Vincent Van Gone

**Vincent Van Gone**, also known as **Vincent**, is a contestant on *Survivor: Black Hills*.

Vincent immediately proved to be a force to be reckoned with, after finding both the Mo'Hota and the Vo'Kome immunity idol. Entering the merge with two idols under wraps, Vincent let go of one at the Final 9, causing the most chaotic tribal council of the season and negating six votes against his closest ally, Jon. After this idol play exposed their tight allegiance to one another, Jon was targeted by the rest of the tribe, and Vincent came soon after, getting voted off with the second idol in their pocket.

## Profile

**Name and Age:** Vincent, 20

**Tribe Designation:** Vo'Kome

**Current Residence:** Canada

**Personal Claim to Fame:** i don't get voted out first every time I play an ORG

**Three Words to Describe You:** reserved, laidback, indecisive

**Pet Peeves:** many things

**Survivor Contestant You Are Most Like:** they dont cast my archetype on survivor. probably because it would make for bad tv, but i'll say jacob derwin

**Why did you come on Survivor?** these hosts seem cool, the type who would rig for me

**Why do you think you'll become the Sole Survivor?** i've lost so many orgs recently org karma has to give me another win at some point

**Anything else we should know about you?** When I was a kid, there was this science museum in my home town. There was a unicycle that you could ride across a rope, about 30 or 40 feet in the air, and there were counterweights to keep you from falling. But I was still very afraid of falling.

## Survivor: Black Hills

Vincent started out the game on the Mo'Hota Tribe, and instantaneously became one of the best social players on the tribe, as most of their tribemates found them to be one of their favorite people to talk to. In particular, he caught the attention of Jon, who was particularly fond of their early relationship in the game. Although Vincent initially was incredibly suspicious of Jon, their friendship improved over time and their connection strengthened after Vincent found the idol a mere eight seconds before Jon did, which resulted in Jon knowing Vincent had to have found it.

After attending only one tribal council which resulted in a unanimous boot, Vincent switched away from Jon to the new Vo'Kome Tribe, where original tribe numbers were split completely even. Vincent kept it lowkey for a while, but formed connections with Jessie and Jude in particular to help himself out through the swap. Due to Life previously leaving the game with Vo'Kome's immunity idol, the idol was rehidden at camp, and Vincent was intrigued by the opportunity to potentially wield two idols. The search was much harder this time, and the entire tribe spent days trying to find a single word in a giant word search. Vincent was the first person to find the word, and it lead to finding a second immunity idol. This would prove to be important as Vincent was starting to gain distrust from fellow tribemates due to his pushing to keep tribe outcast Jae in the game during the Double Tribal Council. Justin, who was an even bigger target than Jae, took the fall, and both Jae and Vincent were able to win out until merge after that.

The merge came around, and Madison was targeted early on as a simple merge boot. The trajectory of the vote had to switch on the spot as Madison won immunity on Day 25, leaving Jae directly in the crossfire of the merged tribe. Vincent continued to push to save Jae, but realized he had to let them go. Vincent wasn't able to get through this vote completely unscathed, however, as he received some flack for throwing out Madison's name and then doubling down and telling others that he never did that.

At the Final 9, Vincent made considerable progress in the idol hunt once again, which meant he was en route to finding a third immunity idol. However, him and Jon were being recognized as a powerful and threatening duo ever since their reunion at the merge. The vote got incredibly chaotic, and Vincent decided to take a big risk and play the idol on Jon. This ended up successful, as five votes were negated against Jon and Madison left the game instead in a shocking 2-1-0-0 vote. Vincent and Jon were in trouble entering the Final 8, which was exacerbated after a falling-out with Jude that resulted in a burned bridge between the two of them. Things got worse when Vincent lost his vote while hunting once again for an immunity idol. Vincent became unable to save Jon as his target was too big, but in a shocking twist of events, he chose to hold on to his second idol, feeling he would need it at the Final 6 instead. However, Vincent became a target at the Final 7, which also happened to be the first time he could have been targeted since the Jae vote. Having now alienated several remaining contestants with his erratic idol maneuvers and allyship with Jon, Vincent was seriously in trouble entering the Final 7. He entertained using his idol to save himself, but decided to keep it for the Final 6 as he planned before. This backfired, and he was voted out in a 4-1-1 vote with an idol in his pocket.

At the Final Tribal Council, Vincent asked all of the finalists who they thought would win each award. He liked Jude's list the most, although he liked both of the other finalists' lists as well. That question didn't seem to have weighed too much into how he voted, however, as he was one of the four jurors to vote for Zephyr to win, which they did.

### Voting History

**^1** In "The Deal Is Off", Vincent wagered and lost his vote in an attempt at a task for an immunity idol.
## Trivia

* Vincent is the first person to find and possess multiple hidden immunity idols.
* Vincent is the first person to play an immunity idol, and, by extension, the first person to negate votes with an immunity idol.
* Vincent is the first person to be voted out with an idol in his pocket.
* Vincent is the first contestant to play an idol on another contestant.
* Vincent is the twin brother of *Canary Islands* contestant Nick.
	+ Coincidentally, they both possessed their original tribe's immunity idol and played it on another contestant, which lead (indirectly) to their own elimination in 7th place.