Rachel

Rachel is the sole Visionary of Visionary Survivor: All-Stars. Previously, she was a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Greece.

## Greece Summary

Rachel came into the game with integrity and morals in place, placing her tribe above all else. Out of anyone you'll see competing in any ORG, Rachel is definitely one of the most loyal and trusting, sometimes to a fault.

Rachel started her game with a simple half-tribe alliance consisting of Elx, Lime, Play, and herself. After an easy first tribal council for Perseus, their alliance proved loyal and seemed like it would be rather long lasting. Having won the next three challenges after, they were able to strengthen their bonds within the alliance during their off days. However, this all changed at the tribe swap. Miraculously, their entire alliance of four remained on Perseus after the tribe swap, with only two original Icarus mixed into the group. After losing the first challenge post-swap, their alliance proved trusting once again as they voted out Steven. But after losing a second challenge, everything started to crumble.

With Derek as the only original Icarus left on the tribe, it appeared that he would be an easy vote after losing their second challenge in a row. However, different plans were set into motion as Elx, Lime, and Play repeatedly threw each other under the bus, in addition to throwing Rachel's name out as well. When Rachel caught wind that Play was supposedly trying to make a move against her, she took matters into her own hands in order to get him eliminated. Afterward, the situation left Rachel questioning the loyalty of her allies.

Once the merge hit, there were a lot of questions left unanswered for a lot of the remaining castaways, Rachel was no exception. When Elx and Kaden started planning a blindside against Lime, she and, now reunited Quil, made it clear that they would stand by Lime. Unfortunately for Rachel, Elx and Kaden had already secured the numbers to eliminate Lime even without her vote, causing Tiffany's evacuation to be a mere delay. Once Lime was eliminated at the first merge tribal council, Rachel found herself with just one ally left, losing two allies in one tribal council.

With few options remaining, Rachel's best strategy moving forward was to go all out and challenges and hide beneath the surface socially. Yet again bad luck struck, as Kaden started his five challenge immunity run to completely take over the competition. At this point it was just a matter of time before a move was made on Rachel, the surprisingly underperforming challenge beast. With Kaden winning challenge after challenge, all hope was lost. That is until Dilman came along.

At the final five, with an immunity idol in Dilman's pocket and their best interests aligned, it was time to make a move. After Kaden won immunity, Dilman did his best to ensure that Kaden and Derek would vote for Dilman. This worked to a degree, but Derek had different intentions. After Kaden used one of his remaining immunity idols on Derek, Derek, Dilman and himself all had immunity. Which left two options, Quil and Rachel. When Derek didn't go through with the plan to eliminate Dilman, Rachel was eliminated due to Derek's vote being the only vote not nullified.

## All-Stars Summary

Heart, passion, and loyalty always seem to be the focus for Rachel’s gameplay. Most people would see this as lackluster strategizing and poor gameplay, but for Rachel it seems to work rather well.

Rachel’s main priority at the start of the season was to find a ride or die alliance and simply run with them as long as possible, ideally she would reach the end of the game with them. Now knowing that they were already a decently strong trio, Rachel quickly found herself in good graces with Jacob, Kalina, and Rey. While her social game was looking pretty decent, the trio also built quick relationships with Otter and Schmutz, so there’s a chance that Rachel’s game might’ve ended before it ever really began. Fortunately, Rachel and the rest of the Legacy tribe had strong enough challenge showings to avoid tribal council up until the tribe swap.

Once the swap came, Rachel remained on the Legacy tribe with original tribemate Jacob, and new tribemates Blair, Derek, and Robby. Rachel found herself in an arguably better social situation on this new tribe than her original. She had started the game rather close to Jacob, and she had a slight connection to Derek from season one. It wasn’t necessarily good history as Derek voted her out, but still history nonetheless. In addition, Jacob and Robby had worked together in season six. Their allegiance didn’t end too well, but still they had notable history. This allowed for an easy four person alliance to be created between them, which left Blair on the outs with an idol in her pocket.

After losing the first post-swap challenge, it was obvious that Blair was the biggest and only legitimate target. The only concern was whether or not she had an idol, but that was quickly handled as the foursome agreed to give tokens to Jacob so he could purchase and use an immunity idol blocker on Blair. Assuming that they were going to buy one, Blair purposefully didn’t play her idol to make them look stupid. Nonetheless, Blair went home and Rachel was left with three trusting allies.

It was uncertain what would happen if the Legacy tribe attended another tribal council by themselves as the tribe was deadlocked 2v2 in two different ways. Fortunately for Rachel, they won the next challenge, and when they lost the final pre-merge challenge and were sent to a joint tribal council with the Legend tribe she wasn’t on anyone’s radar. Although she wasn’t really in any danger of elimination, the joint tribal council presented a problem in that the new Legacy tribe was outnumbered 5-4 by the new Legend tribe. Rachel and the rest of her tribe tried tirelessly to get someone to flip, and an opportunity finally showed itself when Schmutz admitted to Derek that she was willing to flip. While the new Legacy tribe could’ve done a simple 5-4 vote against Dawit, Kaden, Rey, or Rochelle with the help of Schmutz, Derek wanted to take it a bit further. So he informed Dawit and Kaden that Schmutz was trying to flip, and they created a new plan to blindside Schmutz with Dawit and Kaden. But then the plan crumbled when Robby told Rochelle about the plan, and Rochelle confronted Schmutz about wanting to flip. This resulted in the Schmutz blindside basically being called off, which resulted in Kaden reuniting all of the new Legacy members to eliminate Robby in a 5-4 vote.

When the tribes merged Rachel found herself in a perfect under the radar position. She had been reunited with all of the original Legacy members, had been included in a majority alliance that consisted of the original Legacy, Bee, and CK, and she was more than ready to pull out important immunity wins when needed. While the first merge vote was very controversial and didn’t go as planned for the majority alliance, at the end of the day it didn’t affect Rachel’s positioning too much. Throughout most of the early merge Rachel’s main focus was to lay low, do her best in challenges, and practice loyalty to her alliance above all else.

At the final eight Rachel was becoming pretty adamant about wanting Dawit out of the game, since she figured he was the biggest threat outside of her alliance. The problem was that her alliance had already cut a side deal with Dawit and they felt that Otter was going to attempt to turn on them, so their main priority was to eliminate Otter. Knowing that Rachel wouldn’t vote for anyone but Dawit, they left her completely in the dark after she won immunity. Her winning meant that both Dawit and Otter were vulnerable for elimination, so the trio took the opportunity to eliminate Otter, which would also remove all of his tokens from the game as an added benefit.

Despite being lied to about the Otter blindside, Rachel was willing to forgive her alliance and continue moving forward with them. She figured it would be in her best interest anyway, but she also still felt strong connections to the trio and still trusted them deeply. After eliminating Derek at the final six due to Schmutz winning immunity, it was crucial that Jacob, Kalina, Rachel, or Rey won immunity at the final five to ensure they would fulfill their promise to each other and reach the final four together. Fortunately, Rachel was able to clutch out the final five immunity, and ensured that Schmutz would go home.

At the final four Rachel was feeling content. She assumed she would be voted out unanimously at fourth place and was fine with it knowing that one of her allies would win if that happened. Yes, that’s how loyal of a player Rachel is. But Kalina had different plans. Feeling like she wouldn’t have as much of a chance of beating Rey in the final tribal council, she decided to flip and vote against Rey with Rachel. She even tried to get Jacob to flip as well, but he decided it wasn’t in his best interest. When the votes tied, luck favored Rachel as Rey was eliminated by wheel.

After flipping on Rey, Rachel knew that if she won she would have to single handedly eliminate Jacob or Kalina. Due to her undying loyalty, she hated the thought of eliminating either of them and actually wanted to throw the challenge. But Rachel is just as determined as she is loyal, and knew she wouldn’t feel right throwing a challenge. So she gave it her all, and ended up winning the challenge by a matter of milliseconds. After thinking about and stressing out about the vote, she decided to take Kalina to the final tribal council with her. While Jacob had been with her throughout the entire game, Kalina was the one who ultimately saved her at the final four.

While both Kalina and Rachel both played strong games, Rachel’s final tribal council performance was noticeably stronger than Kalina’s. In addition, the jury felt that she had worked harder to get to the end of the game as opposed to Kalina. As a result, the jury crowned her the winner of Visionary: All-Stars in a 6-3 vote.

## Return Interviews

**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?**
I would be looking to play more socially this time round if accepted I think. I waited perhaps a little too late to truly make allies outside of my core ride or die, which I think didn’t help me much. My gameplay still is reliant on key immunity wins... so I have to pray there are less lives as my speed typing isn’t what it used to be and with internet downgraded as well although I would try I know I cannot be reliant on immunity in speed comps. But absolutely I would never throw, oh no I still firmly believe in strong consistent physical game from the outset.
**What did you learn from your last season that will help you do better this time around?**
It was many months ago but a few things stand out to me...
- kaden types faster than me I must make sure he is gone before merge
- it is better to take insults from other places and internalise them, outside conflict hurt my game and this time I would just take it and work with anyone
- it is important to talk more to the hosts/viewers, I don’t know if you have seen any of my recent games but I am still no master but now I actually reveal where my head is at and who I am talking to and what my plans are and definitely always answer confessional question.
**With 18 high caliber players returning, who are you expecting to see return? Who are you most and least excited to see again?**
Oh um, I am sorry I am only aware of my season. Really sorry I don’t know who played later which you might think puts me at a disadvantage but I like to think of it as a challenge and also a clean slate, I won’t have biases or preconceptions But As for from my season Let me think. Kaden and Elx I remember as the main challenge threats and as I am not close to either they would definitely be players I feared returning. Shawn would actually be fun to see again I havent seen him in months and he always brings great strategy but we have worked together before so that would be a potential ally. I would say but he personally told me they were leaving discord a few months back so I don’t think he will come back
**How confident are you this time around? Do you think you have what it takes to beat the best of the best?**
In all honesty I never have any self confidence in myself in anything apart from game challenges so it would be a lie of me to say I think I can outplay to win. But, I think I could have fun and maybe make an impact and that is why I accepted and am trying to audition
**What are you looking forward to most this season? What are you looking to accomplish this time around?**