Krotch

Krotch is the sole visionary of Visionary Survivor: Greece and later returned to compete on Visionary Survivor: All-Stars and Visionary Survivor: Blood vs Water.

## Greece Summary

Even though he's quite possibly the luckiest castaway to ever play Visionary Survivor, Krotch's gameplay still stood for itself, redefining what it means to be a confident player in the game of Survivor.

Contrary to what you might think when you think of a winner, Krotch's pre-merge game was rather quiet. He immediately pinpointed at Elx and Lime as his two main targets but was never able to make a move against him. He even went as far as to include them in his original two alliances to keep a closer eye on them. After Vik was eliminated at the first tribal council of the season, Krotch desperately wanted to lose a challenge just so he could make a move. With one idol in his pocket at the time, his confidence started to rise. Ironically, Krotch went on to win every remaining immunity challenge before merge, regardless of which tribe he was on. In addition, he managed to pick up a second immunity idol after the tribe swap.

When the two tribes merged Krotch linked back up with Elx to finally make a move against Lime. With a clear majority, a new alliance with Derek and Doll and two idols in his pocket, Krotch was more than set. Although it was delayed due to Tiffany's evacuation, the blindside proved successful as Lime became the first juror. But when Elx got power hungry, Krotch was forced to remain in a dominant position. After learning of Elx's plans to blindside Krotch and flush Shawn's idol, Krotch knew he needed to react quickly. After finding his third idol of the season, he was ready to play defense. Surprisingly, Elx's six person alliance plan almost worked, as they gathered a majority against Krotch. Unfortunately for Elx, Krotch spared one of his three idols to save himself, and flip the vote on Elx.

With his two main targets now eliminated, two more idols left and only five more castaways to eliminate until the final tribal council, Krotch was on top of the world. At this point his gameplay rose to a whole new level as he began to dominate in challenges. After winning his first individual immunity of the season, his opposition redirected their sights onto Doll. Although Krotch could've played an idol on Doll, he decided to take the safer route and let Doll get eliminated in exchange for keeping his two remaining idols. Which proved to be very rewarding as Doll gifted her legacy advantage to him after her elimination.

At the final six Krotch and Derek had a clear target. Although they were outnumbered, they had more than enough advantages to make a move. However, this time it was Derek's turn to shine. Predicting that Dilman, Quil, and Shawn would vote for Rachel, Derek used his vote block on Quil to force a tie between Rachel and Shawn after Shawn failed to use his immunity idol. After turning their slim chances into a clear majority, they managed to successfully eliminate Shawn.

At the final five, Krotch's game almost took a massive hit without him even knowing. When Dilman set his plan in motion to attract votes and Krotch bit, it seemed as though Derek would be eliminated as the result of a legacy advantage play from Dilman. However, Krotch unknowingly saved Derek with one of his remaining idols due to it being the last tribal council in which they could be played. As a result Rachel was eliminated when Derek didn't fall for Dilman's trap.

After two successful advantage plays in a row, Krotch and Derek had just one more tribal council until they were in a final three with a clear majority. But after Krotch won his fourth immunity challenge in a row, Derek was in danger due to the final four format. When the votes tied between Derek and Dilman, Derek was randomly eliminated.

Now back in a minority with just one challenge left, Krotch knew he needed to capitalize for himself in order to make it to the final tribal council. Fortunately he did, capping off his five challenge immunity run with one more win while securing his seat in the Final Tribal Council. With a big decision to make with his sole vote, he decided to bring Quil with him to face the jury. He made the right decision as he became the first Sole Visionary in a 5-2 vote.

## All-Stars Summary

The original winner of Visionary Survivor, Krotch came into All-Stars with a large reputation to live up too. Though his pre-merge game was incredibly impressive, with every vote he was in going his way. However, once the merge hit, Krotch’s game got anchored by the tight loyalty of the Legacy Tribe, his toxic game alliance with Dawit and controversy.

On the Royalty Tribe, it was immediately clear that Krotch and Dawit were very close. The two large threats had made a pre-game deal to work together and protect each other until the merge. The pair aligned with Blair; the other winner perceived as the biggest threat. The other three prior winner, Mink, Joel, and Bee created a three-person alliance against them. When they went to their first tribal, both sides created rumors and lies in an attempt to flip someone on the other side. Krotch’s side would prevail when Dawit flipped Joel to their side and eliminated Mink in the first vote. When the Royalty tribe lost a second time, Krotch, Dawit and Blair decided to take out Joel, a known flipper, in a unanimous vote.

After this, Krotch stayed safe until the swap hit. Krotch’s swap was incredibly fortunate. His new Legend tribe consisted of his closest ally, Dawit, along with Rey, Rochelle, and Schmutz. Dawit and Krotch quickly pulled in Rey and Rochelle to create a tribe majority. The tribe stayed safe until the final vote before the merge when the bottom two tribes had to attend a joint tribal council.

Krotch’s new Legend tribe had a 5-4 number advantage against the new Legacy tribe. Though the final vote count of 5-4 seemed simple, it was quite complex. Schmutz, who was on the bottom of Legend but wanted to flip. When Derek exposed this to Krotch (due to their close relationship in season 1), Dawit and Krotch contemplated flipping against Schmutz with the Legacy tribe. However, this plan fell through when Robby told it too Rochelle who confronted Schmutz. This convinced Krotch to flip back into tribal lines and convinced the Legend tribe to vote out Robby, 30 minutes before tribal.

Despite this victory, Krotch entered the merge in the minority. All 6 of the original Legacy tribe united around the core of Kalina, Jacob and Rey and pulled in Bee and CK, leaving Krotch, Dawit, Derek and Rochelle on the bottom. Krotch had a legacy advantage, which he controversially gave to Derek, saving him from the split vote. He also donated coins to Dawit, allowing him to buy a tribal exit ticket. He also shrewdly cast his vote for Bee. This vote was one of only two votes that counted and got Bee eliminated by the wheel.

However, Krotch’s game was quickly slipping. He was down in numbers and his deal with Dawit was only until the merge and the pair were growing increasingly paranoid and hostile towards each other. However, a clutch immunity win saved him from a deadly double elimination. Dawit managed to save himself with his ties to the trio of Kalina, Jacob and Rey, leaving Rochelle and Derek on the chopping block. Rochelle had an idol, which was public knowledge, and Rey purchased and idol blocker to eliminate her. She selflessly played her idol on Derek to save him, also eliminating Krotch’s enemy in CK, who had the third most votes.
However, at the final 8, Dawit and Krotch had completely separated. Dawit was firmly with the trio who saved him in the previous vote and Krotch was firmly against them. Krotch was able to use his connection to Derek and Schmutz and Otter’s fear of the trio in order to create a four to four vote. The trio and Dawit wanted to vote out Krotch and Krotch’s side wanted to vote out Jacob. However, Jacob had a tribal exit ticket, so his side switched their votes to Dawit, creating a poetic 4-4 vote between the two former allies.

Dawit was taken out by the wheel, outing Krotch in prime position. However, it quickly became clear that Derek and Krotch shared their parchments, as they looked exactly the same. Both votes were nullified and Krotch was eliminated in a 4-2 recount vote.

## Blood vs Water Summary

Being a winner as well as someone who performed well in All-Stars creates a huge target for anyone, which led many to believe that Krotch had been set up for disaster due to having that reputation in a season with half newbies and many veterans who hadn’t found as much success. And yet, Krotch still managed to play a solid game during his run on Blood vs Water. While he didn’t reach the top half of castaways, he arguably had one of the bigger impacts of anyone on the season.

Starting off on the Zeus tribe Krotch had trouble finding his initial footing within the first few days. But winning so many of the earlier challenges proved to be incredibly helpful as he developed his relationships. Coming into the season his only legitimate connection was his winner connection with Joel, but after he, Dawit, and Blair burned Joel in All-Stars it was unlikely that a relationship between the two of them would thrive. Fortunately for Krotch, he was shockingly able to find a trusted ally in Giully. They got along extremely well and their relationship would later influence a lot of Krotch’s game decisions. While Krotch still wasn’t in the best of situations socially after the Zeus tribe took their first loss, after Wyatt blew up his own game pretty much everyone else on the Zeus tribe had immunity.

Heading into the swap, Krotch remained on the Zeus tribe with a 6-2 majority based on original tribal lines. With the game starting to heat up a bit, Steven took the opportunity to create a majority alliance between some of the original Zeus members as well as Amani. His first goal was to make a move against Giully, someone who is known to be both a social and physical threat. Naturally, Krotch wasn’t in favor of this move and knew he had to think of something to save who had become his strongest ally. Krotch knew that there was no way for him to gather a new majority to flip the vote on Steven, it was too early in the game for anyone to go with a move as bold as that. So in true Krotch nature, he went for something more subtle. With Steven, Darryl, Amani, and Gabe being locked onto Giully, Krotch had to pick up Quizzy and Joel to assist with his plan. While he knew he couldn’t get a majority, tricking the current majority into becoming a minority was a possibility through a split vote plan. After securing Quizzy and Joel’s votes, as well as Giully’s obviously, he convinced Gabe to throw a rogue vote on Quizzy “in case Giully had an idol”. The only problem now was that Krotch suspected that Steven or Darryl might have an idol, but by this point all he could do was hope. After Steven didn’t play anything, he was voted out in a 4-3-1 vote and Giully was saved.

After saving his ally, Krotch used an advantage to attend the Hera tribal council to see how his partner Toon was doing. This is where the game would start to get really tricky for Krotch. Toon was voted for unanimously at this tribal council, but saved himself using a Tribal Council Exit Ticket. With Krotch already having a huge target, his partner being voted for unanimously was a scary sight. At the next tribal council, Krotch was able to direct a unanimous vote on Darryl with ease, despite his threat level starting to rise.

Heading into the merge Krotch was reunited with his partner, but his mobility had taken a tremendous hit. He had led both the votes on his swapped tribe and partner Toon had become a sore spot in a lot of people’s games due to nearly being voted out unanimously but taking out Epoxy with an advantage. No one wanted to work with Toon as many were still annoyed with him, so by association Krotch had trouble securing numbers. After the first merge challenge there were some limits on who Krotch could actually target. Ultimately he settled on Nick as he saw him as an outlier that not many would be upset about should he be eliminated. Ultimately the vote was between Gabe and Nick. The alliance that was formed against Toon was nervous about targeting him again due to potential advantages so they targeted Gabe instead as a less obvious choice. Giully leaked this plan to Krotch since they were close but she wasn’t sure where she would vote. On one hand her ally who had saved her just a few tribals ago was leading a vote against Nick, on the other her girlfriend had no connection to Krotch and sided with those who wanted Gabe out. Ultimately Giully chose to side with her girlfriend, which forced Krotch to give his legacy advantage to Gabe shortly before tribal for him to play it to protect himself and take out Nick in a \*7-5-1 vote.

At the final 12 there were a lot of holes beginning to form in a lot of people’s stories, which provided short term safety for Krotch. The main target became Amani due to her being a strong social threat with ties to both sides of the tribe. Seemingly oblivious to this, even though he was warned by Krotch numerous times, Gabe was very adamant about targeting Giully since she was a multi-faceted threat in the game. But the timing simply wasn’t right. After Gabe wasn’t able to gather the votes, his partner Amani was eliminated in an 8-2-1-1 vote.

After taking such a huge hit in the process of his alliance becoming scattered Krotch was in trouble. He was a huge target and regardless of advantages it was only a matter of time before he would begin to see his name written down. Krotch’s one hope was Zura, who had told the tribe at camp that the game was becoming too stressful and he didn’t mind being voted out. There were many different reactions to this statement. Krotch saw it as Zura essentially quitting, Giully saw it as him protecting his mental health, and others like Enrique saw it as a moment of weakness that had later become irrelevant after he had talked with him. Knowing that Zura was feeling better about the situation as tribal council grew closer, he took the opportunity to make a move against Krotch and form a stronger relationship with Zura. But from Krotch’s perspective, the majority of the tribe’s newfound reluctance to vote out Zura looked like they were using him as a number. Ultimately, Krotch was voted out in a 7-4 vote over someone who stated “the only reason I’m not quitting is so I can at least have a jury vote in the end”.

## 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?**
i think i have to change it up. some people look at me as a challenge beast because of my comp record but personally i need to work even harder if im gonna win all stars. i truthfully do think i lacked in my social game and strategic game a lot because i was never forced into a difficult position. i want to bring in a social game and an utr strategy. being a past winner i cant really expect to be utr but as far as i go im going to try my best. playing the same way is NOT in the cards for a past winner. im ready to fight and win the sandra title.
**What did you learn from your last season that will help you do better this time around?**
honestly? i dont think my season taught me anything. i would say that it showed me not to go all out, but at that point i was on the bottom. i wouldve gone home without my idol at f8. i needed to get to the finale and winning challenges was the best way i knew how at the time. i did learn from newer seasons tho that this game is changing. winning challenges wont do it anymore. i need to adapt my game to the newer ages of visionary and whatever stupid gross barf ass twist is coming.
**With 18 high caliber players returning, who are you expecting to see return? Who are you most and least excited to see again?**
im expecting the best of the best. probably all the winners honestly. i want to see dawit because i feel like hes someone i can work with plus just have a fun time with. itll be fun to play with him tbh BUT DONT TELL HIM PLZ. also people like joel, blair, kiibo, derek, ry, just all in all people i can have a good time with. I WOULD SAY BRETT BUT... he knows whats up. he would take out the big threats and im painted as one. im least excited if someone like.. rachel, lime, elx, jack, dementia, star, s6 people come back. those bitches annoying as hell idgaf. get me out if any of these people return bc im not here for it. they gotta go.
**How confident are you this time around? Do you think you have what it takes to beat the best of the best?**
im probably too confident honESLTLY. i dont think i'll win. im confident i could make atleast merge, but i dont think winning is in the cards right now. i keep predicting that ill get 6th idk why i just have the feeling. i think what im truly confident in is my ability to enhance my .. career? whats the word idk.. but enhance what my game is seen as. i want to play better than i did in s1 and even if that means i dont win, i want to play better.
**What are you looking forward to most this season? What are you looking to accomplish this time around?**