Matthew

**Matthew** is (somehow) the Sole Survivor of *Season 8*. He later competed on *Season 10*.

He is most known for being incredibly likeable and spending the entirety of final tribal council spreading positivity, culminating in him winning *Season 8* and being one of the most beloved CPORG contestants.

Returning in *Legends*, Matthew struggled to find his footing early in the game, although immunity wins and bigger available targets shielded him into the merge. Soon after, Matthew found himself reliant on his alliance with Rogi to take him deep. Once his ally lost power, however, Matthew fell to the majority alliance, leaving in 5th after an advantage play by John Cody.

## Season 8: The Elements

Matthew begun the game by being placed on the ice tribe, Pakari, who were categorized by being logical thinkers with the ability to play ice-cold strategic games, however it became quickly evident that this was not Matthew's play style in the slightest.

Very quickly he became a pleasure to be around, resulting in him being saved by McCloud and Louise at his first tribal council he visited, even though fellow puffle Napster was gunning for him.

This trend continued once the merge hit, as at the next tribal council, Maple was next to try oust Matthew, only for Matthew to be spared once again.

Throughout this time, Matthew continued to try his hardest in every immunity challenge, but was unfortunately coming up dead last in every one, despite his best efforts. Eventually, the puffle numbers had dwindled down, and at the final five just him and Pom Pom remained. Due to Pom Pom's antagonistic gameplay and Matthew's much more wholesome nature, Matthew was spared once more, but not without the nervousness of being put into a re-vote against Pom Pom, after a vote split was done in case Pom Pom had a second idol.

With three penguins and just himself left as the last puffle, Matthew was able to pull out a clutch immunity win in the final immunity challenge, due to Jay deliberately sacrificing his own lead in the challenge, allowing Matthew who was in second place to catch up, and when Louise answered the final trivia question wrong, it was enough for Matthew to win the final immunity. Despite this, he still voted incorrectly once more, a trend that had occurred at every previous tribal Matthew attended.

This was called into question at the final tribal council, mainly by AT, who claimed that Matthew was forgettable and weak. Matthew didn't let this get to him, stating in his jury speech that he was proud to have made it to the end, even if he had no clue how he was doing it and was still unsure how he hadn't gone home yet, also stating that despite always voting the wrong person, he, and everyone else, should be proud of themselves for being good friends.

This heartfelt and wholesome response to the jury warmed their hearts, and was enough to secure him three of the four jury votes, crowning him the Sole Survivor and winner of *Season 8*.

### Jury Speech and Responses to Questioning

*Due to the iconic nature of Matthew's final tribal council performance, his opening speech and subsequent responses to jury questions are being archived here. Due to Matthew being a fictitious puffle character, his speech was created through predictive text on iPhone.*

**Opening Speech:** I'm so proud to say I have no clue how I am doing it this week because I'm not going home yet I don't know why but I'm so sorry to say I didn't know that you were just wondering if I could have you had to do that it was meant to be the way I was voted for the wrong person but you have a no one who has been to the wrong place for a while and you should be proud to have a better person and then I would have been a better friend than that.

**Matthew @ Jay:** Is the best song of all time I just wanted to make you feel better and then I'll just let it be my first thing.

**Matthew @ McCloud:** is the one who has the best song of all time but the most important is that it has to do a lot more like that.

**Matthew when asked to 'tear each others' games apart' by Jay, @ AT:** AT and a daddy and I have no clue who I was voted wrong with my brother but I was voted for him a little bit more of the same as him.

**Similarly, @ Louise:** Louise are a great man who has a lot to say he has no clue how about the game he is a man of a tribe that has a good idea.

## Season 10: Legends

Beginning the game on Charlacaña, Matthew appeared to be on the outs of the tribe initially. However, Matthew would escape elimination via Charlacaña's immunity streak pre-swap. Gradually, his likability began to win over Josephine, although AJ was still firmly against the brown puffle, wary about letting a former winner get far. Come the swap, Matthew's luck soured when Charlacaña lost their first immunity challenge. Oblivious to AJ's true intentions, he cast his vote for Louise at Tribal Council, due to the fact that they were against each other for most of their previous season. Matthew was astounded to see his name come up, and even more stunned when AJ was voted out in his stead.

Louise would confront Matthew after Tribal Council, being upset about having her name written down. This would only alienate Matthew further from her, as he strongly disliked confrontation in general. Matthew would be put into the star role in the following immunity challenge, only to blow it massively, costing his tribe the win. This caused Jon to blow up on the brown puffle, who correctly stated that a sack of bricks could have moved faster in the challenge. Matthew refused to let Jon dampen his spirits, however, and sensing that he would be a target that night, he put his determination towards finding the hidden immunity idol. This proved to be impossible, as Jon had already found the idol himself (unbeknownst to Matthew obviously), so Matthew would return empty-handed. Once again, Matthew voted for Louise, believing that he would be voted out that night regardless. To his surprise, it was Jon who was blindsided that night, with Josephine having convinced Louise to flip her vote after feeling that Jon had grown arrogant.

While thankful to still be in the game, Matthew was getting fed up with being left out of the loop strategically. Though it appeared that Matthew would finally have an opportunity to vote out Louise, as he finally held the numbers on Charlacaña, a sudden merge would quickly land Matthew in the minority again. With Matthew finding himself near the bottom of the tribe with the remaining winners, Josephine began to distance herself from him, leaving Matthew absolutely heartbroken. Failing to win immunity, and having no clear directive on where to vote, he would end up voting for Josephine due to her betrayal of his trust. Ms. Plum was voted out that night; fearing that the former winners would be eliminated in succession, Rogi approached Matthew with a Final Three deal with fellow puffle Shapeshift, to which Matthew readily agreed. With Rogi possessing an idol, the three debated who they would vote. Matthew suggested throwing their votes onto Louise under the guise of eliminating a former finalist, while in reality he just wanted to get the best of her once and for all. After Rogi correctly deduced that the votes were coming his way and played his idol accordingly, their three votes were all it took to finally eliminate Louise, marking the first time in his CPORG career that Matthew voted for the castaway who left that night.

Overjoyed to finally have leverage in the game, Matthew would follow Rogi's lead and set his sights on JC, who had alienated himself from the group. Unfortunately, JC and Kevin would manage to work Shapeshift away from Rogi's side in time for them to flip the vote, with Josephine being eliminated in a 3-2-1 blindside. Although upset, Matthew was just thankful that it had not been him or Rogi that was voted out. With Rogi finding yet another idol, it became vital for either him or Matthew to win immunity to ensure both of their survival. Unfortunately, Matthew was eliminated from the challenge early on after a big misplay, with Rogi soon following due to the majority's coordinated efforts. While Matthew still held out hope that Rogi would be able to correctly play their idol once again, John Cody chose to use his newly acquired Plaque of Perishing to block Matthew's vote, making a split vote against the duo viable. Rogi was forced to play his idol on himself to avoid elimination, and with Rogi's own vote for Kevin being negated as well, Matthew was finally voted out 2-0-0, placing fifth and becoming the fourth member of the jury.

As a juror, he would unsurprisingly vote for his ally Rogi, who would go on to win in a 3-2-1 vote.

## Trivia

* Matthew is the first winner to have never voted for person leaving at a single tribal council.
	+ He did this despite visiting every single tribal council aside from one.
* Matthew continued the trend of every puffle that won winning the final immunity challenge (with the exception of Ms. Plum, although her owner Jon won the final immunity challenge, thus effectively granting her immunity as he was always going to keep her).
* Matthew is the first puffle to have a jury speech.
	+ Due to puffles' inability to speak, this was achieved through randomized predictive iPhone text.
* He has a cute lil blue tongue like a lizard :3 and dapper lookin goggles 8)