survivor blog 03-getting to crunch time

In this weeks challenge, each tribe was split into two groups. This challenge was quite simple compared to the other challenges. Each team of five would have one member face off against the other teams member on a shaky beam where they would try and knock the other person off with a long stick. It reminded me of a ghetto version of American Gladiator. I am probably one of the only people in the class to understand this ancient reference but that is basically the idea of it. So in the challenge, there really wasn’t any type of leadership and this chapter is all about leadership. I don’t feel like anyone really wanted to emerge as a leader this week since everyone had their own agenda.

Jon and Jacklyn joined Jeremy’s alliance and Reed was trying regain his strength after Josh was eliminated.  Jeremy won and gave up his spot to Jon and Jacklyn on the reward but just to show his loyalty to the alliance. While Jeremy was on Exile Island, he sat in the rain and got kind of paranoid that Jon had found the Idol. At the same time, Jon was worried about Jeremy for the same thing. Reed searched through Keiths bag and found some instructions to playing a hidden immunity idol. He went and told Missy, Baylor and Jacklyn in order to instigate some problems.  In chapter 9, they talk about ” The Single Question Format,”  which was developed by Frank LaFosta and Carl Larson. This is a simple problem-solving procedure that is the way that successful decision makers think. It involves a single question format; Identify the Problem, Create a Collaborative Setting and Analyzing the Issue. I feel like all of the group members from each tribe failed to use these steps and even if one or two of them did, they did it in a manipulative way that would only help that one person.

So in my opinion, this episode pretty much brought out the worst in everyone’s personality and showed how everyone acts when it is “Getting Down to Crunch Time.”