Eddie

Eddie is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Continental Conflict and Visionary Survivor: Clash of Casts.

## Continental Conflict Summary

Lies and assumptions are factors of every Survivor game that we don’t truly understand the impact of until we see how they influence game’s like Eddie’s. Eddie was a common victim of misconception whose game ended because of a poorly painted picture of him by his other tribemates.

As a less than social individual on a tribe that peaked at ten members, Eddie’s social connections lacked severely compared to his other tribemates. At the start of the game he quickly built up a reputation within his tribe as someone with rather dry conversations who was somewhat unapproachable in terms of building relationships. Because of the dry conversations and lack of note comparing between members of the Cortés tribe, many assumed that he simply wasn’t interested in building one on one relationships.

But ironically, sometime along the way a rumor was developed that Eddie and Jornsy were a tight duo. Who started this rumor still remains a mystery, but gradually more and more tribemates on the growing Cortés tribe started to believe it and felt that Eddie was a threat due to dry conversations even though Jornsy was less active overall. After losing their second challenge in a row at the final fourteen, Eddie began to vocalize his want to eliminate Noah, someone who was commonly thought to not be putting in his best effort socially, strategically, and especially physically. But when Rey and Sean both used their connections to flip the vote onto Eddie in order to protect their social numbers, Eddie was eliminated in a near unanimous 7-1-1 vote.

### Voting History

 I Hate All Of Them
 It’s Like I’ve Got Anti-Corona
 AHHJAHSGAHAJAHSJAKALAKSJS
 Where Am I, At A Circus?
 NOBODY SAY LESHAWNA!
 There Is A Reason For Blindsides
 Eliminated, Day 15

## Clash of Casts Summary

With a weak social game as his downfall in season four, Eddie’s primary goal for season five was to really do his best in making connections and never falling out of the loop. To start the game off Eddie reconnected with Sean and made amends for Eddie’s elimination in season four. In addition, he and Sean also linked up with Otter to create a majority on the tribe.

After losing the second challenge of the season, Eddie’s name was quickly thrown on the block by Dementia and Jethro. With Otter in the middle of both alliances, he was the swing vote without others on the tribe really realizing it. Before making up his mind, Otter warned Eddie that he was a target. Now more alarmed, he was a little more aggressive in ushing for Dementia to be eliminated. When Otter flipped, Eddie was spared as Dementia was eliminated with an idol in his pocket.

Come swap, Eddie was in a good position on a new tribe with his closest allies Otter and Sean. In addition, he and Sean made a secret deal with Luke and Schmutz that didn’t include Otter to serve as a back up plan. Throughout the rest of the pre-merge Eddie was in a solid and safe position as no one really came after him as other conflicts and tensions were assuming priority.

After the merge Eddie’s game started to shift. With the new Ksitigarbha tribe having an overwhelming 7-3 majority, the new Manjusri tribe members were in trouble. To make things better for Eddie, the four remaining season four alumni all linked up in an attempt to subtly overthrow the game while everyone else was distracted with eliminating their main targets. But this was pretty short lived. After Kiibo was eliminated, Eddie's position in the game gradually sunk with every vote. At the final nine Luke and Schmutz were the initial targets, mostly due to both of them targeting each other. So when Schmutz won immunity it was assumed that there would be an easy vote against Luke, but Luke wasn’t settling. With his main target now immune, he and Dawit recognized that the season four alumni were only one elimination away from evening the numbers. With Schmutz still targeting Luke with the other season four alumni, it appeared that they had the numbers to swing things their way. But when Dawit and Luke pulled together an idol blocker, a vote blocker, and an extra vote, Jethro was easily blindsided.

At the tribal council of Jethro’s blindside Eddie and Sean both recognized that Luke only received two votes. Jethro revealed that he had forgotten to place a vote and Schmutz’ vote was blocked, so it was rather clear to Eddie and Sean that they were the two who voted for Luke, and Otter didn’t. Now skeptical of Otter, Eddie and Sean felt rather limited in their options. Fortunately, they at least still had Schmutz on their side… or so they thought. After her plan to eliminate Luke failed, Schmutz had ruined her standing with her former tribe and was no longer in any kind of majority. So in an effort to salvage her game, she threw Eddie and Sean under the bus. Which turned out to be bad timing as Eddie won immunity. Having completely ruined all of her connections, Schmutz was eliminated in a unanimous vote.

At the final seven the target seemed to be constantly shifting. Initially Dawit was the target after Otter won immunity, but when Dawit publicly revealed his idol at camp everyone was sent into scramble mode. Ultimately half the remaining castaways fell on board with voting Eddie, while the other wanted to call Dawit’s bluff. Expecting the votes to fall between Eddie and himself, Dawit came up with a plan that would save both of them by giving Eddie the tokens he needed to buy a tribal exit ticket. As a result, all votes were nullified except for Dawit’s one vote for Sean.

While losing Sean was a pretty big hit to Eddie’s game, he was compensated when Sean gave Eddie his five remaining tokens and legacy avantage. Now knowing that he would be safe at the final six, he purposefully threw the challenge in hopes that people would vote for him and he could build onto his resume. After the challenge, Monkey formed a new alliance with Brett and Eddie in hopes of reaching the final three with them by eliminating Otter, Dawit and Luke. Feeling indebted to Dawit for saving him at the final seven, Eddie told Dawit about the alliance, Dawit immediately turned around and confronted Monkey about it, and Monkey deleted the alliances. The final six tribal council was so split that everyone who didn’t have immunity received a vote due to no one trusting anyone and not knowing who was getting votes. This split opened the door for Brett and Dawit to eliminate Monkey.

At the final five Eddie was starting to lose confidence in the possibility of him beating the remaining castaways. Knowing that Dawit and Otter both had advantages to get themselves to the final four, after Brett won immunity he had the power to determine who the fourth person would be between Eddie and Luke thanks to his tribal exit ticket that he now had no use for. After finding out about the advantage Eddie requested that Brett play it on Luke, feeling like Luke deserved to be in the final four more than he did. But instead of playing off of emotion, Brett made the logical play of using his ticket on Eddie, who seemed to be checking out of the game, and Cirie’d Luke in the process.

At the final four it was clear that either Dawit or Otter would complete the jury due to being perceived as the biggest two threats left in the game. After they both lost the challenge to Brett, the decision of which one would stay rested on Brett and Eddie’s shoulders. Ultimately they chose to vote Otter out of loyalty, confirming that Brett, Dawit, and Eddie would sit in the final three. At the final tribal council Eddie still wasn’t too confident in his chances but he far from gave up. Instead of going into detail with his whole game for his opening remark like Brett and Dawit did, he simply gave a quick summary that left his game wide open for the jury’s questions. While Dawit ended up winning the season, Eddie lost pridefully knowing that he ran through the finish line as opposed to walking through it.

## Return Interviews

**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?**
Well the main reason i think i got out so early was because i haven't made any genuine connections with people. so i definitely need to work on my social game more. last season i just let others come talk to me so I'm going to try talking to them first. problem is i get very nervous when talking to people, but hopefully there will be people I'm close with also on my tribe.
**What was the biggest mistake you made when playing in your first season? How did you learn from it?**
I'm still trying to learn from it honestly lol. but i really did hurt when i was suddenly voted off unanimously and i didn't even know why. my biggest mistake was not making any effort to try and talk to others, like i said above. it also made me look like a floater because it turned out i wasn’t really that involved with what the others were doing. and that was mostly because of my inability to talk to others lol. I'm still trying to learn from it since it usually fucks me over a LOT in camps lately, so if I'm casted, I'll try putting my social game first above others and see what happens..
**Have you spectated any seasons besides the one you competed on? Have any other castaways stood out to you?**
i have spectated most of season 3 lol, but missed out on 1 and 2. i was really impressed with Blair's gameplay and how she managed to win the whole thing even when her # 1 ally got first boot, definitely a legend Blair.
**How has Visionary Survivor impacted you?**
I’m not really sure. i really want to have genuine friendships with people I've played with outside of competing in orgs, but so far I've actually made more enemies than friends. my first season of this is no different. there were people in this season that i did want to become friends with outside of this thing, but they may not like me anymore so. however, visionary survivor has shown me that this community is pretty chill and more mature. at least, more so than the td community.
**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?**