Alyssa

**Alyssa** is a contestant from Tropic Survivor: Kauai.

## Cast Assessment

Alyssa is point blank one of the most socially charming castaways competing this season. She knows how to talk to people and she knows how to get people on her side, the perfect recipe for a fantastic social game. But like most blessings a curse comes along with it. Due to her sympathetic nature she would do anything to help her tribemates, especially in times of great need. There’s a lot of upside to a castaway like Alyssa, but overextending her hand could spell disaster if she doesn’t play her cards right.

## Kauai

Known for her immense paranoia and sometimes gullible perspective, Alyssa’s path to the final tribal council was one that set her game apart from the rest of the cast in rather unique ways. In the early days of the game on the Kai tribe she was very particular about the way she spoke to others and the way she behaved around camp. Her strategy was to dumb down her presence as a way to get people to let their guards down around her so that people wouldn’t be threatened by her. It worked out pretty well, while not too many people felt too attached to her right away, over time her bonds became rather strong with many members of her tribe and many were open to at the very least including her in potential alliances and long term plans. While the only tribal council she attended with the original Kai tribe was an easy one, there were multiple scenarios that could’ve played out instead where she would’ve been safe with nothing to worry about regardless.

When the tribes swapped Alyssa was arguably in the safest positions of any castaway left in the game. Maybe not the best or most powerful, but certainly the safest. She had remained on the Kai tribe in a 4-2 original tribal line majority with Jacob, JC, and Sparks. The new tribe went on a losing streak that would result in three tribal councils that drastically impacted how the rest of the game played out. At the first tribal council the four original Kai members agreed to split the vote 2-2 on Brandon and Kaden, which resulted in a 3-2-1 vote after Kaden flipped on Brandon. Afterward, Jacob approached Alyssa with a lie that sparked the formation of a long term trio. With five members now left on the tribe, Jacob convinced Alyssa that JC was trying to flip on her, which was not true. This resulted in the two of them and Kaden teaming up to vote out JC and subsequently Sparks at the next tribal council.

Coming into the merge Alyssa felt comfortable with her new trio as well as the original Kai tribe members she had been reunited with. There was a slight amount of distrust from Shaun and Tris who were skeptical about how the tribal councils went down after the swap, but nonetheless all of the original Kai tribe members came back together to vote out Logan at the first tribal council. Logan had led some votes against Alyssa which gave her more freedom moving forward. At the final eight Alyssa’s allies were starting to get divisive and complicated. Shaun had become extremely worried about Jacob’s connection to Kaden, which made him worried about Alyssa’s connection to Kaden by extension. This resulted in the original Kai tribe members splitting up and taking sides. After Shaun and Tris teamed up with Aidan and Velma, and Raini decided to stick with the trio, the votes were tied. Ultimately Alyssa’s side got their way after Kaden played his idol to eliminate Shaun.

With Shaun now out of the picture Alyssa stuck with Jacob and Kaden for a bit longer to vote out Velma. But at the final six trust was running low. In order to keep Alyssa by their side Kaden told her that the minority was targeting her, the same tactic Jacob used initially to get her to flip on JC. This made Alyssa waste an idol when she only received one vote at the tribal council. Naturally, Alyssa had lost almost all of her trust in Jacob and Kaden and decided to flip and vote out Kaden with Aidan and Tris. The jury saw this as a big move, especially when the votes tied. But after further weighing her options on the revote, she decided that it wasn’t worth it to go to rocks so she flipped back and saved Kaden.

Having just backed out of what would’ve been one of the biggest moves of the season, Alyssa was running out of options to remove the floater status that she had obtained throughout the merge. She figured she needed to get rid of Jacob and Kaden if she wanted to have a good shot of winning the game, and in an ideal world she would be able to eliminate Aidan too. With Aidan continuing his immunity streak and no more idols left in the game, Alyssa teamed up with Aidan and Raini and was successful in eliminating Kaden and Jacob. At the final three it was unclear who Aidan would take should he win the final immunity challenge, but both Alyssa and Raini were confident that they would take each other. Aidan ended up narrowly winning the final immunity challenge, and decided to take Alyssa with him to the final tribal council.

While she was the underdog heading into the final tribal council with the jury not expecting much from her, Alyssa fielded the questions she was asked surprisingly well. While the final vote made it seem like a blowout, the final tribal council was much closer than the votes made it seem like. Prior to the final tribal council the only two jurors who were leaning toward Alyssa were Kaden and Raini, but due to her great answers both Shaun and Logan were left on the fence. There was a decent possibility that Alyssa could’ve won the game in a 4-3 vote, but many jurors were rubbed the wrong way when she joined Raini in trying to dismiss and discredit Aidan’s game throughout the final tribal council. Ultimately she finished as the runner-up of Tropic Survivor: Kauai in a 6-1 vote.

### Voting History

**^1**  In "The Obsession Honestly", the vote ended with a 4-4 tie between Kaden and Tris, forcing a revote. Alyssa changed her vote to Tris on the revote.