Jayden Triamph

***Jayden*** was the Runner-Up of Essential Survivor: Saint Martin. He later competed on Essential Survivor: All-Stars.

## Saint Martin

Never have I seen gameplay like this from someone before. Whether he was in the minority or the majority, the Saint Martin beaches were surely blessed with Jayden’s presence because he really was the reason Season One is Season One… but let’s talk about it.

On the Gonzalo tribe, Jayden immediately began his game with a few beginning bluffs. One of them being that he likes Fortnite to get in with the group. Well, luckily it brought him into an alliance made by Beth. This became one of his primary sources for information pre-swap. He also buddied up with Shai during this, gaining his trust. By his first Tribal Council, he was included in two alliances with two main targets. But he went with the tribe consensus, voting out the anti-social Beth with no blood on his hands.

Now we’ve hit the pre-swap portion of the game and this is also where Jayden’s gameplay really begins to take a huge toll on everyone.

Despite having a clear majority over the three OG Irma on the New Irma tribe, Jayden immediately ran wild, akin to Tony of S34 of Survivor. He immediately began to talk to OG Irma about their place in the game and about how Shai was planning to throw the challenges to take down OG irma, which was true… but lowered OG Gonzalo’s trust with Jayden, due to it coming back around. Aria and Lindsay called it as bulls\*t and considered throwing Jayden under the bus, which Will informed Jayden with ASAP. Both OG Irma females have said multiple times that they don’t trust Jayden to begin with.

He began to even play with his own allies, telling Kiibo that Will wanted to target him. What’s funny is how Jayden himself recognizes his overplaying.

At this moment, Lindsay makes an alliance with Kiibo and Shai, intending on playing both sides. Well that info went from Shai to Jayden, and from Jayden to Will. So in a matter of 15 minutes, Lindsay’s threat level skyrocketed and became #1 on OG Gonzalo’s Most Wanted.

After losing the 3rd post-swap challenge, OG Irma began to scramble, and scrambled FAST. DSeveral different plans were thrown out but unsurprisingly OG Gonzalo eventually decided on Lindsay, much to Jayden’s content since Lindsay was hardcore gunning for him. And after the plan followed through Jayden’s game got completely fried and exposed by Lindsay as her torch was about to get snuffed. But just by looking at his placement, you can see what Jayden maneuvered through that regardless.

And the merge has finally come, but with two clear leaders for each tribe; Jayden, and Tyler.

After realizing that the first merged vote has a high chance of being a 5-5 rock draw, Jayden took a couple days to really solidify his trust with Will. Which partially paid off because Will told him who said the idols, Tyler and Tommy. The latter was false but the former was bang on. Will also told Jayden who OG Irma’s target was, Shai.

Which prompted Jayden to go to OG Gonzalo and tell them the plan to vote out Tommy, because of his ‘idol’. But he covered that reasoning up with a ‘social & physical threat’ plea. They agreed, and voted Tommy… except for Nick for awkwardly voted Shai with OG Irma, blindsiding everyone. Lucky for Jayden, he told Will that he’d flip. This automatically made Jayden good with everyone left in the game…

...until people realized that Nick was the one who flipped and that Jayden was been playing both sides.

Knowing this, Jayden pulled out a fake idol. He showed Tyler and Nick, the eventual winner disbelieving himself immediately and the OG Gonzalo believing it entirely.

So now with Jayden being a confirmed threat in all of OG Irma’s eyes, he knew that his fake idol lie wasn’t gonna hold up, so he went tryhard at a challenge which he completely sucked at. And because Tyler awkwardly revealed his score to everyone, Jayden was able to edge him out in the challenge and win a needed immunity.

But despite winning immunity, he was still caught up in drama. Learning from Will that OG Irma has been planning to take him out, because of this, he approached Will with a proposal to take out Tyler, which Will willingly agreed to, lifting Jayden’s spirits. Unfortunately, Will didn’t vote and it landed on Kiibo. Fulfilling OG Irma’s plan unintentionally.

With no more immunity, and a target on his back the size of China, Jayden was getting closer to Ponderosa by the second. But the next two medical evacuations saved his butt. Especially Nick.

Now we’re at the Final Six; Jayden and Jennifer are the only remaining Gonzalo, tribal lines still haven't faded, and Jayden has just won immunity for the second time. It was clear that Jennifer was going home, but Jayden still attempted to have Jennifer vote out the other threat, Tyler. But Jennifer’s bold attitude didn’t allow her to listen, and she voted for Tommy. Little did she know that if she had voted for Tyler, she would’ve been safe and rocks would be drawn, AKA an Irma goes home.

At the Final Five, Jayden overslept, missing the opportunity to win the challenge. This was news to Aria as Jayden is usually online for all the challenges and he knew that if he didn’t win, he’s a goner. Well, unknown to everyone, Will willed his Legacy Advantage to Jayden, allowing Jayden to play it at Tribal Council. Along with Tyler who played his two idols, by the end, James was the only one left without safety and was eliminated.

By the Final Four, it was do-or-die for Jayden. If he won, he goes into the FTC, scot-free. If he loses, he goes into Ponderosa. Fortunately, he won and was ecstatic that he could vote out Tyler. Aria followed suit with the plan and he tried to bring in Tommy on it. But Tommy was a loyal ally to Tyler, causing a tie between Tyler and Aria. Tyler won, sending the last female into Ponderosa.

But due to the quiet FTC and despite 2-2 divide between Gonzalo and Irma jury members, Jayden became the Runner-Up was Essential Survivor: Saint Martin in a 3-1-0 vote.

## All-Stars

Being one of the most anticipated returnees to date, Jayden had a lot of eyes watching him on this season. Best known for his performance in our inaugural season, people were looking for Jayden to see how well he’d farein a majority situation, unlike the previous season where he barely scraped by each time. And it was… interesting to say the least.

On the Starting Nicobar tribe, Jayden was already off to a rough start. He was the only S1 rep on his tribe (then again, him and Tyler had a huge rivalry) so he wasn’t the best connected. Plus, he was deemed inactive by everyone on Nicobar except Brandon, as they grew a bond quickly. And for a pretty eventful preswap, Jayden did have some good reads when talking about the social dynamic of the tribe. At the swap however, things did get more eventful.

Swapped in a 6-2 Nicobar majority, you’d think that Tribal Council would be the easies
t thing to come across. But with Brandon and Jayden on the same tribe we knew that wouldn’t be possible. After losing the Immunity Challenge, the OG Nicobar guys landed onto Payton as their target as he was worse at challenges then Adam. But as Brandon and Jayden considered their options, they felt more inclined to flip and side with the Andaman (more Brandon than Jayden). So when they fully flipped, they had to try and cover it up as best as they can with the others to avoid suspicion. But wanting to take the safer route all together, Jayden was heavily considering flipping back to the original squad. But, they stayed true to the flip and voted Jacob. But there were two issues; one, they couldn’t get Josiah to flip his vote. And two, Jacob played his Extra Vote, meaning Payton now had 5 votes against him. Meaning that Brandon and Jayden ruined their social capital for no reason.

At the merge, Jayden was having trouble figuring out what to do. Back in S1, the merge was easy as it was just Tribal Lines and he had an in with Irma from Will. This season, tribal lines were more-or-less dissolved so finding his place in a 13-person merge wasn’t the easiest. He attempted to target Enrique due to hearing his name as the vote (which was a decoy) but ended up throwing his vote on Adam with the majority unintentionally. Leading them to believe that someone leaked to Jayden but hey, now he’s found an in, leading him to vote with the majority and boot Enrique this time. But at Tribal, Jayden saw Tyler put his idol around his neck, igniting that same rivalry from Season One.

At the Final 11, Jayden flips to the other side of the cast with a goal in mind to boot Josiah, knowing that he’s on the direct bottom of that alliance. That next vote right after, he flips BACK to his alliance with Brandon to vote out the presumed leader, Kim. Now, we start to see Jayden’s edit get less and less visible. Even on his elimination episode where he is booted or not being reliable this late in the game.