Dick Mason

## Overview

Dick Mason was a passenger and runner-up of SHUFFEL! 5: Super Fly and SHUFFEL! 8: Frequent Flyers.Coming into the game with an established fan base, many of the players were eager to work with the retired NFL player. As the game progressed Dick and his daughter Teresa were able to take control of the game, resulting in them making the final 2 together. He ultimately ended up losing in a 5-4 vote due to Teresa's speech which threw him under the bus and exposed him.

On Frequent Flyers Dick struggled to gain a strategic grasp on the game, and had difficulties for the first half of the game. In the second half he was apart of an alliance which controlled many of the decisions, and was able to get himself to final 4 with a good chance of winning the game. Unfortunately, his alliance members knew this and he was the first cut from the alliance, placing 4th.

## Gameplay

### Ejected In

Los Angeles, California

In the first week Dick and Teresa were approached by many people regarding the vote, because everyone wanted to work with Dick. Despite this, the two decided to do what Troy / Loleita wanted and openly said the vote should be Ursula and Leo.

During week two Dick and Teresa stayed under the radar, using Dicks fame as an advantage. At the end of the week the two were approached by Sophia, who proposed an alliance. Family Flight was formed. During the week Dick had formed a connection with Enrique and felt bad about voting him out, so he secretively kept them over Natasha and Tanya.

In week three the pair was nominated by Martinez / Tyson, but were able to win the killshot. Teresa convinced Dick that Enrique and Yessica needed to be eliminated so the pair voted them out, to which they stayed. In week four the pair was safe until Sophia used her power to save her son Bryan and nominated Teresa in his place. Shocked, Dick and Teresa were speechless. As expected Teresa stayed in the vote, but the two would get their revenge on Sophia later.

In week seven Dick would win topflight to secure his alliances safety and keep the ball rolling after Teresa won the previous week. He targeted Enrique, seeing him as an underdog and successfully got the male out of the game next to Martinez. The next week he would seal Martinez fate when Teresa nominated him as her target. In week nine Troy would attempt to target him but he won the killshot, ruining his plans.

Dick would win the topflight in week ten, securing Teresa's safety through the double. He got Yessica and Troy out, allowing his alliance to make it to final 5. During this week the pair would make a final three alliance with Janae. Week eleven Dick won topflight again and guranteed himself and Teresa final 4. He had no preference who went home between Bryan or Sophia. In final 4 Teresa won topflight and Janae won killshot and honored her deal, ejecting Bryan. Dick then went on to win the first class competition and voted Janae out.

In the final two Dick gave a speech about how his strong bonds with players allowed him to get to the end of the game easily, which the jury appreciated. That all changed when Teresa stood up and admitted that Dick would talk trash about every single jury member and gave specific examples, to which shocked the jury. Her tactics worked and what would've been a 8-1 vote for Dick to win turned into a 5-4 vote for Teresa to.

#### SHUFFEL! Frequent Flyers

Partnered with Eclipse, Dick began to set himself up in a good position. He and Eclipse nominated Farrah / Gary and Troy / Jaelyn, with the intention of getting the winners out. Once the nominations were set Dick campaigned to get the winners out, and was shocked to see that the vote tied, let alone the winners staying in the tie breaker.

Week two Dick let go of his grudge against the winners to side with the house in voting out Salem / Janae, and he said goodbye to Janae before he voted her out. She was upset with him, but he told her it was just a game. The next week Dick and Eclipse were nominated by Damien and Blair, but won the killshot.

In week four Dick was nominated next to Robin by Jaelyn, but he won the killshot. He campaigned to get Farrah out since his partner was on the block, and as expected Eclipse was saved that week. He won topflight week five and nominated Jaelyn and Diyoza, he was upset when neither of his nominations were ejected and felt like he was in a bad position.

Week six Dick had a conversation with Blair and she kept him off the block, meanwhile he began to form a bond with Damien and Diyoza. Week seven Dick won topflight and targeted Hudson and Scott, once again his nominees won killshot and he felt as if he didn't have a good grasp on the game.

Week eight with Diyoza as topflight Dick was safe, and he voted Blair out since she was nominated next to his partner Eclipse. Week nine Dick was nominated by Troy, and he was unable to win the killshot. Sitting next to Hudson Dick was confident he had the votes to stay and he did, only have one vote cast against him that week.

Week ten the group decided to target Troy due to his competition ability and once he lost the killshot himself and Damien voted Troy out. Damien won topflight week eleven and kept Dick safe, and after the nominations were set the group voted Gary out of the game in a 2-1 vote.

Week twelve Dick won topflight and wanted Scott out since he had no relationship with him, and just as he wanted Scott was ejected for 5th. In final four Eclipse won topflight but as a final nominee Dick was shocked to be ejected over Diyoza, thinking he had a closer bond with Damien.

## Trivia

* Dick is the oldest man on SHUFFEL! 5: Super Fly
* Dick is the only person in their 40's to make final 2
* Dick is the only player to have 0 votes cast against them on a season
* Dick is the first man to lose to a woman in the final 2
* Dick is the first person to lose in a 5-4 vote
* Dick and Teresa became estranged after the season
* Dick and Damien are good friends
* Dick and Winnie would be spotted out on a date in 2014