Nick Miller

**Money Won:** | $70,000

**Nick Miller** was a male contestant that competed on ***The Royalty Challenge***. He first appeared on the second season, The Royalty Challenge: Blood vs. Water, with his pair Julien Hiraga where they were the runner-ups. He returned in The Royalty Challenge: Brain vs. Brawn vs. Beauty with his team **Beauty** where he was the fourteenth eliminated; placing in 14th place.

In **Blood vs. Water**, Nick and his partner Julien took a quieter approach in the beginning of the season; not creating waves and having social connections with a few of the other players. They managed to win the second daily challenge of the season. After going with the flow, Nick's partner Julien decided to flip his game on its head and become a strategic force; being involved in side-alliances with Andy Cook/Malik Cordova and Blake Sanders/Tasha Gaspard before creating the revolutionary alliance to take down the vets; Rookie Power. The alliance later transformed into Praise Queen Rhea after Rhea Sunshine threw the challenge to the rookies so they could start taking down the veteran alliance Blood Ring; which was exposed by Randi Smith. Julien/Nick managed to play the middle with their cross-over alliances; but Nick specifically had a showmance with veteran Donnchadh Fitzgerald. Their game became at risk when they lost the daily challenge in Round 10. Even though they formed The Baguettes alliance, Nick opted to go against his showmance Donnchadh as he felt they could beat them. After surviving elimination and making the finale, Julien/Nick managed to beast the final challenges but lost out in the timed tiebreaker but just over a minute to winners Lex Quinn/Ellie Smash.

In **Brain vs. Brawn vs. Beauty**, Nick started the game representing Team Beauty. He returned with the mindset of gathering power from the beginning of the game because he believed Julien carried him in the first half of his previous season. He formed the Beautiful Name Beautiful People alliance with James X, Kay Opondo, Ny Love and Tommy Fairfax to form a majority alliance on Original Beauty. He targeted Veteran Jeremy Balogh in hopes of giving the other rookies a chance and breaking up a potential alliance between Jeremy and Callie Jones. Even though he maintained his strong relationship with James, Nick got closer to ally from his previous season Rhea and formed a cross-over alliance with Brawn called Beauties and the Beasts with Ben Gaspard, Otto O'Reilly and Sarah G. Winning the daily and becoming Leader one time during the original teams, Nick remained on Beauty with the swap and formed an alliance with Andy Cook and Isabel Banks to plot sending Nicole Q into elimination. He discussed voting former ally Smash because of his open deal to keep Sarah safe. However, when Knife Weston caught wind he exposed the plan to Nicole. Nick was blindsided when Andy, Isabel and Nicole made a move behind his back to send Sarah in; feeling hopeless sensing the Leaders would vote him in against her. After being voted in by Knife and Liam Lovelis, Nick was falsely told by Sarah that she'd throw the elimination to him but she ended up winning and he was eliminated from the game.

## **The Royalty Challenge: Brain vs. Brawn vs. Beauty**

### **Daily Challenge Progress**

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### **Bank Progress**

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## **Trivia**

* Nick, along with his partner Julien, are the highest placing male/male pair in Blood vs. Water.
* Nick, along with his partner Julien, are the first runner-ups to not have more money than the players in 3rd place.
* Julien/Nick were the only pair in the Blood vs. Water finale to not have a grenade used against them.
* Nick is the first runner-up to return and be eliminated the earliest.