Week Sixteen Tribal Council

Kim Tribe before Tribal Council

Well needless to say it has been a stressful and busy week for three of the remaining nine contestants. The team of Steve, Cowin and Elliott lost the immunity challenge this week, and as such only one of the three of them could be voted out. The other six were sitting pretty, with all the power in their hands. Steve had never felt this vulnerable before. Since the beginning of the game his charm and personality had gotten him into early alliances which had always protected him. Now no alliance could save him, and he had to try and convince people to vote against Cowin. Because Steve and Elliott were still essentially in the same alliance, they knew they had to try and get as many of the six to vote against Cowin as possible. Elliott had not had an easy run to get to the merge. He was almost voted out of his original tribe, and very recently he was almost voted out over Chris. He wasn’t ready to go, so he had to convince people to vote Cowin. It was not as if Cowin would go easy however. He coasted through his first tribe, but since then every week has been a test, and he didn’t want to lose this time.

The six were not sure what to do. Kyle and Scott had to recognize the threat brought by Elliott and Steve staying together, but at least everyone knew (or thought they did) what those two guys were about. No one knew what Cowin was up to, so he was more of a loose cannon. German was in the same alliance with Elliott and Steve, so he was feeling that it would not be the most trustworthy thing to vote against one of them. The only one of the three that Jord knew was Cowin, and they were pretty good friends, so it was highly likely that he would vote against either Steve or Elliott. As camp was a pretty stressful place Silas and Dirks decided to get away from it all. So they took their boat out to fish. It was a beautiful day, and they weren’t going to let all the strategy ruin it for them.

Kim Tribal Council

Well I hate to do this so late in the game, especially when it was just an interesting vote layout, but it seems that there will be no vote this week. And that is because even on Week 16, someone missed Tribal Council. Actually, for the first time its two people. Guess who they are? Okay, I will tell you… it’s the skinny fishermen Silas Pedro Esq. and Nathan Dirks. But since I don’t want to eliminate both of them, I decided to randomly eliminate one of them.

And just so there is no doubt about my random methods, I wrote each name on slips of paper, shuffled them and put each in one hand. I had my room mate Adam Clarke pick one of my hands with Tyler Wells as a witness. The hand that Adam picked sheltered the name of the contestant that will be eliminated this week.

So the 4th person eliminated from the Kim tribe and the 32nd person eliminated from Survivor Hamilton Two is…

Nathan Dirks


And again, Survivor surprises us all. For being such a strategic lightweight, Dirks lasted way longer than I thought he would. Heck at the end there he even began to strategize a fair bit, to make his way to the final. He was the runner up of SH1, and he should be very proud of how far he came in this game.

On a side note, recently I began to think that Dirks would probably win this thing. That is the same thing I thought about Tyler last week. I guess I gotta stop making predictions.

This weekend on Week Seventeen of Survivor Hamilton Two… the week you have all been waiting for.