Sam A.

Battle Royale

### Tribe(s)

Team 1, Merge Tribe (Battle for Cambridge)Beasts Tribe, Black Tribe, Merge Tribe (One World)

Snakes Tribe, Sharks Tribe, Merge Tribe (Battle Royale)

### Finish

2nd Runner Up (Battle for Cambridge)9/12 (One World)

Co-Runner-Up (Battle Royale)

### Alliances

Seth Johnson (Battle for Cambridge)Bailey McDonald, Seth Johnson (One World)

Hunter Heschke, Giselle Mendez, Bailey McDonald (Battle Royale)

### Votes Against

7 (Battle for Cambridge)7 (One World)

6 (Battle Royale)

**Sam A.** was the second runner-up on Survivor: Battle for Cambridge, a contestant on Survivor: One World, and was the Co-Runner-Up and the Player of the Season on Survivor: Battle Royale.

Despite not having as much knowledge on the game as her opponents on *Survivor: Battle for Cambridge*, Sam managed to make great alliances and was able to get people to work with her to make quiet but great moves. Unfortunately, her aggressive gameplay went unnoticed at the Final Tribal Council and received no votes to win. Sam would return to *Survivor: One World*, and would align with Seth once more, but was not able to obtain the numbers she needed, and found herself voted out very early on.

## Survivor: Battle for Cambridge

Sam would start off the game on Team 1, where she would make bonds with the others in her tribe, more specifically with Seth, with whom she would align with. Sam would help her tribe win the first immunity challenge, and when her tribe would go looking for hidden immunity idols and advantages after they won, Sam would gain more luck as she would find a *Steal-A-Vote* Advantage and Seth would also find a hidden immunity idol as well as another *Steal-A-Vote* Advantage. After Team 1 lost the second immunity challenge, she would go along with a plan to get rid of Mike, who was not getting along with the others on their tribe as well as well as the others were. When Team 1 lost the third immunity challenge, Sam and Seth were both approached by Colton, who wanted out of the game, and they would help to grant him his wish. Sam would then finally catch a break in the game, as Team 1 would win the fourth and final tribal immunity challenge of the season, guaranteeing Sam to see the light of the merge.

Once Sam made the merge, she would be immediately be given a shock, as she would lost her number one ally to a blindside orchestrated by her former tribemates Bri and Tom. Sam would lose the second individual immunity challenge, and she would gain a big target for her kind personality, of which the charge would be led by Bre. However, Sam would be saved by an unlikely ally, Devin, who would help her out. Devin would play a hidden immunity idol on her, and she would help him to vote off Tom. When it was revealed that the next tribal council would happen then and there, Sam would get in on a plan to take out Jadon, and she would help to orchestrate his blindside, only to be on the wrong side of the vote, as she would see Brian get taken out of the game. When she lost the next immunity challenge, she saw an opportunity to take out a big threat. However, she would not get certain intel in time for tribal council, and her random vote would cause a tie. By the end of that tribal council, she would watch Jadon get taken out of the game by her tiebreaking vote.

When Bre won individual immunity at the Final 6, Sam saw an opportunity to make a big blindside happen, and she set her targets on Bri. Sam roped Bre and Kyle in and set her sights on Bri, even playing her *Steal-A-Vote* Advantage on Ben to help give them a number's advantage. However, Devin's and Bri's minds were on a similar note, and they used Devin's *Steal-A-Vote* Advantage against Kyle, evening the scores once again. Sam and Bre would still vote against Bri, and Devin and Bri would both vote for Kyle, causing a tie. So they went to revote, only to come out as another tied vote. Per the rules, Bre was safe as she won individual immunity, Devin was safe as he had played a hidden immunity idol for himself before the first set of votes were read, and Bri and Kyle were now both safe due to the others not being able to break the tie. This left Sam and Ben all alone and at risk as they both tested their fates and drew rocks to determine the future of the season. Luckily for Sam, she picked the right rock, and Ben was eliminated from the game. Losing to Bre in the next individual immunity challenge, Sam decided she wanted to once again target Devin, and she and Bri rallied Kyle to help them do it. Unfortunately for them, Devin once again played a hidden immunity idol on himself, causing his and Bre's votes for Kyle to be the only ones that count, and Kyle was the next one out of the game. Sam would get a huge break, as she would win the Final Individual Immunity Challenge of the season, and she would have a lot in mind. Sam would help the other women to once again orchestrate a plan to take Devin out of the game, the difference between their other plans and their current one was that their final attempt had worked, and Sam would finally see her goals come to fruition as she would help take Devin out of the game in a 3-1 vote, guaranteeing herself to see the Final Tribal Council.

At the Final Tribal Council, Sam was congratulated on her ability to get to the end despite not knowing what *Survivor* was before she was casted to play the game. However, Sam was not given enough credit for her game, and she was very overlooked against her opponents' games of which were seen as more prominent in comparison to Sam's game. Sam would garner no votes to win the game, and she would become the second-runner up of the season, placing 3rd out of 15th.

## Survivor: One World

Sam was initially placed on the Beasts Tribe, and she proved her worth to them by using up every ounce of her energy in the first immunity challenge. Her efforts were well rewarded as she helped her tribe to victory and were able to pick Christian over Kathy on their tribe. Once the game started, she rekindled her bond from season 1 with Seth. After losing the second challenge, she knew it was time to go to work. Although she agreed with Jake and Hunter to vote Seth out, Sam told Seth to vote out Josh with her and Christian. However, Christian switched and decided to go for Hunter. Sam and Seth would vote for Josh, which lead to a 2-2-2 tie. When voting again Sam stuck to Josh (Christian would also flip back to Josh) and Josh would be eliminated from the game.

Sam and Seth would then swap into the Black Team alongside Christian, Kathy, and Cody. After they lost the next immunity challenge, Sam would over hear that Kathy, Christian, and Cody would have a pact to not vote each other out. The Pact Alliance told her to vote out Seth once more and Sam would agree, but Sam went right bac to Seth and told him he was in trouble, doing as the pact predicted. What she didn't know was that the three would cast their votes against her to flush out Seth's idol. However, at tribal council, she was saved when Seth played two hidden immunity idols one on himself and the other for Sam.

At the merge, Sam would struggle and loose the first individual immunity challenge to Seth. Although she teamed up with Seth, Bailey, Jack, and Devin. Devin would over hear his name being thrown out by Jack. At tribal council, Devin stole Jack's vote and outed that alliance by letting Kathy know she was in danger. She would find herself on the end of a blindside from the All Star Five and she would place 9th out of 12th and would become the first member of the jury.

At the Final tribal council. Sam directed her question to Hunter and asked why she should vote for him, if all Hunter did was use her to advance farther in the game. Eventually, when voting, Sam felt pity for Jack because she knew he wouldn't garner any votes and it reminded her of her final tribal council experience on *Battle for Cambridge*. She was the only vote for Jack, but Bailey would win in a 4-1-1 vote.

At the *Survivor: One World Reunion Episode*, Sam said that her not knowing almost anyone made her less trustful of anyone and she also said that her not being able to win challenges made it so that they could not see what she could bring to the table. Sam then said she was going to be neutral with Devin until she found out he was targeting her. Sam said that she would stick with Seth in the future if they both played together again.

**Sam's Voting History**
Josh
 **Voted**
**To Win**

## Survivor: Battle Royale

Sam would begin the game on the Snakes Tribe, where she would immediately see the threat of the in-game couple, Jack and Erica. Sam would help to paint a target on both of their backs so she would not be the early target again. After her tribe lost the first immunity challenge, Sam would immediately help to confirm the votes were going to be locked on one of the members of the couple, and would talk with the couple separately in order to ensure that she would not be the target from the in-game lovers. At tribal council, Sam would help her tribe to vote Erica out of the game, seeing her as an easy target and as the weaker of the pair and less useful for challenges. This would come back to help Sam, as the Snakes Tribe would win the next immunity challenge, keeping her safe from tribal council. This would give her more time to bond and align with her tribemates, more specifically with Bailey and Dacota.

A tribe swap would send Sam over to the game's first ever expanded tribe, the Sharks Tribe, alongside Kyle, Maggie, and Ryley. Sam would immediately help to set a target on Kyle's back if the tribe lost immunity, and this would help set her up for tribal council when the Sharks Tribe and the new Snakes Tribe would lose the next immunity challenge and would both have to go to tribal council together. Once at tribal council, the both of the tribes would find out that only one person would go home, and not two. Seeing this as an opportunity, she attempted to communicate with members of the other tribe, specifically Devin and Giselle, to find out more of their side of the vote and would attempt to recruit them to vote for Kyle. While she would get Giselle, it would not be enough to save her new ally, Ryley, and Devin's *Extra Vote* Advantage would help to secure his fate and would leave Sam with one less ally in the game. After the Sharks Tribe would lose the next immunity challenge, they were told they would go to tribal council immediately without any prior discussion. At tribal council, Sam and Maggie would easily vote out Kyle, seeing his social game as a major threat in the future of the game. This, in turn, would secure Sam to make the merge once again.

Even though Sam was not the winner of the first individual immunity challenge, she would be very safe from the first voteoff in their merged tribe, as the two targets were her ally Bailey, and her former *Survivor: One World* opponent, Jack. Sam would see the benefit of taking out the former winner in Bailey and would vote for her at tribal council. However, Bailey had different plans for her, and her hidden immunity idol play would negate Sam's vote and send Jack out of the game. At the next individual immunity challenge, Bailey and Sam would pair up with one another and would win individual immunity for the both of themselves. Sam would then immediately converse with Hunter and Bri about her fears about Bailey finding out that she voted for her the previous tribal council, of which the duo attempted to assuage her fears to help them target Casey, who was unintentionally rubbing many people the wrong way by that point in the game. At tribal council, Sam would help to secure a unanimous 8-1 voteoff for Casey, and would then be shocked at the reveal of a second voteoff occurring then and there. Getting intel from others in the game, mainly from her allies Bailey and Dacota, she voted for Devin, and would help to secure his blindside when Giselle played her hidden immunity idol on herself.

After losing individual immunity to Giselle, Sam would be a large topic of conversation by Bri and Dacota, both of whom were hesitant on letting her get further in the game. Sam would speak to Hunter about this, and the both of them would relay information to each other about what they knew of for the vote, and they both agreed that Bailey and Bri were threats that needed to go and that they two of them wanted to go to the end with each other. At tribal council, she would cast her vote for Bri, and with the help of Dacota's *Steal-A-Vote* Advantage, she saw Bailey get voted out of the game after Sam used her hidden immunity idol to keep herself safe. After losing individual immunity to Giselle once again, Sam would once again be at risk, as Bri and Maggie would be heavily campaigning to send her out of the game. As much as she campaigned on the notion that Bri needed to go, she would only be able to convince Dacota and Giselle. At tribal council, this would be crucial, as this would cause a tied vote, twice. Having to go to a rock drawing, Sam and Bri were now immune, and Sam would have to see Hunter get taken out of the game when he drew wrong.

After losing the next individual immunity challenge to Dacota, Sam would not be at risk and would still have another hidden immunity idol she had found. Wanting to take the most deserving people to the end; she, like some of the others, viewed Maggie as undeserving to make it to the end, and therefore wanted to get her voted out. At tribal council, Sam would not get her way, and her ally, Giselle, would be taken out of the game in a 3-2 vote. After losing the Final Individual Immunity Challenge to Bri, Sam would be chosen by Bri to go straight to the end with her, and to leave Dacota and Maggie to battle it out in the game's first *Final 4 Passage Challenge*, of which the former won. This would mean that Sam would once again make it to the Final Tribal Council, and would finally have another chance to get herself to the top spot and win it all.

At the Final Tribal Council, Sam would give a good case for her game in regards to her status as a strategic and social player throughout the season. However, comments she had made in a different context, specifically about Bailey, came to light via. Devin. Due to this and some other players not valuing her game as much as they did Bri's and Dacota's, Sam would only receive jury votes from Giselle and Devin, and she would become the Co-Runner-Up of the season alongside Dacota. Sam would place 2nd out of 14th.

At the *Survivor: Battle Royale Reunion Episode*, Sam was interrogated mainly about her game and also about the comments she had made against Bailey, of which she mentioned she only said it at the start of the merge to get Devin to align with her. She would also go into depth with how she has no ill feelings against Devin, despite certain opinions perceiving there to be some sort of negative rivalry resonating from their first season together, *Survivor: Battle for Cambridge*. In the end, Sam would be awarded the *Player of the Season Award*, and would become the first female player to win this award.

## Trivia

* Sam is the only person to make the Final Tribal Council and not receive a vote from the jury, this occurring in *Survivor: Battle for Cambridge*.
* Sam is the only player to vote in a tie twice, as she voted for Bri in the tied vote on *Survivor: Battle for Cambridge* and voted for Josh Valin in the tied vote on *Survivor: One World*.
* Sam is the only player to have had an idol correctly played on her and be saved at a tribal council twice, this happening during both of her seasons on *Survivor: Battle for Cambridge* and *Survivor: One World*, being saved by Devin Ulrich and Seth Johnson respectively.
* Sam is the first, and currently the only, female contestant to be the first contestant voted out at the start of the merge, doing so in *Survivor: One World*.
* Sam is the first, and currently the only, female contestant to be the first member of the jury in any season, doing so in *Survivor: One World*.
* Sam is the first female player to win the *Player of the Season Award*, doing so in *Survivor: Battle Royale*.
* Sam is one of two people to be involved with every rock drawing in the game so far, the other one being Bri .
* Both times Sam played, her tribe won the first immunity challenge, but lost the second immunity challenge.
	+ Coincidentally, in both of Sam's seasons her tribe would go to the second tribal council of the season and they would vote out a male contestant.
* Both times Sam made it to the sixth tribal council in the game, she would be involved in a double tribal council where one returnee player from *Survivor: Battle for Cambridge* would be eliminated.