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This article comprises spoilers for the first five episodes of Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge.

Many longtime Survivor enthusiasts noticed Jessica “Figgy” Figueroa on Squid Game: The Challenge. But, did her fellow contestants notice that they had a reality festival veteran in the combine?

Netflix introduced the South Korean scripted collection Squid Game to existence via pitting 456 contestants in opposition to each other in youth games like “Red Light, Green Light” and “Warship.” And soon we’ll see one consumer emerge from the display with a ancient $4.56 million take a look at all over the season finale, which is ready to drop on the platform on December 6.

Unfortunately for Figgy, her second stab at successful a seven-figure test ended rapidly.

Figgy, known as player No. 033 on Squid Game: The Challenge, appeared on Survivor’s 33rd season, Millenials vs. Gen X, in 2016. As a 23-year-old bartender, she began her Fijian marooning as part of the “Millenials” tribe. But, after a tribe switch and 18 days competing on the show, Figgy was once voted out by the use of a classic blindside. She positioned 15th general and missed the merge by means of two rounds of play. That was once the first and most effective time Figgy competed on the CBS flagship sequence.

Fast forward around seven years and the now-30-year-old had some other alternative to megastar in a truth pageant display. She joined Squid Game: The Challenge’s solid as the only former Survivor US contestant. She survived the first two demanding situations, Red Light, Green Light and “Dalgona,” as well as a dormitory test, however misfortune hit when her send was once sunk all over Warship.

The storyline we got from Figgy’s edit was once focused round the mother-son duo of LeAnn and Trey Plutnicki (No. 302 and 301). Figgy had grown with regards to Trey, and he requested her to watch over his mother if he met his finish prior to them. But, as history has it, it was once Figgy who by no means returned to the dormitory after Warship.

Figgy was spotted by several contestants proper at the start of Squid Game: The Challenge, but she mentioned her fact TV reputation didn’t impede her game

Figgy spoke with Entertainment Weekly after Squid Game: The Challenge’s first 5 episodes had been released on Netflix. Considering the crop of contestants most likely featured Survivor fans, Figgy knew she’d more than likely be recognized when she arrived in England to film the show, and she advised the outlet she wasn’t positive if it’d assist or harm her game.

She said she used to be identified by some players from the get-go, even sooner than Red Light, Green Light began, but all of her interactions have been “sure.”

“But indisputably in the dorms I could feel a refined shift and certain players feeling like, “She was on every other show,” and it seemed more threatening. Overall I believe it was once a very positive response, as a result of folks knew that I was there to play the game and I was strategic in order that they wanted to have conversations with me. There was a lot of tea time with me — people would come to me with knowledge and it ended up being a very good factor.”

Apparently, it was once Dash (the red-headed player donning No. 141) who spotted the Survivor alum first, and he approached her. “From there it spread like wildfire — now not necessarily from Dash,” Figgy recounted. From there, a number of players conversed with her figuring out she had extra experience in the fact competition realm than them, which boaded smartly for Figgy as a kind of strategic and social pillar.

She also told Entertainment Weekly that she entered Squid Game: The Challenge with a level of confidence she didn’t have all over Millenials vs. Gen X. Through the natural strategy of gaining enjoy through age, in addition to lasting 17 days on Survivor, Figgy was once “a lot more kick back” her second go-around.

“Survivor helped me mentally prepare because any time you compete on a show for the first time, you do have the jitters and you have all the butterflies, and the ones had been actual for me, but I came in additional assured this time and that used to be actually superior,” Figgy said.

Well, her time on Survivor and being recognized for it best helped such a lot, and she used to be eliminated with out much skill to secure her own destiny.

She stood in a five-person vessel during Warship, and it was once in the long run sunk whilst Figgy may just do not anything but watch. She stated she “went with the drift” in the case of choosing a ship, and her elimination was determined by means of an unfortunate selection — unlike the skill-based challenges Red Light, Green Light and Dalgona.

Regardless, Figgy was excited to finish her fact pageant hiatus via joining Squid Game: The Challenge. “It strikes a chord in my memory of the GIF with the Titanic previous girl that claims, ‘It’s been 84 years,'” Figgy said. And it proved to be a once-in-a-lifetime enjoy for the former castaway who already conquered the goal of a Survivor marooning.

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