Survivorfest 8 week 2!

Good lord, won't they send ANYone home this season!?!

Francesca settled in on Redemption Island, surrounded by the skeletons of Johnny Fairplay, Coach the Dragonslayer and Boston Rob's wife Amber.  Seriously...why does else would she keep letting Rob out of the house for months at a time?

She struggled to make fire, although she had a lantern with her...that had...fire...in it...

Phillip loves him some Boston Rob.  Rob seems to recognize crazy when it hugs him tightly.

The next morning Phillip, assuring his status among the pantheon of crazy Survivor types, went spear hunting for one inch crabs.  Surprisingly, he got one.

At camp Zippity-Doo-Dar, Ralph was showing off some crazy of his own.  He managed to find a hidden idol while he was out looking for big rocks.  5 points for Ralph-owners!

I need to update my Survivor look-a-like page because I think Ralph is a dead ringer for Randy Quaid.

Matt seems to be irritating his team. In addition to lots of religiousness he showed good sportsmanship when they lost yet another immunity challenge to team Russell.  What an ass.

Russell spotted a clue to the idol in the reward basket on the way back to camp and slipped it into his pants.  Ralph spotted him and went on to call him on it.  Russell denied that he had a clue.  Ahem.

Back at camp Amoeba, Phillip addressed the losing tribe, as was his tradition.  He had a "special" meeting with Rob who told him that at the appointed hour he would indicate the person to be voted off by placing his hand on the person's shoulder at tribal council.  It was all very Judas like.

Phillip rewarded him with a big, crazy man hug that lasted entirely too long.

Matt and Andrea were getting entirely too chummy so Rob dictated the tribe to oust one of them.

Kristina played her immunity idol.

Rob betrayed Kristina just before the vote.

Phillip voted as he was told:  "This is for you and your friend (Franchesqua) lying about me and besmirching my honor...and because Rob told me to vote like this."

Matt was the odd man out and will join Francesca on Redemption Island where we can only hope that someone will get the boot.

Everyone gets a point for making it through another week.

For the Survivor kicker, everyone is still in play and we'll go yet another week before I'll need another name from anyone playing.

See you next week on...Survivorfest!

Survivorfest 8 - week 1: Off and running!

Welcome back to another season of....Survivorfest!

This season is starting out a little different since it has a "Redemption Island".  Based on this, gameplay will be slightly different.  I will only be removing a player from the game when they are GONE gone.  Based on this, Francesca is not our Loveable Loser.  At least not yet.

Since she still is "in the game" and can potentially win, she hasn't yet been eliminated.  Based on this same logic, no one has been eliminated from the Survivor kicker pool.  Many of you Francesca-lovers should draw a sigh of relief.

As usual I'll post weekly results on the leaderboard along with whomever was voted off:  http://www.woltermanns.com/Survivorfest/Survivorfest8.htm  Let me know if I have any of your picks listed incorrectly.

Now, on to potentially relevant but more likely immature musings on the opening night show:

Looks like I called Phil right in my pre-season bio:  http://www.woltermanns.com/Survivorfest/Survivorfest.8.bios.htm  he seems to be comprised mostly of an offal-based substance.  I hope like heck he stays in the game for a while, however.  He absolutely kills me. 

Some early Survivor Hall of Fame Quotes:

"I am a former federal agent!"
"I love women!  I'm really good with girls!"
"My mouth is dry, but I've been getting treatment!"
"If I stand here in my fuchsia tightie underwear and tell you that I am telling the truth, then, on my honor as a former federal agent, you can be assured that there is not a greater truth to be told!"

Okay, I made that last line up but you must admit it sounds rather plausible.

Phillip is a cartoon character.

Matt the genius showed up for the game in a suit.  Genius. Hah! It looks like it didn't even fit.

I loved the reception that Rob and Russell got when they arrived on the beach:

"Yeaaaaa! It's Boston Rob!"
"Oh.  It's...Russell.  Drat."

Speaking of Russell, it looks like he got hisself a fancy new tattoo!  I'm not sure, but I think it's a tattoo of himself.

Kristina took a page from Russell's book and went out and found an idol, winning any Kristina owners 5 points.  Those CBS guys have GOT to start hiding them better.  She made one of the first cardinal sins of Survivor and told people she found it.

I spotted the first blur from Natalie the pole dancer (another 5 points!).  I think she might be wearing her underwear backwards.  If you believe someone else was sporting a blur earlier than Natalie's walk up the beach, please shout out before next week's show airs and I'll check the DVR.

Russell's tribe (Zapatera?) seems to be more physically inclined than Rob's and won the first challenge.

Kristina was ready to use the idol to blindside Rob early but Phil, for reasons that are somewhat unclear, decided to blab literally everything at tribal council.  He hung Francesca and Kristina out to dry in one of the most awkward tribal councils I've ever seen.

Francesca ended up on the raw end of the vote and was moved to Redemption Island.  We'll see how long she sticks around.

Since no one was completely removed from the game, all players received a point for surviving the first week of the show.

See you next week on...Survivorfest!