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Josh Matanane

***Josh*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Yemen

## Yemen

Starting out on Mahjuz, Josh easily could hide in the background with the likes of Neil on his tribe. In Yemen, he wasn’t the most social player or the best tribemate, but he still managed to make it to the merge.

Noting Neil’s OTT behavior, Josh wished to take him to Day 39 by day 2, and making close allies with Zak and Preston, people with influence on the tribe, he seemed safe for when the introverts eventually went to tribal council.

With the second challenge, Josh was the main contributor to the challenge, even speculating that his fellow tribemates were trying to throw in order to get out the self appointed tribe leader, Neil. After they lost, talks of Neil and an idol emerged, and the power alliance discussed splitting votes between Neil and Nic, and Josh was assigned to vote for Nic. After Neil played his idol and the split idol play a success.

The next two pre-swap tribals were simple, Neil was a huge target and Essence being a liability allowed for Josh to skate by easily. Come the swap, with an easy 3-2 majority, Josh sat pretty with his tribes winning the first two challenges. After losing the 3rd challenge, Terry and Cass  targeted Josh for his inactiveness. Luckily, Preston, Josh and Cedrick  stuck together as a tribe after an introvert had been voted out on Munfatih, desperate to gain a majority, sending Cass home.

After losing yet another challenge, it should have been an easy 3-1, and Josh assumed so, submitting his vote for Terry. Yet Terry wasn’t giving up on a fight, managing to convince Josh to vote for Cedrick, believing Terry’s lie that there were intentions to send Josh out at 12th, and then again convincing Josh to vote out Preston. Come tribal, Preston played an idol and the plan failed, sending Terry out.

The merge was uneventful for Josh and with Prestons walk, Josh didn’t have any enemies left. But his inactiveness and lack of a solid social game, he was an easy target for those who hadn’t been on a tribe with him yet which hurt him immediately . Clued into the Alison blindside due to her idol(s), and his supposed allies working both sides, telling Alison that the vote was Josh, an idol play was the downfall of Josh, sending him home 6\*-4.
Jack Bradson

***Jack*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Togo

## Togo

Jack was probably one of the most energetic and bouncy contestants we’ve ever had, and while his game was somewhat short-lived, he definitely left a nice impact on this season’s cast.

Arriving in Togo, Jack immediately wanted to cut all of the fake happiness out and begin to play the game. But he knew that mentality wouldn’t fare him well at all, so he had just gone along with it. While he was meeting the tribe in DMs, Jack clearly didn’t buy Leetah’s niceness, having it come off as ‘fake’ while in reality, that’s just Leetah’s personality. So when he was included in the majority alliance of himself, Gabe, Bandit and Brendan. He expressed his concerns with Leetah, which they had agreed with. But when Gabe leaked the plan to Leetah, she played her idol, idoling out Bandit by a 4\*-2 vote. After the Council, Drew pressed Jack for lying to him. In return, Jack made up a quick white lie to save his butt in Drew’s eyes. In Jack’s POV, this worked because Leetah and Drew approached him the next day attempting to make a majority. Little did Jack know that Leetah and Drew did this with himself, Gabe and Brendan.

But Jack didn’t have to worry about that for too long as a Tribe Swap occurred. He grabbed a brown buff, putting him on the new Kabre tribe with his old tribemates, Drew and Brendan. But as time passed by, Jack began to see how shady Drew really was as he left Jack out on a lot of useful information. So when new Kabre lost their first challenge Jack and Brendan immediately targeted Drew first. But for damage control they told Drew and Liz that Jay was the vote. They even went to the extent of acting surprised at the outcome at Tribal Council, which Aidan caught onto fairly easily. But that didn’t do much since Jack was already wary of Aidan from the beginning. So when the merge came and Aidan was framed for leaking the Douglas vote, Jack’s suspicion only grew higher.

But after Douglas quit, Jack took a backseat for screen time, wanting to be more mature and serious throughout the remainder of the game. By now, there were two sides. One with Jack, Gabe, Leetah, Ben, and Brendan. Versus the other six. The other six first planned on taking out Gabe due to running that side, but when Gabe caught wind of that. They immediately switched over to Brendan… which Gabe also caught wind of. So this time, they switched the vote to Jack WITHOUT telling Jay. Making it 5-5-1. But to make sure Jack goes, Zach used his Steal-A-Vote on Gabe, getting Jack out by a 6-4-1\* vote.
Kip Gates

***Kip*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites

## Fans Vs. Favorites

Kip’s Fan Favorite win was rightfully deserved. He was far and away the most polarizing character this season. From his contagious confidence, to all his one-sided rivalries. Kip was a delight to watch this season, despite his 11th place finish.

Starting on the blue Kahu tribe, and right off the bat he banded with YEG members Cole and Kristin. To save a lot of time and effort, let’s just say that these three completely ran this tribe during the premerge. Having ins with everyone in a matter of days. However, they had some competition. Matthew and Jaylen were also positioned well, posing a threat to Kip and his crew.

As challenges came and went, Kip started to develop this rivalry with Punahele Aria. Feeling like she continues to one-up him on every challenge. Unlike Aria, Kip downplayed his challenge abilities most of the time to maintain threat level.

Now Kahu has gone through 2 unanimous vote-offs in Oscar and Oma, and Kip couldn’t be more pleased with the amount of control YEG had. They had so much control, to the point where a tribe Idol Hunt was led by them during the Joint Tribal. But Kip didn’t have as much control during the Joint compared to normal tribals. He tried to conceal the vote within this tribe, but tribemates Karmynn and Des continued to screw his plans by giving the favorites information. Now worried that the target may end up on himself, Kip received Despair's Idol. Playing it at Tribal Council along with Aria and her idol. It’s also important to note here that Kip started on a bad foot with the Faves, as his arrogance annoyed a majority of them in private and at Tribal Council, notably Tae.

Fast forwarding to the merge, Kahu was up 8-5 in numbers. And here comes Kip’s 2nd one sided rivalry, this time with Mark. Seeing this should be an easy vote against Aria, Kip was displeased to hear that Mark was planning to flip to the favorites. Blaming this on Mark’s piss poor game and ‘case of bigmovesitis’. Keeping himself in good favor, Kip, Kristin and Matthew planned to flip as well and vote off Karmynn, to try and gain favors with John and Brittney, two favorites that seemed to wanna flip.

Now feeling decently safe at the Final 12, Kip was now relying on John and Britt to stick with him and Kristin. And with word about YEG starting to go around, Kip felt less and less safe as time went on. A flip against him at the last minute was supposed to be organized by Tae, but several people backed out of it, keeping Kip safe for one more round. Unfortunately, this resulted in Tae absolutely blowing up Yeg at Tribal Council.

Now at Final 11, YEG is feeling somewhat defeated, but not to the point of giving up. The three attempted to rally votes for Tae HARD, but Tae’s blowup ended up working as they split the votes between Kip and Cole. With Kip going home in a 5-3-3 plaurity vote.

And to put the cherry on the sundae, it was during the round where he was runner-up in Immunity to Aria.
Aelin Elizabeth

***Aelin*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: South Korea.

## South Korea

Aelin was a promising member of the Brawn Guen-Yug tribe, but inactivity would doom her as the merge boot and first juror of South Korea.

Aelin began the game on Geun-Yug, and got off to a good start with Keegan, and began idol hunting with him. However, she was not the only person hunting with Keegan, and would not get the Brawn idol as Cora found it. She got into an alliance of herself, Keegan, and Dane, and was in a generally good spot and would not be the boot if they went to tribal. However, Brawn never lost a challenge in the preswap, and so Aelin joined Geun-Yug 2.0, with Dawit & Kae from Saheoui, Antonio from Jineung, and her ally Dane from old Geun-Yug. Aelin had grown rather inactive after never losing a challenge, and this persisted throughout the first swap, but swap Geun-Yug again never lost a challenge. Thus, Aelin made the third swap of the season, landing on Geun-Yug for the third time, with Antonio & Dane from the previous swap, her old tribemate JMilk from OG Brawn and swap Saheoui, and Jess from OG Brain and swap Saheoui. Aelin continued to be inactive, and again was set to be the assumed vote should they go to tribal council. They finally lost at the last challenge of the pre-merge, but Kae struck out for not submitting, saving Aelin, and thus she made merge without ever attending a tribal council.

At the merge, though, she was *still* inactive, and was voted off unanimously as an easy merge boot. Overall a promising start, but Aelin could have been fine had she been active, and she simply was not.
Jake Bramble

***Jake*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Maldives

## Maldives

Jake began the game on the blue Dhoni tribe. He immediately went to work gathering food and making fire for the tribe, hopeful that it’d make him look as good as possible. Well this and his social skills got Jake into a nice power structure with himself, Brad, Mojalefa and Trey. Coupled with his good position, Jake found an idol on Day 1. The first Dhoni Tribal Council was easy for everyone as Rhaegal was a consensus vote, but things got dicey on the very next Tribal.

Immediately, Jake was pushing for Trish to go as she was one of the people he was very sketched out by. All of her scheming with idols, shit-talking Zent, and spewing random information would make her an easy target. But instead Jake’s alliance targeted Gove, sparing Trish. Heading into the swap, Jake was put into a good position. That good position somehow got worse however once they lost the challenge and Moja pleaded to be voted out. And due to the twist, as they voted out Mojalefa, they got Trish in return.

A few days later, Jake realized that OG Dhoni was at a severe disadvantage in numbers, 8-5. This allowed him to cave in and reveal his idol towards his new #1, Trey. They planned on throwing the challenge to even out the numbers a bit, the challenge throw was successful but actually voting someone out was gonna be an issue. Jake had little to no trust in Trish due to her wildcard attitude. Due to this, he wanted votes to be piled onto her.  Thankfully that plan died out as they focused on booting an original Bodu Beru. But sources told Jake that his name was being thrown out there by allies Trish and Zent. Eventually they stuck to a Bradley vote since he was the only name they didn’t throw out. Fortunately, it worked out and Bradley was sent packing. *Unfortunately*, they didn’t throw the next challenge in which Kamala got voted out in quick succession. Meaning that Jake was heading into the merge with a 7-4 minority.

Into the merge Jake tried to keep his spirits up but failed to, he knew that he and his allies were in a tough spot. But they DID have a multitude of idols and advantages. At Tribal Council, Trish and Zent both played their idols, while Jake took the high road and kept his. Unfortunately it cost in the game as he went home 7-4.
Brendan Knight

***Brendan*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Togo

## Togo

Many came into the game thinking Brendan wasn’t going to be too much of a contender in the long run. But despite his somewhat early exit, he proved that his social skills could be put to use in the game. In the end, he got screwed over by his own ally’s wrong intuition. Let’s talk about it.

During the pre-swap phase of the game, Brendan arguably had the best social game out of the 18. Evidenced by himself being in tight good graces with everyone and being integrated into the two main alliances on the Tchamba tribe alongside Gabe. So they finally decided to stick with the side that had Bandit and Jack, only problem was that Leetah saved herself with an idol and sent Bandit packing. Much to Brendan’s confusion. So although Brendan was in a tough spot, Jack took more heat than he did surprisingly and Brendan wasn't in as much hot water anymore. When the next challenge began, Brendan volunteered to represent Tchamba, and after lasting around 4 hours, he secured his tribe immunity. Helping his social position even more. But on the flipside, this is where he began to question Jack slightly.

When the tribe dissolve came, Brendan was pretty satisfied with his new tribe on Kabre. Clicking with both Kalina and Aidan fairly quickly and even after a couple days, he realized that he was in the good graces of everyone except Jay. Which was indeed true. So by the time New Kabre finally lost a challenge, Brendan’s name wasn’t even in consideration while him and Jack’s target remained on Drew. But, being a tad bit extra, him and Jack buttered up Drew and Liz before the blindside. Making it oddly noticeable as the votes were being read. Aidan caught onto this and held onto this info… until he called out Brendan for it. Of course, he deflected the accusation and lied right back.

Now, we’ve hit the merge and this is where Brendan’s social game doesn’t really hold up. After the unprecedented Douglas quitting fiasco, Kalina had won the next immunity. At this point of the game, there were two sides and Brendan was in the minority. But Gabe had figured out that their target was himself, so Ben would use his idol on Gabe. But when they switched the target to Brendan. Brendan began to freak out as his alliance wanted to cause a tie and pile their votes on Aidan. Regardless, Ben lended Brendan his Legacy Advantage for Brendan to use. But when the other side switched their target and Zach stole Gabe’s vote. Jack was blindsided, Brendan wasted a Legacy Advantage and the other side had supposedly gained numbers. Their only issue was Jay.

The more Brendan thought about the game, the more he considered flipping to the majority to save his own butt. But as the Council became closer and closer Gabe’s side began to panic about what to do. So when Tribal Council came, despite Brendan’s pleas for Gabe to use his idol on him. He instead uses it for himself, leaving Brendan to get voted out 5-3-2.
All Is Fair In Blindsides

***All Is Fair In Blindsides*** is the merge episode of Essential Survivor: Japan

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Key Grabbers**

• Welcome Castaways, now the 11 of you covet Individual Immunity. Let's get started

• For today’s challenge you will be given 4 keys to grab. Each key has a different value and your goal is to have the most points by the end of 10 rounds. Whoever says what key they want first on my screen claims it.

• Shall we begin?

Winner: Theodore
Jennifer Lum

***Jennifer*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Saint Martin

## Saint Martin

Jennifer was essentially the female counterpart to Nick, except with a little more depth. In the pre-swap portion of the season, despite being extremely quiet around the campsite, she was included in a boatload of plans. And was even pretty high up on Jayden’s trust rankings. This is evidence to Jennifer being more of a one-on-one person, (which is evidenced more down the road). As we move to the post-swap, we can still see Jennifer rocking with her OG Gonzalo tribe mates on the Irma tribe. Not rocking the boat even when their tribe lost, showing herself to be calm under pressure. Especially so, for a crazy vote like that. Now the come to the merge, and nothing about Jennifer’s game has changed, she remains Gonzalo Strong even when Nick flips, causing Shai and Kiibo to go out back-to-back. With the Gonzalo numbers now dwindling. OG Irma realized that Nick was now with them, rather than against them. And due to Jayden telling a lie about the Legacy Advantage that he didn’t have, (at the moment), Jennifer was a clear target for the upcoming vote. But Will and then Nick’s medical evacuation saved the blonde.

Now here we are at the Final 6, and Jennifer’s personality really begins to come out. She realized that her resumé was looking a bit blank compared to everyone else’s. And with Jayden winning that episode immunity, everyone including Jennifer knows that she’s the target. Jayden attempted to sway her to vote Tyler, since he was the biggest threat next to him, but Jennifer declined, oddly voting for Tommy. Much to Jayden’s disdain. Unfortunately, this is what killed Jennifer, as Tommy forget to vote and had voted Tyler due to a randomizer. Meaning had Jennifer voted Tyler, her, Tyler and Jayden would’ve been safe and an OG Irma goes home due to rocks.
Richard Freemann

***Richard*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Japan

## Japan

While not much could be said about Richard, he played a some-what prominent role in the pre-swap portion on the Furui tribe. Richard, along with Luke, were the two people who were immediately on the bottom of their tribe due to the perceived lack of appearance they both showed. And while Richard did help more in the second challenge, he was left out of the vote for the majority of downtime during their first Tribal. Hours before, he was informed of the Luke vote, but for no apparent reason, Richard relays that info back to Luke, who by then was reluctant to believe anything said by Richard due to Josiah already lying to Luke, saying the vote was Richard. But both Rich and Luke were spared of Tribal once Barsam was removed from their tribe and the game.

After Furui’s second immunity challenge loss in a row, the tribe has now caught wind of Richard telling Luke about the vote. So banding together, they planned to get Richard out. But when they were scared of an idol getting played, they split the vote 4 votes on Rich, and 3 votes on Luke. Meanwhile, Richard attempts to band together Luke, Ace, Deca and Josiah to blindside Cheren. Needless to say, all but Luke flipped on him, blindsiding Rich in a well-executed 4-3-2 vote

## Voting History

 See You After The Vote Count
Dany Targaryen

***Dany*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Brazil

## Brazil

Dany, being placed on the ill-fated Janeiro tribe. Besides finding a Legacy Advantage on Day 1, things didn’t exactly go her way at first. When her tribe lost the first Immunity Challenge although she voted with the majority, Dany wasn’t in the majority alliance. Trish’s crazy idol-finding strategy saved her butt. Now she was stuck in a three-person alliance of herself, Jarek, and Jess. While Millo, Payton, Evan and Paul (with Gavin as an affiliate) were controlling the votes. But once another of her allies, Jess, went to Exile Island, Jarek and Dany were on the chopping block. Fortunately, the majority alliance wanted to split the votes and take Jarek out instead. Dany caught wind of this plan and helped blindside Jarek.

Fast forward a couple days due to their one immunity win. Janeiro was back on the road to Tribal Council. And since her only person into the majority alliance (Payton) was exiled, the three others decided to target Dany due to the extreme possibility of her flipping when a swap comes. But because of several people forgetting to vote. She left in a 3-1-1-1 vote.

## Voting History

 You Don't Know It, But I Hold The Cards
 It's Not Just a Nae-Nae
 I Think I've Lost It
 But Are You Hear
 Voted Out, Day 11
Irma

*Irma* is one of the starting tribes on Saint Martin

## Members

* Original
* Day 7

## Tribe History

If we give Original Irma a score 1 through 10, rating them on their tribe functionality, they'd get a 5 out of 10. From the moment the first challenge was lost, cracks in the tribe were shown immediately. And if you watch Survivor, you know cracks in a tribe can really ruin their dynamic. Thankfully for them, a tribe swap occurred on Day 7. And now OG Gonzalo outnumbered OG Irma 4-3. And although the New Irma had even more cracks than the OG Irma, they somehow managed to win 3 out of 4 of the post-swap Immunity Challenges.

## Trivia

* Irma is the first primarily purple tribe.
* In Saint Martin, all advantages and idols were found by original Irma members.
Nick Fury

***Nick*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Togo

## Togo

For being the second oldest person in the cast, you’d assume Nick would be one the more serious side, personality-wise. But nope, his Nick Fury obsession clearly contradicted that from the moment he went into Africa, and the day he got out of it.

Due to being the second oldest, Nick got to pick his tribe, Kabre. But although he tried pulling in Kalina and Bob for an alliance, his odd behavior and comments made them turned off by him. Due to the failed attempt, he offered to make an alliance with Ben, which he said that Aidan must be in on it. This alliance came into fruition, but with Kabre winning the first Immunity Challenge, nothing was done. But as Kabre had won their second straight Immunity Challenge, Nick began to get annoyed with their ongoing victories. So it was his mission to throw the upcoming challenge. And as he didn’t even finish Part 1 of that challenge, it’s safe to say he succeeded in that.

But as of the overall voting process, Nick didn’t exactly get his way at first. The majority alliance of Douglas, Aidan, Ben and Kalina had decided to vote Nick not because of his challenge performance, but his odd comments directed at the tribe. But being in Nick’s OG alliance, Ben and Aidan didn’t like that plan, which caused the trio to target Bob, while the others targeted Nick. Minutes before Tribal, the others planned a 3-2-1 vote, in which they were supposed to switch one of their votes off of Bob. Well that worked well because they got into Aidan’s head as he voted Nick, while the others voted Ben. But during Tribal, Ben didn’t feel good about his chances, prompting him to use his idol, kicking Bob out of the game instead of him.

Then the swap came, and Nick had OG Kabre majority, but with Ben and Douglas on the same tribe as him. Them working together was going to be very unlikely. Despite all this, the moment New Tchamba lost, it was an easy 6-1 vote to boot Nick, after he refused to socialize the people post-swap.

## Voting History

 The Start Of A Stormy Season
 Following The Flow
 Piss Off
 The Odd Girl Out
 Voted Out, Day 12
Antonio Shakal

***Antonio*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Scotland

## Scotland

From quiet to riot, even though he lasted a short 10 days in Scotland. Antonio’s game was surely something else… even if his barely-there confessionals didn't exactly show that.

On the fire (aka Teine) tribe, Antonio wasn’t the most social person ever. And that was recognized by all three members of his tribe. Especially Robby because due to Chloe and Rachel’s seemingly unbreakable bond, he wanted to get close to Antonio, which looked like it wasn’t going to happen. But after Teine lost with Talamh in the Double Tribal challenge, they were forced to vote one of their own off. Despite not knowing that the guys knew about their bond, the girls had most of the power in this vote. While Chloe was hesitant to booting Antonio because he sat out of the challenge. Rachel convinced her to vote for him, as she wasn’t getting good vibes from him. They had also gotten Robby to vote with them… allegedly. Wanting to be fair, Robby sided with Antonio in this vote instead of the girls. Which sent Rachel and Antonio to a live firemaking challenge. And due to being a somewhat experienced fire builder, Rachel beat Antonio sending the guy out in 13th Place.

## Voting History

 I Haven't Even Had Any Fun Yet
 Trying To Align With A Rock
 I Think You Misspelled Piece Of Furnitiure
 Lost Firemaking, Day 10
Chris Sun

***Chris*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: South Korea.

## South Korea

Chris got off to a strong start, but grew to be quiet, and ended the game in 15th place.

Starting out on the Guen-Yug tribe, Chris was initially social with his tribe, but could not keep up with his social game and grew progressively quiet as the game went on, and was generally not a big help in challenges. He was also very bold and reckless with the idol hunt, searching frequently and obviously, much to the annoyance of his tribemates. He was low on every trust rankings list on OG Guen-Yug. Luckily for him, Guen-Yug did not go to tribal in the pre-swap, and he swapped onto Jineung 2.0 with old Brawn tribemate Keegan, old Sahouei members Emmanuel & Rachel, and original Jineung member Ry.

Keegan, who didn’t trust Chris already, knew that the Beauty & Brain players would band together against the brawns, and so he decided to desert Chris in order to save himself. He threw Chris under the bus, and with him already not being very socially active, everyone latched onto the easy boot and Chris was eliminated in a unanimous 4-1 vote, voting for Ry on his way out. Perhaps had he been more careful with his hunting and more social, he could have avoided his fate.

## Voting History

 I Think We're The Actual Brains Tribe
 Voted Out, Day 10
Returning Players

**Returning Players** in *Essential Survivor* offer the opportunity for former contestants who have won or been voted out to return for another shot at becoming the Lone Survivor.

## History

* Essential Survivor: All Stars brought back 20 of the franchise's best players for another go at the title.

* Essential Survivor: Maldives brought back 6 previous one-time premergers that wanted redemption for another go at the title.

* Essential Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites brought back 10 fan favorites from past seasons to battle against 10 fans of the series.

* Essential Survivor: Peru - Second Chance introduced 35 'Second Chancers' to the public. They were allowed to vote 20 of them into the season.
Able To Crusade For Blood

***Able to Crusade For Blood*** is the third episode of Essential Survivor: Japan

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Semantris**

• Welcome Castaways to your fourth immunity challenge!

• For today's simple challenge you'll be playing a game called Semantris, the objective to to score as many points as you can with sending out words that correlate with the word the game gives you. Use arcade mode

• Whichever has the highest score by the end will win Immunity. Sending the others to Tribal Council. Good luck!

Winner: Furui
Jay Royall

***Jay*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Togo

## Togo

Jay wasn’t a type of player this ORG has been before. He was really eager to play… but a really emotional player. I’m not sure how to explain it, but I’ll try my best in his game summary.

As he was picked by Liz to be on the Mina tribe, Jay quickly informed his tribemates about how excited he was to play this game. He was really loud with his emotions, even when they had voted out Tak pre-swap. Jay’s parchment surely was… out there. To say the least. Once the tribe swap came, Jay was extremely happy to see that Rey drew a different buff from himself and Liz. His reasoning for that was because he didn’t want Rey and Liz to become too close behind his back, which didn’t mean much due to himself being the reason for them being so close to begin with. But as he met his new tribe mates. Jay opened up heavily to Aidan and took a strong liking to him. Aidan’s feelings were mutual but he was aware of Jay and his wild emotions, so he wouldn’t mind taking him out sooner or later.

When New Kabre finally lost their first and only post-swap challenge all eyes were on Jay as he was the only person on the tribe who didn’t contribute to the matter. But when Brendan and Jack switched the target over to Drew, Jay was saved from elimination. Now we’ve hit the merge and things didn’t get better here. During the results of the Touchy Subjects challenge, Jay was voted most annoying and most unlikely to hang out with irl. Which hurts his feelings and made him get a tad bit hostile towards everyone. But overall Jay’s merge game wasn’t all that exciting, and it wasn’t a fun way to head out when he got medically evacuated at the Final 9.
Vincent Thedank

***Vincent*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Japan

## Japan

Most applicants, you’d think would be rather excited and motivated to play this game. And without a doubt, most of this cast was indeed portraying those motives… However Vincent was surely not one of those people. And albeit personal issues were happening at the time, the timing of the two situations made for an awkward game.

Being placed on the Wakai tribe, Vincent was notably one of the only people to not say much. But despite not being too helpful around camp, Wakai had booted Brett off first (someone notably more helpful than Vincent), with the help of Zent and X. At the upcoming Wakai tribal, Vincent was the main target for the tribe, (mainly Zent) but when Zachary had gone around attempting to blindside Theodore. The tides switched over to him, sparing Vincent once again.

At the swap, Vincent finally began to take matters into his own hands. He was on the new Furui tribe, with old members Zent, Tommy and Travis. Before, they replaced him for Enrique, due to Vincent not being helpful in Zent’s eyes. But when Enrique skipped Tribal due to an advantage Geo claimed, Vincent was their only other choice, and by extension, their man for info as he played the middle. He ultimately decided to stick with his old tribemates. But when Zent leaked crucial info to the other side, he was immediately blindsided and idoled out. Leaving the Wakai 3 in the minority, and with no unsaid leader.

Fast forward to their next Tribal, and Vincent was done. He had asked his tribemates to vote him off but the OG Furui didn’t buy it since he was reluctant to quit. Thinking that, they voted for Travis. But before they could even head to Tribal, Vincent got his third inactivity strike and was medically evacuated from the game.

## Voting History

 See You After The Vote Count
 The Inactives Are Spared
 Able To Crusade For Blood
 DEVELOPMENTS
Japan

***Essential Survivor: Japan - Old vs. Young*** is the fourth season of Essential Survivor.

Japan is known for being one of the more boring seasons while somehow bearing the most controversial Final Tribal Council to-date. Despite having a solid cast on paper, they happened to not mesh as well together as the previous 3 seasons had. Having an all-male cast didn't help the fan perception either. But Japan wasn't horrible. We did get a handful of good players from this season, crazy vote-outs, and a winner that proved that anyone can win no matter the playstyle.

## Casting

Casting for Essential Survivor: Japan - Old Vs. Young began on June 21st, 2020 and ended on July 12th, 2020. A total of 39 applicants applied for this season, when only **20** got selected to compete in Japan.

## Twists

* **Old vs. Young** - The ten oldest castaways were placed on one tribe while the ten youngest were placed on the opposing tribe.
* **Tribe Shuffle** - At the Final Sixteen, the two tribes shuffled members.
I Haven't Even Had Any Fun Yet

***I Haven't Even Had Any Fun Yet*** is the premiere episode of Essential Survivor: Scotland

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **A Hunt For The Ages**

• Welcome @Castaways to your first challenge of the season!

• For today’s challenge you will be partaking in a good ol' fashioned Scavenger Hunt! Here's how it works;

• A list of 20 items will be given to you all. Your job is to take pictures of those items (with a paper in the picture to validate it) and send it in your private confessional. Whichever 3 tribes has the most items in 24 hours will win immunity! But just a few guidelines to go over.

• First, each tribe member must send in at least 1 item. If a tribe member neglects to send in anything, one item will be deducted from the tribe. (EX - 3 ppl dont submit, 3 items deducted) Also, as for the paper, just hold a piece of paper next to the item you are trying to take a photo of. If there's a tie between tribes, whoever sent in the items first will win.

• The tribe that loses will be heading to Tribal Council. Where one of you will become the first person voted out of this game.

Good luck and let the games begin!

Winner(s): Uisge, Teine, Adhair
Everybody Talks

***Everybody Talks*** is the third episode of Essential Survivor: Saint Martin

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Slide, Don't Slip**
Castaways will be facing off against someone on the opposing tribe. Whoever finishes their slide puzzle first between the two would win. Whoever has the most points by the end of all the duels wins immunity.

Winner: Irma

## Trivia

* This episode title was a quote from Jayden.
Piss Off

***Piss Off*** is the third episode of Essential Survivor: Togo

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Obstacle Course**

• Welcome Castaways to your third immunity challenge! This challenge is really straightforward, so let's not do too much chattering at let's get right on into it!

• One person in your team will say 'I climb step (#)', all they way until they get to 100, once they do that, another person must do the same thing. Once both people do that, I'll send links for two puzzles in the designated person's confessional. Whichever two people finish the puzzles first wins Immunity for their tribe!

• The last tribe to finish will be seeing me at tribal, where one of you will become the third person voted out of this game.

Winner: Mina]​​ & Tchamba

## Trivia

* This episode was named after Bob's quote.
Brett Johnson

***Brett*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Japan

## Japan

Coming onto the game, as with some of our previous alumni, Brett was a Fan Favorite from the jump. He’s likable, has a good head for the game on his shoulders and seemed like he could maneuver himself out of sticky situations, much needed in a game like Essential Survivor. But as he only lasted 3 days on Kasumi Bay, most fans of the ORG would consider him to be robbed. Let’s talk about why.

As stated in the S4 promo, the tribes were gonna be divided up by ages, so due to being one of the youngest in the entire cast, it was no question that Brett would end up on the younger tribe. Unfortunately, he didn't’ click with any of his tribemates at all within meeting them. So when the first challenge to make a SOS Signal was supposed to be tribe building… let’s just say Brett wasn’t present for a majority of it. And due to the tribe’s erratic and loud behavior when grouped, they immediately noticed Brett’s absence. Mostly Zent, who before 2 hours had even passed in the game, laid his sights on Brett.

After Wakai lost the challenge, Zent grouped up five people (Zent, X, Theo, Tommy and Travis) all letting them know about Brett’s behavior. So due to no one being willing to immediately say a name, they all complied, telling the rest of the tribe. But of course, not everyone was exactly willing to just ‘ditch Brett’ in Zent’s words. Namely, Theodore and Zachary. They had both expressed slight displeasure with the vote, but nothing else was done. Which meant with Brett thinking the vote was Vincent, he was immediately blindsided at the Tribal Council.

## Voting History

 See You After The Vote Count
 Voted Out, Day 3
Nick Fitzgerald

***Nick*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Saint Martin

## Saint Martin

Nick was one the more invisible players on Season One, and despite him going somewhat far, his quiet and sneaky approach to everything didn’t make him such a good player in the long run. From the beginning, Nick was a supporting character to many people’s narratives and was constantly on the borderline too many alliances. From the post-swap to the merge, Nick was extremely quiet at camp. We assume that he didn’t want to start a ruckus or be in anyone’s immediate thoughts due to his lack of confessionals. That could really be up for debate. Now that the merge has come as Nick has gone through scot-free, Nick had some business to do. Noticing that the OG tribes division were 5-5, he made it his mission to flip on the original tribe which he managed to do. Unfortunately, it became public news that he was the flipper. Returning to vote with Gonzalo for the next vote. Now that he was an established flipper, everyone intended to bring him far since he wasn’t a big threat and lost respect from several castaways. But at the Final 7, he striked out. Saving Jayden from a clear path to Ponderosa.
Social Engineering

***Social Engineering*** is the fifth episode of Essential Survivor: Japan

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **SOS Signal**

• Welcome Castaways to your sixth immunity challenge!

• For today's challenge you'll be participating in a game called Circular. It's an easy as it sounds, draw a circle, and try to get the best score you can!

• Whoever has the best average wins Immunity! Sending the others to Tribal Council. Good luck!

Winner: Furui
I Am Loyal To a Fault

***I Am Loyal To A Fault*** is the fifth episode of Essential Survivor: Togo

## Challenge

**Immunity Challenge**: **Lord of the Ring**

• Welcome Castaways to your fourth challenge of the season! This will be a battle from start to finish. Without further ado, let’s get started!

• For today’s challenge you will race out into the water to grab a ring. You will then take that ring to your specific goal. However you can also try and stop your opponents from scoring any way possible! The first tribe to 3 points will win immunity while the other tribe will be sending someone home.

• This will be taking place in the beach. To grab the ring you must say “I grab the ring!” Once someone has said this you must then say “I bring the ring to my goal” 3 times. Once you have said it with no interruptions you score a point. HOWEVER it must be in YOUR teams possession. If the other team steals the ring and you say the quote it won’t count!! To steal the ring say “I steal the ring!” If you say this your team can then begin taking it to the goal.

• This’ll be messy, but you’ll have to try hard to win!

• It will be played in duels. Meaning 1 person go against the other person from the opposing tribe each round! Before each game we will ask for the 2 players competing and they’ll begin!

Winner: Kabre

## Trivia

* This episode was named after Gabe's quote.
Kae Tanaka

***Kae*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: South Korea

## South Korea

Kae was off to a good start on the Beauty Sahouei tribe, but had to play an idol to get out of a sticky situation, stayed afloat in the swap, but then tragically struck out of the game. Buckle up for this one, it’s a wild ride.

On Sahouei, Kae quickly made an alliance of herself, Emmanuel, & Rachel, which became the majority with Nova as a distant 4th. On the first night, she found an idol clue, and then the Beauty tribe idol, placing her in a power position on the tribe. She told Emmanuel & Rachel about her idol as well, the problem was that she showed them with a screenshot. Thus, she earned 2 strikes for sharing a screenshot, foreshadowing her downfall. When they lost the second challenge, a majority consensus was quickly formed on the inactive Winston, and he was voted out unanimously, voting for Kae on his way out.

Sahouei lost the third challenge as well, and as Dawit was on the outside of the majority 3, he would be voted off, right..? Well, Dawit campaigned, and campaigned hard. Emmanuel decided he would rather vote off Kae than Dawit, and tried to convince Rachel & Nova to do the same. Nova already preferred Kae to go over Dawit as she liked Dawit more. Rachel, however, saw Dawit & Nova as a duo and was not thrilled at the proposition of voting off Kae, so she told Kae that Nova was targeting her. Kae realized how much danger she was in, and how Emmanuel was trying to convince her not to idol. So, with Rachel telling her to do so, she played her idol for herself, negating 4 votes and sending Nova out of the game with only one vote.

Luckily for Kae, the swap was next, and she ended up on the new Guen-Yug tribe, with Dawit from Sahouei, Aelin & Dane from old Guen-Yug, and Antonio from Jineung. Kae worked hard to get into good standing with everyone, and it paid off, with her being in a fairly good position on the tribe, in a trio alliance with herself, Dawit, & Antonion, with Aelin set to be voted out if they lost. But Guen-Yug did not lose, and she headed into the third swap, joining Guen-Yug 3.0 with Antonio, Aelin, & Dane from the previous swap, JMilk from OG Brawn and swap Sahouei, and Jess from OG Brain and swap Sahouei. They won the first challenge in a unanimous 6-0 sweep, and Emmanuel was voted off Sahouei 3.0, much to Kae’s delight. Kae was in an alright position on this new tribe, but disaster struck for her when she failed to submit for the next challenge. In a shocking turn of events, she received a third strike, and was medically evacuated from the game. The idol that saved her on her original tribe doomed her when she shared a screenshot of it, setting her up for failure when she overslept.

## Voting History

 I Think We're The Actual Brains Tribe
 She Understood the Assignment
 It's Sunday
Pierre Barbe

***Pierre*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Maldives

## Maldives

Despite preaching to be the star of the season beforehand, Pierre had little to no impact on this season. His personality was akin to Kamala’s… yet less noticeable. Pierre’s purple edit on this season resulted in his elimination being confusing for the audience, as he was barely there.

During the preswap, Pierre went with the flow. He got included in some alliances but was never the main person driving ideas. He closely aligned with Bradley and Joseph, making alliances with them both individually. This didn’t last for long though as a swap occurred and he was separated from both of them. He luckily landed in the majority however on Dhoni 2.0. He had great bonds with Kamala, but knowing that his majority alliance would want either her or Brad out (due to them being in the tribe minority), Pierre attempted to steer his alliance in the way of booting Brad. Once he was gone though.. Kamala self-destructed.

After watching Kamala ruin her chances at survival, Pierre was ready to let her go. But he was informed that Kamala had an idol, making him contemplate his decisions. Ultimately, he continued to vote her out, noticing that her idol was fake.

Now we’re at the merge, and Pierre’s strategy for letting the big dogs control the alliance was put into effect. He coasted with his alliance until the Final Nine, where tribal lines finally dissolved and a blindside was put into effect towards him in 9th Place.
All-Stars

***Essential Survivor: All Stars*** is the sixth season of Essential Survivor. Also the final season of its first era.

Most All-Star seasons deliver, and this one was not an exception. 20 returnees coming back itching to get a win, (or their second), only results in great gameplay, fun character moments and a satisfying finish. But this season wasn't flawless. Its biggest drawback would definitely be the tribal discussions due to the dodging of questions. But regardless, this season is widely known as the best yet, and for good reason.

## Casting

Casting for Essential Survivor: All Stars began on October 10th, 2020 when invites were sent out. Only 20 people were eligible to come back.

## Changes

* Instead of instant rocks, a revote would occur.
* At the merge, castaways are given a chance to search for advantages in the new Merge Feast.

## Twists

* **Tribe Shuffle** - At the Final Sixteen, the two tribes shuffled members.
Emmanuel Pasternak

*Emmanuel* was a castaway on Essential Survivor: South Korea

## South Korea

Emmanuel was a promising player with a very good start on the Beauty tribe, immediately getting into an alliance within the first few hours

of the game, but after two swaps, a chaotic tribal and an idol play sent him home in 12th place. How did this happen? Let’s find out. Emmanuel began his game on the Beauty tribe, Sahoeui, and hit it off with Kae & Rachel immediately during the marooning. A trio alliance was formed between the three, and Emmanuel seemed to be set on the tribe in the first few hours. A majority alliance with himself, Kae, Rachel & Nova was also formed later, which solidified him on the ins of the Beauty tribe. Sahouei lost the second challenge of the game, and the vote fell onto Winston, who was busy and unable to be very active. It was a very simple vote, with the entire tribe being united to vote him off. After loosing their second challenge in a row, the obvious boot seemed to be Dawit, but he worked hard to ensure his safety. Emmanuel preferred Kae go over Dawit, and slowly, the tribe got on board with it due to Dawit & Emmanuel’s efforts. He knew Kae had an idol, and worked to ensure she wouldn’t play it. Unfortunately, she realized what was up and correctly played her idol, sending Nova out of the game. After Nova’s boot, the tribes swapped, and Emmanuel joined the Jineung (Brain) tribe. He swapped with his #1, Rachel. Jineung lost the challenge again, but Emmanuel would once again be safe- Keegan told him & Rachel about his idol and made an F3 deal with them. This guaranteed the three of them majority on their tribe, and Chris was voted out. Jineung would go on to win the next two challenges, and Emmanuel would make the third swap, returning to Sahouei. He was again with his closest ally Rachel, as well as Keegan from the swap, and Dawit from OG Sahouei. It seemed everything was still coming up roses for Emmanuel. Sahouei lost the next challenge in a brutal 6-0 knockout, and it was back to tribal.

On paper, the swap was not all that bad for him, but in practice, it turned out to be fatal. The original target was on Dawit, and Emmanuel, Rachel, & Keegan were locked onto him. However, the vote leaked, and Keegan’s use of fake alliances was used to turn Emmanuel & Rachel against him by Dawit. Further complicating things, scared of an idol, Ry & Hades voted for Emmanuel, with Dawit in on this knowledge, and he played his idol to scare Keegan into playing his. It worked, and Emmanuel was idoled out of the game in 12th place.

- Written by Devin

## Voting History

 I Think We're The Actual Brains Tribe
 She Understood the Assignment
 It's Sunday
 Anyslays
 Voted Out, Day 17