User blog comment:Tanglefrost/Alternate Ending Blog Game- Official Contest Blog/@comment-9949103-20160124072414

Altered Maldives Boot Order:

16th: Geri (7 votes Geri, 1 vote Heather) [Geri: Dorothy, Heather, Jillian, Katie, Kelly, Natalie, Pasha. Heather: Geri] Geri is voted out unanimously at the first impressions vote for being the slowest to swim to the shore coupled with her kooky occupation and personality which made her an easy target.

15th: Jillian (6 votes Jillian, 1 vote Kelly) [Jillian: Dorothy, Heather, Katie, Kelly, Natalie, Pasha. Kelly: Jillian] Despite forming close bonds with both Natalie and Pasha, Jillian's blunt and gossipy nature rubbed the rest of her tribemates the wrong way, especially the likes of Heather and Katie. Using this to their advantage, the two older women latched onto Heather and Katie so that the four could have the majority to vote out Jill. Pasha and Natalie swicthed their votes at Tribal Council when they realized that Jillian had dug her own grave.

14th: Isaac (5 votes Isaac, 3 votes Aneal) [Isaac: Aneal, Justin, Marcus, Nick, Tony. Aneal: Dev, Fabian, Isaac] With Nick's alliance of himself, Justin, Dev, Marcus, and Tony having the majority, the targets were on Aneal for being a sneaky social outcast and Isaac for being the oldest and weakest member of the tribe. Though Dev wrote down the former's name because of his sheer dislike of him, the other members of the group valued physical strength over strategy for the time being and voted Isaac out of the game.

13th: Fabian (6 votes Fabian, 1 vote Aneal) [Fabian: Aneal, Dev, Justin, Marcus, Nick, Tony. Aneal: Fabian] After losing a second challenge, the pressure was on Aneal and Fabian as the two weakest links and outcasts of the tribe. Aneal, who by now had found the hidden immunity idol, decided to make a risky play so that he would not have to use his idol this early. He did this by planting the idol instructions in Fabian's bag which alerted the rest of the tribe of Fabian potentially having the idol. Though Dev and Nick were suspicious of Aneal, they went with the rest of their alliance and Aneal to vote out Fabian on the pretense of this false idea.

TRIBE SWITCH

New Alifu: Natalie, Justin, Nick, Katie, Heather, Pasha

New Dhaalu: Aneal, Dorothy, Kelly, Marcus, Dev, Tony

12th: Heather (3 votes Heather, 2 votes Nick, 1 vote Natalie) [Heather: Natalie, Nick, Pasha. Nick: Heather, Katie. Natalie: Justin] Nick was in the hot seat for Tribal Council as the women of the new Alifu tribe saw him as the leader of the men's alliance. Heather, wanting to cover all of her bases, made a side-alliance with Pasha to ensure her loyalty to her and make sure that the guys don't gain the upper hand. However, this does not stop Pasha from switching alleigances as she and Natalie come up with a plan to use Nick as a pawn for votes so that they can take out the troublemaking Heather. Before Tribal Council, Pasha tells Nick that voting Heather is the only way he gets out of Tribal alive, convincing him to vote with the two of them without informing his ally, Justin, that their target changed from Natalie to Heather.

11th: Kelly (4 votes Kelly, 2 votes Dev) [Kelly: Aneal, Dev, Marcus, Tony. Dev: Dorothy, Kelly] At the beginning os the switch, Aneal immediately expressed his desire to work with the two ladies as he was on the bottom of his "fraternity"-run tribe. However, when Aneal's biggest prospect to vote with him as theif fourth, Tony, refused to waiver his loyalty from the Dhaalu five, Aneal saw no choice but to flip back to the men and vote off Kelly, infuriating both her and her isolated ally, Dorothy.

10th: Dorothy (4 votes Dorothy, 1 vote Aneal) [Dorothy: Aneal, Dev, Marcus, Tony. Aneal: Dorothy] With her closest ally gone, Dorothy is flabbergasted by Aneal flipping back and forth between both sides like he's been doing. Out of pure spite and survival, Dorothy attempts to throw Aneal under the bus by outing his former plans to the other three men, alerting them that there was a plan to blindside Dev. Though Dev and Marcus highly consider turning on one of their own, Tony knocks some sense into them as he reminds them that by voting out a male, the females can tie up the numbers at the merge if one of them comes back from Redemption Island. Taking this into consideration, the votes bounces back onto Dorothy so that the girls cannot meet back up at the merge.

At Redemption Island, Kelly beats out her close friend, Dorothy, in order to return back to the game.

MERGE

10th: Nick (8 nullified votes for Aneal, 1 vote Nick, 1 vote Dev) (Revote: 7 votes Nick, 1 vote Dev) [Aneal: Dev, Justin, Katie, Marcus, Natalie, Nick, Pasha, Tony. Nick: Kelly. Dev: Aneal] [Revote: Everyone voted for Nick on the revote except for Aneal, who still voted for Dev] With the merge in full swing, it became an all out gender battle. Aneal made it no secret of that he wanted to flip to the girls and take out the Dhaalu Fraternity alliance. However, Nick and Dev both predicted this, and attempted to throw Aneal to the wolves by convincing the women to vote him out. When Marcus won the first individual immunity, the girls all agreed to vote out Aneal as no one trusted him because of his wishy-washiness. At Tribal, thanks to Dev's big mouth, Aneal caught wind of the plan to blindside him and played his idol, voting for Dev out of emotion and hatred for him. However, Kelly, who considered herself a free agent as she didn't trust anyone left in the game, threw her vote towards Nick in the hope of blindsiding the leader of the Dhaalu five. Her plan worked as everyone turned on the stock broker on the revote as Dev was seen as more expendable and easy to manipulate.

9th: Pasha (5 votes Pasha, 4 votes Dev) [Pasha: Aneal, Dev, Justin, Marcus, Tony. Dev: Katie, Kelly, Natalie, Pasha] After a crazy Tribal Council, the Dhaalu men found themselves in a vulnerable position. It became even worse for everyone when the biggest target, Aneal, won immunity and saved himself from elimination, leaving him as the swing vote between the two teetering alliances. Despite his rivalry with Dev, Aneal goes with the more logical choice and takes out the master manipulator from the women's alliance, Pasha.

8th: Katie (6 nullified votes Natalie, 2 nullified votes Marcus) (Veto Amulet: Natalie chose to eliminate Katie with her sole vote) [Natalie: Aneal, Dev, Justin, Katie, Marcus, Tony. Marcus: Kelly, Natalie] With the women in the minority, Katie quickly scrambled to make friends with guys. She formed a group with Marcus and Tony, tellingt them that Kelly and Natalie were too sneaky to be allowed an farther and admitting that she'd vote either one out. Meanwhile, Tony, who was aware of a separate twist, went out looking for what he believed to be a special idol. Natalie saw him, and because she already had found the silver key on Alifu, she knew that he was looking for protection. Using this to her advantage, Natalie blackmailed Tony into helping her find the treasure chest and the veto amulet, promising that she wouldn't take out any of his alliance members with it as long as he kept her safe until the final three. Tony agreed to the deal and Nat stuck to her word, blindsiding Katie at Tribal by voting her out after playing the amulet, leaving her broken and furious.

7th: Justin (4 votes Justin, 3 votes Kelly) [Justin: Aneal, Kelly, Natalie, Tony. Kelly: Dev, Justin, Marcus] After Katie's devastating blindside, Tony was left in the middle as he now had a deal with Natalie. After Aneal won immunity once again, Kelly was in the guys' crosshairs as everyone thought she had the Alifu idol, which had never been found. While the three men all wrote her name down, Tony went through with his deal with Nat and sacrificed Justin so that he could keep his word to her, blindsiding his three other alliance members.

6th: Dev (5 votes Dev, 1 vote Aneal) [Dev: Aneal, Kelly, Marcus, Natalie, Tony. Aneal: Dev] Realizing that Tony flipped his vote, both Marcus and Dev confront him, to which he truthfully confesses that Natalie had forced him into a corner with the veto amulet. However, he later pulls Marcus aside, stating that he has no intention of working with Dev or Aneal, telling them that they can argue their way out of the game while they slink by unnoticed. When Natalie wins the individual immunity necklace, the target goes onto Dev and Aneal as the two do not like each other and have no real allies left. Seeing Dev as more of a threat to win, Kelly and Tony orchestrate his boot to the excitement of Aneal, happy that his rival has finally been thwarted, but also worried as he realizes that he is now on the outs of an alliance of four.

5th: Aneal (4 votes Aneal, 1 vote Natalie) [Aneal: Kelly, Marcus, Natalie, Tony. Natalie: Aneal] Despite his pleas to the men that the two women will slaughter them in the finals, Aneal knows that his days have been numbered. He fights hard in the immunity challenge, but to no avail as Tony ends up taking the win. With this, Aneal's torch is finally snuffed as the alliance of four stays true to each other while Aneal votes for Natalie as the biggest threat to win.

4th: Natalie (3 votes Natalie, 1 vote Kelly) [Natalie: Kelly, Marcus, Tony. Kelly: Natalie] With it being down to the final four, it appears to be divided between the two guys and the two girls. However, with Tony winning immunity again, the two women turn on each other, figuring that they can beat either of the guys more easily. Though Tony had promised Natalie final three, he goes back on his promise as Marcus sees Nat as the bigger threat and he does not want to wavier from the majority.

3rd: Kelly (1 vote Kelly) [Kelly: Marcus] Marcus wins the final immunity challenge and although Kelly reiterates that he has no chance against Tony in the final two, it is not enough to get him to change his vote and he votes her out as the final jury member.

2nd: Marcus [Jury votes: Justin, Katie]

Sole Survivor: Tony [Jury votes: Aneal, Dev, Kelly, Natalie, Pasha]

While Justin and Katie both praised Marcus' loyalty to his allies, others like Kelly and Aneal crushed him for his abrasive personality and overall ignorance to what was happening behind the scenes that Tony was very privy too. Despite a few hypocritical moments, Tony takes home the win in a 5-2 vote for his physical prowess and ability to solidify votes with ease, no matter who was involved in the blindside.