Michaela Duquette

== Summary ==
Michaela Duquette is a contestant from World Tour. She is best remembered for her espionage moves and making it to the finale in her debut season.
== Gameplay ==
=== World Tour ===
==== Resilient Trio ====
Michaela started off on the Fans Tribe. She had no major alliances but grew close to both Joey and Anthony. After losing the first immunity challenge, she cast her vote for Allyson. Ultimately, Joey ended up going home with five votes. Their tribe won the next immunity challenge, and she swapped onto Laeken.
Through mutual connections, Michaela found herself in a group of five on her tribe, leaving Shea and Delaney on the outside. They lost the next challenge, and Shea was voted off 5-2. The next immunity challenge was Greed, and Delaney wasted no time in taking it. With Delaney immune, the group was forced to split. Anthony and Shannon supported Michaela, and the three of them voted for Giada. Soon enough, Michaela found herself in a 3-3 tie. After a deadlocked revote, her allies vouched for her to stay, and the vote was flipped, and Giada went home. This trio remained at the next tribal, where they blindsided Melia in a 3-2 vote.
At the merge, Michaela purchased the last mystery item for $320, which turned out to be a bag of Jolly Ranchers. Her trio from Laeken merged with Colin and Kat's alliance, and together they held half the numbers. They decided to go for Allyson in case Corri had an idol played on her, and after Anthony nullified half the votes with his Legacy Advantage, Allyson was sent home 5*-4-1.
==== Super Spy ====
On Day 9, Michaela found her way into multiple alliances with Corri and Maheen. She put up a front to pretend like she was with them, but in reality, she relayed all the intel she was getting to her actual alliance. Through this method, everybody on the outside was soon taken out one after another. Corri went home in a 6-2 revote, Maheen went home in a 4-3-1 vote, and Wes went home in a 5-1-1 vote. The whole time, Michaela was never called out by anyone for her strategy. With Delaney being the only one outside of the alliance left, she was an easy vote. Michaela founded the Your Mom alliance with Colin and Kat, with the goal of making it to the finale. Shannon and Anthony still believed Michaela was part of their group. When Delaney won the Wide Awake challenge, Michaela and her allies voted for Anthony. He received four votes, but Shannon's Super Idol cancelled them out and Colin ended up going home instead. Your Mom lost a member, but Michaela was still confident she had Delaney. After Shannon won immunity on Day 13, Anthony finally went home in a 3-2 vote. At final four, Shannon won immunity yet again, and through Delaney's convincing, Michaela turned on the last member of Your Mom and voted her out 3-1. She made it to the finale and placed third overall with zero votes to win.
=== Second Chance ===
Michaela had a short trajectory in Second Chance. She started off on Lorgeree with her bestie Jessica. She and Jessica had the most input on challenges, however, and through their communication they were able to survive until the dissolve of the tribe. She was separated from Jess and ended up on McKenna. She did not have many allies, and ended up being sent home the instant the McKenna tribe lost a challenge. She lost to Corri on Redemption Island, which left her in 13th place overall.
=== All Stars 2 ===
After an invisible appearance back in October, Michaela returned to play All Stars 2, taking place just a few days after her Italy trip. She was placed on the Malibu Tribe, and easily felt comfortable with former allies and real-life friends. When the game started running, Jessica created the Malibu Slayers, a majority alliance that excludes Allyson and Stella. For the most part, Michaela did a great job balancing her real life with her Gauntlet life. She got an average Entanglement score and submitted plenty for the Scavenger Hunt. At night, she communicated with Allyson and Stella to help write better questions for Unlimited Questions. Despite her help, Malibu ultimately lost the challenge. At tribal council, she followed Jessica’s lead and Allyson was safely voted out 4-2. Malibu lost the following challenge, and it was revealed that they would attend tribal council simultaneously with the Hollywood Tribe. Aborting the plan to vote off Stella, everyone on Malibu united to try and find a common target. After brief communication, everyone decided to target Wes. With five votes, a tie was at least guaranteed. However, Ayesha from Hollywood made a plan with Stella to play idols and split votes, which would result in Jessica being voted out. Ayesha and Ailish were set to cast the deciding votes but switched to Michaela at the last minute. That night at tribal, Michaela became the fourth person voted out by a 5*-3*-2 vote.
== Personality Assessment ==
==== World Tour ====
* Favorite Element: Challenges
* Self-View: Beauty
==== All Stars 2 ====
* Favorite Beverage: Soda
* Favorite Show: Gilmore Girls
== Trivia ==
* Michaela was a frequent player during the Zoom Era.
** She was the last player from the Zoom Era to participate in a modern season.
* Michaela was the first ever player to submit a video for her finale speech.
* She shares the same placement with Savannah Milso, a good friend of hers.
* It was rumored that Michaela was going to appear on Dynamic Duos alongside Ashlee Canfield, but this turned out to be false.
Category:Third Place Finalists