Andrew Dempsey

Andrew Dempsey is a contestant from Survivor: Peru – The Inca Empire.

Profile
Andrew Dempsey, born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, just graduated with a Master of Science in Computer Science from Yale University. Recognized around campus as a name on the Dean's List every semester, he was likewise revered by the National Union of Digital Media for encoding an app for job seekers, applicants, and employers to interact via video messaging. A self-proclaimed "PC geek", he certainly has kept his gift of earning an athletic scholarship from playing high school varsity ice hockey under wraps.

A video gaming fanatic, Dempsey plays action-adventure games on his favorite console to kill spare time. In fact, he travels to New York City every summer to attend an annual video gaming convention where he meets and competes with famed pixel-partying sensations. At the most recent gathering, he inspired a joint venture with a notable game developer to lay out a prospective concept currently underway. He is always thinking outside of the box, an ideal trait to possess as a young engineer - and while playing the ultimate strategy game of Survivor. His extraordinary trifecta of creativity, dexterity, and ingenuity will knock fear into anyone who may attempt to ruin his initiatives.

Dempsey's hobbies include collecting and playing contemporary and vintage video games, go-karting, hangouts with high school buddies, hiking, ice hockey, magic tricks, skiing down the Appalachians, and tobogganing. A fan of Survivor since Pearl Islands, he describes himself as "a ninja: intuitive, stealthy, and secretly a child who will make others regret they signed up for the show". His biggest achievement in life is shaking the Spanish Ambassador of the United States' right hand. He thinks the biggest challenge in this competition is controlling the weather. He believes the title of Sole Survivor will go to him because he has mental and physical capacities nobody would expect from a scrawny-looking guy. He wants to be on LEXX'S SURVIVOR to push himself over the edge by stripping away daily power tools for thirty-nine days, prove to his friends he is much more than a geek in glasses, and win the $1 million to pay off his student loans.

Dempsey lives in Glastonbury and is single (but willing to mingle).

Trivia

 * Andrew shares the record with Carol Plaxby as the first contestants to wear eyeglasses on LEXX'S SURVIVOR.
 * Coincidentally, they were both born in October.
 * Andrew is the first contestant and first male contestant from Connecticut.
 * Andrew's luxury item is a pair of reading glasses.