Matthew

Matthew is the Season 12: David vs. Goliath winner and a frequent player. He is known for his good sportsmanship, loyalty, and the ability to take control when he's needed to. He has played in 6 seasons as of now.

Community Importance
At the beginning of his time in James J/Global Survivor, he wasn't really that active. He talked in chat and eventually became a moderator, but wasn't much else. However, once the Day Of Drama came and split James J apart, he came into the rescue and implemented strict rules and policies that would help the community heal. He almost single-handedly was able to expose Jax and a couple of other cheaters and liars as well. He implemented more rules and eventually being less strict as time went on, making him more well-liked then he was at the time of his original ruling. As of now, he is now the Head Of Moderation and a host, he's hosted Season 18: Redemption Island, and hosted Season 28: San Juan Del Sur.

Season 7: Boys vs. Girls
In this season, Matthew was able to start out on the dominant boys tribe that ran premerge on an immunity streak. However, a mole on the other side, g1ittering, was able to feed him info from the weakened girls, thus giving him the opportunity to vote them out, along with some of the boys, wanting to make one tribe dominant. However, at the swap, he had people targeting him, but his relationships that he built before the swap prevented him from going anywhere. Once merge hit, he began to play both sides effectively and was never the target going into a tribal council. However, at f7, he realized he was not playing a winning game, and that'd he'd have to start making moves, which he started by swinging the vote onto Security that same tribal council. He then got the numbers to take out Stew, the biggest threat to win at the time, at the f6, but he played his legacy advantage, and Matthew went home with 2 votes. He voted for Stew to win. Many thought he was robbed at the time, and he won the ballot for Second Chances, and came back.

Season 8: Second Chance
To start off Season 8, he played nearly identical to his Boys vs. Girls game, spending premerge building bonds and relationships instead of strategizing, a move which would pay off big time as he entered merge. At every tribal council, after the vote, he would make sure the vote was never on him, a precaution and move many others would use in their winning games later on. As he and Nicolas went through the game, it became more and more clear to the others what was going on, and they rushed to stop it. Nicolas went home at f6 after a blindside, and Matthew was voted out at f4, everybody knowing he was winning if he made it to f3.

Season 11: Strategic Beasts vs. Social Butterflies
In his third time playing, he changed his strategy a bit. He began to start going after people premerge, a move that was different from his previous games which he succeeded in. His main target was usually Spidey, although it varied as the game went on. However, he had Athy, a veteran and the eventual winner, by his side at all times, and Ben, a rookie that was surprising everybody and playing fantastic. Once merge hit, he and Spidey began to clash. However, this clash would turn to rocks, in which Matthew would lose, losing his ally and number Agent. He followed soon after in a 5-4 vote led by Spidey.

Season 12: David vs. Goliath
In season 12, he was unable to pregame as he was a last minute replacement, which led to him being blindsided at the first 2 tribal councils. Waiver, a returning player who had been screwed in his last 2 seasons, became his ally and a meatshield, and ensured he was making merge no matter what. However, he was able to turn the tides with Mikey as he blindsided Ozzy after he voted himself, leaving the power 3 of Man, Waiver, and ZJ in trouble, but it didn't end up mattering. He unintentionally ruined his ally Waiver's strategy to take Ozzy and ZJ as his meatshields. He didn't really do much after that until the f7 tribal counci. After getting knowledge that Man had an idol and he was intending to use it, he voted for Parrot (which went against his alliance) because he felt like he was going home if he didn't, which ended up being a correct prediction, and his alliance with ZJ was able to save him, as he also went against the alliance and voted for Parrot. At final 6, he was in a tie vote with Man, and because of Man's potential to win, he ended up surviving the tie. At final 5, knowing he was next unless he did something, he did something. That something was spreading the lie that the discord chat said Nate was winning if he made it to the end, which was not true. However, the f5 bought it, leaving him safe and Nate on the jury. At the final 4, he knew ZJ had to go home or he was winning, and when ZJ lost f4 immunity, that's what happened. With no real other candidates left to win, Matthew received 7 jury votes and came out victorious.

Season 15: Gamechangers
Knowing most people didn't think he deserved his win, he knew his target was low so he used his S7, S8, and winning strategy of laying low premerge and then eventually striking. However, a couple of lies and mistakes on Matthew's part got him the reputation as a flipper, so he was sent home just before merge. However, something very lucky happened. Wendell disconnected on Redemption, leaving Matthew as the only person that could come back. He came back, made a small impact as an ally, then was rocked at the f10. It seemed his lone mistake was not laying lower like he was during the previously listed seasons.

Season 22: Fans vs. Favorites
Starting off the game, he was in a 5 person premade alliance. This premade was so confident that they threw the first challenge, however, it left Matthew and Kaylee tied, in which Kaylee went home. The very next tribal, the consensus vote is Bianca with an idol in her pocket, but she doesn't know. This ends up being her downfall, as Matthew orchestrated the votes to keep himself safe. Next tribal, he lost all power and begged for James to keep him, which he did, and Jake went. Knowing the favorites wanted to stick together at merge, Matthew saw it as an opportunity to vote out Jaxon 7-6 after using his extra vote to get him out. In the very next tribal, Matthew went 8-4 for being too big of a threat.