I Didn’t Come Here To Play Anybody Else’s Game

"I Didn’t Come Here To Play Anybody Else’s Game"
Season	Survivor: Soles Nacientes
Episode Number	2/16
Episode Chronology
Previous	I’m Already Feeling The Pressure
Next	Chaotic? Yes. Fun? Yes. Entertaining? Yes
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I Didn’t Come Here To Play Anybody Else’s Game is the second episode of Survivor: Soles Nacientes.

Challenges

Immunity Challenge: Quicktionary
Quicktionary is a lightning-fast word game that tests your speed and wordplay. Contestants would have to come up with one English word for 10 scenarios of 3 conditions each. Proper Nouns were allowed, such as cities, countries, and first and last names are acceptable answers. Compound words like ice cream are not acceptable answers. The vowels that will only be allowed to count as vowels are A, E, I, O, U. For example, if the scenario had the following conditions: Contains the letter H | Has an even number of letters | Associated with vacation; then you could enter hotels or hostel as your answer. The tribe going to tribal council will be the one who has the fewest amount of accepted words. If that’s tied, then it’ll be based off of which tribe has the lowest average time among all their participants.
Winner: Taquile

Story

Day 4

After Sam's elimination, Amantani returned to camp, vowing to not go back to Tribal Council again but prepared to boot Taylor for self-voting. The day after, Taylor came back online to tell the hosts and players why he self-voted. After hearing his explanation, players like Maple and Sebastián were more understanding but didn't trust Taylor on a game level. Felipe felt grateful that he was still in the game but also recognized he was almost the first boot this season.

Meanwhile, on Taquile, the new players were still celebrating their victory but were working to build alliances in case they went to Tribal Council. A majority alliance was created by Jayden that featured: Bliss, Devin, Gameend, Grady, Jayden, and Pho. This was an alliance apparently started by Gameend but Jayden was the one to finally pull the trigger and request it. Other members of Taquile were aggravated by Gameend's requests for their Incan Sun Coins and felt that she'd be an easy target should they go to Tribal Council.

Day 5

On the day of the challenge, a wordplay-focused challenge, Quicktionary was announced! However after concerns were raised by multiple castaways about how the game would be unfair to the ESL members of the game, it was quickly scrapped by the hosts in favor of Hex FRVR. The goal was to form complete lines with the shapes provided. Multiple players felt that the challenge was grueling as they were able to improve upon their scores with multiple submissions. Andrew in particular expressed frustration at his attempts to improve his score to help Taquile.

On Amantani, during the challenge, Taylor worked to recover from his poor spot at the end of the last episode. Taylor made a 3-person alliance with the Saints vs. Sinners alumni - Aaron & Dior. Taylor tried to bond with them over their mutual interest in basketball and March Madness to work with them in the future.

Day 6

During the challenge on Taquile, Grady found a strategy that worked well for him as he scored over 102,000 points on his submission. This and other high scores from players like Amanda & Jack gave Taquile the comfortable win, beating Amantani 437,051 to 296,497. This gave Taquile their second win in a row, sending Amantani to Tribal Council again.

After the challenge results were revealed, Pho requested a 4-person alliance with themselves, Bliss, Jack, and Jayden. Bliss & Jayden grew close over their mutual interests, even changing their profile pictures to match each other with a picture of Liam Payne. Jack was then told about the majority alliance made by Jayden which made Jack distrust Pho for not revealing it sooner.

At Tribal Council, Amantani felt defeated after losing to Taquile 2 times in a row. Since the challenge results were revealed later at night than usual, most Amantani went to bed, ready to plan the next day. On the day of Tribal Council, Taylor scrambled to save himself, trying to find the best target to go after. He first thought that Felipe would be the best target again but changed his mind since Sam was unsuccessful in eliminating Felipe. Taylor then requested an alliance chat with the 2 players that had the most power, Raven & Zoey. As the day progressed, the Furcubed alliance featuring Arlie, Maple, and Raven started leaning towards Ezekiel as their target for his lack of a social connection to the rest of the tribe along with his second-lowest score among the tribe on the challenge.

Then, Taylor, feeling comfortable that he had the overwhelming majority of votes on Ezekiel, decided to tell Ezekiel that they could get Raven out to freak out Ezekiel and ensure the tribe would target Ezekiel when he inevitably spread the story of Raven’s name being thrown out by Taylor. Ezekiel then told Arlie about what Taylor said which led to Arlie informing the Furcubed. Raven was upset that her name was out there and thought about getting votes switched to Taylor. Meanwhile, word spread throughout the entire Amantani tribe about Raven's name. Not knowing what to make of it, the consensus seemed to agree that Ezekiel was the culprit in throwing out Raven's name, letting Taylor get away with causing all the ruckus. Ezekiel was unanimously blindsided 9-1 with his lone vote on Taylor at Tribal Council. After a heartfelt goodbye, Ezekiel, as a member of the Fallen, had to give away his Incan Sun Coin, which he gave to Raven for “being a hell of a player and an awesome person”. He also had the choice of choosing 2 captains. Ezekiel chose Dior and Jon since he wasn’t sure what effect the twist would fully have.