BSU alum voted off 'Survivor'
Edgardo River lasts until final nine on CBS's 'Survivor Fiji'
Kyle Shaner
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Ball State University graduate and former tennis player Edgardo Rivera sat at Tribal Council of "Survivor: Fiji" with a smile on his face. Then, host Jeff Probst read his name from a parchment vote.
His smile disappeared.
The next four votes were for Rivera, who graduated from Ball State with a Bachelor's Degree in advertising, and he was voted off the show Thursday.
"When you're at tribal council, people don't look at you," he said. "A lot of people make that mistake, and they give it away. And they weren't looking at me, so I knew it was me."
Rivera, a native of Puerto Rico, was voted out on day 27 and became the fourth member of the jury that will decide who wins the game and $1 million.
He made it to the merge of the two tribes and the final nine before he was voted off the fourteenth installment of "Survivor." There were 19 contestants when the show began.
Rivera said he was not completely blindsided by the vote as it appeared on the show.
"I knew there was a 50-50 chance I was going to get voted out," he said.
Rivera had been in an alliance with Alex Angarita, Mookie Lee and Andria "Dreamz" Herd called "The Four Horsemen." However, Herd went against the alliance and Rivera was voted out.
"The hardest part of the experience was dealing with not very smart people," he said. "Dealing with Dreamz, dealing with Mookie, dealing with Stacy [Kimball], dealing with "Rocky" [James Reid], dealing with those people that think they know everything and they're actually not making any sense."
Although he was frustrated by some of the other contestants, Rivera said "Survivor" was a great experience.
"The best part of the experience is you get to know yourself really well," he said.
The experience of competing on the show was like experiencing an entire lifetime, he said.
"Every day is different," Rivera said. "You have a high one day and a low the next day. There's not a day that you have a normal day. It's either really low or really high."
His smile disappeared.
The next four votes were for Rivera, who graduated from Ball State with a Bachelor's Degree in advertising, and he was voted off the show Thursday.
"When you're at tribal council, people don't look at you," he said. "A lot of people make that mistake, and they give it away. And they weren't looking at me, so I knew it was me."
Rivera, a native of Puerto Rico, was voted out on day 27 and became the fourth member of the jury that will decide who wins the game and $1 million.
He made it to the merge of the two tribes and the final nine before he was voted off the fourteenth installment of "Survivor." There were 19 contestants when the show began.
Rivera said he was not completely blindsided by the vote as it appeared on the show.
"I knew there was a 50-50 chance I was going to get voted out," he said.
Rivera had been in an alliance with Alex Angarita, Mookie Lee and Andria "Dreamz" Herd called "The Four Horsemen." However, Herd went against the alliance and Rivera was voted out.
"The hardest part of the experience was dealing with not very smart people," he said. "Dealing with Dreamz, dealing with Mookie, dealing with Stacy [Kimball], dealing with "Rocky" [James Reid], dealing with those people that think they know everything and they're actually not making any sense."
Although he was frustrated by some of the other contestants, Rivera said "Survivor" was a great experience.
"The best part of the experience is you get to know yourself really well," he said.
The experience of competing on the show was like experiencing an entire lifetime, he said.
"Every day is different," Rivera said. "You have a high one day and a low the next day. There's not a day that you have a normal day. It's either really low or really high."
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