Nate

## *Skatevivor* Career

**Nate** is a contestant on *Skatevivor: Beach City*, the second season of *Skatevivor*. After surviving the disastrous Amethyst tribe, Nate was taken out in the early merge due to his status as a perceived strategic threat. He went on to win the Best Narrator award at the Reunion thanks to his detailed confessionals and strategic narration.

## Profile

**Name:** Nate

**Age:** 24

**Pronouns:** he/him

**Timezone:** CST

**Starting tribe:** Amethyst

**Which survivor contestant would you say you are most like? Why?** Ya know, I don't think I'm as outwardly awkward, but Christian Hubricki from David v Goliath is pretty much me in Survivor. Someone who is rather unassuming and might be underestimated, but will eventually be seen as the biggest threat in the game and have to really fight to actually sit in the Final Three/Two/whatever. I'm genuinely awful at managing my threat level, but I'm here to play the game and have fun doing it. I tend to get up to all sorts of shenanigans, like just being a chill and nice person and that leading to me being invited to WAY too many alliances.

**What is your experience with ORGs (Online Reality Games)?** I have relatively little experience in ORGs, with this only being my fourth. Thoooooough, I will say I've done pretty well in the three that I have played. This will be my first Survivor though so that'll be fun! if you want numbers to crunch, I've gotten 3rd twice (where if I would have been in the F2, I would have won according to the v upset Juries) and got 8th in the most recent one where I was legit blindsided for the first time and it felt amazing, but now I know what to look out for.

 **What is your strategy coming into the game?** My initial strategy is to take it slow. I often let myself fly off the rails because of excitement or anxiety or whatever, but I know that my social game is good. I should be able to wiggle through the first several rounds on my social game alone and find myself in some decent positions to actually take control of the game. My big goal for the game is to establish something I'm referring to as "soft control." I want to be in charge of certain aspects of the game, but I'm going to work hard to not be seen as the person in charge. I want to prop others up to take the fall and then come out on top later on in the game.

Oh, also, not going to Tribal Councils. That's part of my initial strategy too.

## Survivor

After being an active participant in the marooning, Nate was placed on the doomed Amethyst tribe. Nate was happy with his tribe and quickly hit it off with Isabella, Kham, and Jamal in particular. On Day 2, Kham initiated the formation of an alliance with this group of four called the Early Birds, placing Nate in a safe majority before the first challenge ended. After Amethyst lost the first challenge, the Early Birds completely controlled the vote. Nate wanted Pebbles out, but Kham pushed for Mason to go instead, and the rest of the Early Birds got on board. While Nate felt better about keeping Mason in the game over Pebbles, he didn't want to overplay, and instead opted to let Kham call the shots. After Mason was voted out unanimously, Flava joined the Amethyst tribe.

Flava showed Nate the (useless) Crystal Shrimp command he found while Exiled, which made Nate worried that he had an idol or some other advantage. He also considered pulling Flava in as a potential ally in case the Early Birds fell apart. Amethyst lost their second challenge in a row, and the vote came down to either Pebbles or Flava. Nate and Kham pushed for Pebbles to go in the hopes that Flava would be scared enough to play anything he found while Exiled. Isabella and Jamal wanted to keep Pebbles over Flava, but ultimately agreed to vote her out unanimously as planned. After Pebbles was voted out, the Amethysts fought hard on the next immunity challenge but came up just short yet again, sending them back to Tribal Council for the third time in a row. Flava was swiftly targeted as the last outsider to the Early Birds alliance, who decided to stay loyal to each other.

At the Final 16, Nate swapped to Ruby, which was made up of 3 Pearls (AP, Olly, and Pixiel), three Amethysts (Kham, Isabella, and Nate), and two Garnets (Treavor and Lindsey). The three former Amethysts made a new alliance called Slightly Empty Nest. Nate was relieved when he saw the results of the swap, but worried about Jamal's odds on the new Sapphire tribe. He planned to stick close to Isabella and Kham as his ride-or-dies, and made note of Olly being a potential threat later on down the line. The Amethysts on Ruby decided to lie about what happened on their OG tribe, notably spreading a lie about a supposed "feud" between Nate and Kham in order to make them appear less threatening as a trio. Isabella told Olly the truth about what happened on OG Amethyst, but Nate and Kham, unaware that Olly knew the truth, kept playing up their feud to him and the others on the tribe.

After losing the next immunity challenge, the three Amethysts pulled in Treavor and Lindsey to form the Sugilite majority alliance. This new Garnet-Amethyst coalition targeted AP, with Lindsey’s name as the decoy. Only Pixiel voted Lindsey with AP, and he was voted out in 16th place. When Ruby lost their second immunity challenge in a row, the Sugilite majority alliance organized a split vote between Pixiel and Olly in case Pixiel had the Pearl idol (when, in reality, Olly had it). After Treavor changed his vote in the planned split at the last second and forced a 3-3-1 tie, Pixiel was voted out on the revote.

At the second swap, Nate stayed on Ruby with Isabella, Kham, and Lindsey. Simone, Joey, and Dumpy swapped over into a 4-3 minority. However, the Amethysts were already plotting to blindside Lindsey, having initially discussed the possibility on Ruby 1.0. Nate was particularly interested in the plan to blindside Lindsey, because he saw her as a threat to his game long-term due to how much she seemed to want to play around tribal lines. Lindsey, unaware that she was in any danger on her new tribe, chose not to grab the Greed necklace and both tribes went to separate tribal councils. Lindsey's former allies Isabella, Nate, and Kham turned on her and pulled in Simone, Joey, and Dumpy to vote her out in a 4-2-1 vote, with Kham and Isabella voting Joey in case of an idol play.

Following Lindsey's blindside, Ruby won the next challenge and Rhone was voted out on Sapphire 2.0, giving Isabella, Kham, and Nate a break from Tribal Council just before the merge. Nate looked for the merge idol, but only succeeded in earning himself a challenge disadvantage. He suspected that Vivi or Olly found it and viewed them as a tight duo. Shortly after Vivi won the first individual immunity challenge, Joey started pushing for an Olly blindside. The Early Birds planned to go along with a fake Joey vote but would vote Olly instead. When Simone, Dumpy, and Jamal seemed hesitant to actually take a shot at Olly and wanted to take Joey out instead, Nate was frustrated but accepted that he might not get his way after all.

The merge vote shifted when Dumpy leaked the Olly blindside plan to Olly, Vivi, and Brandon, and the four of them decided to vote out Kham. Olly told Isabella about the Kham plan and Isabella told Nate, who told Kham he was getting votes and needed to play an idol if he had one. The merge tribe descended into chaos in the hours leading up to the vote, with the Early Birds throwing out multiple possible targets (including Ant and Brandon) before finally settling on Joey. At tribal, Vivi played her Garnet idol on Brandon and Olly played Vivi's merge idol on himself. Kham became the Mayor of Ponderosa in a 5-4-1-~~1~~ vote.

At the Final 10, Nate resigned himself to playing as quietly and honestly as possible to avoid being voted out or losing another ally. He did damage control with Olly and Vivi, and came to believe (along with many others on the tribe) that Dumpy intentionally caused chaos at the previous tribal. It seemed that Dumpy would be the next to go and that Nate would be able to squeeze by to the Final 9, but Brandon shifted the vote off of Dumpy when he realized it wasn't in his best interest for Dumpy to go just yet. Instead, Nate was targeted as a strategic threat and for being seen as one of the driving forces behind the chaos of the merge vote. Nate learned he was in trouble shortly before the vote but didn't have enough time to change his fate, and was voted out in 10th place.

At Final Tribal Council, Nate was an undecided and upbeat juror, and notably asked Vivi and Simone to tell the story of the season if the boot order had been reversed. He was impressed by both Vivi and Simone's games and FTC performances, and ultimately cast his vote for Simone to win. At the reunion, he won the Best Narrator award.

### Voting history

**^1** In *"The Good, The Bad & The Dirty"*, the vote ended with a 3-3 tie between Pixiel and Olly, forcing a revote. Treavor and Lindsey switched their votes from Olly to Pixiel, sending Pixiel home 4-1.