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John Odulio Voted Off of Survivor Philippines

Survivor Philippines | Posted by survivormuch
Jan 09 2012

John, KC and Gino wanted to vote off Arnold seeing how big threat he is but they could not because Arnold has been winning back to back Immunity challenges. Arnold is not clueless and he’s not dumb either to feel that these three guys are up to something. He knew that John seems to distant himself already and instead treating KC as his closest ally/brother now. Of course, Arnold knows exactly what to do so when John chose to bring him with Betong in the Spa reward that he won, he knew he needed to get back his partner.

Arnold used all the sweetest words and promises to John to make sure that they are still solid. From the looks of it, he bought everything Arnold said. Well, personally, I think Arnold was indeed genuine that he wants to go to the end with John. Oh well, we really do not know what’s going on in Arnold’s mind.

So Immunity challenge, John didn’t seem to be intensed and eager to win the Immunity since he feels he’s safe no matter what – he has alliance with KC and on the other hand he also feels safe with Arnold. So when Arnold won, John knew that KC will be the target.

He came to KC and revealed that Arnold wants him out and Gino is already talking to everyone to vote him out. KC was shocked to hear Gino’s name so he asked John again and he said “yeah si Gino”. Then, KC talked to Gino and right there and then they sensed that John is playing them.

John talked to Maey, Stef, Betong with Gino on the side on how he thinks they should vote out Mara to surprise Arnold that everyone is against him. The tribe knew that Mara has Immunity bracelet so they hesitated if it the plan is true or if it will work out. Well, this conversation also made Gino, Maey, Betong, Stef and even KC that John can easily backstab his own partner when in fact Arnold has done nothing wrong with him. What is the assurance that John will not do the same thing with them?

Richard read the votes Mara and Arnold voted for KC, John voted for Stef (playing safe. not choosing any sides), KC voted for Mara but he clearly mentioned that that vote must be for John but just in case Mara use the bracelet for him or something and finally Gino, Maey, Stef and Betong voted for John.

John Odulio Survivor Philippines

With that, John who thinks he is super safe, John who thinks he can fuel the tension between KC and Arnold and KC and Gino and the rest versus Arnold, John who thought he is winning Survivor became the third member of the jury. I must say that is one great blindside! Yes, that’s blindside!

John voted out in Survivor Philippines

Now, Arnold and Mara must be feeling scared already as they realize that they are the minority already. Poor Mara she thinks she’s on top. She thinks she’s sitting pretty with the two volcanoes. Now what!

Mara Survivor Philippines

She must be very wise in using her Immunity bracelet because she could only use it once and then boom! Now, I bet she will be extra nice to Maey, Betong, Gino and Stef. How about Arnold? How can he work his way with everything that has happened?

Arnold Survivor Philippines

Oops he did that kind of look again....

We will see more on Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown.

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Sophie Clarke Wins Survivor South Pacific

Survivor South Pacific | Posted by survivormuch
Dec 21 2011

Survivor South Pacific is one exciting and emotionally-draining season and it ended with another surprise as Sophie Clark, 22-year-old medical student won this season beating Coach Wade (3-time Survivvor player) and Albert Destrade and yes she beat Ozzy Lusth too.

Ozzy owned this season from the moment he took a risk to voluntarily bring himself to Redemption Island to beat out Christine and eventually get even numbers with the Upolu tribe at the merge. After Cochran sabotaged the entire Savaii tribe, Ozzy decided that Redemption Island is his home. He is the king of Redemption Island beating every single castaway who faced him in the duel.

After Brandon gave up his Immunity necklace to save Albert, he faced Ozzy in Redemption Island and again Ozzy beat him like he always do with all the other castaways who stepped in that territory. With this, Ozzy found his way back into the game to join Sophie, Albert, Rick and Coach.

Ozzy continued his winning strike as he won the Immunity challenge against the four original Upolu tribe members. However, in the Tribal Council, Ozzy’s cockiness prevailed when he bashed Sophie saying how she is a spoiled brat, selfish bitch. He thought this would make the tribe vote against Sophie but no Coach and Albert together with Sophie decided to vote out Rick.

After that encounter, Sophie became more agitated of Ozzy’s presence. On the other hand, Ozzy decided to eat coconuts and fish he caught by himself. He didn’t have any plan of sharing his foods to others because he needed to prepare himself for the final challenge to seal his fate in this season of Survivor.

Ozzy Lusth Survivor South Pacific

I must admit, I was rooting for Ozzy from the very beginning but in this last challenge, for some reason, I felt it was indeed for Sophie. The challenge was tough – it involves both physical and mental state of mind. Ozzy was the first one to complete the puzzle pieces followed by Coach but this didn’t stop Sophie from striving. She knew deep in her heart that she could beat Ozzy, especially in puzzles. And yes, she did! Ozzy startled when host Jeff Probst announced that Sophie got her first correct pattern of the puzzle then second and third while Ozzy is just starting to figure everything out and with Ozzy’s third piece, Sophie already completed the eight patterns proclaiming her as the winner of the Individual Immunity challenge.

Ozzy knew right there and then that that challenge cost him his chance of winning Survivor and $1,000,000. Sophie, the spoiled brat, selfish bitch that he called beat him right in his face.

However, Ozzy was hoping for at least a tie between him and Albert since Coach promised to bring him to the end but Coach is not too foolish to bring someone like Ozzy who is a sure winner once he stepped in the final 3 so there Ozzy Lusth became the final member of the jury. So the final three – Albert, Coach  and Sophie

Albert,Coach,Sophie

In the Final Tribal Council, Sophie managed to come up with logic explanation why she deserved to win the title. She may not be as a social player like Albert but in terms of strategies she was good and she dominated the challenges too winning three individual Immunity challenges including a challenge that finally sealed Ozzy’s fate as jury member. In the end, Coach got 3 votes from the jury and 6 votes for Sophie.

Sophie Clark is the winner of Survivor South Pacific.

Sophie Survivor South Pacific

Congratulations! This season may be Ozzy’s but the Sophie’s victory is still much-deserved! And yes, Ozzy gave his vote for Sophie too.

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Isabel Granada Voted Off of Survivor Philippines

Survivor Philippines | Posted by survivormuch
Dec 10 2011

The new Bulan tribe faced Tribal Council after they lost the Immunity challenge against the new Tala tribe headed by Carlo Gonzales. The scenario is that there were 3 original Bulan members – KC, John and Gino and there were 3 original Tala members Isabel, Betong and Arthur. The Bulan guys tried to talk to Isabel to vote out Arthur but since Isabel couldn’t keep quiet about the plan, they decided to go in a different directions – yeah they target Isabel.

Isabel Granada Survivor

On the other hand, Isabel, Arthur and Betong were all solid to vote out Gino. So to break the tie, Isabel and Gino had to create fire using the flint to break the knot (just what Amanda and Charles did in the Survivor Philippines Palau). It was indeed a no-match since Isabel was not able to create fire.

Gino vs Isabel

With that, Isabel Granada became the first casualty of the individual voting in Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown.

Isabel Granada Voted off of Survivor Philippines

It was totally heartbreaking for Arthur and Betong because they know that any moment that they lost the Immunity challenge, which the three original Bulan members are planning, they can be easily voted out.

How are they going to survive? How will the original Tala members react with this? Are Arnold, Mara and Stef still loyal to the old Bulan tribe? It would be great if Arnold will decide to play with Carlo and the rest of Tala tribe against his original alliance John, KC and Gino. Well we’ll see more in Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown.

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New Tala Wins

Survivor Philippines | Posted by survivormuch
Dec 08 2011

Don’t you just feel the intensity and eagerness in Carlo Gonzales‘ aura? Well it is pretty obvious that the man is on fire! He is burning with the desire to win the game and not just win the game but play as clean as possible. Now that’s what you call SURVIVOR!

In tonight’s episode of Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown, the new Tala tribe composed of Arnold, Mara, Chuckie, Maey and Carlo showed that they are determined to win the Immunity Challenge. Arnold was pretty admirable when he said that he wants to show that despite the fact that he came from Bulan, he’s playing and he wants to win for the new Tala tribe. Well, we do not know if he said that only because he and Mara will obviously be in danger once they lose the Immunity challenge. But we see 100% eagerness in Arnold too.

However, when talked about eagerness and determination, it is Carlo Gonzales who showed it undoubtedly. I am a firm believer that in Survivor – the victory is always in the hands of the puzzle-solver. No matter how fast the team was if the puzzle solver is not good then your tribe will surely lose. The same happened to the new Bulan tribe. Gino was all-out effort in pouring water in their pipe and they did finish first but when John was solving the puzzle, Tala tribe immediately followed their lead. Carlo waste no time in solving the puzzle but he makes sure to make his moves systematic. He finished the puzzle ahead of John but when Richard corrected it, Carlo’s puzzle was actually upside down so he had to flip the whole puzzle to correct it. John of Bulan tribe had a lot of time to catch up since Carlo needed to start all over but still Carlo’s determination and systematic play prevailed. Phew! That was indeed an intense game! Congrats Tala tribe and congrats Carlo!

Carlo Gonzales Survivor

Well, didn’t you notice that there were no Temptation reward? Or did it end as well since the tribes were already shuffled?

Anyway, Bulan tribe will face the Tribal council tomorrow. According to teaser there were ties which is obvious since there were 3 original Tala and 3 original Bulan. KC, John and Gino were very into “dirty” tactics already. They first tried to lure Isabel Granada to vote with them against Arthur but when they saw how Isabel reacted – how she wanted to have “group meeting” they immediately resorted to Arthur to vote out Betong. If the Bulan guys were smart enough, they would realize that what they did was a desperate move. Is Arthur actually dumb to believe them? Well obviously, no one from the original Tala tribe was lured. Now, there will be a tie-breaker but the question now is who will win the duel?

Tomorrow is going to be an exciting episode in Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown.

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Cancer-Free Tala Tribe

Survivor Philippines | Posted by survivormuch
Dec 05 2011

From previous post, I was expecting that Mara will automatically be eliminated now that her mother Maria Isabel Lopez was voted off since they accepted the temptation reward. I reviewed the videos and yeah right Richard wasn’t able to say that “pag tanggal ang isa automatically tanggal din ang isa sa kabilang tribe” which he said to Jackie Forster and Angelicopter when he offered the same temptation reward for the first time. I would say that it is PROBABLY Richard’s fault since he just nodded with Maria Isabel Lopez when she was saying so many things like “she doesn’t want her daughter to be voted off pag natanggal sya”.  Understandable but where did the “Mara should surrender the Immunity bracelet or else she will be voted out” rule came from? It’s just funny. Oh well.

Anyway, Tala tribe proved that they are now healing from “cancer” since they were able to vote out Maria Isabel Lopez because in today’s reward challenge they put up a strong win.

They were hungry (literally and figuratively) for the win so despite the yucky foods like ari ng baka, ulo ng manok, atay, etc that were included in the smoothie drinks they were still able to win the challenge. You can see the desire in their eyes. Arthur showed the eagerness the same with other Tala tribe members which explains why they clearly won this challenge. Move over volcanoes. LOL.

They will now enjoy a great barbecue picnic and a trip to a beautiful scenery. Meanwhile, Carlo volunteered himself to face the temptation reward without consulting the tribe. I guess, he was thinking “not to accept” the temptation reward so why bother to decide who among them will face the said temptation. We’ll see what will happen next as the merge is already approaching and “anting-anting” as the temptation reward (yeah as if Immunity bracelet is not anting-anting). Will Carlo accept it or what? Let us find out in Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown.

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The Cancer is Gone

Survivor Philippines | Posted by survivormuch
Dec 03 2011

Tala Tribe compared Maria Isabel Lopez to a cancer in their tribe. Well, obviously she did all her best to annoy and frustrate all the Tala tribe members. When she was in the Bulan tribe, Tala was winning. They were invincible but when Maribel joined their tribe after accepting the Temptation reward, Tala weakened. 4 members – Jackie Forster, Angelicopter, Filo and Ellen Adarna all decided to quit out of frustration. On that note, yeah she can be compared to cancer.

On the other hand, Maribel was very clear on her confessional interviews that she is aiming to weaken the tribe with her presence. It seemed successful because now Bulan tribe is on a winning streak however Tala had enough of her. Carlo Gonzales was one patient guy with genuine intention in the game. You see him very calm despite being defeated and physically harmed by the Volcanoes in many challenges but after the last Immuity challenge – after he saw how Gino and Mara went up to Maribel giving the Immunity bracelet and signalling to vote out “C” , Carlo had enough. Maribel got into the very last nerve of Carlo and right there and then he swore that Maribel and her daughter Mara will leave the island after the Tribal Council.

Maribel thought Carlo was threatening her. Well yeah right he’s threatening her but he didn’t mean it in a physical manner. Carlo is indeed one intelligent player. He used his mind wisely to help save the tribe from cancer. He need not steal the Immunity bracelet to get rid of Maribel. What he did instead was he asked Isabel Granada to wear off the Immunity bracelet and hand it to him for a show. And with that, Maribel easily fell into the bait.

Maribel thought that Isabel Granada gave up their immunity so Carlo and Arthur could use it so despite giving her word to Isabel that she would not vote them out she did.

The ending, she wasted her opportunity to get further in the game. Carlo was brilliant in assessing Maribel’s personality. He knew that Maribel would fall for that easy, no-brainer trick. It was in fact really scary and it’s a gamble for Carlo and Arthur. Had Maribel not deceived by that fake act, they could be out of the game by now but still they took that chance and they have faith in one another.

Now, the cancer is gone for good. Maria Isabel Lopez was voted off of Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown. Because of the Temptation reward that she and her daughter Mara Yokohama took, Mara should be out of the game too. I hope they will stick to their rules.

The question now is can Tala bounce back now that they are already cancer-free? We will find out in Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown.

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Survivor Philippines – Is it Still Survivor Game?

Survivor Philippines | Posted by survivormuch
Nov 29 2011

Are we still watching Survivor Philippines? Is this Survivor? Or maybe this is just an underwhelming spoof of the real thing? Come on! As a real fan of the game, it is becoming painful to watch the show. After Geneva Cruz quitted, tandem of Angelicopter and Jackie Forster quit too then now Ellen and Filo quitted too? Come on! Is this a joke? Survivor Philippines staff should’ve make sure that their contestants (since this is a celebrity edition) are all willing to fight til the end and not just use the show for exposure because let us admit it quality wise Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown is far worst already. Okay drama wise maybe they are winning.

Another big joke was the evacuation of the castaways during the typhoon. Survivor series faced so many typhoons already but they didn’t panic so early. Moving the castaways to a safer place is like “oh time out muna, mamaya na lang natin ituloy ang Survivor paghinto ng ulan”. They are like children playing, seriously! Well, I guess the staff was affected by Angelicopter’s remark that their life seems in danger and the production staff is not doing something about it. BIG JOKE!

I am pretty sure that the next season (if there will still be another one) will not be a celebrity edition anymore especially with all these drama and hassles. Oh speaking of next season, maybe it is best to proceed to the next season because this Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown is more like a joke only – just for the sake of having another season of Survivor.

Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown lost the essence of the Survivor game.

P.S.

Ruffa Gutierrez and Annabelle Rama in tonight’s episode — what’s the sense? Yeah because this is all a joke!

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