Aidan

Aidan is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Egypt and Visionary Survivor: Clash of Casts.

## Egypt Summary

For someone who was perceived to be a goat for a majority of the season, Aidan’s strategic instincts were actually quite impressive when he truly applied himself. Throughout the pre-merge Aidan was able to align himself with Kalina and Dawit, although just like all other Bennu alliances their agreements had little meaning due to them never losing an immunity challenge. Once the tribes merged Aidan took a backseat while other castaways emerged as strong threats. This allowed Aidan to essentially position himself as a vote that no one really considered eliminating due to them seeing him as unthreatening.

Around the final five Aidan finally started to step his game up, regardless of whether or not it may have seemed to be too late. After Blair won her second immunity challenge in a row, Aidan realized that it was time to turn on CK. Due to CK’s plan to turn on Michael to save himself, Michael was under the impression that the vote was Nexus, which opened the door for Aidan to make a move. Knowing that Michael had an advantage, he tried to convince Michael to play his vote blocker on Nexus in order to create a 2-1-1 vote in which CK would be eliminated. While this isn’t exactly how the vote went down, Aidan’s ideal result came to fruition due to an idol play from Blair. Before the final five vote Aidan told Blair, CK’s biggest rival at the time, who CK’s target was. Thus, Blair played her idol on Michael which negated his and Nexus’ votes, which resulted in CK’s elimination.

With just one elimination left before the finale, Aidan, Michael, and Nexus all knew they needed to take out Blair if they wanted any chance of winning the game. Unfortunately, she won the final immunity challenge allowing her to claim her spot in the FTC. However, there was still hope that Aidan could claim a second spot. With Michael and Nexus voting for Aidan and Michael respectively, Aidan just needed to ensure that he voted for whoever Blair voted for or whoever Nexus voted for in order to force a tie if Blair voted for Aidan. But when Blair cast her vote for Aidan due to him being a part of the CK blindside and Aidan cast his vote for Nexus, Aidan was eliminated one day short of the final tribal council.

## Clash of Casts Summary

His first time competing, Aidan became known as someone who consistently planned out strategies but never went through with them or tried to execute much of anything, resulting in him being seen as one of the bigger floaters of the season. Now with a second chance, Aidan wanted to prove that he was more than just a coattail rider.

As part of the original Ksitigarbha tribe, Aidan had an easy first few days in the game, having avoided both pre-swap tribal councils. This gave him the time needed to reconnect and secure an alliance with his former Bennu tribe alumni CK and Dawit, with the intention of eliminating Darryl and Kiibo had they lost any challenges.

Post-swap Aidan’s game shifted rather dramatically. Simply put he was just left out of the loop. His only connections on the new Manjusri tribe were Kiibo and Darryl, the two people he was targeting on original Ksitigarbha, while his allies CK and Darryl remained on Ksitigarbha. To make matters worse, Darryl and Kiibo were already tight due to being in the minority on Ksitigarbha, and Kiibo’s social game had improved significantly since season three, allowing him to easily secure numbers for himself and Darryl. While the first tribal council was easy as Elx became a quick target, after his elimination Aidan found himself on the bottom of his tribe with his only legitimate ally being Jack. So when both tribes went to tribal council due to a twist, Aidan struggled to collect numbers and was eliminated in a 6-2 vote.

### Voting History

 We're A Bomb Waiting To Explode
 Dancing With A Lot Of Fire
 I Will Be Back!
 You Can’t Win Survivor This Early But You Can Lose It
 Stop Acting Like That Necklace Brings You To The Final Tribal Council
 Eliminated, Day 13

## Return Interviews

**Coming into your second season, which area do you think you can improve in most between social play, physical play, and strategic play? How do you plan on improving?**
I definitely plan on improving in strategic play, I feel like I had a decent physical play last time. I wasn't too much of a physical threat to get targeted but still when I tried I did well. While social play I was capable of talking with a whole lotta people and making my target very small (maybe a little too small) but the area that I didn't really like is my strategic play. I am much more hoping that this season there isn't a double elimination no tribal cause last time that wasn't very fun. I want to prove to myself more than anything that I am capable of succeeding with strategy cause I feel like that is a more respectable style of play. Plus it is quiet impressive. I plan on actually using the ideas I wrote down instead of just writing them down like I did last time.
**What was the biggest mistake you made when playing in your first season? How did you learn from it?**
The biggest mistake I made will probably be losing the final 4 immunity challenge. I do not at all think that my gameplay was good all season but I have a strong feeling I would've won the game if Blair got out in the final four. Even if I would've voted along with nexus and won the tie breaker I would've still lost in the finale. Ways I can improve from this is paying more attention to the game or getting the challenge threats out earlier in the game.
**Have you spectated any seasons besides the one you competed on? Have any other castaways stood out to you?**
I did spectate a bit of this season just to see how Mikl was doing since he is a good friend of mine. I was really only paying attention to him and he severely disappointed me by striking out. Other than that haven't really seen much of the seasons since I don't really have time to keep up with everything even though i would like too.
**How has Visionary Survivor impacted you?**
It has impacted me by enjoying orgs more. No joking it was the best org I was ever in and not only did it inspire the way I hosted my camps now and learning from wiki. But it also made me gain some new genuine friends from the competition like CK and Kalina. Its been one of the few camps where I tell myself if only I had another chance. And now I do!
**In what ways do you hope to refine your legacy with this second chance you’ve been given? What do you hope to gain from competing again?**