Barnie Varnava

### Elimination

Eliminated in Round Two with 2 out of 6 votes after an immunity idol was played, and then eliminated again in Round Five with 6 out of 8 votes

## The Butler Games: Allstars

### Elimination

Eliminated in Round Six with 3 out of 6 votes cast against him in a double elimination.

## The Butler Games: Blackist

### Elimination

Eliminated in round seven with 2 out of 3 votes

## The Butler Games: Please Stand By

### Elimination

Eliminated in round one with 3 out of 5 votes

Barnie Varnava is a veteran player, first appearing in The Butler Games Spring 2017.

## The Butler Games Spring 2017

Barnie is best remembered from this season for his aggressive gameplay and attempts at sneaky tactics. He was the first player to begin looking for the hidden immunity idol and the first to start talking 'game' - even if what he was saying was not true.

He used the target twist to his advantage, telling multiple players information about who other players were targeting. This was often not done subtly resulting in Barnie himself becoming a target. In the third round, Barnie was put on the block for the first time. He was able to save himself by winning The Ice Breaker veto challenge and taking himself off the block. Lisa was nominated as the replacement in his place and Barnie was the driving force behind the unanimous vote to eliminate her from the game.

In round four, Barnie was the subject of controversy within the game. During the Head of House challenge entitled 'Suck It' - Barnie, along with Tom and Ste were disqualified from the game. Tom had been caught stealing points from other players and was disqualified, an angry Barnie then threw Tom's cup away and accidentally knocked over Ste's cup over in the process. As Ste's total was not yet confirmed, he was ineligible to win the competition, and Barnie was disqualified for knocking over his cup.

He was eliminated this round after being nominated by Ste's girlfriend Meg (who had been given MVP power by the Jury).

## Second Chance Summer (Season Two)

Barnie was the leader of The Warrington Alliance and worked closely with them all season. He won the first individual challenge of the season and was the only player immune from elimination in the third round and led the charge to eliminate Lindsey from the game. However, she returned to the game in the next round and won Head of House alongside him.

In the power of veto competition, 'Fear Pong', Lindsey won the veto but Barnie managed to win a hidden immunity idol (see: The Butler Games: Blood vs Water). He was also shown the location of an immunity idol by Iain, who had been voted out in the double elimination. This allowed Dan to concoct a plan to eliminate Lindsey from the game once and for all, by nominating Barnie alongside her and having him use the idol to protect himself. However, she saved herself and the pair eliminated Ben from the game instead.

In the semi-finals, Barnie was teamed up with enemy Lindsey and qualified into the final game. This sent Barnie's allies out of the game. In his speech, Barnie reminded the jury that he was a driving force behind most of the eliminations in the game and even won a competition whilst blindfolded. In the final vote to win, both finalists received 4 votes each, resulting in a tiebreaking Battleflip competition. Barnie lost the challenge was finished the game in second place.

## The Butler Games: Ride or Die (Season Three)

Barnie was partnered with newcomer, Richard, and the duo were a part of The Power 6 Alliance. However, within the alliance, the pair also had a final four deal with Lindsey and Ryan with the intention to cut Lisa and Rachel from the game when possible. Barnie worked with his alliance to eliminate Becca from the game in round two and won the Head of House in round three, nominating Josh and Katie for elimination.

In round four, Barnie and the rest of his alliance agreed to vote Natalie out of the game. However, before the vote, he was approached by Ryan and Rich, who wanted to blindside Lisa instead. Not wanting to blindside his other allies, Barnie approached Lindsey with the news of the impending betrayal, however knowing the numbers were stacked against her, Barnie stuck true to his word and voted Lisa out. She blamed him for the blindside.

Tom nominated him for elimination in round five, but he won the veto and took himself off the block. However, Tom continued to come for him and used the double-cross to nominate him in round six. Richard promised him that he would use his immunity idol on him and save him from elimination, but after the votes were cast and no idol was used to save him, Barnie knew his fate had been sealed and he had been betrayed by his own partner. He was eliminated from the game with 6 out of 7 of the votes.

## The Butler Games: Blood vs Water

Barnie started the game on the Water tribe, where he quickly approached fellow Ride Or Die alums Lindsey and Josh to form The H3O Alliance. As the only other veteran player competing this season, Barnie felt it wise to team up with Lindsey, instead of competing against her.

After losing the first tribal challenge, The Egg Hunt, Barnie was surprised to discover tribemate Emma rallying votes to eliminate him or Iain from the game. He convinces everyone to vote for Iain, however at the last minute, he convinces his alliance members to vote to eliminate Emma from the game instead, as she is a more strategic player than Iain.

Upon her elimination, Emma chose The Switch Up temptation, and switched Lindsey and Dan into the opposing tribes. Wanting to save his alliance member from being voted out, Barnie convinced the Water tribe to throw The Stack Exchange tribal challenge. This then meant that they could vote to eliminate Dan from the game and keep numbers high for Water.

However, unbeknown to most players, Barnie had planted a 'fake' immunity idol in the game, the idol he had won during season two, which had never been found during season one. This was been found by Chris inside a mug, and given to Dan to play at the elimination ceremony.

At the vote, Dan played the idol. This caused mass confusion at the elimination ceremony and become a very controversial moment in the games. The idol could be deemed a fake, having not been intended for use during this season, however as the idol had never been used during its original season it could be argued that the idol still had immunity power. After deliberation between the players, it went down to a vote to decide if the idol had power or not. This vote was done before the elimination votes were revealed, so players had no idea if the idol would have any affect on the game or not. Every player (including jurors) were able to vote on whether the idol should be deemed real or fake, with the majority choosing for the idol to be real, This was the creation of the first Legacy Idol.

With only 2 out of 5 votes, the other 3 votes for Dan, Barnie was the second player eliminated from The Butler Games: Blood vs Water.

Upon his elimination Barnie was offered two secret temptations: 'Reveal' or 'Steal'. He chose 'Steal' and was given the option to steal any players vote at the next elimination ceremony, he chose to steal Rich's vote. At the next elimination ceremony, he used Rich's vote to cast a vote against Rich himself. This caused the votes to tie for a double elimination, but Rich was not eliminated in the re-vote

Barnie returned to the game for the Battleflip, helping his fellow Water tribemates gain the victory. He was then forced to compete in a battleback challenge against former alliance member Lindsey. He won the Wrecking Ball challenge, despite being given a disadvantage by Katy, who had chosen to hinder him as part of her elimination temptation.

Barnie returned to the game officially in the fifth round and competed in the Blow Ball immunity challenge, losing out in his first match to Iain. Dan won individual immunity and all other players were eligible for elimination. Paranoia set in across the other players and Barnie was told that the vote was between Josh and Kate, with no one giving him a straight answer. He began to fear that he would be re-eliminated from the game and turned on his water tribemates to try and save himself.

In the vote, Barnie's fears became a reality as he received 6 out of 8 votes and was once again eliminated from the game, having been betrayed by Water tribemates Josh and Kate. Barnie was once again given a choice between two elimination temptations - Play or Say. He chose Say and would steal the vote of a randomly selected player at the next elimination ceremony.

At the ceremony, it was revealed that Barnie would steal Martyn's vote at the elimination ceremony. He used this to vote for Kate, unsuccessfully.

In the seventh round, Barnie returned to the game to assist the Water tribe in the CorrectFOUR tribal challenge. His tribe lost in the tiebreaker question.

Before the final vote, Barnie asked Chris if he thought it was a mistake to have given Dan the idol which saved him in the second round. Chris said that it was not a mistake.

In the final vote, Barnie voted for Dan to be crowned the winner of The Butler Games: Blood vs Water, stating that he was voting for the player who 'stabbed him in the front, not the back'

## The Butler Games: Allstars

Prior to the games, Barnie and Dan decided to team together and form an alliance - The Runner Ups. Shortly into the game, Dan offered 'temporary' alliance membership to new player Rachel, after discovering she had found an immunity idol. When she refused, Dan instead allowed entry to Olivia.

At the start of season five, Barnie was chosen to compete on behalf of Ryan's tribe alongside Ryan, Olivia, Lisa and Dan. He helped bring his team to victory in the Battleflip Relay challenge and agreed with the group to allow Dan to become the first Head of House of the season.

When the first legacy was unleashed, Barnie was forced to compete in the Give-Wrapped nomination challenge and managed to avoid all nomination cards. However, Barnie did pass the 'Tied Together' card to Tom, resulting in the pair being tied together for the entire first round. He also went on to win the Veto ticket, but knowing he would be unable to perform well whilst tied to Tom, he gave this to Ryan.

Prior to the vote, Barnie was unable to get any clear information from his alliance whilst with Tom and ended up voting differently to his alliance members. This resulted in Iain being eliminated from the game.

In the second round, Barnie's tribe failed to win the Scrabble Scramble challenge and Olly was chosen as the Head of House. As part of the Legacy Twist, Barnie unsuccessfully competed in a second Head of House challenge, Plinko Pinballm and when Rachel was crowned the co-HoH she nominated Barnie and Olivia for elimination alongside allies Ryan and Dan.

Barnie competed in The Last Knight Veto challenge but failed to win the veto, losing out to teammate Dan. Lisa was chosen as the replacement nominee and Barnie and his allies began to hatch a plan to save them all from elimination. The game appeared to be split between voting out Olivia or Lisa. Barnie had previously promised Lisa that he would not vote her out of the game this season, but ultimately was pressured by his alliance to make a decision between Lisa and Olivia. In the vote, he successfully voted to eliminate Lisa from the game, and stated that this vote was the hardest he ever had to make in the history of the games.

In the third round, Barnie lost the Know It All head of house challenge on the fourth question, but was saved when it was won by ally Ryan.

Ryan chose to unlock his own legacy - The Power Round - which gave him the power to choose which players he wanted to compete in the Power of Veto. He was not sure what the challenge was, but chose those he was closest with in the game, including Barnie. In the Go Nuts! veto challenge, Barnie was unsuccessful, but fellow Runner-Up Dan won the veto and kept nominations the same.

In the vote, Barnie voted with the rest of the players to eliminate Rachel from the game.

In the fourth round, Barnie competed in one of the hardest Head of House challenges this season, Baller Move. Although he started off slow, he was able to get the hang of the challenge and successfully helped to eliminate Olly, Lindsey and Tom before having to eliminate his allies Olivia and Ryan. When only Dan and Barnie remained, Barnie convinced Dan to give up and allow him to win. Head of House, Barnie, unleashed his own legacy resulting in a nomination challenge taking place and in the Face the Ace challenge, Ryan was the first eliminated. Luckily Dan won the challenge and nominated Lindsey alongside Barnie's nominee's Olly and Tom.

At the nomination ceremony, Barnie nominated Tom and Olly for elimination. He was also required to choose a Legacy to unleash upon the game, choosing his own - The Sneaky B. This made it so that a nomination challenge would take place and the winner would nominate a third player for elimination. All players except the two nominees competed in the Face The Ace nomination challenge. Dan won and nominated Lindsey as the third nominee.

In the Power of Veto challenge, To The Nines, players ended the game with a four-way-tie between Ryan, Barnie, Olly and Tom. In a tiebreaker question, Barnie had the closest answer without going over and won the Golden Power of Veto, choosing not to remove any of the nominations.

Ryan and Dan saw this as the right opportunity to eliminate the newbie and ever-growing threat, Olly, from the game. However, Barnie convinced them that Tom and Lindsey were the bigger threats and convinced Ryan and Dan to vote to eliminate Tom from the game, in order to sever Tom's alliance with Olivia and ensure she would not betray them for him. They considered eliminating Lindsey instead, but felt it was better to eliminate Lindsey after the Battleback, given her strong track record of battling back into the game.

At this time, Barnie and Ryan also discovered the second hidden immunity idol. Despite Ryan seeing the idol first, Barnie was the first player to be in possession of this and it was considered his.

In the vote, Barnie was shocked when Lindsey was eliminated, unknowing that she had actually voted herself out of the game.

At the start of round five, all jurors were brought back into the game to compete alongside the players in the Dice, Dice, Baby Head of House / Battleback challenge. Lindsey returned to the game as the new Head of House and she nominated Barnie alongside alliance member Dan.

In the Power of Veto challenge, Mathletics, players raced to answer math questions based on previous seasons. Barnie was unsuccessful and remained on the block, whilst Dan once again won the Power of Veto and saved himself. Ryan was chosen as the replacement nominee, knowing full well that Barnie had a hidden immunity idol. At the vote, Barnie played his idol and saved himself from elimination, sending Ryan out of the game with just 1 vote against him.

At the start of the sixth round, the remaining players were informed that this would be a double elimination round. Players then competed in the Fallen Friends head of house challenge, Barnie lost this challenge and felt uneasy when it was won by fellow Runner Up Olivia. Barnie's fears came true when Olivia turned on her alliance members and put Dan, Barnie and Lindsey on the block.

In the Power of Veto challenge, Hide and Go Veto, Barnie's envelope was the last found and he was eliminated from the game by Iain. When Lindsey vetoed her nomination, Olly was put on the block and announced that he too had an immunity idol and intended to use it at the vote.

With 3 votes against him, Barnie was the sixth player eliminated from The Butler Games: Allstars.

In the final vote, Barnie voted for Olly to be crowned the winner of The Butler Games: Allstars.

## Trivia

* The first ever player to win a Power of Veto competition.
* Upon being eliminated from season one, Barnie vowed to blow up someone's game and shouted 'Lindsey is Olivia's target!' as he walked out the door. This was met with silence as most players had already figured this out since Olivia had nominated Lindsey twice and had made it very clear who she was trying to eliminate. It was only Tom who had not connected the dots and was shocked at this reveal.
* Has appeared in every season so far.