EPISODE 10
Craig, Mama Z, Kate, and Fiona win a reward of a trip to the mud pits and a feast. Kate and Kyle continue to find things in common, and prove to be the strongest pair in the game. Mama Z doesn’t trust Craig after last tribal council, and vows not to work with him. Raleigh wins immunity. Craig is upset about Mama Z turning on him, and decides that now is a good time to vote against her because she’d do well in a FTC. However, Kyle would like to see Jeff go, not only were Jeff and Raleigh a strong pair, but at the end, Jeff could win due to making friends on the Edge. Fiona vowed to Mama Z that she’d vote for Jeff. At the end of the day, Kyle stuck with Kate, who was aligned with Jeff and Raleigh, and those 4 and Craig voted Mama Z. Alex decided to betray Mama Z as well with his new foursome alliance, leaving a shocked Mama Z getting sent to the Edge by a vote of 6-2.
EPISODE 11
Jeff wins the Loved Ones reward challenge. He decides to bring Craig and Alex, two guys who were previously close to Mama Z, but chose to side with him, and as a way to show his appreciation, he brought them. Raleigh also bonds with Alex after he sided with their alliance. Meanwhile, Kate is shown Kyle’s idol, and despite them being great friends, she starts to think that it might be best to get him out of the game soon, as he’ll overshadow her. Craig wins another immunity challenge! Kyle thinks that now is the best time to get rid of Jeff since he not only has friends on the jury, he let Craig and Alex see their families, which is threatening. However, Kate had other ideas. She wanted to send Fiona out of the game, since she was slipping by due to being a goat. Kate wanted this vote to exclude Kyle, that way if they reached the end together, this was something that could be considered “her” move, not his. Craig sided with Kyle and they voted for Jeff with Fiona, but the foursome alliance of Kate, Alex, Jeff, and Raleigh blindsided Fiona 4-3, sending her to the Edge.
EPISODE 12
Everyone on the Edge reads letters they wrote to themselves before the game started. Craig wins a reward of a helicopter tour over the islands followed by a feast at a resort. He shares it with Kyle, who was also blindsided by the vote at the last tribal, and his other ally Alex, as a way to try and win him back from his other allegiances. After Jeff sees that Kyle was trying to get him out, they have a small bickering match. Craig wins yet ANOTHER immunity challenge. Jeff is targeting Kyle, Raleigh is targeting Jeff. Alex decides he might want to stick with Craig and Kyle after they all bonded at the reward, and vote for Jeff. Raleigh considers flipping on Jeff to pad her resume, but the alliance overall of Raleigh, Jeff, Alex, and Kate want to vote Kyle out. Kate is excited to pull off this blindside. Kyle chooses NOT to play his idol at tribal council. But, this move paid off! Kate and Jeff were left in the dark, as Raleigh flipped on her alliance with Alex, Craig, and Kyle, and the four voted Jeff out, 4-2.
FINALE, Pt. 1
The 12 people who have been voted out of the game, besides TG, who left the game, compete to get back in. Sarah wins the re-entry challenge! Sarah was voted out by Craig and Alex in the premerge. After Kate was blindsided, she had no interest in working with Alex and Raleigh, and Alex was more loyal to Craig, so the alliance really just fell apart. Kate wins immunity after she was stabbed in the back, as well as a reward of a steak dinner. She took Raleigh and Alex, but they didn’t get anywhere. Kate campaigned to these 2 to get rid of Kyle because he is a huge threat in the game, meanwhile Kyle wanted to get Sarah out of the game because she, like Jeff, was a threat due to bonding with people on the Edge of Extinction. Craig and Kyle were voting for Sarah, and it seemed like Alex was also leaning that way. This left Raleigh in the middle. Kyle once again decides to hold on to his immunity idol. This proves to be a good move once more, since only Sarah and Kate voted for him, while the same 4 that voted Jeff out vote Sarah out, 4-2.
FINALE, Pt. 2
Craig and Kyle bond over getting so close to the end together after being in the minority such a long time ago at Kama together. Kyle wins immunity! Kyle wants Kate out after all of the plotting she’s done against him, meanwhile Kate tries to get Raleigh to vote Alex, she makes the same plea to Craig, and makes the argument that he needs a big move, not just immunity wins to win over a jury. Kyle decides to play his idol on Craig, so the 2 can make the final 4 together. Unfortunately for Kate, Kyle stuck to his guns and he and Alex voted for her. However, Raleigh stuck with Kate in voting for Alex, and Craig decided to make one of the biggest moves all game and flipped on his ally Alex, sending him to the jury, 3-2.
FINALE, Pt. 3
Craig was able to win the final immunity challenge of the season. He felt that the last move he made in getting rid of Alex was big enough to put him above Kyle, and he felt that he owed Kyle for saving him last tribal, so he saved Kyle, leaving Kate and Raleigh to make fire against each other. Unfortunately for Kate, Raleigh is able to win the fire making challenge, making the final 3, Kyle, Craig, and Raleigh. All three have been big players and made big moves. They face the jury: Alex, Alvaro, Amy, Aria, Bubba, Daniel, Fiona, Jeff, Kate, Layla, Mac, Mama Z, Oli, and Sarah. Let’s revisit their games, in alphabetical order.
Craig: Craig started out on the Kama tribe. Craig immediately formed a close bond with Bubba, and that resulted in an alliance between him, Kyle, TG, and Bubba. Craig quickly saw that TG wasn’t to be trusted, so he gunned for her, but the rest of Kama ganged up on his closest ally Bubba and sent him to the Edge. Craig was swapped onto the new Manu tribe into a minority. Craig is able to use his social game to bond with Aria, getting him into the Manu alliance on the tribe, and the 4 of them voted Sarah out unanimously. Craig is able to reunite with Kyle at the merge. Craig is blindsided by Alvaro’s idol play, but in the next round he’s able to win immunity and he guns for Alvaro to finally put him on the jury. He and his alliance from new Manu as well as his Kama connection, Kyle, vote against Alvaro with several others and get him out of the game. Craig decided to turn on his new Manu alliance and voted with Kyle, getting Mac out of the game at the next round. At the final 9, Craig won immunity. His alliance wanted Kyle out and the other alliance wanted Aria out. In order to not pick sides, he threw a vote Jeff’s way. After this, Mama Z doesn’t trust him anymore, he sees this and decides that he needs to get rid of her, especially since she can win over a jury. He succeeds in getting people to flip, blindsiding Mama Z by a vote of 6-2. At the final 7, he was brought on the Loved Ones reward because Jeff appreciated the moves he was making, and he was able to win immunity. Craig is also able to win the next immunity challenge. At the final 6, Craig had tight alliances with Kyle and Alex, and they voted Sarah out together. Craig knew at the final 5 that if he got to the end with Alex, Alex would get new Manu’s jury votes, and he knew Kate and Kyle would take each other out at the four, so he flipped over to Kate and Raleigh and made the huge move of blindsiding his close ally Alex. Craig won the final immunity challenge. He saved Kyle due to their early alliance, leaving Kate and Raleigh to make fire.
Kyle: Kyle started out on the Kama tribe. Kyle formed a tight bond with Bubba, and ended up in an alliance of him, Craig, TG, and Bubba. His ally TG started to gravitate towards a new alliance, so he joined her but it left him at a crossroads at tribal council. He threw his vote for TG, but the majority took his close friend in the game, Bubba out. Kyle was swapped onto the Lesu tribe with TG, the girl who had just turned on his alliance and who he voted for. He and TG were able to work past it and cast their votes for Amy, but the other girl from Kama, Fiona, flipped on him unexpectedly and sent his only ally on his tribe out. In a twist that brought two tribes to tribal council, Kyle is reunited with a friend from Kama, Kate, and they are able to vote with everyone else to get Amy out. At the merge, Kyle was able to find a hidden idol. He also had two strong allies in the game, Craig and Kate, only problem was that they were on different sides of the tribe. At the first vote, he chose to stay loyal to Kate and voted Daniel out after Alvaro’s idol play. At the next tribal council, Craig forgave him and they worked together to knock Alvaro out of the game. Kyle bonded with Raleigh, and decided to work with her and Kate at the next vote to knock Mac out, and he was able to get Craig to work with him. Kyle did damage control after Oli was supposed to be voted out, and Alex was quick to forgive. Kyle and Kate continued to strengthen their relationship in the game, and Kyle managed to win immunity here. Kyle wanted another big move in getting rid of Aria, but at the end of the day, his ally Kate threw a vote towards Aria in case Oli had an idol, but he and 7 others voted Oli out of the game. At the final 9, Kyle was gunned for, but his connection to Kate saved him, as he and her alliance of 4 voted Aria out of the game. Kyle wanted Jeff out, but submitted to Kate and Craig and sent Mama Z out of the game instead. Kyle showed Kate his idol at final 7, but this proved to be a risky move, as Kate decided she couldn’t take Kyle much further. At the first final 6, he was targeted, but correctly chose to hold on to his idol. At the next tribal council, he was targeted again, but once again correctly chose to hold onto his idol, and he and everyone but Kate voted Sarah, the new Edge returnee out. Kyle won immunity, foiling Kate’s plans once again. He decided that he, his ally Craig, and Craig’s ally, Alex could finally take Kate out. He used his idol on Craig since he trusted him the most. At the final 4, his favor was repaid when Craig saved him from making fire.
Raleigh: Raleigh started out on the Manu tribe. At the first tribal council, she gunned hard for Amy in order to keep Layla safe, however she was the only one on the wrong side of the votes, besides Layla, who was voted out. Then, she began to grow more attached to Jeff as they found stuff in common. However at the next tribal council, her friend Jeff was unable to flip as was she, so it went to a rock draw, and Jeff was rocked out, sending her best friend in the game out twice in a row. Raleigh was swapped onto the Lesu tribe with Amy, who she had been gunning for. TG wanted to get rid of Amy, but Raleigh reacted to this poorly, wanting to keep as many Manus in the game as possible, and she was able to get Fiona to flip and blindside TG. When a twist that brought two tribes together, she saw the way things were going and flipped on her Manu tribemate Amy, as a way to gain trust with everyone else. After rolling with the numbers for a couple votes, she decided to take some agency in the game, and formed an alliance with her old friend Jeff, and two members from different factions in the game, Alex and Kate. She also worked her social game with Kyle and Oli. The original plan for the round was to get rid of Oli, but she had a relationship with Oli at this point, and she was able to turn Kyle over to vote with them, and they got Mac out instead. Raleigh’s alliance at the final 9 succeeded in blindsiding Aria, who had an idol. At the final 8, they continued their dominance by voting Mama Z out. At the final 7, Raleigh and her alliance were able to take Fiona out in a blindside. At the first final 6, Raleigh knew she needed a big move to pad her resume, and targeted her close ally in the game, Jeff. She was able to flip everyone but Kate, and she got that huge move of sending the first Edge returnee out. At the final 5, Raleigh joined Kate’s plan to vote Alex out. At the final 4, she got a hero moment in front of the jury when she beat Kate in the fire making challenge.
