Niles

* Saturn
* Saturn Punishment

## Survivor Career

**Niles** played on Survivor: The Rings of Saturn, where he placed 6th and was the sixth member of the jury. He was voted Funniest Player. He is a member of the 6th Place Gang.

## Profile

**Tell us as much or as little as you want about yourself**

* **name:** Niles, though some call me Miles for no particular reason
* **age:** 20
* **gender:** Male (he/him/his)
* **location:** United States
* **time zone:** EST, but with the sleep schedule of Alaskan time, except as summer courses demand otherwise, unless I get that habit under control
* **occupation:** Information Systems Student
* **most used GIF or emoji:** I don't use too many gifs, but my most used emojis are the boring but practical ones, such as: 😂, ❤️, 👍, 💀, 😈...

**Have you played any orgs before? If yes, how many and what did you play most recently? Are you playing any others at the same time as this one?**

Yes I have! My first ORG was RORG S11, Survivor: Arenal, where I royally sucked. My tribe's inability to lose an immunity challenge got me to merge with next to no effort, but after picking everyone off, I got the axe for horrendously overplaying, which included publicly claiming the legacy advantage, which I publicly gave out randomly, attempting to find the number of ways to make groups of three out of a group of five via alliance chats, and on my boot episode, the most blatant touchy subjects throw ever.

Personally, I'd like to think I've learned from this experience, but my placements indicate otherwise. Two of my next three seasons saw me finish fifth with a good shot at a win, and while I'm pretty happy with the former game (somehow being both a leader and playing the middle), if we're playing by the strike one season rule, I'd strike the latter because it was the worst season I've ever played - riddled with inactives, questionable hosting decisions, and to add insult to injury, double idoled out at 5 and juror removal. Somewhere in that time, I also gave up immunity to try to force rocks, which was fun.

Nest up was MiDORGs - it was fine, I got 8th, still not sure if my overplaying that round got me out, or if Leia's shot on me goes through anyway, not much more to add.

Following that, we have my worst streak in all my ORGing, where, in no particular order, I got my first premerge placement after leaking a video confessional, bungling social connections, and letting the meta get to my head; two double digit placements in the same series - one because I thought ghosting half the cast so I wouldn't have my hand in too many pies was a good strategy, and the other time was more circumstantial, but I managed it poorly anyway; and in another series, I went early merge, somehow got asked back as a favorite, and proved I'd fit better on the flops by playing incredibly sloppily and landing myself as the merge boot. In that spam of five seasons, I got single digits once - 9th place. Not my finest times and I took a nice break after that.

If it's any consolation, however, I came off that rocky streak with my first (and only) win! Admittedly, it was one of the easier seasons to win, thanks to a less invested cast and all the advantages landing on my side, but I honestly played pretty well (voting right all but one vote, calling a few shots, winning key immunities), and if nothing else, a win's a win, so 🥳.

Follow that up with a solidly meh performance on DisnORGs, which cemented third post-merge boot as my placement curse, and we reach my second best placement. After a dominant premerge, real life circumstances prevented me from giving my best at the merge, and after my closest ally got the boot, I got stuck in the minority perpetually, and to make things worse, picked up a label as goat. However, this label worked in my favor, as I survived to the point of everyone turning on each other, almost comped out, and got taken to the end because the final three was stacked. While I did lose, a close 5-4 is nothing to sneeze at when just a few rounds prior, I was drawing dead.

Anyways, my most recent ORG saw me as the final premerger, but it's still at the final five, so I'll decline further comments.

Most likely, I will not be playing other ORGs during the course of this season. However, I do have a friend borderline on being able to fill a cast, so if that doesn't work out for him, I might end up playing as a favor to him, but it'd be a low maintenance season anyway, so I'd still be at my best here.

**Give us your most unpopular Survivor opinion**

Didn't care for Koah Rong. It's been a while since I've watched, the villains and three medivacs really took a lot out of it. At least the final four was awesome.

**What is your coolest party trick? Any unusual talents?**

I can recite the Spongebob episode *Gary Takes a Bath* from memory, mostly. ~~Yeah, I don't go to parties~~

**What is your favorite piece of sci-fi or space-related media?**

Super Mario Galaxy takes this title by a good margin. It's a treat to the eyes and ears, and while not particularly challenging, it's fun to play through and has a lot to do.

**What have you been doing to stay busy during the quarantine? What can you not wait to do again?**

Lots of Mario Party. The downside? I miss grocery shopping and eating out. (wow, I expected to have more to say)

**Do you watch the Olympics? If so what is your favorite sport to watch? What's the lamest to watch?**

No I do not, but if I did, I'd probably watch winter sports like downhill skiing and ice hockey, whereas stuff like shot put wouldn't interest me. Table tennis would also be fun.

**If you were asked to give a presentation on something random that you are an expert in, what would you talk about?**

Assuming there wasn't a big turnaround, to where I could cater my presentation to the audience better, I feel like discussing roller coasters would be a safe bet. Personally, I've ridden over 100 and know a fair bit about those I've ridden, and many I haven't, to where I could fill out whatever time slot I was allotted with little effort, and probably know more than the majority of the audience. For example, did you know that both roller coasters in this picture were made by the same manufacturer (Intamin)?

**Of the three tenets of Survivor, which one do you think you’re the best at: Outwitting, Outplaying, or Outlasting?**

Personally, I consider my overall Survivor skill set to be comparable to Mario in multiplayer games - good in all categories, but nothing great. For example, while I'm good enough in challenges to be an asset in the premerge (Middle Earth notwithstanding), I can't comp out, especially if endurance comes up.

With that said, I think I lean towards an outwit type, as, while it's rare I can execute on it well, I can usually read when something fishy's up, and the like. While far from perfect, I have good game sense, and can usually determine whose best interests involve me or not, and the like. I just need to not get ahead of myself.

**How is that going to help you win Survivor: Rings of Saturn?**

Therefore, I intend to capitalize on my overall abilities to make myself desirable in the early game, and hopefully have an easy ride to the merge. From experience, if I get in dicey territory in the premerge, I can't recover, on account of needing to enlarge my target to get out of it, so not gonna let that happen. My ideal position is second in command to someone who will vouch for me on jury, so top priority is clicking with someone I expect to go big. Help them out enough to look good, and once they go out (try to make this as late as possible without getting the goat label), go into survival mode and just make sure to look as good as possible. While this will likely go out the window, in part or in whole, this path seems to be my best shot at a win.

## Stats

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