I'm the King Now!

This is the ninth episode of Survivor: Gilbert Islands.

Previously On Survivor...
After Adam's blindside at the previous Tribal Council, Dottie, Kent, and Rebecca realized that they were on the bottom - or, at least Dottie and Kent did. Rebecca, meanwhile, was secretly happy because of her secret alliance with Alexa, Jerome, and Troy. Chad, meanwhile, saw the loss of Troy's best friend as an opportunity for him to invite Troy into his Makin alliance as his right-hand man.

At the reward challenge, Erica got the win and chose Alexa, Rebecca, and Troy to share the reward with her. She chose the first two women because of how badly they wanted the shower reward, while she chose Troy in order to offer him a spot in the Makin alliance - not knowing that Chad had already done so. Rebecca and Troy pretended to hate each other during the reward as well. Back at camp, Jerome learned that Chad wants to cut Erica and Luis down a peg. Meanwhile, Dottie convinced Kent to talk with Luis about the betrayal the former faced at the previous Tribal Council; Luis apologized, but Kent was unsatisfied with the apology.

The next day, Erica and Luis learned that Chad had spilled their core Makin alliance to Troy and grew concerned about moving forward with him. Troy ended up taking their side on the matter, which made Erica and Luis trust him more - even though Troy's true loyalties were with his secret alliance. Jerome, on the other hand, learned that Troy had played both sides on Abaiang and grew untrustworthy of him.

At the immunity challenge, Luis narrowly defeated Chad and Kent in the race for fire and saved himself from the vote. Chad was the target of the minority alliance because Luis had previously mentioned to Kent his annoyance with him; they believed that Erica and Luis could flip to vote Chad out of the game. Rebecca grew worried that Chad would actually go home and brought this concern up to her secret alliance. When Troy mentioned wanting to see Chad go home, Jerome worried that Troy was looking out for the best interests of Erica and Luis, eventually giving him a talking to and forcing him to convince the pair to vote for Dottie as planned. Sure enough, at Tribal Council, Dottie got the votes from the majority alliance and was sent packing as the first member of the jury.

8 are left. Who will be voted out tonight?

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Survivor Auction

Immunity Challenge: Log Jam The castaways will be put into a tournament bracket, competing to outlast each other in one-on-one matches on a revolving log over a pit of mud or water. If a castaway loses their matchup, they are eliminated. The last castaway standing wins.