Neen

**Neen** was a contestant of SurviVARs: Magic Kingdom.

## **Profile**

**Discord:** KiaNeen

**Gender:** she/her

**Timezone:** PST

Neen was a massive force in this game. From the start, we knew that she’d be one of our best confessionalists, and she was consistently proving to be one of the most entertaining personalities in the game. Her moves weren’t always smart, like dipping from her tribe a day before the merge, when neither tribe was in danger at tribal council, but it was just so damn entertaining. Everything she did was presented with snark and personality, and it was a pleasure to watch. That being said, she was one of the players who definitively dominated the merge. She was the main instigator of the Quint blindside, perfectly reading who she needed to pull in and how to make the move happen (and it went exactly the way she intended). The power shifted a lot in this game, and she wasn’t consistently in charge, but even when she was playing from the bottom it was like the game was responding to her every move. She won POTG for a reason. Even when she wasn’t controlling the game, it was like she was? She always seemed to perfectly position herself in a way to move her game forward. It’s hard to say if she had the jury management to win the game if she made it to the F2, but the strength of her gameplay definitely made her deserving of a win had it happened. Izzy was a clear front runner, but had Neen won the final immunity challenge and taken Nick to the end, we would’ve really seen some fireworks between those two titans as they clashed for the win. Neen defined a lot of the gameplay of this season, and did it with flair. She really cemented herself as a SurviVARS legend.

### **Awards**

**Best Duo**

Survivor is a game of alliances, and this season had a lot of them. There were plenty of pairs that came and went, but most of these wound up betraying each other and cutting each other’s throats at some point or another. Only two players were as thick as thieves from day one until the other was voted out. Their loyalty was unwavering, and even outside of strategy they would constantly express appreciation of one another. They loved each other as players and as friends, and they never flipped. That’s more than could be said for any other pair of the game, no matter how close so many others were. Their dynamic of being polar opposite players just added to the fun each of them brought to the game! They were fire and ice in the most perfect way.

**Move of the Game**

You all played hard, and you all played well. You did the best with the information you had at the time and really really tried to keep yourselves in the best positions you could. This cast felt like a season of all stars and there were many impressive votes this season. We saw Davon slowly flip the game in his favor. We saw Izzy turn a potential firemaking at Final Four into a unanimous vote. We saw a race for a Tiebreaker advantage that completely changed the trajectory of the endgame in the direction of its eventual winner. But among all of that… we saw this move. A move so massive it took out someone who had been climbing the contender list. So many things were going in this player’s favor, and nobody predicted them going out when they did. It was a masterful blindside, where heat was misdirected and an idol was wasted when it didn’t need to be. Every player had a role in this vote, and it signaled a complete change to the season. All you need to do is look at the Elimination Game stats to see that nobody saw this coming, and a vote would never be predictable again.

**Player of the Game**

Every game we have someone who gets away with a lot and we can’t exactly explain how they do it. They make the connections, they go for risks and they stand out. This player is definitely in that category. Watching them play means you never know what’s going to come next. In this season, they were constantly making moves, but they weren’t always… good moves. In fact this person was insanely self aware of how many dumb moves they made. When it came down to crunch time, though, they were always able to make this game bow down to their will no matter how wild it was. They had control when they shouldn’t have, and did it with a wild and unpredictable flair that made the spec lounge and hosting team just fall in love with them. Then, at the end, they came one challenge away from potentially winning it all.