Never Been More Ready

**Never Been More Ready** is the seventh episode of *Survivor: Ghost Island*.

## Story

### Night 17

Molavu tribe comes back from Tribal Council. Coen says "good job" to Keisha and Spencer. Max throws his torch to the ground and leaves. He wants to be alone.

### Day 18

Three tribes arrive at Reward Challenge. Tavewa and Yaroi are getting their first look at new Molavu tribe. They see Brittany is gone and everyone is really shocked. Jeff explains the rules of the challenge. All members of the tribe will have to pull on rope on a balance beam to suspend a disc. They will have to stack blocks spelling "REWARD" on the disc, while pulling on the rope. If anybody falls off their balance beam or their block stack falls, they must start over. The first two tribes to finish their stack win reward. The reward is a grill, chicken kebabs, steaks and spices for first tribe to finish and for the second tribe to finish it's chicken kebabs. Everyone is ready to compete for the best reward yet. The challenge starts. Molavu wins the reward first and now it's between Tavewa and Yaroi. In the end Tavewa wins reward leaving Yaroi with nothing. Yaroi people are devastated. Jeff asks Rivka how does she feel. Rivka says that she has been in previous Tavewa tribe and now in Yaroi and they can't win any food since the beginning of the game. Libby says it's so hard, because she feels like other people can eat sometimes and they're really hungry. Jeff tells Molavu tribe that they have to send somebody from either Tavewa tribe or Yaroi tribe to Ghost Island, but if they're going to pick someone from Tavewa tribe, this person is not going to participate in the reward. They decide to send Gabriela to Ghost Island. Gabriela leaves and three tribes are heading back to their camps.

Molavu comes back to their camp. They enjoy the biggest reward yet.

After everyone finished eating they decide to sleep for some time as their bellies are full. Max sees that as opportunity to look for an idol.

Max reads: "Congratulations, you have found the original, first Hidden Immunity Idol of Survivor. It belonged to **Alex Bradley** and because of it Alex was considered the biggest threat of the season. Idols were new things in this game and Alex didn't know how he should play it. He waited a long time to use it, making himself a bigger target since the day he has found it. In the end, he used it in futile and was voted out the day before the finale. This idol made him being not likeable and untrustworthy. Make sure you reverse the curse". Max is excited and goes back to his camp.

Back at Tavewa, Rod is trying to make food to be delicious while everyone is excited to eat soon.

Everyone is eating. Jameson says he feels bad for people in Yaroi. Eve agrees saying Libby and Mike didn't win any reward in the season. Cesar says it was terrible at first in Tavewa.

Back at Yaroi, everyone is miserable. Libby hides her face as she can barely speak. Mike hugs her.

Libby cries and says that she feels so weak. Rivka comes to Libby and hugs her. They sit like this silently. Clarke joins and says at least they're winning immunities so they should be fine. Libby says it's the only thing that keeps her alive here, that she wants to play this game. Clarke says it's ok to feel hunger, it's a tough game.

Gabriela arrives at Ghost Island. She smashes the urn and it says "Game is on. Follow the fire"

Gabriela reads: "I'll wager the advantage if you wager your vote." Gabriela is shocked. She doesn't know what to do.

### Day 19

Three tribes arrive at Immunity Challenge. Gabriela returns from Ghost Island. Jeff explains the rules of the challenge. One at a time, castaways from each tribe will dive into the water, run on a ramp floating in the water, then dive back in to retrieve a set of three rings. Once they return with the rings, another castaway goes. Once both sets of rings have been collected, all four castaways will race over the ramp and swim back to the starting platform. From there, one person at a time will throw rings onto a post while two other castaways are in the water as rebounders. The first two tribes to get all six rings on their post win. The challenge starts. In the end Yaroi wins immunity first. It's between Tavewa and Molavu now. But Tavewa finishes first sending Molavu once again to Tribal Council. Molavu is devastated.

Molavu tribe arrives to their camp. Max immediately says that he knows he's going home tonight, so he's going to lay in shelter all day, because for him it's game over. Then he sits and he says he's going to sleep.

Coen and Spencer talk by the water. Coen asks Spencer does he think Max has an idol, because he's so calm. Spencer says he thinks he gave up but at the same time they need to watch him if he's going to move from shelter.

Coen asks Spencer what does he think about Keisha. Spencer is not sure. Coen says that Keisha is going to be good at challenges when it comes to the merge, so maybe it's better to blindside her. Spencer agrees but he's not sure.

Spencer talks with Keisha. He asks her what she thinks. Keisha says that for her it's going to be Max and she doubts he's got the idol. Spencer lies that he was thinking about keeping Max and voting out Coen, but Max may cause a lot of trouble on the merge and he wants to have loyal people with him. Keisha says she agrees that's why Max has to go home.

Everyone gets ready for Tribal Council. Max stil sits alone in the shelter. Spencer is overwhelmed what is happening. For him it looks weird that Max sits alone in camp. Coen asks Max who is he going to vote for. Max says he doesn't know yet, it doesn't matter in the end of the day.

At Tribal Council everyone talks about how Max gave up today. Max says that he feels like nobody has come to him like to real person since Day 1. He was always told what to do and that's the reason why he is so mad. Max also mentions that he can't trust Keisha, Coen or Spencer because they both blindsided Brittany yesterday which Max feels like it was his fault. The voting begins. Everyone puts Max's name as for them it's an obvious vote. Jeff counts the vote and asks does anybody has the Hidden Immunity Idol. Max stands up which makes Keisha very surprised and Coen smiling. Max says that they should never underestimate him, because now it's going to be one of them. Jeff reads the votes and all three votes for Max doesn't count. In the end, with the single vote Coen is voted out by Max.

## Challenges

* Reward
* Immunity
**Challenge:** **A Bit Tipsy**
All members of the tribe will have to pull on rope on a balance beam to suspend a disc. They will have to stack blocks spelling "REWARD" on the disc, while pulling on the rope. If anybody falls off their balance beam or their block stack falls, they must start over. The first two tribes to finish their stack win.
**Reward:** A grill, chicken kebabs, steaks, and spices (1st place); Chicken kebabs (2nd place)
**Winner:** Molavu and Tavewa (*Molavu sent Gabriela Hale to Ghost Island*)

**Challenge:** **The Cruel Sea**
One at a time, castaways from each tribe will dive into the water, run on a ramp floating in the water, then dive back in to retrieve a set of three rings. Once they return with the rings, another castaway goes. Once both sets of rings have been collected, all four castaways will race over the ramp and swim back to the starting platform. From there, one person at a time will throw rings onto a post while two other castaways are in the water as rebounders. The first two tribes to get all six rings on their post win.
**Winner:** Yaroi and Tavewa

## Tribal Council

 Coen (1 vote)
 VOTED OFF:Coen Stanton