Antonio

***Antonio*** was a castaway on ***One Surv1vor: Egypt***

## Egypt

Antonio was placed on the Sadat tribe on day 1. Right from the get-go, it was clear Antonio was here to play with a roaring fire. Antonio quickly found an ally in Ray, and they both began working together to cement a foundation for themselves in the tribe by forming alliances. He and Ray joined an alliance with Ethan and Skye, which established at least half the votes within the tribe. They furthered the extent of their control by forming an alliance with Quint as well, leaving them both in the best positions of their tribe. So when his tribe lost the first immunity challenge, Antonio was more than secured in numbers. Despite his allies primarily wanting to vote Bochito out, which Antonio didn't have much of an issue with, he saw value in possibly keeping her around. So he got to work on convincing his allies that it would be better to take out Mali instead. At first, it seemed like Antonio's desired outcome was coming to be, but when his ally Ray began deviating and wanting to target fellow ally Skye, cracks began to form from the chaos. And with Ray swiftly being able to turn the tide against Skye, Antonio began to see how much of a threat Ray really was. Throughout all the chaos, Antonio continued to contemplate his best course of action, and in the end he sided with Ray and the majority to unanimously vote Skye out.

After the chaos of the first tribal council, Antonio began to consider pulling in Quint, Ethan, and TimTom in order to make a move against Ray. He got to work on making sure his allies would be down to target Ray, using a bit of persuasion and planting some seeds, his plan was quickly began to grow into fruition. When his tribe lost the second challenge, his plan to take out Ray began to develop further. In order to keep Ray from suspecting anything, he dropped Ethan's name to Ray. Antonio effectively gathered his army to pull off the big move, and although there was some push and pull between other targets, another explosive tribal council ended with Antonio getting his way. However, despite taking out one threat, Antonio quickly realized a much more pressing one left in the wake of Ray's departure...Mali.

After surviving two tribal councils in a row, Antonio along with the rest of the final 14 were swapped into new tribes. Fate was on Antonio's side, as he ended up with his entire tribe, minus Mali. On this new tribe, Antonio continued to plant seeds in the minds of his tribe-mates in order to herd them in the order of his agenda. After he talked with Dom, Antonio began seeing potential in Dom as a possible shield to protect himself with his own impending threat level reaching new heights. This led to the formation of an alliance between himself, Dom, and Quint. Along with the rest of his tribe, Antonio noticed Aiden's lack of devotion to the game and communicating, leading him to see Aiden as an easy first boot on this new tribe.

After his tribe lost the first post-swap challenge, Antonio's hard work to secure his position in his new tribe was put to the test. It didn't take much convincing or general discussion for others to share Antonio's views on Aiden, which quickly led to a rise of majority against Aiden. However, with Dom being the only other original Nasser other than Aiden, he had his sights elsewhere...TimTom. This led to a bit of pushback from Dm against Antonio's favor, but when the chips fell, Antonio got his way in a unanimous vote against Aiden.

After three straight losses, Antonio finally found victory when his tribe won the next two challenges. This allowed him to work on his relationships with his tribe members, including Bochito who he initially was against on his original tribe. The relationship even progressed into a "showmance" which was their form of securing each other as allies.

Antonio began to speculate that the other tribe was throwing challenges in order to protect Dom, which made Antonio weary of moving forward with Dom in the game. He also began to grow in shock as he saw Mali surviving tribal councils as the only original Sadat on the other tribe.

At the final 11, Antonio and the rest of the remaining castaways were made aware they would merge in the next round, but both tribes would be voting someone out with one member of each tribe winning immunity. Knowing he needed to secure his numbers, Antonio saw it necessary that Dom did not win immunity. However, he was considering targeting Bochito for being untrustworthy to him in the past, but when she won immunity he finalized his sights on Dom. And although Dom put up a fair fight to target TimTom, it wasn't enough and Antonio and the rest of the tribe voted him out.

With only 9 people left in the game, everyone merged to form the Qabila D'Nile tribe. Antonio talked with Mali in a mutual attempt to bury the hatchet, but Antonio still had his sights on potentially going after Mali. As well after Talking with Tristan, Antonio saw him as a potential ally after analyzing him as dry socially and therefore less of a threat.

Despite a seemingly solid position in the game, cracks began to form in Antonio's numbers as his allies began making careless decisions with information in the game, such as TimTom telling Tristan he wanted Bochito out. With Mali winning the first individual immunity challenge, the tribe lost its common enemy as a first vote, which led to the formation of sides and divisions in the tribe. With Izzy losing her vote in the auction and also being on the side opposite of Antonio, it seemed he and his allies had the upper-hand. However, with his ally TimTom wanting his other ally Bochito out, Bochito began weighing loyalties and options. At tribal council, all out war broke loose when the votes tied between Tristan and TimTom, with Antonio's side targeting Tristan. With Bochito flipping on Antonio, his allies began to see no way to save TimTom and voted against him, leaving Antonio solely in the minority of the re-vote.

After the damaging affects of the prior tribal council, Antonio was left feeling more vulnerable than ever. He felt winning immunity was more important than ever before, so he gave his all in the flag designing challenge and came out with a victory and secured his position in the final 7. With Quint and Ethan leaving him in the dust last tribal, Antonio began considering his former allies as prime targets. With Izzy wanting to work with Antonio and Quint, new opportunities presented themselves to Antonio. Knowing the majority isn't yet likely to turn on each other, Antonio began pushing the vote against Ethan instead of Quint due to seeing Quint as a bigger threat and shield than Ethan. With Ethan's little amount of influence in the game, it didn't take much for the chips to fall into place and Ethan was nearly unanimously taken out.

At the final 7, despite renovating his place in the game from the final 9 tribal council, Antonio still saw the impending dancer of the current majority. However, new hope rose for Antonio when tragedy struck for Tristan as he was medically evacuated. This left the final 6 in a whole new game, and a new beginning was presented to Antonio. Antonio began seeing his path to the end clearly, which included Mali going next, but he had to reconsider when Mali won immunity. Despite the turmoil and betrayal Antonio has faced with Bochito, he saw a benefit to going to the end with her. However, Bochito made it clear where she stood when she told him she saw him as running the game and wanted him out. Knowing working with Bochito was no longer an option, Antonio knew his best move forward was to remove Bochito from the equation. Although, seeing how close Izzy and Quint were, he wanted to strike against them as soon as possible. However with Kamza being very loyal to Izzy, it seemed making a move against her was unlikely, and therefore pushed for Bochito, which ended unanimously against her.

With only 5 left in the game, Antonio was putting the pedal to the metal in order to take the necessary shots to get to the end and with the right people. After Mali won immunity again, Antonio was even more dead set on taking Izzy out, so he used his newly formed deal with Mali in order to take the necessary shot against her. After Quint told Antonio he wasn't down to vote Izzy out, and Kamza wanting Quint out, the vote landed in a 2-2-1 ties and it was up for Antonio, Mali, and Quint to break it. With having the numbers in the revote, Antonio effectively took out Izzy.

Antonio considered finally taking out Mali out at the final 4, but when Mali won immunity yet again, he had to scrap that plan. With Izzy out of the game, Quint began relying on Antonio to keep him alive in the game. So it wasn't hard for Antonio to convince Quint to vote against Kamza and Kamza to vote against Quint. Antonio began getting concerned when he heard Mali was also voting for Quint, as he initially believed Mali was voting him. However, at tribal council, Antonio got his way yet again and Quint was unanimously voted out.

With only 3 left in the game, Antonio knew this game came down to himself and Mali. He knew the importance of beating Mali in final immunity in order to make sure his fate wasn't left up to fire-making. However, when Mali won final immunity, Antonio's fate would come down to fire.

At tribal council, Mali gave up immunity to Kamza in order to go to fire-making against Antonio. After an epic battle of fire-making, Mali came out on top one final time and Antonio became the final person eliminated from the game and the seventh and final member of the jury.