Adam Holbrook

**Adam Holbrook** is a contestant from *Halloween Spooktacular*, *March Madness*, and *All-Stars*.

He is the creator and host of the *Survivor Edgewater* franchise, hosting *Dark Democracy* and *Mini-on Mayhem*.

Adam debuted in *Halloween Spooktacular*, where he navigated himself through the all-male Honua tribe until ally Jesse Roldan was blindsided before the merge. Their disfunction would begin to show at the merge, where he would fall back onto the bottom, taking part in the key blindside of Hailey Ott. He would blunder in the final five when he told Isabella Coronado and Melissa Geller to take him to the end because they wouldn't win otherwise, angering them enough to vote him out 3-2 in fifth place.

Adam entered *March Madness*, determined to prove himself as a *Survivor* great. Playing with a weak cast, he would be able to turn on players left and right with loyal followers in Olivia Hindle and Sebastian Wright, controlling the strategic gameplay of the season. Adam would make one of the most infamous moves in *Survivor Winter Park* history by threatening to turn the jury against Alex if they didn't take him to the end. Adam's arrogance caught up to him at the Final Tribal Council, where he was eviscerated by the jury for his cold and calculated behavior throughout the season. He lost the season in a controversial 5-2 vote.

Adam would have a much less successful run in *All-Stars*, where he would immediately be pegged as untrustworthy for his previous performances on both his tribes. At the tribe swap, he would be blamed by Cecelia Gutman and Kristen Paul for turning against them, planting a target on his back that would eventually result in him becoming the last player voted out before the pre-merge in 15th place.

## Survivor Winter Park

### Halloween Spooktacular

Adam began the game on the all-male Honua tribe. With Coleman Preisser and Ricardo Duarte-Parada has easy targets for their first two Tribal Councils, Adam would find himself in an alliance with Dorian Holt and Jesse Roldan, knowing themselves as the three larger threats to the tribe. Their path to the merge would prove difficult when Brandon Yohe, Garrett Walker, and Keyes Rodriguez would wise up to their plans, forcing a 3-3 tie between Jesse and Adam's target, Garrett. With the others unwilling to budge, Adam and Dorian would turn on their ally, Jesse. Despite their position on the blindside, the guys would attempt to reconvene at the merge. Dorian held a grudge against them, however, and sided with the girls to eliminate Keyes from the game, leaving the guys at the bottom. Adam would turn against Garrett in a move of self-preservation in the following round.

The final eight would split the tribe in half, with Adam falling into a group with season-long ally Brandon and rivals Hailey Ott and Sarah Riess. Knowing that Hailey had an idol made her a dangerous target for the other three, who began working on their blindside: the guys would act like Sarah was their target, while Sarah "believed" Adam was the real target. This would culminate in Hailey's not playing her idol and her elimination.

The now-divided Mokuna tribe would reconnect with a 3-3 division, with Adam's new group wanting to finally eliminate Dorian from the game, unaware of his idol. At Tribal Council, Adam would be blindsided by Dorian's idol, with his ally Brandon being knocked out of the game. Now at the bottom with Sarah, Adam attempted to bring in Isabella Coronado and Melissa Geller against Dorian, telling them that they would lose the game regardless and may as well have sided with him. This would only anger them more, and with Sarah having immunity, Adam would be voted out 3-1-1.

Adam would vote for his ally Sarah Riess at the Final Tribal Council, still believing that Isabella and Melissa didn't make any strategic moves throughout the season. He would contribute to her unanimous victory over them, voting Isabella for second place.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 10, Dorian used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Adam's vote against him.

### March Madness

Adam began the game on the Zamba tribe with two easy boots for their Tribal Councils. These would be his only two Tribal Councils of the pre-merge phase, allowing him to grow close with Alex Rodriguez, Ava Thigpen, and Benjamin DeLoach. During the second round, Adam found his tribe's Hidden Immunity Idol. In addition, his friend through Edgewater High School Sebastian Wright, would be a loyal ally of his before the tribe swap, where Adam found himself on the Yasu tribe with a majority of himself, Alex, Drew Desabrais, and Marina Rentz. These four would leave Isabella Otero at the bottom, but they never needed to vote due to them winning both challenges.

Heading into the merge, his returning player alliance would be tested when Drew began targeting Ava, turning the target towards him. Adam knew Drew had the majority of players against him but decided to vote alongside Drew regardless in order to secure his jury vote. He would forge a new alliance with Alex, Marina, and Seb, two pairs united to take out the growing threat of Ben, who now had Ava, Isabel, and Olivia Hindle on his side. Adam would prevail in his fight, with Isabel and Ava going back-to-back to end the second day.

Day 3 was when Adam began to turn his gameplay up, convincing Seb to give him his idol so Adam could hold two for more power. He gathered the other five players and explained that he would be using both idols on himself to guarantee himself a spot in the Final 4, making him an untouchable target for those two rounds. He would stay loyal to his alliance for the first round and follow through with his first idol to negate any votes against him. However, he betrayed Alex and Marina in the Final 5 by instead playing his idol on Seb, negating three votes against him and using his two to send Marina out of the game. Alex finally caught onto the game he was playing and, while continuing their winning streak, targeted him at the Final 4. However, knowing she was a weak player, Adam manipulated Olivia into voting for Seb despite Alex's efforts to have her not vote for him, splitting the vote into a 2-1-1 in which Adam and Seb took Olivia out. While the three fully expected a Final 3, they were surprised when the game continued into another challenge, with Alex once again winning immunity. Recognizing his likely position to be eliminated, Adam pulled off one of the most successful and controversial moves in all *Survivor Winter Park* history by threatening to poison the jury if Alex decided to eliminate him at that point. This would get inside Alex's head, who would decide to eliminate Seb to not run the risk of Adam actually turning the jury in Seb's favor. In actuality, Adam had no intentions of doing so but believed it was his only way of making it to the end.

At Final Tribal Council, Adam would deliver his gameplay in a calculated manner, explaining that every decision he made throughout the game and every backstab he had to deliver was a part of how he got to the end. The jury would prove themselves to be against him in this vote, with the most vocal voice being Marina. They spoke about how they didn't appreciate the way Adam took the game too far at points, while Adam would rebut that everything was played within the context of the game. When Marina spoke for her jury speech, he was finally exposed to the jury for his threats against Alex, which swung the jury in Alex's favor despite their incredibly poor performance at the end. His deceptions would end up costing him the game in a 5-2 vote, only receiving the votes of Isabel and Seb.

Adam's loss in *March Madness* has been hotly disputed throughout the course of *Survivor Winter Park*. Many believe that he did deserve to lose the game for what he pulled off, as the jury is allowed to vote on any criteria they feel necessary, but acknowledge that he was the better player between the two finalists and would've won if the game did not deal with any level of emotion.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 10, Adam used a Hidden Immunity Idol but no votes were cast against him.

### All-Stars

Adam began the game on the Sigma tribe. His reputation from the previous season preceded him, with him being pegged as the most sneaky player by Kaley Kolb and Meaghan Schlossmacher. Despite this, he found his footing with Cecelia Gutman, Jacob Thigpen, and Rylee Perrault. As the game continued, he would ramp up his constant strategizing, further cementing a target on his back, which was only bolstered by his tribe's winning streak, which allowed him to strategize even more. This would come to a head in Round 4, when Sigma finally lost a challenge. Adam would join her in the decision to go after Kaley, with her and Meaghan's attempts at ousting Adam failing to eliminate him.

Adam swapped onto the Waylu tribe, with chaos immediately ensuing at their first Tribal Council when primary targets Jesse Roldan and Zoey Thomas were taken off the board by advantages, being forced to join the majority against *March Madness* ally Drew Desabrais. However, a rogue vote sent by Griffin Hallemeier (a member of the Tavuko tribe pulled in by an advantage) against Kristen Paul would begin her and Cece's tirade against Adam, now believing him to be their biggest threat. While the tribe would turn against Kristen and Diego Lindauer at their next two Tribal Councils, Cece would continue to gun for Adam, who believed himself to be well-insulated with Michael Collins and William Turner. After losing their third straight challenge at the final fifteen, Adam would continue to target Cece, but the damage they did to his reputation would finally come to haunt him when he would be blindsided in a 4-2-1 vote right before the merge, with only Mac voting alongside him.

Adam earned his jury spot through the Fallen Stars twist by giving a detailed speech on the *Survivor Winter Park* history of Cece. At the Final Tribal Council, Adam voted for Meaghan to win, finding her arguments the most compelling of the three and having been inspired by her journey from their former Sigma tribe to the Final Tribal Council. He voted for Griffin to receive second place.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 15, Cece successfully used her Shot in the Dark, negating Adam's vote against her.

## Advantages

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* Adam was the second Edgewater High School student to play *Survivor Winter Park*, following Livi Fry in *Worlds Collide*. He would be followed by Sebastian Wright in *March Madness*.
	+ Adam would go on to create the two-season *Survivor Edgewater* franchise.
* Adam was the first player to possess two Hidden Immunity Idols at the same time, followed by Thorin Groth in *All-Stars*.
* Had Adam made the merge in *All-Stars*, he would've had immunity for Round 10 of every season:
	+ In *Halloween Spooktacular*, he won individual immunity.
	+ In *March Madness*, he played a Hidden Immunity Idol on himself.
	+ In *All-Stars*, he would've been immune via the Villains receiving immunity due to Jesse Roldan's *Heroes vs. Villains* Timeline Twister card.