Yap

is a contestant on . 
==Sierra Leone==
===Bio===
Age:19
Location:}Milpitas, California
Tribe Designation:
===Player Review Ranking===
Rank: 19th
Placement: 14th
Edgic: MORP3
SurvAv: 4.55
WHY, WHY DID YOU DO EVERYTHING THAT YOU DID IN THIS GAME?
Alright, everyone knows, gameplay wise, I am not nor will I ever be a Yap fan. Actually, I'm sure that everyone, Yap included, is shocked she isn't much lower on this list. But I do believe he deserves top twenty, undoubtedly.
Literally I feel like I can boil down most of the stuff that happened in this game, especially with iSF taking over to Yap. He had SO MUCH opportunity to flip this game around almost every single round, and it just always came down to essentially that one time he'd hung out with Ricky in real life and thus he was immediately loyal to him. I DON'T KNOW. Obviously this post is a little biased, cause clearly Yap should have gone out much earlier in my books. But, let me also note, that out of the two games I have hosted Yap in, he's done pretty much the exact same thing both times. Which is the following: does nothing the entire game, sits in the middle, falls in with a majority that is easy to fall into, realizes that things might not be pretty, decides to start playing the game WAY too late, and then gets the boot.
Blah blah, Yap/Kevin, blah blah, Ferrous. Covered it already. If y'all don't know the Ferrous situation by now, just go back and read everyone else's post, I ain't got no time.
Yap's "game" truly starts on Mayagba. Again, there was massive conflict constantly brewing on Mayagba for a tribe that never really went to tribal council. There was a very clear divide down the middle - and despite the fact that there were very very visible cracks down the Survivor Facebook alliance, I think it was pretty clear to most people that they were not going to budge in any way, shape, or form. Thus the creation of the 5AM alliance (previously I called it 5 guys, but Yap corrected me, uh - thanks Yap! POSITIVE!), Trent/Gaston/Kevin/Yap/Eric. This honestly, was the perfect situation. Yap was right in the middle.
Here's the thing I don't really understand with the situation, and everyone can correct me if my string of events is wrong here. 5AM was after Patty, they wanted Patty out as an act of rebellion against the brewing iSF. Yap and Ricky were very close. Closer, arguably, than Kevin and Yap. Yap went to Ricky and told him immediately about 5AM and the targeting of Patty. Patty had openly admitted she would like to target Ricky to one of the boys, this was public knowledge. Somehow, none of this really seemed to all come together. As the middle man, one would think Yap would have taken out Patty with the boys and THEN flipped - I think that's my sort of problem with the whole situation here. Not that I'm really complaining, because a Patty-less game HORRIFIES me, but in the whole "making sense of Yap's game" trend that I'm going through - this immediate betrayal just really makes no sense to me.
This whole ordeal happens in episode 3, Yap is painted as Ricky's puppet and then becomes irrelevant again until episode 9.
Except that one time during Xander's tribal council where he started to do that gun thing.
Why, WHY.
Anyways, episode 9, Ricky sends Yap to be a spy on Makeni, and then because of this gets sent on to the Temne bottom feeders. This is - probably the only instance of Yap's gameplay that makes radical sense to me. Now, of course, being completely aligned with iSF, as everyone knows, if these tribes stick, Yap is second to go home, and thus campaigns for Jeffrey to stay. Rachel, of course, orchestrates this, and Jeffrey stays. HOWEVER, Yap would have been in a better position come merge if Jeffrey had left - so if Jeffrey had gone over Keith, good. Honestly, this is the part of the game where Yap, again, could have taken control and flipped to the other side to help take out iSF, but doesn't and pretty much seals his fate as unworkable.
Merge comes, and Cristina's round is pretty self-explanatory. It's the round after that I think holds a lot of the cards in Yap's game. Debatably, Jon's tribal council boot is one of the most exciting in the game. Mostly because the intense flip flopping everywhere. Only five people attended that tribal council (Rachel, Jillian, Kevin, Jon, and Yap) and everyone's name was brought up to boot at least once seriously. Except probably Rachel. Cause God, Rachel, so good. There was a serious plan in motion for most of that night to take out Jillian. This would have paved Yap an excellent path to start flipping back and forth again, to take the game by the horns, he had Jon and Rachel on board, and Kevin wasn't, but he would still have Kevin for a while. Kevin knew this was the plan. The plan got leaked. Yap, after the plan got leaked, went back to iSF, I think Ricky played a heavy hand in this tribal council trying to make sure everyone voted the way he wanted. But since most of the time, this vote was meant to be Jillian, it really revealed a huge part of Yap's hand. This, IMMEDIATELY, leads to his demise.
Jon, after his boot, set up probably the best Dead Man Walking for the next round. With Drew, Patty, Britti, Ricky, Jeffrey, Kevin, and Yap all on the same mini-tribe, they were forced to take out one of iSF. This, of course, ended up coming down to the bottom of the totem pole, which were Yap and Jeffrey. Funny enough, most of this tribal seemed to point to it being Jeffrey leaving as he didn't offer much to the group in terms of going forward, and Ricky was definitely afraid of the whole roommate situation. Yap's demise ended up being Kevin, who, because Yap had spent so long flipping at Jon's tribal council, no longer trusted him and plead to the group he should go.
Then Jon and Yap fight a bunch in jury, and it's pretty much the best part of Yap's storyline, and now they're like weirdly kind of decent friends.
Also he does the gun thing like, 10 more times, at least, and it's still not funny to this day.  - Samm
===Voting History===
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