What if KC Montero joined in Survivor Philippines with his brother Troy Montero as his partner and not Geneva Cruz who quitted on Day 1? Then, the Philippine Volcano Rugby teammates John and Arnold would have met a tough competition. But sadly, no, KC didn’t join in with his brother Troy. Anyway, we saw how these Montero brothers would look like in a challenge together.
Tonight’s episode of Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown featured the castaways’ loved ones. This is Troy’s second time to guest on the show as he visited his wife Aubrey Miles on last season of Survivor. What about next year? Would Troy be finally a castaway? We’ll see…
The challenge was a messy one literally, as the castaways together with their loved ones are tasked to dive in to a mud pit to fill their buckets with mud. They were not allowed to use their hands to scoop in some mud but nevertheless they can use different parts of their body. Whoever has the heaviest bucket of mud after the allotted 5 minutes will win the reward challenge.
Every castaway seems eager to win the challenge to be able to spend time with their loved ones in a hotel resort but in the end, no one even came close to the Montero brothers.
KC clearly knows so many techniques and very clever to find a way to win a challenge. He saw that at the edge of the mud pit lays bigger and heavier pack of mud so he settled for those knowing that it will definitely weigh more. In the end, right, no one even came close even the intense duo of Arnold and Chris, another Philippine Volcano rugby player.
As part of the reward challenge, KC got to choose two of the castaways with their loved ones to join with them in the hotel resort trip. Without thinking much he chose his closest ally Gino (together with his sister) and Betong (with his sister) to make up for the last Reward challenge wherein Betong only got a glass of water reward. However, the tricky part was when Richard told KC that he also needs to pick one castaway who needs to be separated from his “loved one”. At first, KC seems confused but then again he chose Arnold who is with his teammate. The choice was indeed logical since others are with family members like Mara with his dad, Maey with his sister and Stef with her mom unlike Arnold with his teammate/buddy.
Although KC obviously justified his choice, we know that KC also did that as a form of revenge (of some sort) to Arnold who tried to vote him out last Tribal Council. In this stage of the game, KC is like playing party poker, he is bluffing by calling Arnold brother, saying how sorry he is to make that decision but deep inside he wants Arnold out of the game. By the looks of it, KC is having a better hand compared to Arnold.
Arnold definitely needs to work double to win Immunity challenge again or else he might soon follow his teammate John in the jury house. We will find out more in Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown.
