Cornelia Tennison

**Cornelia Tennison** is a contestant from *Simvivor: StrangerVille* and *Simvivor: Superstar*.

## Profile

* StrangerVille
* Superstar
Although Cornelia is just here to make friends and experience what the game has to offer, she’s also hoping in her own way that it’ll bring her significant fame and fortune, too. Cornelia’s big secret is that she’s actually married, but she wants to keep this under wraps from the rest of her tribemates at least for the time being. Cornelia’s social skills are shaky, being a bit of a slob and totally self-absorbed, it’s hard to imagine her getting along with anybody on her tribe. Unless, of course, they need someone to drag to the end as a sacrificial lamb.

Cornelia hails from an early season of *Simvivor*, unremarkable based off her low placement, but she was arguably the biggest character on an otherwise remarkable season. Cornelia hopes that her loud mouth gets her into trouble once again, but make no mistake, she’s here to win. “Nobody will see me coming,” she quipped, stating that her low threat level is more than enough to help her coast under the radar. Looking to redefine her social game, she wants to be everyone’s best friend rather than anybody’s enemy. “Popping off gets me nowhere but tenth place.” Cornelia has spent the last six months training at the gym in preparation for *Superstar*, feeling at her absolute best for the game.

## Simvivor

### StrangerVille

At the beginning of *StrangerVille*, Cornelia drew extensive attention to herself due to her abrasive nature around camp. Whether it was due to her self-proclaimed leadership role when building the tribe's shelter or her excessive strategizing around the tribe's first vote, Cornelia was receiving heavy criticism from her tribemates for her antics. However, Cornelia was able to avoid elimination at the season's first two Tribal Councils, and then lucked out by winning the next two Immunity Challenges.

At the tribe swap, Cornelia was placed on the new Plateau tribe and formed an unofficial alliance with DeWitt Hubbell and Divine Sublime. Prior to the swap, Cornelia began to show quick development of her strategic game, even recognizing the difficulties that were ahead when she realized that her early antics were putting her on the outside of major alliances. Thankfully, the Plateau tribe won the final two Tribal Immunity Challenges just before the merger.

Now situated in the Penelope tribe, Cornelia's early rivalry with Maris Wilton seemed to be coming to its head as the two women were actively targeting the other. DeWitt and Divine joined Cornelia in an attempt to eliminate who they perceived to be the game's top dog at the time. But when outsiders Carleen Donahue and Maritza La Playa tried to turn the tides against Alison Yao, Tribal Council ended in a 5-3-2 split with Cornelia receiving the majority of the votes and being eliminated instead.

#### Voting History

 1

**^1**  In Episode 1, the vote ended with a 4-4 tie between Aleks and Jeremy, forcing a revote. Cornelia did not change her vote on the revote.

### Superstar

Cornelia's return to *Simvivor* was marked with positivity. One of two players who did not make it to the Jury phase in their original season, Cornelia felt that she had a lot of ground to cover before she could feel secure in her "second chance". Although Cornelia won a significant amount of challenges in the early stages of the season, she still managed to find herself in trouble early on by getting into multiple confrontations with her tribemates. Her attitude soon changed when a tribe swap dealt her a more difficult hand, having to work from the bottom of her new tribe. However, Cornelia still only attended one Tribal Council prior to the eventual merge in the game, beating her original placement by one.

At the merge, Cornelia soon had to play a different type of game, now needing to actually vote players out of the game round by round. She proved herself as capable in the physical challenges, was a hard worker around camp, and managed to make friends despite her early outbursts, but she was still relegated to the backdrop of the game and never had many standout moments beyond winning challenges. Her lack of drive to make bold decisions and big moves only hurt her peers' respect for her, so when she made it to the Final Tribal Council, it was no surprise she had a frosty reception.

Losing the game unanimously, Cornelia claimed that she was still satisfied with the opportunity to return to *Simvivor* and compete as an all-star.

#### Voting History

**^1**  In Episode 6, the vote ended with a 2-2 tie between DeWitt and Xanthe, forcing a revote. Cornelia did not change her vote on the revote.

## Trivia

* Prior to competing on *StrangerVille*, Cornelia's tell-all memoir revealed that she was the adopted daughter of PlantSims.
* Cornelia was the only contestant on *Superstar* to compete on all four tribes in the game.