Gaston

is a contestant on . 
==Sierra Leone==
===Bio===
Age:20
Location:New Brunswick, Canada
Tribe Designation:
===Player Review Ranking===
Rank: 12th
Placement: 13th
Edgic: MORN3
SurvAv: 4.1
 Anyways, on to the one and only French Bastard himself. The man, the myth, the legend. We had the joy of hosting his "first ORG" according to him, but I know there was something else, and I'm here to call you out on your shit.
Gaston came into this game as one of the early first pick casts, we had a lot of hope and interest in Gaston. Historically in casting tengagers for their first games I'd had moderate to mild success in the entertainment factor, and dedication. If there's one thing for sure, tengagers have a disgusting dedication that makes you want to punch children, and that's exactly how I'd describe Gaston. He came onto the new person tribe and was instantly the catalyst for any and all alliances. He had a previous relationship with Jon that was a little rocky but was a grounds for slight trust, he was the only person Sam Vicario even wanted to talk to most days, Rachel attached herself to him, as well as Nikki, and Atlan. (Marie hated him though. Ha. Classic.)
The funny thing about the Mayagba tribe swap is that by no means was Gaston supposed to be on the tribe by any means. In fact, he was supposed to be right on Tasso with Nikki, Jon, and Rachel. This was, the fucking hilarious part of the tribe swap and where Nikki screwed up. In the captain's tribe swap deal, they all picked three allies that they would definitely have on their tribe. Keith had Tom, Matt, and Penny; Patty had Jillian, Ricky, and Bryce; Jeffrey had Britti, Drew, and Cristina. Nikki fucked up, didn't pick Gaston, so Patty scooped him right up. An easy boot.
And he really was an easy boot. He was third down the line, sure. But the inevitable doom of Gaston had Mayagba not been the most dominant challenge force in the game. Right off the bat Gaston was part of the Five Am alliance, and was really the strong central person besides Trent who was seen as the leader. Again, YAP RUINED THIS. YAP. Anyways, it was great while it lasted and proved just from the start the Gaston was a solid player. Ha, he proved that wrong, maybe? Gaston had earned this huge reputation of being a challenge beast from the first posting challenge, and he carried that reputation right from the unbeatable Mayagba, helping them win almost every immunity through the four tribe phase. Within this time, growing very close the the SF crew, and inevitably becoming a part of the ever growing iSF alliance.
His slight upheaval really fell into the background and became a memory, and in reality he fell concretely into the background until the three tribe swap at 24 players remaining. This is, of course, the rock draw. Since Gaston is the lowest ranked amongst the Babies he's the first time I get to acknowledge the existence of the so-called "underdog" alliance of the season - Babies R Us, the formative group of people who realized just way too late that they were at the bottom of a 13 person alliance. This pretty much originated on the shit show that was Makeni. This is, of course, the tribe that Bryce yelled "shit, fuck this shit!" at when he realized he was the captain. This group had a whole array of weirdos and relationships that really ended up holding very little value. There was Alex/Keith from Rutilus, Sam/Gaston/Jon from Bauxite, Georgina/Bryce from Adamus, and then Gabe. But then there was Alex/Jon/Sam from Tasso, and Georgina/Sam from Kakim, and Bryce/Gaston from Mayagba. And really at this point the slew of potential alliances were insane - and it lead to three insane votes in general.
Gaston and Sam had a great solid relationship that was reborn with Makeni, Gaston, unfortunately lived under the delusion that he had Jon on lock - Jon however, was not on lock. This caused the rock draw, blah, blah, - etc. Thus Babies! Honestly, Gaston got damn lucky in that vote that he had Bryce and Sam and that they didn't want to flip on him, or else he would have been so far gone. I find it real funny that Jon voted for Gaston in that vote, saving him, but also trying to vote him out at the same time - dynamics! This is also one of my favourite hosting moments in all three seasons which is pretending in the re-vote that it hadn't tied again.
LOOK AT THOSE FUCKING FACES. HOLY SHIT.
Alright anyways, Makeni was boring after that because this isn't Babies R Us yet, it's still iSF.
Then we get to the bottom feeders tribe swap. Gaston ends up on the bottom in the fourth slot because Sam/Bryce/Georgina are more important - obviously. And what does Gaston do when he realizes he's in the bottom of a massive alliance? What any person on the bottom of a massive alliance does - save the people that are above you in standings (Jeffrey/Yap). Temne was a hot mess of poor choices that can really all be summed up to Rachel's stellar social game. However, I bet Gaston has been waiting many a year for me to ream him the fuck out for how dumb getting rid of Tom at eighteen was. Here he was, just been told he's number four in an alliance of a larger alliance, and he saves - ooooo boy, ooooooo boy. Not even going to get there. Really voting out Tom and Keith - ooooo boy, oooooo boy.
What a
Amirite ladies
ALRIGHT MERGE.
Aww look the thirteen person alliance is back and now everyone realizes their mistake and Babies is formed because Matt Summers is now present. How did this alliance get formed? I'm really not that sure and I'm not nearly sober enough to care. They got rid of Cristina in a slew of mistakes that continued, then Jon left, and Babies is like, oh damn, who's next? Us? Oh shit yeah. So then everyone's trying to formulate some sort of redemption plan and Yap went out and everyone was like, YEAH! LIFE IS GOOD. And then came the hitting challenge - and this is where everything in the world can be blamed on Bryce Lancaster.
If you want to see Gaston's demise from his perspective, this video is pretty much where it's at:
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Essentially: Babies R Us really wanted to rebel against iSF but could never find the right time. The hitting challenge came around with the point of hitting people into tribal council, the bottom tier would attend, the others would not. Georgina was on vacation and didn't get hit nor did she hit anyone, and this basically came down to whether or not Bryce would hit others or get hit in order to go to tribal council in order to save Gaston - but couldn't make up his mind. Gaston's fall can completely be given in the hands of Bryce's Indecision. iSF handled the challenge perfectly, by hitting themselves into the bottom with one or two people that would be able to be voted out - and unfortunately, that was Gaston, landing him third juror and the awkward spot of trying to diffuse tension between Yap and Jon in jury.
I feel like I didn't really talk about how good Gaston played the game because I tend to play to negatives. His social game and bonds pushed him through a large majority of this game. Near the end, not having foresight as to the merge really pushed his game down and eventually was his own demise. He's a perfect case of playing towards the short term and not the long term. But overall, his game was very good. But not good enough! - Samm
===Voting History===
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