Kay Opondo

**Money Won:** | $65,000

**Kay Opondo** was a female contestant that competed on ***The Royalty Challenge***. She first appeared on the first season, The Royalty Challenge: Parthenon, where she was the fourteenth person eliminated; placing in 7th place. She returned in The Royalty Challenge: Brain vs. Brawn vs. Beauty with her team **Beauty** where she was the eleventh eliminated; placing in 17th place. On her third appearance in The Royalty Challenge: Cold Zone, she returned where she finished in 2nd place with James X.

In **Parthenon**, Kay found herself added to the majority alliances Heavenly Seven and The Cloud. When the majority alliance split into sub-alliances, Kay found herself alone and not included on either side. Her most memorable moment was being the first person ever to defeat two challengers (ally Donald G and Malik Cordova) at once in elimination. Kay made her gameplay transparent and honest after the lies/distrust in the house; but after getting targeted in the daily and entering the final elimination, she was eliminated just before finale by Nicole Q.

In **Brain vs. Brawn vs. Beauty**, Kay started the game representing Team Beauty. Wanting to change her history in the ORG, Kay planned to up her social game and try be more confident in approaching people. Her ally Nick Miller formed the Beautiful Name Beautiful People alliance on Original Beauty where they took control of the first few votes; targeting Jeremy Balogh, Max Tshife and Callie Jones. After feeling slightly defeated due to the Brawn winning streak, Beauty managed to win the third daily of the season. However, Kay fell into old habits and her quiet social game made her a target for Brain after Beauty lost the fourth daily challenge. With a chance of both her and Isabel Banks staying in the elimination, they made a pact to target Chloe McSalterson and Dorian Washington. However after failing to block in Chloe, Kay's game came to an end when James X convinced Isabel to block her in so that Isabel could survive; eliminating Kay from the game.

In **Cold Zone**, Kay returned wanting to redeem herself; and unlike her previous experiences, got pulled into a legitimate alliance created by Devin Tauruan called Black Is Magic with former ally Donald and Dorian. Forgiving James for convincing Isabel to eliminate her in their previous season, Kay upped her social game by joining calls and spending the time getting to know her fellow challengers. During Round 1, her strong connections with Donald/James kept her safe during the chain/the reverse chain. In Round 2, she returned the favour to James and saved him during the chain. Getting closer to the Devin/James duo due to their regular voice calls in the house, the three of them formed a trio alliance called British Oreo (Team Supermodel) in Round 3; positioning her loyalties between the guys and Donald/Dorian. During Round 4, her allies, Donald/Dorian, won the daily challenge and voted Kay to start the chain; where she picked Devin first. Surviving the purge challenge, Kay found herself in the middle of two opposing sides when the older players, including the majority of her allies, were siding against the younger group; Izel Bitcherzina, Sierra Castillo and Sylvia Riah. Despite being aligned with the older players, Kay's kind personality and strong social likeability allowed her to remain safe with the younger side of the house. After Sierra won her elimination she chose to be on a team with Kay in Round 6. Even when they lost the daily and Zaire Langill pulled the reverse block, Kay was saved by Sierra on the chain.

During Round 7, Kay and ally Devin found themselves on a team with the younger group of players who were ready to take a strike against the bigger players in the game. With Devin sat-out, Kay watched and participated in a intense struggle for power and conflict amongst the opposing sides. Being one of the last players standing in the challenge, Kay secretly threw the challenge to Zaire at Devin and James' request, without the younger players having knowledge, to ensure her allies gained the win. She was rewarded with being voted to start the chain where she saved Devin. However, Izel struck against Devin and got him eliminated from the game. Facing little to no backlash in Round 8, Kay was once again high on the chain and picked ally James once again. Contributing to and winning her first daily in Round 9, Kay joined the majority in sending Izel into elimination; viewing him as a threat to their endgame. She also joined a new trio alliance with James and Ryan Matthew in the Canuk alliance. Being voted to start the chain for a third time, Kay saved her ally Dorian. With outsiders Sylvia/Zaire being immune during the Round 11 daily, the majority had to turn against each other. Despite not being in an alliance with everyone from the majority, Kay managed to survive without a target on her back and joined the house in sending in Caoimhe Mulcahy. During the round before the finale, Kay's team lost and she was placed at the bottom of the chain so she could gain safety by pulling the reverse block, and sent James into elimination at his request. Making it to her first finale, Kay was paired with close ally James and managed to finish as the runner-ups.

## **The Royalty Challenge: Brain vs. Brawn vs. Beauty**

### **Daily Challenge Progress**

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## **Trivia**

* Kay is the first person to defeat two challengers at once in an elimination.
	+ She is also the first player to defeat two men at once in elimination.
* Kay is the first person to be eliminated before finale.
* Kay is the first female challenger to win a daily challenge in the history of the ORG.
* Kay was the only player (outside of Evan's purge and Lani's quit) to not enter elimination during **Cold Zone**.
	+ She was the only finalist to accomplish this.
	+ As of **Cold Zone**, she was the three-time player with the most days played on ***The Royalty Challenge***.
* Kay was the player voted to start The Chain the most in **Cold Zone** with 3.