Rick Sanchez

Rick Sanchez was a competitor on Season 1 of PYP Survivor. He was a member of the Nai Tribe and one of the original cast members of Season 1. He was voted out during the merge, so he joined Season 1's Jury. He was the 7th competitor to be eliminated from Season 1, and placed 14th overall.

## Season 1 Episode 1: Good and Bad

Rick is one of the original 12 competitors of Season 1, and was a member of the Nai Tribe. Each member of the tribe goes their seperate ways and the boys decide to gather around a fire and strategise. Rick suggests to Green and Spirit that the three of them should ally in order to get rid of the girls on their Tribe more easily. Rick confesses that ultimately Spirit and Green are just pawns that he'll use in order to make it to merge, and if they have any problems with him, he'll have no problems getting rid of them.

For the immunity challenge, the tribes had to come up with a solution to a massive puzzle. The Nai Tribe won meaning Rick was safe and did not attend Tribal Council.

## Season 1 Episode 2: Taking Control

The Nai Tribe talks to each other when Rick walks up to them, carrying an object covered over a white sheet. He unveils his newest invention; the 'Jeff Probst 3043'. Rick explains that even though it can only predict the weather, he is planning to give it brand new features in order to help the Tribe. He confesses that there is also another feature to Jeff that he neglected to mention; a 'spy' feature that allows him to watch what happens during the Koror Tribe's Tribal Council meetings. Everyone except for Lightning then talks and come up with ideas to add to Jeff, but she argues that if everyone relies on Rick's new invention, then they'll grow soft and lose.

For the immunity challenge, the tribes had to co-ordinate with each other, but Green intentionally caused his Tribe to lose. The Koror Tribe won, forcing Rick and the rest of the Nais to Tribal Council, but not before arguing with Lightning once again over how useful the two of them were. He later confesses that although he may be weaker than Lightning, he has more allies on his side, claiming that tonight would be 'brains over brawn'.

At Tribal Council, Rick receives 3 votes, and along with Lightning, is nominated for elimination, and the public decides his fate in the next episode.

## Season 1 Episode 3: Thin Lies

With 50% of the votes, the public decided to save just Rick, which meant that he would remain on the show for the time being.

The Nai Tribe return to camp and meet with their newest member, Kyoko. She asks to meet with the Tribe's leader and before Rick can say anuthing, Green butts in and announces himself to be the Tribe's Leader. Green then lies about his background, which Kyoko catches him on, making the others on the tribe distrustful of Green, including Rick. Later on, Rick and Spirit start to work on Jeff, and Rick tells him that only he can operate it, saying that it's extremely fragile. Rick confesses that he's added a new feature for Jeff, the ability to print out ballot paper, allowing anybody to use extra votes.

The next day, Noelle compliments Spirit on finding food for the Tribe, and Rick for Jeff.

For the immunity challenge, the tribes had to co-ordinate with each other, but Green intentionally caused his Tribe to lose. The Koror Tribe won, forcing Rick and the rest of the Nais to Tribal Council.

At Tribal Council, Rick recieves 1 vote, and so is safe for the time being. However, Kyoko points out that there were 7 votes counted, despite there being only 6 members on the Nai Tribe. Guet disregards it and continues on.

## Season 1 Episode 4: She's Mine

Rick and Spirit start to tinker away with Jeff like before when Kyoko approaches them, asking to talk. Kyoko then pulls out the extra vote from the previous tribal Council, which has her name on it in computerised writing. Rick and Spirit try to deflect suspicion away from themselves and Kyoko leaves, still suspicious of them. Rick confesses that he has nothing to hide and reveals he used the extra vote option on Jeff to vote for Kyoko, citing her as annoying and smart, but says that he is smarter than her and doesn't care if she knows about the fake votes.

Before the immunity challenge could be played, the Koror members talk to Guet and make an agreement to give up immunity and go to Tribal Council right away. Guet accepts this offer, and rather anti-climatically, the Nai Tribe won meaning Rick was safe and did not attend Tribal Council.

## Season 1 Episode 5: The Weak, the Dumb, and the Backstabbers

Kyoko inspects Jeff further and finally activates the 'Extra Vote' option, causing a piece of ballot paper to exit the invention's 'mouth'. Just as Kyoko grabs the paper, Spirit and Rick notice and run up to her. Kyoko tells them that soon she'll reveal Jeff's extra vote option to the other members of the Tribe, but Spirit lies and says he doesn't know what she was talking about. Rick however tells the truth in an annoyed tone and doesn't care about Kyoko telling the others about Jeff. Rick confesses that Kyoko doesn't look like the smart-type, and that could be dangerous. He knows she will vote him out, but he knows she won't reveal Rick's plan so early and that he has a backup plan.

Even though the Korors did not have enough materials for the challenge, it had to be called off because Kyoko revealed to Guet the existence of the 'Jeff 3043' machine. In anger, he automatically disqualifies the Nai Tribe which meant that the Koror Tribe won, forcing Rick and the rest of the Nais to Tribal Council, but before they go, Rick tells the newcomers, Henry and Lady, that Spirit used Jeff to get extra votes instead of him. He confesses that since Spirit is near Jeff 24/7, it was easy to blame him, and that he'll rest easy knowing he won't be nominated.

At Tribal Council, Rick recieves 1 vote, and so is safe for the time being. Spirit, who is nominated for elimination, looks at Rick in shock.

## Season 1 Episode 6: The Ambassadors

The two nominees last night, Spirit and Noelle, are safe for another day, and at hearing the news, Rick grins away at the corner. Guet talks to every competitor still in the game and announces that the merge is near, but before it could happen, the 'Ambassador Stage' must happen, where each Tribe must pick an Ambassador to represent them and choose who will be the next person to be eliminated.

The Nai Tribe go back to camp, and begin to talk about who should be the Tribe's Ambassador. Rick stands up to speak to the entire Tribe and suggests he should be the tribe's Ambassador. But Spirit quickly shuts him down revealing that the reason people are nice to him is because they're afraid that he'll vote them off. Rick reveals that he is Spirit's only ally, and without him, he is nothing in this game. After the Tribe goes silent, Kyoko nominates herself to be the tribe's Ambassador, claiming that unlike Rick, she is unbiased and is able to make a fair decision. Rick later confesses that he feels he has screwed himself over, regretting not voting her off sooner and not shutting up Spirit quickly.

## Season 1 Episode 7: Time to Play Dirty

The Ambassador's decision on who to nominate is revealed to all of the competitors, and fortunately for Rick, he wasn't chosen. Guet then reveals the arrival of the final competitor for this season, Shrek, and that the merge has officially begun. Rick walks up to Spirit, who tries to create a fire, Spirit doesn't forgive him and Rick says that the game is essentially kill-or-be-killed. Rick mentions to Spirit what could have happened, had Kyoko not found about Jeff's extra vote option, where both he and Spirit would have power on their side. Rick confesses that he knows his name will appear in the next Tribal Council, but he intends to stay for as long as possible and wants to give Kyoko a piece of his mind.

For the first immunity challenge of the merge, the competitors had to successfully start a fire. Rick didn't win the challenge, and so he would attend the next Tribal Council.

At Tribal Council, Rick recieves 4 votes, and along with Kiyo, is nominated for elimination, and the public decides his fate in the next episode.

## Season 1 Episode 8: Redemption

With 63% of the votes, the public decided to save Kiyo, which meant that Rick was officially eliminated from the show. In his final confession, he states that he's disappointed that he's leaving so early, but not surprised, and would have liked to have one final 'battle' against Kyoko, wishing everybody else the worst of luck.

## Season 1 Episode 15: The Finale

Because he was eliminated during the merge, Rick is a member of this season's Jury and gets the chance to either comment on how a competitor is doing, or ask the final 3 a question.

Rick uses the chance to ask Kyoko if she thinks she can actually win the grand prize, considering the fact that she played solo for most of her time. Kyoko responds that, unlike Rick, she played fairly and was unbiased, considering herself to be the most strategic competitor on the show and mentions how she won the most challenges out of everybody.

## Season 1 Episode 16: The Reunion

For the reunion of Season 1's cast, Guet gathers every competitor for this season, including Rick. When interviewed, Guet asks him if he would use Jeff 3043 again, knowing it lead to his downfall. He responds by saying that 'creating extra votes' isn't exactly against the rules, so he was technically in the right. He states that he loved his time as a villain and doesn't care if people call him a villain or not.