Devin Tauruan

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**Devin Tauruan** was a male contestant that competed on ***The Royalty Challenge***. He first appeared on the fourth season, The Royalty Challenge: Tokyo Drift, with his Fresh Meat pair Timmy Putnam where he finished in 4th place. He returned in The Royalty Challenge: Cold Zone where he was the tenth eliminated; placing in 9th place.

In **Tokyo Drift**, Devin was paired up with Veteran Timmy during the Fresh Meat pair twist. With his back instantly against the wall after being left out of Christian Cruz's majority alliance Teamwork Makes The Dreamwork, Devin's strategic ability came into play; firstly forming a duo alliance with Malik Cordova called Black Magic and joining Jamie Fitzgerald's counter alliance, The Leftovers, consisting of the pairs not included in the majority. Wanting revenge, Devin started planting seeds about Christian, riled up Marti De'Lyte with the intentions of getting them to expose the majority and confronted Malik and Tasha Gaspard head on about the majority alliance to test their trust. Once Jamie admitted Christian's partner Katie Jenkins exposed the majority, Devin was given extra ammo blow up their games. After Christian/Katie were nominated and seeing the opportunity of Marti's blow-up, Devin pushed Marti's partner Jaylen Goldberg into locking his vote for Christian/Katie; correctly believing Christian/Katie would call them out for elimination. With Christian/Katie eliminated first, Devin put his trust in Malik/Tasha and his other close ally Donnchadh Fitzgerald by creating The Fates alliance. In Round 3, Devin/Timmy were nominated by Marq Savage; but with the growing target on Kendall Gray/Sylvia Riah they managed to avoid being voted in. However, Devin got involved in multiple conflicts; first after Kendall exposed Nasir Gemini for saying Devin is campaigning actively against her but mainly with Marti due to them campaigning against him even though they're in an alliance together. Marti labelled Devin a snake publicly; saying he will dispose of people when he doesn't need them anymore. Devin argued that Marti was the snake who's attempting to play all sides. In Round 4, Devin/Timmy were once again nominated by Nasir/Ny Love; but were spared when people took the power move against Allen King/Tasha.

Entering the individual stage of the game, Devin joined the house in targeting the VC Gang; Marq, Marti and Nasir. He first aimed for Nasir; believing they were playing a similar middle position due to Nasir leaking information from his own alliance to other players in the house; including Caoimhe Mulcahy and Donnchadh. Devin took the opportunity to expose Nasir to his ally Marti in hopes in would cause mistrust within their alliance; which successfully worked. Hearing Donnchadh is a target for Marq, the pair decided to throw their votes to avoid be called-out by him during elimination. He also joined Caoimhe's The Real Rookies alliance with Alex Rose/Remi Rowan; but his loyalties remained with Donnchadh. With Nasir and house-target Marq being eliminated during the mercenary twist, Devin's social connections and game were coming more apparent to Alex; who wanted to break up his alliance with Donnchadh/Malik. Losing the Round 8 daily by a matter of seconds, Devin found himself nominated by Overtaker DLS Theqhat; but was secretly considering pushing to send ally Malik in. During Round 9, Devin voted for ally Malik believing the vote would tie due to Remi saying she was voting Marti; but was left blindsided when she voted Malik. Being accused of throwing his vote, Devin defended himself against Alex after he exposed Devin for asking him if he could persuade Caoimhe to break the potential tie to send Marti in. In Round 10, Devin was once against nominated by DLS; but his social connections kept him safe once again against Caoimhe. Surviving all season and avoiding elimination, Devin was nominated alongside ally Donnchadh in the final round before the finale; being voted into his first elimination. He called-out Marti to face him in elimination because he believed it would be appropriate to be the one to take them out due to their rocky relationship/backstabbing. However, shortly before the elimination began Marti pulled from the game. Making it to his first finale, Devin outlasted DLS/Tasha but was unable to beat Alex, Donnchadh and Timmy; getting purged from the finale.

In **Cold Zone**, Devin returned with the intentions of once again building as many connections as he could with the other players; forming and joining multiple alliance covering the house. He joined Caoimhe's alliance Drifting 5 with former players from **Tokyo Drift** Jamie, Remi and Sylvia. He also got close with Dorian Washington and was pulled into her majority alliance Ice Ring. However, it was James X who Devin got closest too; forming the Frost Giant duo alliance of two strategic forces. Wanting to see the POC do well in the game, Devin formed the Black Is Magic with Dorian, Donald G and Kay Opondo. He was voted by Zoner Dorian to start the chain in Round 1; saving James. After winning his first ever daily challenge in Round 2, he targeted Mariah Neveraz for elimination with the majority but became wary of Ryan Matthew after he tried to deflect the target from Mariah. Using the information of Danielle George/Ryan as a duo and Danielle's strong social game, Devin initially set his sights on targeting them. He formed The Inner Circle alliance between Caoimhe, Dorian, James and Remi believing these were the people who he could trust the most; knowing he was in a strong position with them each individually. Winning another daily challenge in Round 3, Devin voted Anojan Thaseelan into elimination for their lack of connection. When the majority block was pulled, Sylvia became a target for the house. With James wanting to target Danielle/Ryan, Devin disagreed and went for Sylvia instead despite her creating an alliance with them, Izel Bitcherzina and Sierra Castillo. Getting closer to Kay on calls, Devin formed a trio between them and James called British Oreo (Team Supermodel). During Round 4, Kay saved Devin during the chain and he saved James. Surprised by Sierra defeating Drew Stephenson in elimination, Devin started to sense that the younger players, Izel/Sierra/Sylvia, were becoming a problem; believing that keeping Danielle/Ryan around would be better for his game and wanted James to realise it.

Knowing Izel was speaking about his game with other players, Devin started getting heated and went on a mission to get him out of the game. During the purge round and with James finally agreeing with him, they created an alliance with Danielle/Ryan called Mystery Inc. However, the alliance became at risk instantly in Round 6 after saving each other and Kay on the chain; leaving Zaire Langill unpicked. She pulled the reverse block and changed her pick to Sierra; subsequently leaving Danielle at the bottom of the chain and in elimination. Feeding info into the alliance that Izel was being fake, Devin caused Danielle to confront Izel shortly before their elimination match-up but failed to convince James/Kay that this was Izel's gameplay. Entering Round 7 after Danielle's elimination, Devin was placed on a team with the younger players and Kay. Sitting out of the challenge and seeing their team pulling in a lot of points, Devin asked Kay to throw it to James' team to ensure the younger players didn't gain power. He joined Caoimhe's Kid Killers alliance in aims of taking out Izel/Sierra/Sylvia. With James' team winning and Sierra voted into elimination, Devin's plan backfired when Izel pulled the double block and took the shot to pull him into elimination with him and Sierra. With high tensions and speculation of outside interference, Devin confronted and called-out Izel on voice call. In a close elimination performance, Devin was just short of beating Izel and was eliminated alongside Sierra. When he said his goodbyes, he leaked to Mystery Inc that Mariah's alliance was Sierra, Sylvia and incorrectly Zaire.

## **The Royalty Challenge: Cold Zone**

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## **Trivia**

* Devin is the first ever player to make top 4 and take away no money from a season.
* Devin is the only player in **Tokyo Drift** to not enter elimination.
* Devin and his partner Timmy are the only pair to individually make it to the final on **Tokyo Drift**.
* Devin was the player nominated the most in **Tokyo Drift** with 5 nominations.