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Rachel Vinyards

***Rachel*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Scotland

## Scotland

People usually saw Rachel and Chloe as an unbreakable duo in this season. And while that was true, it’s clear to most that Rachel seemed to be the more aggressive player. A player who had plans, but never executed them. It looked like Rachel was set to go deep into the game, but her torch was shortly snuffed when she was taken out at the Final 7 in a 4-3 vote.

As we said before, Chloe and Rachel were a tight duo. So when they were placed on the same starting tribe with Robby and Antonio, they easily were able to guarantee a firemaking challenge. Between one of them. As their tribe kept winning challenges, she began to notice how Robby made fire a lot, in which she deemed him as a threat. By the time the Double Tribal Council came along, Teine finally lost a challenge and Rachel had to make a decision. At first, she was leaning towards voting Robby, since Chloe told her that he’s been throwing her name out. But when Robby managed to trick her into voting for Antonio, he caused a tie at Tribal Council between Rachel and Antonio. Resulting in a live firemaking challenge. Due to never making fire once before, Antonio obviously lost and Rachel made it to the swap.

Buffs drop down, and Rachel was on a whole new tribe. With her only other Teine member being Robby, she was forced to align with him, but failed to make strong connections with the rest of the tribe. Which is why her name came up as a potential target in numerous conversations. Especially when Uisge 2.0 lost, Rachel’s name was one of the two names brought up. Saving her, people began to realize how big of a threat Trey could become in the merge portion of the game. So they quickly blindsided him in a 4-2 vote, saving Rachel from yet another elimination.

Now we’ve hit the merge, and Rachel has subsided from everyone initial targets for a bit. She sided with the majority on getting Logic booted, same story with Calvin’s exit, but Rachel manages to get a dream in which she believes that Elena was targeting her, making for some funny moments. Now we’ve hit the Final 7, and Rachel wants to continue the streak of getting big threats out. So her next target was Robby. She had all of Elena, Bee, Jacob and Alex down on board. But before the Tribal, Elena heard that Rachel snitched to Calvin about her voting plans resulting in her flipping. And before you knew it, Bee had also flipped with her, causing Rachel to get voted off 4-3.
Should Have Played That Idol

***Should Have Played That Idol*** is the ninth episode of Essential Survivor: Japan

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Colored Conundrums**

• Welcome Castaways, to your second individual immunity challenge.

• For today’s challenge you will be given six rounds to match the color shown to the best fo your ability. Whoever gets the best score wins individual immunity tomorrow!

• Shall we begin?

Winner: Enrique
Derek Jespen

***Derek*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Saint Martin

## Saint Martin

If someone had the biggest change in gameplay during their time here, a big contender for that would be Derek. Derek was so isolated from his original tribe in the first couple of days, that during the second challenge, Shai openly said that the vote would be Derek. But when Derek actually showed up (also ruining the plan), the vote switched over to Beth. Which Derek was completely fine with. Once the swap came into play, the New Gonzalo tribe lost and Derek made it his mission to flip on his tribe and target Steph. It worked, and Derek’s game resume began there. Next episode, Derek got even more screen time. Notably for his wild confessional about Georgy ruining the James vote. Derek returned to his INV roots in Episode 5, due to Gonzalo finally winning a challenge. But next episode, Tyler & Tommy deemed James and Nick better allies than Derek, as he was voted out 4-1.

## Voting History

 You Caused Your Own Demise
 We Hate Fortnite
 Everybody Talks
 Vomit Color
 If Karma Doesn't Hit You, I Will
 Silence Is Your Best Friend
 Voted Off, Day 18
Brooks Becker

***Brooks*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Saint Martin

## Saint Martin

And Brooks, from the moment he finished his interview, you could tell that he was here to PLAY. Getting placed on the Irma tribe, on Day 1, Brooks attempted at solidifying an alliance with himself, James, Lindsay and Georgy. Already, this was a bad move, due to him grouping people together within the first 20 minutes of the game. To make matters worse, Gonzalo easily beat Irma’s messy performance in the Immunity Challenge. Wanting to take charge, and a majority. Brooks ordered his alliance + Will, to vote out Tyler. Unfortunately for Brooks, Will didn’t exactly like the plan to vote out Tyler, so he started spreading Brook’s name out to people. He even managed to convince Georgy and Aria to flip sides and join Will. So, in a 5-3 vote, Brook’s time in Saint Martin was cut short, due to his overly-dominant persona.

### Voting History

 You Caused Your Own Demise
 Voted Off, Day 3
REPPIN THAT BLING

***REPPIN THAT BLING*** is the merge episode of Essential Survivor: Scotland

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Circles**

• Welcome @Castaways to your seventh immunity challenge!

• This challenge is simple, build the best circle. Whoever has the most points wins individual immunity, safe from Tribal Council and advancing to the Final Eight. If you don't win, you're eligible to become the eighth person voted out of this game.\*

Winner: Bee
I Think You Misspelled Piece Of Furniture

***I Think You Misspelled Piece Of Furniture*** is the third episode of Essential Survivor: Scotland

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Semantris**

• Welcome @Castaways to your third immunity challenge!

• For today's simple challenge you'll be playing a game called Semantris, the objective to to score as many points as you can with sending out words that correlate with the word the game gives you. Use arcade mode.

• The two tribes with the highest average by the end will win Immunity. Sending the others to Tribal Council. Good luck!

Winner: Uisge, Adhair
Gavin Green

***Gavin*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Brazil

## Brazil

With a game that never really went uphill at any time, Gavin was definitely one of this season’s underdogs. Even going out in a true underdog fashion, now let’s discuss it.

Despite being the first person this season to get sent to Exile Island, Gavin made a strong connection to Milo. Someone who’d later be in the majority alliance, bringing Gavin in as an affiliate. Once he came back from Exile Island though, Gavin’s game really went downhill. His activity in the game decreased slowly over time. Making it extremely noticeable to not only the Janeiro tribe, but the Samba tribe as well. But on Day 14, the day of the infamous Joint Tribal Council, Gavin got bit by snake. Requiring him to be medically evacuated from the game. (he striked out)

## Voting History

 You Don't Know It, But I Hold The Cards
 It's Not Just a Nae-Nae
 I Think I've Lost It
 But Are You Hear
 There Will Be Blood
 Medically Evacuated, Day 14
Amber Kusanovich

*Amber* was the runner-up of Essential Survivor: Canary Islands. She later returned for Peru.

## Canary Islands

Amber started off the game on the Green La Gomera tribe. She clicked with Jonathan, Patrick and Jessica. Eventually making an alliance with said four. La Gomera never went to tribal for four straight rounds, and even though that meant less stress. It didn't exactly make the game easier, as you couldn't tell where people stood. Which Amber identified.

Coming into the merge, Amber felt solid with the aforementioned alliance + Tommy. Although she trusted Phillip to not target her, Amber was fine with letting him go for the merge boot. At the Final 7, Amber made one of the biggest moves in Essential Survivor history. Leading up to this voteout, a voting bloc of herself, Patrick, Chelsea and Vince formed. With the goal of taking out Jonathan. However, Amber had a lot of trust in Jonathan. And felt like letting Vince and Chelsea slide with no challenge threat to beat them could be worrisome. She planted a seed to switch the vote onto Jessica, which the alliance fell in love with, voting her out 4-3.

However, she ended up being left out of the next vote as Patrick was voted out 4-2. Vince was promptly voted out next, 3-2, for being a huge Jury Threat. At Final Four Jonathan won immunity yet again, which left Amber with a huge decision. She sided with Chelsea to vote out Tommy. This would send both Chelsea and Tommy to firemaking, and should Tommy lose, Jonathan is weakened heading into the Final Immunity Challenge. Fortunately, this plan worked and Tommy was taken out in 4th Place.

Jonathan won Final Immunity, and took Amber over Chelsea. Come Final Tribal, most of the jury seemed to favor Jonathan, while Vince was the only clear-cut Amber supporter. She ended up losing the season by a vote of 5-2, and is widely recognized as a 'Robbed Goddess'. Jonathan and Amber remain as one of, if not the best Finalists in Essential Survivor History.
You Don't Know It, But I Hold The Cards

***You Don't Know It, But I Hold The Cards*** is the first episode of Essential Survivor: Brazil

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Puzzle Duels**

For today's challenge you'll all be completing a puzzle. The catch is that you'll be dueling against someone from the opposing tribe. Out of the two, whoever finishes with a better time earns a point for their tribe. Whichever tribe has the highest amount of points by the end of all 9 duels will win Immunity and won't go to Tribal Council.

Winner: Samba
Luke Ukeson

***Luke*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Japan

## Japan

Luke, much like Vincent, showed a great ton of promise heading into the season. But all-season long, nothing noteworthy could be said about Luke’s actual game due to his nonexistent care for the game, but a summary must be written, so let’s get straight to it.

Off rip, Luke was in a bad spot. He was late to the socialization which led him to only having a good conversation with Kamen. And everyone knows that in Survivor, socializing is the most important thing. Luckily enough, Luke played a MAJOR factor in his tribe winning the first challenge, so was all hope back? NOPE! By the time Furui had lost their first challenge, Luke’s game had been completely trashed. Josiah told him the vote was Richard but in reality, the vote would be 9-1 against him. But thanks to Barsam getting disqualified, Luke stayed another day… only for him and his only eventual ally Richard to get targeted at the immediate next Tribal. Luckily AGAIN, Richard received more votes than Luke, keeping him in the game yet again, but with no allies.

Heading into the swap, it was anyone's guess what Luke would do. Even Luke himself didn't know what he’d do. But he did make good friends with Theo, which is definitely a plus. At first, Luke had just stuck with his OG tribe and Theo, not causing much of a wave. But unlike Theo who he made great connections with, then there was Jay… needless to say, Luke and Jay started off on the wrong foot and will most likely never get to the right foot. At the first and only post-swap Tribal Luke had attended, he immediately gunned for Jay, which his OG tribemates and Theo complied at first… only for most of them to target Deca, leaving Luke in the minority, once more.

At the merge, Luke’s edit went from UTR5 to straight INV real quick. He made almost no confessionals and had just followed whatever plan Josiah gave him. It was shaping up for Luke to become an FTC goat. But at the Final 7, everyone had easily decided to target Enrique for his physical ability. But when he used his idol, only one vote counted during that Tribal. And unfortunately, it was for Luke.
The Odd Girl Out

***The Odd Girl Out*** is the fourth episode of Essential Survivor: Togo

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Helix Jump**

• Welcome Castaways to your fourth immunity challenge! This challenge is really straightforward, so let's not do too much chattering at let's get right on into it!

• I'll send out a game called 'Helix Jump'. The goal to the game is to advance farther down to tubes without hitting an obstacle and dying. When you think you have a good enough score, screenshot it and send it to me via confessional. You can send as many times as needed, but your final submission will count in the end, unless stated otherwise.

• The tribe with the lowest average score, will be seeing me at tribal, where one of you will become the fourth person voted out of this game.

Winner: Kabre

## Trivia

* This episode was named after Leetah's quote.
You Caused Your Own Demise

***You Caused Your Own Demise*** is the first episode of Essential Survivor: Saint Martin

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **26x7**

Tribes must find a word that starts with each letter of the alphabet with more than 7 letters. First tribe to send the written requirement in one message first wins immunity.

Winner: Gonzalo
Trying To Align With A Rock

***Trying To Align With A Rock*** is the second episode of Essential Survivor: Scotland

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **SOS Signal**

• Welcome Castaways to your second Immunity Challenge of the season!

• The challenge is pretty self-explanatory once you look at the title, regardless... here's how it works.

• As a tribe,you'll will be making SOS Signals. Pretend you were on a beach and had to make an SOS Signal for anyone passing. The goal is to make the most eye catching signal. Anything goes, the message itself must be in within the Discord message limit. Emojis included. Ping me when you all have a collective decision. Submissions are due at 6:30 PM Eastern, 9-16-20.

Winner: Uisge, Talamh, Teine
Maldives

***Essential Survivor: Maldives*** is the eighth season of Essential Survivor.

Coming into this season, the hype was definitely there. Coming off of a season where the cast was remarkable, and with 2 people already confirmed to return? Maldives definitely garnered a lot of recognition preseason, but when the season actually started it didn't take long for it to lose all momentum. Don't get me wrong, the cast itself wasn't bad. But we lost a lot of potential pre-merge which caused for a less than engaging merge phase. Although, the endgame is better than people give it credit for, solidifying one of the best redemption arcs in Essential History.

## Casting

Casting for Essential Survivor: Maldives began on December 28th, 2020 and ended on January 29th, 2020. A total of 50 applicants applied for this season, when only **18** got selected to compete in the Maldives.

## Changes

* A new weather and shelter system was implemented into the game.

## Twists

* **Returnees**: 6 one-time premergers were invited back for a second shot at the title of Lone Survivor.
* **Tribe Shuffle** - At the Final Sixteen, the two tribes shuffled members.
Why Vote Off The Winner

***Why Vote Off The Winner*** is the twelfth episode of Essential Survivor: Saint Martin

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Trivia Season**

Castaways will compete in a trivia game regarding the current season. Whoever answers 5 questions correctly wins immunity

Winner: Aria

## Trivia

* This episode was named after Tommy's quote.
Winston Cavan

*Winston* was a castaway on Essential Survivor: South Korea

## South Korea

Winston had a lot of promise coming into the season, but his game didn't live up to it. Starting on the Beauty tribe, besides Dawit, Winston was clearly on the bottom with everyone socially from the jump. As this was due to inactivity, Winston couldn't do much to salvage his relations whenever he was online. Once Sahoeui lost the challenge, they wasted no time sending him home.

## Voting History

 I Think We're The Actual Brains Tribe
 Voted Out, Day 5
Brazil

***Essential Survivor: Brazil*** is the second season of Essential Survivor.

If there's one season this season has its praise for, it's for the amazing cast. This cast was strong in all aspects, strategy, entertainment, humane moments, this cast had it all! So when you throw all 18 of them on a dangerous remote island in Brazil, you're bound to have some fun watching them! By the end, we were left with our first DQ of the franchise, a decoy winner edit, and a winner who really puts the spotlight on what playing a UTR game is.

## Casting

Casting for Essential Survivor: Brazil began on April 8th, 2020 and ended on April 15th, 2020. A total of 47 applicants applied for this season, when only **18** got selected to compete in Brazil.

## Twists

* **Exile Island**: For the entire pre-merge portion of this season, Exile Island was in play.
* **Joint Tribal Council**: On Day 13, both tribes went to the beach area due to them joining together as one to vote someone out. Despite that, one person from each tribe won immunity beforehand.
Steph Floppy

***Steph*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Saint Martin

## Saint Martin

Steph’s time on Saint Martin was pretty uneventful. First off, she wasn’t even here for the first day. She finally showed up on Day 2, gaining popularity due to her birthday also being on Day 2. Once Gonzalo lost their second challenge, Steph accidentally voted for the wrong person in Derek, attempting to vote off her alliance’s target; Beth. But although being in a good position at the Final 14, a tribe swap occurred. And she did in fact, get swap screwed. All four of her alliances members had gone over to Irma, while she had stayed at Gonzalo with Nick & Derek. Next challenge had begun, and barely anyone from either side submitted, yet Irma won nonetheless. As Gonzalo looked for someone to vote for. The four Irma with the majority pulled in Derek and Nick and voted out Steph. Gaining more of a majority, and getting rid of a challenge liability.

## Voting History

 You caused Your Own Demise
 We Hate Fortnite
 Everybody Talks
 Voted Off, Day 10
That Seems Very Sus

***That Seems Very Sus*** is the eighth episode of Essential Survivor: Scotland

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Bouncing Dot**

• Welcome @Castaways to your eighth immunity challenge!

• You guys will be participating in a game that tests your quick movement, and quick thinking. It's Bouncing Dot! Highest score wins individual immunity, safe from the vote and will advance to the Final Seven.

• The rest of you will be up for elimination, where one of you will become the ninth person voted out of this game.

Winner: Robby
Tony City

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

## Yemen

For being a first boot, Tony was definitely less engaging than the people who came before him. Unlike many others, Tony looked like he had potential to win the game based on the interview alone. However, being the only non-American on a tribe really screws with your game, as Tony wasn’t able to solidify any real connections immediately and was shafted to the lower half of everyone’s rankings. Because of his bottom tier positioning and contrasting timezone, Munfatih had no issue making Tony Yemen’s first casualty.

## Voting History

 Merge Level Energy
 Voted Out, Day 3
Zachary Parker

***Zachary*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Japan

## Japan

After watching Zachary play 9 days in Japan, I found several similarities in his game to one of our alumni Georgy from the inaugural season. Both were fourth boots, both were in somewhat good positions during their stay and both got voted off for overplaying.

As with most castaways, the main goal is to find some people you can confide with right off the bat. In Zachary’s case, those three people were Travis, Theodore and Tommy. Later in the day, Travis revealed Zent’s 5-person alliance to Zachary, who in return solidified a foursome with his most trusted tribemates. Even hoping they’d act as shields later in the game.Come the first Tribal, he caught onto the Brett vote later than most of the tribe, but despite wanting to save him, he decided to go with the tribe and vote out Brett. But during the pre-tribal portion, he noticed how well-liked Theodore was, which plays a huge part in later episodes.

Nothing too eventful happened during Wakai’s two pre-swap wins, Zachary had time to chill out (which he didn't like considering his confessional entries) and focused on his two main targets being Zent and Vincent. But at the upcoming episode, that was all subject to change. At the fourth immunity challenge, Zachary threw the challenge in hopes of going to Tribal Council. Thankfully he made a good enough excuse to pass by. (Vincent also not helping, helped Zachary’s case as well) So with now heading to Tribal the next day, Zachary immediately wanted to blindside Theodore for his social game. And while he had the correct intentions with this plan, once the whole tribe (save Zent) found out about it. They immediately backed up Theodore and blindsided Zachary within a blink of the eye. Proving Zachary right whilst sending him home.

## Voting History

 See You After The Vote Count
 The Inactives Are Spared
 Able To Crusade For Blood
 Voted Out, Day 9
Chelsea Donovan

***Chelsea*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Canary Islands

## Canary Islands

Chelsea began the game on Tenerife. She had bonds with Greenberg, Tai and Vince immediately. During the first challenge, Chelsea threw it to La Gomera. Her reasoning was that she didn't want Tenerife to get cocky after winning. Unbeknownst to her, she started the trainwreck that was Tenerife... they ended up losing four straight challenges.

By the time they lost their first challenge, it was down to Chelsea, Greenberg, Tai and Vince. The people Chelsea felt good with. Off the beat, she refused to vote for Tai as she was her #1. She ended up deciding on voting Greenberg with Tai and Vince because Greenberg didn't have a better social bond with Chelsea.

Due to the lack of confessionals, there's not much to cover so we'll skip to the Final Eight. Where Vince and Chelsea are the only two Tenerife left in the game. Despite being cautious of La Gomera, Chelsea voted with them in their pursuit of sending Jabari home. By Final Seven, a voting bloc was made with Vince, Amber and Patrick. This group intended to take out Jonathan, but due to some seeds being planted, the target switched over to Jessica. At this point, she wanted to go the end with Vince and Amber. Albeit unsure if she could even beat Vince.

At Final Six, Vince and Chelsea flipped on Amber and Tommy so they could take out Patrick. Come Final Five, Chelsea was wondering how she managed to make it this far. Although, she had less and less faith about her actually winning the game due to such a little presence she's had. This was only reinforced when Vince was taken out here instead of her.

At Final Four, Jonathan won immunity. And in a last ditch effort, her and Amber partnered up to send Tommy to firemaking with Chelsea. Fortunately, she beat Tommy and advanced to the Final Three. Where Jonathan won the challenge and voted her out for being a Jury Threat.
What Is Perception

***What Is Perception*** is the ninth episode of Essential Survivor: Saint Martin

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Truth Bullets**

A nod to the anime Danganronpa and an irl Survivor classic, Truth Bullets was a renamed version of Touchy Subjects. Castaways to had answer questions regarding who's left in the game, then after had to guess who the majority answered for each question. Whoever got the most right won immunity.

Winner: Aria
Saint Martin

***Essential Survivor: Saint Martin*** is the first season of Essential Survivor.

Despite it being the first season of the franchise, Saint Martin was full of great blindsides, compelling game play, a great winner arc and an entertaining bunch of castaways that meshed well together. This season is also know for it's 4-person jury. I think it's safe to say that Saint Martin set the tone for what's to come in the franchise, whether its good or bad is still up for debate.

## Casting

For the first season of this franchise, Applications were open from February 19th, 2020 - February 23rd, 2020. And in only 4 days, a whopping amount of **40** people signed up for this season. Only 16 of them were chosen.
Stupid Spaghetti Internet

***Stupid Spaghetti Internet*** is the fifth episode of Essential Survivor: Scotland

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Flagging**

• Welcome @Castaways to your fifth immunity challenge!

• This challenge is simple. Each tribe will send out a member to the #beach. I'll send out a flag of a country, first person to say the flag's name wins a point.

• First to 5 wins, the losers will be seeing me at tribal, where one of you will become the sixth person voted out of this game.

Winner: Uisge
Tak Ace

***Tak*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Togo

## Togo

Although we want different types of people each season, not only Production, but even the spectators saw Tak’s odd resemblance to Jarek from Season 2. And while Tak didn’t have the same villainous undertone, they still landed in the same 17th Place, let’s talk about why.

For starters, Tak was considered socially inept by her whole tribe due to her not being able to hold a conversation. So when Mina lost the challenge, Tak was an easy vote-out, 5-1.

## Voting History

 The Start Of A Stormy Season
 Following The Flow
 Voted Out, Day 6
Thanks To The Power Of Zeus

***Thanks To The Power Of Zeus*** is the ninth episode of Essential Survivor: Scotland

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Helix Jump**

• Welcome @Castaways to your ninth immunity challenge!

• I'll send out a game called 'Helix Jump'. The goal to the game is to advance farther down to tubes without hitting an obstacle and dying. When you think you have a good enough score, screenshot it and send it to me via confessional. You can send as many times as needed, but your final submission will count in the end, unless stated otherwise.

• The person with the highest score, will win immunity. If you lose, you're goin' to Tribal Council without protection, where one of you will become the tenth person voted out of this game.
Winter Rodrigues

***Winter*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Brazil. She later returned for Essential Survivor: Maldives

## Brazil

By far, the biggest character in Season 2, Winter came into the game with a solid strategy, which got thrown away by a thrown female by the name of Kim, let’s talk about it.

Starting on the Samba tribe, Winter instantly made three different alliances with people. We assume that this was just to get more info and build trust with people easier but it definitely failed, as none of those alliances were actively spoken in. Soon after, Rebecca made an alliance with Winter, Kim and Dimitri. As the conversation grew in that alliance, it became more prominent that Winter wanted to target Lucifer for his ‘attempt at making strong social ties’. This info went to Kim, and from Kim it went to the majority alliance. Consisting of Kim (its maker), Adam, Brandom, Jerry and Tae. Since it was only Day 1, they had no reason but to comply with Winter’s goal.

But as the days went on and Samba kept winning challenges, Kim, Jerry and Winter kept discussing plans of their own to people, despite winning. Only problem is that during one of the challenges they won, Winter had a huge meltdown during it. Souring the tribe’s overall opinion of her. So when Samba eventually lost, the majority alliance went through a ton of scenarios. But when Adam chimed in of just putting all 5 of their votes on Winter, word got out to Dimitri and Lucifer. Causing Winter to knowingly get voted out 7-1.

## Voting History

 You Don't Know It, But I Hold The Cards
 It's Not Just a Nae-Nae
 I Think I've Lost It
 Voted Out, Day 8

## Maldives

Coming into Season 8, Winter was known for her domineering playstyle and frequent outbursts. She wanted to change that reputation heading into the Maldives. But after only seeing 3 days of her short-lived gameplay, it’s safe to say that history repeats itself. Coming into the Bodu Beru tribe, Her immediate plan was to coast her way float while making social connections to keep her afloat. Her plan began to sour immediately when several of her tribemates noticed her lackluster social skills, then a day later, she was nominated to do one section of the live challenge for Bodu Beru. But due to the pressure and stress she was put in, she had several meltdowns when she couldn’t fulfill the job. Sending Bodu Beru to Tribal Council.

In a last-ditch attempt to save herself, she called out Bradley after the loss,  in which turned the people who were considering saving her away, voting her out 8-1.

## Voting History

 This All Just Got Real, G
 Voted Out, Day 3
Time To Scramble

***Time To Scramble*** is the seventh episode of Essential Survivor: Japan

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Higher or Lower**

• Welcome Castaways to your sixth immunity challenge! This challenge is really straightforward, so let's not do too much chattering at let's get right on into it!

• I'll send out a game called 'Higher or Lower'. The goal to the game is to advance further as you guess if a Google Search is higher or lower than its estimated amount. You can send as many times as needed, but your final submission will count in the end, unless stated otherwise.

• The tribe with the lowest average score, will be seeing me at tribal, where one of you will become the fourth person voted out of this game.

Winner: Wakai
Scotland

***Essential Survivor: Scotland*** is the fifth season of Essential Survivor.

You'd think coming after a season like Japan would make Scotland look amazing... well it's surely a mixed bag. This was the first season to feature an even-gendered cast, along with 4 starting tribes. Which admittedly stifled gameplay. However, the four starting tribes allowed for a very fluid merge, possessing one of the craziest endgame stretches we've seen. However, this season gets major flack for its casting. Due to most of the cast knowing each other beforehand. Regardless, the person with arguably the most threatening reputation ended up winning the season.

## Casting

Casting for Essential Survivor: Scotland began on August 6th, 2020 and ended on September 1st, 2020. A total of 55 applicants applied for this season, when only **16** got selected to compete in Scotland.

## Changes

* **Firemaking -** In a new system, castaways must make fire every day or face a punishment.

## Twists

* **Four Tribes -**Instead of the usual two or three, four tribes were made.
* **Double Tribal Council -**At the Final Fourteen, 2 tribes won immunity instead of the usual 3, sending 2 tribes to vote someone out individually.
* **Tribe Dissolve -**At The Final Twelve, Talamh and Adhair were dissolved to create 2 tribes of six.
* **Light Pearl -**A Light Pearl was hidden in the Idol Board at the merge. This Light Pearl automatically activates to negate one vote should you receive them at Tribal Council.
You Missed A Real Barn Burner

***You Missed A Real Barn Burner*** is the twelfth episode of Essential Survivor: Brazil

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Emoji Theft**

During the challenge, I'll give one less emojis than there are people left in the game. Your job is to send an emoji that someone hasn't already sent in, before all of them have been sent. The person who hasn't sent one, will be out of the challenge. We'll go on until 1 person is left, and they'll win good ol' Immunity. Advancing to the Final Six.

Winner: Adam
Skinny Kamala

***Skinny*** (more commonly known as **Kamala**) was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Maldives

## Maldives

Kamala definitely made a lasting impression on her fellow castmates and the general audience. Whether her impression was good or bad is simply up to you. She was a ball of energy in an otherwise gamebotty cast, and while it didn’t get her far, she got Fan Favorite Runner-Up, that counts for something right?

Starting on the Dhoni tribe, Kamala was by no means off to a good start. Even with her help in the challenge Kamala was caught breaking the shelter numerous times by accident and was also caught several times looking for idols. This resulted in Kamala being on the outskirts of the original power structure. She still managed to be in on the Rhaegal vote as he was a huge liability, and just the next day Kamala found some new light in the game by finding an idol. But due to Trish’s odd behavior (and her also finding an idol) Kamala had the notion of their idols being fake, provoking her distrust within Trish. But even though she didn’t trust her, they both went on to hide multiple fake idols around the Dhoni camp. One of them being found by Zent, their target for Tribal. To their enjoyment, he ended up playing it, however they also remained in the minority as Gove was voted out instead. Which somehow made Kamala regain her trust for Trish back.

Come for the swap, Kamala realized that she was in a clear minority with her original tribemate Brad. But she did make some ground by forming a close bond with Pierre and a decent bond with Kam. Desperate to stay, Kamala made an alliance with both of them, unfortunately it was barely recognized as Kam and Pierre remained loyal to the majority Bodu Beru alliance. Inducing Brad’s untimely demise, with Kamala’s coming shortly after in 12th place after she burned down the shelter and proceeded to throw firewood into the ocean.

## Voting History

 This All Just Got Real, G
 The Weakest Link
 I Just Enjoy Chaos
 Disaster Class
 Or Die Trying
 Am I The Raini Of S8?
 A Strategic Approach
 Voted Out, Day 17
Tal Briones

***Tal*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Anarchy

## Anarchy

Despite a relatively low placement, Tal was a strong player this season. His story is one of many, many agendas, most of which were well intended. Even if they never developed, Tal made a mark on the Essential Survivor: Anarchy pre-jury.

At the marooning, Tal immediately bonded with Parker and Jayla. He lost the challenge, and his ally Parker got into trouble very quickly. Tal, having none of that, wanted to work with Jayla to target Elle. Unfortunately for Jayla, the Parker situation got extreme, with him even making up a fake advantage to avoid being targeted. The vote locked down to Parker against Dominic, and Tal was happy to change his plans to help Parker, voting out Dom.

After the Dom boot, Tal began to win challenges. Tal, being the social-strategic player he is, used this time to make bonds with Brittney and Joseph. While these bonds of course were helpful, they also backfired. Tal’s affiliation with Joseph caused it to be all the more debilitating when he was voted out, and Tal also started to lose trust with Jessica.

Joseph became a complete liability when he was targeted by Barney, the current power player of the tribe. Barney’s “hate boner for Joseph” blossomed into a full on rivalry between him and Tal. Meanwhile, Tal also started to burn bridges with Finley due to his close affiliation with Jessica.

At this point, Tal’s game started to crash down. Even with three “enemies” Tal still had Parker on his side. While Parker was the weaker player of the two, it only caused the others to view Tal as the greater threat of their duo, and soon every person in the tribe was grouping Parker and Tal together. Come the tribe swap, they were put on the Rapa tribe. Both of them were aware that that they were targets, and Tal knew he was likely a shield for Parker.

Tal, needing to flip the game on its head, recognized Barney as the threat he was (in no small part due to an idol player he executed.) Tal and Parker were able to get Charles on board for this plan. Barney had two close allies in Mink and Raini, but fortunately for Tal, Charles’ social game was strong enough to persuade Kam to vote with them. Together, Tal, Parker, Charles, and Kam formed a four person majority alliance against Barney, Mink, and Raini.

When the Rapa tribe was headed to Tribal Council, the quartet took the opportunity to vote out Barney. Barney still had one trick up his sleeve…a second Hidden Immunity Idol. He used it on himself and kept Mink and Raini steadfast. Tal, being his rival and the biggest threat, was voted out in a ~~4~~-3 vote.

## Voting History

 Should I Fake My Age
 I'm Thoroughly Screwed
 HUZZAH
 Love You But You're A Snitch
 Is This A Deserted Island Or A Daycare
 Voted Out, Day 14
Stoning The Witches

***Stoning The Witches*** is the eighth episode of Essential Survivor: Brazil

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Givin' Rocks**

For today's challenge, castaways will be given 7 rocks each. They have a choice to either keep all of them for themselves or distribute them any way they want. By the end of the challenge, whoever has the amount of rocks closest to 21 without going over will win Individual Immunity, safe from the upcoming vote. Talking to each other about this challenge is allowed.

Winner: Brandon
Win, Because That Would Be Cool

***Win, Because That Would Be Cool*** is the tenth episode of Essential Survivor: Saint Martin

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Givin' Rocks**

Castaways receive a total of 7 rocks. They can either give some away, or keep them all to themselves. By the end of the challenge, the person with the closest amount of rocks to 21 without going over wins immunity.

Winner: Tyler

## Trivia

* This episode's title was a quote from James
Liz Lav

***Liz*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Togo

## Togo

Being one of the tribe’s captains, Liz was very wary of her immediate positioning in the game, worried that it’ll throw a target on her back and lessen her chances of going far. But when she made it all the way to the Final Five, it’s safe to say that Liz beat the odds and placed very well. Let’s talk about it.

Upon her arrival to camp, to lessen the chances of her being an outright target Liz spoke around 1-on-1 with her tribemates, forming solid bonds with Rey and Jay that would later become her alliance. But when the days passed and Jay began to act weird around Rey and Liz, it only helped them bond even more, as Jay wasn’t exactly giving them good vibes. Arriving at the swap, Liz reacted to it delightfully, as she felt that the previous Mina tribe weren’t the most social people. So she was excited to make some real bonds with people and finally play the game. Well, it didn't go too well in her favor as when New Kabre went to Tribal, Liz was blatantly lied to by Jack and Brendan, as they voted out her only ally at the moment, Drew.

At the merge, Liz took a huge and noticeable backseat in the episodes, not gaining as much screen time as she used to pre-merge. This made her gameplay hard to detect, so fast-forwarding to the Final Five. Liz was allied with Ben and Zach, facing off against Asier and Kalina. But with Kalina telling everyone she had an idol, they began to speculate if she was lying. So using the tie = rocks rule against Production, they planned to have the vote create a tie between Liz and Zach, (the other’s target) while one of them threw a hinky vote at Kalina. This way, Liz and Zach would be safe because of the rule, Ben would be safe because of his Immunity win, and Kalina would be safe if she had used her idol, meaning Asier goes home in the same fashion as James did in Season One. But little did they know, was that Asier had an idol, playing it right then and there. But that wasn’t the only blindside they received that night, they also found out that Kalina went behind Asier’is back and voted Liz instead, in case Zach had an idol. Which meant Liz unintentionally went home, 3-1-\*1
Tierra Neuman

***Tierra*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Scotland

## Scotland

Tierra. Admittedly, Tierra coming into the game did not have much confidence. From her knowing lack in physical ability, to her poor social skills. Tierra had thought she was doomed to win from the start… and as sad as it is, she was. With the 4 tribes' twist in progress, there wasn’t any room for Tierra to hide at all. So when her fears came through and she wasn’t clicking with her tribemates, all she could do was turn to winning the immunity challenge. Unfortunately, some of her tribemates weren’t the best at challenges either, causing their close loss. After the loss, Tierra accepted her fate as being first boot, but regardless still campaigned for Contessa to take the boot instead. Unfortunately, Andy and Calvin refused her offer, booting her in a 3-1 vote.

## Voting History

 I Haven't Even Had Any Fun Yet
 Voted Out, Day 4
Lindsay Tyson

***Lindsay*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Saint Martin. She later returned for Essential Survivor: Peru.

## Saint Martin

Lindsay came into Essential Survivor with a set gameplan to NOT be the center of attention, unlike her usual personality. Yet, she still wanted to be the villain. Once Irma lost the first challenge of the season, she was brought into an alliance consisting of herself, Georgy, james and its creator, Brooks. Due to being a social pregame threat, Brooks wanted Tyler to be the boot. Which Lindsay didn’t mind, but also didn’t want to be told what to do. Showing off her bossy personality, to the spectators in her confessional. But as Brooks became too cocky and telling the plan to most of the tribe, of course someone wouldn’t like that plan. That someone being Will, long story short. Brooks was blindsided 5-3, leaving Lindsay in a minority position in the Irma tribe. Irma then won the upcoming challenge, sparring Lindsay from elimination.

Then the swap hit and things began to get a little messy for Lindsay. Despite Lindsay wanting a swap, hoping for a chance to flip on her tribemates. Well after the swap, Lindsay was still on irma, but the 4 Gonzalo had majority over her 3 Irma. Forcing herself to work with Will and Aria (the only other Irma), Lindsay wanted to play both sides, making an alliance with Kiibo and Shai, two people from the majority. Unfortunately, Shai told Jayden about the alliance, who told Will that Lindsay was playing both sides. Jayden also began to spread the idea that Lindsay is a sketchy person to Aria and Jennifer. The latter agreed while the former did not. In an attempt to save Lindsay from being voted off, she brought up Kiibo as a legitimate target. Highlighting his good social game and bad challenge performance as reasons to vote him off. While Will was convinced, Lindsay wasn’t, voting for Jayden instead. At Tribal Council, Lindsay was shown to be the only vote for Jayden, Jennifer threw a random vote at Shai, and the rest of Gonzalo voted Lindsay while Will and Aria voted Kiibo. Making the vote, 3-2-1-1, meaning had Lindsay listened to her original tribe. Kiibo and Lindsay would’ve gone to rocks and Lindsay could have still been in the game.

## Voting History

 You Caused Your Own Demise
 We Hate Fortnite
 Everybody Talks
 Vomit Color
 If Karma Doesn't Hit You, I Will
 Voted Off, Day 16
Third Time's A Charm

***Third Time's A Charm*** is the Finale episode of Essential Survivor: Brazil

## Challenge 1

**Immunity Challenge**: **Still Holding**

Every minute, you must say 'still holding' in the #beach chat. You may not say anything else during that period. If you mess up on spelling, send it twice in the same minute, or even don't send it at all, you're out.

Winner: Paul

## Final Words

a player who somehow tricks people into believing they have gameplay. Not too bad overall.

## Final Immunity Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Trials**

Much like any other Flash Game challenge, whoever does the best on it wins immunity. Well this challenge puts a spin on that just a little. There will be 3 games you must play and send in a score for. But for which game, whoever does the best will get 4 points, second will get three and so on, so forth. Whichever castaway has the most amount of points by the end of the challenge wins immunity and a ticket to the Final Tribal Council!

Winner: Brandon
Trust Is A Currency, And We're All Broke

***Trust Is A Currency, And We're All Broke*** is the sixth episode of Essential Survivor: Japan

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Dexterity**

• Welcome Castaways to your seventh immunity challenge!

• For today's challenge you'll be participating in a test of hand dexterity. This may be the hardest challenge yet!

• Whoever has the best average wins Immunity! Sending the others to Tribal Council. Good luck!

Winner: Wakai

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Flappy Copter**

• Welcome Castaways to your eighth immunity challenge!

• For today's challenge you'll be participating in a Host Favorite challenge.. Flappy Copter!

• Whoever has the best average wins Immunity! Sending the others to Tribal Council. Good luck!

Winner: Wakai
Tommy Fairfax

*Tommy* was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Canary Islands

## Canary Islands

Tommy began on La Gomera. While he was never a prime target, he didn't really integrate himself within the power structure, kind of being an afterthought to everyone. He himself though, really enjoyed Eamonn, Jonathan and Jessica. Unfortunately, Eamonn's inactivity made him a target wihen La Gomera went to Tribal Council. Which was only once.

At the merge, Tommy never had much input on the direction of the game. For the early votes, La Gomera collectively ran them. By Final 7, he was left out of the Jonathan-turned-Jessica blindside due to his clear bond with Jonathan. However, he had a huge strategic error in wanting to go to the end with Jonathan, as he loses to him. But, he did believe that if he couldn't win himself, he would want Jonathan to due to the work he's put into it. While he wanted Chelsea out at Final Six, Jonathan proposed the idea of targeting Patrick instead, which Tommy obliged to.

Come Final Four, and Jonathan won yet another immunity. While it seemed like it'd be an easy Chelsea vote, Amber teamed up with her to send both Chelsea and Tommy to firemaking, which Chelsea won. Tommy finished in 4th Place.
Tommy Train

***Tommy*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Japan

## Japan

Tommy was a very UTR player. Not really making any waves, Tommy was the right-hand man of both Travis and Theodore. But when the trio got split, the only direction Tommy’s game headed was downhill.

Tommy’s game from the start looked like he was set up to go deep into the game, he was well-liked by his peers, was brought into a majority alliance by someone who had never even informed him, and found an idol on Day 3! But as the Wakai numbers dwindled down and numbers got crunched, he found a connection between himself and Theodore, soon to be with Travis as well. Because of this, Tommy informed them both of the idol, beginning the short-lived Triple T trio. Solidifying it, Tommy and Travis had both reported back to Theodore that fellow ally-turned-adversary Zachary was attempting to blindside him. This small thought bubble turned into a tribe-wide blindside onto the poor man.

Approaching the swap, Tommy knew that there’d be a very low chance that all 3 of the T’s landed on the same tribe. And unfortunately, he was correct. Travis and himself were swapped onto the New Furui tribe while Theodore stayed Wakai Strong alone. And while Zent and Vincent struggled for power once again, Tommy was taking the backseat again due to the loss. And things didn’t look up for him either once Zent got idoled out due to his own misfortune, and Vincent got medically evacuated due to inactivity. Leaving only himself and Travis facing four whole OG Furui members. But the Wakai 2 had a plan…

After the Furui 4 threw yet another challenge, Travis prompted to ‘throw Tommy under the bus’ to the four, so at Tribal, Tommy could negate all the votes Travis had garnered for him, while the duo took out the perceived leader out of the four, Enrique. Well seeing right through that, Enrique had the four immediately split the vote 3-1. Throwing a majority on Travis, so when Tommy inevitably played his idol wrong, Travis goes home without missing a beat. And as the 4 threw the next challenge right after, Tommy was gone due to a 4-1 vote.