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So yeah, Palau ends and we segue into Guatemala. The big twist about this season was the return of Bobby Jon and Stephenie, who joined this game because they sucked so bad in Palau. Both lasted awhile, and Steph even made the F2. Not that there weren't other interesting personalities this season, mind you, because this season had some great characters.Survivor: Guatemala - The Mayan Empire (also known as Survivor: Guatemala) was the eleventh season of the United States reality show Survivor, and was set inside of the ruins of the Maya civilization. Specifically, the series is in Yaxhá-Nakúm-Naranjo National Park near the more popular Tikal National Park, located in northern Guatemala. A preview of the show's location was shown during the finale of Survivor: Palau. The season premiered on September 15, 2005 on CBS. The finale was on Sunday, December 11, 2005 on CBS. Danni Boatwright became the sole survivor by defeating Stephenie LaGrossa by a vote of 6-1. This season also features the return of Survivor: Palau contestants Stephenie LaGrossa and Bobby Jon Drinkard.
According to host Jeff Probst, temperatures appeared to be well over 110 °F (43 °C) with high humidity, as he talked about it during some of the competitions. Challenges like the 11-mile (18 km) hike through the jungle and "Mayan basketball" showed how exhausted all the castaways were. In Day 1, many of the Nakúm men were sick after the hike, and had a tough time recovering.
- Margaret. Margaret was a boon to Nakum after they reached their camp in the intense heat and nursed all the weakened men back to health. But more interesting is her feud with Judd, where she accused him of having ADD or something and he freaked out over it, and also about her calling him a "bad sportsmanship." Margaret was great if only because she triggered one of Judd's epic meltdowns.
- Brian. The gayest straight man Survivor's probably ever had. He was very excitable and enthusiastic about being on the show, and he also demonstrated he had a head for strategy, letting Blake build himself up enough to talk his way out of the game, and trying to split the votes to ensure his survival (which ended up failing). He had potential, but sometimes circumstances just don't go your way. At least he was interesting when he posted on Sucks.
- Amy. A last-minute addition after S12's Tina quit, Amy was a tough woman, hanging in there in the challenges and what-not. At one point, she injured her ankle or something, but she just kept fighting anyway, a strong contrast from when Jeff the pussy tried to quit Palau. She just missed the merge, which is a shame, because she was one of the more interesting female personalities in the game, which is kinda sad when the end game was predominantely women.
- Jamie can't cut it. I don't remember when this was, but at one reward challenge (I think) they had to cut a rope and do a ton of other shit in order to send a cart downhill. So whichever tribe Jamie wasn't on cut the rope quickly, while Jamie struggled. The other tribe did more stuff, Jamie still couldn't cut the rope. The other tribe makes it to the end, rolls down the cart and finishes the challenge, and Jamie... still trying to cut that damn rope. Most pathetic challenge performance I've ever seen, Jamie couldn't even get past the first fucking step and cut that damn rope. Makes even Courtney's rope-chopping skills seem great compared to him. Of course, it was hilarious to watch Jamie fail at such a simple task, but oh well.
- Bobby Jon vs Jamie. One of the better rivalries in Survivor history has to be Bobby Jon vs Jamie. Both were strong, competitive guys on opposing tribes both pre- and post-swap, and during one challenge things got so heated they went into each others' faces and started screaming like two apes. It was hilarious, and it started a great rivalry between the two as the game wore on. Then the merge came, and they ended up being the first two people on the jury, where suddenly they became best friends and shared a good laugh as Gary made fun of Steph and her idiot followers. It's interesting what competition brings out in people and how they act after it's all over. Gotta like how that whole thing turned out.
- Gary Hogeboom Hawkins. Gary was a former NFL player who was kinda obscure but still worried that people might target him for having money or something, so he changed his name to Gary Hawkins, landscaper. Not the best cover-up name, but he was kinda screwed since everyone saw GH or Gary H or whatever on his bag. Danni somehow recognized him anyway, though it didn't really affect the game. Anyway, he did well on Yaxha until the merge, where he became a target. He won the F10 immunity, and then managed to find Survivor's first-ever HII (I think) in the trees, despite Judd insisting it was on the ground, when Gary saw Judd searching up for it. He was voted out in F7, but at least before he did he called out a bunch of people playing like they're fans of Stephenie and how he didn't suck Steph's clit like the rest of them did or something. Overall, Gary was a solid player and I wouldn't mind seeing him on another All-Stars if it weren't for all the much better male candidates available, such as...
- Judd. I've only had one ghostnic during my time at Sucks, man, and his name was "God Damn Scumbags Man," where I pretended to be Judd, man. This guy was comedy gold, man, a bit of an unaware douchebag, and just plain fun to watch, man. His mannerisms were amazing, man, ending pretty much every sentence with "man" and using such terms as referring to himself as a "bad sportsmanship," man. He argued with Margaret over being accused of having ADD, man, and freaked out over it, man. He won clues to the HII, man, and lied about where it was, even though that scumbag Gary saw through his lies and found it anyway, man. Eventually he was blindsided and as he left, he called everybody scumbags and wished them to get eaten by a crocodile. So why the fuck was Ozzy or Yau-Man in Micronesia instead of Judd?
- Rafe. What a joke. He alternated between being pathetic at challenges (someone post the Rafe dunk please) and kicking ass at them, since he won three individual immunities. He was a gay Mormon who ended up in a F2 alliance with Steph. The guy seemed to be smart, but then at F4 they voted out the weaker Lydia in favor of Danni. And of course, Danni wins F3 immunity, where Rafe, who had made a F2 pact with Danni, pretty much says she can take Steph instead of him, which prompted me to make a thread to the likes of "RAFE, YOU FUCKING IDIOT." Hilariously, he was voted out, and overall he kinda sucked on this game. He has potential, but I still think he was an idiot for his F4 move and releasing that promise at F3. Idiot.
- Stephenie. In Palau, Stephenie was the spunky underdog who overcame adversity to become the sole survivor of her doomed tribe, found love in the other tribe, and then had a sad vote-off. In short, she was the closest thing to a female Rupert this show has ever had. Then she came to Guatemala, and she becomes this annoying hag who calls everything gay and retarded and eats everything in sight. What a morph, huh? Yeah, Steph is probably one of the few Survivors who have gained weight, since she ate lots of shit from the reward challenges, would eat other people's food, and even ate a sacrificial chicken or something (though I know some cultures eat the food they sacrifice). She also had a good alliance and did some backstabbing of her own, which ended up costing her in the end when a bitter jury voted against her 6-1, with only Rafe voting for her, thus continuing the trend of gay people voting for the losers that started in Vanuatu. Very interesting turn-around for Steph, though at least this time she actually won an immunity.
- Danni. May very well be most "WTF" winner ever, moreso than even the likes of Vecepia, Amber, and Bob. Probably Edgic's biggest miss besides maybe Bob, though Danni had a very weird edit in that she seemed to actually try to avoid the cameras when strategizing or whatever. How can you really edit a good winner's story if you don't capture all the footage on why she's a winner? Anyway, she was pretty invisible most of the pre-merge besides when they went to the other tribe's camp to celebrate her birthday or whatever, and then she was pretty invisible post-merge until the F6 or so, where she was the only person in the auction challenge to bid for something to help her in immunity, despite being a possibility to go next. It turns out that aid was actually a guaranteed immunity win unless you're an idiot, and she won immunity and they took out Judd instead. She hung around, and managed to be such good buds with Steph and Rafe that they took her to the F3 instead of the weaker Lydia, and then she managed to win the F3 immunity, where she took the unpopular Steph, and won. Very weird winner, though she's alright enough.
















