Monkey

Monkey is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Greece and Visionary Survivor: Clash of Casts.

## Greece Summary

The best of both worlds... or the worst. Monkey's strategy was to cement himself between two alliances, which he did successfully, but not very subtly. Due to their being two main alliances on Icarus, he was able to plant himself between the two and vote in the direction he felt was best at each tribal council. At Icarus' first tribal council he chose correctly, voting to eliminate Dan along with the rest of his tribe in a unanimous vote. But the second time around he was blindsided when he chose to stick with Booty instead of Dilman and Shawn. After Booty's elimination he and Steven were in trouble, down in numbers up against the rest of Icarus. Initially and ironically, Monkey targets Derek for publicly being a flipper, which could threaten anyone's game in any instance. Although Steven was initially the main target, Derek catches wind of Monkey's intentions and decides to flip the vote on him. Somehow, the votes ended up tying between Monkey and Steven. In a revote, Monkey's game came to a close as he became the fourth castaway eliminated in a unanimous revote.

## Voting History

 Legenderek
 Don't Strike Me
 A New Awakening
 Just Ride With The Tide
 Eliminated, Day 10

## Summary Clash of Casts

From 13th place in his first season to final season one alumni standing in his second, Monkey had quite the redemption story. While many viewed him as a floater, Monkey improved many facets of his game with his second chance. Monkey’s game started off hot after finding an immunity idol on day one. He quickly connected with fellow tribe mate Elx and showed him his idol to confirm their relationship.

After likely underestimating the alumni from the other seasons, Monkey and the season one alumni lost the first challenge of the season. The tribe was split between Elx and Monkey, and Derek and Shawn, leaving Booty as a swing vote in the middle. Initially Booty sided with Elx and Monkey as they prepared to vote off Shawn, but after Derek convinced Booty that Elx was targeting him he switched his vote. This created a 3-2 majority in favor of Elx going home. Fortunately Elx warned Monkey that he didn’t feel good about Booty voting with them, so he managed to get Monkey to play his idol for him. As a result, Shawn was eliminated in \*3-2 vote.

Although Monkey was safe for the time being when the Samantabhadra tribe won the second challenge, things didn’t look too good for Elx after the tribes were swapped into two. Monkey was sent to the new Ksitigarbha tribe with Booty while Elx was sent to the Manjusri tribe with Derek, neither of the pairs wanted anything to do with each other. Elx was immediately taken out in an almost unanimous vote after Derek told the whole tribe about Monkey’s idol play and made Elx public enemy number one. Meanwhile, Monkey managed to form a solid relationship with Dawit that would help get him through pretty far into the merge. After Booty was eliminated at the fourth tribal council of the season, Monkey was in a great place with no obvious connections to anyone else on the tribe. This allowed him to get by unscathed up until the merge while so many other conflicts were starting to bubble.

Once the merge hit Monkey’s only objective was maintaining his under the radar status. It proved to be quite effective as bigger targets like Dawit and Kiibo and Luke and Schmutz started butting heads. While Monkey didn’t control any of the first three merge votes, he was in the majority on all of them. After Schmutz was eliminated Dawit started to play a more independent game that involved essentially picking and choosing who he would clue in each vote, which meant by the final seven Monkey was more or less out of the picture. The duo wasn’t as tight as they were prior to the merge. When Dawit single handedly eliminated Sean without telling Monkey, it was clear that trust was lacking between the two of them.

At the final six, with Dawit immune, Monkey decided that it was time to start taking control of the game. So he formed a final three alliance with Brett and Eddie. Immediately after its creation Brett told Dawit about the alliance, which caused Monkey to disband it due to not trusting Brett or Eddie anymore. Now feeling like Monkey was targeting him, Dawit started planning a move against Monkey since Otter had a tribal exit ticket that he was likely going to play to give himself immunity at tribal council. With Dawit immune and after Eddie played a legacy advantage, Monkey was eliminated in a 2-\*1-1-1-1 vote.

## Return Interviews

**Biography**
Gender: Male
Country: USA
Birthday: January 31st
Occupation: Student
Three Adjectives: Cheerful, Caring, and Energetic
Hobbies: Tennis and Biking
**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 think I need to improve my strategic play, last season I played the same way I did in Genius Island and other people were playing harder. My downfall in Genius and Visionary was I always think no one else is playing but everyone always is and probably harder then me. So if I can stay focused I think I can do well.
**What was the biggest mistake you made when playing in your first season? How did you learn from it?**
Last season I only interacted with a few people on my tribe and then when I wasn’t paying attention to the other people they blindsided my ally and then me. So this time around I’m gonna try and work with more people and build better relationships.
**Have you spectated any seasons besides the one you competed on? Have any other castaways stood out to you?**
Nope, I’ve been active in the server but I really don’t know anything about the other seasons and who was in them.
**How has Visionary Survivor impacted you?**
I mean Genius Island was my first ever camp and Genius Island was my first ever org so I owe this camp to meeting some of my best fiends in discord and finding a community with so many great people. Without this camp I probably wouldn’t still be on Discord.
**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?**