Joe

**Joe** was a player in Mythvivor: Babylon and was the Player of the Season Mythvivor: Rome - Fans vs. Favorites.

## Babylon

Joe started Mythvivor: Babylon on the Adad tribe, where he quickly formed a strong bond with Becca and an alliance with Koopa and Tara. Adad went to the first tribal council, where they unanimously voted out JD.

In "The Secret Ingredient Is Lies," Adad lost the Mythvivor Jeopardy challenge. Due to a Mount Nisir decision, Adad had to attend a joint tribal council with Tiamat, the other losing tribe. There, Adad was down in numbers and Tiamat had attempted to target Steve, who was a member of Adad. Most of Tiamat had made it clear they were not going to flip. However, Henry was disgruntled at his position on Tiamat and with Bubbles and Shep. Henry instantly ran to the members of Adad and offered to vote one of them out. Adad and Henry voted out Shep, leaving most of Tiamat shocked.

Joe then swapped on to the Tigris tribe with his close ally, Becca. He also swapped with Dan who he had blindsided at the joint tribal council and Henry, the player on Tiamat that he had worked with, along with Alex, Derz, and Jordanne from the former Shamash tribe. While he considered attempting to work with Dan and Henry to prevent the players on the former Shamash tribe from gaining the numbers on Tigris. However, Dan and Henry were targeting each other too strongly. As a result, he had to pick between them. He chose to work with Henry, and voted out Dan with the rest of the tribe.

He also visited Mount Nisir where he met Physh. There, the two of them agreed that the merge idol hunt should be a puzzle hunt.

Joe then swapped again onto the Enki. This tribe won their only challenge, Head 2 Head Puzzles so they did not attend tribal council. During this swap, Joe did take another trip to Mount Nisir. There, he reunited with Derz and they were given the choice for the format of the game at final 4 - between forced fire-making, fire-making in the case of a tie, or a Marquesas-style rock draw in the case of a tie. He pushed Derz very hard to choose forced fire-making. This frustrated Derz, who vowed to use how much Joe wanted forced fire-making against him.

At the merge, the tribe was asked to rank their tribemates and the top 2 players would go on the final Mount Nisir visit. Joe was ranked at the top of his tribe and visited Mount Nisir again with Becca. They chose for the Final Tribal Council to end with three players at the end. Joe also was at the top of trust rankings for Marduk at the merge.

When Physh was the main target at the merge, Joe recruited his close ally, Jordanne to throw stray votes against Tara in case an idol was played.

In "Self Care Involves Never Doing Math," most of the tribe targeted Derz as a possible easy vote. Ben, wanting to make a move to improve his position, decided last minute to play an immunity idol on Derz. The two of them decided to vote against Joe. This idoled Joe out of the game in a shocking ~~8~~-2 vote. As a result of Joe's incredible merge position that was robbed by this idol play, Joe received the Most Robbed Award at the reunion.

### Jay's Thoughts

Joe played an excellent game from day one until his sudden departure. Socially, Joe was a phenomenal player who connected with many players in the early and mid stages of the game. Joe showed this when he had to attend three straight tribals to start the game and successfully voted all three of his targets out. After the first swap he’d only have to attend one more pre-merge tribal, a simple 6-1 vote of Dan. When Joe made the merge, he came into it as one of the bigger threats due to his connections and social prowess and very shortly after, action was taken. At final 10 when a unanimous Derz vote seemed inevitable, Ben decided to make a big move by using his idol to eliminate Joe in a stunning 2-0 vote. While Joe did not go deep this game, it’s very easy to see a deep run was certainly in the cards if he was not idoled out. The potential was there with Joe, and he was oh so close to fulfilling it.

### Voting History

1 Joe's tribe, Adad, attended a joint tribal with Tiamat.

2 Ben played an immunity idol on Derz, negating all votes against Derz.

## Rome

Joe started Mythvivor: Rome - Fans vs. Favorites on the Romulus tribe, also known as the "Favorites" tribe. Joe quickly found himself in a strong position in the tribe. Joe joined a majority alliance created by Anna with Koopa, Marcus, Ross, and Shep. With them, he voted out Ravr, Cole, and Maibelle.

Joe then swapped onto the Romulus 2 tribe where the former Favorites had a 6-2 majority. He felt very skeptical about the former Fan, Space. However, this tribe never attended a tribal council.

During the Foro Romano twist, Joe won immunity and officially became a member of the merged Bellona tribe. He had planned on voting Space out with his fellow Favorites, but Aidan had flipped and voted out Ross instead. At the following tribal council, Joe and his allies were able to get Add and Dumb on board to vote out TJ.

In "Happy Birthday Buddy," Joe had won Spot the Difference, his second individual immunity, but this one was with La Pinner. Aidan had been seen as a potential target, but the Joe and the Favorites eventually settled on a plan to vote out Add, with Aidan as the back-up vote in case Add idoled. This backfired when Add and Max played his immunity idol and idoled out Anna instead. Joe had begun to be seen as a huge threat due to his strong ability in challenges and solid bonds with everyone in his tribe.

In "This One’s for the Kids," Joe and Marcus had felt concerned about Dumb's duo with Add and bond with Koopa. Joe worked with Marcus, Max, and La Pinner to target Dumb. On the flip side, Add, Koopa, and Space had begun targeting Max. After forcing a revote by throwing his vote, Aidan evenally sided with Joe and his allies to vote out Dumb. Joe would then vote out Dumb's partner-in-crime, Add, along with Marcus, Max, La Pinner, and a frustrated Koopa.

Joe then went on an immunity streak. His third immunity challenge win was in Song Speculation. While some targeted Koopa, Joe saw Koopa as a fellow threat who could see him as a possible shield. Instead, he targeted Aidan who he saw as someone people would want to bring to Final Tribal Council. Koopa idoled out Aidan, taking a possible obstacle out of the way of Joe's game.

In "Easily Preventable," Joe won his fourth immunity challenge, Weaving Word Search. Koopa, who had been concerned about Marcus and Joe's threat level, was planning on flipping against their "Mushroom Kingdom" alliance to Space, Max, and La Pinner, and voting out Marcus. However, Joe talked to Koopa and pointed out that Koopa would then likely need to win the Final Immunity Challenge, whereas if Koopa stuck with Joe and Marcus, Koopa would just need for Marcus or Joe to lose the Final Immunity Challenge. This got Koopa on board with Joe's plan to vote out Space instead. As a result, Koopa and Marcus convinced Space that they would vote out Max, when in reality, they were voting out Space. They were able to pull off this move, which was pivotal in ensuring one of the three of them would be at Final Tribal Council. This also took out the strongest challenge threat from the opposing threat in Space. This was critical to Joe's game as it was becoming more and more clear that Joe would need to win the remaining challenges.

When the finale, "Bring It Home, Baby!" began, it was clear that Joe would need to win every immunity challenge from there forward. He won his fifth immunity challenge, the Puzzle Tour, breaking the individual challenge record formerly held by Parker. As Marcus knew he was being portrayed as the second biggest threat after Joe, Marcus surrendered and was voted out at the final 5.

Unfortunately, Joe's luck ran out during the Trivia Gauntlet challenge. Joe did attempt to convince the former Fans to keep him. However, they voted him out, making him the final member of the jury. At the reunion, Joe won the Player of the Season Award for consistently having the most social connections, control, and winning the most challenges of any Mythvivor player ever. He also won the Best Alliance Award for his Mushroom Kingdom alliance with Koopa and Marcus, as well as the Best Move award for the move they pulled off together. Finally, he won the Host Favorite Award from Ace because of their friendship.

### Voting History

1Add played an immunity idol on himself, negating all votes against him.

2A 4-4 tie occurred between Dumb and Max. Joe kept his vote against Dumb on the revote.

## Trivia

* In Mythvivor: Babylon, Joe visited Mount Nisir three times during the season, the most times out of any player.
* Joe currently holds the record for most individual challenges won (both in a single season and across multiple seasons) for his 5 individual challenge wins in Mythvivor: Rome and the record for most overall challenges won across multiple seasons with 16.