Survivor Philippines (season 1) - The Game - Cycle 3: Days 7-9

Cycle 3: Days 7-9

• Reward Challenge: Three "Muscles," both sexes represented, hold on to their tribe's own basket using ropes while four "shooters" shoot coconuts at the opposing tribe's basket. Because the number of coconuts are limited, the shooters are given thirty seconds to recover coconuts that miss the baskets to be re-used upon resumption of the challenge. Once one tribe's basket touches the ground, the other tribe wins the Reward.
  • Reward: Two large fish in addition to the tribe's luxury items.
• Immunity Challenge: A giant roulette is used to determine what a pair of tribe members, one from each tribe, will eat from a selection of so-called "creepy crawlies." Each pair will eat the selected food. The first person to finish the selected food and show an empty mouth wins a point for their tribe. First tribe to receive five points wins immunity.

Night of Day 6: After returning to camp, the Naak discussed how Emerson's overall strategy, especially during the Immunity challenge, backfired on him, causing his elimination.

Day 7: While the rest of Naak were having fun, Rob noticed Zita in her moment of solitude, confused after voting against Kaye at Tribal Council. Meanwhile, during Jarakay's pre-challenge meal, Marlon divulged to his tribemates on how to deal with Kiko, leading John to believe that Marlon had issues with Kiko. They then smothered parts of their bodies with crude designs using charcoal in what Marlon later described to Paolo as "Spartan." During the Reward Challenge, Jarakay was able to shoot 37 coconuts against Naak's 27 bringing the latter's basket to the ground. Thus, the Reward went to Jarakay. Both tribes, however, received their luxury items. After returning to camp, the Jarakay tribe started on how to cook one of their new fish. Meanwhile, the other women in Jarakay formed their own alliance. Later in the evening, after showing their luxury items, Patani showed her scapular to her tribemates, then went on another acting binge. Meanwhile in Naak, Kiko was alerted by an appearance of a snake in camp, which he handled and planned to release in the morning.

Day 8: Kiko played around with the snake and made it the unofficial tribal pet, since Naak's tribal flag has a snake on it. In Jarakay, the two alliances started plotting on who to vote out from Jarakay first, with Niña being targeted by the men and Veronica, and Gigit by the other women. Marlon admitted that he was already torn between the two alliances, thus enabling to balance the situation and confuse both alliances. In the Immunity Challenge, the win-hungry Naak won easily over Jarakay, 5-0, handing the other tribe their first trip to Tribal Council. Naak went back to their camp happy and frolicking after winning their first ever challenge. Meanwhile in Jarakay, the men's alliance, which includes Veronica, decided to shift their focus from Niña to Patani. John laid down at the shelter and complained that he was not feeling well, probably because of the fumes from the camp fire he was tending. Emergency personnel were alerted and John was rushed to the nearest hospital. As a double blow to Jarakay, their pot cracked, forcing them to improvise in cooking food.

Day 9: After a night of celebration, life at Naak continued as usual, oblivious to the events at the other camp. At Jarakay, Marlon started to plot his moves as a double agent by talking to Charisse and Niña about their vote on the upcoming Tribal Council. The men's alliance was also thinking about altering their strategy if and when John did not come back to camp. As Charisse was starting to talk about John, John came back to the island after a night in the hospital, telling his tribemates that his collapse the day before was caused by his low potassium levels. The rest of the Jarakay tribe welcomed him back with open arms. At Naak, the tribe was gathering their things to slightly higher ground as the tide began to recede towards camp. Back at Jarakay, the men's alliance decided to stick with their choice of voting out Patani. At Tribal Council, an activity was held at which one member was out of the Tribal Council area as the others would talk about that person. Afterwards, there was also talk about how they lost in the last Immunity Challenge and how everyone had changed during the second Immunity Challenge on Day 5. After the voting, Gigit was surprisingly voted out, 8-1. After Gigit left, Paolo told the remaining Jarakay members to stay on for another round of voting. In the resulting tally, Patani was eliminated, 3-2-2-1. Because of the wide distribution of the votes, Paolo reminded the tribe to step up as one.