The Gloves Come Off

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The Gloves Come Off is the fifth episode of .
==Story==
===Day 13===
On Day 13, all sorts of things are happening at Ogakor camp. For one thing, the nearby forest fire continues to rage, sending waves of smoke towards camp. For another, Colby Donaldson's Tribal Council switcheroo has blindsided Amber Brkich and Jerri Manthey, who are now in the minority in their tribe. Jerri tries to convince Colby to stick with her instead of Keith Famie and Tina Wesson, but Colby is non-committal.
On Kucha, it is time for the tribe to feast on another chicken. Kimmi Kappenberg again voices her displeasure about killing the chickens. She and Alicia Calaway get into a heated argument. Alicia says that Kimmi is complaining too much, while Kimmi accuses Alicia of being rude. "Don't wave your finger in my face," says Kimmi. "I will ALWAYS wave my finger in your face," Alicia retorts. The encounter increases the tension between the two.
Meanwhile, the rest of the tribe has gotten annoyed by Kimmi's tendency to not bathe. Kimmi says she has no intention of bathing in the "incredibly gross" water.
===Day 14===
Each team gets Tree Mail telling them to build a three-sided stretcher called a travois. They then use the travois for the Reward Challenge, in which two people must rescue their three tribemates by carrying them on the travois. In a close race, Kucha wins yet again, sending Ogakor's Amber into tears "I'm so tired of losing," she laments. Kucha wins shampoo, toothbrushes, and spices.
Back at Kucha's camp, the tribe members use the reward to clean themselves up, even Kimmi. They boast about their domination of Ogakor thus far. On Ogakor, the demoralized tribe prepares for the next challenge.
===Day 15===
The tribes reconvene for their fifth Immunity Challenge. From the start, Ogakor works together more smoothly than Kucha does, and Ogakor finally pulls through to snap their challenge losing streak. The tribemates celebrate. Back at Kucha, Alicia and Jeff Varner think they have a consensus to vote out Kimmi. Elsewhere, though, Elisabeth Filarski and Rodger Bingham note that Alicia has a strong personality, and that the tribe might get along better without her.
At Tribal Council, Kimmi receives six votes (her vote is for Jeff) and gets the boot. Kimmi is the fifth victim of Survivor: The Australian Outback.
==Challenges==
<tabber>Reward=Challenge: TriageEach tribe selects two members to become "rescuers." The other members are placed at predetermined accident locations. Using a stretcher, each tribe must locate their tribemates at the accident locations and bring them back, one by one, to the "first aid tent." First tribe to rescue all of its members and cross the finish line wins.Reward: The winning tribe wins bath implements and all of the items chosen from a catalog by both tribes. Kucha chose blankets and Ogakor chose soup mix and spices.Winner: |-|Immunity=Challenge: The MazeEach tribe must race against the other, collecting five medallions in a specified order while navigating through a giant maze. First tribe to collect all five medallions in order and to exit the maze wins.Winner: </tabber>
==Tribal Council==
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===Voting Confessionals===
=== Final Words===
===Still in the Running===
							
							
==Trivia==
* Host Jeff Probst claimed that the maze used at the Immunity Challenge was made up up 46 tons of lumber, 3 miles of burlap and took two weeks to build.
* This episode's Immunity Challenge was the third time that a tribe with a numbers advantage was not required to sit anybody out, following the Buggin' Out challenge of the previous season and the same challenge this season.
* In both of their trips to Tribal Council, Kucha suffered rainfall.
* Kimmi's vote for Jeff was not revealed to the tribe. This mattered somewhat when Jeff was involved in a past-votes tiebreaker two episodes later, although he had more past votes than the other contestant regardless.
* This was the second time that an eliminated contestant's torch has been extinguished by the pouring rain and the third time that it was extinguished before it was snuffed. The first two incidents occurred in when Stacey Stillman and Sean Kenniff were voted out.
==References==
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Category:Survivor: The Australian Outback
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