Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 6

Blog Post by Arthur

Episode 6

Both teams got the assignment to choose their three strongest candidates. In team South, Rita says everybody needs to name the three people they think are the strongest. Jeroen, Kurt and Simone are mentioned the most often.

In team North, Esmeralda and Igor both say they are the strongest. The majority agrees with Esmeralda, but disagrees with Igor and Marcel and Dennis are chosen in his place.

For the immunity challenge, both teams have to throw eggs up a ladder. The person on top of the ladder has to take the egg and go down a slide with the egg, in order to place it in an egg holder. The team who transfers ten eggs without breaking one wins the immunity. Team North takes an early lead, but it is team South who closes the gap quickly and eventually wins. As special price, the three people who were selected to be the strongest can go to a resort, where they can wash themselves and send an e-mail home. Eva and Rita are upset that only the strongest people can go because they are in big need of some contact with home.

Team North has to vote. Igor, who is the outsider of the group, shows his strength by collecting a lot of food. Marcel is not happy with the job Igor is doing, because he thinks Igor is wasting strength and he doesn't like the food Igor brings with him.

When the three strongest people of South arrive back at camp, they are welcomed with open arms. This doesn't last long, when Eva gets emotional again. This annoys Simone, who says that someone who gets this emotional should not take part in this show. Sabine disagrees and the two women have an argument. This ends when Kurt catches a stingray and the team has enough to eat for another day.

In team North, Igor gets in more trouble when Yolanda accuses him of drinking too much juice from the coconuts. The team goes to tribal council, where Igor doesn't get any votes. Esther is voted out unanimously because she asked, she wanted to leave for quite a few days now. After the tribal council, Esmeralda, Marcel and Dennis from team North want to make an expedition across the island, but return in an hour. It turns out that they found a lot of empty coco-nutshells. They think that Igor, who goes away to the jungle every day, has eaten a lot of coconuts when he was in the jungle rather than sharing this with the team. When they arrive back at camp, it turns out Igor has also eaten all the coconut the team was cooking. This leads to an explosive fight between Igor and Dennis & Esmeralda, where Igor accuses Dennis of talking behind his back rather than to his face and Igor gets angry at Esmeralda when she tells him that he should not curse. Marina and Yolanda have to butt in and end the fight before it gets out of hand. After the fight, Dennis and Marcel agree that Igor finally showed his true colours and they cannot wait to vote him out.

My personal opinion on the fight is that everybody was in the wrong: Dennis for being a drama queen and talking behind Igor's back so Igor never had a chance to say what he thought, Esmeralda, for not explaining why Igor was accused of stealing wood, and Igor, for his explosive replies. All in all, it didn't do good for Igor's position in the game.