Asya

**Asya** was a houseguest on Season 2 - The Totem Pole and a host on Season 4 - The Greenhouse.

## The Totem Pole

Asya entered the Totem Pole house as one of the 20 players competing for the title. Right off the bat, she knew almost everyone in the cast and was able to choose her allies out of a wide pool. Immediately she bonded with known challenge threat, Drew, as well as Juls, Quinn, and Wyatt. During Week Three, amidst controversy surrounding previous games, a rumor was started that she was in a premade alliance with Anthony, Dom, Lynn, and Kaleigh. While this rumor pushed the other four together, Asya continuously denied her involvement in this putting her on solidly on the opposite side of the house for the first part of the game. With her side of the house winning all of the Tops of the Totem Poles, she advanced to the jury without much trouble, despite being on the wrong side of almost every vote.

The first round of jury saw the Two Can Keep a Secret twist where Asya's blunt, straightforward gameplay came to the forefront of the strategizing as she only strategized to eliminate William, including telling William to his face she was targeting him. He saved himself with an Advantage and she was saved, but from here her game began to shift in tone. The next Week, Lynn switched her to the Bottom of the Totem Pole and with no more saves, she was nearly eliminated. However, Adam had been threatened because of his Advantage to undo a Switch's decision and in order to take that target off of his back, he switched Asya back to her original placement, saving her. After almost being eliminated by the Switch, her focus turned to trying to become the Switch or influence the Switch every round from here on out. The next Week, she threatened the Switch, Lanie, to either switch herself safe and leave William as the Bottom of the Totem Pole, or switch William leaving her in the Bottom Five and likely to be voted out. The threat worked and William was eliminated. In that same vote, Asya flipped her vote to long time ally Juls to keep a promise to Megan to not vote her out in hopes of receiving the Switch for her loyalty. It did not work but Juls, Asya's closest ally left, instead was given the Switch and used it to save Asya from the Bottom of the Totem Pole. At the final vote of the season, Asya received a single vote, her only elimination vote all game, but still advanced to the Final Four. In the final challenge, Asya's book slipped and she was eliminated second. Despite this, Anthony, the final Top of the Totem Pole, named her second on the Totem Pole moments after winning, advancing her to the finale.

At the jury questioning, Asya defended her choice of allies, blunt gameplay, and focus on what she could control. She admitted to having a few lucky breaks but stressed that she used every opportunity presented to her to its fullest potential to play the best game she could. In the end, she flipped a few votes away from ally Juls. She received votes from Cindi, Megan, and Wyatt and finished in second place.

Asya was the only player focused solely on the Switch once Saves ran out. She was constantly making sure she was in the conversation to receive the Switch by being honest with the people she eliminated and keeping deals. She also exercised influence over other people with the Switch power to help eliminate her targets and kept an eye out for potential Advantages and Exposes that could throw a wrench in her plans. Her focus and use of the Switch earned her the Chameleon Award, one of the Big Five titles, showing her ability to thrive in the Totem Pole format.