Derz

**Days Lasted:** | 33

**Derz** was a player in Mythvivor: Babylon.

## Babylon

Derz started Mythvivor: Babylon on the Shamash tribe. There, his tribe won the first few challenges. They did not attend tribal council until "Sashay Towards a Gas Powered Grill," when they unanimously voted out Pizza.

He then swapped onto the Tigris tribe with Alex and Jordanne from his formmer Shamash tribe, Becca and Joe from the former Adad tribe and Dan and Henry from the former Tiamat tribe. When Dan and Henry were targeting each other at the start of the swap, Derz was wary of Henry for being chaotic. However, when push came to shove, he voted Dan out with the rest of his tribe.

In "#messy," Derz swapped on to the Ninhurag tribe. After losing the Head 2 Head Puzzles challenge, Derz planned on voting Henry out with the tribe's majority. However, his tribemate, Zack, had other plans. Zack attempted to target Derz's ally Alex for being a big threat. As a result, Alex, Derz, Becca, and Ben voted out Zack instead.

During this tribal council, Derz had the opportunity to visit Mount Nisir. He reunited with Joe where they had the opportunity to choose the structure of the final 4 round. While Derz had his eye on choosing the "Marquesas-style rock draw in the case of a tie" option, Joe pushed hard for the choice to be forced fire-making. A frustrated Derz decided that he would leak this and hold it against Joe.

Once the tribes merged, Derz voted out Physh with the majority of the tribe. However, he soon found himself seen as the easy vote among his tribemates. Thankfully, Ben chose to play his immunity idol on Derz. The two of them idoled Joe out of the game, allowing for Derz to get his revenge from their Mount Nisir trip.

This shook up the tribe and many chose to target Derz's new ally, Ben. While Derz knew Ben had little chance of survival, he still voted with him against Henry.

Derz would get a chance to vote out Henry again in "Not Clickbait." Derz, Alex, Jordanne, and Beccca all voted for Henry. Koopa, Tara, Henry, and Niki voted for Alex. While Derz was prepared to go to rocks, he did not have to since Koopa flipped on the revote.

Koopa had attempted to convince Derz he was not a big threat, with no success. However, when the entire tribe was voting Koopa, Derz threw his vote on Tara as he was still concerned about immunity idols in the game.

This concern about immunity idols was proven warranted at the next tribal council. While Derz saw Tara as a big threat and attempted to vote her out with Alex and Becca, Tara played an immunity idol on herself and voted for Derz with Niki and Jordanne. This left Derz idoled out of the game.

### Jay's Thoughts

Aside from giving one of the most memorable exit interviews of all time where his wifi just randomly cut off, Derz was a very memorable player this season. Derz’s game was a bit of a roller coaster, there were some thrilling highs and lows, but in the end Derz came in at 7th on this list for playing an overall solid game. He had a pretty easy pre-merge with boots of Pizza, Dan and Zack, but post merge is where we’d see the epic ups and downs of his game. After being a part of the majority for the Physh vote, Derz was certain to be the next boot when the vast majority of the remaining players at the final 10 agreed he’d be an easy boot since he wasn’t super close with any of the players outside of Ben. Fortunately for Derz, Ben had an immunity idol and wanted to save his friend while also making a big move on Joe. In a 2-0 vote with eight votes against him negated, Derz had new life in the game. Unfortunately, he would lose his number one ally, Ben because nobody trusted him after the idol play. Derz was able to get his way the next two tribals, as Koopa flipped to his side to eliminate Henry on the revote and he’d eliminate Koopa the very next tribal. Derz took advantage of his new life in the game as he formed strong bonds with Becca and Alex, but it was too little too late as he was idoled out at final 6 by Tara’s first idol. It was a fitting end for Derz, as he lived by the idol and died by it as well.

### Voting History

1 Ben played an immunity idol on Derz, negating all votes against Derz.

2 A 4-4 tie occurred between Alex and Henry. Derz kept his vote the same against Henry on the revote.

3 Tara played an immunity idol on herself, negating all votes against her.

## Trivia

* Derz was the first player in Mythvivor history to be idoled out after being successfully idoled in the same season.
* Derz was the last player to visit Mount Nisir for the first time in Mythvivor: Babylon.