Challenges Maraamu Can Win?
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Discoinferno

Thursday, March 07, 2002 - 10:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Remember when Boran was down 6/8 last year and Mark Burnett threw in the totally subjective S.O.S. challenge? I'm sure the next immunity will be something similiar to favor Maraamu... something like...

Wet T Shirt Competition-- Sarah blows everyone out of the water by taking this hands down

Kareoke-- Sean and V's version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" thrills special guest star celebrity judges Kim Johnson, Michael Skupin, and Jenna Lewis. Things don't look so good for Kathy Vavrick O Brien who whined her team into letting her sing "My Way"

Joan

Thursday, March 07, 2002 - 10:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL!

Donut

Thursday, March 07, 2002 - 11:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i think all the Monkeypoo team can win would be a Who can spew the furthest from one of their holey holes..

Fruitbat

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 04:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Mar is looking doomed right now. I am not sure if Rob or Sean would excell in a knowledge test or game. The SOS may be there only hope and I bet that is next. The switch will not be very interesting if Mar loses any more members.

Water challenges leave Rotu stronger too. Sean does not swim, Sara does not appear strong or have much endurance and Rob does not strike me as an athlete.

This is not looking good for them.

Tntitanfan

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 06:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am almost sure I saw Sean diving down to the boat last night! I noticed it at the time because most of the black people I know don't swim. Of course, that might just be a southern thing,and he does live in CA!

Whowhere

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 06:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
He did dive down to the boat, but it looked to me like he was holding on to the line connecting the boat to the buoy. Not to mention, he was unsuccessful removing any rocks.

Crazydog

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 07:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I had forgotten about the fact that he doesn't swim... that explains why it was only Hunter and Rob taking out the rocks. But (maybe it was editing) didn't any of the Marammuu women dive down? We saw at least two of the Rotu women pitch in.

And I also remember Sean mentioning that most black people don't know how to swim. Really? Why not?

Hasn't the third immunity challenge always been the subjective one? But I really don't think it will be rigged to give Marammuu the win. Wasn't Colby's tribe down three in a row and then they won the maze challenge? (Amber: do these look like tears to you? ugh) Because it's clear now that Mark Burnett will do whatever he wants to make things interesting. He could simply have the switch early. And perhaps they'll do the rumored three team split this time.

Squaredsc

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 09:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
the most black people not swimming thing means that most black people grow up in the inner city, no beaches or pools, also there is a thing that goes around with us black people that we don't go near the water because of the slavery issue, we were taken away on boats.....we don't get on too many boats now. this is not true with all of us, but a good portion of us.

Urgrace

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 09:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Crazy, didn't Gina dive with her team? I thought I saw her.

In the south where I lived as a child the privately owned pool in the privately owned city park wasn't open to anyone of color, so I can see where it was difficult to learn how to swim in town. Mostly whites lived outside of town around the lake, and the river was too big and dangerous for anybody to swim in. Situations could have been similar across the southern states for many years, however, nearly all the people of color that I knew in Michigan could swim. There are lakes, ponds, rivers and pools everywhere. Opportunity makes a big difference. <Vecepia seemed to be doing a good job.>

Maybe the next challenge could be to raft race down the coast to a certain point..... oops, Rotu can't... they cut up their raft for shelter! Maraamu wins by default. They could build a raft... no, Mom got voted off and she was the one who knew how to make rope and woven mats and animal traps... Rotu wins.

Hippyt

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 09:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think Maraamu could win a Whining and Bitching challenge!

Whoami

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 10:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I wonder if Patricia tried to dive? I'm built just like her, and when I took a swimming class several years ago, I couldn't swim underwater to save my life! All that fat is very buoyant! My hind end always lifted me right back to the surface! On the flipside, when the instructor was grading us on various techniques, I was almost able to take a nap during the "floating on your back" segment. No effort at all to float, so I just kicked back and relaxed, while people around me kept sinking and having to reposition themselves to float!

Oh, and as for the title of this thread, I don't know that they can win a thing the way they are going now. Even with the "SOS Challenge" Sean will whine about anything anyone else suggests, because he is such an Alpha.

Juju2bigdog

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 10:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
To his credit, Sean did go down to the bottom last night, but it looked like he ran out of air and had to go right back up. Same with Rob on at least one occasion. He went down and had to go back up before he got a rock. So that left Hunter to do most of the rock clearing, if not all. On the other team, Gabe seemed to be the workhorse and at least two of the women were down there too and doing a good job of unloading the rocks.

Crazydog

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 11:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Does anyone else wishes they explained why Rotu sat Robert out? OK, maybe he doesn't swim well. But there were hordes of people out there who did nothing as well. I was surprised they chose to sit out Robert instead of Paschal or one of the women.

Yeah, from what we saw, Sean did dive down at least once. These sequences were clearly edited as Jeff said there were 250 rocks in each boat and if they only took out a few at a time it would take forever. (Didn't John say "I took out one!") But I don't think any of the Marammuu women did. At first I thought, oh, maybe only one person can go at a time. But that was clearly not the case. At least two women on Rotu went down to help. I am thinking it was probably Tammy and Neleh since Zoe seems to be a figment of everyone's imagination.

I was a little surprised Gina or Vecepia didn't try to help. Not so surprised at Patricia and Sarah. Maybe it was too deep or they thought the rocks would be heavy or that they couldn't hold their breath. I bet if Marammuu had had Petah, his yogah breathing would have made him the stah of this challenge.

Trinity

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 11:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I was stunned when I heard Sean say that most black people don't know how to swim. If Sean grew up in Harlem he must have heard of the Harlem YMCA (I think Clinton goes there now) where many, many kids learn how to swim (that's where I learned) Where my mom grew up in Virginia there were segregated beaches but everybody knew how to swim.

As far as black people not going on boats? I don't think so. Most of the people where I live (and that's Harlem) have been on at LEAST one cruise.

Mygetaway

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 12:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Crazydog.. I think Rotu held out Rob because he hadn't been feeling very good. The lack of protein was really taking an effect on him, more than the others. That's why they were unanimous about saying he could sit out. I thought it was a nice gesture, as it showed they were all concerned about the way he was feeling.

Crazydog

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 12:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Getaway, oh, yeah, you're right. Now I remember Robert saying something about how he's a big guy and a big guy needs a lot of protein and that he hadn't gotten much.

Urgrace

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Crazy, there was one more tribe member on Rotu than on Maraamu, thus Jeff said one would have to sit out to make it fair and even. They picked Robert because he had been sick and was weakened by it.

Gina definitely dove down, and I saw Zoe and another gal who I thought was Kathy dive for the other team. It was definitely edited, so there is no real way to know who did or didn't dive.

Whoami,you had me laughing about the floating with no trouble!

Someone said that Sean couldn't swim, but when I went back to view the tapes it looked like he was swimming out to the innertube. It also looked like he is just not a strong swimmer, not being able to hold his breath for very long. He may not be good in any endurance test if that is the case.

Jbean

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 08:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
they could also win the who are the biggest dumb*sses challenge....lol

Tntitanfan

Friday, March 08, 2002 - 08:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think it must be something about distribution, whoami. In college at 5'7' and 103 pounds I was like a cork! I nearly drowned trying to do the ring retrival stunt in 12' water. Now at 5'6" (age) and 115 it is the same!!