With the depressing news of a certain twist returning, let’s focus on someone likable. Adam from Millennials vs Gen X.

Pre Merge

Adam started on the Millennials tribe and aligned with Mari, Zeke, Hannah immediately creating a nerd alliance against the Triforce alliance of Taylor, Jay, Figgy and Michelle. They win the first challenge but they lose the next one and it looks like Figgy is leaving due to flirting with Taylor and her arguement with Michaela. Little did Adam know that Michelle turned the tables on them and the tribe votes out Mari and leaves Zeke and Adam on the outs.

That night, Hannah attempted to apologize for flipping but Zeke and Adam are not having it. Knowing his ass was on the line, Adam goes to Michaela to convince her to split up Figgy and Taylor which she considers. This does not get tested as the Millennials won the next immunities but in that time Adam finds an idol. Unfortunately, Hannah almost blows up his spot but she doesn’t see the idol and assumes he is looking while everyone hunts goats. This is also the first time we hear about Adam’s mom and her fight with cancer. This is Adam’s main motivation to win and drives him the whole game.

The tribes swaped from 2 to 3 at final 16. Adam is placed on the Takali tribe with Taylor, Figgy, Ken and Jessica. Adam becomes the swing vote as he is between his tribe loyalty and wanting the power couple out. Takali lose the second immunity and has to face this crossroads. He ultimately votes out Figgy with the former Gen X. This looks like a bad move on paper as he betrayed his tribe but according to many players, Michaela signaled to Adam to vote Figgy. Adam makes an enemy in Taylor but he gains Ken and Jess as allies. Adam didn’t explain himself to Taylor the best causing their falling out. They win the next immunity and make it to the merge.

Merge

Adam probably performs his biggest blunder at the merge vote. It starts ok as Adam gets a reward steal advantage but goes down hill as he tries to target Will in order to patch up his relationship with Taylor and tells him about the advantage. Taylor runs it to Will and Adam is targeted. Zeke overhears this and targets Taylor but the Gen Xers move it to Michelle as the least likely to have an idol. Adam tries again with Taylor. This makes Adam’s allies question his loyalty. Michelle is ultimately voted out but Adam loses trust.

The disaster continues next vote. Adam essentially taunts Jay for being in the minority. Jay runs it to Adam’s alliance and they consider blindsiding him. In order to save himself, Taylor rats out Adam’s advantage to Jay. At tribal, Adam gets ratted out and is falsely accused of eating Taylor’s food stache with him. Ultimately, Taylor is booted but Adam is in a bad spot.

Adam lays low the Chris vote then sides with Ken, David, Jess and Hannah in the rock draw that rocks out Jess.

At the loved ones visit he finds out from his brother, Evan, that his mom is not doing well. Adam also decides to not use the reward steal. Adam does not win the challenge in fact, he gets stuck in the digging part. He was actually wedged in there. Thankfully, Adam was brought on the reward by Jay and gave Jay the reward steal as a thank you. Adam wins immunity. Both sides try to flip Will but Ken “tests” him. Despite that, Will votes with Adam’s group. Adam did a smart thing by playing his idol on Hannah who got votes and thus negating Will’s flip. This gives credit to Adam and not to Will. Adam targets Will next vote for being unpredictable and gets his alliance to vote him out. Jay approaches Adam to work together because Jay has no one. They think about voting David but Adam still needs Jay out. Adam helps Ken win immunity and plans to split the vote between the biggest threats, David and Jay. He tells Jay to play his idol so David goes and Jay does not have an idol. They bond over their family situations and this is a great scene that shows Adam and Jay’s relationship. Hannah informs him that David and Ken are targeting Sunday so Adam flips his vote to Sunday and Jay wastes his idol.

Endgame

Jay gets duped by David and goes home. Adam and Bret decide to target David next. Adam finds another idol and tells Hannah and Hannah tells David and Ken. They wanted to target Adam as bigger immunity threat but the idol turned their sights to Bret. Adam uses his idol since he can’t use it past final 5. Adam is frustrated that Hannah left David in the game so they agree they cant have him at final tribal. Ken wins immunity. Hannah gets Ken to vote out David and Adam makes the finals. At FTC, Adam is criticized for not being in the loop most of the time but he was doing better than Hannah and Ken. In closing statements, after not revealing it during Jay’s question, Adam reveals his Mom’s illness to the jury. This is a big problem people have with his game. People claim he won due to this but Hannah and Ken were goats so this didn’t win him the game. However, I believe that this bomb got him the unanimous vote of 10-0-0 to win.

Overall

Adam is a very flawed winner. One of my favorite people to win but he has many faults. He was in jeopardy a lot but he bounced back. Adam’s best attribute is the passion he has for the game. Heart is an important thing to have to get people to connect with you. Adam is gonna have to prove that he didn’t win on sympathy. Adam has a low threat level and can get far due to this.

Rating

Physical – 7/10

Strategic – 6/10

Social – 7/10

Overall – 7/10

Winner Ranking

1. Sarah – 8/10

2. Wendell – 8/10

3. Nick – 7/10

4. Adam – 7/10

5. Ben – 5/10

Next time, we look at one of the most divisive winners ever, Michele Fitzgerald from Koah Rong.

Grab your stuff and head back to camp!