Brett

Brett is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Italy, Visionary Survivor: Clash of Casts, and Visionary Survivor: All-Stars.

## Italy Summary

As one of the most dedicated spectators of season one, Brett came into season two with arguably the most knowledge of Visionary Survivor out of everyone who competed with him. However, his elimination proved that although knowledge is power, in the game of Survivor it isn't the only element that gives one power.

Brett is well known as one of the kindest players to play Visionary, which definitely helped when making positive first impressions. However, his relationships weren't strong enough to protect him after Jack developed suspicions about the first tribal council. Due to receiving a stray vote at the first tribal council Jack grew very paranoid. His first assumption was that Brett voted for him due to not being close and not being aware of the VC vote, when in reality the vote came from VC and was randomized. However, Jack went with his first assumption and eliminated Brett with the help of his allies at the second tribal council.

### Voting History

 Good Morning World
 Two Is Enough
 Eliminated, Day 6

## Clash of Casts Summary

Coming in as a 15th placing fan favorite, a lot of spectators were excited to see what kind of damage Brett would do with his second chance. Having been eliminated over a misunderstanding in his first season, Brett knew it was crucial to step up his social game if he wanted to go deep into the season. At the start of the game Brett made sure to be in good standings with everyone in his initial tribe. In particular, he aligned with Jack and Luke to ensure that he would have clear numbers should his tribe have lost any challenges. Even though he likely would’ve been fine, fortunately Brett never attended a tribal council with his original tribe as they finished first and second in the first two challenges.

After the swap, Brett was separated from Luke and Schmutz but still had Jack and Bandit with him on the new Manjusri tribe. Still doing his best to fulfill his new strategy, he connected with all the new people in his tribe. After they lost the first post-swap challenge, Derek started throwing Elx under the bus by revealing Monkey’s idol play. He informed everyone that they should take out Elx before he has any opportunity to reunite with Monkey. Through this, an alliance was born that consisted of Bandit, Brett, Darryl, Derek, Jethro, and Kiibo. Elx was eliminated, and Aidan soon followed during the double tribal council. As time went on the new Manjusri tribe lost every remaining pre-merge challenge. It seemed as though every tribal council Brett was forced to turn on an ally for the betterment of the tribe as a whole.

By the time the merge rolled around the Ksitigarbha tribe had a 7-3 advantage over the Manjusri tribe. While Brett did want to stay loyal to his former tribemates Jethro and Kiibo, he knew that he would have to get into the good graces of the majority if he wanted any chance of getting to the end of the game. As a result, he purposefully began to follow other people’s plans as Kiibo, Jethro, Schmutz, and Sean were eliminated. By simply going along with everyone else’s plans and painting himself as a social goat he was able to work himself into a pivotal position by the final six. In addition, with Jack, Darryl, Kiibo, and Jethro all on the jury, it was important that Brett not step out of line or draw too much attention to himself since he was already being labeled as a just threat.

By the final six Brett was ready to start making a finale push, and he was quite successful in doing so. Feeling confident in having completed most of his Survivor bucket list, one of his main goals was winning at least one individual immunity challenge, especially after going through 9 tribal councils without immunity. Unfortunately, after an 80+ minute battle Dawit managed to outlast Brett in an endurance challenge. After the challenge, Monkey formed an alliance with Brett and Eddie in hopes that they could take out the remaining bigger threats and have a more balanced final tribal council. Brett was entirely on board, and Eddie seemed to be as well at first, but things got shaky when Eddie told Dawit about the alliance. This caused Monkey to lose trust in both of them, which made him delete the alliance and become the biggest target in the process. With no one left in the game really trusting each other, Brett and Dawit teamed up and somehow got the votes to land where everyone received one vote except for Dawit and Monkey. Dawit, who was immune, and Monkey who received two votes. After receiving one vote from Brett, and one from Dawit, they successfully eliminated him in one of the most split votes ever in Visionary.

At the final five, Brett decided to buy a tribal council exit ticket on the chance that he lost the challenge, which he didn’t. After the challenge came down to a tiebreaker, Brett beat out Luke for immunity and finally crossed an individual immunity win off of his Visionary Survivor bucket list. For Brett, the vote turned out to be the most straightforward of the season. He was immune, and Dawit and Otter both had immunity due to advantages they planned on playing. With it being the last time he could play his tribal exit ticket, Brett had an important decision to make. No matter what happened, as long as he played his advantage then either Eddie or Luke were going to be advantaged out of the game. When talking to Eddie about it, Eddie requested that Brett play the ticket on Luke due to feeling like he deserved it more. While Brett considered the move at first, he decided to go with a more logical approach in playing the ticket for someone who already seemed to be checking out of the game over someone who was still trying.

At the final four Dawit and Otter were the two biggest names in the game. They both gave their all in the final immunity challenge in hopes that they would eliminate the other. But ultimately Brett beat out both of them due to penalties, proving that slow and steady really does beat the race. With neither Dawit or Otter immune, Brett and Eddie essentially had all the power of deciding who to eliminate. After Dawit gave a stronger plea, Brett and Eddie decided to vote out of loyalty and eliminate Otter, bringing Dawit to the final tribal council.

While Brett did explain his game rather well and had a solid final tribal council showing, Dawit’s loaded resume was just too much for Brett and Eddie. With the jury incredibly impressed by Dawit’s aggressive gameplay, he was able to beat Brett and Eddie in a unanimous vote.

## All-Stars Summary

Having just lost to Dawit in a unanimous 9-0-0 jury decision two seasons prior, All-Stars was all about improvement for Brett.

Brett came into the season really stressing his social play. This was something that he lacked in season two, but drastically improved on in season five. His social game was a large part of why he was so successful throughout season five so starting off on the right foot and making as many connections as possible was the basis of Brett’s strategy. Due to Royalty losing the first two challenges of the season, Brett had a lot of time to develop connections with his tribemates. While he felt good about his position, he didn’t want to establish anything concrete in terms of alliances until his tribe lost a challenge.

The time finally came for Brett to start moving into a strategical position after Legend lost the third challenge of the season. Feeling good about his relationships with CK and Derek, he targeted Rochelle. Rochelle had been rather quiet thus far in the season and Brett was the least connected to her out of all of his tribemates, so targeting her simply made the most sense. Unfortunately for Brett, he didn’t have as much control as he thought he did. Before Brett had begun to target Rochelle, Derek, Robby, and Sasha had already formed a solid threesome. The three of them agreed to target Brett, by doing so they would be taking out a strong social threat and would also split up the potential Brett and CK duo. While Brett thought he had Derek as a number, it was really just a ploy to get Brett’s trust so he wouldn’t play any potential advantages he might’ve had. After the Derek, Robby and Sasha threesome pulled in Rochelle, Brett was eliminated in a 4-2 vote.

### Voting History

 The Devil Works But I Work Harder
 This Is Only The Beginning Baby
 Get With Today, My Brother
 Eliminated, Day 7

## Return Interviews

* All-Stars

**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 honestly think that I can definitely improve on my social game. The last time I played I did pretty good at comps, and I haven't been able to make strategic moves yet but I really plan on doing that when I get further in the game. My goal is to be social with a good amount of people, and not to maintain myself as a threat. The reason why I got out last time because I wasn't trustworthy enough and others thought that I was not on their side. This time though I will make sure that I have good bonds, and manage to not be a threat out of the gate. I will make sure that I am playing the game since the beginning, all the way until final tribal council, because I KNOW that I can make it there I can picture it happening, because I will be very confident with the type of game that I will be playing. I will do my best to improve in all the aspects of the game, but the social game play is what I'm focusing more on improving.
**What was the biggest mistake you made when playing in your first season? How did you learn from it?**
I think the biggest mistake I had was not checking in with my other alliance members on the first vote and since that randomized vote kind of screwed up my game, I can't blame my elimination because of that. There are many other ways to survive in this game, and in this world, anything is possible, so I knew that I had to step up my social game play because I was very quiet that first vote and I gave other people doubts about me. The way that I've learned from it is to now be checking in with my allies after every event, whether it's challenges results, tribal councils, etc. If I say nothing, then I'm going to be a lot more of a suspicious player to other people, so this is why I am going to make sure that I have the bonds and alliances to help me do better this time around.
**Have you spectated any seasons besides the one you competed on? Have any other castaways stood out to you?**
Yes, I've definitely spectated all of the seasons that I haven't competed on, and I have gathered some of those information and hopefully with that I could now try to take that information as an advantage to my game so yeah. Some castaways that stood out to me is Blair, having to be on a losing tribe, and somehow having a great social game, finding idols, winning immunity's, it was entertaining and inspiring to watch. Another castaway that stood out to me was Dilman! He was a great social and strategic player and I really liked his game play so he is definitely one of my favorites. One more that stood out was CK, his game play was awesome as his social game was on point, and winning competitions as well proving that he wanted to win, and I also enjoyed his confessional.
**How has Visionary Survivor impacted you?**
Visionary Survivor definitely impacted me positively. I always love playing in very professional types of ORGs and I was a fan of this series since season 1. I really wanted to achieve my moment where I can be a Sole Visionary, and playing in this game, being in the history books of this game, getting Fan Favorite when I was an early boot is remarkable. I enjoy this game, and I love having to play in one of the best survivor games this community has. Visionary Survivor has a positive impact on me not only here, but in my real life too.
**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?**

I want to gain respect as a competitor. I've already got respect on a personal level, but I want to play one of the best games Visionary has ever seen. I want to gain more experiences too, since I was out early and I haven't been apart of many specific and important moments, like the merge for example. I also want to be apart of some twists, and maybe find an idol or advantage and playing it correctly can be a great moment that I have. I want to refine my legacy and make sure that this second chance I have been given pays off and happens to be one of the best games that I've ever played in my entire experience here on discord.
**Clearly you did something right last time you played otherwise you wouldn’t have been invited back. So this season, are you looking to play more of the same way or change up your play style?**
Obviously I believe that my strategy last time was great and it made me go deep in the game, but this time I believe that I want to evolve even more, because this is All-Stars, we are playing against the best of the best, so I will be sure to make moves out of my comfort zone and play to the fullest, I do believe that I can be a player to watch out for, and I will do whatever it takes for me to finally win. I am looking forward to be a dominant player in both the pre-merge and merge game. I do think that I’ll be somewhat playing similar like last time but I am willing to change it this time.
**What did you learn from your last season that will help you do better this time around?**
I think that what I’ve learned my last time around is that being under the radar and being too quiet isn’t the best approach to winning this game. I don’t want to be seen as a low-profile type player, and I have to do some damage control and make sure that I am not the one who’s following people. If you go far in the game without having anything to prove in a season like this that’s not a good look, so I will make sure that what I do benefits my own game, and I hope that I can be able to win this game by being a power player, and not someone who’s under the radar the whole way through.
**With 18 high caliber players returning, who are you expecting to see return? Who are you most and least excited to see again?**
I’m expecting people like Dawit, and Blair return, because they have had great stories to winning and I do believe that these are the players who deserves a spot in All-Stars. I’m not sure who I’m most and least excited to see again, but if there’s someone who I would like to see again it would probably be Kaden. He and I haven’t played in an ORG together in a very long time so if he was to be on my tribe I would definitely be interested to play with him. I don’t mind anyone returning honestly since I don’t think I have any beef towards any castaway coming into the game.
**How confident are you this time around? Do you think you have what it takes to beat the best of the best?**
My honest answer is going to be a maybe. I don’t entirely know where the game is going to go and I could be in tough positions at some points in this game, but one thing is for certain, I don’t ever quit. If I am a target I am about to campaign for as long as I can and I won’t regret doing that, because the effort is what’s worth being an All-Star. And plus I was a finalist my last time so I would probably be seen as a target and a social threat.
**What are you looking forward to most this season? What are you looking to accomplish this time around?**