DJariya

CASTAWAYS DROP THEIR BUFFS AND FORM TWO NEW TRIBES, ON "SURVIVOR," WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19

"Odd One Out" - Castaways drop their buffs and form two new tribes. Meanwhile, a decision made on Day 1 could lead to a castaway's elimination and the battle for immunity proves which new tribe has the most Brawn, on SURVIVOR, Wednesday, March 19 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

CASTAWAYS:

Brawn Tribe
Cliff Robinson
Lindsey Ogle
Sarah Lacina
Tony Vlachos
Trish Hegarty
Yung "Woo" Hwang

Brains Tribe
David Samson (1st Voted Off)
Garrett Adelstein (2nd Voted Off)
J'Tia Taylor (4th Voted Off)
Kassandra "Kass" McQuillen
Latasha "Tasha" Fox
Spencer Bledsoe

Beauty Tribe
Alexis Maxwell
Brice Johnston (3rd Voted Off)
Jefra Bland
Jeremiah Wood
LJ McKanas
Morgan McLeod


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TomOpus

Morgan digging deep into her cleavage to clear out sand. Oh yeah!

Cardsfan111

Bummed to see Cliff go. Thought if he did, it would have been because L.J. played an idol. I think Tony must have made sure L.J. knew he was siding with him. He looked pretty confident while the votes were being read.

brainee

#blindside

Yeah, had to be stuff we didn't see in camp (that the producers withheld to make Tribal Council more suspenseful). I liked Cliff and I was glad to see he took the blindside with class.

Having super physical challenges like the reward are a nice throwback. Instead of yet another convoluted relay with a puzzle at the end. Though having an uneven distribution of sexes on the tribes was a game-killer. There was just no way a woman holding on against a man and woman can beat a strong man holding to the post on the other side.

About next week's preview:

DJariya

That's a bummer about Cliff. Was hoping he would last longer.

I already can't stand Tony. He's coming across as Russell-light.

Baron Of Hell

Don't like Trish at all. I was hoping Ciff would win the game just because they tried to throw a game to get him off.

Guess I'll take Spencer as my man now. Lindsey is my favorite lady but I don't think she will be around long nor Wu.

Shinobi

Since Morgan was an NFL cheerleader, I'm disappointed that she's not shown cheering on her team during the challenges, as she's sat out on the sidelines for two of them now.

And by "cheering", I basically mean "jumping up and down".

I do like the new team dynamics though.

madcougar

Bummed to see Cliff go. He seemed like a good guy in camp and a great competitor. I can never understand the logic if getting rid of strong competitors before the merge. But if it means one more week of Morgan, so be it.

davidh777

Wasn't that particular round two guys and one girl, and one team chose to put their girl on the pole (insert groucho smiley here) and the other team did not?

brainee

Pretty sure the winning team (Salami?) had three guys playing that last round. The losing team (Atari?) only had two guys period so they couldn't match that.

I don't remember ... did Jeff describe it as the female players being "on the pole"? Usually he takes advantage of opportunities like that.

PhantomStranger

Losing Cliff this early wasn't a shock. He's a rich ex-athlete and almost impossible to beat in some of the physical challenges. I probably would have targeted him ASAP on the island.

madcougar

Racist!

Baron Of Hell

Makes more sense to get rid of him during the merge to me. He was big help in challenges and it always good to keep your numbers strong to pick off the other players.

arminius

I think the game has become too social with the weak targeting the percieved strong players right off the bat. They don't care about being a strong tribe, only getting anyone they think is too good at the game out.

TwineTime

The game has been like that for almost 14 years now.

AaronHernandez

I look at it the opposite. When they just vote off all the old people or physically weak people the first few rounds the seasons are usually boring. Cliff not only was a boring charecter he strikes me as someone who was just gonna be someones nice puppet who increases the chances of their being a stagnant endgame.

PhantomStranger

The producers clearly don't want anyone like Colby physically dominating Survivor anymore. Almost all of the immunity challenges these days minimize a person's speed, strength or even coordination. Practically the only purely physical challenges left involve swimming ability, endurance or balance, which mostly levels the playing field between the sexes.

AaronHernandez

Colby wouldn't have dominated not because of the challenges but because most of the people his season were just regular people and maybe 1 or other 2 people who could compete with him .Nowadays more then half the players every year are really athletic.

Goat3001

I didn't like the big tribe swap. I think they should have waited until one of the tribes were down to two and split them up among the other two teams. Or, ideally, merge the three tribes when the total number dwindles down to 9 or 10.

It's too bad to see Cliff go. I liked his small alliance. I was rooting for him and Woo to make it deep. Now it seems that Woo isn't long for this game either.

And you guys can have Morgan. I'll take Alexis

dfmaverick2

I was wondering if what they showed on the episode was the last of the Brain's food, so they decided to merge them early rather than let the Brain tribe starve for perhaps another 3 days.

creekdipper

In other words, this is "Survivor... With a Life Preserver."