Kristin Yeg

***Kristin*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites and the Runner-Up of Essential Survivor: Peru. She later returned for Essential Survivor: All Stars 2

## Fans Vs. Favorites

Kristin began on Kahu, immediately linking up with friends, Kip and Cole. Forming the iconic YEG trio. Having played with them before, her goal was to lay back and let the guys take control. With this plan in motion, Kristin was able to create strong social bonds that allowed her to maneuver through a web of alliances that YEG created. After a swift Oscar boot, Kahu was met with a date at TC a few challenge wins later. Kristin wanted to take a shot at the Matt/Jaylen/Karm trio as they could possibly rival YEG in the future, but she went with the easy route in voting out Oma instead. This led to Kristin attempting to build a strong bond with Despair to gain a number against the trio.

After some relatively invisible episodes, Kristin has reached the merge phase of the game, and YEG was sitting pretty. They still held the majority with the fans and Cole had an idol and Kristin had an EV (Extra Vote). Kristin began to cultivate an alliance with Matthew. Even wanting to work him into the YEG trio. But she knew how good he was at this game and held off.

During the first few days of merge, Kristin began to think long-term. Trying to think of ways to differentiate her game from YEG. This is when Cole came up with voting out Matt without Kip’s knowledge. But due to the newfound trust she had with him, Kristin was extremely hesitant.

After Cole won immunity, worry was installed into Kristin. None of her alliances were actively talking about the vote. But she was still able to vote in the majority by flipping on Karmynn. But the worry didn’t cease after Tribal Council, word was starting to get around (from Mark) about YEG being a thing. But they weren’t targeted for it (yet), Kahu + John and Brittney decided on a Bradley vote. And while they successfully got out the Favorite, YEG didn’t come out of that Tribal looking good as Tae blew them up.

For the first time in this game, YEG was in no such control. With Ahi knowing everything, they knew it’d be extremely hard to get out of this situation. They tried to lead a charge onto Tae but the entire tribe went behind their backs to split the vote between Cole and Kip. But due to a misread, Cole played his idol on Kristin, while Kip was ultimately sent home 5-3-3.

Despite voting for Tae the previous rond, Kristin gained some useful insight from him. Some of it being that John has the idol (he did) but Kristin figured it may have been a deflection on Tae’s part. After feeling alone in this game, Kristin came to the conclusion that she wanted to work with Matt, John and Brittney (and ofc Cole). During the demerge, she was put on a tribe with Despair, John, Tae and Jaylen. Right off the bat, Despair, John and Kristin made an alliance. The plan was to send home Tae, but due to a little behind-the-scenes work from Despair, Jaylen was sent home in a 3-2-1 (Kristin’s EV was used).

With Cole and Jaylen gone in the double, Kristin was truly on her one. She migrated to the group of Matt, John and Brittney. But all the while, Mark and Despair were trying to get Kristin to flip and vote out John. And despite Matthew not trusting John much himself, they came to the agreement to stick with what they got, and vote out Tae. Krstin soon clued in John, resulting in him using his Vote Steal on Mark to take out Tae.

Coming into Final 7, Kristin’s game relationship with Matthew only got stronger, they both wanted to take the other to the end. Not much happened this round besides a little paranoia from Kristin, but all was well as Despair was cut loose. Next round, Matthew and Krstin came up with a plan to get out John or Mark and flush any idols they may have in the process. This worked, as Kristin was able to flush out John’s idol by making him paranoid while successfully backstabbing Mark in the process.

With Kristin gaining easy access to the Final Four by winning immunity, she was able to chillax for a down and gather her thoughts about the game. She still wanted to go to the end with Matt, but also wanted to break up the John/Britt duo. But Aria was too stubborn to let go of her vote against Matt, so she went home instead 3-1-1. At F4, Kristin won immunity, but this wasn’t a regular vote. She was in the notorious F4 Firemaking situation where she could bring someone to the finals, and let the others duke it out. She ended up bringing Matthew, much to the Jury’s dismay. John lost firemaking (again), which meant the Final 3 was Kristin, Matthew and Brittney.

At Final Tribal Council, Kristin walked away with 1 vote from Cole to win. Ending up in 3rd Place.