On Wednesday night, the Brains and Brawn tribes competed in a reward challenge where they would battle one-on-one on a floating net, racing towards a flag at the opposite end of the net. Their opponent could stop the player in any way they could, and the first to reach their flag would score a point.

With a feast of loaded fries up for grabs, the game was on and the Brawn tribe were barreling through their Brains counterparts with ease in the first three rounds.

When it came to Zen versus Kaelan, it was finally a fight to the finish. Though Kaelan tackled Zen with all his might, the hip-hop artist managed to muscle his way to win the point, injuring his hand in the brawl.

"I looked down at my hand and it was a little bit sore but I thought it would be nothing," Zen told 10 Play. "I was looking forward to the loaded fries we won, I was more interested in having the fries than anything... but the left side of my finger started getting fatter and fatter and I thought this could be trouble."

Initially brushing it off as a jarred finger, the pain continued and Zen had to get checked out by the medical team ahead of the next immunity challenge.

"I was hoping for the best-case scenario, which would have been to put a bit of tape on it and keep moving," he explained. "I actually said to the team I wanted to do one more challenge, no x-ray, but they said it could be a bad injury."

After getting properly checked, it was revealed that Zen had fractured his finger, and it wouldn't be able to heal while he was in the game, giving the medical team no choice but to pull him from the game.

"The Survivor gods had another plan for me," Zen said. "It wasn't a good feeling. We've come all this way to get onto Survivor and now I've got to leave so early. It's hard because I've got no control over that," Zen continued, "but it just goes to show that there's unfinished business."

Spending a lot of time resting and seeing a few specialists, Zen was back to full health, but the entertainer promised that this wouldn't be the last we've seen of him on the beaches of Australian Survivor.

While it was still early on in the game, Zen was emerging as one to watch, with a big personality shielding his hunger for strategy and big moves, he had already found a neat shield in Nash who was all too happy to take him under his wing.

The youngest of the castaways this season, Zen was happy for his fellow tribemates to underestimate him. "The plan, for the first couple of days, was to just kick back, throw in a bit of humour, be funny, be strong in challenges but not give them too much.

"I was using Nash as a decoy," Zen continued, "I had to think how I could use this guy to be the fall ." During the first Tribal Council, Zen even wrote Nash's name down.

"Nash and I had a conversation and he asked about why I flipped, and a couple of days later I was talking to Ursula I told her I put down Candy’s name, then I said I put down her name, so nobody knew whose name I put down. It started to get fun and very exhilarating," Zen said.

"There were a lot of moves I was looking to manifest, even on day one looking at different players and how I could utilise that person and their characteristics and make them work for me," he continued.

Even sizing up the other tribe, Zen was confident in what Brawn could achieve. "Looking at the Brains I thought it was going to be easy. We had some muscle, and when you start talking to them you realise there were a few people who were a bit cluey so we could make some big moves."

Unfortunately, with his game coming to a screeching halt, Zen said it's been difficult knowing he'd have to re-live it as the episodes went to air.

"I've had a few people, family members and friends, say 'I can't wait to watch you win' and it's like playing a game. It's hard knowing that you're going home so early, but the biggest thing is I didn't get eliminated. I got removed. I had no control over that so, in a lot of people's minds, they'll want to see me again.

"They've had a little taste of Zen, so just wait for round two."

Australian Survivor Brains V Brawn II continues Monday - Tuesday at 7.30 pm and Sundays at 7pm on 10 and 10 Play