Cutthroat

Colby(9)
Helen(8)
Hunter(9)
Jerri(0)
Kathy(7)
Ken(11)
Tom(8)

Alicia(8)
Brandon(0)
Brian(7)
Ethan(16)
Jake(8)
Jeff(5)
Tammy(8)
Teresa(8)
Tina(8)

   Alliances:

       The Strong     The Strong-willed
          Colby                 Helen                                               Tina                Tammy                  Brian
          Hunter                Tom                                               Teresa               Alicia                 Brandon
          Ken                   Kathy                                                                        Jeff
                                   Jerri                                                                         Ethan
                                                                                                                   Jake

Episode Five:

	Sountun is in a bad mood, losing a third person in four rounds, and Hunter, Colby, and Ken know they need to win bunnies if they want to stay in the game.  Helen, Tom, Jerri, and Kathy are sad to lose another member of their tribe, but are happy it wasn't one of their alliance.  It is still possible to have an even merge, so they are not scared yet.
	Pekata is happy to go four rounds and still have nine people.  Brandon is getting scared that the tribe seems to be after him.  He wishes he could find something to use as a bargaining tool to gain friendships.  Brian finds out that it is Teresa and Tina who were the only other ones not voting for Brandon, so he tried to recruit them into a voting bloc against the other five.  Unfortunately, those were the two that voted for Brian, so he wasn't able to convince them.  Only Brandon could do it, if he found a way.
	The remaining 16 players were getting settled into the game, and they learned the schedule.  Since there weren't any immunity challenges, there was no need for that extra day, and each round was only two days long.  They would wake up on day one, and do a bunny challenge.  Then on the morning of day two, they would vote, and the people that got votes would compete in the elimination challenge that night.
	This settled-in feeling could only mean one thing:  it is time for a twist.  Although the thought of a tribal switch was tempting, that is being saved for a later season.  Switches shouldn't be done in the very first game played, or the players will learn to expect it as part of each season.  The idea for Cutthroat is to get voted for, then have to survive your votes by competing against other people that got votes.  The bunnies are what made it easy for some people to stay, while others left.  The bunnies had to go, but in a way where the rules of the game were not changed.

	Bunny Challnge:   The tribes were told to each pick a member which they trusted, and knew was strong.  Sountun picked Ken, and Pekata picked Ethan.  Here's the twist:  Those people now represented all the bunnies of their tribe.  Whichever tribe won this challenge would get to keep their bunnies.  Actually, only the one person that won the challnge would.  The other 15 players would have no bunnies.  Since this was a challenge that meant almost promised immunity to one player for at least one round, it had to be a difficult, and long game.  Each person was dealt cards, alternatively, one to Sountun, one to Pekata, etc.  A=1, JQK=10.  The first person to break 100 wins.

Ken:         |  6,4,6,9,6(41)7,9,4,7,K(78)7,8,J(103)
Ethan:      |  4,7,K,3,2(26)7,J,K,J,5(68)Q,A,4(92)
Ken won the challenge, and got to keep all of the bunnies his tribe has owned.  Pekata now has no bunnies to help them through this round.  Sountun can only hope this is the twist that can help them start keeping their players, and make Pekata lose a few more.

	Both tribes must now vote between them who they want out of the game.  Each player that gets any votes will have to compete against the other players with votes from both tribes in an elimination challenge.  For each vote they get, they will be penalized for the challenge.  They may use their bunnies to neutralize the votes counting against them for the challenge.  They may even use more bunnies to gain extra points, but they are advised to save enough for the rest of the game, as they have to earn more bunnies later.

Here are the votes:

Sountun:
Colby     .  Jerri
Helen     .  Hunter
Hunter    .  Jerri
Jerri       .  Hunter
Kathy     .  Hunter
Ken        .  Jerri
Tom       .  Hunter
Pekata:
Alicia      .  Brandon
Brandon  .  Jeff
Brian      .  Jeff
Ethan     .  Brian
Jake       .  Brian
Jeff         .  Brandon
Tammy   .  Brandon
Teresa    .  Brian
Tina        .  Brian

The votes were cast, and the 5 players that had votes against them must compete against each other in a challenge to decide who will be the first person eliminated.  The game is high card.  Ace=1, Jack=11,Q=12,K=13.  For each vote a player received, they will lose one point of their score.  They may, however use their bunnies to buy extra points.  Whoever has the lowest score will be eliminated.

(bunnies)player(votes)
(0)Jerri(3)
(0)Hunter(4)
(0)Brandon(3)
(0)Jeff(2)
(0)Brian(4)

Now the cards:
Jeff(-2) + 4 = 2
Jerri(-3) + 4 = 1
Brandon(-3) + Q = 9
Hunter(-4) + J = 7
Brian(-4) + 6 = 2

The fourth person eliminated from Sountun:  Jerri