Cole Parker

***Cole*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites

## Fans Vs. Favorites

Cole began on the Kahu tribe, he was a part of the YEG trio that ran this tribe from the start. He was the least prominent of the three early on, due to his intentionally passive gameplay. After losing the first challenge, Kahu had a really simple vote on Oscar, 9-1. But the inner workings of the tribe were far from simple. Cole recognized Matthew and Jaylen’s solid positioning in the middle. Confident that YEG would be able to sway votes on their side if need be to take out Jaylen. As the days went on however, Kahu began to be more of a ticking time bomb that was waiting to explode with chaos. Cole, wanting to delay this chaos until he had a grip on the game, proposed the idea of working with Jaylen, Matthew and Karmynn to offset their power and take out the bottom 3. We never really got to see this happen though as Oma went home shortly after, and Kahu never lost a challenge again. Cole also found an idol within this stretch.

After a completely invisible edit for 4 episodes, Cole came out with a bang at the merge by winning first immunity. He’s looking forward to the game going into full-drive, also comfortable taking out Kip or Matt (who are close allies) to further his game. Despite the vote seeming easy on the outside, it was made extremely complicated by the target Karmynn. Cole however, continued to look at the game from a long term POV. He wanted to throw his vote onto the other target Aria to help his perception, along with attempting to ally with Jaylen who’d also be ‘on the outs’ of the vote. He was aware of most of the groupings within Ahi and was proving himself to be more and more of a capable player as time went by.

Going into the Final 12, YEG’s cover was starting to get blown by Mark. Cole immediately went and told Bradley about it as well, unsure if everyone else has already known. He also wanted to work on more relationships with the Favorites, specifically John and Brittney as they were in the middle. However, Cole did land into some hot water with Jaylen after the vote as he didn’t know who voted with him against Aria (partially from Kip’s doing) but due to Jaylen not cancelling out Cole’s advantage in the challenge that was earned through the Auction, he was led to think that Jaylen believed him a little. Cole was also hellbent on getting a favorite out this round to preserve numbers. While that was achieved in Bradley getting the boot, more damage was done as Cole got into a spat with both Jaylen and Tae during the Tribal discussion.

At the Final 11, this was the first round where Cole did not have individual immunity, obviously causing some worry within him. Planning to play the idol at tribal due to not having a good idea of the vote breakdown. But instead of playing it on himself, he played it on Kristin, who ended up receiving 0 votes. And Cole’s ally, the ‘DJ from Oregon', Kip was voted out.

Come Final 10, there was a demerge. Meaning the 10 remaining castaways would be split up into 2 tribes of 5 and both go to tribal. Cole was stuck on a tribe with Aria, Brittney, Mark and Matthew. And he pretty much knew he’d be a goner as his life was in the hands of Matthew. He was voted out 3-2, but not without plugging his fan-made Survivor series, Survivor: Waiparous.

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