Robby

Robby is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Haiti and Visionary Survivor: All-Stars.

## Haiti Summary

Maintaining a low profile while also playing a strong game from start to finish is tricky in the game of Survivor. More so, playing the game of Survivor with a consistently high threat level is something no one wants to have to go through. But for Robby, having such a high profile didn’t really seem to slow him down much.

Robby’s game started with him being left out a seven person alliance that no one really seemed to have much loyalty to. Robby isn’t the kind of player to have conversations with other players for the sake of having conversations. Instead, he tends to do his best to truly connect with those he knows he can work with. This was proved when Robby was immediately warned about this alliance by Josiah and Matthew, two tribemates who were part of another core alliance that didn’t include Robby in addition to the seven person alliance. But because they connected with Robby so well, they eventually worked him into their core group. The first few days of Robby’s game were pretty slow and a little worrisome, but when he picked up some momentum he never halted.

While Essix and Ryan both became two quick and easy targets after Vodou lost the first two immunity challenges, Robby was gradually starting to get better footing with his tribemates. After Maxx became another easy target after the fourth immunity challenge, Robby headed into the merge with a solid foundation for his game. Initially, Robby found himself in a somewhat tricky situation. He had been swapped onto a tribe with a 4-3 Vodou disadvantage with the two original Vodou members he had bonded with the least, Dwight and Ephraim. But that didn’t stop him from quickly taking control of the situation. Knowing that Patrick had lost his vote because Maxx pulled a no vote pin before he was eliminated gave Robby, Dwight, and Ephraim at least a 3-3 chance should they go to tribal council. But they also knew that someone from the original Egzagòn tribe must’ve been cursed because they attended a tribal council before the swap. After Izaak played really dumb and pretended to not know what curses were, Robby had an easy time concluding that Izaak was cursed.

Now knowing that they had a 3-2 numbers advantage heading into tribal, Robby, Dwight, and Ephraim purposefully threw the first post-swap challenge in order to protect their allies still on Vodou and to take out an original Egzagòn. While Robby wasn’t swapped into the best situation based on old tribal lines, the swap gave him the opportunity to pick up a new ally. Jacob knew that there was a lot of inner turmoil between the original Egzagòn members, so Jacob saw the 3-2 disadvantage he was in as an opportunity to blur tribal lines a bit and make some connections with the other side. He knew the vote wasn’t going to go his way so he developed a strong relationship with Robby and even offered his vote as a way to establish trust. Initially, the original Vodou members on Egzagòn wanted to target Patrick. They saw him as a social threat and didn’t want him to get too far or gain any traction. But they also feared that he would be the most obvious target and could get an idol played on him. So they placed their three votes on Drew as a safer option, and told Jacob to vote Patrick as a backup plan. Drew was voted out, and after Matthew pulled a pin that negated Jacob’s vote they were able to eliminate Patrick at the following tribal council.

Coming into the merge Robby was in a wonderful position. He had been reunited with his fellow Hounds Josiah, Matthew, and Mink, original Vodou had a 6-5 advantage over original Egzagòn, and he had an in with the original Egzagòn castaways through Jacob. It really felt like Robby had a hand in everything at camp. After Ry narrowly escaped elimination at the final pre-merge tribal council, and after Vaeril called him out immediately after merging, everyone was on board for a quick and easy first merge vote against Ry. After Mink won immunity, Josiah put a plan in place to split votes on Ry and Gregory. But after Ephraim ignored the plan, Izaak and Josiah flipped, and Ry pulled out a second idol at tribal council, Josiah was eliminated in a \*4-3-1 vote that could’ve been prevented with some proper follow through.

After Josiah’s elimination and Ephraim’s disqualification Ry was still a huge target. But after some talking, Dwight, Matthew, and Robby came to the realization that Vaeril was becoming a decent social threat due to everyone targeting Ry. On the other end of the spectrum, Ry didn’t really have much influence on anything since everyone wanted him out. So they decided to flip the script and were able to pretty easily vote out Vaeril in a unanimous vote.

At the final eight both Mink and Jacob had found themselves in difficult positions. Mink had been slowly drifting away from the Hounds alliance and had begun plotting on turning on them, meanwhile Jacob had recently been exposed for flipping on Robby by voting for Josiah with Ry at the final eleven. Since they were both the clearest targets, they both tried to gun for each other as much as possible. Since Jacob had done the same in the past, Robby figured it would be a good idea to give Jacob a bit of his own medicine by feeding the flame between Jacob and Mink. Eventually, the two came to realize that targeting each other was only putting them at greater risk and decided to work together to try and push a vote on Ry. They managed to flip Izaak and Dwight. Dwight feared that if Ry wasn’t eliminated soon he would slip under the radar and make it to the final tribal council pretty easily. Now seeing an opening, he tried to convince Matthew and Robby to flip and vote for Ry instead of Jacob. But Matthew and Robby both had individual deals with Ry that they didn’t want to break. So they stuck with the original plan which caused a tie between Jacob and Ry. Ultimately Ry’s luck streak continued and Jacob was sent to the jury.

By the final seven Robby’s options were starting to dwindle a bit but were still looking strong. Things were definitely starting to get tricky though. Mink knew he was in trouble, and his gameplay was starting to become more aggressive. After some talking with Mink, Matthew approached Robby with a plan to give Mink his idol after Robby won the immunity challenge. Mink had very few options remaining since Robby was the only other person in the game to be perceived as a big threat. So Matthew wanted to take advantage of Mink’s low point in hopes that he would return the favor. After Robby insisted that he not give the idol away, Matthew ultimately gave it to Mink anyway because he was tired of having it in his possession. With an idol now at his disposal, Mink was able to use the threat of the idol as leverage to get Dwight and Izaak to flip. Matthew had no vote, so Robby’s main concern was staying in the majority. He ultimately sided with the vote against Ry in hopes that it would keep his relationship with Dwight strong since he didn’t follow Dwight’s request on the last vote.

After Ry was eliminated and Mink still had Matthew’s idol, things weren’t looking too great. Fortunately Robby was able to pull off another immunity to keep the pressure on Mink. When Matthew had given his idol to Mink it was with the condition that Mink would return the idol if he didn’t use it. But Mink had no intentions of keeping this promise, and went on to ignore Matthew. Since he didn’t have immunity, Mink used his idol as a bluff again to get people to vote with him. Dwight was cursed, which left Gregory, Izaak, Matthew, Mink, and Robby as the only people who could vote. Robby came up with a concrete plan with Gregory and Izaak to split votes on Mink and Dwight. But even with that plan already in place, Mink was able to convince Izaak to flip even though Robby warned him that he was saving his idol for the final five and was bluffing about using it. So when Mink didn’t play Matthew’s idol, and he blocked Matthew’s vote, a 2-2 tie was forced that sent Matthew home.

At the final five Robby was at the lowest point of his whole game. He had lost all momentum and was really running low on options. When he needed immunity most, he lost it after a tie, a tiebreaker, and ultimately the wheel. Mink won immunity, which left Robby as the biggest threat that could be voted for. Gregory and Mink had both accepted the devil’s offer at the start of the merge and had lost their votes as a consequence. No matter how much he tried to get people to vote with him, nothing was working. He was ultimately voted out in a 2-\*1 vote after Mink played his idol for Dwight.

## All-Stars Summary

A ride or die strategy is something that usually proves rather effective, but for whatever reason most castaways don’t tend to implement it. Robby however, seems to be the master of the strategy. In the early days of the game Robby quickly made two tight connections to Sasha and Derek that both proved very useful. After the Legend tribe finally attended a tribal council after the third challenge the trio easily formulated a plan to give them the upper hand within the tribe. Knowing that Brett was a social threat, and that there was a strong possibility that Brett and CK were working together, they planned a blindside on Brett. After Derek played double agent and they pulled in Rochelle as a fourth vote, Brett was successfully blindsided.

After the swap Robby was actually in a great position. He had been swapped over to the new Legacy tribe with Derek, and had been reunited with season six ally Jacob. He was a little unsure of whether or not he could trust Jacob based on their first run together, but nonetheless he decided to work with him anyway. Jacob and Rachel had started the season on the Legacy tribe together, so very quickly and very obviously a foursome was created between Derek, Jacob, Rachel and Robby. This left the only previous winner of the tribe, Blair, on the outside. She did have an idol though, her only real chance of survival was to try and convince her new tribemates that she didn’t have an idol by scrambling and acting nervous around camp. After her tribe lost the second post-swap challenge, she made her tribemates a little wary as she didn’t really talk to anyone until a couple hours before tribal. Assuming that they already knew about her idol, or at least assumed she had it, her plan was to try and freak them out last minute to see if she could throw them off. It almost worked, as Robby urged Jacob not to play the immunity idol blocker they had purchased. But ultimately she decided not to play her idol since she knew it would just be blocked anyway, and Robby’s allegiances proved strong a second time.

Once the joint tribal came around the new Legacy tribe was in a tough spot. They lost with the Legend tribe, which meant they were outnumbered 5-4 based on new tribal lines. After Schmutz tried to flip and was exposed by Derek, a rather promising plan was created that would revolve around Dawit and Kaden flipping to blindside Schmutz with the new Legacy tribe members. The plan was entirely set and everyone was on board up until Robby told Rochelle about the Schmutz situation. He had assumed that she had few allies, and since they had worked together on their original tribe he assumed he could trust her. But after hearing about Schmutz’s actions, Rochelle confronted Schmutz on the matter and leaked the whole plan to her. After the plan was leaked to Schmutz, Kaden reverted back to a tribe vs tribe mentality and convinced everyone on the Legend tribe to flip back to Robby within the last thirty minutes before tribal. This resulted in Robby being blindsided in a 5-4 vote based on tribal lines.

### Voting History

 The Devil Works But I Work Harder
 This Is Only The Beginning Baby
 Get With Today, My Brother
 I Kinda Want To Cause Some Chaos
 The Plan Will Be Working As I Plan It
 Call Me Hope Because I Just Gave It To The Tribe
 Eliminated, Day 15

## Return Interviews

**Clearly you did something right last time you played otherwise you wouldn’t have been invited back. So this season, are you looking to play more of the same way or change up your play style?**
I don't think I can play the same way I did last time out. First of all, my performance is very fresh in people's minds. Although I ultimately did not win, I think I played the best game of the season and had factors that are out of my control gone my way, I am pretty certain that I would be the winner of Visionary Survivor 6. I don't really know how I can improve on my game other than really trying to mitigate my threat level. I also don't think I can be extremely strategic especially out the gate, but since people already know my challenge ability it will probably be pretty hard to hide that. In the end, I do feel like I am the full package player in terms of social, strategic, and physical aspects, and my threat level will be comparable to some of the winners out the gate. I plan on trying to align with the big threats in the game as I still feel someone like a Dawit with a huge ego will serve as a great shield, and he knows he's a big target as well. I figure other people will have similar strategy but I hope to create social bonds and offer myself as a "free agent" early on in the game given my relatively new status as a player in Visionary.
**What did you learn from your last season that will help you do better this time around?**
I learned how much luck plays a part in this game. And this is something important. I truly do believe I played a near-perfect game, but I failed to account for factors that would be out of my control. I scored a perfect in the immunity challenge and STILL went home, which means that I had to have put myself in a position where I was eligible to get voted out in the first place anyways, so my threat level was magnified already at that point. I don't think there's anyone on par with the strategy level and mind for the game I have, but me saying this is showing a flaw that I need to address in that I might get too complacent or cocky with my position. I plan on really focusing on never being comfortable and always looking to build more relationships and not put myself in a position of danger.
**With 18 high caliber players returning, who are you expecting to see return? Who are you most and least excited to see again?**
To be honest, I don't really know a lot of the players from previous seasons. I'm going to have to do some research. I expect each of the winners to return, for sure. I expect to see Mink and Jacob from my own season returning. I expect to see Kaden return who was someone very active in the spec chat, and I would love to personally kick his ass around the island and knock that ego and crown off his head. There's no one here on my level. They don't get it. They know me, I know they know me. I know they'll be coming for me. But I stay ready. Good luck competing in challenges against me, that's for damn sure.
**How confident are you this time around? Do you think you have what it takes to beat the best of the best?**
I of course have the utmost confidence in myself. I actually think I have a ton of factors already going against me off the bat, and that will put me at a serious disadvantage in the early game that I need to be able to claw out of. I already think I have proven that I can hang with any player, and I truly don't think there's a better survivor player than me. No one has impressed me so far, but then again I haven't won this game, so I can't talk until I walk the walk. I think being a new player and probably having the biggest target from the most recent season and it being fresh in everyone's mind (I think I have a bigger target than Mink and Jacob), that will put a huge target early on me. That's why I really need to get in with the winners, although there's probably a lot of pregaming and that's also something that really hurts me here.
**What are you looking forward to most this season? What are you looking to accomplish this time around?**