Geo Styles

***Geo*** is the Lone Survivor of Essential Survivor: Peru. He was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Japan previously. He later returned for Essential Survivor: All Stars 2

## Japan

Geo was definitely a character. Similar to Josh of BB19, Geo was loud, abrasive, and daunting. But don’t let this fool you, this man still has a strategic mindset. And despite several others outshining him at certain points of the game, he was the main focal point of one of the best moments this season.

At the beginning of the game, Geo made the audience know that he wasn’t gonna hold back on any of his tactics. Whether or not it hurts the feelings of others, if it’s best for his game, he’d do it. But this strategy had definitely its downsides, considering Geo’s social awareness was at its all time low, since he had thought he was on the top of the tribe, when it was the opposite. Another example was when Zachary had trashed his social game when he attempted to blindside Theodore. Geo had thought he caused Zachary's demise by telling Theo, when the whole tribe did exactly that.

Coming into the swap, you can tell that this was the prime of Geo’s game. On the NuWakai tribe, Geo faced a 4-4 split in OG numbers. He was sided with Theo, X and Jay. Observing the split in numbers, Geo immediately attempted to flip Luke, who was unintentionally playing both sides at the moment.

During the same episode, Geo received an advantage after the challenge called ‘Power of Friendship’. This allowed Geo to transfer someone from the opposing side over to NuWakai for 24 hours. And since the other 4-4 split tribe was heading to Tribal Council, he stole Enrique from them. Giving the OG Wakai a 4-3 advantage. Unfortunately, an idol blew that advantage away. At the upcoming post-swap Tribal, Geo had now upgraded from trying to flip Luke, but now trying to work Jack and Josiah to flip the vote. But what he didn't know was they were already going to flip due to a chance of rocks and simply to better their connections come merge. So when Geo heard that Deca threw his name out as an option, all the stars aligned perfectly and Deca was voted out 6-2. After this, a new thought of blindsiding Theo erupted in Geo’s head, which continued until his eventual demise.

At the merge, Geo’s social awareness continued to stay fairly off. As he was correct about the NuFurui tribe throwing challenges, his read on the other side’s target was off, as he thought he’d easily be the target, when in reality, it was Jay. In addition to this, Theo randomly played a Legacy Advantage on him at the first merged tribal. Which may have boosted his game ego a bit, considering even more of Geo’s social awareness blunders have occurred in the upcoming episode. After a bunch of arguing and thinking that he and X were running the vote, Tribal lines were the root of everyone’s problems as Theo was voted out 6-4.

But, as much as I’m acknowledging Geo’s flaws. At the Final 9 he pulled a move very few people can do, using his social awareness. After losing immunity, he had found the rehidden idol that Theodore left with on his way out. So in an attempt to weaken the other side’s numbers, Geo had put on his sad face. Moping around camp as if he had given up on the game, this was to receive all 6 Furui votes so he could negate them with his idol and vote out anyone of the OG Wakai’s choice. And surprisingly, it worked! All six votes against Geo were negated due to their social prowess, the three Wakai targeted Jack, sending him packing.

But there was one huge flaw in Geo’s plan; his social management. From the moment he revealed his idol, he absolutely trashed all of Furui for believing him. And since they had the majority regardless, Geo was immediately voted out at the Final 8, 5-3.