Jack/JTS

**Jack/JTS** was the Player of the Season of Mythvivor: Nile River Valley and a player in Mythvivor: Valhalla - Second Chances. In Nile River Valley, he went by Jack. In Valhalla, he went by JTS.

## Nile River Valley

Jack began Nile River Valley on the Khepri tribe, where he formed a close bond with Goober. While they had a first easy vote on Bradley who was inactive, Jack and Goober soon blindsided Skylar at the next tribal council, siding with Fox and leaving Gabriel out of the vote. Jack was able to become the "Kingpin of Khepri" with this vote, as he was in the top slot of Goober, Fox, and Gabriel's trust rankings.

At merge, Jack bonded well with Coffee and Luna from the former Atum tribe. When Aqua targeted Coffee, he helped push the vote onto Aqua instead. While his ally, Gabriel, wanted to keep Aqua, Jack was able to convince him to drop the push against Chiruvi and to join in on the Aqua vote.

Luna and Jack worked together on forming the new Carbonado alliance. This alliance consisted of two members from the former Khepri tribe: Jack and Goober, two members from the former Atum tribe: Coffee and Luna, as well as two members from the former Horus tribe: Chiruvi and Tyler. At the following tribal council, Jack voted with Carbonado against Zap, who he had no connection with and was targeting Gabriel.

In "Y'all Are Gonna Kumbaya Yourselves into a Ditch on the Side of the Interstate," Jack and Carbonado was very conflicted about voting out either Beetnorf who they had just left out of the Zap vote, or Fox, a member of the former Khepri tribe who Jack was the least connected with. While Jack saw the merits of voting Beetnorf out, he was concerned about the optics of voting out Fox. He initially attempted to say he would compromise to vote out Fox for the sake of the alliance, but the alliance ended up settling on voting out Beetnorf due to a random draw. Lukas, frustrated with a Khepri not getting voted out, chose to play his Crook and Flail with Beetnorf. Between votes being locked and votes being read, Beetnorf leaked to Coffee that a Khepri would be going home. Jack had formed such a strong bond with Coffee that she gave him her immunity idol. He played it for himself at that tribal council, but his close ally, Goober was sent home. Jack was disappointed with his close ally's departure, but also relieved to see someone so connected go home. He would not tell anyone about how he got the immunity idol until Final Tribal Council to hide how strong his bonds were.

In the following episode, Jack was able to defeat his tribemates for individual immunity in Touchy Subjects. Jack targeted Beetnorf again with the rest of Carbonado. However, this time his close ally, Gabriel joined in with Lukas and Beetnorf. They idoled out Tyler, who was less connected to Jack's game.

Finally, Beetnorf and Lukas were out of immunity idols. Concerned about another immunity idol or someone else flipping to Beetnorf and Lukas to get him out, Jack approached the duo about flipping against Luna. This was a ruse by Jack and he voted with the majority against Beetnorf.

Following Beetnorf's exit, Jack had quickly found himself to be a major target. His ally, Coffee, let him know that everyone had discussed targeting him, particularly Gabriel. Jack was able to stay up late to defeat Gabriel in Shezmu's Check In Challenge. This helped Jack keep the votes off of himself and he blindsided Gabriel along with Coffee, Luna, and Chiruvi.

Jack was then able to win another individual immunity challenge, a Word Search. Knowing that Luna had also considered voting him out, he voted Luna out with Coffee and Fox.

At the final 4, Jack and Coffee made it to the final round of the Final Immunity Challenge, Last One Standing. In the last leg, Hackenbush, Coffee defeated Jack. As the biggest target left on the board, Jack knew he would likely be getting votes against him. Fox and Chiruvi were ready to vote him out due to his high threat level. However, due to his strong bond with Coffee, she voted with him and gave him the chance to beat Fox in a fire-making challenge. Jack defeated Fox and secured his spot at Final Tribal Council.

At Final Tribal Council, it was a difficult battle between the finalists with many jurors going in undecided. Jack earned the votes of Fox and Tyler. He won Player of the Season for his incredibly strong game as well as the Host Favorite Award from Parker.

### Voting History

 1  Lukas and Beetnorf played the Crook and Flail on Beetnorf, which negated all votes against him.

 2  Lukas played an immunity idol on Beetnorf, which negated all votes against him.

### Ace's Thoughts

Jack was unquestionably one of the best players we've seen to this day. He was loud and upfront about what his strategy was and yet he still remained all the way until the end. He had a ride or die ally and he did his own work to keep himself in the game, even winning firemaking to stay.

## Valhalla

JTS came into this game with only two other players from Mythvivor: Nile River Valley. These players were his rival, Skylar and his former ally, Goober. Both Goober and Skylar were on the Haugbui tribe while JTS was on the Draugr tribe. There, he made quick allies of players like Andrew and Tommy. He joined in on the Moonool vote at their first tribal council, where his ally, Cole was idoled out. While JTS originally wanted the vote at the next tribal council to be on Moonool again, Sybil let him know this would not happen, and he conceded and voted out Andrew.

JTS then swapped onto the Urdr tribe with his former Draugr tribemate, Thicc. There, he was able to bond well with Dennis, Peanut, and Camazotz. This kept him in a survivable position on the tribe despite being in the minority according to original tribal lines.

During the 39 Stones challenge, JTS realized that he may be in a better position on the Baldur tribe despite it attending the upcoming final 16 tribal council as there would be more likely to be more former Draugr members there. While he looked to once again develop an allyship with Goober, who had also joined Baldur, this became difficult as Goober had already felt he had bonded strongly with Norah. As a result, Goober had begun throwing JTS under the bus to Thomas, who JTS had little connection with. At this first Baldur tribal council, JTS was able to vote out Skylar, his former rival from Nile River Valley who had been looking to target him once again.

When the Boat Tour occurred, JTS joined Gokstad with Thomas, Tommy, and Dennis. Wanting to build a stronger relationship with Thomas, JTS paired up with Thomas for Jotto and even suggested they throw the challenge to end up at the Sunk tribal council together for trust building. This made Thomas even more wary. At the Sunk tribal council, JTS built a strong alliance with Glitter. However, Thomas was still wary of JTS from what Goober had said and from JTS's perspective on the challenge. Thomas worked with Anna to flip Thicc and Ross to vote JTS out instead of the initial target, Moonool. At the Gravkammer tribal council, JTS had received a couple votes from Andrew and Steven, who respected him. However, he campaigned and voted for his former ally, Sybil, to join the jury.

### Voting History

1 At Tribal Council 1, Moonool played an immunity idol, negating all idols against him.

### Jay's Thoughts

Jack was super intriguing for me, especially heading into this season, mainly because I had heard so many good things from Coffee. Unfortunately for Jack, the game started off poorly when Moonool idoled out Cole. His pleas to get out Moonool again next round didn’t work, and instead Andrew went on a unanimous vote. Jack then avoided tribal for three rounds, before his luck ran out going to back-to-back tribals, where he correctly voted for Skylar, but then was blindsided 5-2 on the boat tour. While he was voted out pre-merge, I found him very entertaining to watch, and his rivalry with Moonool was also fun to see as well. While Moonool got the best of JTS this season, it was still fantastic to see a legend return.

### Episode Title Credits

* "This Is a Rocky Road but I Drive a Jeep"

## Trivia

* Jack/JTS and Goober share Runner-Up, Player of the Season, and Parker's Favorite Award. They were on the same two seasons (Nile River Valley and Valhalla).
* The only other two Nile River Valley returnees in Valhalla were on the same starting tribe (Khepri) as Jack/JTS (Goober and Skylar).
* Jack won the most individual immunity challenges in Mythvivor: Nile River Valley.
* Jack is the first player in Mythvivor history to win a fire-making challenge.