Mathew

is a contestant on . 
==Sierra Leone==
===Bio===
Age:16
Location:Morgantown, West Virginia
Tribe Designation:
===Player Review Ranking===
Rank: 10th
Placement: 8th
Edgic: MORP3
SurvAv: 3.02
 Alright, you heard it here first friends. Young Matthew, player of the season - 10th place in the Sierra Leone Cast rankings. Now I know what you're thinking, how could such a beautiful young gentleman such as this get so low on the rankings when he was Player Of The Season!!!!? Well I'm here to answer that question and more. Most of the answers consist of Matt really not doing anything. Well. I guess that's that, no more ranking.
I'll start off by saying that I've known Matt since he was twelve years old. Like literally that long. Yes, he's pretty much exactly the same, but he's gay now and apparently that's a big deal for someone who's born in West Virginia. And I'm proud of him. Of the many years I've known Matt in his short life, there is one thing I am absolutely certain in: Matt sucks at ORGs. Like really fucking sucks. I've never seen him moderately succeed at a game, and it's something that I've mocked him for pretty much as long as I've known him. Pretty last minute one of Matt's and my mutual friend dropped out of Sierra Leone and I was like, eh Matt can replace that person since we both know them, cool. I needed kind of a stand in for just a spot and Matt's even said himself that he really didn't expect to last long.
Even as a starting tribe on Rutilus, Matt was way beyond his skill level. Keith, Tom, Penny, Kody, Alex, and Xander are all by far excellent game players with amazing game records and incredible strategic insight - Matt's history didn't really add up to this. It was really fun watching him get locked up in all the strategy, not knowing if he would ever be out if it came to a vote. After the second win on Rutilus, the term "Roaches Don't Die" came into effect, pretty sure this was originated by Matt (?) but any original members of Rutilus can step in and fix that fact for me. Regardless, the proboards tribe referred to as the Roaches that wouldn't die was a pretty great metaphor, not for the entire tribe, but really for Matt.
And of course, I mean roach in the nicest connotation. I've pre-emptively said that I didn't expect for Matt to do well in the least bit - and yet, Rutilus was the last tribe to lose a member, and the last member of Rutilus to go down was good ol' Matt Summers. There was a whole lot of roach-like storyline for Matt. Really in his very core, Matt was The Underdog of Sierra Leone. Which is why at the end of the day he won Player of the Season. There was no time even within whatever slight majority alliances he held at the very very beginning of the game that he was at the top of. He was always a low formed number that was gripping onto an inevitable likelihood of getting voted out. And that was fucking hilarious. Every single second of it, was pure TV gold.
On Yeliwor, he amassed onto the Meninist alliance that really just had him as a number - in fact, I completely forgot to mention Matt in any of the previous YEliwor posts because really I forgot he was kind of there. He was one of Keith's original allies, but Keith was now closer to Jamie, and Atlan was a no go. Every single person that Matt would get even slightly close to would just leave the next round. This started right away on Yeliwor with Chandni, who he got close to, then Lindsay. Then - came the three tribe swap which is most likely one of the most iconic tribal councils in all of Sierra Leone history. If I had to give one Tribal Council to get someone interested in this game - boom, here it is.
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If you haven't watched it yet, I recommend every damn second.
Matt's not naturally a feisty kid. He takes a lot of slack and rarely fights back for it. At this point, Matt's swapped onto a tribe with a vast majority of the iSF core alliance, no numbers, and literally everyone, EVERYONE is referring to him as Diane. Even production, really. It was either Young Matthew or Diane, and there was no in between. Diane was the nickname that Patty had given Matt in the four tribe phase because his original casting frame picture looks like a porcelain doll and kind of like a girl. and Patty's bad at names - that's a thing too. Anyways, this tribal, Matt's finally at the brink of frustration, he knows he's going home, no one's going to vote with him, so he just let's loose on Ricky who he absolutely hates at that point. They fight, it's fantastic.
It's so good, in fact, that the iSF core decide he's entertaining and that he should be kept around - cause, why not? And they vote out Xander literally last second.
And thus the tale of Young Matthew, Underdog of the Century, Slayer of the iSF comes to fruition. Just because he became a man and stood up to Ricky - which I mean, is just a hilarious rivalry that I will always love. Especially the fight about divorced parents which I won't give details about because Ricky gets angry about it all the time.
Matt survived Kenema, solely because they didn't lose immunity. Ended up on the bottom feeders and watched as both Tom, and Keith, his former allies just disintegrated as he voted in the minority. In fact, of the twelve tribal councils Matt attended, he only voted in the majority 6 times. A lot of this came down to a lot of excellent social self-preservation gameplay.
The merge became the formation of the Babies R Us alliance, which really was excellent to watch, they scraped at numbers they thought they could achieve. Matt, who still after getting fucked over by Rachel two or three times now, trusted her to some ridiculous extent and kept telling her absolutely EVERYTHING. Until he literally had to be yelled at not to trust her any more. And then the fall of Babies R Us came with the Jillian blindside, which then lead to Bryce's demise and eventually Matt's.
Matt's boot episode is quite excellent though. And though he does sort of go down without a fight, he still goes down swinging:
Matt left on the pressure cooker round where he started many a fight and took a lot of slack. Ending his short appearance in the challenge by saying his friend had a choir show the next day and he'd sacrificed too much for this game to not go see his friend! That was essentially the end of Matt, who in his final moments, voted Ricky one last time.
Again, these rankings aren't all about gameplay. On paper, Matt didn't play the best game in the world, he survived a long time on the skin of his teeth. He provided entertainment, a great story line, and a root-able character. Which is why he placed, and ranked so high. - Samm
===Voting History===
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