Ben

**Days Lasted:** | 26

**Ben** was a player in Mythvivor: Babylon. He was known for using WWE Jericho's catchphrase "You just made the list!" for referring to players who he planned on taking out. He was also knowwn for his idol play that idoled Joe out of the game.

## Babylon

Ben started Mythvivor: Babylon on the Tiamat tribe. Tiamat won the first challenge and Ben was sent to Mount Nisir along with Alex from Shamash andd Becca from Adad. There, they formed an alliance and all agreed for there to be a joint tribal council in the next episode.

In "The Secret Ingredient Is Lies," Tiamat lost the Mythvivor Jeopardy challenge and had to attend the joint tribal council along with Adad. At this joint tribal council, he reunited with Becca who helped him find an immunity idol. He planned on voting with most of Tiamat and voting out Steve. However, Henry flipped and voted out Shep from Tiamat instead.

With most of Tiamat blindsided, Henry and Dan both blamed each other for Shep's exit. Ben formed a tight alliance with the other two Tiamat members, Bubbles and Niki, and told them about his idol. The three of them felt that Dan was the more likely culprit, but they did not go to another tribal council.

Ben swapped onto the Euphrates after the Bureacratic Swap ranked him second in his tribe. He swapped with his allies, Bubbles and Niki, along with Koopa and Tara from Adad and Physh and Zack from Shamash. Ben quickly began confronting Koopa and Tara that he knew Dan was the one who flipped, even stating that Dan had admitted it to them. This left the Adad duo feeling confused by the Tiamat trio as a whole.

While Euphrates won their first challenge, they lost their second challenge, Big Picture. Ben had felt that ideally they target a member of the former Adad tribe, eventually settling on Tara with Bubbles and Niki. However, Bubbles had other plans. He targeted Ben hoping that Ben would play his idol and take out a member of Adad - to remove a number against them with less blame and to flush an idol. This backfired on Bubbles when Koopa, Tara, Physh, and Zack were concerned that it was a trap and decided to vote out Bubbles instead. This left Ben feeling blindsided by both his Tiamat alliance members who voted for him, and the majority of the tribe who voted for Bubbles, while Ben himself had voted for Tara.

Ben would then swap again onto the Ninhurag tribe. He swapped with Zack from his former Euphrates tribe, Henry from his former Tiamat tribe, Alex and Becca from his Mount Nisir visit, and Derz. This tribe lost their only challenge, Head 2 Head Puzzles, and went to tribal council. Henry was initially seen as a target due to his chaotic gameplay. However, Zack, who had just blindsided Ben, decided to target Alex for being a big threat instead. Zack planned to get Henry, Ben, and Becca on board. Ben didn't trust Zack, but trusted Alex, so he leaked this plan to Alex. They voted out Zack instead.

At merge, Ben quickly eyed Koopa as a potential target. The tribe as a whole mostly settled on Physh, who Ben didn't trust. He kept his vote on Koopa anyways.

In "Self Care Involves Never Doing Math," Ben was frustrated with the lack of movement and his position within the tribe as they looked to target Derz as another easy target. At the last minute, he decided to play his immunity idol on Derz and target Joe. Ben and Derz saw Joe as a big threat with a lot of connections who they each had no trust with. By idoling Derz, Ben idoled Joe out with an ~~8~~-2 vote, shocking the tribe.

In "Actions Have Reactions," Ben attempted to use his idol play to improve his position and make new allies. He targeted Henry who had a large target on his back already. Unfortunately, the tribe deemed him a much bigger target who went against the will of the tribe. He was voted out in a 6-2 vote, with his ally, Derz, voting with him.

At the reunion, Ben won Best Alliance with Alex and Becca for their "Guardians of the Mountain" alliance that went on the first Mount Nisir visit and worked together through the premerge.

### Jay's Thoughts

Ben is definitely an interesting case to me from this season when looking at his overall game. He was in a solid position to start, but was a part of the major blindside of Shep. Things became more difficult when he was swapped on a tribe with Bubbles and Niki, who were fine with sacrificing him since they were down in numbers to Tara, Koopa, Physh and Zack. The core four tricked them all, as he voted for Tara and his two allies voted for him and the core four eliminated Bubbles. He was finally able to get his footing in the game after the second swap when he, Becca, Alex, and Derz voted Zack out. With Zack gone, he eliminated someone who went against him at the Bubbles vote and grew close to Derz. He stumbled once again when he was in the minority at the merge vote, a vote that saw Physh go home 7-2-2. At final 10, he made a big move when he decided to idol Joe out and save his ally Derz. While the move certainly wow’d people in and out of the game, it left him at final 9 on the outs with no idol and no trust with the others. When he didn’t win immunity at final 9, he was the next to be voted out in a 6-2-1 vote. I think most can respect the heroic move to save an ally and make a big move, but I also think it’s fair to say this move really marked the downfall of his game. I wonder what could’ve been had he cut his losses and advanced to the final 9 as a free agent with an idol in his pocket.

### Voting History

1 Ben's tribe, Tiamat, attended a joint tribal with Adad.