Dat

***Dat*** was a castaway on ***One Surv1vor: Australia***

## Australia

Dat began the game on the Tanami tribe. In the beginning, he didn't seem to have much faith in his chances of doing well, but he had a fiery spirit and was ready to play. He immediately recognized Kai as useless to his tribe, especially since Kai hadn't said a single word. Dat's tribe never lost an immunity challenge pre-swap, but it didn't even matter as the entire pre-swap phase consisted of quitters. However, his tribe did take a bit of a hit when Kai was medically evacuated.

At the swap on day 6, Dat stayed on the Tanami tribe with fellow tribe-mate Pepper. Dat was very adamant on the fact that he didn't trust anyone, but he was open to finding new allies. After losing the first post-swap immunity challenge, Dat was about to face his first tribal council. Although he was somewhat nervous, he was playing his cards right and quickly moved into a position of power. Dat was in a position that allowed him to control not only his fate in the game, but his tribe-mates as well. His control in the tribe carried on throughout the post-swap phase of the game as he correctly voted out Denise, Jerm, and Michael.

On day 13, Dat went into the merge with a few allies, specifically Chicken and Pepper. Along with the rest of the merge tribe, Dat was baffled by Neil and his actions, he even donned the name "Mad Neil". After Neil won immunity, Dat went into overdrive to make sure he got his way in the first merge vote. He heavily targeted Leftie and gained Neil on his side to make the move, meaning he nearly had a majority with fellow allies Chicken and Pepper. However, after a long debate and countless strategizing, the tribe unanimously settled on voting out Pepper.

After the last tribal council, Dat felt like he couldn't trust anyone left other than Chicken. His entire game strategy quickly began to shift, he even thought about brining Neil to the end due to the idea that nobody would vote for Neil based on his passed actions. When Tucker won immunity, most of the tribe considered finally voting Neil out, but Dat was on the fence about how to proceed. So when an opportunity arose to blindside the side that went against his wishes last tribal council, Dat was all on board. He, along with his ally Chicken, sided with Cora and Tucker to save Neil and vote out Trevor. However, things took a shaky turn when Neil forgot to vote and it was left in a tie. In the revote, Dat's side was successful and they took out the first member of the tight trio of JT, Leftie, and Trevor.

At the final 7, Dat was ready to just slide by this round as he felt the need to take a step back from the heavy strategizing. When Neil won immunity, it became clear for nearly everyone that Leftie should be the next to go, including Dat. At tribal council, Dat played along with the majority and successfully votes to send Leftie to the jury.

Going into the final 6, Dat decided to rethink his plan moving forward in the game, such as a plan to bring Chicken and Tucker to the final three since they hand't made fire yet. He also began considering how the jury would vote, which also contributed to his ideal final 3 plans. With Tucker winning immunity, Dat and the rest of the tribe knew they couldn't pass up the opportunity to finally take Neil out. So at tribal council, he did just that.

Over the next few rounds, Dat began to get quieter and faded into the background of the game. He wasn't contributing much to the game as he did prior and was beginning to be viewed as a goat. However, he continued to vote within the majority to send Tucker and Cora out.

At the final 3, Dat began to get his head back in the game. He had a plan to get himself and Chicken to final tribal council by winning immunity, giving it up to Chicken, and then beat JT in fire-making. However, he had to make sure that JT didn't win final immunity. Unfortunately for Dat, his plan fell apart after JT won final immunity, forcing Dat and his closest ally Chicken to face off in fire-making. However, in a shocking twist of fate, Chicken decided to forfeit the fire-making challenge to ensure Dat made it to the end.

At final tribal council, Dat did his best to convince the jury that he played the most deserving game, but he had to face a lot of scrutiny for his floating style game. In the end, Dat lost by a **4-3** vote, a one vote difference from winning the game.