Bad Decision, I Guess

## Subpages

***"Bad Decision, I Guess"*** is the second episode of *Survivor: Myanmar*.

## Story

### Day 3

The episode starts off with a very short segment directly following tribal council, where Pyin Sa reflects on how they all believe it was a good decision to take Sam out of the game, and how they felt bad for what Camryn had to endure.

The tribe agreed to try their hardest to win whatever the next challenge was, and Camryn promised to not do anything related to a puzzle if a puzzle came up. In the middle of the conversation, Rallin managed to make fire with the flint that Pyin Sa received at tribal council, and was proud that he was able to do that.

A little bit later, Camryn and Isabella discuss a comment Sam made about how Camryn threw Isabella's name out.

Camryn attempts to clarify this, but Isabella is startled to learn that this wasn't the first time her name had been thrown around, and Camryn explains that Adora, Alexa, and Mia all discussed voting Isabella out until Sam came over and sealed his own fate. Isabella is shocked to learn this, and feels conflicted because on one hand, three people threw her name out, and on the other hand, Camryn just threw three people under the bus.

### Day 4

Kalyani proposed to Emmanuel that the two of them should work together. Emmanuel accepted this offer, but immediately began to have second thoughts when the first name Kalyani threw out was that of one of his closest allies, Liam. Emmanuel immediately relayed this information to Liam, as well as John and Shiloh. They agreed that Kalyani was a threatening member of the tribe, but Shiloh felt that they had a comfortable majority which would keep them around if things went south. However, John argued that Jonah and Lauren needed to be watched out for.

Jonah grew to become equally as excited about his potential position on Shin Maw as John was worried about it. After climbing up a tree to collect coconuts for the tribe, Jonah quickly became viewed as the main provider for the tribe, and became well-respected because of it.

Later in the day came the first rainfall of the season, and it hit everyone hard. Everyone on the Pyin Sa Tribe bonded together over their shared struggle with the downpour, and Camryn in particular was incredibly cold. Rallin offered up his hoodie, but Camryn declined, because then Rallin would be cold and wet instead of her. This made Rallin nervous about how well-spoken and mature Camryn was.

As the rain calmed down, Mia and Isabella went out to collect more bamboo for the shelter. While there, Isabella and Mia spoke about their worries regarding Camryn. Mia contemplates if taking out Sam instead of Camryn was the right decision to make. Isabella then proceeds to tell her everything that Camryn told her about Mia's trio, but mistakenly believes that Camryn is simply pitting her against them rather than telling the truth.

While talking with Mia, Isabella promised that her loyalty lied with Mia and her trio, and Mia took her word for it. Isabella did this on the premise that Mia, Adora, and Alexa were easier to trust because they were more honest than Camryn was.

Meanwhile, as it was raining on Shin Maw, a few people complained about the rain, and Alex mentioned that he didn't feel the rain was that bad, because it was just water. This made Lauren annoyed abut Alex's tendency to brag about many things.

After the rain cleared, Brianna and Kalayni discussed that Lauren and Jonah were in the middle of the tribe, and that they needed to act fast in order to get them to work with them instead of siding with their opposition. Brianna made attempts to talk with Lauren about working with her group, but Lauren remained unsure of what side to pick, and worried both herself and Brianna about her indecisiveness.

As the sun set, Rallin, Eyal, and Brandon admired how beautiful it was, and talked about how important it is to realize the beauty of living out in the wild. However, while they were admiring the sunset, conflict occurred between Isabella and Camryn after Camryn, while attempting to open a coconut, dropped the machete and nearly hit Isabella's foot. Isabella yelled at Camryn, and exposed in front of the four bystanders in Mia, Adora, Matthew, and Alexa that Camryn was pitting the girls against each other and lying. This reduced Camryn to tears, and Adora comforted her on the beach after the fight.

Camryn swore that she would do anything she could to get Isabella out of the game, and Adora agreed to help her do that.

### Day 5

The reward challenge required tribe members to go out, one by one, down a slide and into the water to retrieve a bag of puzzle pieces, and bring it back to shore. Then, when all seven bags were retrieved, two remaining tribe members would use the pieces to solve a 25-piece three-dimensional puzzle of a Bagan temple. Shin Maw started off in the lead, as per usual, and maintained it during the entire bag-collecting portion, despite Pyin Sa nearly catching up numerous times, due to the odd decisions to make Camryn get the fourth bag and Matthew the fifth. At the puzzle portion, Shiloh and Liam worked together very efficiently, allowing for them extend their lead against Pyin Sa, and this earned Shin Maw their third win in a row and won them a giant fishing kit.

Back at camp, Shin Maw's confidence continued to flourish as a result of three consecutive challenge victories.

John and Alex watch Jonah as he learns how to use the fishing spear, and very quickly, Jonah manages to catch a fish. The three boys bring it back to camp, and watch as Jonah guts the fish and cooks it. Jonah is proud of his catch, and others are impressed with how quickly he caught a fish.

On the other side of the spectrum, Pyin Sa's confidence was at an all time low. Alexa was at a loss for words at how terrible her tribe was, and needed some time to themself on the beach to process everything.

Mia found Alexa by themself sitting on the sand, and went to join her. She asked Alexa what was wrong, and she started crying because of how demoralized she had gotten. Mia comforted her by telling her that the next time Pyin Sa lost, a weak member of the tribe would be targeted. Alexa opened up about how she had some regrets about voting Sam out first, because he could have been more helpful in challenges than Isabella or Camryn. Mia agreed.

Meanwhile, the trio of Rallin, Brandon, and Eyal felt they had more pressing issues than their constant losses, such as being relegated to what they believed was the bottom of the tribe.

Expecting a tribal council to occur again the next day for Pyin Sa, the boys took the initiative to confirm with Isabella that there could be seven votes on Camryn, leaving Camryn and Matthew on the outside of the tribe. Rallin brought up that Matthew should be included in the vote as well, because Matthew was viewed as an outsider and a "free number." Isabella agreed, and spoke once again with Matthew about the idea to vote Camryn.

Matthew initially agreed with Isabella to vote for Camryn should Pyin Sa lose again, but felt conflicted on such an idea after seeing Isabella yell at Camryn the previous day.

Paranoia spread like a plague on Shin Maw in the afternoon of Day 5. First, it was Shiloh, who leaked Emmanuel's plan to vote Kalyani to the alliance of Alex, Brianna, Kalyani, and Victoria, also admitting that she didn't want to follow said plan because she felt like John, Emmanuel, and Liam were excluding her.

The former three people welcomed Shiloh into their alliance, and Kalyani in particular was very interested to hear what Shiloh had to say.

However, Victoria approached this move from Shiloh a little more differently, and a lot more negatively. She leaked to Jonah and Lauren that Shiloh randomly leaked all the information from her original alliance to her opposition, and this made Jonah and Lauren apprehensive about Shiloh.

The three of them debated if they should tell this information to John, Emmanuel, and Liam, but decided against it for the time being, feeling that they should use this information as a weapon to gain them as numbers if needed.

### Day 6

The immunity challenge was about as polarizing as it could get. Shin Maw demolished the first half of the challenge, reaching the slingshot portion at the end of the challenge before Pyin Sa even reached the obstacle course out in the water. However, thanks to a rule that Jeff implemented requiring everybody to attempt the slingshot at least once and allowing for no one person to use the slingshot twice in a row, compounded with a miserable time had with the rope, Pyin Sa managed to close their most extreme gap by far.

Shin Maw began to panic, as everybody who was attempting the slingshot was not succeeding to knock down any of the five targets. As soon as Pyin Sa got there, Brandon hit the first target with his first attempt at the slingshot, and suddenly, Shin Maw's confidence began to dwindle. Shin Maw managed to hit two more targets, but Pyin Sa quickly caught up, and then surpassed Shin Maw. Finally, Adora hit the fifth target for Pyin Sa, raising the flag and giving Pyin Sa their first challenge win. The entire tribe freaked out in celebration, hugging each other and crying tears of joy in the water.

Jeff gave the immunity idol to an emotional Alexa, and an ecstatic Pyin Sa Tribe walked out of the immunity challenge. The only hint of negative emotion on the whole tribe was that Isabella viewed this win as time for her plans to potentially blow up in front of her face, which made her nervous.

Back at camp, Emmanuel felt like he had to get the ball rolling to take out Kalyani. He confirmed it with John, Liam, and Shiloh, not knowing that Shiloh was no longer on his side.

Emmanuel went to bring up the plan to Jonah and Lauren, to make sure that they were on his side and not his opposition's. However, Lauren brought up everything Victoria told her about what Shiloh did, and told Emmanuel that it might be a better to drop the plan to eliminate Kalyani and instead take Shiloh out.

Emmanuel, now learning that Shiloh was apart of a group of people attempting to target him, agreed.

Emmanuel immediately told John and Liam of what Lauren and Jonah told him, and they both agreed to vote Shiloh. However, as they walked back to camp, Shiloh noticed them together without her again, and became increasingly resentful towards their companionship and exclusion of her in what was her own alliance. Alex comforted Shiloh when she was vocal about this resentment, telling her that his alliance would be inclusive of her.

At tribal council, everyone believed that the plan they had was the one that was going to work, which meant that somebody was about to get blindsided. Sure enough, when the votes were cast and read, six went to Shiloh, and four went to Emmanuel. Shiloh left the game incredibly shocked but also incredibly gracious, wishing the tribe good luck as she left and telling them not to worry about feeling guilty or anything. Shiloh became the first person voted out of the new Shin Maw Tribe.

## Challenges

* Reward
* Immunity
**Challenge:** *Lake Launch*
One at a time, seven tribe members would slide down a water slide. They would then swim out to retrieve a bag of puzzles, then run up the hill they slid down to drop off their bag. Once all seven bags were retrieved, the remaining two castaways would use the puzzle pieces inside to solve a puzzle depicting a Bagan temple. The first tribe to successfully build their temple wins reward.
**Reward:** A massive fishing kit and a boat waiting at camp
**Winner:**
Shin Maw

**Challenge:** *Dragging The River*
 The entire tribe will carry a heavy log down a river, use it to open two barricades, run it into the ocean, carry it through an obstacle, and finally place it on two pegs. Once it's on the pegs, they will untie a ball, and use the ball attached to the rope as the ammunition for a slingshot, which they will use to knock down three targets. The first tribe to knock down all three targets wins immunity.
**Winner:**
Pyin Sa

## Tribal Council

 Shiloh (6 votes)
 Emmanuel (4 votes)
 VOTED OUT:Shiloh

## Trivia

### Episode Title

* This episode's title was said by Jonah, during the immunity challenge, regretting his decision not to use the slingshot.

### Other

* Due to Pyin Sa winning immunity this episode, Sam is the only contestant in *Myanmar* to have never won a challenge.
* This episode marks the first time a vote was not unanimous.
	+ By extension, this episode marks the first time somebody received multiple votes at tribal council, but survived that tribal council.
		- By further extension, this episode marks the first time that people voted incorrectly, but survived that tribal council.
		- Emmanuel becomes the first man to receive any votes at tribal council, but not be eliminated.
		- Emmanuel also becomes the first overall contestant to receive more than one vote at tribal council, but not be eliminated.
* This episode marks the first time in the Wattpad Survivor franchise that a woman was voted out.
	+ By further extension, this episode marks the first time that a woman received multiple votes.
* This episode also marks the first time that multiple people received multiple votes.
* As of this episode, Pyin Sa has finally won a challenge, meaning that every living contestant has experienced a challenge victory now.
	+ Shiloh becomes the first contestant to be voted out after getting to experience the luxury of winning a tribal challenge, a luxury that Sam did not get.
* This is the first tribal council where more men voted correctly than women.
	+ Alex, Brianna, and Kalyani are the first contestants to vote incorrectly, but not be eliminated, at a tribal council.
* Jonah has set a new record for most confessionals given in a single episode, with 7. This breaks the record that Lauren, Camryn, and Sam set in That's Like... The Worst First Impression Ever, with 6 each.
	+ Jonah is the first contestant to distinctly have the most confessionals in a single episode.