Not Even Fat But Obese

 is the third episode of.

Swap
At the beginning of the episode, the castaways were informed about a Tribe Swap. The castaways were placed into two tribes of eight using the rankings from the previous immunity. The results of the tribe swap are as follows.

Challenges
Immunity Challenge: Burn Book. Each tribe was responsible for crafting a burn book dragging the members of the opposing tribe. The tribe with the most points per a judging panel at the end of the challenge won immunity and a clue to the hidden immunity idol.

Winner:.

Kidnapping & Menengai
The winning tribe had their votes tallied. The castaway receiving the majority of votes would join their camp, skipping tribal council in the process, and would be responsible for selecting three members of their tribe for a rock draw. The castaway drawing the black rock would then face off against the kidnapped in a duel across the Menengai Crater.

Menengai
As a result of winning the duel, Will chose Predator Item #5 and earned a Tribe Cutter that would allow him to fraction the merge tribe into two tribes competing for immunity after one tribal council of his choice.

Voting Confessionals
"kikuyu"

- Contrary to my immature confessionals, I really did love getting to know you better this game. I think you are an extremely confident individual and that really is one of you upsides as both a player, but more importantly as a person. Hope you don’t idol me out

"kikuyu"

- Didn't really have a means of directing this vote elsewhere, so I'm crossing my fingers hoping this is an isolated event rather than a pattern. I understand people have probably given you flak here but you've been good to me this season, so farewell my friend and I swear that I'll find a way to flip this OG Torrobo massacre on its head because I can't let the winners keep dwindling.

"kikuyu"

- You are really nice and I am very happy to meet you but sadly I need to vote you off. If you have crazy things on your sleeves congratulations cause you are safe but then ugh the plan is ruined. One of my goals in this game is to remove all of the sole survivors. I hope we can play again and officially work together but not this time Amir not really this time.

"kikuyu"

- I'm sure it's not your intention.. but I just don't like your attitude.

"kikuyu"

- You are rude, condescending, and a bigger liar than myself. I really hope you don’t get your way tonight

"kikuyu"

- for the off chance they go for Evan or Ashlee

"kikuyu"

- I don't think Trent is going anywhere but I need to keep trust with the people I intend to backstab, to get the most from their relationship with me. I do this with the blessing of Natalia and Jino, but also Cali should know what's up if she ever comes online. Essentially if everyone votes Amir and there three Trent votes then this has worked perfectly. I have high hopes for my double crossing to work, but it's so early in the game so can't be to obvious yet. Anyway Amir I hope you go home because no matter how old school of a player you are, this is proof why you don't tell someone they are probs going to be voted for by you, because bitches be scheming.

If it's me going well great fucking blindside y'all.

Final Words
"kikuyu"

- idk, I guess just wishing good luck to the rest of the predators, it looks like they weren't given much of chance and I think that's very poor gameplay to not try and branch out a little beyond your original tribe. the prey will learn this sooner or later, but they were nice to talk to at least during the one day they chose not to ignore me 😛

it was probably my least lucky season ever, couldn't really do much about it. if people won't talk to you it's a futile effort to campaign in the first place, and there was nothing I could pull out of my hat

Episode Summary
After tribal council, both tribes attended the next immunity challenge to discover they would be dropping their buffs and swapping into new tribes based on their rankings at the previous immunity challenge. New Torrobo’s members included Chris, Nora, and Will from Torrobo and Alex, Cassandra, Jack, Natalie, and Nicole from Kikuyu. New Kikuyu’s members included Amir, Ashlee, Evan, and Gerda from Torrobo and Cali, Jino, Natalia, and Trent from Kikuyu.

At Kikuyu camp, a loosely connected web of relationships began to solidify. Nicole and Trent quickly formed solid relationships to the majority of castaways while Natalia, Natalie, and Cali also were able to make connections. Meanwhile, Jack and Jino were identified as potential outsiders due to their quieter demeanors. On top of this, Cassandra quickly took the center stage with over the top antics in the tribe chat and formed a Night 1 alliance with Trent and Nicole, which neither of them felt loyal to.

At Torrobo camp, the former Prey quickly clustered together to form a majority under Cassandra’s guidance and began deliberating tribal and kidnapping strategies that would best propel their collective tribe forward to retain numbers. While the three members in the Torrobo minority initially felt despondent over a seemingly hopeless strategic situation, social rivers soon adumbrated strategic bridges as the three members from Sinai - namely Jack, Nicole, and Will - reunited and Nicole and Natalie contemplated playing beyond tribal lines due to a distaste over Cassandra’s authoritative style of strategizing and unilateral decision that Chris would be the Kikuyu target in the event of a tribal council.

Meanwhile at Kikuyu camp, a similar strategic pattern of tribal lines emerged as the four Kikuyu and four Torrobo members attempted to flip members of the opposing tribe knowing that a kidnapping would break the 4-4 deadlock. Amir and Gerda noted that they could flip Jino and Cali to their side due old school connections, but Ashlee and Evan sung a different tune, with the former expressing confusion as to why she should be expected to fall within Torrobo’s ranks when they placed her at the bottom of the tribe and the latter noting how this divide could allow him to shift a target off of him and onto Amir if necessary. The Kikuyu faction, on the other hand, maintained that they needed to stick together against the Predators and could flip Ashlee due to the connection they fostered with her during the kidnappings.

At the immunity challenge, the castaways were tasked with creating a Burn Book dragging the members of the opposing tribe. Will and Nicole took leadership roles on Kikuyu while Ashlee attempted to unite the tribe, but timezone discrepancies forced her into conflict with Amir and Gerda that further divided her from her former tribe. After a competitive challenge, Torrobo emerged victorious and the majority original Prey faction voted to kidnap Gerda to give their fellow tribe members a majority at the ensuing tribal council. Gerda then selected Chris, Nora, and Will for the Menengai wherein the latter was both chosen and emerged victorious, winning a tribe cutter that could be used at the merge.

Following their immunity loss, the divisions formed before the immunity challenge solidified and with a 4-3 numbers discrepancy, Amir, Ashlee, and Evan were quickly forced on the defensive in an attempt to retain their life in the game. Having been kidnapped twice, Ashlee formally defected to the Prey majority, who then promptly decided Amir would be the target over Evan due to his distant position from the Prey. Amir, on the other hand, began to target Trent due to a perception that he was the easiest person to oust from the tribe, and felt he could form an alliance with Jino and Natalia to flip the numbers in his favor.

Back at Torrobo, meanwhile, Nicole formally decided she would flip in the event that Torrobo lost and began to spill information to the former Predators, which included Natalie’s exclusion from the CCBD majority and Jack’s possession of an advantage. Natalie quickly joined her in this flip, feeling that the Prey only included her in an alliance once they needed her. These two, coupled with the three Predators, now formed a majority alliance of five named Save Us. Despite their unawareness about their newfound spot in the minority, both Alex and Jack echoed that they also felt unsettled by Cassanda’s bold conduct.

With tribal council approaching, the Predators campaigned to flip Jino and Natalia to no avail with both playing coy to conceal their true intentions. Cali, meanwhile, began to feel paranoid over the social pace and felt like Trent and Natalia may have flipped to the Predators. As a result, she formed a new alliance with Jino and Ashlee that would allow her to monitor both sides of the vote and any potential shake-ups. With Jino now situated in every faction of the tribe, his decision to keep the vote on Amir in motion appeared as if it would come to fruition. With moments until tribal, Ashlee agreed to vote with Evan and Amir to gain information from Gerda regarding the Menengai. Meanwhile, Evan gained insight into the plan to vote Amir from Natalia and followed suit in order to avoid a target, noting a personal victory over surviving a tough position due to a more social and under the radar approach. At tribal council, the Prey’s tribal-lines based gameplay was executed to success and Amir was voted out 5-2, with Amir and Ashlee casting their lone votes for Trent.

Trivia

 * The episode was named after Nora’s quote.