Survivor 41 - week 8 results

Hope everyone is doing well on this Remembrance Day.  Last night was a decent episode, another live tribal, or so it seemed.  Pretty straight forward points breakdown:

• At the reward challenge, the team of Danny, Deshawn, Erika, Evvie, and Ricard win and earn grilled cheese sandwiches and chips!  2 points each to them.
• At the immunity challenge, after a group of 4 sit out to provide rice for the whole tribe, Evvie wins individual immunity.  5 points for her!
• At tribal council, no idols or advantages are played.  There seems to be a split-vote but it was hard to tell exactly who was in on the split.  Anyways, it turns out that Deshawn, Erika, Heather, Liana, Ricard, and Shan vote for Tiffany who is voted out.  2 points to each of them.
• 7 points to everyone who survived Tribal Council #5.
  
• Evvie earned the most points this round with 14.

In the pool, 46% of entries have Tiffany, the 47-year-old teacher:

• Rachel L took over 1st place by one point, and having Evvie helped.
• Adam J is still in last place by 2 points.
• Amanda M jumped into the top 10 from 13th to 8th
• BlueBoxer climbed the highest from 53rd to 33rd and is in a good position to keep climbing.

Next week - fireworks and more chaos as alliances are seemingly broken

My episode observations:

• Xander is definitely not a dumb surfer dude!  Sitting out the reward so he can have time with the emotional losers of the challenge?  Brilliant.  It's unfortunate he didn't look more and find that advantage on the sit-out bench.
• Xander is also pretty ballsy volunteering to sit out the immunity challenge, AND not playing his idol!  He is definitely putting in the work with the others and reading them correctly.  Ricard really tried to get him to play his idol but Xander did not break.
• I love Xander's term - betraydar.
• Shan's pushiness is starting to rub people the wrong way, mainly Heather and Deshawn.  I think she's in trouble next week.
• Heather almost got herself voted out at Tribal by starting the whispering and huddling when everyone else seemed to be set.