Episode 8: As It Airs

As It Airs
Mar. 30, 8:00 pm ET, GMT -5 hours
Survivor Panama, Episode 8
title: An Emerging Plan

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First Interview: Courtney

Merge!

Reward Challenge
Reward: Merge Party for everyone!
Type of Challenge: no real challenge, although designing new tribe name looked difficult..
Everyone - merge! won Reward. No Exile this week.

Bruce takes a machete to the face when he and Nick are cutting rope for a new shelter. However he doesn't need med evac for it.

Immunity Challenge
Type of Challenge: Endurance, hang upside down on pole.
Terry won Immunity.
Cirie first out. Aras out. Sally out. Shane out. Danielle out. Courtney out. (20 minutes in only Terry, Austin, Nick left.) Austin is out. Nick drops out. Terry wins Immunity

Scheming Is Free
Looks like Austin or Nick going to be voted off. Austin claims he was just acting weak at Immunity Challenge to ellicit sympathy. Shane very publically calls for an old-Casaya meeting to sure things up, this irks old-La Mina who are out-numbered 6-4. Nick hopes to just make the jury.

Tribal Council
First Questioned: Courtney.
Nick was voted off. Nick 6 votes, Shane 4 votes.
Jeff put Bruce on the spot about divided loyalties but he handled it well. Terry was honest about the merge, he would have liked one more week of tribes to try and knock out a Casaya member before the merge but he's making the best of it [that's easy for him to say, he's holding both the Individual Immunity necklace and the Immunity Idol]. Nick pleads to stay by saying he's worked hard so far. Austin admits throwing the Immunity Challenge in order to look weak [admitting it was dumb]. Aras said that old-Casaya are not worried at this point and several of the others say they would be surprised if one of them is voted off.

Jeff Probst's Final Thought
18 days gone, you're the final 9, 7 will make up the jury, 2 will make it to the end and 1 will win. 21 days left and there is a lot of game left to be played.

Nick's Final Words
He urges all confuesed kids in their mid-20s to follow their dreams and find themselves by maximizing their freedom. [huh?]

Next Update:
Friday or Saturday, my Survivor Live notes.