Rey

Rey is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Continental Conflict and Visionary Survivor: All-Stars.

## Continental Conflict Summary

No one before Rey ever came close to being as dominant socially as he was, truly a master of making connections. But what’s most notable about his game is how he was able to slowly build a majority out of players who weren’t at all connected prior to aligning with him.

Rey had quite possibly the most interesting start to the game. Thanks to the first one world/mutiny twist, throughout day one Rey discovered that all the other tribes in the game we’re incredibly more active than his own. The only person Rey was able to connect with in his tribe was Jornsy. So, he decided to ditch his inactive tribe by accepting the mutiny offer and suggested that Jornsy mutiny as well. Fortunately for them, they were both moved to the Cortés tribe and were able to essentially start over.

Upon arriving at Cortés, Rey immediately got to work forming social bonds. Within the first few days of being on his new tribe, he was able to form a comfortable relationship with fellow tribemate Bee. After Magellan lost their second challenge, Star was absorbed by Cortés due to being the last remaining member of old Magellan. Rey predicted that Star would hold a grudge against him because of his and Jornsy’s decision to mutiny. But to Rey’s pleasant surprise, Star didn’t appear to be upset about the situation, actually wanting to work with Rey. As Cortés kept winning challenges, it seemed as though with every new challenge Rey had added someone new to his Survivor contacts.

When Cortés finally suffered their first challenge loss, on day 15, Rey was subtly running the show. It was a near consensus that Slug would be sent home. While Slug was targeted due to no one on Cortés enjoying his company very much, the vote was more so a reassurance of Rey’s numbers than people uniting with a common enemy. While Slug was voted in an overwhelming majority, Star made the questionable decision to cast a vote for Rey, proving that he couldn’t be trusted and he was indeed holding a grudge. As a result, Rey kept his eye on him, but he didn’t find him threatening enough to target him.

After the successful elimination of Slug, Rey continued to form even stronger bonds with Jethro and Noah, too people who found themselves in the minority. Noah had been an early target due to not pulling his weight in challenges, and Jethro had been a recent mutiny, Rey saw these two easy targets as castaways with lots of alliance potential due to not really having anyone to align with. Recognizing that people in the minority would be more likely to be loyal, Rey grew closer to both, thus creating the united minority strategy. With his new alliance, Rey was able to successfully blindside Eddie and Sean, which caused Hoeah to mutiny to Cartier after feeling betrayed. With a double tribal council looming at the final ten that would send both Cartier and Cortés to tribal council, both tribes expected the merge to follow. So, Rey took the opportunity to finally send Star packing after he lost individual immunity, predicting that he would flip come merge.

Come merge, there seemed to be one big target on each tribe; Rey and Rochelle. Rey had been gradually becoming more and more dominant through his social connections during the pre-merge, while Rochelle had been controlling Cartier throughout the whole game with her mob boss style of play. The two were easily the biggest names coming into the merge, and yet, neither one of them were targeted at the first vote. During the first couple days of the merge Dementia and Jethro each wanted to make a move against the perceived leaders of their former tribes. While they didn’t want to make a move too early, they both connected with each other in preparation for making a move later down the line. Unfortunately for them, they couldn’t have made it more obvious. Not only did Jethro’s actions make Rey skeptical of their relationship, they also attracted the attention of Cartier. Thinking that old Cortés was set because of his vote blocker, Jethro was feeling very confident that Hoeah would go home in a 4-3 vote after cancelling Rochelle’s vote. But when Hoeah pulled out an idol after Cartier predicted that he would be old Cortés’ target, Jethro was eliminated, leaving Rey in a very tight spot.

At the final seven Rey and her allies Bee and Noah were left with their backs against the wall. Luckily, in their time of need, miracle man Dementia delivered. Wanting Rochelle out of the game, Dementia devised a complex plan that would give old Cortés the majority without him even voting with them. The plan also included a backup vote that would protect Dementia in case he happened to receive votes, which he didn’t. With all of old Cortés placing their votes on Rochelle, she was forced into playing her idol due to simply not trusting Dementia. Knowing about Dementia’s plan, Noah went with his gut and played a vote blocker on Rochelle after she played her idol. With four votes now cancelled, only Dementia, Aaron, and Hoeah’s votes counted, which were cast for Hoeah, Bee, and Rey respectively. In a 1-1-1 tie, Hoeah was randomly eliminated from the game, giving old Cortés hope.

At the final six, most expected the vote to fall between Rochelle and Rey after Noah won immunity. Oddly enough, that wasn’t nearly the case. While Dementia, Bee, and Aaron all voted for Rochelle, a little bit of scheming allowed Rochelle to convince Rey to vote with her and take out Dementia, which extended to Rey gathering the deciding vote from Noah. After playing her extra vote, Rochelle was able to turn what should’ve been a unanimous 5-1 vote into a 4-3 vote that eliminated her biggest rival in the game.

At the final five there was nowhere for Rey to hide, he had tried laying low for the past couple rounds but the fact of the matter was that Rey was still an incredibly powerful social threat who had played an impressive game start to finish. So when he lost the final five immunity challenge to Rochelle by one point, the newly formed underdog brigade consisting of Aaron, Bee, and Noah turned against him, eliminating him a 3-1-1 vote.

## All-Stars Summary

A force to be reckoned with and easily in the top five best social players in Visionary prior to All-Stars. After All-Stars, he might arguably be the best from the first era.

To start the game Rey was very fortunately placed onto a tribe with Jacob and Rey, two people he had become rather fond of between seasons. While he did have a bit of a head start socially than most other players in the season, that didn’t stop him from making and strengthening as many connections as possible. The original Legacy tribe won every challenge up until the swap, so on top of his strong relationships, having immunity gave Rey another layer of protection.

After the swap, Rey’s position on his new tribe was a little unclear. He had been swapped with Schmutz, who very likely could’ve been the first person eliminated from his original tribe, Dawit and Kaden, both threatening winners, and Rochelle, who he had some interesting history with from season four. Rey would’ve been naive to assume that Dawit and Kaden weren’t working together, and that Rochelle wouldn’t take the easy approach and join forces with them to eliminate him. And with Schmutz being such a wildcard, Rey knew he needed to work hard to get into Dawit and Kaden’s good graces. But if all else failed, Rey could at least rest assured that he could get past at least one tribal council with his idol that he had found on day one back at the Legacy camp.

After the immunity streak continued for the first two post-swap challenges, the new Legend tribe faced their first tribal council. They were sent to a joint tribal council with the new Legacy tribe due to placing in the bottom two of the final pre-merge challenge. Since the new Legacy tribe had lost the challenge before, the new Legend tribe had a numbers advantage of 5-4. Initially, they agreed to all stick together to take out someone from the other tribe. Thus, Rey decided to take a backseat in the vote and just follow wherever he felt was best. But after it was leaked that Schmutz was trying to flip, a blindside was planned on Schmutz. But after Robby accidentally blew up the plan by telling Rochelle who then confronted Schmutz, Kaden took it upon himself to shift all of the new Legend castaways onto Robby and they blindsided him in a 5-4 vote.

Coming into the merge the hard part of Rey’s game was over. He was reunited with all of the original Legacy members, and more importantly he was reunited with Jacob and Kalina. The three of them continued to pretty much run the entire merge despite everyone being aware that they were a strong trio. With the help of the rest of the original Legacy, Bee, and CK, they developed a strong majority. Their first target was Dawit, but the advantage auction made things a little complicated. Fearing that Dawit might buy a tribal exit ticket at the last minute, they planned to split their votes between Dawit and Derek. After Dawit did buy a tribal exit ticket, he spared himself while the majority then assumed Derek would be eliminated. But Derek pulled out a legacy advantage given to him by Kaden which guaranteed his safety as well, and due to a production mishap Rey and his alliance didn’t have time to come up with a third option in the event Derek played something. As a result, Bee and CK were sent to the wheel, and Bee was eliminated.

At the final eleven Rey was ready to shift the game up a bit. While losing Bee fueled a fire against Dawit and Kaden, he assumed he wouldn’t be able to ride his majority alliance forever. With a double elimination looming, Rey and Jacob figured it was the perfect time to start thinking up some alternative pathways. Thus, they made a deal to start working with Dawit. As a result, CK, Derek, and Rochelle emerged as the three biggest targets for elimination. Despite them now working with Dawit, they still intended for Derek and Rochelle to be the two castaways eliminated. And while it was true for Rochelle, after Rochelle played her idol on Derek, he was saved and CK joined Rochelle in being the first two jurors.

At the final nine, Rey and the rest of the trio were set on working with Dawit, with the only backlash really being that Rachel was very reluctant to vote for anyone other than Dawit at that point. So after Dawit and Derek’s votes were nullified due to them sharing a parchment, Kaden was eliminated and Rey and Jacob had earned Dawit’s complete trust. Although on the other end of the spectrum they had some damage control to do with Rachel.

At the final eight, it was clear that Otter had no intentions of resuming work with the trio since he had just flipped and voted against them the tribal before to try and eliminate Dawit. So naturally, Rey felt threatened and wanted him gone next. Since Otter was pretty much out of allies, it was almost just as easily done than said. After Otter lost immunity, the trio teamed up with Dawit again to blindside him.

At the final seven Rey had come across a fork in the road. He was left with two options moving forward, either continue working with Dawit, which meant inevitably turning on Rachel after not clueing her in on the past couple votes, or go back to working with Rachel, which meant blindsiding Dawit. Since Rachel had been incredibly loyal and trusting all season even after they lied to her, and since Dawit was notoriously known as one of the most dangerous players in Visionary, the choice was obvious. After Schmutz won immunity, Rey was able to blindside Dawit with the help of Jacob, Kalina, and Rachel.

At the final six, Derek and Schmutz were the two big targets left for the core Legacy alliance to reach the end of the game together. After Schmutz won the final six immunity, Derek was eliminated, and after Rachel pulled through to win the final five immunity, Schmutz was eliminated. By the final four, Rachel had already happily accepted her fate as the fourth place finisher, since she knew that Jacob, Kalina, and Rey were a tighter trio. But Kalina was adamant about winning the season, and she figured she would have a tough time beating Rey in the final tribal council. So, she took a big risk and voted with Rachel against Rey to force a tie between Rachel and Rey. Unfortunately for Rey, the risk paid off and he was eliminated by wheel.

## Return Interviews

**Clearly you did something right last time you played otherwise you wouldn’t have been invited back. So this season, are you looking to play more of the same way or change up your play style?**
Honestly, I feel like last time part of my game was tarnished by some unfortunate events, such as people being voted out who decided to throw my name under the bus due to that, or people striking out. The twist also ended up making my name popular even in the opposing tribe. I played a heavily social game, and I enjoyed doing so quite a bit. The problem is that even though some unfortunate events played a minor part in my elimination, what really caused my downfall was my own gameplay. The kind of game I played really helped me quite a bit during the pre-merge portion of the game, but once we reached the merge, I wasn't into the best spot ever due to being unable of concealing my own self as a threat. So, while this time around I am going to play a similar game, I'll try my best to focus myself onto creating stronger connections with a smaller number of people during the early portion of the game, while still trying my best later on.
There are a lot of power-players this season, which is why using shields will result easier. Hopefully, I'll be able to manage that while avoid turning into a target right from the get-go.
**What did you learn from your last season that will help you do better this time around?**
I've learnt that I'm way more vocal than I thought I'd be. When I came into S4, I really didn't want to become one of the biggest threats right away, and even though my tribe winning the early challenges helped that quite a bit, taking out potential threats like Sean (basically cutting off any potential connection I could have had with Hoeah, his closest ally) turned me into a threat quite early on. I tended to approach people more than they did with me, and that also made it clear that I was probably the most social person around camp. I've also learnt to be more wary of UTR players, like the winner of S4, my dear friend Bee. At F5, there was only another big name around camp other than mine, and considering that said person had won immunity, I was basically screwed. Diminishing the number of UTR players during the early portion of the game will be something to consider. People tend to want to bring Goats alongside them.
**With 18 high caliber players returning, who are you expecting to see return? Who are you most and least excited to see again?**
That's a nice question. I'm basing myself off of people I've been able to actually spectate (From S3 onwards), so here are the names of some of the people I think will be making an appearance.
S3
-Blair. If winners are allowed to come back, then Blair is coming back 100%. She's extremely good at challenges, her social game is quite good as well, and she's someone quite easy to root for. Considering how big of a threat she is, it is likely that some people may want her to be in the game as a shield, but considering how good she is challenge-wise, I do think that she's someone that should be sent out pre-merge. I would love to get to know her better though.
-Kalina. Another big name from Season 3 of Visionary Survivor. Kalina's likeability is something worth praising. She is extremely good at challenges, and is a social threat worth of mentioning. I feel like her gameplay was in a way similar to mine. We both ended up being thought of as threats due to our social games. I would honestly love to work with Kalina if there's the chance.
-Dawit. Contestant of Season 3 and winner of Season 5. I wasn't his biggest fan back on his seasons due to his attitude, but I won't deny that his game was impressive to say the least. He's another person that in my opinion should be sent out of the game before the merge in order to avoid letting him have too much leverage.
S4
-Rochelle. One of the strongest, if not the strongest, strategic players of Visionary Survivor. Rochelle's a huge threat, although her social game is a little lacking. The number of people who didn't like Rochelle within the jury was quite huge, and due to her directness, I can understand why. Honestly though, aside from some particular times, I really didn't mind her company. She would be a strong ally to have.
-Bee. The Master of UTR games, winner of Season 4, and one of my closest friends in the ORG community. She's someone I respect quite a bit, and would love to work with her. Although, at this point I know what her game is, and many others do as well, which is why I know I need to keep an eye on her. Still, she's someone I would love to work with nonetheless.
-Dementia. Even though his run on S5 was cut short, I still think that he'd be a very strong contestant overall. He is a little bit scheming though, which is why he's a person to always keep an eye on.
S5
-Schmutz. She's a really likeable individual, and I do think she could make another appearance in Visionary Survivor. I really enjoyed her confessionals as well, so there's that.
-CK. His gameplay in S3 was quite good, and I honestly enjoyed quite a bit his struggles to save himself in S5. His fight with Dawit was iconic. I'm now a Dawick shipper.
S6
-Jacob. I honestly love the dude. He's one of the most loyal and trustworthy people I've ever met within an ORG. Would love to work with him again.
**How confident are you this time around? Do you think you have what it takes to beat the best of the best?**
I will most likely be coming to this game with a target on my back, although it is true that so will other people. Everyone in S7 will most likely end up being quite influential to the game, which is why there's the need to be a lot more careful than last time. If I didn't think I could have managed to win, I wouldn't have accepted the invite, after all. Just kidding, I would have nonetheless lmao. But yeah, I'm pretty positive I have what it takes to get to the end. I'll try my best anyway!
**What are you looking forward to most this season? What are you looking to accomplish this time around?**