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**Shaun** is a contestant from **MintORGs Season 2: Mushroom Kingdom**.

Summary of Shaun's game coming soon!

## Profile

**Age:** 16

**Hometown:** Berkeley, CA

**Current Residence:** Berkeley, CA

**Occupation:** Student

**Favorite Hobbies:** Piano, Running, Gaming, ORGs

**3 Words to Describe You:** Curious, Thoughtful, Logical

**Pet Peeve(s):** Small children

**What is the accomplishment you are most proud of?** Memorizing 225 digits of pi and winning my school’s pi contest and earning a rubber chicken as a reward

**What's a fun fact about you?** I have four cats!

**If you could take only three items with you on a season of Survivor, what would they be and why?** Chess set for entertainment, ukelele for fun music, and one of my cats for snuggles

**If you could travel anywhere, where would you go and why?** If we assume the weather is covered going to Antarctica would be awesome

**Why do you believe you can be the Sole Survivor?** I'm a huge fan of the show and I feel I’ve learned a lot about strategy, I also think I'm just the right balance of threat and non-threat to make the end with a good chance to win.

## Survivor

**Episode 1**

Shaun started awkwardly with Lukas and feels that Lukas might be underestimating him. He feels that his tribe is dry and he currently wants to work with Sbeve the most. He noted Sbeve as someone he is close to, but also to watch out because Sbeve might be close to others as well. He voiced out concerns about not being able to bond well with certain tribemates as he finds it difficult to respond to one word answers. He wants to form alliances with Chelsea, Evan and Lukas, thinking Ellie and Austria are on the chopping block. He also threw out an idea of wanting to form an idol-hunt trio alliance. Shaun got to work quickly and found the Shy Guy idol after some puzzle solving! Shaun noted Chelsea being her no.2 behind Sbeve, stating Ila and Connor are boring, and Austria and Nub giving him nothing. He is fine with either Austria or Nub going. He found himself in the trio alliance of Evan-Sbeve-him and was approached by Chelsea to form an alliance of Chelsea-him-Lukas which he finds cool with. He is going with the flow and will be voting Nub out.

Sbeve gets great vibes from Shaun, but notes that Shaun is a standout and a potential threat.

**Episode 2**

Shaun noted that he doesn't trust Ila or Evan. He doesn't want to see Chelsea go, and noted that she overplayed the first round. He wants to strategise a possible outcome of having Chelsea and Evan both going on the summit so that Austria is an easy vote for the potential tribal. He shared a lengthy VC with Ellie, noted that he threw Chelsea and Sbeve under the bus and revealed his idol. Ellie revealed to him about Connor wanting an alliance of Connor-Ellie-Sbeve-Lukas and he wants to see if Sbeve will reveal to him this, just to see where Sbeve stands. Even though Mario lost the challenge, he believed that Austria and Ellie flopped way harder than him in the duel so he isn't worried about his challenge performance. As Shaun was chosen for the summit, he is safe from Mario's tribal council. Like the rest, he feels that the summit is an opportunity for him to gain allies, even better, an escape away from the Evan-Chelsea shenanigans. He feels very close to Ellie, Chelsea and Sbeve and bonded with Kelly the most out of the Luigi tribe. He hopes to get the extra vote but Kelly ends up getting it.

Lukas wants to align with Shaun.

**Episode 3**

Shaun was told by Ellie that Connor thinks he and Chelsea are a pair, to which he noted that he cannot trust Connor. He states he doesn't want to deal with the tribe besides Ellie, noting him and Evan as masterminds of the tribe. He chose to boot Connor and ultimately was happy with the end result. He also hopes a swap will be happening.

Shaun was noted to be kind of a crucial vote between Evan and Connor, and he chose to vote Connor, drawing the lines in the sand and establishing the 5-3 vote.

**Episode 4**

Shaun shared that he trusts Ellie the most, with Chelsea not far behind as he noted that she has no one to rely on but him. He also noted Sbeve trying to play very hard in the middle and Ila not showing her cards which makes him distrust them. Shaun also has been calculating all sorts of possibilities and probabilities on swap, mathematically as well...

He is noted by Sbeve to be in the best position at the moment. Evan wants to tell Shaun that Sbeve allegedly has the Shy Guy idol but Shaun has the idol instead.

**Episode 5**

Shaun didn't have the best episode, with things he said or spilled eventually coming back to haunt him. He also slipped up the Lukas vote to Chelsea despite promising Ellie not to, which caused a chain reaction that made Lukas have a blow-up in tribal, ultimately also causing a negative effect on his own game. With him getting targeted by Lukas, he chose not to play his idol with trust on his allies which worked. However, trust has also been damaged to an extent after his leaks were discovered. Will he be able to repair them? Or will the ghosts of his past haunt him?

Lukas decided to target Shaun, by revealing that Shaun leaked to Lukas about the alliance between Shaun, Sbeve and Evan in an attempt to save himself. This led to Sbeve and Ellie to start doubting Evan, but nonetheless, Lukas was still voted out.

**Episode 6**

Shaun felt horrible last episode, and felt that he had lost trust with Evan, Sbeve &Ellie. He mend things up with Chelsea and hoped to target and split up the possible Evan-Ila pair. Shaun received the hint that this season's FTC is a F3. Other than that not much else in the auction. He initially schemed with Ellie to get rid of Corn Corn and felt strong about the summit alliance. However, Evan leaked to him info from Jiv that the pagong was still happening which then led him to throw out and push an Alex vote in hopes of keeping the Mario's alive. Coincidentally, even when Alex didn't get the most votes, he struck out and got what he wanted.

Ellie called Shaun a "dumbass", that he doesn't think before he speaks or does something. This made them feel cautious when approaching Shaun with information, but they also noted that it would be easy to throw him under the bus.

**Episode 7**

Shaun didn't really update his confessionals much this round. However, the focus was on Ellie and Evan on the Mario side, with him fully pushing for a Kelly vote which didn't come to fruition. Furthermore he wasted his idol on Evan despite Ellie telling him not to...

It was later noted post-game that the decision to waste the idol is to reduce his threat level (since the idol is public), and also regain trust with Evan (after the mess in Mario tribe), which proved to have worked well.

**Episode 8**

Shaun was part of the newly formed 6 person alliance, with Evan, Sbeve, Corn Corn, Jax and Jiv. This is an alliance built with a target on Sully and Kelly. In the end, they were able to pull off a blindside on Sully.

Chelsea called Shaun an "idiot" for wasting his idol last episode. Sbeve shared similar ideas with Chelsea, believing that Shaun wasted an idol on an untrustworthy ally. Kelly apparently got into a conversation face to face with Shaun and dunked on him, and even led a split vote between him and Evan. However, the alliance of 6 formed caused Kelly's ally - Sully, to be blindsided instead.

**Episode 9**

In this de-merge phase, Shaun was drafted into the West Luma team. Shaun is playing a very multi-sided game, seemingly going wherever benefits him the most. This time, he wanted Chelsea to stay, and saw an opportunity to possibly take out a threat in Jiv or Jax, so he jumped at the opportunity and formed an alliance between himself, Chelsea and Xander. The trio came up with several plans, including faking a rivalry between Chelsea and Shaun, and more. In the end, they were able to pull off a major blindside on an idol holder in Jax, whom no one besides himself knew had an idol prior to his exit. He seemingly achieved his goal of forming an ally in Xander, as well as getting close to Chelsea, his ideal FTC compatriot.

This was a pretty flashy round for Chelsea and Shaun where they worked together to "gatekeep", "gaslight" and "blindside" Jax and Jiv.

**Episode 10**

This episode sees a new alliance "Jinx-jinx-jinx" formed, where Shaun is a part of the quartet. Shaun played immensely well this round. To put it short, after last vote, he managed to not completely severe trust which had the former Mario's (Sbeve) still thinking or intending to have him vote with them at this vote. He was noted to have done some insane double-agent playing to which both sides believed they had his vote with them. Ultimately, he followed through with the "jinx" alliance as he intends to stick with it long, plus he trusts the group, so why not? After this vote, he established a strong relationship with Kelly and Xander, and an extremely strong relationship with Chelsea. Things are going better and better every round for Shaun.

Sbeve is targeting Chelsea and believes that he needs to convince Shaun to do so. Unfortunately, Shaun was already aligned with the jinx-jinx-jinx quartet, and this information he received proved to be the key weapon for Xander to play his idol correctly, sending Sbeve home instead.

**Episode 11**

Shaun feels he is guaranteed a final 4 lest an idol play or extra vote. He feels that Evan has been an "extra vote" for Jiv all-season and would be willing to cut him here. Despite Evan pleasing his case in his dms, Shaun felt that he has his own path mapped out and his game perspectives differed from how Evan viewed the game. He is aware of a potential "bitter juror" situation and plans to only explain certain moves in a "revelation" style if he does make FTC, including the whole scheme and story they acted out in TC last round.

Chelsea views Shaun as her closest ally, knowing her in-game reputation and her unlikelihood of winning, she decides to help Shaun win this game... Evan thought of targeting Shaun, but this idea was shut down quickly by Jiv as a "dumb move".

**Episode 12**

Shaun laid out his plans to stick with the "jinx" group until Jiv is gone, and then proceed to target Kelly before FTC as he views her as an FTC threat. He wanted to vote Jiv out of the game, but Xander brought up a possible split vote due to paranoia of Jiv possibly having an idol, which in turn led him to be paranoid about Xander possibly wanting to "3-2-1" him instead. He wants to sit with Xander and Chelsea at the end. He felt that Jiv is playing mind games with Xander to which Xander is eating all that up. He correctly clocked Jiv's intentions and was still suspicious that Xander may flip. However, Kelly managed to convince Xander to vote together in the end, ending Jiv here. After surviving this episode, Shaun had officially made it to the finale!

Chelsea again mentions that she is willing to sacrifice her game for Shaun...

**Finale**

Final 5

Shaun is super excited to have made it so far into the game. He had a VC with Chelsea and an idea he thought of - booting Kelly at F5, was discussed. He also mentioned that he stopped Chelsea from giving him her immunity last round, as not only would it have exposed their "closeness" with each other, she would have also been at risk. At this point, he notes that the both of them are ride or dies and he will definitely take her into FTC with him.Shaun thinks that if he makes it into F4, he will be the best positioned player with the second highest threat level, but worries about a potential blindside by Kelly and Xander. As much as he wants to cut Kelly here, he feels like he cant trust Corn Corn and or Xander enough to get them to flip on Kelly and hence stuck with what was originally thought out, to vote out Corn Corn.

Kelly noted that Shaun told her about his locked chest information from the auction, which revealed to be a 3 person final tribal council. Xander mentions the need to get rid of both Shaun and Kelly before the final tribal council, but is unsure if he has the heart and or will to do so...

Final 4

Shaun was gutted that he didn't win the final individual immunity challenge, to which he feels that he might be in danger and might have to go to fire-making. He aims to target Kelly and believed that he has a shot at winning against Xander and Chelsea. He was approached by Kelly and told her the truth about his vote, to which Kelly respects this decision. However, Chelsea in-turn handed him the immunity, sending him straight to FTC. He feels relieved and is hoping that Chelsea will pull through. As much as he loved the friendship between himself and Kelly, he made it known that he puts game first, and feels at peace to have been able to come through with Kelly. He feels that he actually can win this season if Chelsea pulls through the fire-making challenge and hopes that he will be able to sell his case well at FTC.

Final Tribal Council

Shaun came in guns blazing as he was able to put forth a strong point in his gameplay, and was relatively unfazed against some of the tougher questions. In the end, a tight race between Shaun and Xander ended with Shaun edging his competitor out by 1 jury vote in a 5-4 count. With that, Shaun claims victory in the Mushroom Kingdom and becomes the 2nd winner of MintOrgs.

## Gallery

Shaun's Cast Card shown in the Season 2: Mushroom Kingdom cast reveal.

## Trivia

* Aged 16 at the time of winning Season 2, Shaun is the youngest winner of MintORGs.