Surviving Barstool Season 5 Recap: Rone Wins The Whole Thing

Rone

6/9 jury votes

Winner

Dana chose Marty for the final three, so Rone had to get there through the duel: 10 live hornworms, one per shot from a giant slingshot, three targets to knock down. Glenny hit first, Rone tied it, went ahead, was tied again at 2-2, and hit the third target first. At the final tribal he told the jury not to vote for him because he has kids but because of how he played — "if you respect the game of Survivor, you respect the game that I played" — and took the harshest read of the night from Tommy Smokes ("I feel like the wool was pulled over my eyes"). Jeff read five Rone cards out of eight and stopped; the ninth was his too. Brandon, Dani, Tate, Dante and Pat each said afterwards they had voted for him: the lone wolf, against a pair.

Dana Beers

2/9 jury votes

2nd

Dana won the final immunity, The Final Countdown, his fourth individual necklace and third in a row, which put him straight into the final three with the pick of who joined him; he took Marty, "playing this game with my heart," and sent Rone and Glenny to the duel. The jury made him pay for the pair: Tate said he had carried Marty, Nicky brought up the fake idol Dana offered him in episode 3, Brandon called him a Chicago man who went back to his New York friends, and Glenny asked why the smart move he had been promised turned into friendship. His own line afterwards was the question of the night: "I won four individual immunity challenges. What more could I have done?"

Marty Mush

1/9 jury vote

3rd

Marty's case was that he never had his name written down at any council and picked off everyone who was good at the game; Pat's question drew out that his "most truthful game" had lied to Glenny and to Rone, and Dana's own answer to Pat accused him of pocket-watching. He called the jury morons in confessional, then took a call from his wife and cried. His one vote was Tommy Smokes', who was too angry at both Marty and Rone to want either to win and picked the one he loves.