Tom

is a contestant on . 
==Sierra Leone==
===Bio===
Age:27
Location:Oakville, Ontario
Tribe Designation:
===Player Review Ranking===
Rank: 9th
Placement: 18th
Edgic: CPP5
SurvAv: 4.15
 So, I may be biased, but I'm not that biased. And these are my rankings so if they aren't a little biased, then - well, what are we all doing here post-season anyways. This season literally happened nearly a year ago, get over it!
Anyways, I see Tom as the last standing figure between an obvious iSF win and the inevitable fall of any and all rebellion that sat in the way. At 18th, as soon as he was eliminated there was pretty much an automatic guarantee that out of everyone left, one of Patty/Ricky/Rachel/Jillian/Dru was going to win the game, without question. Which is where a lot of the "Rig for Tom" and "Sam was sooo upset" sentiment comes from. There was really one pillar left of an obvious rebellion, and once it was smashed it was really just a smooth ride from then on out. Of course, Dead Man Walking through a twist or two in everyone's plans, but not to the game changing extent that it flipped the numbers in any which way.
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So Tom started off on the Rutilus tribe, which - I mean, Tom's the last Rutilus to be ranked at this point so we all know the chaotic mishaps, the strategic oversight, and the constant scheming, twenty alliances - proboards players! Going into the game I had Tom as one of my contenders to win and on my edgic for the two rounds that I did for Sierra Leone (god forbid I managed to do all 21 episodes - I didn't, but alas.) he was a contender to win. Of all things in Tom's game, he has an impeccable social game where people have a tendency to flock towards him. He landed in solidly with Keith/Alex who were also dominant forces in this game, and they took this early stage of the game by storm while maintaining relationships with absolutely everyone.
I should also note, that despite having a stellar social game, as this was Tom's first skype game, with mandatory video confessionals, the hilarity of he first few rounds where he's trying to figure out how to properly formulate what he is used to typing out - hilarious. Also one of these early confessionals chronicles finding out that Gaston played tengaged and that then didn't qualify him as a noob even though he'd never played a legitimate ORG - all hilarious.
Also this GIF:
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In the four tribe phase, Tom was well equipped over on Rutilus with Keith, and Matt who both had excellent bonds, and then Jamie in as a fourth - with also Penny, who was a strong member of core Rutilus at that point in time. But of course, this all gets rattled as he gets kidnapped onto Mayagba.
Patty kidnapped Tom with the sole purpose of voting him out. This, of course, was in exchange of Eric who was already their initial vote off choice. Mayagba was definitely the adult tribe in the fact that there's a whole lot of wine moms, and a whole lot of vodka gays. And the night Tom came over to Mayagba, every one was drunk and decided to do a roundtable, why? God knows why that was a thing that happened. It was a very tragic mistake, but played wonders into Tom's gameplay. Mayagba spilled the beans on everything, the slight rebellion that ensued between Trent/Gaston/Eric, the lines in the sand, the core of SF, everything. There really wasn't a tribe secret that wasn't revealed - and on top of that, this round table caused even more cracks with Patty and Ricky, as Patty missed the round table and was really upset Tom was told absolutely everything.
What was supposed to be a death sentence, ended up being a very good opportunity. Tom became one of the two people to actually survive the Slave Trade Twist, (three if you count Penny's stay on Kakim, but she fell victim as soon as she was sent right back to Yeliwor). Mayagba also began one of the most interesting power duo dynamics of the game which was that of Jillian and Tom, two of the strongest strategic players in the game who both did not trust each other in the least bit, but also trusted each other enough to look forward in the game with varying possibilities. I mean - all this was helped out by the fact that with Tom, Gaston, Ricky, and Patty's intensive practicing, there was literally no way Mayagba would really lose any challenge. Except for the one, and they vote out Trent, near unanimously. (Lol @ Ricky).
At the three tribe stage, Tom was both in a minority and a majority situation where he wasn't quite at the bottom but not at the top. The iSF ran the core majority with Jillian at the top hiding behind the ever dominant Jeffrey. Jeffrey had caused a huge stir against Cristina who instantly bonded with Tom, and Bo became a tribe of duos. Britti/Jeffrey, Jililan/Kevin, Jamie/Eric, and Tom/Cristina. Jamie went down first, followed by Eric. And then it was a game of who would go next. I still argue, to this day, had Bo went to one more tribal council, Jeffrey would have gone home. This all, of course, boiled down to the way Jeffrey had called Tom/Cristina out, and the Tom/Jillian power duo-ship.
But then, of course - we swing onto the tragedy that was Temne. Let's start with the good of Temne, which was the Tom/Dru roast. Literally this was the two figureheads of both sides going head to head, which I love. And also both were generally excellent roasts.
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Now on to the bad. The terrible tribe of doom. Really - I don't even know what happened. At the end of the day, there's no logical explanation for Gaston and Jon's flip onto Tom besides the fact that Rachel just played a much better strategic game. I feel like also, because it was truly a blindside, there was just not a whole lot of preventative measures going in to assuring that everyone was solid within their numbers. There was a lot of assumption as to where and when the merge would take place, pecking order, etc. Tom went out 5-4, the world cried, I cried, and everyone who would have caused any stink against the iSF majority alliance fell one by one until the inevitability of a clear win by iSF was all that rang true.
What a cruel world we live in. - Samm
===Voting History===
‘’To be added.’’
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