I’m Already Feeling The Pressure

"I’m Already Feeling The Pressure"
Season	Survivor: Soles Nacientes
Episode Number	1/16
Episode Chronology
Previous	Vang Vieng Finale (Previous Season)
Next	I Didn’t Come Here To Play Anybody Else’s Game
Confessionals
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I’m Already Feeling The Pressure is the premiere episode of Survivor: Soles Nacientes.

Challenges

Immunity Challenge: Sun Trials
The challenge had four different sections: 1. PixHop; 2. Jigsaw; and 3. Word Ladder; 4. Flag Making. Each tribe had to assign three people to each section, except for Flagmaking which needed two people. The tribe with the most trials won would win Immunity.
Winner: Taquile

Tribe	Score	Place
Taquile	4	1st
Amantani	1	2nd

The Sun Trials
PixHop	Amanda	Jon	Pho	Ezekiel	Maple	Zoey
	177,434	151,220	200,939	201,269	76,470	55,176
	529,593			332,915
	Taquile
Rotating Puzzle	Andrew	Ariana	Jack	Dior	Sam	Sebastián
	12:26	15:22	9:01	29:26	13:57	25:17
	36:49			1:08:40
	Taquile
Word Ladder	Bliss	Devin	Grady	Aaron	Arlie	Felipe
	950			422
	Taquile
Flagmaking		Gameend	Jayden	Raven	Taylor
		42/90		68/90
	Amantani

Story

Day 1

After Main ORG crowned Megan as the winner of Vang Vieng, the next season took place on Lake Titicaca, between the border of Peru & Bolivia, by the Andean Mountains.

The hosting team of Bilger, Emma, Isaiah, Poteet, and Tommy with fearless leader Neb scoured the community for 11 new players to Main ORG ready to compete against 11 returning players, all seeking redemption from their previous performances on their original seasons.

The tribe with new players - Taquile featured: Amanda, Andrew, Ariana, Bliss, Devin, Gameend, Grady, Jack, Jayden, Jon, and Pho.

The returning players making up the Amantani tribe were: Aaron from Season 63: Saints vs. Sinners, Arlie, from Season 1 & Season 7: Laos & Revival respectively, Dior from Season 63: Saints vs. Sinners, Ezekiel from Season 14: Madagascar, Felipe from Season 43: Mauritius, Maple from Season 35: Sri Lanka, Raven from Season 65: Mallorca, Sam from Season 5: Switzerland, Sebastián from Season 67: Babylon, Taylor from Season 68: Mutiny Isle, and Zoey from Season 69: Damjaqua Cascades.

After the cast was revealed and marooned, they took the time to get to know one another and socialize. On the Taquile tribe, an alliance of 4 - Andrew, Ariana, Devin, and Grady was formed but mostly to talk about a mutually liked show - Community. On the Amantani tribe, the returnees were nervous about their new chance to play Main ORG. Aaron went to calm his nerves by drinking and starting a voice chat with his tribe mates.

Day 2

On Day 2, the first challenge - the Sun Trials were announced! This tribal immunity challenge was broken into 4 parts: Flag Making, Pixhop, Jigsaw Puzzles, and Word Chain being the tiebreaker challenge. Taquile had the following members compete in the challenges:

Flag Making: Gameend & Jayden

Pixhop: Amanda, Jon, and Pho

Jigsaw Puzzle: Andrew, Ariana, and Jack

Word Chain: Bliss, Devin, and Grady

For Amantani, the tribe members competed in the following challenges:

Flag Making: Raven & Taylor

Pixhop: Ezekiel, Maple, and Zoey

Jigsaw Puzzle: Dior, Sam, and Sebastián

Word Chain: Aaron, Arlie, and Felipe

Day 3

The flags were judged by alumni Hoola (Season 66), Mark (Season 62), and Zeebem (Seasons 57 & 64).

Amantani won the Flag Making portion 68-42.

Taquile won the Pixhop challenge 529,593 to 332,915.

Taquile also won the Jigsaw Puzzle with a shorter combined overall time of 36:49 to Amantani's 1:08:40.

It came down to the Word Chain.

Thanks to Grady's coding skills, Taquile doubled up Amantani with the final count 950 to 432.

During the challenge, Sebastián felt that he should've been on the flag since he didn't feel confident about the other challenges. Sam also wanted to do the Word Chain as he had a lot of free time coming up soon but wasn't available when Amantani was divvying up tasks. Aaron felt that he could've given more effort in the Word Chain challenge but was told by Arlie that they had done enough to win.

Meanwhile, on the Taquile tribe, Pho requested an alliance chat of themselves, Jayden, and Andrew named "Neb's Kidnappers". Pho made this alliance with the primary intent to keep Jayden close as they felt Jayden was very social in the tribe. Gameend was also working on earning allies and even got Ariana to give away her Incan Sun Coin to her.

After the challenge, Taquile celebrated the win while Amantani felt very stressed having to send a returnee home after waiting so long to come back. Immediately after the challenge, Sam hopped into the tribe voice chat and jokingly asked "Who should we vote out?" This was taken seriously by his tribe, especially players who weren't in the voice chat like Maple & Raven. This made Sam a primary target and sparked multiple alliances to form. Arlie, Maple, and Raven made an alliance called Furcubed while Sebastián and Zoey made two alliances. One with Aaron and another with Felipe. These six were focused on voting out Sam. While Sam was looking for a target themselves, he suggested Felipe as a name due to their lack of a social bond. Dior's name was also thrown out because of perceived relative inactivity. The majority of the tribe seemed locked in unanimously on Sam with Ezekiel prepared to vote alongside Sam to earn Sam's Incan Sun Coin. Sam, thinking that Ezekiel & Arlie would be with him on a vote, made an alliance with them called "Old School Squad".

Then, unexpectedly, Taylor, who was in on Sam being the target, told Sam that Sam was on the chopping block. This caused Sam to panic and go to everyone else asking if he really was receiving votes. Some Amantani members told Sam the truth like Arlie & Zoey, while others like Ezekiel, pretended to be in the dark. Sam desperately made a six-person alliance that included Arlie, Ezekiel, Raven, Taylor, and Zoey hoping that they would save him and vote out Felipe instead. At Tribal Council, Sam & Ezekiel voted for Felipe while everyone else voted for Sam, except for Taylor who self-voted and earned his first strike. After Sam was eliminated, he was given a choice as a member of the Fallen. First, he had to give away his Incan Sun Coin which he gave to Ariana and he had to select 5 castaways that would be good "leaders of the future". He chose the following players: Devin, Grady, Jon, Ariana, and Aaron.

Tribal Council

Tribal Council 1: Amantani
Voted Against	Voter
Sam (8 votes)	Aaron, Arlie, Dior, Felipe, Maple, Raven, Sebastian, Zoey
Felipe (2 votes)	Ezekiel, Sam
Taylor (1 vote)	Taylor
VOTED OUT: Sam