Neb Tato

***Neb*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Yemen

## Yemen

Neb is the self proclaimed Uwu Lord of Yemen. Starting off strong on the introvert tribe, Neb seemed to be a sure lock for swap.  And just like many of his allies, he was allowed to easily slide through the start of the game due to Hurricane Neil.

After winning the first challenge, Neb set to strengthen bonds with his quiet tribe, stating he’d rather mutiny to the extroverts than stick to his dry castaways. His notable allies at the time were Zak, Preston and Abigail, sitting cutely, watching the show unfold. So when they lost the second challenge, Neb had a solid alliance, and a clear target. When his #1 ally Zak launched a split vote plan, he readily went along with it, practically coasting through the rest of the pre swap phase.

When they swapped,  Neb appeared to be in the minority, but quickly built connections with Matt and Felix, forming an easy majority on his 5 person tribe.  Sadly, he and his tribe had no luck winning the next two challenges, just needing second to win but falling short. Their first vote off was relatively easy, showing his loyalty to his new allies, and Seal who had been virtually invisible met a swift end, being flipped on. Going into the next vote, it was relatively tricky, with Owen believing its a 3-1 on Neb, Neb campaigned and hoped his loyalty and social game would be enough to have Matt and Felix keep him. And good thing they kept Neb, as they kicked it into high gear, and his next score for the challenge alone won it for his tribe, allowing Neb to be safe with his trio until merge.

The second he merged, Neb went around, painting a narrative that he would have been 13th or 12th had munfatih lost a challenge, all the while keeping up his close alliance with Matthew and Felix. After Preston had quit and an ally lost, Neb looked at the numbers he had, with Zak, Abby, Felix and Matt and how he could easily take control of the tribe. Noting Alison and her potential idols, he eagerly was on board with the plan to blindside Alison, and in case of an idol, Josh would go, who Neb saw as Cedricks ride or die. Sadly, this was only one of the last times where Neb was in the majority of the group.

After Josh went out, Neb wanted this round to go exactly how he wanted. He was pushing a split vote onto Joshua and Cedrick, as Alison had won immunity, and Neb saw everyone else left as potential numbers. But with a potential Felix blindside the works, Neb had no choice but to flip to another plan, abandoning his own, trying to eliminate James and his vote steal. Unfortunately, Neb's prior ride or die, Zak, had other plans, and blindsiding Neb by pulling off a 4-3-2 against Matt, someone Neb did not want leaving yet. Feeling out of the loop, Neb strived for the next immunity challenge and succeeded, locking his spot in the final 7.

This round, the impossible happened. With obvious targets of Alison, who had been on the outs the last few votes and Joshua who was performing well physically without winning anything, Neb tossed that aside and united with them, in an attempt to get rid of Zak, who was seen as the mastermind behind the last vote. But as this was a peak of Nebs game, there was only one way to go.

Walking into final 7, Neb was aware that there were several big threats left in the game, wanting him and Felix towards the end. With his ally Abby winning immunity, they seemingly had free range of targets of Alison James and Cedrick. They seemed to be solid in eliminating James, but a wrench was thrown in their plan….by Nebs very own ally. Due to personal reasons, Abby wished to leave the game and had gifted immunity away. Granting her wish, Neb Felix and Joshua all changed their votes to Abby, but a vote steal and a solid 3 send Joshua out, which Neb was okay with but left them in a deadlocked 3-3. That is until Abby walked immediately after, and it seemed to be curtains for Neb and Felix. After Alison won immunity, yet again Neb was on a perceived 3-2 minority. But his saving grace came in the form of Cedrick, flipping with them to target James once again. But an easy duo with an idol posed to be a bigger threat then Neb can handle, and due to his challenge history, he was idoled out in a 3\*-2 vote over his ride or die.

Nebs time in Yemen was overall a solid performance, being able to survive countless minorities and advantage plays and losing ally after ally. But in the end, he was viewed as a Felix Follower.