survivor thailand the fifth season of survivor premiered on september 19th 2002 with 16 new
players getting dropped off on the island of co-tower tau in thailand the tribes initially
looked to be divided by gender but jeff then reveals that the two eldest players jake and jan
will be the ones picking the tribes jake is the captain of sukjai and picks mostly young and fit
players while jin goes the opposite route as the picker of chewigon and assembles a group of mostly
older players at chewigon tiny immediately fell ill to the elements as she looked to be dehydrated
so being the einstein that he is pastor john thought this would be a good time to pull a prank
saying the small pool of salt water would be their only water source to help tanya yeah safe to say
this joke didn't exactly go over well with his tribe at sukjai jaiden mealy isolates himself
from the tribe as he catches fish instead of helping build the shelter we also see the first
argument between rob and xi'an a foreshouting of things to come between the two this season
at the meaty challenge gandhi completely chokes at the puzzle allowing sutra to come back and
win the first immunity of the season gandhi felt vulnerable for costing the tribe the challenge
along with tanya due to her sickness but at tribal pastor john's lack of social skills ended up being
his demise as he became the first person to be voted out of survivor thailand john trump spoken
on such ai we see the tribe dynamics officially start to form as after the tribe assembles food
most of the tribes feast however jed rob and stephanie choose to sleep on the beach
making them the outsiders on sujai at chewigon tanya's sickness wasn't getting any better and
after chui gone lost both the reward and a meaty challenge they knew they had no choice but to keep
the tribe as strong as possible moving forward thus eliminating the weakling tanya in a 5-2 vote
tanya and travis spoken
episode 3 now arguably one of the worst episodes in survivor history as the episode starts off with
the infamous grinding incident between ted and at first ghani accepted ted's story that he was
dreaming but she later went to jan and helen in an attempt to oust ted for his actions but when helen
told brian about the situation he approached ted about what was going on leaving ted furious and
knew he had no choice but to trust brian now say what you will about mr freeze but using
an icky situation like this to get his way is incredibly ruthless cold and most of all genius
despite the ugliness of all this we did get the iconic contact zone challenge where the
contestants continued to break the rules leading jeff to get visibly angry for the first time ever
stephanie what are you doing you were in the water you were close to the attack zone
no chad you weren't in the attack zone when you first made contact yeah
come on guys i'm like a broken record jen join your tribe members you're out of the game too
another basket from souk jai goes to chewie gone chewie gun ended up winning the challenge
which meant two thai soldiers would come to their camp to improve living conditions
at souk jai jed and rob lose their tribes water net since they fell asleep even further
in their already bad position within the tribe chewigon then wins their first immunity challenge
sending sukkai to their first triple council the minority alliance of jed robin stephanie target
xi'an due to rob simply not liking her but at tribal jed's perceived laziness and lack of
social gain made him the first boot for sukjai going home in a 5-3 vote dead tribe has spoken
stephanie and rob knew that they were on the outside now while gandhi knew that she was in
trouble at chuwigan since it was apparent that her plan to take out ted got flipped back to her
in a desperate act to save herself she attempts to form an alliance with the girls
and try to get them to realize how lazy the guys were around camp sukja would
end up winning both the reward and immunity challenge sending chewigon to an interesting
tribal as it looked to be a three-three gender split and while jan did side with
gandhi at the buddha clay helen sided with the guys eliminating gandia in a 4-2 vote
gandhi tribe has spoken
stay strong y'all see ya the fact that the best tribal council of the season only happened due to
grindgate tells you everything you need to know about thailand you put your hand in my hair and
you was massaging my head you was trying to me i got the feeling that you was trying to get with me
no no first of all i don't need to get with you second of all i'm not even attracted to you
so i mean it's not it's not even about that i am i am 150 to 200 happy with the wife that i have
anyway episode 5 begins with a pretty humorous moment as rob gets his foot stung by a stingray
and considering the douche he had been throughout the season i say this was pretty good karma for
the first and only time in survivor history the auction is held in the pre-merge and jeff
offers the players a chance to switch tribes which is something we saw play a huge role
in the cook islands but despite a temptation from jan as she knew she was on the outs nobody made
the switch at the immunity chewie gun pulled off a must-win challenge setting duke drive back to
tribal council in a vote between rob and stephanie the tribe felt that stephanie had become too weak
and knowing the next immunity challenge was crucial they spared the challenge threat rob
eliminating stephanie in a 5-2 vote stephanie tribe has spoken
good luck guys yeah with his allies of jed and stephanie now gone rob knew he was next to go
and started to reflect on his game a bit soup jai would end up winning the reward challenge earning
themselves a thai feast this left brian and the rest of chewie got really worried as they knew
just how crucial the next immunity challenge was and the last thing they wanted was for suit jar
to fuel up luckily for chewigon the immunity challenge wasn't strength based and chewie
gone won the 21 flag challenge after sukjai failed to get chuwigan to make the first move
throughout this episode rob began to realize that he had been a pretty big jerk throughout the game
and finally started to bond with his tribe and at a pretty cool tribal rob was unanimously voted out
but wasn't mad in the slightest and wished nothing but good things for his tribe mates
rob the tribe has spoken thanks brother
so much love dude you guys are real good luck for real you guys are all with me much love
episode 7 begins with the tribes receiving tree mail instructing the castaways to paint their
bodies with one color to represent themselves the tribes then meet up with jeff who tells the
castaways that they will pair up with the person that has the same color paint as them and will
spend the day together the five pairs took the time to get to know each other and the tribe
dynamics after this the castaways were surprised by a beast and this led to the obvious assumption
that the tribes were not merged and thinking that was indeed the case xi'an knowing she was
on the bottom of suit jai made her pitch to ted that she was ready to flip the chuwigan's side
however when the players arrived for the immunity challenge they were in for a massive surprise
aaron was it tough having two tribes live together on the same beach to be completely honest no not
at all it's actually much better having both tribes with together i never would have expected
our merge to have gone as smoothly as it has you said merge yes i certainly didn't
say anything to give you that impression did i two tribes will live together on the same beach
that's exactly what you're doing you are two tribes living on the same beach
i've said this before but even though sheehan is obviously at the bottom of chihuahuan as well
she was clearly more physically fit than the other chewie got members and just in general
had a better mind for the game and i think was really the only person who could have possibly
given brian a run for his money but no a stupid twist not only sent home a fan favorite but led
to probably the worst stretch of episodes in survivor history shannon the tribe has spoken
good luck here guys
in episode 8 we got the rare occurrence of the immunity challenge being an individual
challenge with the winner earning their tribe immunity the challenge was the brutal underwater
snorkel challenge and it came down to brian for chewigon and 60 year old jake for sukjai
brian defeated jake and essentially won the season at that point as any hope of an even split merge
went down the drain tsujai was absolutely devastated as they knew their games were
done and they were even tempted to reveal their tribal council votes to each other out of respect
but in the end they decided against this and at an emotional tribal council for the
final four suggest members aaron is voted out in a 3-1 vote aaron trump has spoken
the tribes finally merged at 8 on day 25 despite sukja doing the best they could to find a way in
it was no use as brian had chewie gun under his full control the final three
suggests are taken out in the next three episodes going from strongest to weakest
officially completing the longest and most boring pogongine in survivor history it's
the final five now and brian basically has a final two deal with everyone and it's really
up to him on how the end game plays out after ted wins reward he chooses helen to come along
with him and they agree to vote on clay at the next tribal but when they tell jan of
this plan she rats the two out to brian so after bryan wins the final five immunity challenge he
targets ted for a schematic play and being the biggest threat out of the remaining
chewing gum members and at tribal even helen jumps on board to unanimously vote him out
dead tribe has spoken
take care all right you guys okay there's been some rumors about if there was more to this vote
off as apparently brian made a comment along the lines that there couldn't be another black winner
and even clay might have had it against ted for a skin color but we don't know for sure
and quite frankly i don't want to know for sure it's the finale now thank god and brian is still
in full control he ultimately picks clay as the person he wants to bring to the final two
feeling he's far more beatable than helen and jan brian would then go on to win the final
four immunity his second in a row knowing brian and clay were tight helen and jan had no choice
but to vote for each other especially since the concept of a fire making challenge hadn't been
introduced yet and both of them wanted to avoid being the next pascal in the end brian and clay
choose the vote out helen making her the sixth member of the jury ellen the tribe has spoken
it's time for you to go jan brian and clay honor their fallen comrades before heading to their
final immunity challenge this final muni challenge is absolutely brutal and visually stunning
and is literally one of the best things about this season clay drops out knowing both jan and
brian are taking them to the end hence no reason to suffer in this challenge and after a decently
hard fight all things considered jan dropped her coins giving brian final immunity his third
straight immunity win at tribal brian sticks to his final two deal with clay voting out jan
and making her the final member of the jury janet the travis spoke
it's time for you to go
brian and clay say goodbye to their camp before facing off against the jury
this jury is pretty brutal to the two as brian got called out for his lack of feelings for others
and overall ruthless gameplay while clay's lack of work ethic and overall less than
friendly attitude was called out as well this vote does come down to ted
who again wasn't quite the predicament if the stories are true but in the end he sides
with jake helen and jan and voting for brian giving him the title sole survivor of survivor
thailand and mercifully putting an end to this painful season the winner of survivor thailand
brian
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