillip? And now Phillip is her Shamar? This logic confuses me. “You give me two votes and it will be me calling the shots with Phillip. He’ll be coming to me asking what I think.” What is that thing on her arm? It looks like a tattoo but it wasn’t there at the beginning of the season. Were temporary tattoos her luxury item?

Immediate cut to a reward challenge, and a Probst sighting.

No chit-chat this week, it’s straight into the rules. The tribe will split into two teams of five, with one person sitting out. There’s a goal on the middle of a lagoon, with a small platform on a pole in front of it. The teams will each pick someone to hang out in the lagoon, and they will take turns to stand on the platform and defend the goal, while someone from the other team tries to throws the ball into the net while jumping into the lagoon. First team to score four goals wins.

The reward is nothing special – they get to rappel down a waterfall and then have a picnic lunch. No one cares about the rappelling and the picnic lunch gets a polite clap suitable for a golf tournament. In England. In the 1920s. If these contestants were really interested in stuff like rappelling, they’d have auditioned for The Amazing Race.

The two teams are orange, with Michael defending and Eddie, Reynold, Cochran and Erik throwing, and purple, with Malcolm defending and Dawn, Brenda, Andrea and Phillip shooting. Sherri was not selected, so no reward for her.

Eddie from orange goes first, but he just throws it straight at Malcolm’s knees. It is caught easily. Brenda is next, and she tosses it over Michael’s head and gets it in the goal. This sets the tone for the next couple of rounds, with Erik “goes high... and scores” and Andrea “goes high... and scores." Even Probst gets bored with this commentary.

Reynold, ace throwing champion, is next – and he is “just short." He looks disbelieving. “Oh no, my one weakness, throwing stuff while jumping into a lagoon!” Dawn hits the frame, and Cochran scores another goal for the purple team. I’m pretty sure it’s because Cochran went shirt off and Malcolm was dazzled by his blindingly white torso. Scores are level 2-2. Cochran plays it up with some gorilla noises as he goes back to high-five his team. Easy with the bro stuff there Cochran.

Phillip and Eddie both score – Phillip stutter steps - so it’s up to Brenda to win for her team. After some trademark cheerleading poses, she shoots, but it bounces off the edge of the frame. Erik is next, and Phillip tries to psych him out by claiming going sneaker-less is a mistake, but to no avail. Michael, Eddie, Reynold, Erik and Cochran win reward, and are going to have some awkward male bonding. Maybe Cochran has impressed them all with his gorilla whoops?

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