One World Episode 10: Troyzan Vs The World

So lonely

The tribe have just got back from giving Jay the boot, and Troyzan's a little mad that Christina didn't vote with him. He reminds her she's on the block soon and Alicia accuses him of being aggressive, which is irony at its finest. Troyzan plays the "deserving" card, which does not fly with Chelsea, telling him to man up like Jonas did.

Oh, they have bacon in BLTs now?

It's the Survivor auction. Troyzan's got his eye on the challenge advantage. Sabrina buys cocktails, Leif buys a protein shake. Kim buys a shower for $40. I was hoping one of the girls would get it, wink wink. Kat fails at math and then is surprised to find bacon in her BLT sandwich. Kim buys peanut butter from the shower...naked women and peanut butter, together in Survivor again! Tarzan is keeping his name to repair the shocks on his jeep. But when letters from home come up, Alicia bids the full $500 to get a letter from her dad, and Tarzan gets caught up in the emotions and buys his too. Aww.

The challenge advantage comes up. Christina is the only one that can outbid Troyzan, so they all encourage her to beat him. She folds though, and Troyzan takes it, rather aggressively. Back at camp, Troyzan starts looking for an idol...he doesn't even know if there is one, but figures it can't hurt. He even puts a rock in his pocket like Rupert in an attempt to fake them out.

"Don't fuck with me!"

On to the challenge. It has three different legs, and Troyzan's advantage allows him to sit out the first one, which is untying ropes. I guess Tarzan finally finds something he's good at, because he moves on to the next round along with Kim and Christina. Round 2 involves bouncing coconuts to break drums, like they did in episode 5. Tarzan is the first to get one, then Troyzan goes into the lead with two. Kim and Tarzan catch up, but Troyzan gets it. Joining him in the final round will be Tarzan. The final leg tests their slingshot prowess, where they have to knock out boards again. It's a fairly close race with several near misses, but Troyzan wins, and his overenthusiastic yelling really turns off Sabrina.

Tarzan bathes his infant son

When they get back to camp, Tarzan tells Troyzan to be more "noble". Troyzan just tries to explain that it's his competitive nature coming out. Troyzan's win means that Leif is on the block, and he knows it. But while Leif continues to be useless as usual, Troyzan is actually working it, trying to gain numbers on his side by going to the people obviously on the bottom of the pecking order: Tarzan, Christina and Alicia. Will they bite?

Let's gain the numbers

Jeff usually likes to try and stir the pot at tribal council but this time it takes very little effort to get the fireworks going. Sabrina blasts Troyzan for his behaviour, calling him unlikeable, and Troyzan yells back at her, before both of them claim they aren't mad. Troyzan tries to throw the pecking order out in the open, but Kim, Chelsea, Kat and Sabrina all deny they're on the top. Alicia tells Jeff she's considered going along with Troyzan's plan, but doesn't know if she can trust Christina, who she hates.

When the votes come in, only two of them are for Kim like Troyzan wanted. The rest are for Tarzan and Leif, with the little guy being the one sent packing. Kind of a weak exit, but what do you expect from a player that's really done nothing? The rest of the tribe go back to camp, and Troyzan has to start his scrambling all over again.

STAR OF THE WEEK: TROYZAN ROBERTSON

I can see why people think he's a jerk, I just don't agree with it. I admire his passion and how he's fighting his heart out to stay in the game with unrelenting focus, doing everything that he can. Right now he's got the whole tribe running scared.