Episode 1
"You're about as mentally strong as that rock"-Keith Nale to Wes.
Wes and Keith recognize John Rocker immediately; Keith calls him an ass.
Jeremy wins first reward against Val, making her the first person sent to exile island; Jeremy chooses Keith to go with her.
Jeremy allies himself with Wentworth, Natalie, and Missy.
Dale takes small emblem off of well to maybe pass as a fake idol down the road.
Dale breaks glasses in half to start fire for tribe. This was smart, seeing as he was a big outsider with his tribe due to his age difference.
Drew "kind of a big deal" Christy jerks himself off for working on the shelter a lot.
Rocker considers voting out Wes because he knows who he is, while Wes thinks it brought them closer.
Dale warns the guys that Nadiya was a ruthless Amazing Race player and can't be trusted.
Val forms women's alliance (Baylor, Nadiya, Val, and Jaclyn); plan to pull in Josh and vote for Dale.
Baylor's allegance is to Josh more than the women alliance.
Nadiya repeatedly refers to Josh as half between a man and woman .
Nadiya ends up as the first boot of Survivor San Juan Del Sur (Baylor voted with guys and Josh voted against Baylor for whatever reason).
Favorites as of this episode: Dale, Keith, Baylor.
Episode 2
Josh admits to Baylor he wrote her name down. He did so because he knew Nadiya would go and wanted to seem distant from Baylor.
Jon loses the tribe flint and annoys people in general.
Rocker loses reward, sent to exile (is upset at being beaten by a girl), Jaclyn chooses Jeremy to join Rocker.
Hunahpu tries to trade beans for a new piece of flint; Probst gets pissed and chews them out like children.
Whole tribe now knows who John Rocker is (leaked by Alec).
Jeremy makes deal with Rocker to take care of each other's girls.
During an immunity matchup, Missy busts Baylor's lip pretty bad. Missy basically lets Baylor win. Also, Drew manages to root for the wrong member of the gay couple and has to be reminded which is on his tribe.
John Rocker finds immunity idol; proves there is no god.
Val claims to have 2 idols.
Rocker wants to split votes for Baylor and Val with the guys; tells Val to play her idol and Baylor is out (idk why Rocker wants Baylor out as opposed to Jaclyn, seeing as Baylor voted with him).
Val and Jaclyn call out Baylor for going with guys at Tribal.
Val and Baylor tied for votes.
In the revote, Josh flips and Val is voted out.
Favorites as of this episode: Baylor, Dale, Keith, Josh.
Episode 3
Josh no longer trusts Rocker, but still plans on sticking with guy's alliance.
No one likes Drew.
Rocker publically admits to trying to save Val.
Wes beats Keith, sending him to exile along with Josh.
Baylor tries turning the younger guys against Rocker.
"If you were a man, i'd knock your teeth out" -John Rocker to Natalie.
Rocker wants to blindside Dale instead of voting out a girl like his alliance is based upon.
Rocker tells Josh he has the idol (Josh then tells Wes, who tells Alec).
Josh and Baylor coordinate Rocker's blindside.
JOHN ROCKER IS VOTED OUT WITH AN IDOL IN POCKET AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!
Favorites as of this episode: Baylor, Josh.
Episode 4
Hunahpu finds lost flint; Drew wants to barter with Jeff again for fishing gear.
"This tribe would be NOTHING without me, you know?"-Drew "SurvivorMan" Christy.
Drew "Master Negotiator" Christy's trade offer is instantly shot down by Probst.
Jon beats Jaclyn, sending her to exile along with Drew (who requested to go).
Drew decides to throw the next immunity challenge for no real good reason; Please stop giving me reasons to have to write about Drew.
Keith can't find immunity idol; assumes Jeremy found it and tells Reed + the tribe women.
Reed tells Jeremy about this; Jeremy naturally no longer trusts Keith.
Keith then actually finds the idol LOL!
Drew follows through and throws immunity (calls himself the kingpin of his tribe).
Jon thinks Julie should go, as her loved one is gone and she contributes little.
Drew wants Wentworth out (convinced there's a girl alliance).
Meanwhile Jeremy wants Keith out.
Drew resfuses to bend, pissing people off and tempting people to vote for Drew.
Drew literally talks adamantly about voting Wentworth right in front of her.
With an incredibly scattered vote, Drew "Middle Name Joke" Christy is sent home (Drew votes Kelley, Jon votes Keith, Natalie, Julie, Missy and Jeremy vote Drew, Reed and Keith vote Julie).
Favorites as of this episode: Baylor, Josh.
Episode 5
Jon throws Drew under bus, knowing he's now alone on his tribe. Appeals to Jeremy (as everyone does. Jeremy in excellent place in tribe).
*TRIBE SWITCH*
New Tribes: Koyopa = Keith, Wentworth, Dale, Missy, Baylor, Jaclyn, Jon. Hunahpu = Wes, Alec, Natalie, Julie, Jeremy, Reed, Josh.
Baylor laughs about her mother's divorces in confessional LOLOLOLOL!
Jeremy wants to pull in Alec to secure the majority (assumes Josh will pull Reed over to the Koyopa side).
Missy and Baylor cook too much rice; Dale gets publically pissy (Baylor tells Missy he's been trying to vote her out) Kelley calms Dale down.
Hunahpu dying of hunger due to poor rice planning.
Keith is easy target for tribe due to being onyl one without loved (but he still has the idol).
Dale wants Baylor or Missy out; Jon and Jaclyn are swing votes.
Jaclyn hesitant to trust Baylor since she flipped earlier, but also thinks Dale is shady af.
Jon and Jaclyn and Keith all side with Missy and Baylor, splitting the votes between Dale and Kelley and sending Kelley home.
Favorites as of this episode: Josh, Baylor, Jeremy
Episode 6
Dale shows Jon his fake idol.
Jeff gives Hunahpu a rice supply, but at the expense of every item they have other than a pot and machete.
Reed chooses Julie to go to exile along with Baylor, but Natalie adamantly volunteers to go with Baylor.
Jon tells Missy abotu Dale's idol.
Natalie volunteered for exile to get close to Baylor and Missy.
Baylor shares idol clue with Natalie.
Jeremy continues to complain about how stupid his tribe is in confessionals.
Julie gets very emotional and considers quitting due to harsh camp conditions.
Jeremy needs her around, but if she's dead set on going, it'll at least keep him around longer; convinces Julie to stay.
Keith plans on picking off Dale now.
Dale makes promise to Jon; if Dale is kept tonight, Dale will give Jon his "idol".
Dale thinks Missy has the most ties with the other tribe and wants her out.
Jon tells Missy and Baylor and Jaclyn about Dale's idol offer; Baylor and Missy plan to split votes for Dale and Keith sending Dale home.
Ultimately Jon and Jaclyn side with Baylor and Missy again and Dale is voted out.
Favorites as of this episode: Josh, Baylor, Jeremy, Dale (not anymore I guess)
Episode 7
Keith is hurt he got votes last tribal and trusts Missy, Baylor, Jon, and Jaclyn less.
Josh worries about Jeremy having too much power post-merge.
Keith spits on ground; spit is better player and more likable than John Rocker.
*MERGE*
Jeremy lays out numbers: he has Julie and Natalie, and plans on pulling in Jonlyn and Misslor. Josh has Reed, Alec, and Westh.
Josh talk about how he has to get numbers to his side before Jeremy.
Keith forgets Wes's birthday and gives him a crab to make up for it LOOOOL.
Josh tries convincing Baylor to honor their earlier alliance and not side with Jeremy since she's still a pair and will be the first to go if she does.
Baylor is conflicted; she wants to vote Josh out, but worries about betraying him from a jury and moral perspective.
Missy tells her to suck it up and vote with Jeremy (first real conflict of ideas in a pair).
Josh notices Missy is breakign through to Baylor, so he turns to Jonlyn.
Once AGAIN, Jonlyn is the swing vote.
Julie hoards leftover trail mix from merge feast.
Missy supports a wanting-to-go-home Julie despite being annoyed by her.
Josh demonstrates his strong ability to read people and situations.
Jonlyn decides to side with Josh.
Julie officially quits because life is hard, and majorly screws over Jeremy, Missy, and friends (as Jonlyn was going to go with Josh, this saved Jeremy).
Favorites as of this episode: Josh, Baylor, Jeremy, Maybe Missy (can't really decide)
Episode 8
Jon is sent to exile by the winning reward challenge team.
at the reward (Keith, Wes, Reed, Jeremy, and Natalie), Keith pretends he wanted Julie gone last night. Jeremy sees through this.
Back at camp, Josh tries to work Baylor and get the target off his back. Josh heavily guilts her ("To be honest, I feel like you owe me at least one vote").
Jon finds the new exile island idol.
"I wish I had farts, and i wished she smelled them" -Alec in reference to Baylor.
Keith spits on ground.
Keith, Wes and Alec all flex their man muscles and annoy the piss out of the women of the tribe. including Jaclyn, whose vote they need.
Alec doesn't think it's important to talk to Jaclyn strategy wise because he thinks she'll do whatever Jon says.
Josh and Jeremy are final 2 in immunity challenge LOL (Jeremy ends up winning, fucking over Josh's plans).
Jeremy still plans on sending Josh out of the game.
Josh now turns to getting Baylor out (wouldn't work with him, so Josh wants her out).
Jaclyn no longer wants to side with the guys (aka Josh's side). Jon still wants Jeremy out due to him being too hard to beat in a f3.
Missy asks Keith who he's voting; Keith tells Missy that Baylor can fuck off because she doesn't work as hard as him.
Jaclyn is still in favor of Jeremy, Jon still in favor of Josh.
Natalie publically calls ou the guys treating Jaclyn like poopie.
Reed's public pitch to Jonlyn: "You guys are both likable competition threats, what's to prevent these singles from voting out you as a duo after they're done with you?"
Keith spits at tribal.
Baylor attributes her lack of trust in Josh to the first tribal where he flushed his vote towards her.
by one vote over Baylor, Josh is voted out and becomes the first member of the jury (Jonlyn both voted for Josh).
Favorites as of this episode: Josh (RIP), Baylor, Jeremy
Episode 9
Keith gets somewhat pissy publically over Jonlyn flipping (considers telling them to vote him off then playing his idol so Jon/Missy goes home basically out of spite).
After winning reward, Natalie gives up her reward for Jon, and Jeremy gives his up for Jaclyn. Both to secure Jonlyn on their side. Afterwards, Jeremy is sent to exile by his alliance so he can find the idol.
Reed sees through Natalie's social move and talks shit.
Jon pieces together that Jeremy will realize he has the idol when he gets back from exile.
Baylor wins immunity.
Reed goes through Keith's bag and finds the idol, then tells Missy and Jaclyn (soon everyone knows).
Keith spits in reponse and tells Wes they now know about his idol.
Jeremy and Natalie confront Jon and ask if he has the idol. Jon says no. But then tells Missy about having the idol and talks about possibly getting out Jeremy.
Reed, Jonlyn, and Missler take advantage of Jeremy and Natalie splitting their vote between Reed and Keith and blindside Jeremy.
Favortites as of this episode: Jeremy (RIP), Baylor, Reed
Episode 10
Reed debates whether he should stick with his Jonlyn alliance OR take out the new alpha male, Jon.
Jon now tells Nat about his idol.
Nat goes on a major idol hunt so she can take out Jon.
Reed gives up reward for Missy (partly to win her over some, partly to plot against Jon while he's gone); Jon sends Wes to exile.
Reed hopes that the majority alliance will split the votes between Keith and Wes, giving him an opportunity to use Keith, Wes and Alec to blinside Jon.
Baylor and Natalie co-find an idol (now Keith/Wes, Baylor/Natalie, and Jon/Jaclyn all have idols).
Baytalie plan to take out Reed tonight, then blindside Jon next week. Everyone wants poor Jon to be blindsided.
Asshole Probst eats candy in front of the survivors during endurance immunity LOLOLOLOLOL!
"Oh shniekes" -Baylor Wilson.
"Just like Jesus on the cross baby. If he can do it, I can do it" -Alec "Lamb of God" Christy.
Keith publically calls out the fact that all of Nat's allies dropped out of the challenge and left her to win it.
Wes tells the riveting tale of how he ate 58 chicken nuggets in the "eatin nuggets" competetion. Why is this endurance competion so funny???
Natalie tries to spit on ground but instead hocks big loogie on her shirt. Maybe she should take lessons from Keith.
Reed wins immunity; promptly does splits after crumbling from post.
Reed gets people on board to split the vote between Keith and Wes so his Jon blinside can go through.
Reed uses Wes stepping down in the challenge to subtly reaffirm the idea that Weith have an idol.
Keith accidentally lets Reed's plan slip.
Nat warns Jon to play his idol and he does (Keith also then plays HIS idol).
After both idols are played, the only votes that still counted were Jon and Jaclyn's, kicking Wes out of the game.
*PROBABLY THE BEST EPISODE OF THE SEASON*
Favorites as of this episode: Baylor, Reed
Episode 11 + 12
Jaclyn and Jon get over fight over the credit of Jon's idol play.
Majority alliance (Jonlyn, Missler, Nat) all discuss who to win publically in the rope-chop challenge after picking off the outsiders; Jeff gets pissed and just ends the challenge, giving Missy the elected winner the reward.
Missy sends Jon (volunteered) to exile.
Reed calls Baylor a brat lololol (turns into public fight between Missy and Reed).
Jaclyn considers her place within the alliance, being the only one not chosen for the reward
Jon finds the new Exile Island idol.
Nat and Baylor tell Missy about their idol, and form a final 3 pact.
Reed, Alec, and Keith go to work trying to take advantage of Jaclyn's isolation from her majority alliance.
Baylor and Nat get annoyed at Jaclyn supposedly flirting with Alec.
Keith wins immunity.
Jaclyn and Jon fight again; both getting increasingly paranoid as seen when Jon kinda snaps at Reed when Reed talks about working with them.
Natalie comes and breaks up Reed's pitch to Jonlyn; Jon hints he'd like to work with Reed.
Keith spits in response to Jon's love woes.
With tribal coming around and Jon and Jaclyn still not speaking, the tribe still unites, including his allies Alec and Keith,in voting out Reed.
Jonlyn make up and go back to playing house.
Alec sent to exile by Natalie.
Jon tells Nat he has the idol; Nat continues to twirl her pointy moustache and plot Jon's demise as revenge for Jeremy.
Nat and Baylor plan to pull in Alec and Keith to finally blindside Jon.
Jon wins immunity.
Nat and Baylor angerly shake fists in air; Plan B is to split votes between Alec and keith sending Keith home.
Nat has last minute idea to flip and send Alex home instead, keeping a loyal Keith around to help blindside Jon.
Much to Jon's dismay, Natalie follows through and Alec is voted off.
Favorites as of this episode: Natalie, Baylor
Episode 13
Nat pretends voting for Alec was a mistake; Jon beleives her.
Keith spits in celebration of being around for another day after Nat telling him that he's still here because of her.
Missy twits her ankle pretty badly during challenge; adamntly refuses Probst from looking at it (almost med evac'd, but since the game's almost over she's allowed to stay).
Jaclyn gets pissy with Jon winning reward, but he gives it to Baylor anyway.
Nat volunteers to go to Exile again.
"Keith Nale's Trip to the Spa" could be it's own spinoff show.
Jaclyn talks about the possibility that Nat voted Alec on purpose.
Natalie beats Jon in the immunity challenge
Jonlyn still believes Keith is easily going home while Natalie organizes Jon's blindside
Nat and Baylor's plan: Baylor and Missy will vote Jaclyn, Natalie and Keith will vote Jon, and Jonlyn will vote Keith. That way, if Jon DOES play the idol, at least Jaclyn can still be voted out.
Missy, however, is refusing to break her word with Jon.
Keith spits on ground at tribal while Alec stares blankly ahead with his mouth open in the jury.
MISSY ULTIMATELY GOES WITH THE PLAN! A 3-way tie is forced between Jonlyn and Keith, and on the revote, Jon is voted out with the biggest grin i've ever seen on Natalie's face.
Favorites as of this episode: Baylor, Natalie
FINALE
Keith builds tension with a slo-mo spit in the intro.
Jaclyn and Natalie naturally fight back at camp.
Missler and Natalie simply have to stick together and pick off Jaclyn and Keith at this point.
Keith wins an advantage in the next immunity challenge and practices for it literally all day.
Keith then wins immunity in a landslide.
"I'm good with balls" -Keith Nale.
Jaclyn tries convincing Nat to work with her, and everyone else just wants Jaclyn out.
Baylor tries convincing Nat to just play her idol on Missy since Nat doesn't need it.
NATALIE PLAYS HER IDOL ON JACLYN AND BAYLOR IS MAJORLY BLINDSIDED!
Jaclyn wins final immunity and makes it to Final 3.
Keith makes case to Jaclyn to vote Missy out, seeing her as a finals threat. Natalie, however, wants Keith gone.
Missy and Jaclyn also discuss voting out Natalie.
Ultimately, Keith gets the boot; takes a final conclusionary spit on his way out of tribal council.
Reed makes a scandalous Corinne Kaplan-esque jury speech towards Missy.
In a 4-2-1 vote, NATALIE IS THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF SURVIVOR: SAN JUAN DEL SUR!!!
Overall I think this was a GREAT season. Pretty well-rounded cast, including someone to hate (Rocker), a lovable underdog (Keith), great strategists (Jeremy, Nat, Josh), and some all-around likable people (Jon, Val). This season got GREAT and INTENSE with blindside after blindside post-merge, getting out potential winners left and right. A very dynamic and aggressive winner, Natalie is surely returnee material and a satisfying conclusion to a great season.
"Keith spits on ground."
Keith builds tension with a slo-mo spit in the intro.
Keith gets the boot; takes a final conclusionary spit on his way out of tribal council.
Lachie227 She was always kind of JUST short of being a favorite at the end, as well as Missy. It was kind of her pissy attitude with Jon that didn't do it for me.
Jon wins immunity.
Nat and Baylor angerly shake fists in air