Game Changers: Jeff Varner

Name:   Jeff Varner
Gender:  Male
Age:  51
First Appearance:  Season 2:  Australian Outback
Finishes:  2: 10th; 31: 17th Place
Total Appearances:  2
Last Appearance:  31
Game Changers Initial Tribe:  Mana

Jeff Varner played Survivor twice 15 years apart.  This time he comes in less than a year later after his last appearance which was disastrous going out fourth in 17th place.    In a game of old school players vs.  new school players, Jeff vacillated between the two in his brief stay in the game.  It didn't help that his tribes went to Tribal Council four times in a row.

His first mistake may have been deciding to team up with the unpredictable Abi, first voting out Vytas, then targeting Shirin (who was voted out) and Spencer, and then after the tribe switch going along to vote out Peih-Gee instead of Abi.  In what would later be considered "voting blocs" in the game, Varner kind of engineered the start of it, but his biggest mistake was trying to openly send a message to Kelly Wiglesworth after the third immunity challenge and was called out as a rat by Tasha, who ultimately used that to build a case to vote Varner out, and then succeeding.

In Game Changers, Varner is not to be trusted.  Most likely he will make a mistake on his own, but he would need to come out with a true strategy and stick with the principle of it.  His wishy-washiness will get him in trouble and he will go home somewhere in the middle of the game, close to the merge or just after it.

Jeff Varner's Meet the Cast Video

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