Last week we were furious that a team would throw a challenge - this week we were amazed by the strategy behind it.

After wining the reward challenge Fei Long welcomes back, ahh, I mean kidnaps, James and he reunites with his tribe. Todd takes advantage of the situation and tells James to give him what is in the package from Jeff and if he does Todd will save him. James does just that - Todd solves the riddle and finds the hidden immunity idol. Todd then hatches the plan to give it to James, have Zhan Hu throw the challenge, and at tribal have James use the immunity idol then cast his vote for Jamie. Ahhhhh, quite clever.

The remaining three members of Zhan Hu are unsure of their standings with their previous team members and decide to actually compete in this challenge. The gross food challenge is back and they are forced to eat things from baby turtles to 1000 year-old eggs. Zhan Hu wins! All but Jamie, Eric and PG are devastated.

Fei Long decides between Sherea (to keep the numbers strong for Fei Long) and James-Robert (Courtney and others don’t “like” him). Sherea and her attitude are voted off.

Topics:

• Kidnapping vs. Exile Island - which twist do you like?
• Todd’s talking strategy
• Socially acceptable actions in the game

Predictions:

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Both tribes go to tribal council! …for the reward challenge. Fei Huang Long proved to have more talent moving fireballs with large chop sticks and won a pretty cool reward of having a Chinese family teach them how to fish and to bring them food.

Time for dress up at immunity this week. Tribes dressed up in armor and threw hammers at each other in hopes of breaking vases on poles - quite a cool challenge but just not very intense. Fei Huang Long wins! To vote off it was between Dave the annoying worker-bee and Sherea the lazy challenge-winner. In the end Dave was sent home.

Topics:

• What did Frosti mean when he told Dave “You have to work with the people you are leading”?
• Survivor China’s new special effects

Predictions:

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Camp life is filled with mundane things but the challenges brought lots of excitement. The reward challenge was a physical fight to push people off the boat - it looked brutal. In the end the Zhan Hu Women Warriors were victorious. Zhan Hu kidnapps Leslie and during girl talk at the pool learn some of Fei Long’s secrets.

The immunity challenge was another physical challenge where each person had to cut through wooden beams and then through rope to release disks, once all disks were down they drug them back to solve a puzzle. Courtney would have had better luck if she were given a nail file vs. the machette. In the end Zhan Hu wins! The decision to break an alliance, get rid of a weak player or get rid of a friendly person was a loss for Leslie as she was the 3rd person voted out of Survivor China.

Topics

• Impact of kidnapping on the game
• Strategies of Survivor: Physical, Brain-power, Spiritual, or sex

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