Tom

Tom is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Egypt.

## Egypt Summary

It’s unfortunate but likely that Tom’s S3 run will go down as one of the most underrated games in Visionary history. In the pre-merge stage of the game Tom was just flat out in control. He had an ally in Duck that did whatever he needed him to as well as a strong alliance with another pair that was Darryl and Serena. In addition, he found a legacy advantage rather early in the game that came in clutch later in the season.

However, Tom became more and more suspicious of Darryl overtime due to comments from Choros. He likely wouldn’t have been able to make a move when Sphinx was down to four members due to it being an even tie of 2-2 between two unbreakable duos. But when Serena was abducted by Bennu and Sphinx added Nexus to their roster by abduction, Tom was able to gain even more leverage. After they lost the final tribe challenge, Tom and his allies were able to eliminate Darryl.

Heading into the merge Tom and his other Sphinx allies seemed to be outnumbered. With Bennu coming in as the strongest of the three tribes, Blair and Delta both tried to integrate themselves in with the side with more numbers. Because of this offset Tom was forced to reach deep into his bag of tricks as Sphinx scrambled. With his name being thrown around constantly heading into the first post-merge tribal council, Tom decided it would be best to play his legacy advantage. As a result, Sphinx’s main target, Delta, was eliminated. However, it seemed to be mostly downhill for Tom from there.

After Delta’s elimination it was learned that Tom had a detrimental Achilles heal; he was entirely too trusting. After a few conversations with CK and Michael, he decided to share who his allies were and create an alliance with Duck, Nexus, Serena, CK, and Michael. With no intention of working with the now subtly exposed alliance, CK and Michael used this new information to form a new list of targets. They now had all the tools needed to take out Tom’s alliance from the inside. When Serena was eliminated at the next tribal council, Tom and his trio also consisting of Duck and Nexus were backed into a corner and Tom wasn’t entirely aware of how. It was at this point Duck noticed that Serena’s elimination had vote results that didn’t line up with this new six person alliance. As a result he tried to call out CK and Michael, who somehow managed to save themselves with a weak excuse. When asked about their votes, CK and Michael both said that they “accidentally” voted for Serena, when in reality that was their plan the whole time. While Duck was still skeptical, Tom bought the story entirely and forgave them.

In spite of the recent series of negative events, Tom was given a slight glimmer of hope when Serena willed her legacy advantage to Tom after her elimination, the same legacy advantage that was found by Darryl who was eliminated by Tom just two tribal councils before. Although it couldn’t be used until the final five, it gave Tom the motivation to focus more on keeping his numbers strong and find ways to divert attention from himself. As Tom’s name came up yet again at camp before the third post-merge tribal council, Tom and Duck starting petitioning against Kalina, someone who had won the first post-merge immunity and narrowly avoided elimination at the second Anubis tribal council. While everyone knew she had the numbers, that’s exactly why she wasn’t someone people were willing to turn on just yet.

Tom’s game ultimately started to collapse as Duck was evacuated from the game on day twenty-two just before tribal council, this was an incredibly strong blow to Tom’s game. But with a legacy advantage in his pocket and still one ally by his side, Tom was determined to find a way to make it to the final five and reach the final tribal council. This was until Tom was shockingly disqualified from the game after talking with now eliminated Duck about the game.