Giully

Giully is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Haiti, Visionary Survivor: Fans vs Favorites and Visionary Survivor: Blood vs Water.

## Haiti Summary

Coming up clutch in pretty much every tribal challenge win she had, it didn’t take long for Giully to develop the reputation of the biggest challenge threat in Haiti. At the start of the game Giully’s main goal was proving her worth to her tribe, and she did this by always putting her best foot forward in challenges. Unfortunately, while her challenge skills were amazing, her social play kept her in a constant cycle of being in and out of the loop on a daily basis. Which proved to be rather difficult to overcome seeing as how she only went to two tribal councils, making it hard to reaffirm her bonds.

In the pre-swap phase of the game Giully was stuck on a rather chaotic tribe where no one felt like they could trust anyone on Egzagòn. While the first tribal she went to was rather hectic as the votes tied between Patrick and Raini, Giully was able to solidify a concrete number in Gregory that gave her enough confidence to feel somewhat secure.

After the tribe swap Giully’s game started to become more involved as she and the other original Egzagòn members that switched to Vodou initiated talks of flipping on Ry. After winning the first two post-swap challenges, every new Vodou member except Ry agreed to throw the challenge in order to set the plan in motion. They were successful in throwing the challenge, but things started to shift soon after when pins were pulled and curses went into play. As a result of pins and curses only Greg, Josiah, Ry and Vaeril had their votes. With such a small voting pool leftover, Josiah contemplated a plan to flip the vote onto Giully, in order to eliminate a challenge threat before merge, and also flush out Ry’s idol by making him paranoid. When he approached Ry about a potential Giully blindside, Ry immediately leaked it to Giully and continued scrambling. Because of this Josiah backed out of his own plan, but somewhere along the way Ry got Gregory on board. Feeling insecure about the vote, Ry played his idol and extra vote to get his vote back due to being cursed. But when Vaeril played an idol blocker given to him by Mink, he forced a tie between Giully and Ry. Unfortunately for Giully, she was eliminated by wheel, becoming the last pre-juror of the season.

### Voting History

 This Game Is So Stressful Yet So Exhilarating
 But I'll Keep Fighting
 Why Not Have Some Fun With It?
 Calm The Fuck Down, My Guy
 Execution Is Key
 This'll Be Another Fun Tribal
 True Colors Are Gonna Shine Through Tonight
 Eliminated, Day 17

## Fans vs Favorites Summary

Dominating the game from start to finish while never losing control is a rare sight in Survivor, but if anyone was going to accomplish that this season it was Giully. If you had told us at the final ten that Giully wasn’t going to make the final tribal council we simply wouldn’t have believed you.

Starting off on the chaotic Raykar Pord tribe, Giully quickly linked up with fellow season six castmates Ephraim, Izaak, and Ry. It was an obvious alliance, but one with plenty of potential. After the Favorites lost the first challenge Izaak emerged as the initial target as people saw him as an easy first vote. Not wanting to look suspicious by showing too much resistance, Giully, Ephraim and Ry gave into the decision and agreed to vote for Izaak. But when Kiibo suddenly pulled himself from the game, they were able to remain four strong. Afterward, Giully was the first to let Izaak know he was the target and Izaak willingly let bygones be bygones. Unfortunately this wasn’t the end of Izaak being targeted, after losing the second challenge he remained the biggest name on the block. Despite them only being one vote away from a 5-4 majority, his allies were quick to flip on him again. They felt that it was too early to stick their necks out for someone, especially if the tribe were to keep losing like they had been. Thus, Giully lost her first ally in a unanimous vote.

After Izaak was eliminated the direction of the tribe wasn’t looking too great. That was up until Bandit and Booty became a new center of conflict. They hadn’t trusted each other throughout the first few days of the game, and both felt that it was time to take out the other. While Bandit had a couple of close allies, Booty’s social influence was stronger, which made it relatively easy for Booty to eliminate him. After Bandit was eliminated the season six alumni alliance was once again one vote away from a majority. Their plan was to eliminate Elx, and the key was to flip Hoeah, who had found himself in the middle of both alliances. Since he had already developed a solid connection with Giully, they were able to flip him and form a new majority. But when Ry forgot to vote, the vote ended up tying 3-3-1 and Ephraim was eliminated by wheel.

After Ry’s slip up, Giully found herself in a tough situation. The alliances now tied 3-3, and the Favorites were headed back to tribal for the fifth straight time. Knowing that it would be near impossible to get one of Booty, Elx, or Slug to flip, Giully came up with a somewhat risky but rather genius plan. Instead of trying to get them to flip, her goal was to get them to not vote with each other. She started talking to Booty in hopes that he would find her suspicious. She knew that Elx and Slug weren’t going to take their votes off of Ry, so she just needed Booty to vote for her. When the trio didn’t reconfirm the vote before tribal council, her plan worked as she succeeded in eliminating Elx in a 3-2-1 vote.

After a stressful five tribal councils, a change of pace had arrived with the tribe swap. But at first glance it wasn’t really the change Giully was hoping for. As a result of the swap she remained on the Raykar Pord tribe with Booty and Slug, the two favorites who had opposed her the most. But there was some hope in the two Fans she had met; Lexa and Mufasa. Giully came into the swap wanting nothing to do with either Booty or Slug, Slug came into the swap annoyed with Booty for what happened at the previous tribal council, meanwhile Booty had complete intentions of working with Slug and did his best to play middle man. All three of them did their best to work over Lexa and Mufasa. While Mufasa had been consistent in wanting to take out Booty or Slug and vocalizing that, Booty and Slug were rather inconsistent with their intentions when talking to Lexa and Mufasa. So after they lost the second post-swap challenge, Lexa and Mufasa sided with Giully to send Slug home.

Coming into the merge Giully reunited with Ry from the Favorites tribe and Logan, who she had been close friends with for a long time prior to this season. After the first challenge, it was very apparent that the Fans were targeting Logan. None of them had a very positive relationship with him, and everyone knew he was a challenge threat. But Logan had a legacy advantage up his sleeve, and both Giully and Ry wanted to make full use of it. Knowing he was going to get a lot of votes, Giully and Ry came up with a plan to ensure that he would receive a majority of the votes. This would allow him to play his legacy advantage successfully so they could blindside a different target. Ultimately only Giully voted with Logan so they could avoid too much suspicion, but after Logan nullified ten votes with his legacy advantage Cole was sent packing.

Coming off of the success of the first merge vote, Giully wanted to make another move. She knew that Ry was in a good position socially and had the potential to do some damage strategically, so after Barney started spreading rumors about him she saw her opportunity. The vote was a little complicated, no one really knew how much to trust Barney due to the chaotic nature of his approach to eliminate Ry. Nonetheless the plan was successful and Giully sent her and Barney’s target home in a close 6-4-1 vote. After Ry’s elimination, Bloody revealed that his mental health was starting to affect him too much to continue and asked to be voted out. The tribe abided by his request and voted him out.

By the final nine Barney’s gameplay had become too unpredictable for people to allow him to get any further in the game. No one really showed any resistance to him being eliminated, so he was voted out unanimously. At the final eight Booty seemed to be next. No one had any plans to work with him long term, and he was starting to annoy a handful of castaways around camp. But after winning immunity, Booty had saved himself. With Giully’s prime target now immune, things weren’t looking too good for her. People were starting to think that it was too risky to bring her any further due to her strong social game and already present resumé. There was no place for Giully to hide, and her reign ended as she was eliminated in a 6-2 vote.

## Blood vs Water Summary

After going through incredible character development in Fans vs Favorites, Giully came into Blood vs Water with a massive target on her back. Despite that, she still played a relatively successful game. The first few days of the game saw her dominating in challenges, aligning with Epoxy and Matthew, and surprisingly connecting with Kaden and him becoming her primary ally. Due to winning three out of the first three pre-swap challenges and playing such a huge role in those wins, her position on the Zeus tribe was never really in question. The only time her name came up as a target was when Wyatt threw out her name along with every other castaway on the Zeus tribe before the first tribal council.

Heading into the swap Giully remained on the Zeus tribe, separated by allies Epoxy and Matthew. Furthermore, she and her girlfriend Maji had remained on opposite tribes. But as a bit of condolence she was fortunate enough to remain on a tribe with Kaden, an ally who would quickly become her most promising avenue in the game. Giully quickly became a huge target on the new Zeus tribe as Steven rallied his troops against her for being a massive threat in many facets of the game. Kaden was included in this plan but had no intentions of following through with it since Giully was his closest ally. With only 8 people on the tribe, numbers were looking difficult to accomplish. Kaden and Giully had Joel and Quizzy with them, but it was unlikely that they would be able to flip Amani, Darryl, or Gabe to vote Steven with them. Ultimately, Kaden was able to come up with a fake split vote plan that had Gabe vote for Quizzy instead of Giully, resulting in a 4-3-1 vote opportunity. After Steven failed to play either of his advantages, Giully was saved. A couple tribals later, Darryl followed and Giully found herself in a great position heading into the tribe.

Now reunited with her girlfriend Maji, and with a strong ally in Kaden by her side, Giully was looking golden. The only problem was that neither one of them could really agree on a set agenda. Kaden, wanting to tackle the alliance seemingly led by Enrique, wanted to target Nick. Whereas Maji, who had previously worked with Enrique, Nick, and others on their side, wanted to target Gabe who finished second in the first individual challenge. Heading into the first merge tribal council both tribes were rather equally matched in numbers, which forced Giully directly into a swing vote position. No matter which way she went she would be burning bridges, so it really came down to a matter of which bridges she could afford to lose. Ultimately she chose to vote for Gabe, but after he played a legacy advantage at tribal council that was given to him by Kaden he was spared. As a result, Nick was eliminated and Giully remained in a position where she could easily hide behind the tension of the two sides. Or so she thought, many were inclined to believe that she had been the one to leak the plan to vote Gabe to Kaden.

At the final twelve Kaden’s alliance was starting to crack. Enrique’s alliance was still wanting to target Kaden or Toon but settled for Amani due to finding it too risky to vote for either of their preferred targets. Theoretically the vote should’ve tied, but after Gabe suddenly proposed a strange plan to blindside Giully with a weird coalition of numbers that would split the vote, the numbers to save Amani no longer existed. Ironically, her partner’s questionable blindside plan is what ended up in many jumping ship to eliminate her.

The final eleven brought on the most controversial point in the season as Zura publicly announced that he was essentially done playing the game. He later corrected his statement to say that he was still playing but was growing frustrated with the game in the instance he made the initial statement, but for some it was too late. Giully especially had taken the initial statement to heart, which caused her to become incredibly upset when people started discussing Kaden as a potential vote. Not only was Kaden a great ally to Giully, but he was also being targeted over someone whose mental health was visibly taking a toll by them remaining in the game. To her it felt like making a move against Kaden was taking advantage of the fact that Zura was struggling. Kaden was voted out in a 7-4 vote, Giully was livid.

After Kaden was eliminated Giully was done making statements and was ready to start taking names. After being pinned by Kaden as being the ringleader, Enrique became the first target. His elimination was delayed as he played an exit ticket to eliminate Toon at the final ten, but with no more places to hide he was eliminated at the final nine. Unfortunately, Giully was never able to capitalize off of Enrique’s elimination as she was viewed as the biggest threat remaining. Thus, she was eliminated next in a 5-2-1 vote.

## Return Interviews

**What does it mean to you to be considered a Fan Favorite in the Visionary community?**
It feels really nice to be considered a lovable icon in the community! The fact that I still even won a title like that makes me still both shocked and fond at it at the same time. Shocked because truly, I wasn't expecting it and it made me a bit embarrassed to be showered by so much love, but also fond that so many people loved my performance even if I was knocked out in pre-merge. Being a fan favorite means the world to me, and I'm truly glad to have such a title on my belt!
**What are your expectations for this season in terms of competition?**
That's....difficult to answer. This time, I'm really aiming to go far and give it my best shot, much more than my last performance here on Visionary. Though, how my plans drive through depends on the returnee favorites and the newbie fans competing in the season as-well! As any ORG of survivor, you really can't predict what will happen, but I have no doubt it'll be a rough time squeezing through people, especially if you're a favorite with a recognized playstyle by those around you (which also points to me!). So, I personally believe the competition will be tough, but it'll be all the more satisfying if I get through, right?
**How do you expect the mixed cast of veterans and newbies to impact the season? Are you more nervous about the veterans returning or the newbies who are getting their first chance?**
Well, Gove you see....I'm always paranoid about everything! While we have the veterans, the favorites, with already known playstyles and faces, they can still be tough people to go up against. While on the other side we have the branch of newbies, unknown playstyles and faces unseen until now. That means you have to be just as careful, but also not to overestimate them either. While they do have the advantage of knowing the favorites and being new, that doesn't mean they still can't get nuked, same to the veteran favorites! It's all about how you play the game and how you let your status affect you, alongside all the other elements that'll sure to bring more chaotic strategy to the mix. Both sides have their ups and downs, but each player needs to be seen on equal ground before anything else, in my opinion.
**Coming in as the veterans of the season do you feel that it’s the Favorites job to uphold their stature and give the Fans a tough fight?**
There is a bunch of pressure with that, that's for sure. But it also depends on each person as a favorite but for me, being picked for this season means people believe in me to do well and to make sure I succeed as far as I can. So I will promise I will do all I can to make sure I'll be a force to be reckoned with, despite the person being a fan or a favorite. However, if the fans do manage to overcome the favorites, I'll give props to them! I certainly won't underestimate them, but we'll see.
**What’s your main goal this season now that you’ve been given another chance?**