Jesse Roldan

**Jesse Roldan** is a contestant from *Worlds Collide*, *Halloween Spooktacular*, and *All-Stars*.

Jesse's social prowess and keenness to make moves in *Worlds Collide* allowed him to swiftly take control of his starting brain tribe, but the tribe's dominance prior to the swap landed Jesse in hot water when meeting the other tribes. Throughout the swap phase, he would barely scrape by, a continually growing target placing him in more people's crosshairs with every passing round. Now viewed as the smartest player of the original Vonaku contingent, Jesse would find himself the main target at the merge and would be eliminated in a near-unanimous vote in eleventh place.

In *Halloween Spooktacular*, Jesse's returning player status would prove to be greatly detrimental to his game. While he was able to quickly join a majority alliance and survive two Tribal Councils, his third would see him become the target of the tribe's outsiders. At Tribal Council, he would be involved in a tie vote, and seeing him as a potential threat down the line and not wanting to participate in a rock draw, his allies would vote him out, resulting in Jesse's twelfth-place finish.

Jesse would finally see success in *All-Stars* with a successful starting tribe set-up leaving him with many options moving forward. This would quickly change at the tribe swap, where he would find himself a target at Waylu's first Tribal Council, saved by connections he made with his starting tribe. He worked himself back into a power position for the tribe's three consecutive Tribal Councils and made the merge with a variety of potential paths down the line While he continued to maintain power in the merge, his consistently increasing paranoia about the other players would slowly turn him into a distrusted enemy. After turning on a majority of his allies in a row, he would be voted out in fifth place.

## Survivor Winter Park

### Worlds Collide

Jesse (in this season, Jesse R.) began the game on the Vonaku (Brain) tribe. He quickly connected with Davis Hofmann, Matthew Raines, and Lyndsey Keith to gain a majority in the tribe. After winning the first immunity challenge, Jesse R. floated the possibility of eliminating Owen Rimes for surpassing his previous season's first boot status, but would be dissuaded from this after winning the following two challenges. Jesse R. would find the Hidden Immunity Idol in Round 2, giving him more power over his tribe members. After losing their first challenge in Round 4, both Hannah Arnold and Livi Fry would be floated around as targets for elimination due to their poor challenge performances and disconnected social statuses, with the latter eventually being the unanimous target. The tribe swap would land Jesse R. on the Revana tribe, where he stayed with Matt, Lyndsey, and Owen while being joined by Daria Cuellar-Hernandez and Drew Desabrais of Ko'okiri and Adelaide Tso and Jesse Susunaga of La'maui.

After losing their first immunity challenge, Jesse R. and the brain contingent set their sights on Adelaide as a returning player. He was aware that the other four would unite and grew paranoid that he would be the tribe's target, so at Tribal Council he would play his idol on himself while negating no votes, with Lyndsey instead being their target. After a long deliberation period, Jesse R. would eventually flip on her and leave Owen as the sole player voting to keep her. After losing their second challenge in a row, Jesse R. followed the majority's plan to take Owen out of the game but knew that Owen would play an idol on himself, allowing him to integrate himself with the others while still eliminating Adelaide from the game. The tribe would have a one-round break before heading back to Tribal Council, with the tribe dynamics now entirely shuffled. The brain trio were able to convince Daria and Drew to take out the now-alone Jesse S., eliminating him by a unanimous vote. At the final eleven, the tribes would come together at the merge, and Jesse R. would immediately find himself at the bottom of the tribe alongside Davis, Matt, and Owen. After the former won immunity, Jesse R. would target William Turner while attempting to unite Daria, Drew, Marina Rentz, Pedro Kawamura, and Zoey Thomas for a majority. This would all be for nought as Jesse R. would become the first member of the jury, eliminated in a 7-2-1 vote.

At the Final Tribal Council, Jesse was fortunate enough to have a former Vonaku member to vote for in Owen, and he proudly cast his vote for him, having no connection to Daria. Owen would go on to win in a near-unanimous 8-1 final vote.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 5, Jesse R. used a Hidden Immunity Idol, but did not negate any votes against him.

**^2** In Round 6, Owen used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Jesse's vote against him.

### Halloween Spooktacular

Jesse began the game on the all-male Honua tribe. His tribe would form an immediate alliance with every player, excluding Coleman Preisser and Ricardo Duarte-Parada, both of whom were social outcasts. At their first Tribal Council, a unanimous vote would send Ricardo out of the game, and two more rounds later would repeat that with Coleman. In between these votes, Jesse would align closer with Adam Holbrook and Dorian Holt, knowing that Brandon Yohe and Keyes Rodriguez were closer than most people assumed. This left Garrett Walker as the player left in the middle, with Jesse believing him to be an easier vote when their next Tribal Council rolled around. At the final twelve, Jesse's tribe would lose their third challenge, and his faction would vote for Garrett. Unbeknownst to him, Garrett had been pulled in with Brandon and Keyes to target Jesse for being a returning player and a threat going forward. After a tie vote and an intense deliberation period, Adam and Dorian didn't find the value in risking their own games to save Jesse and joined the others in eliminating him upon the re-vote, giving Jesse twelfth place and a pre-jury finish.

#### Voting History

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### All-Stars

Jesse began the game on the Beta tribe. During the tribe's opening two immunity challenge wins, he would join a five-player majority alliance of Drew Desabrais, Lyndsey Keith, Natalie Watkins, and Thorin Groth, with the intention of targeting Kristen Paul for being the least trustworthy. At the tribe's only Tribal Council, Kristen would idol out Natalie from the game, a minor bump in Jesse's game as he wanted to work with the outsiders Pedro Kawamura and Victoria De Notaris and was not closely aligned with Natalie. Following this vote, his tribe would win once more before reaching the tribe swap.

Placing in the top half of players, he would land on the Waylu tribe alongside Drew and Kristen from Beta, Diego Lindauer, Michael Collins, and Zoey Thomas from Alpha, and Adam Holbrook, Cecelia Gutman, Rylee Perrault, and William Turner from Sigma. Here, Jesse would find himself on the bottom with Drew and Zoey, leading to his immediate panic at Tribal Council. Much to his relief, the opposing Tavuko tribe was able to sit in on their vote, and, before the pre-voting scramble, Jesse was able to convince Thorin to give him the *Edge of Extinction* Timeline Twister advantage. Combined with Zoey's from *Bloodlines*, they were both able to remove themselves from Tribal Council, leaving Drew vulnerable and resulting in his elimination. At the start of the next day, Jesse would join a charge to take down the perceived majority alliance of Cece, Diego, Kristen, and Will. He would vote Kristen out at the final seventeen and be firmly placed in the majority alongside Adam, Mac, Rylee, and Zoey. After unsuccessfully eliminating Cece at his next Tribal Council through her use of the Shot in the Dark, the tides would turn against Adam, and Jesse would join in the decision to remove him from the game at the final Tribal Council before the merge.

Entering the merge, Jesse would play his Timeline Twister advantage from *Heroes vs. Villains* to save his Villains faction from the first vote of the merge, granting himself safety and buying goodwill with the other villains (Cece, Mac, Meaghan Schlossmacher, Ryan Hagerty, and Thorin). He would initially join the consensus vote of Will for their first elimination, but pivoted to Victoria after the rest of the guys decided to target her. In between days two and three, Jesse would join an alliance with Cece, Griffin Hallemeier, Jacob Thigpen, Mac, Rylee, and Thorin with the intention of rivaling Ryan. This plan would fall apart upon arrival, as Jesse didn't trust Mac's gameplay despite working together on the Waylu tribe. He would go along with the plan to vote out Mac at the final thirteen and would continue to follow the broader plans of targeting Cece, Rylee, and Will. When returning to camp after a break at the final nine, Pedro would become the tribe's target, but Jesse would formulate a split vote plan with Jacob against Ryan in the case he had an idol. This turned out to be a correct read, as Pedro's successful Shot in the Dark would send Ryan out of the game.

At the start of the fourth day, Jesse caught wind of a plan to blindside him from Thorin and joined the contingent of Griffin, Jacob, and Jesse to vote him out of the game. The following round, he would learn about Zoey's Hidden Immunity Idol and her intention to play it, knowing that the rest of the tribe wanted to vote her out. Out of fear that she would use it against him, he decided to go along with her plan to target his ally Jacob for elimination, taking him out in a 2-1-0 [4] vote. Now, without the threat of the idol, he would side with Griffin and Pedro to vote Zoey out at the final six while catching a single vote from Lyndsey. Jesse would once again lose immunity in the final five and wanted to target Griffin, whom he viewed as the biggest threat in the game. Unbeknownst to him, Griffin formed a Final Three pact with Meaghan and Pedro, and they viewed Jesse as a bigger threat than Lyndsey. At Tribal Council, he would be voted out in a 3-2 vote, with Pedro throwing a vote onto Griffin to earn Jesse's vote at the Final Tribal Council.

At the Final Tribal Council, Pedro's vote to save him at the final five would be enough to buy him Jesse's vote, respecting loyalty in a game built on mistrust. He voted Griffin for second place, another long-term ally of his.

#### Voting History

**^1** In Round 3, Kristen used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Jesse's vote against her.

**^2** In Round 5, Zoey used the Send Away advantage, granting Jesse immunity at the cost of his vote.

**^2** In Round 8, Cece successfully used her Shot in the Dark die, negating Jesse's vote against her.