VIDEO: GUS 10 Episode 8: Ema Becomes First Casualty

The Spears improved on their loss margin to the Swords in the Cart Race task. But this loss depleted their tribe by a member – Etido Ema Ebong.

The task entailed assembling a cart, dragging it up a hill and across some obstacles, going through a gate and then racing to the finish line. The first tribe to the finish line is declared winner.

To assemble the cart, members of each tribe were to run up a hill and retrieve the pieces of the carts. They would then build the cart from the assembled pieces.

The Spear tribe suffered a setback when Peter who raced up the hill before Halima of the Swords, picked a cart piece belonging to the opposing team. This miscalculation gave the Swords a good lead ahead of the Spears.
Despite the setback, the Spears assembled their cart and raced towards the finish line before the Swords; but their cart got stuck. This gave the Swords ample time to overtake and win the Cart Race.

The Council of Elders decided to eliminate the Spear tribe’s weakest links. They were subjected to another task. Each member of the tribe had to carry two sacks of charcoal balanced on their shoulders with a stick while standing on a log. The weight of each warrior’s sack was proportional to his or her weight. The first to give way under the weight would be identified as the weakest link.

Ema lasted only 48 seconds into the challenge; while Dennis dropped three minutes later. Martha, Anthony and Peter lasted 25, 34 and 48 minutes respectively. For coming tops in the punitive task, Ifunanya became the tribe’s first female tribe leader.

Ema was later evicted at the Place of the Talking Drum.

Tune in to the following stations for more exciting episodes: African Magic (DSTV), Ebonylife TV, Realstar, Wap TV, ESBS and AKBC at 10pm; and AIT & Galaxy TV at 10:30pm