Lauren Alston

***Lauren*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Anarchy

## Anarchy

Lauren’s game started off with her connecting to people, making as many bonds as she possibly could (plus her Legacy Advantage she found) allowed her to be in a solid position for the first few days. During the second challenge, she placed in the lower half of the remaining castaways, signaling her time at Tribal would be near. In the downtime, it seemed like the consensus vote would be Elle. But as Tribal became closer, she felt less and less confident about the vote. Turns out she was right and previous ally Cillian went home. And Lauren’s good positioning slowly became worse as yet another ally was blindsided at Tribal Council in Joseph. So at her third straight time at Tribal Council, Lauren eventually flipped on Jayla and campaigned for her removal. Luckily enough, Jayla made a huge target out of herself by calling out the power players at camp. Saving Lauren from 15th Place. Oddly enough, a “rivalry” grew at Tribal Council between Lauren and Elle over the vote. I say rivalry with quotations because soon after Jayla left, the two made a truce to play up the fight and secretly work together.

During the tribe phase, Lauren was in a good position. Tribemates Elle and Jessica were targeting each other, and Brittney was hatching a plan to take out Finley. Lauren wanted to go with Brittney’s plan as she noticed the power Jessica held with Finley as an ally. But the plan meant that they had to throw the next challenge, and because of her sucky time during the previous stage of the game, Lauren was hesitant to do that. Nonetheless, her tribe threw it and Finley was sent packing, not much else to cover from this stage.

Now we’ve hit the merge, Lauren knew that it was time to turn up. Still perceiving she was in danger, she aligned herself with Allison and Brittney from her previous tribe. Days went by (and Barney since he was eliminated)  and the topic of blindsiding Brittney came up from Elle. Reluctant of that idea, Lauren shot it down, even though she knew that it’d have to happen eventually along with Allison.

During the Final Eight, she was ready to pursue Elle’s idea except with Allison instead of Brittney… until Allison won individual immunity and Jessica was the next best thing. So during the next round when Allison lost immunity, it was a done deal and she was voted out 6-1. At the Final 6, Lauren had a plan to get a ton of votes onto her, so she could use her advantage and get Zeebem out of the game. Turned out she wasn’t the only one dying to target Zeebem, as everyone was on board to vote him out as well.

Now 5 people remain in the game. When Charles won immunity, it seemed like Brittney would be the easy target. However, Lauren felt extremely guilty about doing her best ally like this, so in retaliation she voted for Raini. But Raini accidentally self-voted, which caused a tie between her and ‘rival’ Elle. Lauren still stuck with the Raini vote as she would’ve worked with Elle but Charles and Brittney took control and booted Elle at 5.

At the Final Four, Lauren still knew that Brittney was the main contender to win here, but she was dead set on bringing her as she couldn’t handle betraying her so swiftly. However once Lauren won immunity, she became really flip floppy on if she should bring Brittney to the Final 3 and send Charles and raini to fire. Then, a few hours before Tribal, Raini made a plea to Lauren about bringing her to the F3. Surprisingly, her plea worked and Lauren sent Charles and Brittney to firemaking. In which Charles beat her, putting even more guilt onto Lauren.

The Final Three rolled around with Charles, Raini and Lauren herself in contention to win. Knowing that Charles would most likely win, she struck a Final 2 deal with him in hopes that he’d take her. Despite the hook catching onto the fish, Lauren didn’t have much hope that he'd stick to his word. She ended up being right when Charles won Final Immunity and cut her to battle Raini in the end.