Lindsey Wootten

Lindsey is the winner of The Butler Games: Second Chance Summer, and first runner up in The Butler Games: Ride or Die. She has competed in every Butler Games so far.

## Season One (Spring 2017)

Lindsey debuted in the first season of The Butler Games. She was deemed a threat from the very first challenge where she stole the win from the opposing tribe by literally stealing the lock they were trying to open.

When the Tribal Twist ended Lindsey became an obvious target, being nominated by HoH Olivia and having to vote against her ally Lisa to stay in the game. In the fourth round, Lindsey was nominated by Olivia yet again, but saved herself after winning the Cherry on Top Power of Veto Challenge - in which she suffered an injury and almost broke her toe.

In round five, Lindsey was nominated for elimination by Battleback returnee; Dan. She was eliminated from the game that round after Ryan used an Extra Vote to cast two votes against her. Had these votes not have been cast it would have remained a tie and the Head of House, Dan, would have had to have chosen which player was eliminated. Dan has not commented on who he would have chosen.

## Season Two (Second Chance Summer)

Lindsey was a huge target from the beginning of the game. She managed to survive the very first vote, despite Tom campaigning to have her eliminated. In the third round, Lindsey was 'Killer Nominated' by Johannah and as a result would face elimination every single round until the game ends or she is eliminated. However, she was eliminated that same round only to battle her way back in; voiding the Killer Nomination and making it useless against her. She returned to the game as co-HOH and nominated Johannah and Iain for elimination. She remained hell-bent on getting revenge on Johannah but was unable to get the votes time and time again.

Lindsey was nominated against her best ally, Lisa, by Head of House Dan. After failing to win the veto in Twerk It Girl, Lindsey convinced veto winner, Ben, to use it to save her from elimination, causing Johannah to go up as a replacement nominee. Despite Lindsey's vote multiplier, casting two votes to eliminate Johannah, Lisa was eliminated from the game with the majority vote.

A plan was hatched to eliminate Lindsey from the game, with Dan putting her on the block next to Barnie, who had an immunity idol to save himself. However, in the guardians twist, Lisa won the veto on Lindsey's behalf on saved her from the block. In the final vote, the jury was tied between her and Barnie to win. This resulted in a Battleflip competition taking place to decide the winner. Lindsey won the challenge and was crowned the winner of The Butler Games: Second Chance Summer.

## The Butler Games: Ride or Die (Season Three)

Lindsey was a member of The Power 6 Alliance, and was able to fly under the radar for several rounds, despite being a former winner. She worked closely with all members of her alliance and was even clued into the blindside against Lisa in the fourth round, although she chose not to participate. She first saw the block in the fifth round, when she was nominated for elimination by Tom. She was unable to take herself off the block and found herself in a tied-vote situation against ally, Rachel. When the re-vote tied again, the game went into deadlock and the two girls were forced to argue their case against one another. The players decided to leave it up to a Lip-Sync Battle to decide who would stay in the game, with Rachel beating Lindsey and eliminating her from the game. However, Lindsey gained a second chance when Natalie self-eliminated and a second battleback competition took place. She was targetted again, this time by her own alliance, but was able to win the Power of Veto and keep herself safe. She was informed by Richard of his plan to blindside Barnie and eliminate him from the competition and once again, chose not to inform an ally of their impending doom.

Lindsey was awarded the Ride or Die advantage, as the last coupling remaining in the game (as she took Natalie's place in the game). Lindsey knew that Richard had an idol, and forced him to play it so it was flushed from the game first. The pair then chose to eliminate Josh, fearing if he made the final, he could very well beat them both in the final vote.

In the semi-final, she chose Lisa to compete with her in the Dice, Dice, Baby challenge and secured herself a spot in the final . In the final vote, against ally Rachel, Lindsey made her speech, noting that she had once again battled back into the competition, survived an alliance that was slowly turning on each other and won a number of competitions. Lindsey also spoke about how she wanted to set a precedent that the game can be won by the same person multiple times, before telling the jurors that 'she already has a mug' and walking away. She lost the vote.

## The Butler Games: Blood vs Water (Season Four)

Lindsey started the game on the Water tribe, where Barnie quickly approached her to form The H3O Alliance along with fellow water tribe member, Josh. As the only other veteran players competing this season, Lindsey felt it wise to team up with Barnie despite their different game play styles.

After losing the first tribal challenge, The Egg Hunt, Lindsey was rallied by Emma to vote Iain or Barnie out of the game. However at the last minute, Barnie was able to convince his alliance members to vote with him to eliminate Emma from the game instead, as she is a more strategic player than Iain.

Upon her elimination, Emma chose The Switch Up temptation, and switched Lindsey and Dan into the opposing tribes. This put Lindsey in a bad position, as an easy vote-off for the Blood tribe. Barnie convinced the Water tribe to throw The Stack Exchange tribal challenge, in an attempt to save her from elimination - However, this backfired after an idol play caused Barnie to be eliminated, ending The H3O Alliance.

In the third round, Lindsey remained in the Blood tribe, and competed alongside them in the Scrabble Scramble tribal challenge. Her tribe lost, which is the first instance in The Butler Games history where Lindsey had not been on the winning team for this challenge, having won or had the challenge won on her behalf in every other season.

In the double elimination vote, Lindsey received 5 votes. These were all from the Blood tribe, with none of her original Water tribe members writing her name down. She was the third player to be eliminated from the game, closely followed by Katy in a double elimination.

Lindsey was offered the choice between 'Help', 'Hinder' or 'Hunt' elimination temptations. Lindsey chose 'Hunt' and could cast a vote to eliminate any player of her choice, if that player was not eligible, the vote would be void. Lindsey cast her vote for Iain, who was not eligible for elimination at the next ceremony.

Lindsey returned to compete alongside the Water tribe in The Battleflip, winning the tribe immunity and herself the chance to compete in the Battleback. Lindsey went up against former alliance member, Barnie in the Wrecking Ball battleback challenge and lost. This also marks the first time in which Lindsey competed in a Battleback challenge and did not win.

She returned to the Water tribe during the CorrectFOUR tribal challenge, but was unable to help them secure a victory.

Prior to the final vote, Lindsey asked the hard hitting question "How many elephants could you fit in this room?". It is unknown if the answer to this question changed who she was going to vote for.

In the final vote, Lindsey voted for Chris to be crowned the winner of The Butler Games: Blood vs Water.

## The Butler Games: Allstars (Season Five)

At the start of season five, Lindsey was chosen to become a team captain due to his season two win, alongside season one winner, Ryan. Lindsey's team was made up of herself. Tom, Iain, and new players Rachel and Olly. Unfortunately, they were unable to win the Battleflip Relay tribal challenge and she was nominated for elimination by Head of House Dan.

As a result of her nomination, Lindsey was unaffected by the first Legacy Twist and did not compete in the Give-Wrapped nomination challenge.

In the Tic Tac Throw Power of Veto challenge, Lindsey was eliminated by Ryan during the first heat and thought for sure that she would be eliminated. She confided in new player OIly who seconds before the vote thrust an immunity idol into her hand. She played the idol, despite having not received the most amount of votes, and Iain was eliminated from the game.

In the second round, Lindsey was chosen as the speller for her tribe in the Scrabble Scramble tribal challenge against former ally Lisa. Both players were unable to spell a word longer than four letters, and Lindsey submitted the word 'zone', just beating out to Lisa's 'walk' due to the amount of points scored in a standard game of Scrabble.

Olly put himself forward as Head of House and Lindsey supported this as he saved her in the last elimination ceremony. However, Olly chose to unleash Lindsey's legacy, which resulted in a second Head of House challenge being played. Lindsey was unsuccessful and lost out to tribemate Rachel.

When Dan won the The Last Knight Power of Veto competition and used the Power of Veto to save himself, Olly had to choose the replacement nominee. Not wanting to expose the alliance which had formed between himself, Lindsey, Lisa and Rachel; Olly chose Lisa as the replacement nominee assuming that they had the votes to ensure she would be safe.

The game appeared to be split between voting out Olivia or Lisa. With Lindsey and her alliance trusting Tom and Barnie to vote out OIivia and save Lisa. However, with 5 out of 9 votes, Lindsey and her alliance were blindsided and Lisa became the second player eliminated from The Butler Games: Allstars.

In the third round, Lindsey kept her head down when Ryan won Head of House and began to target her allies Olly and Rachel. With the legacy twist not providing a third nominee, the pair remained on the block and Lindsey voted with the game to eliminate Rachel from the season.

In the fourth round, Lindsey was the first eliminated from the Baller Move Head of House challenge, but was spared nomination by the Head of House, Barnie. However, a legacy resulted in a third nominee being chosen by the winner of the Face The Ace challenge, resulting in Dan nominating Lindsey for elimination.

All nominees failed to win the Veto challenge and the nominations remained the same. Barnie tried to keep Lindsey safe, and informed her that the target this round was actually Tom. However, Lindsey was informed by a juror that the Battleback was upcoming in the next round, and that the players were keeping her in to eliminate her after the battleback, given her strong track record of battling back into the game.

Not trusting Barnie, Lindsey took a bold risk and successfully voted to eliminate herself from the game. This caused great confusion between the other players, particularly Dan, Barnie and Ryan who thought they had the numbers to eliminate Tom.

The plan paid off, and in the Dice, Dice, Baby Battleback challenge, Lindsey won her way back into the game along with the power of Head of House. She nominated Barnie and Dan for elimination stating that she 'hated them both'. She also unleashed Lisa's Legacy upon the game, resulting in a random draw taking place should a replacement nominee be required.

In the Power of Veto challenge, Mathletics, players raced to answer math questions based on previous seasons. Dan once again won the Power of Veto and removed himself from the block. In the random draw between Olly, Ryan, Olivia and Tom; Ryan was chosen as the replacement nominee. Lindsey, alongside all other players except Dan, voted to eliminate Barnie from the game, only to be blindsided when he played an idol and Ryan was eliminated instead.

In the sixth round, players were informed of a double elimination. Lindsey was nominated by Head of House Olivia after winning the Fallen Friends Head of House Challenge. She was nominated alongside Barnie and Dan but was able to get herself off the block after winning the Hide and Go Veto veto challenge. Barnie and Dan were both eliminated from the game.

The semi-final began with a 'purge' challenge. This meant that the player who lost would be instantly eliminated from the game. Remaining players competed in Skittle Rascals, in which they had to put their game into the hands of alumni players who were not involved in this season. The Blood Tribe, from The Butler Games: Blood Vs Water took part in a challenge weeks before the Allstars season took place. The players had to decide which one of the Blood tribe completed the challenge in the fastest time.

Lindsey was the only player who had an advantage going into the challenge, having competed in Blood vs Water alongside the players she had to choose from. She chose controversial player Martyn Chetwood in hopes that his competitive nature meant he had the fastest time. Unfortunately Martyn had the slowest time of the chosen competitors and Lindsey was therefore eliminated; finishing the season in fourth place.

In the final vote, Lindsey voted for Olly to be crowned the winner of The Butler Games: Allstars.

## The Butler Games: Blacklist

Lindsey competed in The Butler Games: Blacklist. She faced elimination in the first round, and was eliminated with only 4 out of 12 votes after an immunity idol play by Ryan. She later returned to the game after winning The Battleback Competition, but was eliminated again shortly after in the triple elimination.

In the final vote, she voted for Iain to win The Butler Games: Blacklist.

### Voting History

 **5** | **Nominated** | Kath Gleave | No

## Awards

Lindsey was awarded the 'Why won't you die?!' award in season one of The Butler Games. This was for surviving the most amount of eliminations, having been nominated three times in a row.

Lindsey did not receive an award for season two due to her win. It is likely that she would have received the 'Pheonix' award, for battling her way back into the competition, only to end up winning the season.

In Season Three, Lindsey was awarded the 'Consistency is Key' award for repeating her game from the previous season. In both season two and three, she was eliminated and managed to battle her way back into the game, fighting through the remainder of the game to make it to the final two.

In Season Four, Lindsey was awarded the 'Cursed' award for the game twists being responsible for her elimination. Lindsey had a strong alliance on the Water Tribe, before a temptation twist forced her to switch to the Blood tribe. At Blood's first elimination ceremony they all cast a vote to eliminate her from the game.

## Trivia

* Lindsey is nicknamed The Battleback Queen for her multiple battleback competition wins. She has battledback into the competition a staggering 4 times including the second, third, fifth and sixth season. She has only lost a battleback competition once; losing to Barnie during season four.
* Lindsey holds the joint-record for being nominated the most times in a row, having been nominated for elimination in round 3, 4 and 5 of season one. She shares this record with Rachel Williams, who was nominated 3 times in a row during series three.
* Lindsey was the first player to be injured in the games, during season one she almost broke her toe during the Cherry on Top Veto competition, of which she won.
* She is the first female player to play a hidden immunity idol, however, she has never found an immunity idol herself.