User blog comment:TheUnderdogDream/Season 2 Character Submissions/@comment-33641024-20180629134822

Name (Age): Nathan Piersen (21)

Current Residence: Tuscon, AZ

Occupation: Bartender/College Student

Personal Claim to Fame: My personal claim to fame is being a part of both my high school and JV college rugby teams and winning at both levels of competition.

Inspiration in Life: My mum is my inspiration in life because she has been through so much and yet she's still able to maintain a positive, amazing attitude towards life...she came here with her three kids from South Africa with almost nothing to her name and she worked her ass off to try and make the best life she could for us. For that I will always be grateful to her and I try to emulate her work ethic in anything I do.

Hobbies: Putting together braais (BBQs) with my friends, shooting and playing Risk with my family and friends.

Pet Peeves: My pet peeves are laziness and stupidity, people who take offence too easily and cockiness

3 Words to Describe You: Outgoing, Confident and Ambitious

If You Could Have 3 Things on The Island What Would They Be and Why?: A portable BBQ set to show off my cooking skills, a Sudoku book so that I can exercise my brain and a yoga mat to help me relax.

SURVIVOR Contestant You Are Most Like: The player that I feel as though I most resemble would be Devon from Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers because even though he seemed like a really laid back, chill type of guy; in reality he was smart, strategically savvy and had a constant pulse on the social dynamics of whatever tribe he was on. These are all qualities I hope to emulate in my game. Reason for Being on SURVIVOR: I'm constantly looking for new adventures in life and I believe that SURVIVOR will be the biggest adventure of my life if I get on. The money is also an incredible incentive because I can absolutely do a lot of things with a million dollars, like pay off my student loans and buy a house and a car free and clear.

Why You Think You’ll “Survive” SURVIVOR: I can survive SURVIVOR because I'm a hustler at heart. I know how to adapt to the circumstances around me well enough so that I can change gears whenever I need to in order to get me one step further in the game, I'm a physically strong player so I can stand up to the harshness of the elements and make myself useful to my tribe and I'm a social butterfly because of my job, which should help me build the bonds I need to create alliances and relationships that will give me options further down the line.

Why You Think You Will Be the Sole SURVIVOR: I think I'll be the Sole Survivor because people are probably going to dismiss me and underestimate me because they see the muscles and just think of me as a brainless meathead. I actually want them to sleep on me so that I can slide through the game while the bigger players cannibalize themselves and then at the end I can burst through and make those big moves in order to stand out from the other players.