Surviving Barstool Season 5 Through Episode 5

Eight players are out in five episodes, three tribes are down to two, the jury is open, and two men are walking around with real hidden immunity idols that have never been played. Everything that has happened, where the remaining 10 stand, and when the rest of it airs.

Voted off so far

Every ballot at all five tribal councils. Confirmed means the vote card is legible on camera or the voter said who they wrote. By the count means it follows from the tally — once the confirmed cards are subtracted, there is only one way the rest can fall. At the episode 4 council the host stopped reading after three of six cards, so the tally there comes from a player saying at the booth what he expected it to be.

1Ella GreifensteinEpisode 1 · Roach tribe · 4-2Repeated what Tommy told her in confidence to the rest of the tribe, hours after her pregame alliance had already been announced out loud on a podcast.4 × Ella GreifensteinBy the count — Tommy Smokes, John Feitelberg, Brandon Walker, Pat McAuliffe2 × Tommy SmokesConfirmed — Ella Greifenstein, Dante the Don

2Mike KaticEpisode 1 · Snake tribe · 5-1That same podcast alliance, one tribe over. The four New York players voted together and took the name in front of them, and Katic went home without unpacking.5 × Mike KaticConfirmed — Glenny BallsBy the count — Rone, Marty Mush, Meek Phill, Annika Christy1 × Meek PhillConfirmed — Mike Katic

3Annika ChristyEpisode 2 · Snake tribe · 3-2Went at Rone a round early and needed either Marty or Glenny to come with her. Glenny went to Rone instead, and told him on the way to the vote.3 × Annika ChristyBy the count — Rone, Glenny Balls, Marty Mush2 × RoneConfirmed — Annika Christy, Meek Phill

4Nick TuraniEpisode 2 · Rat tribe · 3-2-1Won his tribe the first challenge almost single-handedly, which is what got him voted out of the second. His own split-vote plan was turned around and used on him.3 × Nick TuraniConfirmed — Hannah Montoya, Nicky SmokesBy the count — Dani Jackel2 × Dani JackelConfirmed — Dana BeersBy the count — Ohio's Tate1 × Hannah MontoyaConfirmed — Nick Turani

5Meek PhillEpisode 3 · Snake tribe · 3-1Kept alive in episode 2 as a shield, then swung at Rone and missed. Marty, Rone and Glenny had the numbers locked before the vote. He played the fake idol Marty handed him — his fourth of the season, which the host stopped to note — and it was ruled not an immunity idol.3 × Meek PhillConfirmed — Glenny Balls, Marty MushBy the count — Rone1 × RoneConfirmed — Meek Phill

6Hannah MontoyaEpisode 3 · Rat tribe · 3-2The Rat plan was to blindside Dana Beers. The vote split instead — Nicky Smokes did not write the name he said he would — and it landed on the player already named as the tribe's weakest link in two separate rooms.3 × Hannah MontoyaConfirmed — Ohio's Tate, Dana BeersBy the count — Nicky Smokes2 × Dana BeersConfirmed — Hannah Montoya, Dani Jackel

7Dani JackelEpisode 4 · Pigeon tribe · 5-1 (3 read aloud)The first vote after the tribe swap and the first name on the jury. Dana Beers and Marty Mush chose her over Glenny Balls on the reasoning Dana gave in confessional — she is the better player of the two, and the weaker one is worth more to them alive. She spent the afternoon building the four that would have split the pair up instead, got Glenny to name which of them he wanted written down, and he reported the conversation back to them instead of casting the vote.5 × Dani JackelConfirmed — Ohio's Tate, Nicky SmokesBy the count — Dana Beers, Marty Mush, Glenny Balls1 × Dana BeersBy the count — Dani Jackel

8Dante the DonEpisode 5 · Worm tribe · 5-1 (4 read aloud)Worm's first council of the season, and it landed on the outsider rather than the target. The tribe spent the afternoon set on Rone — Pat and Feits both said so on camera, for the antics and the lying — and Rone spent it talking them off it, with the argument that he was the one doing the work while Dante sat on the couch watching the Cavs game. It was true, and it was enough. Dante is the second name on the jury, and Jeff offered the room a last chance to play an advantage before the read; nobody moved, Rone's idol included.5 × Dante the DonConfirmed — Rone, Brandon WalkerBy the count — Pat McAuliffe, Tommy Smokes, John Feitelberg1 × RoneConfirmed — Dante the Don

Episode 4: the swap keeps one tribe whole, and the jury opens

Twelve players, two nets, and everyone in the room did the math before Jeff D’Lo said it: the three starting tribes became two, Pigeon and Worm, drawn out of a bag. The draw was almost perfectly kind to the tribe that needed it least. All five of the old Roach players came out together and Rone was added to them on Worm, which is the tribe that has now won three challenges in a row. Pigeon took the rest — Marty Mush, Glenny Balls, Dana Beers, Ohio’s Tate, Nicky Smokes and Dani Jackel. Jeff also moved the goalposts on the way in: from here, whoever is voted out sits on the jury and helps decide who takes the $250,000.

The challenge, Attack Defend, is a passing line on raised platforms — goalie to middle to shooter, both tribes throwing and swatting at the same time, first to ten, and a penalty shot to the other side for any foot that touches the ground. Worm won it 10–6. John Feitelberg shot it, six of nine by his own count; Dante kept goal; and Brandon Walker spent the whole game planted in front of Glenny Balls, taking balls out of the air before they ever reached him. Marty was the best shooter on the floor and never got the volume — nine shots to Feits’s twenty-odd — and Nicky Smokes saved nearly everything that got past him.

The other half of the episode was the refereeing. Mut, who by three separate accounts had not called a thing in three challenges, called Glenny for stepping off the mat, and an inadvertent whistle wiped out a Marty goal that had already gone in. The entire Pigeon tribe spent minutes in the referee’s face; Dani opened tribal council by apologising for it, and Jeff’s own note was that the disputed call did not decide anything — without it, the score was still 9–6.

So Pigeon voted, and the vote was Dana and Marty’s to lose. Dani had the numbers on paper: herself, Tate and Nicky Smokes, plus Glenny, who she talked all the way to picking which of the two friends to write down. Glenny picked Dana’s name and then took the conversation straight back to them. Dana’s stated reason for keeping him is that Dani is the better player — he said it plainly, that she has shown she is built for this and Glenny is worth more alive.

It went 5–1, and both players who could have stopped it wrote her name and said so on camera. Tate: “I can’t believe I just wrote her name down.” Nicky Smokes, at the booth, in the line the episode replays afterwards: “I don’t want to write her name down, bro. If it’s not 5–1, I am going to kill everyone in this tribe.” Jeff read three of the six cards, all of them hers, and stopped — so that one sentence is where the tally comes from, and it leaves exactly one ballot unaccounted for: Dani’s own, which went on Dana.

Where the 10 left stand

These are the tribes the episode 4 swap made, not the ones the season started with. The eliminations above keep the tribe that voted each player out, because that is where they actually played.

Pigeon tribe5 left

Dana BeersTurned the impostor idol into a real one, then spent episode 4 deciding who died for it: handed the choice between Dani Jackel and Glenny Balls, he and Marty Mush took Dani because she was the better player, and kept the man who cost them the challenge. He is the only player on either tribe who has been the agreed target twice and never had the votes land on him.

Marty MushMarried to the season 4 winner and still keeping it quiet, and now holding an idol of his own. Took Glenny's mission when Glenny would not run it, faked an ankle injury after Dana Beers landed on him, held the challenge up for close to ten minutes with the medic, came back and won it. He no longer needs the deal he made with Dana over Dana's idol.

Ohio's TateWrote Dani's name against everything he had said, called himself sick to his stomach on camera, and came out of the vote certain Dana, Marty and Glenny move as three with him on the outside. His stated plan if Pigeon loses again is to blow the game up.

Nicky SmokesBroke the plan he was inside at two consecutive councils and was the reason the tribe was shocked twice; the room has now started saying so out loud. Kept Pigeon in the challenge almost by himself in goal, saving shot after shot — then, for the first time, wrote the name he said he would. He hated it on camera and told the booth he expected 5-1, which is how the tally of a vote the host stopped reading is known at all.

Glenny BallsThe only non-employee in the house, and the one player everybody agrees is not trying to win — which is his whole play, said in as many words on camera. Found the season's third advantage in episode 5, read the terms, said "I don't think I can do that" and handed it to Marty Mush inside four seconds, which is the clearest thing he has done all season about what he is playing for.

Worm tribe5 left

RoneWas the tribe's agreed target for most of episode 5 and talked his way off it in the hours before the vote, arguing to Pat and Feits that he was campaigning while Dante sat on the couch watching the Cavs game. Took the one stray ballot and stayed. Still holds the idol he found in episode 1, and chose not to spend it at a council he had been told all afternoon was about him.

Tommy SmokesThe only past winner in the cast, and the name the other tribe was still saying out loud in episode 5 — "wait a minute, Tommy is still here." Sat out the challenge for Worm, which bars him from sitting out the next one, then went to his first council of the season and called it by far the hardest vote of the four shows he has played.

Brandon WalkerSaid on camera he only did the show once he could procure a five-figure deal for himself. Was the one man on Worm who never moved off Dante — described in confessional as dead set on him while the rest of the tribe spent the afternoon on Rone.

John FeitelbergSelf-diagnosed as his tribe's body and not its brain, and went to his first tribal council in episode 5 after four straight challenge wins. Spent that afternoon set on voting Rone out for his antics, said so on camera, and did not do it.

Pat McAuliffePlaying on a repaired ACL and meniscus with a brace hidden under his knee, which he is actively concealing from the tribe. Said in confessional that getting Rone out would leave him primed to win the $250,000 and that he could not afford to take the shot and miss — then went to the booth and wrote the other name.

What is actually in play

Season 5 replaced idols-you-find with missions-you-complete: the object in the hallway is not the idol, it is a job, and finishing the job is what pays. Two of those jobs have paid out, one of them through a trap that worked exactly as designed, and both idols are still sitting in somebody’s pocket unplayed — on opposite tribes since the swap.

Hidden immunity idolRone · found episode 1

The real one — it cancels the votes cast against whoever plays it. Won by completing the Clean Sweep mission, found on the floor of Dave Portnoy's office while another player was looking straight at him. Marty Mush knows, and only Marty — Rone volunteered it in episode 3 to buy his loyalty and admitted on camera that his big secret had lasted about an hour. The episode 4 swap then put the two of them on opposite tribes, so the one man who can spend that information is no longer in the room where it would be spent. It has still never been played, and episode 5 is the first time it has come close: Rone was the tribe's agreed target that afternoon, said in confessional that he did not want to burn it this early, talked the vote onto Dante instead, and let Jeff's last call for advantages pass without moving.

Hidden immunity idolDana Beers · found episode 3

Real, and won rather than found. The Impostor idol he was handed in episode 2 was worthless by design and had to be passed on to pay out — Marty Mush carried it to Meek Phill, Meek played it at the Snake council and was voted out anyway, and that triggered it. The whole Rat tribe watched the payout without knowing what it was — Dana was called out of the room to collect it minutes before their own council, and walked into that council swearing on his mother and on nine years at the company that he had never had an idol. Marty Mush knows, because Marty is the one who carried the fake to Meek and says the payout should have come to him instead: he had no scroll, so it went to Dana. The two agreed in episode 4 that the idol covers either of them, an agreement Dana undercut in confessional the same episode by saying he would rather have it in his own pocket. It was not played at the episode 4 council, where Jeff offered the room a last chance to use an advantage and nobody moved.

Hidden immunity idolMarty Mush · found episode 5

Real, and paid out for a mission Glenny Balls found and would not run: The Faker, which required faking an injury that stopped the next challenge for ten minutes. Marty took it, fell off the balance beam pulling Dana Beers down on top of him, sold an ankle to the medic for close to the full ten, then got up, played on and won the challenge — which the mission also required. Glenny Balls and Dana Beers were both told before it was run, and the tribe was asked to keep it to "just Dana". The rest of Pigeon worked it out anyway: two of them spend the evening on camera comparing it to missions they have been handed in past seasons — "mess up a challenge but still win and you get a hidden immunity idol" — and one says outright that he is now playing the game as if Dana and Marty both have idols. Marty's own confessional is not coy about it: "I didn't just win the challenge. I won the challenge and I won the idol." It has not been played; Pigeon won immunity in episode 5 and did not go to a council.

The read after four episodes

The swap did not shuffle this season so much as concentrate it. One tribe came out of the bag intact, undefeated and holding the game’s best-positioned player; the other came out as five people who have all now watched somebody they trusted write a name they were promised would not be written. Everything below happened before the draw, and none of it got resolved by it.

The one pregame alliance anybody named out loud is the one that has been hunted as an alliance, and it is down to half: Ella and Katic went first and second, on separate tribes, for the same reason, leaving Dante and Dana Beers holding a label neither of them can now do anything with.

The New York bloc that did the hunting broke the very next episode. Rone, Marty, Glenny and Meek Phill voted as one to take Katic out in episode 1 — and in episode 2 Meek Phill went straight at Rone, needing only one of Marty or Glenny to come with him. Both stayed with Rone, and Glenny warned him on the walk in. The bloc held by one vote, not by loyalty, and it is now three men and the man who tried it.

Rone survived the round that usually costs a frontrunner his idol, and spent nothing to do it — Meek Phill swung at him in episode 2, missed, and was gone by episode 3. But the position is not what it was two episodes ago. He has told Marty Mush about the idol, by his own account inside an hour of deciding to keep it secret, so it is no longer a secret so much as a debt — and the swap has parked the creditor on the other tribe, which is the best thing that has happened to him since he found the thing. It is also no longer the only idol: Dana Beers holds a real one of his own, won rather than found, and Marty thinks that one should have been his too.

Pigeon is the tribe with all the story in it and no wins. Dana and Marty have now spent a vote proving they will keep the weakest player in the game if he keeps talking to them, which is a reasonable read of Glenny Balls and a terrible one of Tate, who wrote the name they asked for and has said out loud what he will do if they lose again. Nicky Smokes had broken a plan he was inside at two consecutive councils and finally kept one — and hated it enough to say so at the booth, which is the only reason anyone knows the vote was 5–1. Meanwhile Worm has not lost since the season started, has never had to solve anything, and is quietly holding the position everyone else is fighting over: the last returning player, still holding an idol nobody on his new tribe knows about.

All 10 release dates

Ten episodes across four and a half weeks. New ones land at 8:00 PM ET on YouTube and X; Rumble Premium subscribers get each one three hours early, at 5:00 PM ET.