Tayy

Tayy (Tayy#4136) placed 11th in Season 4 & 12th in Season 5.

Starting off strong social ties with the Moli Tribe, Tayy became well integrated with his tribemates and found himself in a good spot early. However, the entire tribe heavily disliked Jackson and Tayy was the most vocal about it, causing a bit of conflict between the two specifically. After a tribe swap, Tayy and Nyx formed a duo and found themselves in a tough position due to the OG Moli tribe having all their members remaining and being a very strong tribe. Despite this, Tayy’s social game propelled the duo forward when they were able to turn the swing vote Mug firmly against Ace to squash any chance that she would ally with the OG Apolo. At the merge, Tayy’s social game was recognized as a big threat to many but also helped to further propel him into a safety net with the OG Moli (minus Jackson), Dangan, Giuli, and Ben all wanting to keep him around. Unfortunately, when Mug wanted to flip the game upside down and keep obvious target Dex in favor of blindsiding social threat Giuli, Tayy did not reciprocate despite Mug seeming to feel Tayy owed her for keeping him in the game prior. This sent Mug on a tangent, publicly calling Tayy a bully in front of everyone at Tribal Council. This spurred Jackson into action, who was also very against Tayy for his public digs at the OG Moli camp. Jackson decided to play his idol for the seemingly hopeless Dex, with the intent that Tayy go home. Due to having no advantages of his own to counter this and his backing of eight entire people being too afraid to form a contingency plan, Tayy was voted out in a 2-1 vote when 8 votes for Dex were nullified. He is remembered for his wry, confrontational sense of humor as well as his displeasure at suddenly being labeled a “bully.”

In Season 5, Tayy wanted to play a quieter game to avoid being a target of the Kisiti Tribe. While this worked, it may have worked a little too well as he was borderline invisible on many of the votes premerge. This in part was also due to having a new job irl. A memorable premerge moment was when Bel was fighting for their life in “Pop the Balloon” by herself and desperately asked her tribe to help, to which Tayy casually responded with “what’s up Bel” clearly not following along with the challenge. At the merge, Tayy began to get a bit more active and confessionaled more, ready to ramp up his game now that it was every player for themself. He had a strong desire to align the five Season 4 alumni together, and formed an alliance with Bel and Plaus called “Raw Sewage” after feeling the other two may be playing the middle too hard. He was very vocal about being willing to flip on Dex due to his attitude, and in private voiced that he saw this as the start of many big moves for a FTC resume. When many of Kisiti were blindsided by his (along with Anthony and Plaus) flipping, he got most of the flack from the blindsided rats as Harry was puppeteering the vote against him to weaken Bel. Additionally, Tayy was once again seen as a social lynchpin of several alliances, with Harry and others feeling as though removing him would also free up the people it weakened. Being told the vote was Azzy by Bel via extension of Alec, Tayy would wind up blindsided when he was the only vote for Azzy in an 8-1-1-1 vote. He is remembered this season for his many rants about how much he disliked his new job & how he wished his real life issues did not impact his activity/gameplay.