survivor palau premiered on february 17 2005 as for the first time ever 20 new castaways were
chosen to compete for the title of soul survivor and the 1 million prize that goes with it jeff
announces that there are two individual mini necklaces at the beach and the first male and
female to retrieve them will be immune although further details are left up for question stephanie
and jelana jump out the boat and attempt to get them but that completely backfires and in the end
ian and jalonda earn immunity for their respective genders the 20 castaways then get to work around
camp and tom immediately takes on the leadership role colby feeling like there would be some sort
of tribal council twist paints jonathan as a potential target as he wasn't seeming to
fit in socially with the tribe and on day two the castaways are finally revealed of the big
twist and why the immunity necklace was so important ian and jolanda would be safe and
get the first pick for their respective tribes karor and oolong the castaways would alternate
in gender in a schoolyard pick with the male and female not chosen being sent to him immediately
with no real chance to play survivor jonathan was indeed not chosen for the men while wanda
wasn't picked for the woman as she was arguably the weakest physical player in the game and so in
the meanest twist in survivor history jonathan and wanda were sent home god bless those two
anyway after that depressing start to the season the tribes competed in their first immunity
challenge to which coral won something you'll get used to me saying in this video angie was on the
chopping block as she was the last one picked for oolong but stephanie felt that yolanda should go
feeling that joanna going for supplies cost him the immunity challenge in the end stephanie got
her way as jolanda went from captain to first boot going home in a 6-3 vote john trump spoke
angie was obviously relieved to still be in the game but knew she was on thin ice due to her
weak perception so at the reward challenge she stepped up for oolong basically single-handedly
winning the tribe flint on both tribes there were showmances forming as greg and jen were
seeming to flirt with each other while jeff and kim weren't even hiding their cuddling at night
at the immunity challenge coral got back on track to win their second straight of ud king really
slacked off in the challenge and between that and her showmance with jeff she seemed all but done
but essentially out of nowhere james targus ashley has the weakest link of the tribe as she had grown
pretty sick the past couple days in the end ashley went home in a 6-1-1 vote ark will be taking up a
top five spot as the most forgettable player in survivor history nationally the tribe has spoken
we start off episode 3 with the first signs of karen acting like a karen as she got into
a petty argument with katie over the shelter and i just had it and i just decided to confront her
i i wanted to stop and i've just had enough now i don't want to make waves
no this is between you and me i'm not making a scene in front of the tribe
everything i say you have some snotty reminds me i throw a freaking skit on the fire you're like oh
they used to don't throw stuck in the fire don't tell me what to do katie don't tell me what to do
anymore i'm done hearing it and i also think this would be foreshadowing of how the jury would end
up perceiving katie we also see ian and tom really start to bond as they bust their asses to feed the
tribe for the second consecutive episode oolong would win a reward but lose the immunity sending
them to the third straight travel council to start the season kim looks to be all but finished
once again but a couple days prior jeff injured his ankle by accidentally stepping on a coconut
which forced him to sit out of the immunity challenge and being that he was a team player
jeff offered himself up to the tribe as he thought his ankle would just continue to bring them down
even further and in general the pain of his ankle is way too much to handle despite this bobby john
and james still fully believe that an injured jeff would be better for the tribe than kim
and both her tribal but the rest of oolong honors jeff's wishes sending him home in a 4-2-1 vote
kill karor jeff travis spoke
the constant losing from oolong was starting to wear on the competitive stephen lagrossa for the
reward challenge the tribes were given home depot tools and were instructed to build a bathroom
with the tribe making the best bathroom earning a new shelter ian was selected as captain for karor
while james was chosen for oolong in a challenge that sums up the failures of oolong to a t
james who literally worked as a steel worker failed to lead his tribe to victory as he was
beat by 23 year old ian james was furious after this along with all the other oolong members and
things got even worse when they lost their four straight immunity challenge after scraping by the
last two tribals kim had nowhere to hide at this point as she became the fourth casualty for oolong
kim trap is spoken
it's time for you to go episode 5 begins with oolong getting lost on their way back to tribal
good lord this tribe is pathetic willard then pops up on our screen for the first time only
to be lambasted this entire episode by his tribe as they felt he had an easy free ride in the game
as he had been sitting out of all the challenges but if you ask me i think willard was just playing
like one of the best to ever do it anyway at the meeting challenge jeffrey reveals that
both tribes will be going to tribal council to vote somebody out with the winning tribe going
to tribal council first and then they would attend the losing tribes tribal council to the shock of
no one karo and immunity meaning they would give vital information from oolong although to be fair
i'm not sure what uloan could possibly say other than they suck the show doesn't even really hide
willard going here as he even missed this game as a bit too much for his personality type and the
fact that he was 56 didn't help either however he did throw out katie's name and while katie wasn't
considered for this episode colby and greg agreed that down the road they should join forces with
january and jen to blindside the katy tom and ian trio at carror's tribal as expected willard was
sent home unanimously but gave his tribe a strong message on his way out willard travis spoken
it's time for you to go stay strong stick to the plan finish them off on oolong ibrahim
seemed to be the target as he caused the tribe the challenge but in a twist karora got to vote
to give individual immunity to one player and firsthand seeing him cost too long the challenge
they granted ibrahim immunity with ibrahim no longer an option the votes were now all over
the place as ibrahim was completely out of the loop and voted for james while the guys voted
for angie and the girls voted for bobby john but on the rebout stephanie and ibrahim switched her
boats to angie making her the sixth person to be voted out of survivor palau angie travis smoke
as if things weren't already bad enough for oolong things were now made even more awkward with the
original boot ibrahim still being in the game along with bobby john and james being on edge
after they received unexpected votes luckily their spirits were rejuvenated as they won the
third reward challenge of the season and spent the day at jellyfish lake while snacking on pringles
on kerora we got some foreshadowing for janu as the elements were really starting to drain her
however tom being the leader that he was raleigh genu through the pain at least for
the time being despite finally seeming to have some sort of momentum oolong quickly went back
to the losing ways losing their six straight immunity to start the season knowing they're
going to be a tribal three after tribal bobby john and stephanie pleasure allegiance to each
other for the foreseeable future but despite their partnership they were on different sides on who to
send home as bobby john was closer to ibrahim than james while stephanie still wanted ibrahim gone
especially after he was supposed to go home last tribal council the original vote is
indeed a 2-2 split on ibrahim and james but on the re-vote stephanie caves in sending
home james miller one of the more forgotten great primitive characters and off survivor
james tribe's spoken
it's time for you to go the name of episode 7 is the great white shark hunter and this would be
a reference to tom as he single-handedly caught a shark to the amazement of his tribe seriously
pretty much of course pretty much content revolved around how great tom was at everything but this
completely topped it all as how could he not think of tom as a badass after this on oolong bobby john
and stephanie confirmed their partnership and after oolong lost both the reward and immunity
challenge their partnership was put to a test as stephanie was terrified that bobby john would
side with ibrahim especially since the two voted together at the last tribal council and in general
she feared that bobby john simply related more to ibrahim but at tribal council bobby john stuck to
his word with stephanie taking out ibrahim in a 2-1 vote eighth person voted out of survivor palau
abraham need to bring me a torch abraham travis
as hard as it was to believe oolong was now a tribal too but the bond bobby john is definitely
had for each other kept their will and hope alive on koror we got some foreshadowing of kobe's
downward spiral as he was very vocal about the laziness of certain players on his tribe so i got
up this morning i moved the shark head i moved the guides because nobody was doing anything as usual
i'm the one who has to go get firewood i'm the one who has to keep the fire going i'm the one
who has to boil the water i'm the one who has to go hunt dude those girls don't do anything
especially jennifer katie engineer katie and jennifer don't do anything all day long i've
never seen them touch a piece of wood since we've been here and now janu is on her eighth straight
day of boohoo i wanna go would you quit already as if things weren't already bad enough for steph
and bobby john survivor forced them to compete in the gross food eating competition for reward
bobby john tried his best but he simply couldn't get the food down leading to a crore victory
on kerr time revealed to ian that he had an alliance with stephanie when the game first
started before there are even teams thus making it a very tough decision for him
on who to send home if stephanie was indeed the only oolong member to make the merge at
the final pre-merged movie challenge of the season oolong had one more chance to break
this unfathomable losing streak take a wild guess on how it goes kroor thinks they have it
victory at sea carrara is right core wins immunity again
eight immunity challenges and eight losses just absolutely insane
karol reflects on their dominance and celebrates the fact that all them are
guaranteed a spot on the jury while bobby john is definitely pondering the challenge
the two of them will have to compete in to stay in the game at tribal jeffrey feels
that bobby john and stephanie will duke it out in a fire making challenge as of course fire
represented life and survivor despite her doubts about beating bobby john in a fire
making challenge steph just edged out bobby john making her the last oolong member left
standing and making bobby john the first survivor player ever to go home via fire making challenge
bobby john the tribe definitely did not speak tonight nonetheless it's time for you to go
steph returned to oolong all by herself as for the first and only time in survivor history a
tribe consisted of just one member completely alone stephanie doesn't stop biting and gets to
work around camp but when tremail arrived she was beyond excited to read that she would be joining
caror's camp karor who were all sick of each other at this point welcomed in stephanie with open arms
even though there wasn't an official merge this season the game was now individual and
the final nine enjoyed a feast everyone was having a good time except for one person and that person
was colby kobe was pretty much over everyone on his tribe as not only was he sick of the girl's
drama and laziness around camp but he was even jealous of tom for his amazing leadership and at
the immediate challenge kobe didn't hold back as he exposed the alliances and secrets of everyone
in his tribe while most of the other players bailed out for food during the challenge tom
fought for immunity winning his first one the decision for coreos was tough as while kobe was
essentially tanking his own game they felt that they couldn't let a tough woman like stephanie
make it a day further in survivor but at tribal council kobe once again spilled the player's
strategy and openly admitted that he disliked most of his tribe mates so completely having
enough of colby everyone other than janu votes for him making colby the first member of the jury
kobe tribe has spoken
after being left out of the boat and in general feeling overwhelmed by the elements
of survivor for the entire game janu lashed out at greg and kd at the reward challenge
the final eight were split up into two teams of four and the team of karen greg tom ingenu
won reward but even on reward janu couldn't enjoy herself as she threw up during the feast
but hold on we're not done with you knew as gray brought back some leftovers for the losing tribe
but she and karen both got into the goods as well despite literally being on the winning team
at the tortoise rising tide immunity challenge jeff said that the first person to drop out
would be sent to an untouched beach aka the first installment of exile island okay yes janua's had
a bad episode but surely she won't be exiled right are you starting to panic a little yeah
just like that the news out
after timeout lasted the rest to win a second straight immunity junu was sent to exile island
despite the isolation january was actually happy to be by herself and away from her
tribe mates that were annoying the crap out of her and speaking of those tri mates the
rest of karora debated on who to send home while they thought about janu everyone agreed that she
wasn't that dangerous to anyone's game at this point and agreed they couldn't let stephanie
get any further however when january turned for tribal council things got really heated and sick
of her tribe and the game in general she threw a wrench in their plans to take out stephanie
so i would be willing to lay down my torch so that stephanie can have a chance to stay in the game
chanu for your wishes this game is over for you but you will not go
home you'll return and be a part of our jury thank you good night
it's the final seven and unbelievably stephanie is still in the game and not only that but she had a
clear shot now to be in the majority as there were four women left compared to the three men
so she campaigned to the other females that it would be smart for them to team up against the
strong guys who were all closely aligned katie and jen strongly considered this but karen wasn't
having any of it as she felt stephanie was too threatening to take to the top four the auction
then returned after a three season hiatus and the final seven bidded for food and luxuries but as a
tribe they collectively agreed to buy letters from home and after the auction they all read their
letters as motivation for the rest of the game at the immunity challenge tom came close to winning
once again but he would end up accidentally hitting one of ian's tiles and in the end
ian won immunity stephanie continued to fight hard like she had been all game but in the end
she just simply didn't have the numbers and was sent to the jury in a unanimous vote
putting an end to the amazing underdog run of the beloved stephanie lagrossa
it's the final six now and after their dominance all game the tribe was now strictly made up of
crore members with all six of them being pretty close to each other but at the reward challenge
greg won but this would turn out to be a game ending victory as he picked katie and jenna
joined him on reward while the three enjoyed a massage and a surprise visit from their loved ones
back at camp karen made a final three pitch to ian and tom and if they could get katie on board
to break up greg and jen the three of them would have the majority moving forward after
ian won his second immunity he approached katie with a plan to blindside greg which put her in
a swing vote spot at tribal council greg and jen voted for karen believing she was the easy vote
but katie wanting to avoid a possible rock draw sided with karen ian and tom to blindside greg
greg trap has spoken
jam was obviously shocked at the blind side of her showman's partner but tried to play as cool as
possible before the reward challenge ian promised katie he would take her on reward if he won
but after he indeed won himself a new chevrolet corvette he elected to bring tom with him instead
much to the anger of katie feeling betrayed katie approached john and karen with the proposal
of another girl's alliance but she was easy to persuade it back to ian's side after he begged
her for forgiveness at the moody challenge tom won his third immunity securing himself a spot
in the final four after the challenge tom and ian did indeed ponder if the woman formed a majority
alliance against the two of them leading ian to once again confirm his alliance with
katie at tribal it looked to be a potentially good vote as katie was in a swing vote spot
but then karen lived up to her name once again that katie and greg have decided on the next to go
so they said it's hard tom you know i'm such a liar ian so did not trust katie that he didn't
tell katie until five minutes before we left for tribal council that greg was going out because
he was so concerned that she was going to run absolutely not greg and to jen man what's with
everyone blowing up their games at tribal this season obviously no longer trusted by anyone
karen has voted out unanimously making her the fifth member of the jury karen travis spoken
it's time to go it's now the finale and it's obviously a two hours race between the power
players of the season and ian and tom knowing tom stood in his way ian plotted against him
with katie and jen to blindside tom if he were to lose immunity unfortunately for ian
tom would end up winning the final four mini challenge securing himself a spot
in the final three tom ian and katie celebrate the fact that they would be in the final three
as they made this final three alliance on day two however ian stupidly admitted to tom that it would
have been a tough decision for him had he not won immunity stunned that ian would even contemplate
voting out his closest ally tom talked to the outsider jen who spilled the beans to tom that
ian in fact told her and katie that he would have voted for tom had he lost immunity so no
longer trusting ian tom sides with jen to vote for him but luckily for ian katie sticks by his side
after the revolt was once again deadlocked the two competed in the first final four fire making
challenge in survivor and the second firemaking challenge this season ian dominated the challenge
much to the dismay of tom thus making gem the sixth member of the jury jen trump's spoken
it's time for to go up guys after tribal tom and ian got into a heated debate over
honor and integrity this led the three to the final movie challenge where it's
revealed they'll have to hold on to a baba bowie for as long as possible
katie dropped out first leading to ian and tom two players who have quite the journey with each other
to duke it out for one million dollars i think it's safe to say they weren't going down easily
after spending nearly half the day on the baba booey ian comes to a realization
and makes a pitch to tom i'll uh i'll go now and take katie
you will step down yeah if he doesn't take you but instead takes katie as a way to to show that you
do care about this just to show that i gained you yeah he wouldn't do that yep i would do it
ian steps down tom wins final immunity who are you voting out of this game tonight
uh i'm gonna vote out my buddy and he's just a hell of a guy and
i respect you tom and katie now a completely lopsided final two as tom dominated the game
strategically and physically and come on who could not love the guy katie received
a complete bashing by the jury for being annoying in a coattail rider
and months later tom was revealed the winner of survivor palau beating katie in a 6-1 vote
and to this day remains one of the most popular survivor winners ever the winner of survival
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