Alec

**Alec** (Cela#7363) placed 5th in Season 1 & 11th in Season 5.

A superfan and huge gamer, Alec showed off his dominant play style right from the get-go. He helped form a Saharah majority with Dani, and initially was able to keep her as a shield to avoid some threat detection while they controlled the tribe. However, after he was able to survive a 4-1 Tribe Swap without needing to play his Hidden Immunity Idol, Alec’s threat status began to rise. At the merge, he was shell-shocked to see Amber leave and found himself potentially on the bottom with Dani and Ciaran. At this point in the game, his social game with the Celestes began to become limited, and much of their interactions were perceived as negative. Despite this, he was able to pull Ruby & Rye back in and keep the majority. Much to his continued annoyance, things continued to not go his way as Shara & Star found and successfully used advantages to prolong the life of the rival Celeste Alliance. Despite being their target, Alec was able to win immunity and leverage his status as a threat to avoid being who the alliance voted for. Even when Ruby flipped for a Final 4 deal with Celeste to seemingly seal his fate, Alec was impressively able to on-side her again one vote later with some emotional manipulation. He proceeded to use his idol on Ciaran despite being immune, forcing Celeste not to be able to go to rocks in an impressive but also short-sighted move. Seemingly having regained his control and path to the F3, Alec felt safe about his game. After losing the F5 immunity he felt that he controlled Ciaran’s vote completely and that Ruby’s emotional gameplay could continue to be manipulated. However, Ruby shockingly ended up flipping against him due to the constant chatter from Celeste that he obviously won the game for rounds, blindsiding him in a 3-2 vote. He is remembered for effectively playing from the top and bottom of his tribes, his enthusiasm for his first ORG, and for surprisingly being a potential goat due to his negative social game toward the Celeste players.

Returning in Season 5, Alec was ready to play a more social game with a better attitude on the Gata Tribe. This proved successful early, as he was integrated into the 7 person majority alliance “I Heart Milfs” early on. However, being on a tribe with Season 1 alumni Ruby threw him off, as he was dreading being seen as a duo and how her messiness would impact his own game. By proxy, Alec was viewed as someone that needed to be taken out by a few in the tribe, particularly Harry. His stronger social game however saw him survive when both he and Harry wanted to blindside Ruby at the first swap, technically getting their wish when Ruby was ejected from the game. He also managed to find a cute little extra vote on his way to the merge! At the merge, Alec’s game came into jeopardy despite not having much control when he was perceived as a huge threat for his Season 1 performance. Despite others in the game doing just as well or better in their OG season, Alec in particular was a name tossed out at every vote because people were scared of his strategic prowess, despite him being firmly on the bottom of Maqe. Azzy in particular had tunnel vision for getting Alec out as revenge for Season 1, despite Alec actively wanting to work with him and benefiting Azzy's game. At the first vote of the merge, Alec was successful in keeping his name out of too many mouths but wasted his extra vote when three people flipped with the OG Gata Five. At the following vote, it was initially Alec vs Azzy as Alec returned Azzy’s tunnel vision, though reluctantly as he truly did want to be a duo. This rubbed some of his alliance members the wrong way as no one else really wanted Azzy out, so Alec made the smart move to fold his cards and go along with his allies, particularly Anthony, Will and Harry. This gained him favor with Will and Anthony, as they saw him as a good shield that was willing to fold his hand if need be. Harry, however, was still convinced that Alec was a big threat and a big move to take out. At the following vote, Alec threw out Suari’s name as a potential option due to his flip flopping nature and it came to light via Anthony that Suari lied about what happened on OG Sipi to try to make himself look good. With the others letting him know he had a very good chance to go home, Alec rallied numbers and fought impressively hard to gather the votes to stay and flip onto Suari. In the end, he was able to convince Basil and came just short of convincing Izzy, which would be costly as Harry was pulling the strings against him since the beginning of the round unbeknownst to Alec’s core Twink Alliance. Knowing it would be a close vote, Alec refrained from playing his Shot in the Dark and was disappointed when a 6-5 vote sent him to the jury before he got to make any moves. He is remembered for being confused and frustrated the entire game at why people (particularly Azzy) had tunnel vision on how good of a player he was given that he was on the bottom or didn’t even go to tribal for much of the game.