| "I'm Stressing Wayyyyy Too Much" | |
|---|---|
| Season | Survivor: Soles Nacientes |
| Episode Number | 5/16 |
| Episode Chronology | |
| Previous | I Tend To Be An Unpredictable Person |
| Next | Bunch of Dunces |
| Confessionals | |
| Link | |
I'm Stressing Wayyyyy Too Much is the fifth episode of Survivor: Soles Nacientes.
Challenges
Immunity Challenge: Klondlike
In this challenge, tribes had to work together to navigate a large grid with the central square highlighted. The highlighted square was the starting point for this challenge. The numbers on each square will tell you how far you can move away from that square, so if the center square has a 2 on it, the first move will be to move 2 away from the center horizontally or vertically (up, down, left, or right). The goal was to make the longest possible path you can from the starting point - ideally, to move over every single square on the board. The amount of moves you’ve made up to that point will be your score. The three tribes with the longest path would win immunity.
Winners: Iñakuyo, Pukara, Amantani
Story
Day 11
After Devin's elimination, both Zoey and Sebastián worked to do damage control with Bliss after blindsiding her. Bliss felt personally betrayed by Zoey as the two shared a close bond that was damaged after Zoey flipped her vote from Ariana to Devin. Meanwhile, the results of the Devin elimination sent shockwaves throughout the entire cast. Multiple returnees were surprised but excited that their fellow original Amantani members survived but worried about how the remaining original Taquile players would take the news. Felipe in particular was worried about his place in the Pukara tribe since he didn't fully trust Jack at this point. Felipe also felt hard done by the Amantani 2.0 tribe as he felt they left the other Amantani originals - Raven, Zoey, Sebastián, and himself out to fend for themselves. Ironically on the Amantani tribe, Arlie felt like they were on the outs since he didn't have as much to connect with the rest of the tribe. Meanwhile, new players like Grady and Gameend were openly worried in their alliance chat with Jack on Pukara about the likelihood of another new player elimination if either Iñakuyo or Taquile 2.0 went to Tribal. On Iñakuyo, Andrew was worried about losing a challenge and becoming the next boot despite being in a majority alliance with Jayden & Pho.
As this was going on, a new Immunity Challenge - Back from the Klondike was announced! In this challenge, tribes had to work together to come up with the longest path on a grid with 81 squares without using the same square twice and sticking to the grid. Amantani 2.0 quickly got to work, all working on the example provided to see who would be best suited. After a few tests, they decided Taylor would be the best player to sit out. Meanwhile, on Pukara, Felipe chose to sit out, feeling confident that the tribe could figure out the optimal path without his help. The other tribes with 4 players each - Iñakuyo & Taquile 2.0 took their time to work on their challenge. Iñakuyo, because of IRL commitments, and Taquile because they were still reeling from the Devin blindside.
Day 12
Pukara easily won the challenge thanks to a computer script written up by Grady that gave them 76 squares out of 81 completed. Amantani 2.0's hard work paid off as Aaron’s path led them to 2nd. Iñakuyo barely squeaked out 3rd thanks to Jayden's path that earned them 60 points. Taquile 2.0 lost consecutive challenges, sending them back to Tribal to vote out the 5th player out of Survivor: Soles Nacientes.
At Tribal Council, Ariana was voted out unanimously 3-1 with her lone vote going to Bliss, making Ariana the 5th person voted out of Survivor: Soles Nacientes and the 5th member of the Fallen. After she was eliminated, Ariana gave her 3 Incan Sun Coins to Pho and made the following choices on who should work together in the future: Bliss, Gameend, Jack, Grady, Jayden, Andrew, and Amanda.
Tribal Council
| Tribal Council 5: Taquile | |
|---|---|
| Voted Against |
Voter |
 Arian (3 votes) |
   Bliss, Sebastian, Zoey |
Bliss (1 vote) |
Ariana |
VOTED OUT:
 Ariana | |
Still in the Running
| Amantani | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Aaron |
 Arlie |
 Dior |
 Ezekiel |
 Felipe |
 Maple |
 Raven |
 Sam |
 Sebastian |
 Taylor |
 Zoey |
| Taquile | ||||||||||
 Amanda |
 Andrew |
 Ariana |
 Bliss |
 Devin |
 Gameend |
 Grady |
 Jack |
 Jayden |
 Jon |
 Pho |
Trivia
- This episode title came from Andrew's confessional.
- This was the only point in Soles Nacientes where the original Amantani Tribe outnumbered the original Taquile Tribe (9 remaining Amantani, 8 remaining Taquile). At all other points in this season, the numbers were even, or original Taquile members outnumbered original Amantani members.
- This is the first time since the Schoolyard Pick that the person voted out was not a captain of one of the four new tribes.
