Antony Zeluco

***Antony*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Scotland. He later returned on Essential Survivor: Peru

## Scotland

A controversial move makes a controversial player. Antony, while being a 0 vote finalist, was more of a strategic threat than people would see him as. Whether it be his edit, or him simply getting overshadowed by his allies Bee and Robby, Antony was a force to be reckoned with, yet the final outcome doesn’t exactly show that.

On the Adhair tribe, his main connection right off the bat was with Jacob. They bonded over sports fairly well, and he was confident enough to put Jacob at #1 on his rankings. He also seemed to bond well with Elena despite him annoying her frequently. As for Evelyn, she clearly was the outcast of the tribe and was packed up by the second episode. When the Double Tribal came around, even though Adahir had managed to win it, Antony had concerns that Jacob wouldn’t stay loyal to him if they had gone again to Tribal. Which he can assume that he was right as Jacob revealed his idol to Elena rather than Antony.

At the swap, Antony was on the new Teine tribe with former tribemate Elena, he hit it off with Logic and Bee fairly quickly. Although, Antony was very suspicious of Bee due to her presumed sneaky nature. His suspicions of Bee were correct though as she beared an Idol. Yet, he for some reason told that to Logic, which made it even more obvious that his reads were indeed correct. And as the Chloe boot transpired, Logic and Antony weren’t looking too hot currently. Antony began to doubt Logic’s loyalty to him more and more (with influence of course), and he seemed like he’d turn on him the first chance he got. But when the next opportunity came up… that didn't happen.

When Teine lost their second challenge in a row, it was common news that either Logic or Contessa would be getting voted off. Antony, while heavily suspicious of Logic and his loyalty to him. The conclusion Antony came to was that Logic staying around would be better for his longterm game heading into merge, and he was somewhat right about that. Regardless, Contessa was out, his number one was still in, and he had just made the merge. Once talk about the vote came around, it was clear that logic was the main consensus for everyone to boot, and of course, Antony clearly tried to move the target over to Robby. But it was way too late for that, so he unfortunately had to turn on his #1 ally here. Leaving the door open for new allies to arise and for new people to socialize with.

One of those people he wanted to work with (despite seeing his extreme threat level) was Calvin. He saw that Calvin apparently began to plant ‘seeds of distrust’ among a multitude of people to Antony, so in an effort to ascend his positioning, he blabbed about what Calvin said to the majority of his tribe. Which caused so much confusion and paranoia between everyone and Calvin, and even caused some sort of Calvin v Antony arc, which Antony obviously won by a small margin by eliminating Calvin. But even though that job was finished, his social positioning was at an all time low, where most people weren’t too trusting of him either.

Noticing that he wasn’t in the greatest position as he was before, Antony gunned hard for the immunity necklace, only coming up short to another Bee win. But even though he didn't have immunity, he wasn’t exactly in danger anymore. The main targets shifted to Jacob, Rachel and Robby. Antony, like Bee, was mainly targeting Rachel as he didn't want any goats in the Final Tribal Council. As of right now, the Rachel plan was in fact working. Robby, Bee and himself were set on Rachel, while everyone else was set on Robby, making them a majority. But out of nowhere, Elena had realized that Rachel was planning on targeting her soon, allowing for her to flip and Rachel to be eliminated, advancing Antony to the Final Six.

For as jam-packed was it was for Antony, he barely commented on his strategic thinking throughout this whole thing. Jacob won both reward and immunity, and began to lead a serious charge against Robby. Knowing that the vote would tie 3-3, Antony’s side came up with a genius plan to send Elena and Alex to rocks. While Jacob, Alex and Elena would vote Robby. Bee and Robby would vote Antony, and Antony would receive a self-vote by not voting. This move caused a bunch of controversy but it did indeed work when Bee played her idol, and Jacob played an idol on Alex, taking out Elena by default in the process. This move really soured many’s opinion of Antony, but regardless, no one can deny that it was a phenomenal move.

At the Final Five, Antony was back in serious trouble again when everyone’s main target, Robby was immune. Feeling bad about her previous lies, Bee was really tempted to flip and side with Jacob on his vote. Which meant that Antony and Robby had to seriously work on Alex. They wanted her to flip with them and vote Bee, causing a 3-2 vote. And because she wasn’t too decisive on it, Antony changed his vote but not Robby. But when she DID confirm that she flipped, Antony informed Robby too late and his vote was locked. Causing a 2-2-1 tie between Antony and Bee. Meaning rocks would ensue between Jacob and Alex. Relieving everyone, Jacob was the one rocked out. Now Robby and Bee were the main threats heading into the Final Three. So whichever one won, would be taking out another one. As we saw when Robby won and Bee was quickly taken out 3-1.

At the Final Tribal Council, while Antony had a somewhat impressive path to get there. The jury didn't respect him much. From his F6 move to the condescending matter he spoke to them in, all of that came to a 0 vote finalist conclusion for Antony.

## Peru

If someone had said that Antony would be a first boot in a returnee season, they would cackle in your face. Reality, however, is often disappointing, as this strategic pioneer had his second chance stomped.

Antony was unhappy to see that both tribes shared the same beach (One World twist), as his usual approach to the game is to slowly socialize at first, and then strategically dominate as the game progresses. However, since all 20 castaways were allowed to talk with one another from the start, he knew he was going to be hindered socially. (Keep in mind that in Scotland, he was placed in a tribe of four people.)

Despite his valiant effort at the first challenge of the season, Antony’s tribe lost, and at first he seemed like he would slide by because Bandit immediately targeted Karmynn, Khamp, and Tyler, and even though this prompted discussion for Bandit to be voted off first (again), Khamp and Tyler were the most likely to be voted off on night two. At the dawn of the third day the three people who Bandit wanted voted off compared notes and thought of tactics to save themselves. They decided to spread Antony’s name as a less active player and a potential strategic threat, and Khamp told took advantage of the One World twist by telling the Inti tribe about him being a potential vote off, prompting some Inti members to vouch for his safety. These two events, along with members of Coniraya wanting to save Bandit, Khamp, Karmynn, and Tyler, caused most of the tribe to vote off Antony in an 8-2 vote.

## Voting History

 Lost The Plot
 Voted Out, Day 3