Ben

**Days Lasted:** | 29

**Ben** is a contestant from *Survivor: Wicked*.

### Wicked

Ben started off the season being sorted into the Glinda Tribe along with Pixel, Sammo, Scotti, Chelsea, Dex, Hayleigh, Riley, Amelia, and Christine. During the first immunity challenge Riley scored a 3/7 with a time of 15:07. Ben and the rest of the Glinda Tribe scored a 55/70 with an average time of 26 min 39 sec. This was not enough to save them from going to the first tribal council of the season. Glinda made their way to the first tribal council where there was a unanimous vote for Pixel. Ben started off pretty active chatting with everyone in his tribe. He was pretty active in all of his 1:1s throughout the game! He quickly made an alliance with Dex, Scotti and Sammo. The second immunity challenge was the scavenger hunt called "Dear Old Shiz"! Ben scored 30 points for the Glinda Tribe with one 1 point item, three 3 point items, two 5 point items, and Being the only one to have found the Wicked Grimmerie book for 10 points. Ben and the rest of the Glinda tribe conquered the scavenger hunt and came away with the win. After Emme was voted out it was announced that the 2 tribes of 9 would expand into 3 tribes of 6. Ben landed on the Fiyero Tribe along side Christine, Amelia, Carlos, Riley, and Chelsea. This put Ben on a tribe that had a majority of Glinda members on it, putting Ben in what seemed like a pretty good position. He was separated from Dex, Scotti and Sammo. But still had other Glinda members to possibly allign with. For "The Wizard and I" Challenge Ben and the Fiyero Tribe worked hard to put together a Flag and a Playlist that represents them and Fiyero their tribes namesake. Ben took the lead in making the flag for the Fiyero tribe as well as being the representative for the Fiyero Tribe in the final aspect of the game. Even though all these efforts were put in by the Fiyero Tribe, their score of 151 points was just 2.5 points shy of saving them from tribal council. Heading into their first tribal council in their new trbe the Fiyero tribe had a unanimous vote to vote out Chelsea.

For the "What is this Feeling" challenge tribe mates were each asked to write a poem on rage. Ben scored a 28/30 on their poem, this impressive score was part of what helped the Fiyero Tribe stay safe from the upcoming Tribal Council. After Sammo walked it was announced that every tribe would be going to tribal council and each tribe would compete for individual immunity within their tribes. For this next challenge each castaway was asked to answer a set of riddles. Ben completed this challenge in 2:24 which was not enough to earn him immunity. It seemed like the vote could go two ways. Either Riley or Ben himself. Luckily his alliance with Christine and Amelia saved him with the vote being 3(Riley)-2(Ben)-1(Amelia, Pixel's Language of Lost Spells vote). The next challenge was the "Dancing Through Life" Grid Challenge. During this challenge nobody on the Fiyero Tribe got to help as Amelia completed the challenge when most of the tribe was asleep. Luckily Amelia scored the win for the tribe with getting 5/5 in 6:57. Meaning Fiyero was safe from Tribal Council. Before the next challenge could get underway Hunter from the Chistery Tribe had a tragic loss in his family and decided to medivac himself from the game. Shortly after it was announced that the challenge would still take place and someone would be eliminated after the challenge results were announced. Ben up to this point has kept us up to date about his game play in his confessionals and has continued to search the Grid of Spells but with no luck.

The next challenge was titled "Not That Girl". For this challenge Ben had to complete a cryptogram puzzle to complete. For this challenge Ben completed the challenge in 7:27. Ben and the rest of the tribe were not able to stay safe from tribal coming in last place in the challenge. During this tribal it was pretty clear what the result was going to be. Carlos was voted out with a 3(Carlos)-2(Amelia, one of which was Riley's Language of Lost Spells vote) For the next challenge, titled "One Short Day" the castaways were given Ozian words that were scrambled and had to unscramble them. Ben completed this challenge in 5:22. This along with the efforts of the rest of the Fiyero Tribe saved them from going to tribal council! After it was announced that Collin was voted off the Boq Tribe it was announced that the tribes would merge into a new tribe called the Nessarose Tribe. For the first immunity challenge as a new tribe the castaways had to compete in a challenge called "Defying Gravity". During this challenge Starry and the Nessarose tribe had to scour through Oz to find a variety of different items with different outcomes. Also, look out for that water bucket. You find that you lose all your money/points. Ben ended this challenge with $660. Unfortunately this was not enough to keep him from tribal council.
After this challenge was complete Ben had requested an alliance with two former Glinda members Christine and Amelia. As the votes were read Starry was voted out of the game with a 5(Starry)-3(Ben, one of which was Hunter's Language of Lost Spells vote)-2(Amelia, one of which was Collin's Language of Lost Spells vote)-1(Cooper, Kawa's Language of Lost Spells vote)-1(Megsly, Hunter's Language of Lost Spells vote) vote. For the next challenge, titled "For Good", castaways were given up to 20 words and they had to figure out what they all had in common while only receiving one word at a time. The player that was able to complete this with the least amount of guesses would win immmunity. Ben was able to figure this out in 4 guesses. Even though that is amazing Ben didn't win immunity. Megsly beat him out with getting in on the very first guess! Heading into tribal it looked like the vote was locked and loaded for Anthony to head home. Little did the rest of the tribe know Anthony had found an idol a ways back. Anthony played this idol and all votes for him were cancelled out leaving the vote to be 5(Anthony, didn't count, played idol)-4(Ben)-1(Amelia, Starry's Language of Lost Spells vote). Meaning that Ben was voted out of the game. Amree using an advantage that gives her an extra vote really sealed Ben's fate. After his elimination Ben was informed he was the 3rd member of the Jury he voted for Megsly to win the game during FTC