Jacob

Jacob is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Haiti and Visionary Survivor: All-Stars.

## Haiti Summary

Gaining a lot of popularity and winning over the hearts of the audience with his mischievous tactics, Jacob’s shady play style heavily revolved around deflecting attention off of himself by spreading true and false rumors about other castaways.

Jacob’s game started off slow as the original Egzagòn tribe winning the first two immunity challenges. At the start of the game Jacob immediately clicked with Izaak and Raini the most of anyone, unfortunately the first conflict on the Egzagòn tribe just so happened to be between those two. So Jacob naturally had to pick a side and roll with it. So he used his alliance with Izaak as a decoy alliance to help him gather info, while in actuality he was working with Raini, the person he felt he could work better with down the line. After losing the third challenge, the tension between Izaak and Raini had reached its boiling point due to the upcoming tribal.

Before the challenge the Egzagòn tribal had spiraled a bit out of control and paranoia had begun to run rampant. Patrick created a handful of mini alliances, Vaeril exposed Jacob’s two sided gameplay while trying to put a target on Izaak, which caused Jacob to start spreading a bunch of lies about practically everyone in the camp, which ultimately led to mass paranoia. After the challenge, Izaak was still adamant about eliminating Raini, while Raini and her allies had started to shift their sights onto Patrick, who they felt had begun to cement himself as a pretty decent social threat. With so many people uncertain about the vote, tribal council ended in a 4-4 tie between Patrick and Raini. As a result of the tie, Raini was eliminated by wheel.

Come swap, Jacob was more than ready to jump ship and join forces with some Vodou members after seeing and causing so much turmoil on the original Egzagòn tribe. The new Egzagòn tribe consisted of Drew, Izaak, Jacob, and Patrick, who had all remained from the original tribe, and Dwight, Ephraim, and Robby who had swapped over from the original Vodou tribe. Before the swap Izaak had been cursed and Patrick had lost his vote due to Maxx pulling a karma pin, therefore there were only two original Egzagòn votes to the Vodou’s three on the new Egzagòn tribe. Knowing that Vodou was going to control the vote regardless, Jacob offered his vote to Dwight, Ephraim, and Robby as a way of solidifying some trust. This action, and some good conversations, led to a rather significant bond being created between Jacob and Robby.

After the eliminations of Drew, Patrick, and Jacob’s main ally Giully, Jacob sat in an interesting middle ground come merge. He had some connections to the original Vodou tribe through Robby, and he naturally still had some decent connections to the original Egzagòn tribe which placed him in the middle of each. After the first post-merge challenge, mostly everyone was on board with voting Ry out of the game after he barely survived the last pre-merge tribal council and after Vaeril immediately exposed him to the whole challenge right after the merge. Fortunately for Ry, he was able to find a second idol shortly before tribal council which opened up a new door for him. He quickly told Jacob about his idol and got him to flip. With the help of Gregory, Izaak, and Jacob, Ry was able to blindside Jacob with his idol in a \*4-3-1 vote.

After his flip Jacob was in hot water with Robby. It was clear that either Ephraim or Jacob had flipped and voted with Ry instead of following the initial split vote plan that would’ve eliminated Ry or Gregory. The more and more people talked and exchanged information about the vote, the clearer it became that Jacob had flipped and voted out Josiah. After Robby won immunity, Jacob saw the opportunity to throw Mink under the bus. Mink had played a controlling strategical game in the pre-merge, and had a solid social game that he was riding on top of. With his back against the wall, Jacob just needed to get through one solid vote to begin to secure his place with Robby and his other allies again after flipping. But even though people weren’t pleased with Jacob flipping, most of the tribe was still fixated on eliminating Ry. But ultimately, Jacob and Ry were both spared as Ephraim was disqualified from the game for sharing video confessionals.

At the final nine people were so tired of Ry not going home and people were so on board with voting with Vaeril to finally eliminate Ry that Dwight, Matthew and Robby started seeing things in a different light. Noticing that Vaeril had gradually been gaining more power with every failed Ry vote, and noticing how Ry had been losing more power, Matthew and Robby decided to shift things in Ry’s favor by blindsiding Vaeril in what turned out to be a unanimous vote.

With both of them still floating around on the outs of the tribe due to their previous actions, Jacob and Mink both started targeting each other in order to eliminate a strong threat, keep attention off of themselves for the time being, and eliminate someone besides themselves who just so happened to be an easy target. Robby noticed the conflict between Jacob and Mink and decided to give Jacob a taste of his own medicine by feeding the flame between Jacob and Mink to keep attention of himself. After comparing notes, Jacob and Mink made amends and agreed to work with each other until the final five, which placed Ry back in the hot seat. Unfortunately this deal didn’t last very long as Jacob was eliminated by wheel after the vote tied between himself and Ry.

## All-Stars Summary

Jacob’s All-Star game was a complete 180 from his hectic game in Haiti, however it was even more successful, proving his versatility. Jacob played a far cleaner game, dominating from the start with his alliance and staying loyal almost to a fault and fell just short of the FTC.

Jacob’s game began on the undefeated Legacy tribe where he immediately connected with his pregame friends in Rey and Kalina, forming the infamous “trio” of all-stars which would go on to dominate the game. The trio had tight connections to Otter, Rachel and Schmutz who all were kept in the dark about how loyal the trio truly was. The winning streak created a deep bond between the OG legacy tribe.

Jacob swapped to the new Legacy with Robby, Derek, Rachel, and Blair. Jacob moved quickly, building his on his connect to Rachel from Legacy and Robby from S6. Derek naturally joined this group as well, leaving Blair on the bottom. When the tribe lost its first challenge, Jacob was convinced that Blair had an idol based on her lack of scrambling, which was a correct read. He convinced his other four tribe mates to lend him tokens to buy an idol nullifier which allowed them to unanimously eliminate Blair. Blair did not play the idol due to her seeing that the nullifier had been purchased.

Jacob then returned to tribal for the hectic joint tribal with the New Legend tribe. Unlike the other 8 castaways involved in this hectic tribal, Jacob was relatively content, believing that he could work with both Dawit and Robby in the future. Though he campaigned for Schmutz to be eliminated, voted with Robby, and ended up on the wrong side of the vote, his relationship with Dawit remained intact.

Come merge, the intact OG legacy tribe came together with Bee and CK to form an 8-person majority against Rochelle, Dawit, Kaden and Derek. And the trio were at the very center of the majority onion. However, the minority took the first blow when Kaden managed to eliminate Bee in a controversial move where he transferred a legacy advantage to Derek and voted out Bee with a single vote due to the large number of advantages played. Though Jacob’s side lost, he remained in control of the game.

The next round was a double elimination and Jacob felt as if he was in danger. He got Kalina to give him his tribal exit ticket and formed a 3-person alliance with Rey and Dawit to cross enemy lines. When the votes were read Rochelle and CK were eliminated, taking one player from each side.

After this vote, Dawit and Kaden’s feud flipped the game. Kaden formed an army by flipping Otter and Schmutz against the trio and Rachel. Dawit joined the trio due to his relationship with Jacob and Rey. The vote was split four/four between the former allies, however, Kaden and Derek’s votes were discounted, eliminating Kaden, and giving Jacob yet another win.

With Dawit’s loyalty, Jacob then turned his sights on Otter who had betrayed him in the previous vote. However, he noticed that Schmutz had lots of visionary tokens and concocted a plan with Dawit to convince her and Derek to spend their tokens on an exit ticket by convincing Schmutz she was going to go home. This plan worked to perfection, with Otter leaving and Schmutz wasting her tokens and her ticket.

Jacob has left Rachel out of the Otter vote and it became clear that the trio could either work with Rachel or Dawit, due to Rachel’s inclination to vote for Dawit. The trio decided that Dawit was the far more dangerous player and blindsided him, eliminating the large target and securing Rachel’s loyalty to the end.
Now the trio and Rachel were in the final six with Schmutz and Derek on the bottom. When Schmutz won immunity, it became obvious that Derek would be eliminated. When Schmutz lost in the next round she soon followed. Unbeknownst to Jacob, his number one ally Kalina considered using Schmutz and Rachel to flip on himself and Rey, but she did not pull the trigger as she feared Schmutz’s challenge ability.

It was this inkling to flip that spelled disaster for Jacob at the final 4. Jacob won immunity and wanted to eliminate Rachel and secure a final three appearance for his beloved trio. However, Kalina recognized that Rey was the far and away favorite to win and tried to convince Jacob to flip on him and make it a 3-1 vote. But Jacob refused and voted with Rey against Rachel. The vote was 2-2 and the wheel was critical for Jacob. Unfortunately, it spun poorly, eliminating Rey and alienating Rachel who felt indebted to Kalina.

Kalina approached Jacob and told him that she would not take him to the finals. Jacob, however, still wanted to take her, still loyal to his trio turned duo. However, neither of them got to decide. Rachel defeated Jacob in the final immunity challenge by mere milliseconds before eliminating him in third, one step before final tribal council.

## Return Interviews

**Clearly you did something right last time you played otherwise you wouldn’t have been invited back. So this season, are you looking to play more of the same way or change up your play style?**
Oh hell nooooo lmaoooo im changing it up for sure. Last time I kinda played all over the place, this season I plan on playing a loyal game and proving myself as a trustworthy player and hopefully I can win a few challenges this time.
**What did you learn from your last season that will help you do better this time around?**
I learned that my style of play is definitely a loyal player and sticking with what I know. I’m extremely confident I’ll go farther than I did last season if I go back to my roots and how I usually play and with this season being all stars I have to be careful with who I put my trust in because these are all good players.
**With 18 high caliber players returning, who are you expecting to see return? Who are you most and least excited to see again?**
Uhh definitely expecting to see the winners back, I don’t know much about past seasons but I expect to see Rey because I heard he played a great social game, which I believe because I’ve played with him before. I also expect to see Robby along with the winners. I’m excited to see Mink and Robby if they do happen to come back, also excited to see Rey because i’ve worked with him in the past. Dawits also pretty cool so im excited to talk to him some too if he’s playing. There’s no one Im really worried about seeing, maybe a wildcard like Ry if he was to get in?
**How confident are you this time around? Do you think you have what it takes to beat the best of the best?**
Oh I’m 100% sure I’ll be winning this season. I mean I know that sounds cocky but I’ve never went into a game thinking I’d lose because then what’s the point of playing. I’m on good terms with just about everyone with my past season, and I have good relationships with some of the bigger players to play past seasons so I think I’ll find myself in a really good spot early on.
**What are you looking forward to most this season? What are you looking to accomplish this time around?**