Jon

is a contestant on . 
==Sierra Leone==
===Bio===
Age:20
Location: New York City, New York
Tribe Designation:
===Player Review Ranking===
Rank: 13th
Placement: 15th
Edgic: OTTN4
SurvAv: 4.89
 Jon Marmo. What would Sierra Leone have been without Jon Marmo to entertain the shit out of us all season long.
Let me start even further back than the beginning of the game. Jon was not initially cast in the game, first of all. Second of all, I was real fucking classy in season one and because so many people applied just went by the "if you didn't get contacted u ain't cast" method. Which obviously, I didn't do in season two. But I thought this was a good idea for some reason? Maybe it was like the 83 interviews but whatever. Jon contacted me to ask if he was cast and when I said no, he deleted and blocked us all on skype which made it REAL HARD TO CONTACT HIM WHEN HE WAS FIRST REPLACEMENT. And we were like well guess he might not want to play, but he did! But like let's just never forget that he did this, I feel like it deserves it's own semi-annual ORG award.
Again, Jon was on Bauxite - this was such a funny tribe dynamic-wise. But Jon and Gaston kind of knew each other, but didn't trust each other, but also did trust each other, but who really knows what was going on there? But they still ended up being kind of a duo on Bauxite because you know - why not. I think Jon loved Rachel but, like, who didn't? Like literally, how did Rachel not win this game is the real question I want to know. Who's this Drew kid?
That also continued onto Tasso - the Rachel love. Jon moved there with two of his allies, Rachel and Nikki, but he also stood at kind of the awkward centre of this dynamic where neither really talked to the other, but both talked to Jon. They were all lumped together by the original Bauxite mentality, and that was pretty much an obvious thing. This turned into the war between two sides, especially with Bauxite having Captainship. When the Nikki -
:Puss Puss
Oh u right Jon, Puss Puss - when the Puss Puss vote came, Jon tried to keep her around but knew better resulting in her elimination. This basically started a huge streak of "anyone but me" which became the huge story line of Jon honestly. If I had to bring down any terrible stereotype onto Jon for his Sierra Leone performance it would probably be "the rat". In an ideal world he would have lasted longer and this storyline would have had more time to flesh out, but alas -
Let's start the next phase of his game off with this excellent video that represents Jon very well.
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I've watched this video probably 50 times and it's still fucking hilarious. Jon was generally really good at challenges but sucked at that one and then - oh man, so good. Like just so good. Almost as good as the time that he was on a tribe call and his Dad walked by wearing no damn pants but not quite, really.
MAKENI. Makeni was probably the most fun tribe out of the three in the whole swap ordeal, this can literally be pinned down by Bryce saying "FUCK!" when his tribe was revealed in captainship. Jon was in a really cool place in this tribe and essentially became the lynch pin vote right off the bat. Which, when looking at it all from an outsiders perspective you wouldn't think. There were three original Bauxite on this tribe, with Sam and Gaston. Sam had come over from Tasso with Jon and he'd just flipped on Gabe (who was also there) to save Sam. There was a lot of dynamics going on with Makeni.
The main dynamic however lied with Keith who had the anti-iSF mentality that was also shared by Alex Bayless. Gaston and Sam were very much team iSF at this point after stays on Mayagba and Kakim, and Gabe had just turned on Sam so there were two VERY distinct sides on this tribe. Bryce/Georgina/Sam/Gaston vs. Keith/Alex/Gabe. At this point of the game it was very much a culmination of a lot of pent up agression against a large majority alliance. I mean in the end, it didn't really mean much longterm since all four Bryce, G, Sam, and Gaston would turn against iSF, but - at the time it was important. Jon brought it to rocks, ultimately with Alex leaving and this was SUCH A GREAT MOVE. Honestly all three tribal councils of this round were amazing, but solidly this was the only good decision going forward that Jon made that was any good.
He kind of gathered the rat role, commonly seen in survivor, after surviving rocks he picked off Gabe, hoping to survive until the inevitable Mende/Temne switch where he was, of course, on the bottom feeders.
There's a real hilarious thing about the roast challenge where the rat went versus the weasel, turns out a weasel will win - but the rat will call the weasel a dyke and it's hilarious every time.
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Jon's game goes pretty downhill from here, reeling from the backlash of the rock pull, he decides to just vote out Tom without thinking longterm implication down the line. I think he legitimately said something along the lines of like "Well if we go to five tribal councils, I'll be voted out." Which was kind of like - are you serious? As much as the Bryce/Georgina in the rocks tribal wouldn't have mattered. Taking out Yap and Jeffrey in those two rounds would have insanely changed the course of the game and allowed the merge to be entirely different than what it was. ALAS. He didn't.
Merge hit, and Jon was a pretty easy target, at that point he didn't mean much to anyone. He got hit with a five person tribal council where he left pretty bitter against Yap - and then got him out next round with his excellent choice of Dead Man Walking tribes. Jon was great at getting in a position to make some powerful choice but seldom took them and this made him fall on the backseat. That said, if he we were to ever play again, I don't think he'd make as many mistakes. - Samm
===Voting History===
‘’To be added.’’
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