‘Survivor 47’ Episode 11 recap: Who was voted out in ‘Flipping the Win Switch’? [LIVE BLOG]
Heading into the 11th episode of “Survivor 47,” Gabe Ortis and Genevieve Mushaluk had both just been on the chopping block, but it was Gabe who was sent to the jury house by a 7-to-2 vote. That left eight people still on the island — three from the original Tuku tribe, three from Gata, and two from Lavo. So who ended up having their torch snuffed on Wednesday night?
Below, read our minute-by-minute “Survivor 47” Episode 11 recap/live blog of “Flipping the Win Switch” to find out what happened on Nov. 27, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about your favorite castaways on CBS’s reality TV show, who annoys you the most and who you think will ultimately join the “Survivor” winners list and take home the $1 million grand prize. Jeff Probst once again hosts and produces the program.
Here are the remaining eight players on “Survivor 47” (click each name to be brought to their individual profiles): Andy Rueda, Rachel LaMont, Sam Phalen, Genevieve Mushaluk, Teeny Chirichillo, Caroline Vidmar, Kyle Ostwald, and Sue Smey.
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8:00 p.m. – “Previously on ‘Survivor’!” In last week’s 10th episode, Kyle, Rachel, and Sam won the reward (a trip to the Survivor Sanctuary), and then Kyle later claimed his fourth immunity necklace. Also at that immunity challenge, all of the players agreed to give up their Shots in the Dark so that they could have a bag full of rice. At tribal council, Gabe and Genevieve both worried they would be eliminated, but Genevieve ultimately only received two votes: Gabe’s and Sue’s. Thus, Gabe became the third member of the jury.
8:02 p.m. – On Night 18 at the Beka camp, Kyle was in “an emotional funk” after voting with the majority to send his friend Gabe home, but he realized that it was his chance to “draw a line in the sand” to get Gabe out before Gabe got him out. The decision “really sucked” for Sue because she was the only person left out of the decision, but Rachel let her know that everyone was “out for Tuku blood” and she just had to make sure it wasn’t her or Caroline that they came for. Sue was most upset at Caroline flipping on her and Gabe, but her knives were still out for Kyle, her nemesis for the entire season.
8:06 p.m. – The next morning, Caroline knew she needed to build the bridge back between her and Sue and so she pulled her for a chat. Sue explained that she doesn’t like disloyalty so Caroline explained that she felt like Gabe was making all of her decisions and she no longer wanted to “do what someone else was telling” her to do. Caroline reiterated to Sue that she sees her as a “number one” and “wants to go to the final two” with her. Sue felt “good with her” and accepted the “olive branch.”
8:10 p.m. – Sue and Caroline left their chat to find Teeny, Rachel and Andy at the water well just after those three confirmed a “final three” alliance to each other. Sue told that group that she was “grateful” that they didn’t vote her out and then Rachel suggested that the five of them move forward together. The group called themselves “The Underdog Alliance” and liked the vision of Genevieve, Sam and Kyle all on the outs. Rachel thought that the five of them would “have a fighting chance” against each other, but probably not against the other three.
8:15 p.m. – While those five were away, Sam, Genevieve and Kyle acknowledged that they stand out as three that the other five might want to “pick off.” Kyle said that the three of them should stick together because it keeps threats in the game for all of them so that none of them become the only target of the others. Genevieve said that they should take out any of the people that others want to sit with at the end, but no names were specifically mentioned as options.
8:20 p.m. – That afternoon a boat arrived at camp with a message that one of them would leave for a journey and return later that same day. Genevieve and Sam both threw their names into the ring as wanting to go, but no one else wanted to go. In order to hopefully stop either Genevieve or Sam from going and gaining an advantage, Rachel decided to put her name in as an option as well and so the three of them drew rocks in order to decide. To her surprise, Rachel got the lucky rock and was escorted away with the “element of risk” she wasn’t excited to take on.
8:27 p.m. – On a platform in the middle of the ocean, Rachel learned of her chance to win an advantage by solving a “simple puzzle,” but because of ropes and weights tied to the puzzle board she would have to complete it in a short amount of time. The penalty for not completing the puzzle in time would be a lost vote at the next tribal council while a win would offer the undisclosed advantage. When competing, Rachel was able to accomplish the puzzle with only seconds before the board went tumbling over the platform. The advantage she earned was the Block a Vote power to “secretly block a vote from another player” for use up through the final six. The blocked voter wouldn’t know who used it on them and would not learn about the block until they go to vote at that tribal council.
8:36 p.m. – When Rachel got back to camp, she decided to “err on the side of 99% honest” by keeping Genevieve, Kyle and Sam from the truth of the advantage she earned by saying that she didn’t finish the puzzle in time and declaring that she lost her vote. Sam thought it was too “extravagant” of a story and so he believed she was lying. Rachel later admitted to Caroline and Sue that she won the Block a Vote and so the three of them agreed they can tell Teeny and Andy about it in order to solidify their new “Underdog Alliance.” First, Sue felt privileged to be trusted by Rachel and so she explained to Rachel that the reason she was so bonded to Gabe is because he trusted her with similar information early in the game. Caroline was simply happy that Rachel’s advantage would raise her threat level and make her a “shield later.” Rachel did disclose the truth of her advantage to Teeny and Andy as well and that only made Teeny feel secure in a “final three” between them.
8:39 p.m. – Later in the day when Genevieve and Rachel were looking for shells and rocks on the beach, Genevieve pitched an idea about taking out “one of the people who are like basically being shepherded to the final three like Sue and Andy.” Rachel said that she’s “open to that,” but needed to think about what that would mean in terms of getting out someone like Kyle. This was a conversation that only underscored for Rachel that Genevieve is the most dangerous player right now because she’s actively trying to get people out whereas Kyle just blocks them from winning immunity. When Rachel told Andy about the conversation, it lit a fire for Andy that Genevieve has to be the next to go.
8:48 p.m. – For their next challenge, Jeff offered immunity to the player that could stack blocks to spell “immunity” while balancing them on a table via a lengthy rope. This time there was no reward offered to the winner, only safety at the next tribal council. At the start of the challenge, Sam and Rachel were moving the quickest, but Genevieve caught up to them at the point all three of them reached the seventh of eight blocks at the same time. All three of them dropped on their way back, which put Teeny in the lead on her own with seven blocks and then Sue and Andy at five and four blocks, respectively. Then, when Teeny, Sue and Andy all dropped their stacks as well, Jeff declared that “we’re back where we started.”
8:52 p.m. – Eventually the placement got back to Genevieve and Rachel both with seven blocks stacked though Rachel had a slight lead with her eighth letter in her hands. Trying to catch up to Rachel, Genevieve moved too quickly and her stack dropped which opened the door for Rachel to move more slowly and get back to her platform, fending off a late surge by Kyle to win her first individual immunity necklace of the season.
9:03 p.m. – Because of Rachel’s immunity win, the majority alliance was given the option of making the “easy vote” to take Kyle out while they have the chance or to weigh the option of going unexpected with Genevieve instead. Sue obviously wanted Kyle and then Teeny said it “would be a little bit dumb to do anything else” other than get Kyle out now. Genevieve didn’t want that to happen, but she realized that she has “zero power” now to sway people in any other direction. At this point, she was just hoping that everyone is “more afraid of Kyle than they are of me.” Sam also knew that as soon as Kyle goes then they will be looking at him next, but he didn’t think “the numbers are there” to do anything other than get Kyle out.
9:06 p.m. – Kyle realized that the personal story he’s been telling everyone all game is now too dangerous to leave in the game, but Andy gave him a glimmer of hope when he reiterated what he told Kyle last week that he wanted “Gabe first and Genevieve second.” Andy approached the rest of the underdogs to explain that it’s a “calculated risk” to leave Kyle around again because he can’t keep winning challenges and will eventually lose another future one where they can take him out. Caroline insisted that Andy’s math was wrong and that he has a much stronger chance of winning all the remaining challenges. Rachel was siding with Andy against Genevieve, but both Teeny and Caroline were not willing to budge on their perspective that it would be “the dumbest look ever” to not get Kyle out now.
9:14 p.m. – At tribal council, Sam suggested that the group of them have a “warped perception” of what it means to get to the end by taking out threats because they’re not considering that eventually they’ll need the votes of the person they voted out. Kyle did his best to point out that challenge winners aren’t always that big of a threat at the end because, like him, they may have not had the best social game. When asked directly by Jeff, Genevieve admitted that she was a bit “displeased” by the conversation going around because she knows that her name is out there as someone that has engineered some of the recent votes. She warned people about earning “the stamp of pitch” in making a strategic pitch because “it doesn’t wash off.” Kyle offered the group a “crowd-pleasing moment” they can achieve by not taking him out when it’s the expected vote, but others insisted that the conversations during the day weren’t all about Kyle and other names did come up.
9:23 p.m. – Rachel did not use her newly obtained advantage at this tribal council and no one else played one either so Jeff read the votes straight away: Genevieve, Kyle, Teeny, Kyle, Kyle, Kyle. With those four votes it was enough to reach a majority and ensure that Kyle would be sent to the jury. Before leaving, Kyle offered gratitude and good luck to everyone left in the game.
NEXT TIME: Caroline, Sue, Rachel and Teeny make a new agreement to be “the final four women” while Genevieve fashions a fake idol in a new plan with Sam and Andy.
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