Josh Sinclair

**Josh Sinclair** is a contestant from *Survivor: South Africa*.

Josh managed to play a very good social game throughout the season. His likable personality and challenge strength made him a threat for most of the game. He managed to reach the Final 3 and was complimented on his social and physical game. He was criticized for having a weak strategic game which ended up costing him the win. He finished in 2nd place after losing in a 5-3-2 final vote to Lindsay Richards but ahead of Marco Singh.

## Profile

Josh is currently a film student at UCLA, although his hometown is Reno, Nevada. Josh has been a Survivor fan for years, and thinks he will do exceptionally well socially and physically. His girlfriend says that if he wins then he needs to buy her a car.

**If You Could Bring 3 Things With You To The Island What Would They Be:** A basketball, a football, and a cigar.

**What Past Player Will You Be Most Like:** Chris Hopkins who completely dominated the social aspect of the game last season.

**Why Will You Be Sole Survivor:** Because it's easy to lie to people and smile in their face for a million dollars.

## Survivor

Josh began the game on the Zulu tribe. He made a quick start at bonding with a majority of his tribe. He quickly became a member of the tribe's majority alliance which consisted of himself, Natalie Steinbeck, Julio Rodriguez, Antonio Hernandez, Lisa Mathieson, Cody Singalay, and Daniel Jimenez. On Day 3, Zulu won the first immunity challenge of the season. Josh started to bond with Lisa more, who he started to consider is number 1 ally. On Day 6, Zulu won immunity again. Zulu's immunity streak ended on Day 9 when they lost their first immunity challenge. Josh and his alliance had 3 options for the vote: Lori Christopher, Gigi Ramirez, and Celeste Go. They decided that Lori would be the best to target since she was the weakest in challenges. At tribal, Lori was voted out in a 7-3 vote. On Day 12, Zulu won immunity for the third time.

On Day 13, a tribe swap occurred. Josh became a part of the newly added Limpopo tribe. His former tribe mates Julio, Lisa, and Celeste joined him. Former Tsonga tribe members Mason Jefferson and Marco Singh also became a part of the Limpopo tribe. Josh was happy with how the tribe swap turned out. On Day 14, Limpopo won immunity. Josh and Lisa decided to make a pact to never vote each other out. On Day 17, Limpopo won immunity again. Josh made sure to make connections with Mason and Marco in case he needed their votes in the future. On Day 19, Limpopo won their third straight immunity challenge in a row.

On Day 20, the 3 tribes merged. Josh decided to make social connections with everyone and wanted to win some individual immunity challenges. On Day 21, Josh tried to win immunity but lost the challenge to Antonio. After the challenge, Josh heard that mostly everyone wanted to vote out Julio for his bossy personality and close game relationship to Marco. Josh was ok with sending Julio out of the game. At tribal, Julio misplayed an idol on Marco and was voted out in a large 11-2 vote. On Day 22, Josh won reward along with Cody, Didi Conley, Irene Chen, Leon Petchers, and Marco. On Day 24, Josh was approached by Antonio to target Daniel since he wanted to separate Daniel and Cody who had a strong game partnership with each other. Although Josh wanted to vote out Antonio for posing as a challenge threat, he realized that he could use Antonio as a shield down the line. Lisa let Josh know that she also preferred to vote for Daniel over Antonio. At tribal, Josh was shocked when Antonio was voted out in an 8-4 vote. On Day 27, the game got a lot more interesting. 2 major sides started to form. 1 side consisted of all of the OG Zulu members who were against the other side which consisted of all of the OG Tsonga members. The OG Tsonga side had a 6-5 majority over the OG Zulu side. After the immunity challenge, Celeste and Lisa overheard the OG Tsonga side mentioning that they wanted to get rid of Irene who was also an OG Tsonga member. When Celeste and Lisa let Josh's alliance know about the information they just heard, Josh's alliance decided to let Irene know about it. Irene decided to confront Lindsay Richards about it since the two had a close bond over at the swapped Tsonga tribe. This caused a huge argument to start between Irene and Lindsay. At tribal, Irene let everyone know that she was flipping over to the OG Zulu side. Josh became excited that his side had the majority. Before the votes were read, Leon used an idol on himself. This was bad for the OG Zulu side since their target was Leon. Leon ended up negating 6 votes cast against him and Irene was sent to the jury in a 5-0 vote. On Day 30 following the immunity challenge, Lisa collapsed at camp. Josh rushed over to help her. When medical showed up, they concluded that Lisa was severely exhausted and dehydrated and needed to be removed from the game. Josh instantly gave Lisa a hug and then realized that Lisa leaving hurt his game. Lisa was his closet ally up to that point in the game. Tribal was canceled that night. On Day 32, Josh was approached by Daniel and Cody to target Leon. Josh was ok with targeting Leon since he knew Leon was a big threat and also pulled off the Irene blindside. Josh then had a conversation with Celeste who told him that she was planning on voting out Marco along with Didi and Mason. Josh told Celeste that he felt like Leon was a bigger threat. At tribal, Marco used an idol on himself. The vote tied in a 3-3-0 vote between Leon and Daniel. At the revote, Leon was blindsided and sent to the jury in a 4-3 revote after Didi flipped on him. After tribal, Josh couldn't believe that he got what he wanted. On Day 34, Josh decided to go along with a majority group who wanted to get rid of Didi. Josh was fine with Didi going since he felt like she could flip on anybody after what she did to Leon. At tribal, Josh received 2 votes from Lindsay and Mason but Didi was voted out in a 5-2-1 vote. On Day 35, Josh finally won an individual immunity challenge. After the challenge, Josh heard that everyone was finally willing to separate Daniel and Cody once and for all. He decided to go along with Lindsay, Marco, Celeste, and Mason and target Daniel. At tribal, Daniel played an idol on himself which greatly shocked Josh. Mason was then blindsided in a 2-0 vote. On Day 36, Josh won both reward and immunity. He decided to take Daniel and Marco on reward with him. He wanted to form a closer game relationship with Marco and see if Daniel would work with him in hopes that Cody would be voted out next. After the reward, Josh mentioned to Lindsay, Marco, and Celeste that they should vote out Cody since he was sliding through the game while everyone constantly targeted Daniel. At tribal, Josh got his way and Cody was voted out in a 4-2 vote. On Day 37, Josh won his third straight individual immunity challenge. Back at camp, Josh formed a Final 3 with Marco and Lindsay. They knew that Daniel was still a huge threat even without Cody. Before leaving for tribal, Josh decided to look for an idol just in case. He ended up finding one and wanted to 100% use it. At tribal, Josh used his idol since it was the last time idols could be played. Daniel was sent to the jury in a 3-2 vote. On Day 38, Josh lost the final immunity challenge to Marco. After the challenge, Josh was worried that he would be voted out for finally being vulnerable. Celeste approached him and mentioned targeting Marco and Lindsay. Josh stated that only Lindsay could be targeted since Marco won immunity. Josh did not want to give a straight answer since he had the Final 3 deal with Marco and Lindsay. At tribal, Josh was surprised when Celeste started openly campaigning against him. He feared that Marco and Lindsay would turn on him. Luckily for Josh, Celeste was sent to the jury in a 3-1 vote. The next morning, Josh, Marco, and Lindsay celebrated making the Final 3. They shared game memories with each other and Josh thought about what he was going to say to the jury in his speech.

At Final Tribal Council, Josh's social game and physical game were complimented a lot by the jury. He was also criticized for not having the best strategic game. Josh told the jury that he was too focused on building social connections and winning immunity challenges that he might have not made the best game decisions throughout the game. He reminded the jury that although his strategic game was lacking a little bit, he still was in power for 90% of the game. Josh received jury votes from Antonio, Lisa, and Celeste, but it wasn't enough to win the game. He finished in 2nd place after a 5-3-2 final vote in which he lost to Lindsay, but beat Marco.