Malik Cordova

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**Malik Cordova** was a male contestant that competed on ***The Royalty Challenge***. He first appeared on the first season, The Royalty Challenge: Parthenon, where he was the fourth eliminated; placing in 17th place. He returned in The Royalty Challenge: Blood vs. Water with his pair Andy Cook where they were the thirteenth eliminated; placing in 7th place. On his third appearance in The Royalty Challenge: Tokyo Drift, he returned with his Fresh Meat pair Alex Rose where he was thirteenth eliminated; placing individually in 9th place.

In **Parthenon**, Malik started the game being added to Heavenly Seven; but he and ally Nicole Q soon found themselves on the outs after his tension with Stewart Minch. From there out, Malik didn't have any stable alliances and was called out by Donald G for the double elimination in Round 4; ultimately resulting in Malik being eliminated from the game.

In **Blood vs. Water**, Malik returned to the game with one thing on his mind; redemption. With former rival, now ally, Andy as his partner, they both came into the season bringing the fire. They got pulled into the infamous veteran alliance Blood Ring by leader Dorian Washington. Malik and Andy decided to play the middle ground; having the alliance with the other veteran/rookie pairs whilst being in separate alliances with other pairs such as the ABMT alliance with Blake Sanders/Tasha Gaspard and Starts to Panick with Julien Hiraga/Nick Miller. As the season progressed, Malik found himself involved in a love triangle with Jozea Lee and Marq Savage; with both men fighting over him. Alongside their 2 daily wins, he and Andy both got into sexual relations with Marq in private. However, the Round 7 public vote exposed Andy and Malik's game as they decided to burn a vote on Marq/Tina Savage; not voting with either side and resulting in Blake/Tasha being sent into elimination. After being exposed by Blake, Malik and him engaged in a war of words in a dramatic fight; in which after he and Andy decided to stay loyal to the remaining Blood Ring alliance even though no one trusted them. Many of the players perceived Andy to be controlling him and his pair's decisions; and after avoiding elimination all season, they were voted into the final Warzone in a unanimous vote. After a strong start, they failed to beat Ludvig Karlsson/Rhea Sunshine and were eliminated.

In **Tokyo Drift**, Malik was paired up with Rookie Alex during the Fresh Meat pair twist. Malik was initially pleased with with his partner; and re-connected with former allies from **Blood vs. Water** Tasha and Marq. He was included in Christian Cruz's majority alliance Teamwork Makes The Dreamwork; but Malik got closer to excluded member Devin Tauruan in their duo alliance Black Magic. He also got emotionally connected and flirty with Donnchadh Fitzgerald; whom he shared an alliance with called The Fates that included Devin and Tasha. Despite attempting to stay away from drama, Malik found himself in disagreement with Donnchadh's close ally Jamie Fitzgerald regarding his inactive game in an earlier season. In Round 3, his partner Alex got heat for voting in Kendall Gray/Sylvia Riah; with Malik defending him because it was his idea to vote them. After a heated confrontation, Malik/Alex were called-out for elimination; but managed to pull out the win and remain in the game. During Round 4, tension began to brew between himself and Alex regarding Malik's relationship with Donnchadh. Malik refused to turn his back on someone he cared about over a game despite Alex's attempts to showcase Donnchadh's flirtatious strategy.

Along with the majority of the house, Malik wanted to target the VC Gang consisting of Marq, Marti De'Lyte and Nasir Gemini; believing their messy gameplay and consistent drama in the villa was something he needed to stay away from. Aligning with players who were winning daily challenges, Malik didn't face much danger until Round 8 when he was nominated by the Overtaker DLS Theqhat; but Ny Love briefly got more votes to be sent into elimination. However, he was once again nominated in Round 9 by Caoimhe Mulcahy; but was blindsided when he received the majority of votes over the expected threeway tie. Confused by Remi Rowan's vote change as she was expected to vote Marti, Malik publicly got into it with Alex when Alex came to Remi's defense as he tried to expose Malik's alliance with Devin/Donnchadh. Alex then went onto theorize that they planned to split the votes to result in Caoimhe breaking the tie to send Marti in; protecting all three of them. After a heated confrontation between the house, Malik decided to call-out Remi for elimination; knowing he couldn't count on her in future. She called-out Donnchadh; who they both lost to in a threeway challenge and were eliminated from the game.

## **The Royalty Challenge: Parthenon**

### **Daily Challenge Progress**

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### **Card Picking Progress**

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### **Bank Progress**

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## **Trivia**

* Malik was one of the first people eliminated in a double elimination.
* Malik is the first male veteran to have lost 2 eliminations.