Survivor South Africa Season 9 Episode 05 Description
Rope Dealer
While the tribe agreed that Pinty should be voted out next, Phil and Thoriso both wanted to break up the duo forming between Seamus and Tevin as soon as possible. Over at Masu, Toni tries to patch things up with Marian after inappropriately using Marian’s skin condition against her in the game, as she’s aware that flipping to the pre-mergers would be sabotage in the future. And Palesa tries to reconnect with Danté after the PK vote, but she’s aware that his ego is getting too much to handle as the current alpha male of the tribe.
Reward/Immunity Challenge: In one vs. one rounds, each tribe must race through a narrow river gauntlet to reach the opposing end to pull a rope trigger for their tribe. While alternating from different ends of the gauntlet for fairness, the first tribe to win 5 bouts earns a hammock, camp cushions and pillows, a mini braai bread bundle with a grid, and Immunity.
Masu utterly dominated the challenge, which saw Killarney disorientated by Palesa’s pace after their round together. Tevin thought that it would have looked like Yontau was throwing the challenge, but knew it wasn’t the case. After the reward meal, Steffi decided to look around for a regular Hidden Immunity Idol and found one at the base of Masu’s tribe, with Tevin finding the Yontau’s idol right underneath Felix’s nose. With an idol in his pocket, Tevin and Seamus rallied the tribe together to vote out Pinty, despite the Yontau men worried about the easy vote delaying everyone’s strategic game. While Pinty wanted to target Killarney for her performance in the challenge, Thoriso gravitated around the idea of taking out Tevin instead, given how strong his social game has been around camp. Not wanting to lead the charge, she waited until Phil approached her with the same idea, letting him pull in Dino and Felix to the plan. While organizing the blindside, Phil encouraged Pinty to continue scrambling and targeting Killarney at Tribal Council to make sure Tevin and Seamus are unaware of the plan. Phil’s plan worked as at Tribal Council, Pinty continued to stir up animosity, urging Yontau to vote Killarney out instead of her, leaving an unsuspecting Tevin to be blindsided, idol in hand, and a dumbfounded Seamus being reassured by Dino.
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Survivor South Africa Show Summary
Survivor South Africa is a South African reality game show based on the popular international Survivor format.
As in all versions of the show, it features group of strangers who are marooned in an isolated location, where they must provide food, water, fire and shelter for themselves. The contestants will compete in challenges to earn either a reward, or an immunity from elimination. The contestants will be progressively eliminated from the game as they are voted-off by their fellow contestants until only one remains and is given the title “Ultimate Survivor” and be awarded the grand prize of R1 million.
The first five seasons of the show were produced by Endemol and broadcast on M-Net. Since Season 6, the show has been produced by Afrokaans Film & Television.
The first two seasons were hosted by Mark Bayly, and from the third season Nico Panagio took over the hosting duties.
Survivor South Africa Format
The show follows the same general format as the other editions of Survivor. To begin, the players are split into two or three tribes, are taken to a remote isolated location and are forced to live off the land with meagre supplies for a period of several weeks. Frequent physical and mental challenges are used to pit the tribes against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for immunity, forcing the other tribe to attend Tribal Council, where they must vote one of their tribemates out of the game by secret ballot.
About halfway through the game, the tribes are merged into a single tribe, and challenges are on an individual basis; winning immunity prevents that player from being voted out. Most players that are voted out during this stage become members of the Tribal Council Jury. When only two or three players remain, the Final Tribal Council is held. The finalists plead their case to the Jury as to why they should win the game. The jurors then have the opportunity to interrogate the finalists before casting their vote for which finalist should be awarded the title of “Ultimate Survivor” and wins the grand prize of R1 Million.
Like other editions of the show, the South Africa edition has introduced numerous adaptations, or twists, on the core rules to prevent players from over-relying on strategies that succeeded in prior seasons or other editions of the show. The titular Island of Secrets and the upcoming Immunity Island, and non-playing Captains in Champions, kidnappings, tribe expansions and shuffles. Voting advantages and disadvantages, and in the first season, Panama introduced a Deadman’s Island where contestants voted out after the merge was isolated from the game until an opportunity to return arose.
