Barney

Barney is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Fans vs Favorites.

## Fans vs Favorites Summary

Chaos doesn’t typically get you very far in Survivor. And although Barney showed a lot of promise in all facets of the game, his chaotic nature ended up being his one limitation.

At the start of the season Barney was playing a very strong game. He played a crucial role in many of Faen’s challenge wins, he had connected really well with his tribe, especially with Cole, and he had given himself a lot of room to work strategically. But since the Faen tribe won every pre-swap challenge, Barney was never able to get any true momentum or test the bonds he had created. Despite eventually growing annoyed with never attending a tribal council, he was content with his positioning.

Once the swap came Barney was in a great position and was left with two solid options. He had been swapped onto the new Rak tribe with fellow fans Bloody and Storm, and had a 3-2 majority over Favorites Hoeah and Ry. Both Bloody and Storm wanted to stay Faen strong and assumed that a Favorite would be eliminated if they attended tribal council. That meant his first option was to stick with Bloody and Storm, and take the easy route to eliminate either Hoeah or Ry. But Barney wasn’t all that close to Bloody or Storm, and had quickly developed a pretty strong connection to Ry throughout their time on the Rak tribe. This left him with option two; join Ry and Hoeah to blindside Bloody or Storm. After Rak lost the final pre-merge challenge, Barney had a decision to make. He decided to work with Ry, feeling like he had a better shot with him long term. Barney forgot to vote, but his vote ended up not mattering when Bloody also decided to flip on Storm. Thus, Storm was eliminated in a 3-1-1 vote.

Heading into the merge Barney’s relationship with Ry started to prove useful. With a little assistance from Ry, Barney managed to find the immunity idol within the first day of the merge. The catch was that what Barney thought was a regular idol was actually a trust idol, which meant he had to share it. He chose to give the other half of the idol to Cole. After the first challenge, Logan emerged as the primary target. Everyone knew he was a challenge threat, and none of the Fans really had a positive relationship with him. Knowing this, and knowing about his legacy advantage, Giully and Ry came up with a plan to get a majority of the votes onto Logan so he could nullify them and blindside a different target. Oblivious to the plan and the possibility of Logan having any advantages, none of the eight castaways not in on the plan thought about splitting the votes. So, Logan nullified the ten votes he received and his and Giully’s two votes were the only ones counted. Barney and Cole had their trust idol and Barney wanted to play it, but when Cole wasn’t on board he was ironically voted out with Logan and Giully’s votes.

With his main ally now gone, Barney struggled to really take control of the game. He wasn’t on the bottom of the tribe in any sense, but his potential for power was now gone. After learning that Ry was partially responsible for the blindside against Cole, Barney felt betrayed. No longer wanting to work with Ry or feeling safe with him in the game, Barney started spreading rumors about Ry around camp. While people did feel inclined to believe him, they were also unsure about the validity of what he was saying due to the sudden and chaotic approach he took in targeting Ry. But after Giully also began targeting Ry, Barney’s goal of eliminating Ry began to become a reality. While the vote was close, Barney managed to eliminate Ry in a 6-4-1 vote.

While the Ry vote was successful, the momentum Barney gained from the vote was short lived as he quickly became the next target. Other castaways were starting to worry about his chaotic style of play and felt he was a threat because of it. Bloody’s request to be eliminated provided a short buffer at the final ten, but Barney was shortly voted out unanimously at the next tribal council.