Mike

Mike was a contestant on Marvivor: Rabaul where he placed 1st.

Starting on the Vulcan tribe, Mike got off to a good start because he was trusted by a lot of his tribe, he voted incorrectly for Gina during Pikachus boot but only because he wanted to cause some paranoia on Vulcan. During the next round, Mike was convinced by the Black Widow Brigade (an alliance consisting of Gina, Molly, Morgs and Tasha) to vote for Spencer until he won immunity. The target then shifted to being between Clay or Donuts until Gina became paranoid that Mike wasn’t with the group and exposed the BWB to everyone. This led to everyone targeting Gina but she ended up surviving due to Molly quitting the game for personal reasons.

When the swap occurred Mike was swapped onto Tavurvur alongside Asaf, AJ, Drudo, Fast, Magnus, Spencer and Tasha. However, Spencer and Morgs would both mutiny from their tribes so Morgs joined Tavurvur while Spencer left for Vulcan. Mike was added into the ‘Fatal Five’ alliance on Tavurvur which also consisted of AJ, Morgs, Tasha and Magnus. The Fatal Five was in control of the tribe and pushed for Drudo to go once they lost a challenge. They were successful as Drudo was voted off unanimously. Two rounds after this tribal another swap would occur. Unlike other swaps the tribes were decided through a schoolyard pick. Everyone from Tavurvur 2.0 (including Mike) ended up on Vulcan 3.0 with the exception of Magnus who would be on Tavurvur 3.0.

Two rounds later (after Magnus and Griffin were voted out from Tavurvur 3.0) came the merge. It was clear from everyone's choices during the third swap as well as Magnus’ boot that everyone intended on sticking to swap tribe tribal lines. The Roundtable (what Tavurvur 3.0 dubbed themselves) targeted Fast from The Sixth Sense (Vulcan 3.0) for flipping. However they were unsuccessful in doing so. The Sixth Sense wanted to target Clay as a safe vote, but Mike would learn from Matt that Spencer had sussed out that Clay would be the target. This led to the Sixth Sense targeting Matt instead. When tribal council happened, Spencer used his extra vote to tie the votes up at 6-6. Another tie happened on the revote and Fast would be eliminated due to rocks. Mike would find a challenge advantage in the safari soon after this vote. The next tribal was extremely chaotic. Matt had the majority idol that would negate the votes on whoever received the majority of the votes, so Roundtable formed a plan that involved splitting their votes 4-1 with 4 on Morgs and 1 on Asaf, so that they would have less votes than the 5 Sixth Sense had so the idol would only negate their votes. Tasha would steal Vinces vote, causing it to change to a 3-1 with the targets being the same. Tasha and Morgs were somehow able to convince Matt that Spencer had stolen Vinces vote and was turning against him. However, Vince reminded Matt that Sixth Sense had literally voted against Matt at the previous tribal and couldn’t be trusted. Sixth Sense was unaware that Vince had brought Matt back onto the side of The Roundtable and split their votes with 3 votes on Spencer and 3 on Cameron, they believed Matt was voting Spencer to make it 4 votes on him. When the votes were read it was 3*-3*-3*-1, due to the majority idol being played the only valid vote was for Asaf, sending him to the jury.

After this tribal council a fight erupted in the tribe chat between Morgs, Clay and Spencer. The result of this fight would be both Morgs and Clay quitting the game. Despite Spencer not doing anything wrong, the argument caused The Roundtable to fracture as Cameron and Vince both started to feel uncomfortable working with the alliance due to not knowing for sure what the truth was. Cameron and Vince would approach Tasha about flipping, but she and Sixth Sense didn't believe them. Mike would convince Spencer to flip on The Roundtable, and Matt decided to commit to flipping this time. This meant that Cameron and Vince were on the chopping block, after Vince won immunity, the target was on Cameron and he was voted out in a 5-1-1 vote. Mike would win his first immunity in the next round and Vince would be voted out unanimously in a 4-1 vote. After winning his second immunity at F5, Mike's target was originally going to be Matt, the remains of Sixth Sense now had majority and it was the last time Spencers idol could be played so Matt was the easy vote. However, Mike and Tasha decided last minute to take a shot at Spencer, after Mike had been making Spencer feel safe all day, Spencer decided not to use his idol so he could claim that he never needed it if he made it to FTC. This caused the vote to become a 2-2-1 tie between Spencer and AJ. Spencer was voted out unanimously on the revote. Mike won his third immunity at F4, tying with Spencer for most immunity wins of the season. He decided to bring Tasha to the end as he believed that Tasha deserved to reach FTC, this meant that Matt and AJ were pitted against each other in a Slide Puzzle challenge to decide the third contestant to join Mike and Tasha at FTC. Matt would win the challenge, sending AJ to the jury as its final member.

Mike had a very strong FTC performance. He received lots of praise for his social game, and for being a threat without coming off as threatening (he received no votes during the entire game). Mikes game was hidden to the point where fellow finalist Matt falsely said that Mike wasn't a threat to win and didn't pull off any moves at FTC, he was completely unaware of the influence Mike had on the game. Similarities were drawn between Mikes game and Tasha's game, but Mikes more dominant endgame gave him an edge over Tasha as he beat her out by 1 vote at the end in a 4-3-0 vote. Mike would receive Cameron, Vince, Spencer and AJ's votes to win the season.