Survivor South Africa Season 9 Episode 13 Description
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The new Salan tribe celebrated after Tribal Council at the upgraded former Yontau camp, with Marian noticing how quickly Danté and Felix reached out to each other, being friends outside of the game. Though the tribe missed the traditional Merge feast usually provided, over the breakfast meals provided to them in the morning after merge.
Reward Challenge: Each tribe member are given a slingshot and a bowl of marbles, having to break through two plates. Once someone has broken the symbols on their two plates, they can select one of the plates on offer at the Merge Feast Buffet, first come, first serve, with no sharing allowed. Ranging from full breakfast meals, to advantages, and a bowl of rice or a single boiled egg on offer.
Felix managed to complete the challenge first and went for food, while Steffi found herself with a large bowl of bland rice. Throughout the challenge, two advantages were handed out; Dino found himself a Save the Date advantage, a note which allowed whoever holds it to go to the Outpost on Day 32. While Meryl received a Reward Send token, which allows her to go on a Reward once in the game if she’d like to, which is valid until the Final 6. Shane helped Marian complete the challenge as she struggled, until Meryl, Killarney, and Toni were left shooting at their plates until others rejoined the challenge to help the women receive their reward. Phil had picked a mystery plate that contained spices for the tribe and a key, which Nico informed unlocks a chest back at Salan’s camp for everyone to share. Returning to camp, the chest turned out to be a cooler box full of beers for the tribe to continue celebrating the merge.
However, the tribe started to strategize for the upcoming merge vote, as the near-unanimous vote of Palesa had left alliance lines undrawn in the eyes of Toni and the No Bullshit alliance. Felix himself felt undecided between remaining loyal to the No Bullshit alliance, or move forward with his old Ta’alo allies, Danté and Meryl from Island of Secrets. While Steffi felt that the Toni she dealt with post-swap was someone she wanted to work with, despite being in the Breakfast Club and her Day 1, Full Package trio.
Immunity Challenge: Standing on a tilted platform, each tribe member must hold onto a knotted rope above their heads for as long as possible over the river. In regular intervals, they must move on to hold onto ropes leaning out over the river in increasing difficulty. The last tribe member to remain holding onto their rope with both hands wins Immunity.
Surprising himself, and the rest of Salan, Phil managed to outlast Steffi and Tejan to win the first Individual Immunity challenge of the merge, leaving him safe to navigate his first ever merge vote. While the alliances started to scramble for the vote, Toni kept assuring Dino that her New Masu allies, Steffi and Killarney would still be able to vote Danté out. However, Dino noted that the fact the Meryl/Shane plans at the previous Tribal Council fell apart for Toni, and that he and the No B.S. alliance should look to make inroads with the socially secure Steffi instead. Suspecting that he or Toni could be a target, Tejan went looking for an idol and found the new Salan Hidden Immunity Idol above near the water well, hoping to keep it safe for a while longer. Meanwhile, the Breakfast Club started to reach out to the original Yontau members in splitting votes between Toni and Tejan, as Shane and Danté feared that they would have the biggest potential to disrupt alliances in the merge. This left the No B.S. alliance struggling to decide with who to side with.
At Tribal Council, the original Yontau members all spoke about sitting back and observing how the merge players operated, with Meryl also bringing up that it was the merge vote was where she was voted out previously. The fact that alliances weren’t fully drawn out of hiding made Tejan uneasy about the upcoming vote, as there were, in his opinion, a number of swing votes up in the air. However, at the vote, the No B.S. alliance decided to follow the Breakfast Club’s plans, as Steffi picked her original allies to target the original Masu outsiders. Tejan, ended up playing his newfound idol, blindsiding the entire tribe, but the votes revealed that the two alliances chose to send Toni to the jury instead of him. Disappointed by her allies, Toni mentioned before getting her torch snuffed, that she’ll be voting for Danté at Final Tribal Council if he got to the end.
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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.
