Ives

**Ives** (ives#1768) is the Sole Survivor of Season 6.

Starting the game off very strong, Ives found herself as the leader of the Moto Tribe. Well aligned with everyone, Ives would have her hand in all of the social dynamics of this tribe. While all but Jazzy (her main duo) wanted her out due to her social prowess, the tribe could not unify to take the shot. This was in part due to Ives manipulating them against each other, spreading either straight up lies or truthful information that would make the other players feel the need to rely on her. As such, she made it to the tribe swap unscathed and with both remaining members of her tribe backing her. At the swap, Ives' social game continued to flourish, getting in especially with Kev as well as the OG Dakai members. Kev would go on to want to be a duo with Ives, a sentiment that was one-sided due to Kev’s unwanted and vague flirting toward her. At the merge, Ives was initially in a very good position. She was well aligned with perhaps the entire game and was set to be able to choose her allies wisely to set herself up. However, she would end up voting out two people that would never go against her and then ditch her own plan to flip, relegating her to the bottom of the tribe. On the Felipe vote, Felipe explained their two timing very poorly to Ives and made it appear that the minority alliance they formed was specifically against her. Because of this, she ended up playing into Danny’s hand and pushing for the majority alliance to unanimously vote out Felipe and that the two remaining Moto would be okay with this, despite Felipe not actually intending to get her out anytime soon. At the Kev vote, Ives and Jazzy were fed up with Kev’s constant and vague flirting; despite Kev being an obvious number for them and giving her his Extra Vote out of trust, Ives orchestrated another near unanimous vote against Kev just due to his bad behavior. (Editor’s note: and that was super valid even if not a “good game move” don’t get it twisted lol!) Finally, during the Penny boot, Ives initially formed a counter alliance consisting of Xcync, Mariana, Penny, Reese, and herself to blindside Danny and flip the game. At this point, she did not include Jazzy as she began a sort of one sided feud with her, stating that she couldn’t be trusted and planning on getting her out shortly as well. This error would cause the plan to collapse on itself, as Reese was inactive and would receive a self-vote while also being unlikely to even vote out his own ally in the first place. As such, Ives chickened out on her own plan without telling anyone else involved, causing the entire tribe to turn against her. While initially set to be the next target, Ives was miraculously spared when Reese was removed from the game as well as earning a Hidden Immunity Idol for herself from the auction. This is when her activity in confessionals as well as in the wider game as a whole noticeable dropped due to real life commitments; for most of the merge portion of the game, Ives’ thoughts and opinions were never revealed, and many complained of her ghosting them. Due to this, Xcync deemed her less of an immunity and social threat, ironically sparing her despite this not even being intentional. This lack of activity would carry her to the Final 4, where she once again decided to start playing a bit harder socially and attempted to mist Mariana into tying the vote and sending her to fire due to Tanner not budging. This would be successful, and when Xcync made an error in firemaking, Ives was able to make the Final 3 to pitch her case to the Jury. At the Final Tribal Council, it was apparent that the Jury largely favored Ives over the other two finalists despite her disappearance for much of the merge game. While they felt she was embellishing upon her merge game a bit, her premerge game and social bonds made early in the game saw her keep their favor and impress most of them who were already voting for her that much more. In the end, Ives became the winner in a 4-2-1 vote when the Jury valued her playing aggressively and strategically for 50% of the game over playing UTR and being perceived as a “coaster” for the entirety. She is remembered for a fan favorite move of using Kev’s Extra Vote he asked for her to give back to him to vote him out despite not needing extra votes for the plan.