Adam Levine

***Adam*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Brazil. He returned for Essential Survivor: All-Stars.

## Brazil

As a Host Favorite, I had really high hopes for Adam during this season. And despite not going all the way, I was still satisfied with Adam’s performance in Brazil. Now, let’s talk about it.

As only minutes went by since the marooning, Adam was brought into a majority alliance with Kim, Brandon, Jerry and Tae. And he also made a mini-alliance with Brandon and Tae himself. While Adam was the oldest in the cast, he had definitely played a good social game in the pre-merge as he kept thigh relations with people outside the majority alliance such as Winter and Lucifer, Lucifer even went as far as to tell Adam about the idol he had possessed. The only real flaw in Adam’s pre-merge game was that he came off as a huge physical threat in the beginning of the season during the second challenge. This perception followed him through the whole season. But his game during the pre-merge was solid nonetheless, acting as a loyal ally and a shoulder to cry for outsiders of the majority alliance did him well.

Come the merge, Adam’s game went down a tool not because of him, but merely his perception. So not only was Adam coming off as a physical threat to some, he also came off as the leader of the Samba tribe, which led him to being targeted for the merged vote. Luckily, Milo skilled the beans to Kim who played her idol for Adam, negating 5 votes in the process. By the upcoming vote, while Adam wasn’t a prime target he still received a vote from Lucifer in case of another crazy item play. But even after that, Adam received three votes at the F10 Tribal Council. Looking back, it’s impressive how calm and collected he was during this phase, but that’s besides the point. As they reached closer and closer to the Final 6, it became apparent to everyone that Adam and Brandon were the front runners for the win. So when Adam realized it, he had thought he could hold it off until Final Five or Four. But Brandon was thinking ahead, concocting a blindside for Adam which got him voted out 4-1-1.

## All-Stars

Yes, I like Adam. Yes, he was my Host Favorite. But no, I do not have extreme bias for Adam. While his game wasn’t as impressive as his showing in Brazil, it’s fair to say that he was a great addition to the cast, and his boot fueled what became the single handedly best string of events Essential Survivor has ever seen.

On the OG Andaman tribe, Adam was reunited with former ally, Kim. And former adversaries Paul and Payton. Regardless of their previous showing, they vowed to all work together for the time being. And for some odd reason, they were never targeted either. With affiliates on the side such as Theodore and Gabe, whenever Brazil would get targeted, they’d have backup. Which is exactly what happened on the first vote where Calvin had thrown out Adam’s name, both parties made majority alliances in hope of taking out the other. Obviously, Adam’s side reigned supreme, and Calvin was first boot.

In the upcoming challenges, Adam knew that he was perceived to be a huge challenge threat in his previous season, so he planned to not give it his all in the challenges. Unfortunately, Andaman still lost the challenge and due to his below average social positioning, the target seemed to be Enrique. Until the Theo fiasco happened and everyone in the majority, including Adam flipped on him. But at the next Tribal, as simple as it is, the result sure was chaotic. After losing another challenge after Theo's elimination, it was clear that Enrique and Jay were on the bottom of the tribe. And after a long discussion, the majority decided that it’d be best to take out Jya as he’d be more likely to flip come a swap, much to Adam’s enjoyment. But Jay somehow caught wind of his eventual demise and began to call everyone out at camp about it. Specifically Adam and Kim, about how they were a duo and nobody was doing anything about it. At first, it seemed like no one was too affected about the blowup, until Jay made vulgar comments about the two, setting Adam OFF. Needless to say, even Enrique was in on the plan as Jay was voted out 7-1.

Now, we’re at the long-awaited swap… and things were bad. Adam was swapped with Payton back to their original tribe, with 6 OG Nicobar members. But all hope wasn’t lost, as much as he’d LOVE to take out Payton, Brandon (along with Jayden) threw out a bone to the Andaman once the challenge was lost. The newly made foursome had wanted to take out Josiah in a split 4-3-1 vote. But as time went on, the target switched multiple times before finally landing on Jacob. At Tribal Council, they realized the split plan didn't work as Jacob played his Extra Vote advantage, taking out Payton in a 5-4 vote. But thankfully, that was the only post-swap Tribal Council Adam went to, resulting in no further updates.

At the merge, Adam reunited with (most) of the OG Andaman majority alliance. In hopes of forgiveness, they added Enriqiue in the mix. When Tyler won immunity, the majority alliance’s target was Josiah, but then it changed to Zach as they realized Josiah was too obvious of a target. But they still knew that only 5 of them wouldn’t cut it. So they added both Ben and Brandon. Brandon stayed loyal, while Ben unceremoniously flipped on them, causing the vote to be 7-6. Which turned into 8-5 as Gabe stole Kim's vote. And who was the lucky person that received 8 votes? Adam.