Bethany Bergotti

**Bethany Bergotti** is the winner of Season One.

Bethany’s gameplay heavily revolved around manipulating her allies and eliminating them through many different methods. This strategy succeeded for her throughout most of the competition. Her most notable moves included her betrayal of Craig Samson and Marci Lynn Darcums, her rivalry with Jess Marloco and Jane Andrews, and her eventual victory over fellow finalist Erik Johan, garnering 5 victim-votes for her aggressive gameplay over Erik’s quiet strategy.

## Biography

Bethany was born in the big city of Houston, Texas. Growing up, she had very mean parents who spoiled her and turned her into a self-prescribed “spoiled princess”. After getting expelled from her original junior high school, she went on to graduate high school and become an accountant and adopted one baby girl, Janessa, in 2008.

Currently, she continues to live with her daughter Janessa and still with a job as an accountant.

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## Knife Game

### Season One

She started the game off aggressive, as she rallied up Craig Samson and Jane Andrews to create a 3-person alliance. Unbeknownst to her, however, Marci Lynn Darcums knew about the alliance she had created, which lead Marci to create another alliance to counter Bethany. This decision would prove irrelevant in the end, as Bethany wanted to make a big move. So after she got the knife at the second elimination, she blindsided her own ally Craig for being a threat for his kindness.

After Joshua Joseph’s elimination, she concocted a plan to blindside her ally. She told Josh to give the knife to Marci at elimination, which he went along with. Bethany then convinced Marci to go along with the plan to give the knife to Beth (after Marci would allegedly get the knife) to eliminate “one of the boys”. Marci ultimately fell for the plan, which lead to her early blindside. In episode 5, outsider Boby Prescott tried to ally with Bethany and both of her “enemies”, Jane and Jane’s close ally, Jess Marloco. This sudden strategic move inspired Bethany to tell Jess that Boby was playing both sides and wanted to blindside her. Jess believed Bethany, and when she got the knife at 5th elimination, she eliminated Boby.

After this in episode 6, Zach Cahlan, an outsider who had lost his allies, tried to pull the same dirty card that Boby pulled, by going against his ally Erik Johan to align with Jess, Jane, and Beth. And although Beth was planning to eliminate him, Erik beat her to it as he had noticed that Zach was talking to Beth. Erik then blindsided Zach. At the final four, the remaining contestants all made a pact to eliminate Bethany. However, since Zach believed that Beth would stay true to her alliance and take him to the end. As a result, he gave Bethany the knife, which lead her to eliminate Jane for being the biggest threat to Bethany. At the final three, both Erik and Jess tried to get Beth to eliminate the other. And although Jane have the knife to Jess, Jess thought Beth was on her side and gave the knife to her. Bethany thought Erik would be easier than Jess, which lead her to blindside Jess.

At the finale, Bethany got 5 of the 8 victim votes because of her aggressively strategic gameplay and her manipulation skills over Erik’s under-the-radar gameplay. She then eliminated Erik with the final knife and won the first season.

## Trivia

* She is the first winner in the history of the Knife Game.
* She received the most knives in Season One, with 4.