Melissa Arcade

**Melissa Kristin Arcade** is a contestant from *Zovivor: Egypt*.

Initially aligning with Andrew Olabode, Andrew Lam, and Jose Silguerro on the Nefertiti tribe, Melissa quickly endeared herself to her tribemates. After the swap, she was separated from her original alliance, and after losing Jose, she entered the merge as more of a floater, falling into the background as louder personalities clashed while working on forming close social connections. She picked up her game at the final 5, beating high profile player Sheng Lim in the immunity challenge that sent him home. However, she was unable to win the final 4 immunity, which left her vulnerable. Ultimately, she was eliminated at the final 4 in a unanimous vote for being a threat to win.

## Profile

**Pronouns**: She/Her
**Age**: 26
**Location**: Colorado Springs, CO
**Occupation**: Physical Therapist
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**What are three words to describe you?** ---
**What is one accomplishment you're most proud of?** ---
**Why will you be the Sole Survivor?** ---

## Survivor

Christina was initially placed on the all-female Salani tribe, where she caught the ire of Alicia Rosa when she tried to make a deal with the men of the rival Manono tribe to help them set up their camp. This led to a heated argument between the two in their first Tribal Council: a rivalry that would last for most of the game. After Salani lost another Immunity Challenge on Day 6, Christina found herself in the minority, as the majority Salani Alliance of Alicia, Chelsea Meissner, Kat Edorsson, Kim Spradlin, and Sabrina Thompson voted out Nina Acosta.

After Nina's ouster, the women agreed to set aside their differences and become a more cohesive tribe, which led to an upstream of three consecutive challenge victories, sending the Manono tribe to their first Tribal Council. The winning streak ended at the fourth Immunity Challenge, and Christina was presumably set to be Salani's next casualty, but was saved when Manono unprecedentedly forfeited their immunity to settle an insurmountable dispute.

A Tribe Switch on Day 12 sent Christina, Alicia, and Monica Culpepper to the new Manono tribe. Christina believed herself to be in a majority with the other two women and Colton Cumbie, the lone gay Manono member who had befriended the women from the start. However, Alicia and Colton had conspired to eliminate Christina and Monica. Seen as a bigger threat than Christina, however, Alicia and Colton directed the vote against Monica instead. Alone, Christina found herself not only on the outs, but also ridiculed by the two conspirators, more so after attempting to convince Colton's allies, Jonas Otsuji, Leif Manson, and Tarzan Smith, to turn on him. Despite Colton's mistreatment towards her, she later found him in the jungle curled in a ball suffering from an illness and helped him back to camp. When this illness resulted in Colton being medically evacuated on Day 16, the two tribes merged at Tribal Council with six men and six women.

After making amends with Alicia, Christina was adopted into the women's alliance, seeking to systematically eliminate the men. Convincing the men switched to Salani, Jay Byars, Michael Jefferson, and Troyzan Robertson, to turn against their fellow men, they eliminated Jonas in a 10-2 vote. It was too late when the men found themselves tricked by the women, and for the next three votes, Troyzan's Hidden Immunity Idol was used for naught, and Michael, Jay, and Leif were next to go.

Desperate to stay alive, Troyzan attempted to fake a Hidden Immunity Idol to fool the women. As a contingency plan, Christina allowed herself to be in a Split Vote with Troyzan, potentially allowing the women to eliminate Troyzan in a revote in case Troyzan did not use the idol. Christina leaked the plan to Troyzan as an attempt to seize the game for herself. However, Troyzan instead used the information as an opening to pit Christina against the other women. The leak turned out to be inconsequential as the women held strong, voting out Troyzan, with Christina avoiding elimination by a single vote. Christina's non-threat status allowed her to navigate through the next two votes where the women blindsided Kat, who believed that she was more invaluable to the alliance than Christina was, before finishing Tarzan, and by extension, the men, off.

With the men wiped out, the pairs of Christina and Alicia, and Chelsea and Sabrina vied to secure a final three pact with Kim, who had won the next Immunity Challenge. Despite Kim considering voting Chelsea out and taking Christina to the Final Three instead, she chose to honor her accord with Chelsea and Sabrina, eliminating Alicia, the perceived better player from the minority, first. Feeling cornered, Christina put up a valiant effort at the Final Immunity Challenge, going toe on toe with Kim, though Kim won the challenge by a hair. Defeated, Christina expressed that she had accepted her fate, despite Kim's last-minute wavering whether or not she should keep Chelsea. Refusing to make a final pitch, Christina became the final jury member in a 3-1 vote.

At the Final Tribal Council, she praised Kim for her superior game while alluding to Chelsea being a mean person. She was mentioned by Jonas when he questioned why no one considered bringing Christina to the end. In the end, Christina cast her vote for Kim, who ultimately won the title of Sole Survivor and the million dollar prize.

* Challenge History
* Voting History

## Trivia

* Melissa is the first amputee to play Zovivor.