Alex

**Alex** was the Player of the Season of Mythvivor: Babylon.

## Babylon

Alex started Mythvivor: Babylon on the Shamash tribe. There, he made quick allies of almost everyone on his tribe, particularly Physh. He was one of the first visitors to Mount Nisir where he met Becca from the Adad tribe and Ben from the Tiamat tribe. There, they formed the "Guardians of the Mountain" alliance. Together they made the choice that the final 17 round should be a joint tribal council between the two losing tribes. They also discussed the idol hunt and Ben shared his clue during this visit.

After Alex's Mount Nisir visit, he found an immunity idol in "The Secret Ingredient Is Lies." The Shamash tribe would not attend a tribal council until there were 15 people left in the game in "Sashay Towards a Gas Powered Grill." Alex was part of the unanimous vote against Pizza.

In "You Can’t Always Trust a Spark," Jordanne explained what she had learned about the Ranking Swap tribe divisions to Alex. He advocated to get his own ranking pushed down in hopes that his strong position on Shamash would be less apparent and that he could swap with Zack or Physh. His ranking was 3rd, which swapped him onto the Tigris tribe with Derz and Jordanne. On Tigris, he was able to strengthen bonds with Derz and Jordanne, as well as with Becca. At their one tribal council, Alex voted out Dan with the rest of the tribe, as Dan and Henry had a rivalry from their former tribe, Tiamat.

Alex would then swap onto the Ninhurag tribe. This tribe lost their only challenge, sending them to tribal council. Alex originally targeted Henry with his allies. However, Zack saw Alex as a big threat since Shamash and decided to try to flip the vote against Alex instead. He attempted to get Ben and Becca, who Alex had an alliance with since the first Mount Nisir visit, to vote Alex out along with him and Henry. Ben and Becca leaked this plan to Alex, and Alex, Ben, Becca, and Derz voted against Zack instead. Alex played his immunity idol at this tribal council just in case, negating Henry and Zack's votes against him.

At merge, Alex would join in on the majority votes against Physh, Derz (who idoled out Joe with Ben with Alex's encouragement), and then Ben. In "Not Clickbait," Alex targeted Henry, but an alliance of Koopa, Niki, Henry, and Tara targeted Alex instead. The vote tied, but Alex's allies - Derz, Jordanne, and Becca - kept their votes the same and were willing to go to rocks for Alex. Koopa flipped to Alex's side on the revote.

Alex began trying to determine who had idols, but ultimately voted against Koopa with the majority as Alex knew he may need to win out. While he had heard about Tara's idol in "Nerd Alert," Alex chose to stick by Derz's side regardless and vote against Tara. This would ensure Tara used her idol (as it was unclear that Tara had a second one) and take out his biggest challenge competition if Tara did not idol. However, Tara idoled Derz out of the game.

At the final 5, Alex finally lost immunity due to a tough run on a KenKen puzzle in the Puzzle Tour challenge. With everyone seeing Alex as a big threat and Tara seeing him as the largest challenge threat going into a forced fire-making challenge round, Alex had no chance and was voted out unanimously by the tribe. However, Alex worked until the end, attempting to target Niki and paint her as a big threat up until tribal council.

Alex won three individual immunity challenges: Babylonian Math, Weaving Word Search, and Set. As a result of his very strong pre-merge game, dilligence on the challenges that mattered even when he thought he had little hope, finding an idol, and overall being the largest obstacle for the eventual winner, Alex won the Player of the Season Award at the reunion. He also won the Best Alliance Award with Becca and Ben for their "Guardians of the Mountain" alliance from their first Mount Nisir visit.

### Host Thoughts

Easily one of my favorite confessionalists this season, Alex comes in at number two for making a deep run in the game coupled with his aggressive playstyle. Right out of the gate, Alex started the season as everyone on Shamash’s #1 ally (other than Zack). Alex had a very easy ride in the pre-merge, going to tribal 3 times and having two easy boots of Pizza and Dan. His third tribal council however, a star was born. During the second swap, he was targeted by Zack and Henry, as they both saw him as a threat and wanted to flush a potential immunity idol. Alex kept the numbers on his side and used his idol, so there was no successful idol play, but he found a way to protect himself heading into the merge. After a very easy boot of Physh to start the merge, he like many was on the wrong end of Ben's idol play that sent Joe to the jury. He responded with the others by booting Ben, setting up an exciting F8 tribal council. Where Alex deserves credit here is simply for communication, a 4-4 tie between him and Henry meant that he could earn safety either by getting someone to flip or getting to a rock draw. While Henry dug his own grave going after Jordanne, Alex deserves some credit too for not shooting himself in the foot, and he earned safety when Koopa decided to flip. Unfortunately, Alex’s run of success would stop here, as he and the others underestimated Tara, and prioritized others before her, which ended up being his downfall. He booted Koopa after he decided to not play his safety without power, and he was on the wrong end of a Derz boot that saw him, Becca, and Derz’s votes all be negated by Tara’s first idol. Alex would be voted out at final five by a vote of 4-1, marking the end of his game and his rise as this season’s Player of the Season.

### Voting History

1 Alex played an immunity idol on himself, negating all votes against him.

2 Ben played an immunity idol on Derz, negating all votes against Derz.

3 A 4-4 tie occurred between Alex and Henry. Alex could not vote on the revote.

4 Tara played an immunity idol on herself, negating all votes against her.

## Trivia

* Alex had the most votes against of anyone in Mythvivor: Babylon.
* Alex had the most individual challenge wins and the most total (individual and tribal) challenge wins of anyone in Mythvivor: Babylon.