Rich Robby

***Rich*** (more commonly known as **Robby**) was the Lone Survivor of Essential Survivor: Scotland

## Scotland

Winner winner chicken dinner, from almost placing 13th, to winning the game (there’s a trend of winners almost being booted early now huh) Robby was a polarizing character to watch from start to finish. And despite the season overall being on the more controversial side, it’s well known that Robby earned which and every portion of his title.

From the start, Robby realized that in his four person tribe, Chloe and Rachel were gonna click up with each other fairly quickly. So he knew that he either had to become the third man to their duo or buddy up with Antonio, and when Teine finally lost a challenge due to Chloe (much to Robby’s annoyance), he chose to lie to the girls and stick with Antonio. Despite knowing that he’d lose firemaking, Robby threw in all of his chips with Antonio and he blew it, leaving Robby in a swap situation with people who wouldn’t be opposed to slandering his name to everyone else. Thankfully, he only swapped with Rachel who didn't show many signs of distrust.

On the new Uisge tribe, Robby met up with Jaocb, which despite his initial thoughts, clicked well. Informing each other about the idols they possessed and vowing to work together. But then… he met Trey. Trey was immediately vary of Robby from the moment they met, and immediately tried making a four person alliance excluding Robby. Of course, this got back to him through Jacob, and his sights were laid out on Trey, unwillingly of course. When the first post-swap Tribal came around, Robby feared that his name would be heavily thrown out. But since Trey and Alex were scared for a presumed idol (which he did have) they planned to put votes on Rachel. But they didn't realize that everyone else planned to take out Trey. Regardless, in an act of paranoia, Robby played his idol, misplaying it completely. Which did seem to lower his threat level coming into the merge significantly.

At the merge, Robby solidified with his two main allies in Jacob and Calvin for the short-term. He knew that neither of them would want to go to the end with him. And then… he met Logic. From the jump, he knew that it’d be a battle for one of them to get voted out. So in response, Robby made a deal with Logic to not target each other until the Final 6. In which Logic responded by targeting him off the bat. Robby learned that a majority of the tribe wasn’t really feeling out Logic too much either, helping his case. And even though Robby was paranoid a few hours until Tribal Council about an advantage play, (even to the point of making Jacob throw a rogue vote on Alex) Robby managed to stick around in a 6-2-1 vote.

Come Final Eight, Robby continued to try and play as much of a loyal game as he could, but with the social ties he had, it became harder and harder. But in the nick of time, he received intel from Antony saying that Calvin was apparently throwing out his name. While Robby didn't exactly believe him, he still won individual immunity and didn't close off that possibility. But a few hours into the vote, everyone’s starting to compare notes with each other as several names have been thrown out at this point. And of course, it seemed to all boil down to Calvin (we think). So, with new solid allies in Bee and Antony, Robby cut Calvin in a close 4-3 vote.

This next round, despite his name being a serious target, Robby wasn’t in the spotlight. After Bee won immunity, the lines drawn seemed like Robby was in the minority with Bee and Antony, who both wanted to target Rachel. In the midst of this, Elena learned that Rachel was going to gun for her eventually, causing her to flip. Allowing Robby to narrowly escape elimination. At 6, Bee informed Rob that Jacob was the main one gunning for Robby last round, igniting what was the feud between front-runners. Now that sides were even, the only safety you can guarantee would be from challenges. And since Jacob won both reward and immunity, Robby wasn’t looking too hot at this moment. But then, the move of the season came along…

Robby put a plan in place so that his allies would be kept in tact. Robby knew that in a tie vote scenario, the people in the tie become safe and everyone instantly goes to rocks. So in an attempt to cause rocks, he campaigned to Bee about voting Antony and causing a tie. But there were two issues here. 1. Bee was gonna be drawing a rock as well, and 2. They’d only have two votes on Antony. Thankfully for Robby, Bee had an idol she was planning to use, and Antony manipulated the system into self-voting. So at Tribal Council, Jacob used his idol on Alex and Bee used hers on herself. So when the vote tied, Elena was eliminated by default.

At the Final Five, although it looked like Antony, Bee and Robby could ride it out until the Final Three, Bee began to consider flipping due to lying about her vote to Jacob multiple times. But luckily, Robby guaranteed his safety by winning immunity. But since Bee abandoned ship for Jacob, that 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. At the Final Four, Robby won the Final Immunity Challenge, and due to being the biggest threat left, they voted out Bee 3-1.

Heading into the Final Tribal Council, Robby was fairly confident that he could pull out a win, but still give it his best effort to plead towards the Jury. In the end, he was right, winning the season in a 6-1-0 vote over Alex and Antony.