Izaak

Izaak is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Haiti and Visionary Survivor: Fans vs Favorites.

## Haiti Summary

Known for his seemingly pointless flipping, Izaak played a rather unique game that relied on a lot of impulse to get him to the final tribal council. To start the game off he immediately threw out Raini’s name as a potential target due to fearing that he could later turn into a big social threat. While Izaak didn’t take too much heat for this, it did spark a split in the Egzagòn tribe. After finally losing at the third challenge of the season, Patrick and Raini emerged as the two biggest targets on Egzagòn. Raini because of Izaak, and Patrick because he had begun to form a fair amount of small alliances from his relationships. After the votes tied 4-4, Izaak’s target was taken out by the wheel.

Heading into the swap Izaak had been cursed by Raini. He remained on Egzagòn with Drew, Jacob, and Patrick while Dwight, Ephraim and Robby were swapped over from the original Vodou tribe. On top of Izaak’s curse, Patrick had lost his vote too since Maxx pulled a pin before he got eliminated. So while the numbers looked like they were 4-3 Egzagòn, in reality they were actually 3-2 Vodou and Vodou was completely aware. In hopes of getting someone from Vodou to flip, Izaak told a bunch of lies to make it seem like Egzagòn was four strong and had all their votes. Seeing through the facade, Dwight, Ephraim, and Robby all placed their votes on Drew and Robby even got Jacob to vote for Patrick as a test of trust. As a result, Drew was eliminated in a 3-1-1 vote and Patrick soon followed at the next tribal. Fortunately the new Egzagòn tribe won the last challenge before merge which allowed Izaak to slip into the merge.

Once the merge came Izaak was starting to get really ansty. His only ally left from the new Egzagòn tribe was Jacob and even he couldn’t really be trusted all that much. As for the people from new Vodou, he had reunited with a couple of people from original Egzagòn but for the most part he wasn’t really part of anything concrete. To make matters worse, after the challenge ended Izaak’s legacy advantage was leaked to the whole tribe. With his hand forced, he played his legacy advantage at tribal council while not receiving a single vote. Throughout the first few merge tribals Izaak was never really in much trouble. Josiah was blindsided the first vote, Ephraim was disqualified, and Vaeril was blindsided in a unanimous vote.

At the final eight, as the numbers dwindled, Izaak was becoming a more important piece in a lot of people’s games. His decisions ultimately decided a fair amount of the votes from the final eight through the rest of the game. After some feuding between Jacob and Mink, the two made amends and agreed to target Ry together. Jacob was the initial vote, as he was recently exposed for being a rather shady player. While Jacob and Mink didn’t have the numbers initially, Izaak’s tendency to believe the most recent things he heard before votes gave them an opening. After some convincing, they were able to get Dwight and Izaak to flip and vote out Ry with them.

At the final seven Mink had managed to get Matthew to give him his idol. This set up Mink to really take control of the game after becoming public enemy number one. Dwight already wanted Ry out, so that was Mink’s target. He used his idol as a bluff, claiming that he would play it since he lost immunity. Izaak fell for the bluff, and served as the deciding vote as Robby reluctantly voted with them against Ry to stay in the majority and not further divide himself and Dwight. At the final six, after Robby won immunity, he formed a plan with Izaak and Gregory to eliminate Mink. Mink was the biggest threat in the game other than Robby, and he had an idol that needed to be dealt with. After seeing him bluff at the final seven, and knowing that the final five was the last time an idol could be used, Robby accurately predicted that Mink would bluff his idol again. He spent most of the voting period reassuring Izaak and Gregory to not flip because Mink wasn’t playing the idol. And even if he did, the way they were splitting the votes would protect them. And yet, Izaak still flipped and after Mink played his vote blocker on Matthew a tie was forced between Matthew and Mink. Unfortunately for Robby, his biggest ally was eliminated as his biggest rival, who had an idol, remained in the game.

At the final five Izaak had realized that he pretty much single handedly allowed Mink to slide into the final four while also sinking Robby’s game in the process. He was fine with sinking Robby’s game, that was the whole reason why he flipped, but with Mink now guaranteed a spot in the final four, Izaak really needed to step up in challenges to get him out. After Mink won the final five immunity challenge, Dwight and Izaak eliminated him in a 2-\*1 vote after Mink played his idol and Gregory and Mink lost their votes to the devil. As the end drew near in the final four, it was clear that Mink had the best shot of winning by a large margin if he reached the final tribal council. So beating him in one of the final two challenges was dire. Unfortunately, Mink won the final four immunity challenge. Feeling hopeless, Gregory and Izaak started arguing about who should go home. Strangely enough, they were arguing to get themselves eliminated, not get each other eliminated. While their argument was genuine, it quickly opened up the door for a ruse. Not wanting to go out by giving up, Izaak convinced Gregory to vote Dwight. Their goal was to confuse Dwight and Mink in hopes that they would split their votes and Dwight would get eliminated. They didn’t get eliminated, but they did split their votes since Dwight wanted to get eliminated anyway.

At the final three, Izaak tried his best but Mink came out on top of the challenge and secured his spot in the final tribal council. Expecting that Mink was going to eliminate him and had already made up his mind, Izaak didn’t even bother trying to talk to Mink. Shockingly, Mink chose to take Izaak to the end due to fearing that Ry might vote for Gregory. Izaak surprised everyone at the final tribal council by actually having a really solid performance and fielding his questions well. But ultimately it didn’t amount to much as Mink’s game really spoke volumes for itself compared to Izaak’s. After a hard fought thirty-nine days, Izaak lost to Mink in a unanimous 8-0 vote.

## Fans vs Favorites Summary

Coming off of a disappointing finish in season six, Izaak was ready to redeem himself and forget about his voteless FTC performance. With four Favorites returning from Haiti, Izaak was fortunate to start the game with some familiar faces on his side. The season six veterans agreed to work with each other, but knew they needed to keep their alliances lowkey while working into a majority. Since there were six other Favorites without the Haiti connection, it would’ve been even easier for them to target a Haiti alumni than it was for the Haiti four to come together.

Unfortunately for Izaak, that’s exactly what happened, and his allies didn’t provide much resistance in the process. Izaak was perceived as someone that not very many people had intentions of working with, which led him to become the victim of first name effect. Since no one likes to create too many waves or resist anything too early on, when Izaak’s name was the first one thrown out after the Favorites lost the first challenge everyone jumped on board. However, Izaak was spared when Kiibo shockingly pulled himself from the game due to personal reasons.

After Kiibo quit, Izaak was informed by Giully that he was the vote. In an attempt to gain some numbers, Izaak did his best to move on from the situation and continued working with his season six allies despite them having turned on him. Ordinarily it would be strange to continue working with allies who had little intention of protecting you, but Izaak was running low on options. Additionally, with a non-season six vet out, Izaak, Ephraim, Giully, and Ry only needed to flip one more to create a majority for themselves. After the Favorites continued their losing streak, Izaak was still in trouble. No one had forgotten that he was the initial target and half the tribe was still adamant with him going. Despite his best efforts to flip the vote on Booty, Izaak went from runner-up to second boot in a unanimous 8-1 vote.

### Voting History

 After This Season I'm Gonna Have So Much Instagram Followers
 I'm Literally Gonna Drown Myself
 Eliminated, Day 5

## Return Interviews

**What does it mean to you to be considered a Fan Favorite in the Visionary community?**
For me what it means to be a Fan Favorite in the Visionary community is that you are someone who made a lasting impact on the entertainment value of your season no matter how long you lasted. You impressed the viewers of your season so much that they value you as a character of the season. That being said........ HOW THE FUCK AM I HERE, LIKE WHAT? Anyways....... yeah that’s what being a Fan Favorite in the Visionary community means to me
**What are your expectations for this season in terms of competition?**
For me I expect the level of competition to be very hard on the favorites, even if we aren’t the best of the best most of us are probably going to have bad blood with someone else and someone with a vengeance is the most dangerous thing in this game.... For the fans It’s always a question, I will have myself on high alert with them, but I’ll have to sniff each of them out to see how they play.
**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?**
I expect that the mixed cast will impact this season a pretty decent amount, but in the end the game still has to be played and you have to take emotion out of how you play and who you play with so in the end for me it’s make it to the end again. I think I’m nervous about both for different reasons, for the veterans, it’s the same people you’ve seen play or played with before and that leaves room for so much past rivalry AND alliances. For the fans, we don’t know how any of them play, so in those terms it’s almost like it’s our 1st season playing with new faces.
**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?**
Um, HELL YEAH!!! If we don’t kick these Fan’s asses I’ll be so disappointed. This isn’t a debate a favorite has to at least win the season.
**What’s your main goal this season now that you’ve been given another chance?**