By Kim
Immediately after voting out Brandon, the Favorites tribe processes what just happened. They all agree that it might give the Fans some hope -- which is false hope -- and that Brandon is crazy. Phillip and Corinne are both a little upset that no one on their tribe stood up for them against Brandon, but ultimately they agree that they're better off without Brandon anyway. So Phillip's goal is to get rid of Corinne.
Both tribes report to the Reward Challenge only to find out that they're switching tribes via colored egg smash. Ugh, now I have to start calling them by their tribal names instead of Fans and Favorites. Here are the new tribes: Gota is now Eddie, Reynold, Andrea, Malcolm, Sherri, Erik and Brenda. Bikal is Phillip, Corinne, Michael, Matt, Cochran, Dawn and Julia. Man, the Gota tribe has all the young and strong people. And two people with Idols. That's comical. Probst tries to get them all to admit how uneven the tribes are, but no one will come right out and say it.
There's no challenge and the new tribes return to their camps. Reynold and Eddie immediately tell the former Favorites that they hate Sherri and wouldn't mind voting her out. Meanwhile, Sherri tries to get Andrea and Brenda on her side.
Over at Bikal, Corrine wants to befriend Michael because he's gay and she's THAT girl, while Phillip tries to get Julia on his side. Corinne and Dawn are pissed that Phillip is trying to expand their alliance without checking with them first.
Immunity Challenge: Pairs run out and move very heavy crates back to the starting point, then assemble them into a staircase which they run up and win immunity. Gota (the "young" tribe) gets their crates in way ahead of Bikal (the "old" tribe) and have a terrible rotation strategy including having Phillip bring in two crates in a row over his protests. Bikal also does a terrible job with the assembly of the staircase, spending more time arguing about placement than actually moving crates around. Gota wins easily.
Phillip decides to vote out Julia, and brings Michael and Matt in on the plan. Julia tries to rally her former tribemates to get rid of Dawn. And then suddenly the former Favorites are talking about voting out Matt? I don't even know where that came from. Something about how they think Matt definitely doesn’t have a Hidden Idol and they others might?
Ultimately, Julia votes for Dawn, Matt and Michael vote for Julia, and everyone else votes for Matt. Julia and Michael had better hope that their tribe gets their collective shit together and starts winning.
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