COLLEGE "SURVIVAL" GAME VISITS UPT CAMPUS

UPT sophomore Patricia Jeffers of Washington, D.C., outlasted 11 other tribal members in the "Outcast" show to win the grand prize -- a trip to the Bahamas.

TITUSVILLE, April 26 -- Students at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville recently participated in “Outcast” – the campus version of the television “Survivor” game show.  This original college survival game show was created by the Auborn Moon Agency in Landenberg, Pennsylvania.  Members of the Agency visit colleges around the country and serve as the hosts of the “Outcast” show. 

Over 80 students attended this special event sponsored by the UPT Student Activities Board on Tuesday, April 10.  The evening was filled challenges, trivia, tribes and audience participation.  Although 39 students signed up to serve as contestants, only 12 names were randomly drawn by the Auborn Moon Agency host.  As tribal members, those 12 students tried to out-think, out-smart and out-last each other.

The tribal members were:  Alex Cottrell, Melissa Courier, Lynnea Griffin, Kenton Hockett, Patricia Jeffers, Justin Johnson, Sharmaine Lindsay, Shanna Ritts, John Shelton, Yancy Speed, Doug Stanley, and Kristin Wright.

The host of the show presented a variety of challenges to each of the contestants.  The remaining members of the audience eventually voted 11 of the tribal members “off-campus,” or out of the “Outcast” show based on their performance of the required challenge. 

“The contestants seemed to have a really good time acting like idiots,” said Ebony Roberts, a UPT sophomore from Coatesville and an audience member, “and we (the audience) had fun voting them out.” 

When asked to name the most interesting challenge assigned to a tribal member, Roberts said, “When Kenton Hockett had to rub SPAM all over his body.”

The surviving member of the “Outcast” tribe, sophomore Patricia Jeffers from Washington, D.C., won the grand prize – a trip to the Bahamas. 

 


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