Final Recap!
Once upon a time, there was a jungle rat on the beaches of Samoa who couldn’t be exterminated, no matter how hard people tried. Even after receiving almost thirty votes, the jungle rat continued. Weeks passed, and multiple plans to eliminate the jungle rat turned to shreds. With friends turned enemies and enemies turned allies, no matter how hard anyone tried, the jungle rat successfully played four idols. As his Postgraduates alliance secured the final four, the jungle rat again found themselves at the bottom of the barrel. Nevertheless, the jungle rat endured.
In a challenge out of a Saw film, all three guys endure tremendous pain to outlast the others. During the challenge, Kaelan focuses only on lasting another second more, while AJ butters up Kaelan’s mum by telling her how much everyone loves Kaelan. On the other hand, Myles uses those pole muscles in weird and awkward positions that somehow work for him not to drop out. However, the jungle rat cannot continue after two hours and twenty-five minutes, leaving the other two holding on for dear life.
As a dejected Myles hangs at the bench clutching his best friend, AJ goes to work on Kaelan and reiterates their final two deal. Kaelan doesn’t respond, and both precede to the last part of the challenge by stepping onto the tiniest and most uncomfortable-looking pegs for a showdown. After three hours, AJ suddenly slips and is carried to the bench by Kaelan, who then goes to JLP for his seventh immunity necklace.
The final three go to tribal council, where they jubilantly greet the jury. However, a serious-looking Zara erases their smiles, especially Kaelan’s, making him seem almost like a meme. Though ecstatic to have won the challenge, Kaelan is hesitant about his upcoming decision to choose either Myles or AJ to go with him to the end, as Kaelan previously promised both the same thing. After confering in private with AJ & Myles, Kaelan shocks everyone by taking Myles to the final 2.
Final 2 Tribal:
At the final tribal council, Kaelan’s pitch focuses on highlighting his superb physical game and underrated yet solid social game. Kaelan states he survived 21 tribal councils and only had one vote against him, as he was constantly overlooked but still had all the game’s information. Kaelan adds that he used Myles and AJ as strategic shields and took out AJ, who was considered the most significant strategic threat in the game. Kaelan finishes his initial speech by saying his social and physical gameplay was better than Myles’.
Myles’ pitch consists of pointing out it shouldn’t be physical/social gameplay vs. strategic one, but instead, of considering the numerous opportunities he took to improve his game. Myles recognises he had some mishaps and has personality flaws he should work on, but his love for the game and his devil-may-care attitude should also be recognised as the biggest tools in his arsenal. He also pinpoints that he made himself a helpful ally everyone wanted to keep as he took the heat of his alliances’ decisions and that the jury should consider his record-breaking number of votes against him as another way to look at his persistence and resourcefulness. Lastly, Myles also denotes how he used his advantages and idols to the best of their ability, how he used AJ and Kaelan against each other, and how he used them to burn down all of the jury members’ games in the process.
Questions from the Jury proceed and I guess Pkker was the theme of the day as the analogies of their moves to poker moves kept the conversations moving. Including AJ lambasting both guys for being delusional. Myles manages to defend himself reasonably well, whereas Kaelan isn’t able to protect his argument for bringing Myles and AJ to an end, as opposed to someone he could beat.
In the end, the jury cast their vote, and after a 7-1 majority and an excellent performance at tribal council, Myles becomes the winner of the season.
Congrats to ChuckieNZ who can now celebrate with an additional 250,000 of Australian funny money!
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