SP: Palau - Troy Goes, Justine's Winning Streak Continues

It's such a relief that Justine was able to find an effective technique in her challenge against Troy at the Isla Purgatoryo. In the challenge, they had to bring a 29 kilogram piece of weight from the ocean bed to the beach. The weights were each tied to a bundle of bamboo that served as buoy. At first, it was impossible to move the weight, but as Justine found out, she could grab on to the rope to keep her feet on the ocean's floor and she could walk underwater while dragging the weight with her.

So it's finally goodbye Palau for Troy and I'm sure a lot of Survivor fans are delighted.

Tonight's episode consisted of two challenges. Other than that of the Isla Purgatoryo challenge, this week's Reward Challenge was also shown tonight. Reward Challenges are usually aired Tuesday or Wednesday so I have this feeling that they're cooking up something towards the end of the week. The Merge? Hope so, cuz there's only 11 castaways left aside from Justine.


The challenge involved endurance as the castaways had to hang on with their arms and legs to a pole horizontally suspended only a few feet from the ground. The tribe with the last remaining member left hanging without touching the ground will win the reward of a full body massage in the comforts of their camp, not to mention they get to keep the two massage beds that they can use to rest more comfortably. Since the two tribes have unequal number of members, Koror decided to sit out Amanda to be in equal number with Airai.

Cris Bolado fell first. With that mass of a body, one could only assume that he wouldn't be able to hang on long. And luckily for Koror, Echo and Marvin were the last ones left which meant that Koror won this week's reward. Mika was the last Airai member to fall with a time of more than two hours.

I'm guessing that Justine, who's an original Koror member, would also get a massage. She could actually use that to boost herself up a little. I'm sure it's so hard to only have Jumbo for company for three straight days at a time.