Benny Gauron

**Benjamin "Benny" Gauron** is a contestant from *Fans vs. Favorites*.

A loyal member of the Fans tribe, Benny was generally overconfident in his abilities in the game despite mostly following along with the majority. Despite being able to reach the final tribal council, his overconfidence got the better of him and alienated the jury, causing him to finish in third place with zero jury votes.

## Flipverse Survivor

Benny was initially placed on the Fans tribe alongside nine other "fans" of *Flipverse Survivor*. On Day 1, Benny found the tribe's Individual Immunity Idol, guaranteeing him safety for his first tribal council. When Fans lost immunity, Benny decided to target Elie Parton alongside Joe DeFrank after the latter two had an argument a couple days before. However, fearing that Benny had found an idol and would play it on Joe, the majority decided to take Karol Jetland out instead, leaving Benny out of the loop. Because Benny felt close with Joe, he was hesitant to write his name down. When an opportunity to save Joe emerged after Joe found the tribe's Hidden Immunity Idol at tribal council, Benny jumped on board the plan to blindside Tonya Carr in a 4-3-2 vote.

After the swap, the original Fans agreed to stick together. However, Liz Charlene wanted to flip to avenge Tonya. Despite Liz hatching a plan to vote out Cody Lambert, Quentin Shag flipped to work with the other Fans, who agreed to target Liz to get one of the original Favorites to flip along with Quentin. Ultimately, their plan worked and Liz was voted out after Phoenix Fawkes flipped to avoid having to draw rocks. When the Double Tribal Council rolled around, the majority's target landed on Drea Shillrey, who was left out of the Liz vote. With the other bottom-feeder Jack Mitchel winning immunity, the majority cast their votes for Drea to go. Despite a wrinkle in the plan almost being thrown after Drea played her Shot in the Dark, the plan was successful as her scroll came up as "Not Safe", and she was voted out. When the tribe lost immunity on day 20, Jack looked like he was dead on arrival coming into the vote. Despite attempting to flip the vote on Quentin due to their personal dislike towards each other, Benny and Wendy Avenue decided to renege on the plan, not wanting to leave Cody out of the loop, resulting in Jack being voted out.

Benny was able to reach the merge. At the merge, he was included in the consensus plan to vote out Elie as the "safe vote". The following round, he was included in the plan to blindside Owen Dinale to weaken the Favorites trio of Owen, Michaela Grunwald and Stephanie Nickson (who had immunity). The following round, Benny thought everyone was targeting Phoenix. However, he would soon realize that his own allies Jesse Kantrell and Wendy had decided to flip on him, causing a 3-3 tie between Benny and Quentin. Nobody changed their votes on the revote, forcing a rock draw. Benny was immune from the rock draw, and Phoenix was ultimately eliminated from the game. The following round, Benny was a part of splitting the vote between Michaela and Stephanie, with Michaela ultimately being voted out. At the final six, Wendy won the reward challenge and chose to bring Stephanie and Benny along with her, during which they plotted against Cody and Jesse. After Stephanie won immunity, Benny became the swing vote between the two warring factions. He ultimately sided with Stephanie and Wendy and voted out Cody. He then won immunity at the final five and chose to share the reward that came along with it with Wendy. The two of them would become swing votes between Jesse and Stephanie, with Wendy telling Benny to vote for Jesse in case Stephanie found an idol. When Stephanie did not play an idol, she was voted out in a 3-2 vote. When Benny won the final immunity challenge, he chose Jesse and Wendy to go against each other in fire-making. Wendy won the challenge and remained in the game. Jesse was eliminated for good. At final tribal council, Benny's overconfidence causes him to become extremely arrogant, which earns him zero votes from the jury.

### Voting History

**1**:In "Sweet and Sour Butterflies", the vote ended in a 4-4 tie between Cody and Liz, forcing a revote. Benny did not change his vote on the revote.

**2**: In "There Is Nothing You Can Do To Escape This", the vote ended with a 3-3 tie between Benny and Quentin, forcing a revote. Nobody changed their vote on the revote, forcing a rock drawing tiebreaker. Benny was immune from the tiebreaker.

**3**: In "It's All Making Sense Now!", Stephanie played a Hidden Immunity Idol on herself, negating Benny's vote against her.

## Trivia

* Benny is the highest-placing male member of the Fans tribe.