Brittney Olympios

***Brittney*** was the runner-up of Essential Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites. She was originally a castaway on Essential Survivor: Anarchy. Brittney's most recent appearance was on Essential Survivor: All Stars 2.

## Anarchy

Brittney, along with many others, was a huge Fan Favorite. Her assertive yet endearing persona attracted many of the audience to her along with her competitors. She was a dominating force in the game, but was taken out to a twist that she had certainly unprepared for.

Starting on the Todas tribe with everybody else, Brittney had already turned on her social charm. Being added to alliances left-and-right, signaling that she was well-liked by her peers. Her main allies were Joseph, Allison and Mink as she navigated the first few days of the game. During the first tribal, another one of her allies Dom was taken out. Causing her and Joseph to attempt leading a charge to avenge his demise. Immediately, they wanted Jessica out. The vibes they got from her were suspicious and they felt like she was untrustworthy. She had also felt the same way about Mink, figuring out that he was close to Barney, someone behind Dom’s elimination.

During the third challenge, Brittney’s positions as blatantly exposed as she was ranked #1 in most trustworthy. While she got immunity out of it, a big target was placed on her for the other castaways. Thankfully, her ally Joseph was making more waves that allowed for him to be the easy target and not her. One reoccurring thing this phase was that Brittney kept winning immunity(while her allies went home), while this kept her safe from a sudden vote-out, it stifled her gameplay as she allegedly wouldn’t be able to get a read on tribe dynamics… that is until she gained Barney’s trust and he spilled almost everything to her, in which she planned on using to his disadvantage.

As the game headed into the tribe phase, Brittney was somewhat content with her tribe. She had Allison and Lauren as solid allies, and her biggest adversary Jessica was apparently targeting Elle… until word got around that Finley declined her alliance. Now as Finley became more and more of a target, it was apparent to everyone that the third swapped challenge needed to be thrown. Thankfully, it worked and Nui was heading to Tribal. In which Finley’s odd behavior sent her packing.

One more tribal challenge won and now we’ve reached the merge, and hit off the bat… Brittney found an idol. Immediately telling Allison in secrecy. After Mink won the first Immunity Challenge, the vote was up in the air. Brittney’s main allies were her Nui 6, and her main target was Barney. Due to his previous control over the game and his plan to target Allison. Not to mention that Mink lied to Brittney about having the merge idol. However Brittney wasn’t the only person he told, resulting in her alliance becoming wary about voting Barney. But Brittney kept her foot down, commanding them to vote for Barney. So much so that allies Elle and Jessica began to suspect her of having an idol. But regardless, Brittney’s assertive behavior allowed Barney to get voted out, and Mink in quick succession.

Now we’re at the Final Eight, and Brittney’s new target was Jessica. She with the constant paranoia and sneakiness from her and was ready to cut her loose. Luckily, Elle and Jessica were both coming after each other. Easily, she took Elle’s side and blindsided Jessica into 8th Place. Next round, her target shifted to Elle. Unfortunately for her, people were finally starting to catch onto Allison and Brittney’s gameplay. And once Elle won immunity, it looked like Allison’s time was definitely up. Though,Brittney had the option of using her idol on Allison. But she knew that she’d be taking too much of a risk to follow through with that plna. So she unwillingly let Allison go at F7, Entering the endgame with minimal options and an idol.

This positioning in the game almost forced Brittney to win immunity, she knew it as well, causing her to focus all of her energy into the endurance challenge that she went on to win. But Brittney still didn’t give up, before the challenge her and Elle were chatting game, and they happened to be on the same page that Zeebem was going to be a huge threat during the FTC. So once Brittney won immunity, her and Elle got to campaigning. The plan was to put the majority of votes onto Lauren, so then she could play her Legacy Advantage and idol out Zeebem. Oddly enough they had garnered enough votes to begin with, sending Zeebem packing.

Now it’s the Final Five and with Brittney's idol still in play, she was automatically in the Final Four. So with Charles safe with immunity, Brittney approached him with a F2 deal which he surprisingly accepted. Along with making this deal, they planned to finally take out Elle, resulting in a 2-2-1 tie between Elle and Raini. Luckily, Charles and Brittney were able to take control of the revote and boot Elle.

Now we’re at the Final Four and despite originally wanting Lauren out, Brittney also made a F2 deal with her securing her spot in the F3 and supposedly F2! Unfortunately, that deal included keeping Brittney safe from firemaking, which Lauren failed to do. And due to Brittney not honing in on the firemaking skills, she was swiftly beaten by Charles, getting eliminated in 4th place.

## Fans Vs. Favorites

Brittney began on the orange Punahele tribe. Leading up to their first tribal, Brittney felt secure in her positioning. But it worsened over time due to her trying to save Jayla when the tribe was against her. Heading into round 3, she was in the minority gen 2 alliance with Alison, John and Bradley, but with a flip by Tae, they were able to blindside Travis. By round 4, Brittney still didn’t have a #1, which was a complete 180 from her OG season since she had Allison. But by the Join Tribal, she found her #1 - Matthew. During the joint, both of them were transferring information from each other’s tribes. But Brittney was a little too willing to share info, as Mark spilled everything she told him immediately, making her feel uneasy about the game. Luckily, her name was never a real option. The vote tied 8-8 between Jaylen and Will, Brittney soon after revoted for Will as the favorites were too dysfunctional to agree on a plan.

Returning to the Punahele camp, it wasn’t long before they lost their third challenge. And while Brittney was still in the overwhelming majority, she was on the outer circle with Tae. This being clear as Alison came to her with a plan that was made along with John & Bradley. Showcasing Brittney’s good read. But even though Brittney was aware of her positioning, she had no other option but to stick with the trio for the vote…. Or so she thought. Behind her back, Bradley, Tae and Aria concocted a plan to target Alison. So when the vote came in 3-3, Brittney was in a tough spot. Not wanting Alison to go, she had to try and convince Bradley to flip back. But after around 12 hours, she gave up and reluctantly flipped.

Coming into the merge, Brittney’s only allegiances were with Matthew and John. But her game was far from over. She was able to collect a lot of useful info, such as the Jaylen/Karm connection, Cole’s idol, and Mark’s attempt to flip just to name a few. Brittney didn’t have much to worry about this vote, as a bunch of fans were starting to flip sides due to Mark. She wanted to target the head of the fans (Kip) but set her sights to take out a smaller target in Karmynn. Brittney’s social game was showcased more by being able to gain trust with Kip and Kristin.

At Final 12, Brittney’s early plan was to take out a favorite to gain some trust with the fans. She didn’t collect anything from the auction because the unnecessary attention wasn’t worth it for an advantage to her. Which was sound gameplay. This round wasn’t too eventful, Bradley went home and Brittney positioning only got better from here.

Next round, due to the big YEG-callout, a huge bullseye was planted on them. Cole was Brittney’s target, and with the entire tribe on the same page to split the vote, it seemed like Cole would be going home. Unfortunately, two people flipped onto Kip and sent him home instead. But as long as one of the YEG trio went, Brittney was happy. By Final 10, not much happened game-wise besides voting out Cole in the demerge. Brittney’s dislike with Aria (and quite frankly most of the cast) started here and became more clear this round as well.

Heading into the Final Eight, Brittney wanted to split the vote onto Aria and Despair due to her lack of trust with them both. She ended up not getting her way here as Tae was voted out instead. But her game bounced back at 7, when she won immunity. And this round was solid as well, she was able to take out Despair after targeting them for a while. At F6, Brittney started to get fed up with Kristin’s overbearing attitude but despite her dislike for her, the plan she settled on was to blindside Mark, which worked perfectly. However she did receive a vote from Aria in an attempt to ruin her perfect game.

The next round was simple as Aria was swiftly voted out, but the Final 4 round was interesting. Instead of a normal vote, one person would be taken into the Final 3 while the other two would battle it out in fire. A format Brittney was too familiar with. When Kristin won immunity, she took Matthew to the final, much to Brittney’s annoyance. And in a tough battle for fire, Brittney redeemed herself won beat John. Advancing to the FTC.

At Final Tribal, Brittney wasn’t confident that she’d win due to the juror’s reactions to her gameplay. She left the FTC with 3 votes, becoming the runner up of season ten.