They sure saved the best twists for All Stars (snicker).

This time, a boring regurgitated challenge is for reward AND immunity! How amazing! NBC must be shaking in its boots! Of course, we're trusting the web promo commercial that says, "They face the most demanding challenge ever...with Reward and Immunity up for grabs"

Anyway, because the radio promo blatantly lied about a tribal council taking place last week, we've put a ban on trusting radio promos. But TV/Web promos are still OK.

Here's our BEST GUESS as to what happens in the challenge.

  

(Left): Notice the pieces out in the water (paddles/parts of the boat most likely)

(Right): The tribes get ready to dive in for the parts. Notice the leaf-shaped boats and Jeffy Probst standing on the blue (right).

  

(Above): Rupert dives and unhooks pieces.

    

(Left): Mogo Mogo, boat complete, heads to shore. Notice that Jeff is in background. Also check out that Colby and Shii Ann do not appear to have oars.

(Right): Amber (already at shore) yells "let's go Rob!" Where is Rob?

      

OH! Rob is in the woods (left) retrieving two paddles (thanks to Sam Buru on MESS for pointing out that he has two). Ethan (right) doesn't look like he has anything for Mogo Mogo. Remember, retrieving items from the woods during ht middle of a challenge is common. It happened it Survivor 1 (Gervase), Survivor 4 (Maramuu women/Pascal won that one), Survivor 7 (Morgan won thanks to Ryan O).

Also, Trix on EZ's MESS Hall makes a good point that Rob has excelled in the challenge so far, and he might beat Ethan in a race through the woods. Also, Ethan could be the one who "blows the challenge" for Mogo Mogo.

    

Above, we see the tribes in the last leg of the challenge. Everyone has oars. They race back to the podium where Jeff is at, and Chapera looks like it has a slight lead. The promo calls it "Too close to call." Notice Colby standing slightly.

    

(Left): Colby standing as the tribes are neck-and-neck. (Right): Chapera laughs probably before the challenge. Thanks to several people for pointing out that this is probably before the challenge.

  

(Left): Rob is glowing, but this is likely before the challenge (notice his hat on). 
(Right): Jerri stops being a b**ch for just a moment to be somber.

Snewser from SurvivorNews.net hinted before the game that the reward for this day's challenge was "a day on a yacht but it seemed to have multiple winners so maybe this was a tribal reward (Day 19)."

Since the challenge is a "photo finish," we have to trust positive vidcaps for Chapera, not-so-positive for Mogo Mogo and the fact that all the "drama" is going on at Mogo Mogo, that Chapera wins reward and immunity.
 

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Already pegged for a previous boot was ETHAN. They brought him to Mogo Mogo to get rid of him. He is a past winner, a challenge threat and can't fish at all. Can Lex and Colby save him another week? Then there's  Jeff Varner's spoiler about Ethan being a prima donna: "I've been told to look for a major pissy diva temper tantrum thrown by Africa winner Ethan Zohn. I'm told he will be very embarrassed at his behavior when America sees it."

We haven't seen this tantrum yet, right? Perhaps the Jeff Probst comments about a love triangle (possibly between Rob, Ethan and Amber) might happen and Ethan makes the merge, but not the jury.

Ethan also might be the one who blows the challenge for Mogo Mogo as he is running through the woods. "Sorry, I blew it!" is the title of the episode.

Then again, COLBY has also been targeted by the women of the tribe as being a power player (AKA: prime for booting). Shii Ann, Kathy and Jerri almost voted him out instead of Richard. The only thing that saved the Colbster was Lex and Kathy's alliance, which was shown in my Ep. 5 Insider Transcript. It looks like Kathy and Lex are controlling both sides of Mogo Mogo. And they have already chosen NOT to vote out Colby once.

But, in his post-boot chat and radio interviews, Richard makes several hints that Colby is a pre-merge boot. Richard says Mogo Mogo made "a big mistake" by voting him off and included Colby as one person who won't win. He also said nice things about Colby, hinting they spent some time together at Loser Lodge.

JERRI is being played up in the previews. "Why does the tribe hate her?" Since CBS is playing it up so much, we doubt she's the one who goes. But if everyone hates her that much, she could go. On the flip side, her conversation with Lex last week shows a small friendship there. And since Lex is one of the power players, and Jerri is not a threat at all, we think she sticks around for another episode or two. SHII ANN is also a possibility. She's really useless and can cause trouble.

   Prediction: Not totally sure, but for now, curb your enthusiasm for the Colbster.

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