Zent Huntsman

***Zent*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Japan. He later returned for Essential Survivor: Maldives

## Japan

After seeing Bandit get idoled out the season prior, we could only hope that a robbery like that wouldn’t occur so soon. But in this case, Zent’s elimination might even hurt more than Bandit’s, despite the situation being far from the same.

Zent was placed onto the younger Wakai tribe, and right off the bat, this tribe was booming with activity. Everyone was chatting with each other, soaking in the experience along with it. But due to the tribe being completely active, that meant that you could easily get caught slacking more, and in Zent’s eyes, that person was Brett. This, combined with Zent’s dominant playstyle made Zent create a 5-person alliance with Travis, Theodore, Tommy and X, including himself obviously. Once Wakai lost the challenge, Zent immediately targeted Brett. Wanting to ‘ditch’ him, which rubbed his alliance the wrong way. But due to Zent being the only dominant player currently (mixing in with X botching a wheel spin with Brett and Vincent), word got around and Brett ‘ditched’ the game after Tribal Council.

During Wakai’s two pre-swap wins, Zent didn’t stop trying to game with his so-called alliance. He continued to push Vincent, Geo and Jay, as people who didn’t help the tribe, which obviously irritated his teammates as they weren’t going to Tribal. So once Wakai lost again, it was no question that Zent was placing his vote on Vincent. But unluckily for him, Zachary attempted to blindside Theodore. So because of the latter’s social prowess, the whole tribe (minus Zent) sent Zachary packing in a 7-1-1 vote. Leaving not only Zachary feeling blindsided, but Zent as well.

Coming to the swap, Zent was placed onto New Furui with Travis, Tommy, and Vincent. But instead of taking the easy decision to work with all of the old tribemates, Zent decided to group together Travis, Tommy and Enrique. Clearly enough, Enrique was going to relay every bit of information from there, to his old tribemates. But when Geo found an advantage to take someone from the opposing tribe to our camp for 24 hours, he chose Enrique, forcing Zent to make a new majority with Vincent. After Furui lost the challenge, Zent had his sights on Cheren, and much like the Brett vote, no one argued with him. But knowing they were down in numbers, Ace began to integrate himself into that 4. Well it wasn’t too hard because Zent quickly revealed to him that Cheren was the vote. And due to Kamen having an idol, it wasn’t too hard to save Cheren. But a few minutes after Vincent warned Zent that Kamen was targeting him. (Kamen attempted to pull in Vincent). So when Zent was idoled out 4-3, he definitely couldn’t say he didn’t see it coming.

## Voting History

 See You After The Vote Count
 The Inactives Are Spared
 Able To Crusade For Blood
 DEVELOPMENTS

## Maldives

Out of all the returnees, Zent definitely had the most drive to improve. After pretty much voting himself out previously in Japan, he had a lot to prove about his gameplay. But yet again, Zent got a bad draw with his starting tribe and got 10th. However he didn’t get there without entertaining the viewers.

Starting on Dhoni, Zent had gotten flashbacks from his previous performance, but he powered through them, making bonds with Trey, Mojalefa and Gove. As the first challenge came around, he was excited for it. Ready to separate the duds from the alphas based on challenge performance. Unfortunately, Zent was struggling heavily on his portion of the live challenge, almost costing his team the win had he not switched out for Trey. But he remained with high spirits as he wasn’t the first boot…. Or the second as Rhaegal’s inactivity made for an easy TC.

After losing the challenge and putting the blame onto himself, Zent surely wasn’t feeling himself heading into the downtime for the upcoming vote. And despite hearing no names for a majority of that downtime, Zent’s mood was enlightening as he found a Hidden Immunity Idol. Right before tribal, Trish informed him that Gove was the target. But not trusting her, he played his idol… which turned out to be fake. Not all hope was lost though, when Gove was still voted out 5-3.

Coming into the swap, Zent was in a good position. He made it with 3 of his original tribe members, forming a majority. Even when Mojalefa practically quit the game, they received Trish. Who in Zent’s eyes isn’t the most trustworthy, but a number nonetheless. He put his focus into rebuilding their relationship, while maintaining the majority as the minority attempts to break it up.

A challenge loss later and TC is on the horizon. Despite their efforts at staying safe, OG Dhoni concocted a plan to flush Michael’s idol and get Bradley out by mentioning every name other than him. Luckily, it worked from all angles, and their majority only got bigger. Unfortunately, they realized that they were down on a tribal division standpoint from everyone in the game. Prompting them to try to throw the challenge. Joseph, noticed their tactic, and single handedly carried them to a W, and to the merge! Where they were down 7-4.

During the Merge Feast, as everyone stuffed their faces, Zent grabbed two game-related luxuries! One Legacy Advantage and an extra vote! Coupled with the 2 idols Jake and Trish respectively possessed, OG Dhoni could do some serious damage to their brown counterparts. During this, a one-sided rivalry formed with him and Joseph, with the former perceiving that Joseph is mad at him. Due to this, and several other names being thrown out, Zent played his legacy advantage on himself… negating 0 votes. OG Dhoni got played by the same exact strategy they had used to take out Bradley, this time taking out Jake.

After tribal when everyone was making a mad dash into the vicinity, Trey came back revealing that he found Jake’s previous idol, along with a Vote Steal. But for some reason, Zent couldn’t shake the feeling that his time was up on the island… he ended up being right as he was voted out, 5-3-3 later that evening.