Battle of the Divas

This is the 5th episode of Survivor: The Caribbean.

Previously on Survivor

 * Taino finally breaks their losing streak.
 * Jivaro got closer together when Francis opened up about his past.
 * Sabana lost two challenges and the tribe lost it.
 * While Deejay and Gilbert originally agreed to set their differences aside following Loretta's blindside, Gilbert resumed targeting Deejay when he wanted to take out one of GIl's closest allies, Miriam.
 * At Tribal Council, Deejay letting his guard down to Gilbert was his demise. 16 are left, who will be voted out tonight? *cue intro*

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Clog with Cogs While the challenge is ongoing, three containers of rice, one for each tribe, have holes on the bottom for the rice to flow. One by one, tribe members must go through an obstacle course, collect a pair of cogs and go back to the start. Once all cog are retrieved, the tribe must arrange the cogs in correct order to cover their rice container's hole. First two tribes to finish win reward. Reward: First place wins coffee, hot chocolate mix, sugar and croissants. First and second place win take back to camp the rice they saved from the challenge. Winners (according to finish): Jivaro and Taino

Immunity Challenge: Ladder Daze The tribes will race down a ramp and go through an obstacle where they will make their way to a large wooden crate, which contains a ladder. They will then choose to open the crate by using keys to unlock locks or they can untie knots. Both methods will release the ladder. Once they have the ladder free, they will use it to go up, across, and down a tall platform and through another series of obstacles. They will then use the ladder to make their biggest decision in the challenge of which puzzle to solve. There are three choices. The first puzzle has only five pieces, but it requires a person to see the big picture. The second puzzle has ten pieces in it and requires a person to see things more visually. The third puzzle has the most pieces at fifty, but it is also the most straight forward. All of these puzzles average the same amount of time to finish. If the right person is put on the right puzzle, they will finish must faster than average. The first two tribes to finish their puzzle win immunity. Winner: TBA

Night 10
The Sabana tribe returns to camp after Tribal Council after blindsiding Deejay, and Ivy is ecstatic for pulling off a blindside. Gilbert warns her not to feel too confident, because they cannot have another meltdown like that at Tribal Council. Craig interjects, saying they cannot go back to Tribal Council at all.

Day 11
In a slightly rainy morning, the rest of Taino are still asleep. Shelby happens to wake up early. Noticing their fire is losing fuel, Shelby goes off to collect firewood. Unbeknownst to her, Shana wakes up to cook rice for breakfast. To Shana's horror, she accidentally breaks the clay pot (already with the rice and water in it) on top of the fire, wasting a good deal of rice and one of their two clay pots. Shelby returns to see the mess, and chides Shana. Shana does not appreciate Shelby's "formulaic" way of speaking. Conversely, Shelby gets ticked by Shana's "insolent" behavior. The two verbally go at it, waking up the men. Jayden goes to stop them.

At Jivaro, with her tribemates still sleeping, Angela collects Tree Mail, on her way back to camp, she casually looks for an Hidden Immunity Idol or just a clue to it. A few minutes into her search, she finds a clue hidden in a tree root concealed with leaves. The clue says the idol will be hidden at the next Reward Challenge, behind the rice container tower.

The tribes convene for the Reward Challenge. To Jivaro and Taino's shock, Sabana arrives at the challenge sans Deejay. After saying the mechanics of the challenge, Angela volunteers to sit out just so she can actively look for the idol. She looks at the rice tower and finds the idol slumped at the lower right corner.

Taylor, Jayden and Craig are out first for Jivaro, Taino and Sabana respectively. Taylor gets to his cog first, with Jayden and Craig only few seconds behind. Audrey, Kai and Gilbert are out next. Audrey and Kai gain a small lead over the older Gilbert. Francis, Shelby and Damon are next to go, with Shelby losing valuable time for getting stuck under the log. Francis and Damon return to the starting mat with their cogs with Shelby still stuck. Shelby finally escapes the log and makes up for lost time while going up against Janice and Ivy. Now it's Ivy who gets stuck, this time under the mud crawl. Shelby finally returns with Taino's third clog. With everyone's attention on who's running at the challenge, Angela walks off to retrieve the idol from Jivaro's rice tower. Despite almost getting caught by Audrey, Angela success fully tucks the idol in her bag. Taino and Jivaro eventually have all their pieces while Sabana's last member, Miriam, struggles in the obstacle course. Taino and Jivaro already start with assembling their puzzle. Jeff scolds Miriam for working so slowly at the challenge, reminding her her tribe's rice container is only less than half-full and if her tribe is to win at least second place, Sabana might not have any rice left to bring back to camp. In a close race to first, Taino and Jivaro figure out which pieces are not supposed to be used. As Miriam returns to her tribe mat, Jeff tells her that Sabana's rice container has just run out of rice, Sabana can still continue doing the challenge if they choose to deny either Jivaro or Taino of having their rice supplies replenished. Sabana still does the challenge anyway, but it is too late: Jivaro wins first with Taino in close second.

Author's Notes

 * The Reward Challenge is an original idea of the author.