Joshua Williams

**Money Won:** | $75,000

**Joshua WIlliams** was a male contestant that competed on ***The Royalty Challenge***. He first appeared on the first season, The Royalty Challenge: Parthenon, where he finished in 4th place. He returned in The Royalty Challenge: Brain vs. Brawn vs. Beauty with his team **Brain** where he finished in 3rd place.

In **Parthenon**, Joshua began the game starting two alliances; Heavenly Seven and The Silent Killers. He then became a part of the early majority; The Cloud before being added to the sub-alliance; Peanut Butter Petty Time. Using his likeable social abilities, Joshua was able to fly under the radar whilst maintaining both of his alliances in secret. After being a social and strategic force in the game, Joshua's physical abilities failed him in finale when he lost.

In **Brain vs. Brawn vs. Beauty**, Joshua started the game representing Team Brain. Joshua pulled together his season 1 allies Dorian Washington and Nicole Q to form the OG Brains alliance whilst also being added to CJ Shane's majority alliance Brain Trust. He and few of the other veterans targeted Marti De'Lyte during the first impressions twist; whilst being worried about a potential rookie alliance floating around. Believing Chloe McSalterson and CJ weren't pulling their weight on his team, Joshua slowly started to plant seeds about him to other players in the event that they lost another daily and that CJ didn't perform since Chloe had proven herself in elimination. After losing the daily again, Joshua gathered most of the Veterans, Parzi Valentine and Chloe to blindside CJ by putting him into elimination; ultimately getting him eliminated. As the Brain losing-streak continued, Joshua formed The Newark Twin Twist alliance consisting of him and James X; someone he had met during University. The pair became a strategic and social duo; eventually being put together on a team during the swap. Feeling safe with James as leader, Joshua voted Christian Cruz into elimination; blindsiding him and leading to a small confrontation between the pair. However, Knife Weston and Liam Lovelis didn't tell James their plans and threw Joshua into elimination against Christian.

After winning his first elimination of the season, he swapped to team Beauty to be reunited with ally Nicole after feeling on the bottom of Brain. Feeling frustrated and hopeless with the way the OG Brawn and their allies were dominating the game, Joshua assisted James in creating The Revolution alliance against them; following with voting Knife into elimination against Otto O'Reilly after his team lost. He also also started a sub-alliance including Andy Cook and James called the **Mean Girls**. Being on another team with a losing-streak, Joshua found himself in elimination against former winner Ellie Smash, after voting her in, when Otto, Liam and Rhea Sunshine voted him in as Leaders; leading to him labelling Rhea fake. Joshua managed to beat Smash in elimination but as his team continued to lose, they had to turn on each other by voting ally Isabel Banks into elimination. During the round before the finale, Joshua attempted to keep James and Ny Love safe after learning he had made it, but with Tommy Fairfax's betrayal and last minute vote-switches; they both ended up in elimination. After the final results, he along with allies Nicole and Ny finished in third place.

## **Trivia**

* Joshua is one of the first players to make it to the finale twice.
	+ He is the first male player to improve him placement when doing this.
* Joshua currently holds and shares the most elimination wins without losses with season 3 alumni Rhea.