Mufasa

Mufasa is the Sole Visionary of Visionary Survivor: Fans vs Favorites.

## Fans vs Favorites Summary

Mufasa… lion logo… this is fitting. Gove’s personal bias aside, Mufasa was one of the most versatile players in Fans vs Favorites and the repeated success of her game proved it. She started the game as one of the better integrated fans on the Faen tribe. She had solid connections with a majority of the tribe, but specifically with Lexa and Myka. The three of them quickly became a trio that would serve them well throughout the game. She had grouped into a six person alliance, but that alliance never ended up doing much together as the Faen tribe won every pre-swap challenge.

When the swap came Mufasa and Lexa were sent to the Raykar Pord tribe, where favorites Booty, Giully, and Slug remained. Initially the duo was worried about being in the minority, but they soon learned about how fractured the Favorites tribe was which gave them the power needed to control the vote instead of having it dictated to them. After indulging in the various pitches of the three favorites, Mufasa and Lexa felt best siding with Giully. As a result, Slug was eliminated in a close 3-2 vote.

Once the merge came Mufasa had been reunited with more fans and had remained on good terms with Giully. She had a lot of options in terms of how to move forward. No matter how the merge played out she was going to have a hand in most of the votes. After the first immunity challenge Logan had become the prime target since he was a challenge beast and a handful of the fans weren’t too fond of him. Overtime, as part of Giully and Ry’s secret plan, an overwhelming majority had formed against Logan. So when Logan played his legacy advantage, he was successful in negating 10 votes cast against him and eliminating Cole with just his vote and Giully’s.

After a disastrous first tribal council, Giully had seemed to come out on top in terms of leading the votes. Her traction continued as she led votes against Ry and Barney, with Bloody requesting to be voted out in between. But by the final eight dynamics had begun to shift. With Giully’s main target immune, and the end game fast approaching, Myka and Mufasa had both started to become vocal in wanting Giully out. No one really opposed, which resulted in Giully’s near unanimous elimination, Myka as the new top dog, and a legacy advantage willed from Giully to Mufasa.

At the final seven people really wanted Booty out when Logan won immunity since no one really saw them working with him long term. But Epoxy saw him as a goat to take to the end, so she spread a lie about him having an idol. Everyone believed her, so the target was shifted to Hoeah, someone who was viewed as an easy and unproblematic target. When he was eliminated he willed his legacy advantage to Mufasa, leaving her with two heading into the final six. With two legacies at her disposal, Mufasa was ready to make a move. Logan was the popular target, but Mufasa felt more threatened by Myka in the end game due to being a strong jury threat. So she developed a plan to give Logan one of her legacy advantages while playing the other for herself. The legacies didn’t end up mattering as she had gathered enough votes on Myka anyway, but what mattered was that she was successful in eliminating Myka.

At the final five Mufasa was gaining momentum and was getting close to rounding out what was becoming a strong resumé. The only problem was that her threat level had started to rise. Fortunately she won the final five challenge, which left Booty and Logan as two possible targets. It was a difficult vote. On one hand, Booty was theoretically worse at challenges but was more likely to vote her out at the final four. On the other hand, Logan was theoretically better at challenges, but was hopefully less likely to vote her out. Ultimately she decided to vote for Booty, but when Lexa forgot to vote Logan was eliminated anyway.

At the final four Mufasa needed to win immunity, otherwise she had a very slim chance of getting to the final tribal council. She ended up dominating the final immunity challenge, securing her spot in the final tribal council. Since Mufasa was immune, Epoxy was the most obvious threat remaining and was voted out unanimously. Heading into the final tribal council Mufasa had the strongest track record, but was nervous that Booty might have a really strong final tribal council performance and highlight parts of his game that she might’ve been unaware of. While Booty’s final tribal council performance was strong and Mufasa’s game was viewed as boring and straight forward by many jurors, her game spoke for itself as she was ultimately crowned the Sole Visionary of Fans vs Favorites in a 5-3-0 vote.