Cutthroat

Colby(6)
Helen(10)
Hunter(6)
Kathy(6)
Ken(34)
Tom(6)

Alicia(3)
Ethan(3)
Jake(3)
Tammy(3)
Teresa(0)
Tina(3)

   Alliances:

       The Sountun Alliance
               Colby                                      Tina                Tammy          Ethan
              Hunter                                    Teresa               Alicia            Jake
                Ken                                                                                
               Helen                                                                              
               Tom                                                                                 
              Kathy

Episode Nine:

	Cutthroat is definately a tougher, more strenuous game than Survivor, and these players are proving it.  In Survivor, once your alliance has more members than any other alliance, you can pick everyone else off one by one, knowing you are safe.  However in Cutthroat, even one vote will send you to an elimination challenge, where anybody can go.  The only immunity is to not get any votes.  Otherwise, you have to earn your spot in the next round.  And don't think you are safe from winning one elimination challenge.  Until you find out who voted for you, and you get rid of all of them, the chances are that once you get a vote, you are going to keep getting votes until your luck runs out, and your position is not earned.  The pressures of Cutthroat are both politcal and physical, as clever manipulating isn't enough to get you to the end.
	Alliances are a tricky thing in this game, where the backstab of one person can get you kicked out any time.  Your most trusted ally can give you a vote and send you to the elimination challenge that you lose.  And with this merge upon the players, alliances are in question.  Will the former tribes stick together, or will members of each tribe find members of the other tribe to align themselves with?  While this merge spells "opportunity" to some, for others, it only spells "doom" and maybe "screwed".
Will Sountun keep their tribal alliance and work together, or will the two alliances that once split the tribe go off in two different directions?  And the six left of Pekata is really three alliances joined into one.  But are they one alliance now, or three?  This will prove to be the episode that shows the players' true loyalties.

The merge:  Instead of the tribes deciding on one of the two camps to move to, they were told to gather whatever they can carry, and bring them to a third camp, set up almost exactly between the two.  The players meet, and set up camp.  They were given a deep-green flag, and paints.  It is time to name the new tribe.  After some discussion, they finally agree on the name "Dodec".  Since there are 12 of them, and the word "dodeca" means 'twelve'.
	The players are also informed that to congratulate them on getting halfway through the game, there will be no bunny challenge this round, but instead, they are all awarded 10 bunnies for outlasting eight other people.  This is the point where the bunnies matter.  This is where the game gets hard.  This is Cutthroat...

Alicia(13)
Colby(16)
Ethan(13)
Helen(20)
Hunter(16)
Jake(13)
Kathy(16)
Ken(44)
Tammy(13)
Teresa(10)
Tina(13)
Tom(16)

	The Boneyard:  The players are directed to a new part of their island, called "The Boneyard".  Emotions ran high as they looked upon eight headstones, each with the name of one of their departed tribemates.  The Sountun stones had a light rusty looking redish-brown hue, and the Pekata stones had a yellowish-green look to them.  The thought and the feeling that each of those people have died brought them each a sadness to the voting ritual they must perform each round, but it also filled them with the appreciation of staying in the game.  They now had a new reason to not leave:  so their name does not end up on one of these stones.  They walk back, many heads resting on shoulders, some hold each other in their arms, the entire experience becoming an event of bonding.

	The twelve players talk, and some alliances form between the two original tribes.  Alicia and Tammy, the two stongest players from Pekata join Hunter, Ken, and Colby, the once "strong alliance" from Sountun.  Helen, Tom, and Kathy bring in Teresa and Tina as part of their alliance.  While the two alliances are even, with five people each, Ethan and Jake decide not to mess with either of them just yet.  They will wait and watch the alliances destroy each other, until neither of them has many people left.  After all, being in an alliance puts a target on your back.  At least by not being a part of any opposing force, they will be safe from votes while their are still two alliances.

Now the players will vote amongst themselves, who they want out of the game.  Each player that gets any votes will have to compete against each other in an elimination challenge.  Each vote they have against them will give them a penalty in the challenge, hindering their chances of staying in the game.

Alicia:    Tina
Colby:    Tina
Ethan:    Ken
Helen:    Ken
Hunter:   Tina
Jake:     Ken
Kathy:   Ken
Ken:      Tina
Tammy: Tina
Teresa:  Ken
Tina:      Ken
Tom:      Ken

The two players who got votes will now decide how many, if any bunnies they will spend to neutralize their votes against this challenge.

(bunnies)player(votes)
(13)Tina(5)
(44)Ken(7)

Ken spends 10 bunnies, starting him at 3
Tina spends 8 bunnies, starting her at 3

The players will play a game of high card.  Ace=1, J=11, Q=12, K=13.  This will be added with their bonus/penalties.  Whoever has the lowest score will leave the game immediately.
Tina(3) + 7 = 10
Ken(3) + Q = 15

The first person kicked out of the Dodec Tribe:  Tina