survivor philippines: why jace lost

reynaldo "jace" flores jr is your typical hunk. being a gym instructor, he has a well sculpted body and awesome physical strength. he can easily win physical challenges and has been actively strategizing on making alliances with other cast aways. but unfortunately, he was the 9th person voted out of the island.

so why did jace lose survivor philippines?

first, he was a big physical threat. being a mixed martial artist and gym instructor, he surely has awesome strength and great pain tolerance. with that in mind, cast aways will look at him as some one who can easily win challenges and immunity as well. it would be the best if he was eliminated on the first available tribal council that he has no immunity, and the first chalam tribal council was perfect timing.

second, he was lazy at camp. it was emphasized for almost 2 weeks now that after john left, jace became one of the laziest persons in the tribe. he helped the least in camp and has been sleeping much. that is basically why naak voted for him, as said by rob in a previous episode. they were choosing between marlon and jace but marlon was a greater help in camp, which lead them to a concensus that it was jace's time to go.

third, he divulged too much to jc even though he has not tested his loyalty to him. he was so sure that jc was on his side and told him everything about his plans. but jc was on the other side and was loyal to naak. he told them everything that jace told him and warned them of his plans. being the one active in strategizing among the jarakay members, naak saw a strategic threat in him, making himself very vulnerable to be voted out.

fourth, he has previously voted the wrong persons out. his initial muscle alliance in jarakay was with marlon, john, veronica and gigit. on the first tribal council of jarakay, they planned to vote out patani. but they ended up voting gigit instead. on jarakay's second tribal council, they planned to vote out nikki, who was their weakest link. but they ended up voting john instead. the allies that he has was simply being voted out one by one, and he was directly involved in letting them go. you must keep a strong alliance to survive in this game.

fifth, his maturity level is low compared to the other cast aways. comparing hios behavior at chalam with the likes of marlon and charisse, he was simply out played and out strategized by the two former jarakay members.

what was the main reason on why he lost? i would pick two. it would be being a physical strength and wrong strategy. he lasted till the merge, which is a positive sign that he played well. we will be seeing him in the next weeks since he will be a jury member. now that he was blindsided, it would be interesting to see his choice on who will be the sole survivor.