Travis

Travis is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Ring of Fire.

## Ring of Fire Summary

Despite what some might tell you about Travis’ game, and what he might tell you about his own game, Travis’ gameplay went rather underappreciated in the Ring of Fire. In a season filled with dominant social players above all other categories, Travis was no exception to the list. For better or for worse, Travis made his mark in the season with his consistently high activity and dedication to making a name for himself.

During the anarchy stage of the game Travis really stood out as one of the top if not the top social player of the first few days. He stressed a point to talk to every other castaway which really gave him a lead in terms of preparing himself for the future phases of the game. After the tribes were formed Travis’ strong communication started to pay off. As part of the pink tribe, he had been able to form the Five Guys alliance with Jay, Starz, Wyatt, and Myth, a fellow tribemate that would end up becoming his closest ally. As the Pink tribe saw a decent amount of challenge success throughout the first week and a half of the game, only losing one member who volunteered for elimination, Travis was sitting rather pretty. Not having to worry too much about challenges gave him the freedom and time needed to strengthen bonds on a personal level without stressing too much about strategy and tribal councils.

After losing the fourth challenge, the loyalties of the Pink tribe were finally being tested. There had been a growing distrust between Wyatt and Axis, and Travis hadn’t grown too fond of him either despite them being aligned. To make a long story short, Wyatt had become increasingly adamant about Axis having the Pink tribe’s idol. Which was false, but despite popular opinion Wyatt didn’t have it either. But due to Wyatt’s direct nature, him being very transparent about his idol searching, general comments of his getting under his tribemates’ skin, and Myth boosting the tension between Axis and Wyatt, by the time the Pink tribe was headed to their second tribal council pretty much the whole tribe had turned against Wyatt and truly believed he had the idol. So as Wyatt was eliminated, the idol was thought to have gone with him, which left the rest of the pink tribe relieved and put them a little off guard. But Wyatt didn’t have the idol, Myth did, which Travis would soon find out.

Now introducing the most questionable move of the season. In an effort to spice up the game that stemmed from a dangerous level of confidence and complacency, Myth wanted to use his idol to make a move against Jay. The idol that literally no one knew about, and the idol that was thought to have exited the game with Wyatt. The only legitimate reasoning behind it was that he was close to Clasper, which at the final eleven didn’t really have too much of an impact yet. Despite the move not having much validity in terms of reasoning, Travis was 100% on board to make a move with his ride or die. And so a move they made. The move required saving Starz by getting him and Axis to turn on Jay. While the move was viewed as unnecessary, it did provide the opportunity for Myth and Travis to get closer to Starz and essentially put him in a position to be indebted to them. But this game at the cost of losing an ally and blindsiding Axis and Clasper. When Myth played his idol on Starz, Jay was sent home in what would’ve been a 3-3 tied vote.

Entering the merge on the high of Jay blindside, Myth and Travis were confident that they were gonna be able to do some damage and get far into the game with each other. This turned out to be a very short lived belief as the five former Nani members that merged were immensely closer than the incredibly fractured five former Pink members. Feeling betrayed by her former tribe for tricking her in the last pre-merge tribal council, Axis was pretty quick to flip sides to help the former Nani members make a move against Myth. Myth had played a big game up until the final ten, and the Nani five recognized that. With the help of Axis, they successfully blindsided Myth in a 6-4 vote even after he managed to find the merge idol.

With his ride or die now gone, Travis had been backed into a corner feeling like the whole tribe was against him. It seemed that Travis’ only hope was to win the immunity challenge. Ironically, the challenge ended up sparking a chain of events that would result in his downfall. Travis was already the initial target of the Nani five even before the challenge, so the drama that came from the challenge really just put the final nail in the coffin. During the challenge Axis had been voted the hardest to talk game with by a majority of the castaways, which pissed her off. As a result, she decided to block the remaining former Pink tribe members (Clasper, Starz, and Travis). Most would say this is a pretty dumb decision in ORGs, but surprisingly it ended up working out in her favor. After being blocked, Travis simply mentioned in the tribe chat that he had been blocked by Axis. This made Axis even more mad, and sparked a fight between them in which Travis was made out to be the bad guy for coming off as rude when in actuality he just wanted to know why he was blocked. But perception is everything in a social game, and after Travis’ reputation had been ruined in a matter of 24 hours, he was eliminated in a unanimous 8-0 vote after Nakul poured salt on the wound by wasting his vote blocker on Travis.