Bobby Mason

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Bobby Mason

Bobby Mason grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where he lost three friends over the years to gunshot wounds. When Mason reached high school, his parents facilitated his admittance to one of the top college prep schools in the country, The Harvard School (now known as Harvard-Westlake) in North Hollywood, California. While at the Harvard School, Mason was exposed to a diverse community of children from varying cultural and economic backgrounds and varying degrees of privilege. Mason declares he had experiences and made lifelong friendships with people that he otherwise would probably never have encountered or been exposed to. He honed his dream of being a scholar/athlete at the highest levels and was able to realize this when he was admitted to Amherst College in Massachusetts.

In 1996, Mason received his Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in political science from Amherst, where he had also played baseball. He went on to attend Stanford Law School, graduated in 2000 and is currently an attorney in Los Angeles. He previously worked as an assistant to a sports agent and a consultant at a consulting firm.

Mason is a member of the American and California Bar Associations, Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association, Black Sports Agents Association, National Association of Record Industry Professionals and Los Angeles Music Network.

In his spare time, Mason enjoys working out, any competition, fantasy baseball, drawing, reading and comic books. He describes himself as dominant, loyal, malleable and stubborn. He is most proud of being an all-around good guy. He was on "Blind Date" in 1998.

His birth date is August 20, 1973.

Exile Island

Bobby Mason was one of the largest physical threats of the entire season, and for that reason alone he became a threat. Bobby was originally placed on the the Viveros tribe alonside Austin Carty, Aras Baskauskas, and Nick Stanbury. He and Aras got along from the very start and seemed to have a small unofficial alliance as a buffer against Nick and Austin's friendship. However on Day 4 the tribes merged into La Mina and Casaya and both Aras and Bobby were placed on Casaya while the other two men were placed on La Mina. The new Casaya tribe seemed strong at first glance, but they were a tribe divided. Shane Powers became an evident leader of the tribe and clearly targeted Cirie Fields and another fellow contestant who was voted off first from the tribe. Bobby seemed to be very strong in challenges however this scared some fellow competitors in his tribe and Bobby was forced into the "Loner" role with Aras and Bruce as his only friends. Aras had to stop spreading information with him, so he was reduced to Bruce. One night the two men stayed up late and got intoxicated off alcohol in a local outdoor toilet. Once the other castaways realized what he had done, his fate was set. At tribal council, in a 3-2-1-1 vote the women banded together and took out Bobby. Aras and Bobby voted for Bruce and Shane and Bruce's votes were scattered.

Tribal Council History

Episode	Voted For	Received Votes From
Episode 2	Melinda	None
Episode 5	Bruce	Cirie, Courtney, Danielle

Trivia

• Bobby posts on the Survivor Sucks message board under the screen name Bobdawgsta.
• Bobby is only one of 2 contestants in Survivor history to be voted out with less than 50 percent of the votes. The other contestant voted off with less than 50 percent of the votes is Gretchen Cordy from Survivor: Borneo.