Sean

Sean is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Continental Conflict and Visionary Survivor: Clash of Casts.

## Continental Conflict Summary

As a member of the original Cortés tribe, Sean started the game without having to do much socially or strategically to keep control due to winning the first four challenges. However, as more and more people started to join the tribe by mutiny and in one case absorption, Sean’s grip over his tribe started to slowly slip with every vote.

On day 12 when Cortés lost their first immunity challenge. There were many overlapping sections of the tribe that painted the Cortés tribe as one that was rather divided. However, the two social forces of Rey and Sean were able to come together and lead a vote targeting Slug due to divisions within the tribe being so blurred. With the first original Da Gama gone, it seemed as though original Cortés was going to continue targeting the rest of the mutineers in an attempt to keep their original tribe strong. But plans changed after they lost their second immunity challenge in a row.

With the main target, Slug, now out of the picture, the social play on Cortés was starting to get more complex. Fellow tribemate Rey had a hunch that Eddie and Jornsy were working closely together due to Jornsy not being as active and Eddie developing a reputation of having dry conversations. As Rey became more confident in his theory, the rumor was spread around Cortés to the point where everyone on the tribe believed it and wanted to split them up. Most notably was Noah, who immediately targeted Eddie in an attempt to blindside him and save himself after Eddie called out Noah for not pulling his own weight at the first Cortés tribal council. This is where Sean came in.

In an effort to save Eddie he warned him about the oncoming blindside, but when Eddie Sean had suspicions that Eddie confronted Noah about the vote he was determined to join Noah and Rey and blindside Eddie in a unanimous vote. With Eddie eliminated unanimously it seemed as though Sean was in a good spot with the rest of his tribe. But things started to go downhill when people started to question how genuine Sean’s socializing actually was. Many people felt that his demeanor in one on one conversations was much nicer than his demeanor when speaking to groups of people, which led people to think that he was being fake and maybe he was hiding his true intentions from certain tribemates. As a result, a vote that was supposed to end in Jornsy’s elimination ended with Sean being voted out of his tribe in a 5-2-1 blindside that left both him and his ally Hoeah with unanswered questions.

### Voting History

 I Hate All Of Them
 It’s Like I’ve Got Anti-Corona
 AHHJAHSGAHAJAHSJAKALAKSJS
 Where Am I, At A Circus?
 NOBODY SAY LESHAWNA!
 There Is A Reason For Blindsides
 I'm Quick To Exterminate Snakes
 Eliminated, Day 17

## Clash of Casts Summary

Sean was a huge question mark heading into his second chance due to never really gaining much traction and placing 13th in his original season. While he wasn’t the flashiest of players in the season, Sean was rather successful and improving on his legacy.

At the start of the game Sean made a strong effort to build a better social game than he had in season four. Having only attended three pre-merge tribal councils, Sean was successful in keeping a low profile despite all three tribal councils being rather complex. On his original tribe, with the season four alumni, he connected with Eddie and Otter to form a slight majority over Dementia and Jethro. What made things complicated was that Otter was secretly playing both sides. After losing the second challenge, Eddie was in trouble as Dementia and Jethro both felt that it would be better to keep Sean. Otter was initially on board, but decided to flip after he saw tribal council as an opportunity to eliminate one of the bigger threats in the game.

Once the tribes swapped Sean was in a great position. His two closer allies were both swapped to the new Ksitigarbha tribe with him, while Jethro was swapped onto the new Manjusri tribe. Sean used this advantage in numbers to build on his social and strategic connections. He was included in an alliance formed by Dawit that included CK, Dawit, Eddie, Monkey, and Otter. In addition, he and Eddie teamed up with Luke and Schmutz in a side alliance, which meant Sean had an alliance with everyone on the tribe. Normally that’d be risky, but Sean had such a low profile at the time that his game wasn’t really ever in jeopardy. When CK exposed Dawit and Schmutz after the F16 immunity challenge, causing an argument to start between CK and Dawit and causing Schmutz to start scrambling, Sean and Eddie’s deal with Luke and Schmutz was exposed. But aside from Otter losing a little trust in the two, Sean escaped the situation with hardly any damage done to his game due to everyone being so focused on the CK and Dawit beef.

Coming into the merge the former Ksitigarbha members had a huge 7-3 advantage over the former Manjusri members. This allowed Sean to continue keeping a low profile, although he was more than ready to start pulling some strings behind the scenes. After the first merge tribal council, another conflict occurred including Dawit as he and Kiibo began targeting each other over Darryl’s elimination. After Kiibo was eliminated, the game started to shift away from Sean’s favor. With there being four season four alumni still in the game, it was naturally assumed that the four of them had begun working together again which put a massive target on their backs. They only needed one more person to join them to start controlling the votes, and they got her.

Luke and Schmutz had been feuding for some time after Schmutz threw Luke under the bus and threw a vote at him. Their conflict seemed to be the next big beef after Dawit successfully eliminated Kiibo. Things started to lean Schmutz’ way after she won the final nine immunity challenge. With Luke’s main target immune, he started scrambling to eliminate Jethro in an attempt to weaken the season four alumni. And it worked as others, specifically Dawit, were adamant about weakening them as well. A couple advantage plays and a tribal council later, Jethro was out of the game.

As if Jethro getting eliminated wasn’t bad enough, things got worse when Sean and Eddie realized that Otter also voted for Jethro and left them completely in the dark. At this point it seemed to be Eddie, Sean, and Schmutz against everyone else, and neither Eddie or Sean really trusted Schmutz all that much. After Eddie won the final eight immunity challenge, Schmutz started scrambling trying to find a way into the majority. Schmutz exposed Eddie and Sean to Dawit, who turned around and told Eddie and Sean about it to make them lose trust in her. With Schmutz already being the main target anyway, Eddie and Sean jumped on board as she was eliminated unanimously.

At the final seven Sean was in a tough spot with Eddie, although not all hope was lost as there were multiple bigger threats left in the game that everyone was aware of. Initially ,Sean was going to target Otter, but when he won immunity that was out of the question. With Dawit being the biggest threat in the game, pretty much everyone was talking about blindsiding him. Once Dawit caught on, he showed everyone his immunity idol at camp as to scare them and also force their hands. With people not really wanting to vote for anyone else, the majority of people remaining chose to vote for Dawit anyway in an attempt to call his bluff. But not everyone was willing to take the risk, as a couple people voted for Eddie. Expecting this, Dawit gave Eddie a few more tokens so he had enough to buy himself a tribal exit ticket. When Eddie used it, all votes except Dawit’s were cancelled out. With the only vote that was counted, Dawit eliminated Sean.

## Return Interviews

**Coming into your second season, which area do you think you can improve in most between social play, physical play, and strategic play? How do you plan on improving?**
I should probably improve in all 3 categories but the one I need to most improve is my social play. I was taken out by people I thought were in my alliance so if I work on my social play then it should hopefully improve on relationships and I shouldn’t be backstabbed so soon.
**What was the biggest mistake you made when playing in your first season? How did you learn from it?**
The biggest mistake I made was probably not taking Rey out immediately I guess. At the time I thought it would be too big of a move too early but clearly they didn’t think so about me so yah that might be it. Maybe also not forging relationships better early on which could have had a domino effect on the rest of my game.
**Have you spectated any seasons besides the one you competed on? Have any other castaways stood out to you?**
I have not spectated any seasons. I only spectated my own and even then I got breadcrumbs and couldn’t really spec anything. So no one really stands out for me.
**How has Visionary Survivor impacted you?**
This is a weird question I guess negatively? After I got out I made some negative waves which is messy but during the game I felt like I was on a tribe with people that didn’t want to do all that much with me. Maybe that’s my shitty social game but idk I hope to improve on my experience.
**In what ways do you hope to refine your legacy with this second chance you’ve been given? What do you hope to gain from competing again?**