Jillian

is a contestant on . 
==Sierra Leone==
===Bio===
Age:27
Location:Tuscon, Arizona
Tribe Designation:
===Player Review Ranking===
Rank: 5th
Placement: 10th
Edgic: CP3
SurvAv: 6.99
Now I'm going to say that top 5 are pretty interchangeable, except for the top spot. The next four all played excellent games that are a little hard to judge in terms of what merits a higher ranking over the others. So as I'm writing these after the holidays, I'm just kind of deciding as I go. In fact, I'm probably goingto decide the other of these next four as I post them when all of them are done. So I won't make comparisons to other really on why the next is better than the next because I'm not really quite sure whether one is better than the other. They're all excellent players who played fantastic games and all deserve super stars for conquering a forty-two person game seamlessly. Anyways. Pass da blunt yo, my next super star is Jilly Bean! A hot rollerderby momma from Arizona, what more can I ask for?
Jillian was initially cast on the new person tribe as a matter of trying to separate certain people on the Survivor Facebook tribe. I'd had kind of the low down of how SF8 had gone down and knew generally who shouldn't be pieced with who (sorry Yelts) and it seemed like the best position overall was to put Jilly over on the new people. How great would that have been though, Jillian, Rachel, Sam, Gaston, sigh - excellent, really. Anyways, one can dream. The initial reason Jillian was placed over here was due to in her interview she said "I don't care where I play, just put me in coach." Which is a super excellent thing that I wanted to hear headed into an inaugural season, any bout of dedication was really enough to throw me in.
And this was present from beginning to end. Jillian played arguably one of the best social games out of all forty-two players. There was never a point in time where she was in danger right down to the twist that took her out of the game. At the end of the day - would she have been the winner? Maybe. There's a lot of answers that are very much no way to answer - hypotheticals and all that. If Jillian stayed, would the game flip still? Would they iSF take out Bryce in a sheer anger? Would Jilly pull Patty away from Drew? The questions are endless, but there's a lot of possibilities that lay in Jillian. Right from the beginning she was there to play, and not only play a game to win, but a game full of firecrackers and fun.
Adamus was always full of it's own drama, G vs. Patty, SF8 vs Big Mike, Patty and Ricky tiffing, but really at the beginning there was no worry on Jill's side of things. She was close with Ricky who was arguably the forefront of the Adamus alliance (and was very much the face of the alliance for a long time), she was close with Patty and had mom talks every morning which was Ashlee's favourite part of the game probably. The swap worked just as easily, Patty called Jill right over to Mayagba where SF reigned supreme for quite a while. Even at the forefront of the rebellion on iSF, Jillian's name wasn't brought up once as a target, it was always Patty and Ricky taking the brunt of the damage. Whenever a fight that occurred between Ricky and Patty, Jillian always served as mediator ensuring that everything could be calmed (which it always could be.)
My favourite storyline, of course for clear bias reasons, was the relationship that was formed between Jillian and Tom. Patty kidnapped Tom with the clear intent of voting him out the second it was possible - this of course, didn't happen. This can be boiled down to a couple things. The roundtable in which everyone got way drunk was probably the main source of this. The fact that there were cracks, but also the fact that Tom could get drunk and have fun with everyone was a large reasoning. Jillian formed a quick bond with Tom, as they drank together, and strategized while both not revealing too much gameplay. The fun game which Jillian sought was in this relationship. And it continued straight onto Bo (the three tribe phase) where arguably every decision and vote would have straight up decided by Jillian. Jillian pretty much owned Kevin in terms of a vote, had Jeffrey/Britti on her side because of Drew, and had Tom and Cristina looking for an escape. 
Oh, I should touch on Kevin/Jillian - I don't get it. Don't understand how it came to be.
There. Still don't get it, but it happened. Jill let the pre-conceived hatred for Eric from Ricky allow both Jamie and Eric get voted out back to back down to the final six of the tribe. This is where the game got a little bit interesting. Jilly was in a great position, right in the middle with Kevin between two feuding sides vying for her vote. Britti/Jeffrey, and Tom/Cristina, had Bo gone to a vote, I'd like to argue that Jeffrey would have gone home - but hey, only Jill can really answer this, I suppose. There was this weird underlying storyline where Drew and Jililan were both ultimately very aware of each other in the game. They both knew how big of a threat the other one was, while not striking at the same time. Just little tabs, and little armies. If that makes sense? It was an endless reinforcement for an inevitable battle, that eventually did occur - and Drew came out on top.
A strike against Jeffrey at that time would have by all means a strike against Drew's side, while gaining Tom and Cristina onto the army of #TeamJilly
Mende Temne bleh. iSF reunites and becomes an impenetrable force, taking out Cristina pretty easily. Jillian ends up on the tribe of five that takes out Jon at the final 15, unwilling to lose Kevin, she managed to flip Yap onto her side despite his slight of potentially taking out his ally. Jillian then ended up on the same side of things that Georgina and Bryce did - not going to tribal for a few rounds. During this time she played the field a bit, tried to find socially where she could fit in. Here she quickly finds herself in the French Bastards alliance.
This is pretty much the weird part of Jillian's storyline. Kevin gets blindsided by their alliance while Jillian isn't at tribal council and has no say in the matter. She gets very angry at this as it is an attack on her and her gameplay, and thus immediately flips on to Babies R Us and helps Sam and Babies blindside Rachel with the idol in knowing who they were voting for. But then immediately gets put on the tribe of herself, Sam, Ricky, Drew, and Patty. At the final ten we had a twist in place to discourage throwing so everyone would actually eat. But then this still didn't happen, pretty much no one ate? The twist (which admittedly was very stupid and really didn't affect anything, no one ate still pretty much) allowed Sam to get immunity. The tribal then became between Ricky and Jill for the vote out. Patty wanted out Ricky who she'd been trying to take out for a very long time, Drew wanted out Jillian who obviously there was that mini rivalry. Sam was really a non-factor. Eventually Drew won out over Patty promising the ousting of Ricky as soon as possible. And Jillian was ultimately taken out at final ten.
Ending her storyline with possibly two of the saddest endings, one being brutally taken out by a twist beyond her control. Two - not being able to reward Patty a vote at Final Tribal Council because of how close the vote between Drew and Georgina was. Jillian was one of my favourite players to watch from start to finish, all around excellent. Thank you so much Jill for playing. - Samm
===Voting History===
‘’To be added.’’
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