Erik Johan

**Erik Johan** is the runner-up of Season One.

At the start of *Season One,* Erik received the first knife of the game where he eliminated Anni Halinso. After this, however, his gameplay came to a hault, as he stayed quiet and under-the-radar while the main alliances were at each other’s throats. After he was abandoned by makeshift ally Zach Cahlan, he was dragged to the finale by antagonist Bethany Bergotti, where he was eliminated, as he was seen as less aggressive and quieter then Bethany, ending in second place.

## Biography

Erik was born in Albany on June 29, 1984. After moving schools almost every elementary school year and every middle school year, he then stayed in one high school, where he graduated and went straight to the working fields. He immediately found a job at a construction company and got a job as a construction worker. In 2011, he married Sally Rollins and had two daughters.

As of now, he still lives in Albany with his same job as a construction worker and with his wife and two kids.

## Knife Game

### Season One

In Season One, he started out with contestant Anni Halinso gave the knife away to him at first elimination. Because of this heroine act, Erik eliminated Anni with the knife she gave to him.After this, however, he stayed relatively quiet and irrelevant while the two main alliances (Beth’s Alliance/Female Four Alliance and Marci’s Alliance/Zach’s Boys Alliance) went at each other for 4 consecutive eliminations.

Before Boby Prescott’s elimination, he aligned with outsider Zach Cahlan to get more intel into what was going on. However, Zach wanted to play a dirty card and betray Erik by aligning himself with Bethany Bergotti and making a pact with Jess Marloco and Jane Andrews. In the end, he eavesdropped on Zach and caught on that Zach was untrustworthy and eliminated him when he got the knife at sixth elimination.

At the final four, he yet again made a pact with Jess and Jane to eliminate Beth, who by this point had the biggest chance of winning. However, Zach gave the 7th knife to Beth, which allowed her to eliminate one of the three, which was Jane. Erik and Jess then both tried to rope in Bethany for a “big move” to get more leverage to win. Although Jane gave Jess the knife, Jess gave it to Bethany, who stuck to her villainous role and blindsided Jess, thinking that Erik would be easier to beat then her. At the finale, Erik got 3 out of 8 votes (by Anni, Craig, and Marci) due to his heroic and under-the-radar gameplay, but lost the other 5 votes to Bethany for her aggressive and manipulative gameplay. Bethany then got the final knife and eliminated Erik, earning him the title of runner-up.

## Trivia

* He is one of three contestants to get the knife twice.
	+ However, he is the only one to get the knife twice and never give it away.

## Gallery

### Season One

Erik’s cast photo.Erik eliminates Anni after she gives the knife to him.Erik makes a confessional.Erik shocked at Craig’s elimination.Erik allies with Zach.Erik sees Zach aligning with Bethany.Erik blindsides Zach.Erik makes a pact with Jane and Jess to eliminate Bethany.Erik angry that Zach gave the knife to Bethany.Erik tries to get Beth to eliminate Jess.Erik taken to the finale by Bethany.Erik at the finale.Erik eliminated by Beth at the finale.