Sriram Emani

**Sriram Emani** is the Sole Survivor of *Zovivor: Wales*.

Initially the swing vote on the Brenin tribe, Lucas Crosweller and Connor Caldwell fought over who would align with Sriram, seeing him as easy to manipulate due to his shyness. After the tribe swap, Sriram was able to start charting his own course, and at the merge, he linked up with Abraham Arbury, and most importantly, Baghisha Uddin, wanting to guarantee the first South Asian Zovivor winner by getting to the end together. The duo proved to be deadly, as they ran every round during the merge due to the loyalty of their allies. Even in the face of several attempts to fracture the alliance and Sriram getting targeted at the final 8 and final 4, Baghisha and Abraham stayed fully loyal. Even when Baghisha won the final immunity challenge, she chose to take Sriram to the end over the less threatening Brandon Edwards due to their pact. At the final tribal council, Sriram's gameplay was seen as smart and self-interested unlike Abraham, yet less cutthroat than Baghisha, rewarding Sriram with the victory in a 5-3-0 vote.

## Profile

**Pronouns**: He/Him
**Age**: 23
**Location**: Winnipeg, MB
**Occupation**: Video Game Developer
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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

### Philippines

Denise started on the Matsing tribe. She started out in a good position as her occupation as a sex therapist helped her social game, as she connected with Zane Knight and Malcolm Freberg, her and the latter of which formed the Matsing Alliance. When Matsing lost the first Immunity Challenge on Day 3, the tribe initially wanted to vote out Russell Swan for poorly choosing the roles for everyone in the challenge and also barking out orders. However, Zane asked the tribe to vote him out for costing the challenge, but it was actually a ruse to gain sympathy on those who liked him and wanted him around. At Tribal Council, Denise joined the rest of the tribe in blindsiding Zane unanimously as his plan backfired. Early the next morning, Roxy Morris approached Denise about Angie Layton and Malcolm cuddling overnight, believing them to be a power couple and wanting to vote Angie out to break up the pair. But unbeknownst to her, Malcolm was Denise's ally. Denise later became annoyed by Roxy for her laziness around camp and religious beliefs minutes before going into the Day 6 Immunity Challenge. Matsing lost immunity again by a small margin. Roxy and Russell attempted to swing Denise to split up Angie and Malcolm while still unaware that Denise was Malcolm's ally. At Tribal Council, Denise joined the rest of the tribe in voting out Roxy unanimously. When Matsing lost their third challenge in a row on Day 8, Denise and Malcolm were split between voting Angie or Russell due to their weak performances in the challenge. At Tribal Council, they decided to send Angie home for being a liability in challenges. Denise and Malcolm became suspicious that Russell already had the Hidden Immunity Idol and considered blindsiding him at the next Tribal Council. When Matsing lost their final challenge on Day 10, Denise and Malcolm agreed to vote for Russell as they tried to make him feel comfortable heading into Tribal Council just in case he had the idol. At Tribal Council, everyone was concerned that they were going home, but in the end, Russell was sent home.

Before the Reward Challenge, Denise and Malcolm thought there was a chance of a tribe absorption, so they looked for the idol, which Malcolm found first. Even though they were in an alliance, the idol was in Malcolm's possession. At the Reward Challenge, Denise was separated from Malcolm and she was absorbed into the Kalabaw tribe. Kalabaw lost the Reward Challenge, but faced another setback when they lost Dana Lambert after she was too sick to continue. When Kalabaw lost the next Immunity Challenge on Day 13, Denise joined the men's Kalabaw Alliance and discussed voting out Katie Hanson or Sarah Dawson for their weak challenge performances. At Tribal Council, Denise joined the Kalabaw Alliance and Katie in voting out Dawson. Kalabaw won the next Reward Challenge after Jonathan Penner made a deal with the rival Tandang tribe that Kalabaw would give up their remaining rice supply in exchange for the reward. When Kalabaw lost the last Immunity Challenge before the merge, Denise joined the rest of the tribe in voting out Katie unanimously for her weak challenge performances and being the only outsider left. Returning from Tribal Council, Denise was in distress as she has been to every Tribal Council, believing that she was cursed.

Denise made the merge on Day 17, as a member of the Dangrayne tribe where she and Carter Williams won the first individual Immunity Challenge on Day 19. Denise then joined the split vote plan between Jonathan and RC Saint-Amour to flush out Jonathan's idol. At Tribal Council, the split vote plan came into fruition when Jonathan played his idol, making RC the first member of the jury. But she, Malcolm, and the Kalabaw Alliance were then left in the dark when Jeff Kent was blindsided by the Tandang Alliance at the next Tribal Council.

When the foursome of Denise, Malcolm, Jonathan, and Carter won the next Reward Challenge, they agreed to break up the Tandang Alliance by getting Michael Skupin and Lisa Whelchel to flip since they were on the bottom of the alliance. After Skupin won immunity on Day 25, Denise suggested to her alliance that they vote for Artis Silvester as a safe vote against Abi-Maria Gomes playing her idol that she revealed along with Malcolm's on Day 22, as she believed Abi-Maria would be too selfish to play her idol for Artis. At Tribal Council, although Lisa stayed loyal to Tandang, Skupin flipped and blindsided Artis. Skupin and Lisa then joined the Kalabaw Alliance. However, their flipping started a rivalry between Abi-Maria and Denise. Denise, Malcolm, Skupin, and Lisa then made a final four alliance. The Kalabaw Alliance then decided to split the vote between Abi-Maria and her ally Pete Yurkowski in case Abi-Maria played her idol, but Skupin considered flipping on the plan and blindsiding Malcolm when Abi-Maria and Pete tried to sway him, Lisa, and the former Kalabaw's. At Tribal Council, Skupin stuck to the plan as Abi-Maria played her idol and Pete became the fourth juror. When Abi-Maria surprised everyone by winning immunity on Day 30 after she bought an advantage at the Survivor Auction, the final four alliance decided to target Jonathan, but he was trying to sway votes against Denise in case Malcolm played his idol by getting Skupin to flip. At Tribal Council, Skupin once again stayed loyal as Jonathan was sent to the jury. Denise then joined the rest of the tribe in voting out the last original Kalabaw member Carter. She was then spared when Abi-Maria was voted out as Skupin and Lisa wanted to keep Denise around to have a chance at beating Malcolm in the Final Immunity Challenge.

At the final four, Malcolm won an advantage for the Final Immunity Challenge that included a sealed note he must open at the Immunity Challenge. After the Reward Challenge, knowing that Skupin and Lisa weren't going to vote against each other, Denise asked Malcolm if he was willing to commit with her to forcing a tie vote between herself and Lisa at the next Tribal Council, but he hesitated to committing to the deal due to how dangerous Denise's social game was going into the Final Tribal Council. This made Denise suspicious of Malcolm's loyalty and forced her to strike a Final Three deal with Skupin and Lisa to vote out Malcolm if he were to lose the Final Immunity Challenge, but Denise was concerned about Skupin due to him flip-flopping on his decisions and was also unknown to the fact that Skupin and Lisa made the same deal with Malcolm during their previous reward. Malcolm wasted away his advantage as he did indeed lose the Final Immunity Challenge, putting Denise's plan into action. Back at camp, Denise and Malcolm made their pitch to Skupin and Lisa to keep them in the game. At Tribal Council, Skupin and Lisa chose to keep Denise and voted Malcolm out as the eighth and final jury member, with Malcolm bitterly congratulating Denise on the way out.

At the Final Tribal Council, Denise made her opening statement saying that she used her social game to adapt in three different tribes and also create sub alliances, but had to turn on them to further herself in the game. She also stated that she has survived every Tribal Council of the season because of her social game, as she had outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted everyone by doing so. While she came under fire for being an appeasing sex therapist by Malcolm and betraying alliances, Skupin's lack of social awareness and Lisa's inconsistent loyalties along with Denise's social game earned her the title of Sole Survivor in a 6-1-1 vote, only losing RC and Carter's votes as they voted Lisa and Skupin respectively.

* Challenge History
* Voting History

**^1** In Template:Ep, Jonathan used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Denise's vote against him.
**^2** In Template:Ep, Abi-Maria used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Denise's vote against her.

### Winners at War

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* Challenge History
* Voting History

**^1** In Template:Ep, Denise used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating 4 votes against her.
**^2** In Template:Ep, Sarah used a Vote Steal advantage on Denise, preventing her from voting at Tribal Council. Also, Kim used a Hidden Immunity Idol on Denise, negating 2 votes against her.
**^3** In Template:Ep, Michele used a 50/50 coin advantage and landed on "Safe", negating Denise's vote against her.
**^4** In Template:Ep, Natalie used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Denise's vote against her. Because Ben and Natalie both used Hidden Immunity Idols and negated all the votes cast at Tribal Council, a vote restart was held between the two non-immune players, Denise and Sarah. Ben, Michele, Natalie, and Tony changed their votes to Denise on the restart, eliminating her from the game.

## Trivia

* Sriram is the first contestant from Manitoba.
* Sriram is the first winner from outside the United States, specifically Canada.