Alco

Alco was the runner up of *Terravivor: Natus Island*.

Alco was seen as the leader of the Inriguum tribe, which proved to be true when he had the most positive interactions with his tribe and easily most active member of his tribe. Although he went into the merge down in numbers, his use of advantages, his managing of his allies, and continuous immunity wins led him into power. After an idol scare that he used to direct votes off himself, he worked to direct votes onto the people he saw as threats to his game. Although he attempted to carry Christian to the end for an easy win, Christian's inactivity led to Alco facing off against Brayden. Although Alco flaunted his physical, strategic, and flashy game, the jury opted to reward Brayden for his social game, loyalty, and overdog status, leaving Alco the runner up with 2 votes.

## Game History

### Natus Island

Alco started his game on the Inriguum tribe. He quickly proved himself to be a leader in the tribe, as he solidified bonds with almost everyone in his tribe, especially with tribemates Chicken, Christian, and JJ, and formed an alliance with them. He also bonded with Alejandro and had an alliance with him as well, but did not put much stock in it. After Ryan's flag lost them the immunity challenge, Alco targeted Jack, seeing him as inactive compared to JJ and Ryan. After the tribal, Alco lost ally Alejandro to Natus Island, and gained Kiki as a new tribemate. Alco did not care too fondly about Kiki but hoped to potentially bring her into an alliance should the need arise. However, he was threatened when he found out Kiki's pregame connection with Ryan, despite having a pregame relationship with Christian. He decided that Ryan could not be trusted, especially after he dipped in activity. He, Christian, and Chicken all voted for Ryan, but ally JJ self-voted, but Ryan did as well, eliminating Ryan. Alco hoped that he and his alliance could survive until the merge to reunite with Alejandro. Before that could happen, he was sent to Natus Island, where he was given the opportunity to get either a super idol that only lasted one tribal, or a vote blocker, or a mystery item that could be bad. He decided to take the safe road and took the super idol. Upon his return to Inriguum, he met Alejandro and Flip, who mutinied to Inriguum. Although he was safe from tribal, his idol was unnecessary as Flip quit before tribal could occur. Although he seemed to be set for an easy vote in Kiki at the next tribal, JJ was unexpected ejected for his inactivity, and the merge occurred, putting Alco at a 5-4 disadvantage.

Although Alco hoped to have Kiki on their side, he easily saw that she was against him and the Inriguums. After losing the first immunity challenge, he thought he may be in danger, but felt safe with his super idol. He targeted Caleb, as his tribemates that had seen him at Inriguum saw him as the leader of Avellatur. Meanwhile, Alco attempted to curry favor and not be targeted purely based on tribes. His attempts would ultimately fail, and he recognized he was on an uphill battle. He suspected the Avellatur alliance would bait him into using his idol as they knew he likely had one, but also figured they would target Chicken for seemingly being closest with Alco. He was shown to be right when 5 votes came in for Chicken, but he used his super idol and Caleb was voted out. Alco felt accomplished for his move and felt as though he could win the game if he made it to the end, and felt it was shaping up to go to rocks at the next vote. He won immunity that round, so he felt confident the Inriguum tribe would vote together. He decided to target Kiki, seeing her as likely being on the outside of the Avellatur alliance and someone Brayden, Maddie, or Evan could flip on. However, he found out Alejandro went on vacation and thought he would self-vote, which scared him. However, Alejandro sent in a vote for Evan, which split the Inriguums votes, leading to Alco's close ally, Chicken, being voted out. After this vote, Alco saw his game in danger, but won immunity. He learned of Alejandro's vote steal and plotted to get Alejandro to vote out Evan as Alejandro saw him as a massive threat, and could easily get behind it. With this, Alco got back into a tie by tribal lines again.

However, Alco recognized at the very next cycle Alejandro may flip against him, and grew nervous he would be voted out if he didn't win immunity. Additionally, he attempted to ally with Maddie, seeing each other as threats that would likely be picked off as soon as possible, but was ignored. When close ally Christian won immunity instead, Alco seemed to be dead in the water. With Alejandro, Brayden, Kiki, and Maddie voting against him, Alco felt he needed to find the hidden immunity idol. After he didn't find it, he decided to pull a hail mary and claimed to Maddie and Brayden that he found the idol. He was believed when Kiki didn't relay she had the idol to them, and Brayden and Maddie threw votes on Alejandro. Meanwhile, Alejandro stayed on Alco, but Kiki was convinced to vote out Maddie, seeing her as social and strategic threat. He successfully avoided getting voted out with Kiki and Christian voting Maddie out. At F5, Alco knew he would need to win immunity, as Alejandro wanted to target Alco again. Thankfully for Alco, he went on to win immunity and immediately targeted Alejandro. Although Alejandro tried to vote Christian out, he was unsuccessful. In the next cycle, Alco felt safe, even if he lost immunity, as Christian wanted to go to the finale with him, and would force a tiebreaker if needed. This point became moot when Alco won immunity again, and decided to target Kiki, seeing her as a bigger threat for her strategic game than Brayden with his social game. Christian and Kiki were sent into tiebreaker, and Christian came out on top. Come the Final Immunity Challenge, Alco knew he had to win against Brayden, as he felt Christian would likely not win the challenge. Although Alco would win the final immunity challenge, Christian did not submit for the challenge, and was pulled from the game, leaving Alco against Brayden at Final Tribal Council. Alco was not confident going in, as he thought the jury might not respect his physical game compared to Brayden's loyal game. These fears proved true when Alco lost to Brayden, receiving the votes of Alejandro and Chicken and finishing as the first Runner-Up of *Terravivor*.