Simone

## *Skatevivor* Career

**Simone** is a contestant on *Skatevivor: Beach City*, the second season of *Skatevivor*. A first-time ORG player, Simone hoped to be a chaotic presence on the season, but ultimately became a major social power player in the merge and made it all the way to Final Tribal Council where she lost to her close ally Vivi in a 5-4 Jury vote. She is a recipient of the Player of the Season and the Villain of the Season awards.

## Profile

**Name:** Simone

**Age:** 26

**Pronouns:** she/her

**Timezone:** EST

**Starting tribe:** Garnet

**Which survivor contestant would you say you are most like? Why?** I would say I am the most like Natalie Anderson, because I never shy away from standing up for my people, or making a comment when the mood strikes, and I love competition for competitions sake.

**What is your experience with ORGs (Online Reality Games)?** none! this is my first ORG! I have A LOT of catching up to do

 **What is your strategy coming into the game?** learn everything I can in the beginning, fly under the radar a bit (be seen as a non-threat) and then come in HOT in the second half.

**Would you rather get to the end and be hated or get voted out early and be loved?** Hated and make an amazing speech at the end! GO TODD!

**Is there anything else you want the specs to know?** I can't think of any extras right now- but if I do I will let you know right after work!! So excited to be here

## Survivor

During the Marooning, Simone was the first person to cast her vote, voting against Lindsey based solely on her initial impression of her. After Flava was exiled, Simone was placed on the dominant but chaotic Garnet tribe with Lindsey, Vivi, Joey, Rhone, and Treavor. Simone immediately hit it off with Vivi and the two formed three alliances together: one with Simone, Vivi, and Joey, one with Simone, Vivi, and Lindsey, and one with all four of them. Simone was also included in Lindsey's alliance of all the "older" members of the Garnet tribe.

After winning the first challenge, Simone got to go to the Kindergarten, where she met Olly. The two screamed at each other in all caps and worked together to solve the Mastermind puzzle. After Simone solved it and gave Olly the idol clue, they searched for the idol while in the Kindergarten but were unable to figure out the clue together.

Vivi was sent to the Kindergarten in the second cycle, and found the Garnet idol shortly after returning to camp. After Vivi found the idol, she told Lindsey and Simone. Almost immediately after Vivi revealed her idol to her allies, Simone and Vivi got worried that Lindsey was acting suspiciously. After winning their third immunity challenge in a row, Rhone went to the Kindergarten and the Garnet tribe descended into a paranoid mess. The exact nature of the OG Garnet drama was difficult for Hosts and specs to follow, but it largely stemmed from paranoia around alliances and who would be targeted if the tribe went to Tribal Council. Garnet's early dominance in challenges continued to frustrate Simone, who was desperate to cause chaos, be a villain, and vote someone out.

At the first Swap, Simone swapped to Sapphire. Sapphire - made up of four Garnets (Simone, Vivi, Joey, and Rhone), three Pearls (Brandon, Antony, and Dumpy), and one Amethyst (Jamal) - went on to dominate the next two challenges. Simone, Vivi, and Joey worried that Rhone might flip on them despite their OG Garnet connection. Meanwhile, Simone grew close with Jamal in particular and was added to various alliances with him, Brandon, Antony, and Dumpy on top of her OG Garnet alliances. Once again placed on a dominant tribe, Simone continued to avoid tribal council, much to her frustration.

At the Final 14, Simone swapped to Ruby 2.0 into a Sapphire 1.0 minority with Joey and Dumpy. She met up again with Lindsey and met Amethysts Nate, Kham, and Isabella for the first time since the marooning. The Amethysts were already plotting to blindside Lindsey, with Nate leading the charge against her in particular. Lindsey, unaware that she was in any danger on her new tribe, chose not to grab the Greed necklace and both tribes went to separate tribal councils. Lindsey believed the vote was on Dumpy since they were perceived as the least talkative member of the tribe. Meanwhile, the Amethysts filled Simone in on the vote, who told Joey, and they both agreed to take out their fellow OG Garnet Lindsey. The Amethysts were initially suspicious of how quickly Simone and Joey agreed to vote with them, but they all voted together to take out Lindsey in a 4-2-1 vote.

Ruby 2.0 went on to win the next immunity challenge, and the two tribes merged following Rhone's boot. Simone teamed up again with her ally Vivi, whose idol was more or less public knowledge. Simone hoped to vote Kham out first to break up the Amethysts, and after Vivi found the merge idol, the two of them planned to spread the rumor that Kham found it instead. After Vivi won the first individual immunity challenge, Joey started pushing for an Olly blindside. The Amethysts, particularly Nate and Kham, jumped on board with the Olly blindside plan with Joey as the decoy. The merge vote shifted when Dumpy leaked the Olly blindside plan to Brandon, who leaked it to Olly and Vivi. Dumpy, Vivi, Olly, and Brandon decided to vote out Kham and pulled in Simone. Simone, in turn, told Jamal about the Kham vote to maintain his trust. At tribal, Vivi played her Garnet idol on Brandon and Olly played Vivi's merge idol on himself, resulting in Kham being sent to the Jury in a 5-4-1-~~1~~ vote.

At Final 10, Dumpy found themselves in hot water due to their role in the chaos of the merge vote. Like she did during the Kham vote, Simone managed to take a backseat during this cycle and tried to put herself in the middle of everyone's plans, granting her access to a lot of game information. Brandon, who was initially pushing for Dumpy to go, convinced Vivi and Olly to save Dumpy and vote out Nate instead, who he claimed was the real architect of the merge vote chaos. Simone voted with them and Nate was eliminated in a 7-2-1 vote, with Joey and Nate voting Dumpy, and Isabella voting Vivi out of spite.

Simone's solid social position on the Rose Quartz tribe finally caught up with her at Final 9, when she was given the choice to either blindside Olly with her allies Dumpy, Jamal, Antony, and Brandon, or to inform Olly and Vivi about the vote. She chose to vote out Olly and lied to her close ally Vivi for the first time. Olly grew suspicious that he was being blindsided and told Vivi and Isabella. Vivi didn't believe that they were actually being blindsided, especially since she felt confident that Simone would tell her if a move was being made against her. Olly played the idol on himself, successfully negating the five votes against him and sent Simone's ally Antony out of the game with just three votes.

Simone went to work shortly after the vote to rebuild trust with Olly and Vivi, who both now felt that they were on the bottom. After Olly won immunity, Brandon tried to throw Dumpy under the bus for the attempted Olly blindside, and Isabella targeted Simone to Vivi, who told Simone her name was out there. A new alliance of Jamal, Simone, and Vivi formed, and they redirected the vote onto Brandon, recruiting Olly and Isabella to vote with them. Brandon was blindsided in a 5-2-1 vote, with Brandon and Joey voting Dumpy and Dumpy voting Joey.

At the Final 7, Dumpy was once again targeted for the vote after Vivi won immunity, but Simone preferred to boot Olly or Isabella. A new majority alliance of Dumpy, Jamal, Joey, and Simone formed called Fuck The Patriarchy and targeted Olly as a jury threat. Once again, Simone had to vote against her ally Vivi. To avoid hurting Vivi's feelings by blindsiding her twice, Simone told Vivi she was voting Olly shortly before the vote. On his way to the jury, Olly called Simone "fake."

Back at camp, Simone was frustrated that Vivi was still mad at her even though she warned Vivi that she was voting Olly. Simone won the Final 6 immunity challenge and Isabella was eliminated due to her perceived Jury threat status. After Dumpy won the Final 5 immunity challenge, Simone was forced to make a difficult choice between voting out Vivi with Dumpy and Jamal, or voting out Jamal with Joey and Vivi. Despite having betrayed Vivi twice before, they grew close again in the endgame and Simone expressed her desire to sit at the end with her as the only two women left in the game. Simone momentarily wanted to force rocks before realizing rocks were impossible at Final 5. She ultimately sided with her Day 2 allies Joey and Vivi, and voted out Jamal.

When Vivi won individual immunity at the Final 4, she made *Skatevivor* history by giving up immunity to Simone. In exchange, Simone let Vivi make fire against Dumpy. Vivi easily beat Dumpy in the slide puzzle, sending them to the jury. Dumpy was angry with Simone and didn't understand her decision to turn on them to save Vivi.

Now in the Final 3 with her two OG Garnet allies, Simone reiterated her desire to go to Final 2 with Vivi over Joey, even though she knew she would have much better odds at beating Joey. Simone wanted to win the game, but also wanted to help give the season an exciting ending with a competitive Final Tribal Council between herself and Vivi. When she won the Final Immunity Challenge, Simone quickly made her decision to vote out Joey and got her wish of a F2 with herself and Vivi.

Meanwhile, the Jury was very down on Simone's game at Ponderosa, with Jamal and Dumpy arguing against her due to her decision to turn on them in favor of working with Vivi, who was perceived as the clear frontrunner to win. However, Simone's speech and detailed answers at Final Tribal Council helped change some of the juror's perspectives. Simone defended her decision to go to the end with Vivi, saying that she knew she played a strong game and wanted to go to the end with her close ally and have a competitive Final Tribal.

Vivi ultimately won the season in a 5-4 vote, with Simone receiving the votes of Joey, Isabella, Ant, and Nate.

At the reunion, Simone won the Player of the Season award, Villain of the Season (with Vivi), and was voted as the player specs most wanted to see play again.

### Voting history

**^1** In *"Feeling cute might get idoled out tonite"*, Olly played an idol on himself, negating 5 votes and eliminating Antony 3-1.
**^2** In *"DO WHAT’S RIGHT AND NOT WHAT’S EASY"*, Vivi gave up individual immunity to Simone and beat Dumpy in firemaking.

## Trivia

* Simone is the first person in *Skatevivor* history to be given individual immunity by another player.