Survivor Cambodia: Second Chance switched up the tribes again and concluded with the new Ta Keo tribe voting out Yung "Woo" Hwang during Season 31's sixth episode Wednesday night on CBS.

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Woo, who previously competed on Survivor: Cagayan, became the sixth castaway voted out of the game. His new Ta Keo tribe ousted him via a 4-3 vote instead of Spencer Bledsoe at Tribal Council on Night 16 of the game.

Woo stayed a Ta Keo tribe member through two swaps although the castaways he played the game with continued to change. Woo's latest alliance turned on him when his closest ally Andrew Savage began to emerge as a leader and Ciera Eastin, who found herself at the bottom of the alliance, wasn't going to let that fly so she flipped things upside-down.

In an exclusive interview with Reality TV World on Thursday, Woo talked about his Survivor experience. Below is the first half. Check back with us soon for more.

Reality TV World: You were obviously blindsided. What did you think was going to happen heading into Tribal Council, that absolutely everyone was voting for Spencer Bledsoe?

Yung "Woo" Hwang: Absolutely. The idea was, "Hey, listen [Ciera Eastin], we can tell Spencer that we're just trying to get rid of a weak challenge member from the team, so we're saying you but you're just a decoy." And then we were going to blindside Spencer. That definitely didn't go according to plan and I got blindsided last night. It's kind of tough.

Reality TV World: Did Savage come up with the plan to make Ciera the decoy target or did you have a say in that? And did anyone else contribute ideas to that discussion?

Yung "Woo" Hwang: We wanted to obviously use someone as a decoy and Ciera, being the weakest one in challenges on our tribe, we thought it would be a great way to confuse Spencer into thinking we're going to vote out Ciera.

But yeah, that was the idea, just to use Ciera as the decoy and let Spencer know she wasn't going to be strong for us in challenges so we needed to get rid of her. Everyone was onboard until Ciera and [Kass McQuillen] decided to vote the other way.

Reality TV World: Did you consider the possibility at the time Ciera might not be okay with that plan and could rally troops against you, or did you not even think about that?

Yung "Woo" Hwang: I didn't think about it because Savage and Ciera had this previous relationship with their original Bayon tribe, and you know, Savage to me -- and I'm sure to Ciera -- is a straight-up guy, you know what I mean? And we all sat there and Savage kind of conducted the whole, "Hey, listen, we're going to vote Spencer but we're going to say it's you, Ciera."

And Ciera was onboard! She was like, "Hey, I understand. I know it's shady to hear my name being thrown around, but if it's going to distract Spencer then yes. By all means, use me!" But obviously that wasn't the case.

Reality TV World: If Ciera determined she didn't trust Savage, and Spencer quickly learned Savage was going after him, why do you think Ciera's group chose to target you instead of just going after Savage?

Yung "Woo" Hwang: Yeah, what they don't really show during the episode is the conversations that took place leading up to the swap where I was back at my original Ta Keo camp with Savage and [Tasha Fox] at Angkor, they brought me in and said, "Hey listen, Woo, if you work with us and we hit the merge, we're really tight with a lot of our original Bayon members -- [Jeremy Collins], [Keith Nale], [Stephen Fishbach], Ciera, and we got Tasha, you and myself."

[They said], "If you're onboard, you can be with us and we can go really far into this game." And then swapping to my old Ta Keo and being a member with Kass, I remember I was with her too at the sleeping quarters and Kass and I just had conversation.

She was asking me what my experience is and my thoughts and feelings are with Savage. And I said, "Hey, I like Savage." And she also asked me what I thought about Tasha. And I said, "Hey, listen, I feel good with your Bayon tribe." I left that conversation thinking, "Did I just make a big mistake?"

Because Savage really never mentioned Kass being in his alliance with his original Bayon members, and I'm sure Kass felt the same way, like, "I don't feel very close with Tasha or Savage, and if Woo is going to be part of this big alliance come merge, that's not going to help my game.

I might as well try to take out one of their members now, get Spencer to come on my side -- because Savage completely threw him under the bus -- this is the way I need to move." And, you know, I don't blame her for that. It was a great move on her part.

But you know, I can't take anything back and I can't take that conversation back that I had with Kass, but I feel like that would just be the big turnaround for Kass to realize, "Hey, Woo is not going to be good for us at the merge. He's going to link up with Savage, who will patch him through. And then they'll just wipe everyone else out."

Reality TV World: Before your tribe realized the merge was right up ahead, do you think your tribe's next move was going to be to take out Spencer or do you think they'd want to keep him around even longer?

Yung "Woo" Hwang: Yes, well, let's see. Would they go after Spencer next? It looks like the numbers now fall on Spencer's side, so Spencer could be good. It could be Spencer, Ciera, [Abi-Maria Gomes] and Kass against Savage and [Kelly Wiglesworth]. So even if that was in play, I don't think it could happen considering the numbers.

Reality TV World: Well, I just wasn't sure if Kass was thinking, "I'll use Spencer for this one vote but then get rid of him."

Yung "Woo" Hwang: Oh, I don't know! I feel like Kass might think that she can use Spencer to go pretty far. Because if you think about it, Kass needs to build her alliance before the merge happens and she's sitting in a good spot with Abi, Ciera and Spencer. Yeah.

Check back with Reality TV World soon for more from Woo's exclusive Survivor interview.


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