Rone won Surviving Barstool Season 5 and its $250,000, beating Dana Beers and Marty Mush 6-2-1 on the jury vote. Now Keegs pans Dana's podcast recap, calling his finale speech uncompelling and his loss a heart-over-head mistake.
Cast revealed and premiere date locked for Season 5. Barstool Sports drops the cast reveal, Tommy Smokes (@TomScibelli) frames himself as returning champ, and Eric Nathan (@BarstoolNate) hypes Jeff D. Lowe's plans for the premiere.
Meet the cast of Surviving Barstool Season 5 It all starts ONE WEEK FROM TODAY Watch every episode at 5 ET with @rumblevideo Premium or 8 ET on Youtube
Happy Surviving Barstool week. 6 days away. Back to reclaim my throne
Drama szn at Barstool just getting started! New Surviving season starts on Sunday. Cannot fucking WAIT to see what @JeffDLowe has dialed up.
Nick Turani blindsided in "A Company Divided" episode 2. rone (@rone) admits he stirred tribal drama deliberately, Stoolies Clubhouse defends Tate on the vote, and Nicky Smokes swings from gloating ("never wrong, just early") to emotional over Turani going quiet on him, per Viva La Stool.
🌴SURVIVING BARSTOOL🌴 EPISODE 2 is here for all @rumblevideo premium subscribers. You get it 3 hours early, before everyone else. Jam packed week. Tensions continue to build with a quarter of million on the line. t.co/tjK9wEYpFK
Tate didn’t vote for Nick… I don’t see why people are blaming him for the Nick blindside 🤷♂️ #SurvivingBarstool
A Company Divided | Surviving Barstool Season 5 Ep. 2 t.co/x7fFvgI6dA
Hannah’s face tells you all you need to know about how nerve racking this game is! #SurvivingBarstool
Some insight. I’ve watched a decent amount of survivor in preparation for this show. I always think tribals are more interesting when the drama is said out loud. So that’s what I did. I wanted it to be juicy, so I said fuck it. And it was.
The Imposter Idol enters the game. Barstool Sports teases the fake-idol twist as the next source of chaos.
The Imposter Idol can lead to chaos in Surviving Barstool @nobull
Katic and Marty Mush beef spills into episode 2 fallout. Viva La Stool flags Katic's anger at Marty Mush, Dana Beers plugs Big Boys Club covering it, and Gaz (@stoolsalesguy) says the tension is thick enough to cut.
Katic is not happy with Marty Mush after #SurvivingBarstool
You can cut the animosity with a knife here. Hate to have that. HATE it.
New @barstoolbigboys is out now and it’s one of our best and funniest. We love this show and want it to go to the moon so we appreciate everybody tuning in. Ella & Katic talk #SurvivingBarstool and a lot more⬇️ t.co/3qLPFszOgU
Show nears 2 million views after three episodes. Jeff D. Lowe (@JeffDLowe) thanks fans for the engagement, says it's close to 2 million combined views on Rumble and YouTube.
🌴SURVIVING BARSTOOL🌴 Thanks to everyone who has watched & interacted. Discussion around it is coolest part. Crazy, fast-paced wild production and you just pray people like it. Close to 2 million total views for first 3 on Rumble & YouTube! Catch up now if you haven’t! ⬇️
Dante rips fans mocking the cast's brutal challenge showing. Dante (@DanteTheDon) says people are calling them out for looking terrible in a challenge, says the edit didn't show how grueling it actually was.
Too many people have come up to me today commenting on the competition in last nights episode of Surviving, and they all can’t believe how bad we were at it. Just had another lady basically call us a bunch of pussies. And I wanna scream. That shit was fucking impossible. And as great as the production has been, they did us no justice whatsoever showing just how long that shit went on and how frustrating it was. That shit felt like it lasted 2 hours. Esp the last two statues. Felt impossible. Wrists were fucking fried after.
The rock challenge returns for a third time. Jeff D. Lowe hypes the return of a "classic challenge," while Megan (@MeganMakinMoney) admits she hates it being run back again.
We are BACK TONIGHT with the next episode of #SurvivingBarstool after a big premiere week. The return of a classic challenge is here, and as always it ramps up the intensity and emotions. See you tonight at 5e on Rumble, and 8e everywhere else.
Don’t give me the rock (Fucking hated this challenge and now they run it back a 3rd time) BUT WATCH TONIGHT
Dante blasts his own episode edit as a "hack job" Dante calls out editor Graham Haupt for how he was portrayed, and Stoolies Clubhouse pokes fun right back at him for it.
@kellykeegs Insane hack job on me yet again. Nice work @GrahamHaupt
You telling me Dante doesn’t look like this? #SurvivingBarstool
Pigeon vs Worm challenge turns into a physical free-for-all. Barstool Sports calls it pure chaos, Pat (@BarstoolPAT) marvels Glenny Balls' shirt survived, and Stoolies Clubhouse breaks down BWalk's reactions and the Feits/Balls contact.
No matter who plays this game, it will always be chaos
BWalk’s inner monologue #SurvivingBarstool
The real story of this episode is how @Glenny_balls shirt was able to stay in tact
Portnoy and Whitney rip Tommy Smokes for sparing rone. Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) says he lost respect for Tommy Smokes' game after he didn't eliminate rone with the chance, and Ryan Whitney (@ryanwhitney6) agrees it was a blunder.
I lost all respect for @TomScibelli survivor game play. I got no clue who wins but when you got Rone on the ropes you do what I did. You snap his neck. So fucking dumb #survivingbarstool
Just finished last nights barstool survivor. Those idiots not getting Rone out was something else. And this is coming from one of the worst survivor players the company has ever seen.
Marty Mush explains calling in the medic. Marty Mush (@martymush) says the reasoning for pulling in the medic was already spelled out on the scroll.
For anyone wondering why I involved the medic. Said it right on the scroll
Brandon Walker turns on Nicky Smokes over early-game moves. Brandon Walker (@BFW) tells Nicky Smokes he can't complain now after cutting Chicago's legs out on day one.
@nickysmokess You cut chicagos legs off at the knees on day one and now you’re bitching about it.
Gaz drops his episode 6 power rankings. Gaz (@stoolsalesguy) ranks Tommy, rone, Pat, Tate and Feits as the season's standouts so far.
My surviving power rankings (game play, entertainment, crazy moments) for episode 6 1) Tommy 👬 2) Rone 🐢 3) Pat 💥 4) Tate 🌛 5) Feits 🌜 Episode 7 drops Wednesday night. 5pm on Rumble Premium. 8pm on YouTube.
Stoolies Clubhouse pushes theory Jeff D. Lowe can't throw or catch. Stoolies Clubhouse claims production keeps cutting away from Jeff D. Lowe and having Mut make plays for him, calling it a cover-up two episodes running.
In tonight’s episode… Why was that the first time he had someone throw it to Mut and why didn’t the camera cut that time??? #SurvivingBarstool
Nicky Smokes still stewing over the idol he never found. Nicky Smokes (@nickysmokess) gripes his tribe made dumb moves and Tommy played favorites instead of flipping the vote; Jeff D. Lowe (@JeffDLowe) jokes he wishes Nicky had blown the game up.
Our tribe made big/dumb moves. The game coulda flipped, but tommy played friends. I still don't get how Tate did 100,000 steps around the office and couldn't find one, but Glenny takes a stroll to the snack cabinet and there's one waiting for him on top of a water cooler.
@nickysmokess Alright as long as you think it’s fair… I wish you would’ve found it and blown shit up!!!
Off-show, Reed Burner drags Nicky Smokes into an apology. Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) flags a post from Reed Burner and a lengthy apology from Nicky Smokes that followed.
Reed put Nicky Smokes in a body bag!
Nicky Smokes drops a 20-page prep sheet, and page 19 gets personal. Nicky Smokes (@nickysmokess) says his prep sheets are printed and emailed; Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) says page 19 of 20 turns into a personal congratulatory message.
Prep sheets have been printed and emailed. (It’s 20 pages long)
The Nicky Smokes prep sheet was an experience
Episode 9 drops — and Glenny somehow votes for the wrong person. Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) announces episode 9 is out; Barstool Sports and Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) both flag Glenny's vote mixup as unbelievable.
Episode 9 of #SurvivingBarstool is out now on Rumble Premium t.co/8HKFpxzeFB
Glenny accidentally voted for the wrong person. You can't make this stuff up. Watch Surviving Barstool LIVE NOW on @rumblevideo Premium
You can't make this stuff up. Glenny somehow voted for the WRONG PERSON. Watch Surviving Barstool premiering NOW with @rumblecreators Premium.
Brandon Walker turns episode 9 into a roast session. Barstool Sports and Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) clip Brandon Walker roasting the cast nonstop in the Lucy lounge.
Brandon Walker is roasting EVERYBODY
In Surviving Barstool, Brandon Walker never missed a chance to roast somebody. @LucyNicotine
Feits snaps on Dante. Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) posts the blowup between Feits and Dante.
Feits SNAPPED on Dante!
Tommy Smokes gets voted out and takes it hard. Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) shows Tommy visibly upset after elimination, asking about hotel logistics as he packs up.
Tommy was visibly upset after getting voted out of #SurvivingBarstool
Brandon Walker roasts Dana over a feathers non sequitur. Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) posts the exchange between BFW and Dana after a puzzle challenge.
“When you put the puzzle together first, you could’ve knocked me over with a fuckin feather. You’re stupid” -BFW “What does feathers have to do with this?” -Dana “Exactly” -BFW #SurvivingBarstool
Marty's faked injury for an idol finally catches up to him. Barstool Sports says Brandon Walker is furious after learning Marty faked an injury for an idol; Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) posts BFW roasting Marty's acting; rone's gamblin corner (@rone) says Marty "method acted the whole time," sleeping in the wheelchair like Stephen Hawking
Brandon Walker is PISSED after finding out Marty faked an injury to get an idol
“And Marty method acted the whole time. I saw him sleeping in the wheelchair passed out like Stephen Hawking” -Rone #SurvivingBarstool
Stoolies Clubhouse says Jeff D. Lowe's idol just appeared out of nowhere. Stoolies Clubhouse (@StooliesClub) claims Jeff D. Lowe has nothing in his hand one scene, then suddenly has the necklace, tagging it #AiJeff.
The didn’t even try to pretend this time!! One scene he has nothing in his hand and then all the sudden he has the necklace smh #SurvivingBarstool #AiJeff
Glenny and Brandon Walker's rivalry boils over. Robbie Fox (@RobbieBarstool) calls the Glenny-BFW feud great TV; Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) says the two were going at it.
This @Glenny_balls vs @BFW rivalry is extremely entertaining #SurvivingBarstool
BWalk and Glenny were going at it! #SurvivingBarstool
One last challenge stands before the finale. Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) says the final challenge will show where alliances really stand; Barstool Sports jokes it'd be a disappointment if Rone doesn't outrun "the GLP-1 boys."
It'll be a massive disappointment if Rone doesn't outrun the GLP-1 boys
One last challenge before the finale, this is where you will see where the real alliances stand. @nobull
Brandon Walker's one-by-one roast becomes the moment of the season. Nicky Smokes (@nickysmokess) says Brandon calling out the cast individually to say he'll never vote for them might be the funniest moment of the season.
Brandon calling them out one by one to say “I’m never going to vote for u to win $250k” might be the funniest moment of the season
Brandon Walker drops a five-point rant on episode 9. Stoolies Clubhouse (@StooliesClub) tees up the clip; Brandon Walker (@BFW) lists his grievances — pointless immunity, a 3-on-2 handicap final, Dana's "Chicago pride" hypocrisy, and Glenny not even working there.
.@BFW on this episode of #SurvivingBarstool
1) I tried 2) 5 people at tribal council, 4 had immunity. What was the point? 3) the final challenge for immunity was a 3-on-2 handicap match. 4) Dana asking me to show Chicago pride while running to his New York buddies was crazy. 5) Glenny doesn’t even work here.
Portnoy declares war on the idol glut, Jeff D. Lowe fires back. Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) says jury texting should be an auto DQ and calls Jeff D. Lowe an idol-obsessed "infatuated" mess; Stoolies Clubhouse (@StooliesClub) calls it a perfect storm; Nicky Smokes (@nickysmokess) tips his cap to the holdouts; Jeff D. Lowe (@JeffDLowe) answ
I agree 100% with @BFW rant. Ive been fighting this fight forever. @JeffDLowe is infatuated with idols. He has an idol fetish and it bit him in the ass this year
We had less idols than previous seasons, they just didn’t use them. Guy got one in episode one and saved it until final five! You could do less idols, but then that’s 2 max. So maybe answer is (IF we do the show) it’s an idol free season! (Great finale, btw) #SurvivingBarstool
Takes balls to hold em this long I’ll give em that!
Brandon Walker wants someone fired over Marty's faked injury. Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) reports Brandon Walker won't let go of Marty faking an injury to grab an idol.
Brandon Walker was not happy after finding out Marty faked an injury to get an idol and he won’t stop until somebody is fired. @LucyNicotine
Rone reveals the idol math that could sink him. rone's gamblin corner (@rone) breaks down the vote — give his idol to Brandon, and he's the only one left exposed.
Let’s use our brains here. Marty Glenny and Dana are safe. If I give my idol to Brandon, then only one person can go home. Me.
Dana Beers owns his botched Hail Mary pitch to Brandon Walker. annika christy (@kingkrabbyp) loves Brandon's "never gonna vote for you to win $250,000" line; Dana Beers (@danabeers) admits it was one of the worst Hail Mary attempts and blames his "competitive version"; Gaz (@stoolsalesguy) needles the Boston guy running a New York alliance.
I fucking love Brandon Walker “I’m never gonna fuckin vote for you to win $250,000” GANGSTER
The “Chicago pride” line was all time. Dana Beers, noted Boston guy with a full blow New York alliance. Just some great theater.
All time dumb dumb stuff from me during that conversation in the hallway with BFW. Tried throwing up a Hail Mary once he said he’d never vote for me. One of the worst Hail Mary attempts in the history of hail Mary’s
The three-idol alliance defends itself as Portnoy points fingers. Marty Mush (@martymush) and Jeff D. Lowe (@JeffDLowe) trade jabs about the alliance sitting on idols; Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) says blame the eliminated players, not the survivors, singling out Tommy for choking.
@JeffDLowe We played the idols too well!
@martymush Every minute that passed where y’all didn’t play the idol I could’ve hurled y’all out the window.
I do think there are too many idols and survivor has been sort of predictable and boring. But there was plenty of opportunities to flush idols and make moves and the people who got eliminated didnt do it. Tommy choked at almost every turn. Its not the remaining players fault they survived. Its the eliminated players for being nitwits
Finale gets a start time: Monday, 5pm on Rumble Premium. Gaz (@stoolsalesguy) ranks Brandon Walker No. 1 in his post-episode power rankings and confirms the finale drops Monday at 5pm on Rumble Premium, 8pm on YouTube.
My surviving power rankings (game play, entertainment, crazy moments) for episode 9 1) BRANDON FUCKING WALKER The Finale drops Monday night. 5pm on Rumble Premium. 8pm on YouTube.
Brandon Walker torches Tommy Smokes on mostlysports. Brandon Walker (@BFW) breaks down his exit and Tommy's collapse on the mostlysports podcast, per Viva La Stool (@VivaLaStool) clips.
Will talk about my Surviving Barstool exit right now on @mostlysports. t.co/SCUGIGi9JU
“Tommy blew it for everybody” -BFW #SurvivingBarstool
Stoolies Clubhouse runs down every missed idol play of the season. Stoolies Clubhouse (@StooliesClub) lists the blown chances — Feits not taking out Rone, Tate tipping Dana to burn his idol, Marty and Balls targeting Meek and Annika instead of Rone.
There was so many missed opportunities in this game. Feits not taking out Rone, Tate gave Dana a great idea to play his idol on Tate so they could take someone else out, Tommy obviously, Marty and Balls taking out Meek and Annika instead of Rone… Everyone with an idol could have made an incredible move at anytime before last nights episode but decided not to
Stoolies Clubhouse dunks on Jeff D. Lowe's zero highlight-reel plays. Stoolies Clubhouse points out that nine episodes in, Jeff D. Lowe still hasn't recorded one clean throw or catch, tagging it #AiJeff.
9 episodes in and still not one clean shot of a throw or catch by Jeff D Lowe… #AiJeff #SurvivingBarstool
Chair-height beef breaks out over Brandon Walker's 'salt and pepper crew'. Eric Hubbs says Meek rigged his chair lower than Marty's, and Viva La Stool catches BFW and Stavvy needling him over getting a one-time invite to the salt-and-pepper crew.
I'm not a tall guy by any means but Meek set me up for failure with how low this chair was compared to Marty's. Just uncalled for.
“How are you fitting in that chair like that?” -BFW “Can we get a side-by-side of how me and Brandon look in these fuckin chairs please? This guy gets one fucking invite to the salt and pepper crew and he thinks he’s sexy all the sudden” -Stavvy
Dana Beers pushes back on the idol pile-up outrage. Dana asks Viva La Stool's cameras whether the idol backlash would be this loud if it wasn't him, Marty, and Glenny holding all three.
“If it wasn’t me, Marty and Glenny that had the idols, say it was anybody at this company that people love, would people be as mad?” -Dana #SurvivingBarstool
Glenny Balls flubs his own vote, writes down a friend's name. Viva La Stool reports Glenny got so hyped to make a big move he accidentally wrote down his good friend's name instead of an actual target.
Glenny was so excited to make a big move he accidentally wrote his good friend’s name down. @LucyNicotine
Rone draws a hard line on future idol plays. Rone's Gamblin Corner tells someone flatly that the vote just played was the last one they were allowed to use an idol on.
Watch Ep. 9 of Surviving Barstool now: t.co/RrtcL9nBGR
Dani Jackel softens on Brandon Walker after the latest episode.
I might not hate @BFW as much after watching him on the last episode of surviving
Viva La Stool calls Episode 9's elimination the most dramatic of the season.
The most dramatic elimination we have had on Surviving Barstool so far this season.
Finale night arrives: one final mission for the last spot in the final three. Marty, Rome, Dana and Blenny are down to one last mission before the season crowns its final three, and the promo makes clear there's still a twist coming before that happens. It caps a season defined by idol chaos and chair-height beef with the actual stakes finally on the table tonight.
“One final mission. Marty, Rome, Dana, Blenny, battling for a spot in the final three.”
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS Watch the Surviving Barstool Finale TONIGHT at 5pm ET on @rumblevideo premium
'Build and Bash' revealed as the last challenge before the final three. Build and Bash is brutal by design: eight-layer towers built pillar by pillar, and every completed layer earns a trip up the balcony to fire a ball at someone else's build. Winning locks a Top 4 spot, so losing tonight could end a season before the actual finale airs. Letting players choose whose tower to knock down turns it into the last real test of who's still allied with whom.
Finale night is here: down to the Final 4, live at 5pm. With Build and Bash already revealed as the last mission for a spot in the final three, the field has narrowed to just four players heading into tonight's broadcast. The $250,000 prize is now one episode away from being handed out, live on Rumble at 5pm and YouTube at 8pm.
Surviving Barstool Finale tonight. Stamping a MUST WATCH on this. $250k on the line. Down to the Final 4. Live on rumble at 5pm and YouTube at 8pm. Let’s do the damn thing #SurvivingBarstool
The finale goes live and drops a hidden final mission before Build and Bash. Before anyone even gets to Build and Bash, the finale opens with a twist: a found idol-style mission that hands whoever completes it an advantage heading into the final three. It's on top of the $250,000 pot and the Final 4 stakes already on the table, and it means the last vote could turn on who solves this before the cameras even get to the challenge that was supposed to decide everything.
The mission to end all missions. The Surviving Barstool finale is PREMIERING NOW
The finale episode drops with its title confirming a champion has been crowned. After a season of idol plays, chair-height beef and one dramatic Episode 9 vote-off, the finale episode itself lands under a title that settles the question outright: someone just won the $250,000. None of the posts in this batch put a name on the champion yet, so the mystery holds even as the outcome is now officially on the record.
The Winner Is Crowned | Surviving Barstool Season 5 Ep. 10 t.co/VNBpj520LE
The last duel before the final three: slingshots, targets, and live worms. Viva La Stool's clip shows the last hurdle before the final three: two players sling balls at targets across the room, but each ball costs a live worm eaten first. Whoever knocks down all three targets wins the duel and the last seat in the top three, closing out the maneuvering that opened finale night.
“To get a ball you must eat a worm”
*SPOILERS* There is one final chance to get into the Top 3 and it will not gonna be easy
Finale audio catches Rone and Glenny plotting to whack Tommy, not Brandon or Marty. The finale's edit finally shows what Tommy had been picking up on all season: Rone and Glenny scheming about a big whack, and it was him, not Brandon or Marty, on the other end of it. He's needling that nobody had the balls to actually pull the trigger on anyone despite all the plotting, and he's sitting in the final four regardless. It reframes a season of paranoid Tommy as a guy who was hearing everything correctly.
“They're talking about whackin' me.”
BUSTED!!! #TommyWasRight #SurvivingBarstool
Dana Beers admits he owes Tommy an apology. The apology lands within minutes of the whack plot going public in the finale, and Dana doesn't spell out what he's sorry for — the timing does that for his. It's the first crack in the room's story about Tommy being the paranoid one, coming straight from someone who was part of the target-talk.
I may or may not owe @TomScibelli an apology #SurvivingBarstool
Dante's jury speech doesn't win him the money, but it wins the room. Eric Nathan wants Dante in the Hall of Fame, and Pat says the jury speech alone should have been worth $250k. Dana Beers needles him with a sarcastic 'cool throne,' and Megan takes his own shot about playing to the audience instead of the game — proof the runner-up is still owning the morning-after discourse.
PUT DANTE THE DON IN THE HALL OF FAME RIGHT NOW
. @DanteTheDon’s speech should have won him $250k on its own
Sometimes when you play to win the audience you lose 250k Not that I know anything about that
Cast credits Rone's talk — old and new — as the real reason he won. Zah says the season was over the moment producers let Rone get in front of the jury and talk. Pat's throwback clip backs it up, showing Rone running the same warm, reassuring pitch on the cast the instant he landed on their tribe — the same social game that carried him all the way to the money.
The second they let Rone get to the stage where he could talk, it was over
Literally @rone to the entire cast the second he got traded to our tribe
Pat says he called Rone's win weeks ago, and blames the cast for missing it. Pat's take isn't hindsight: a tribal clip shows him warning his own tribe in real time that the new arrival was the biggest threat in the game, and they welcomed him with a hero's reception anyway. A separate clip from deep in the season has a camp member calling Rone's alliance game months before the merge ever happened. Both warnings went ignored, which is exactly why Pat says the cast's collapse doesn't surprise him at all.
It was at this exact moment I knew the game was over. They gave a hero's welcome to a new member of our tribe who was the most obvious threat in the game. Tried telling them. Didn't wanna hear it. Shockingly stupid. All the more reason he deserved to win
Cast wraps the season calling Rone's win settled and deserved. Marty Mush thanks the crew for a brutal five-day shoot and calls the finish the right one, while Nicky Smokes ribs Rone about picking up a bill after the fact. The first wave of cast reaction treats Rone's win as settled and deserved, not a subject anybody's relitigating.
Congrats crodie, thanks for picking up the bill @rone 😉
Shout out to production. We shot for 5 straight days no breaks and it was the most fun thing I've been apart of. We got a deserving winner and was really cool getting to the end
Dana details his regrets, and Nathan says friendship cost his and Tommy the game. Dana's soul-searching goes past his Tommy apology now — he says the finale left his with plenty of regrets and wishes he'd stayed quiet at the end. Nathan frames it as the season's real lesson: putting friendship over $250,000 is what sank both Tommy and Dana, since neither could bring themselves to turn on the other. He tells his not to beat herself up over it, but the read stands — loyalty, not strategy, is what cost them.
Yep. Lots of regrets overall which I’m sure I’ll talk about plenty this week but wish I just kept my mouth shut at the end. It is what it is
Dana put friendship over 250k. It’s a nearly impossible decision to make in that moment. Marty would have had to go to him and say “take Balls not me” which would also be silly of him to do. The friendship dynamic of this season cost Tommy and Dana. #ChooseLove
Rone wins Surviving Barstool Season 5 finale, claims $250,000 prize. Rone is crowned the fifth winner of Surviving Barstool Season 5 and claims the $250,000 prize, winning the jury vote despite being eliminated early in the game.
“The fifth winner of surviving bar school. Rone. Congratulations. You have won. 250 thousand dollars.”
Adam Ferrone wins Surviving Barstool Season 5. The hosts announce Rone as the champion of Surviving Barstool Season 5, who won $250,000 by himself against all odds.
“season 5 champion Surviving Barstool Adam Ferrone, ladies and gentlemen.”
Rone reveals he tore his meniscus off the bone during the finale. Rone says the injury happened in two stages: the worm-and-slingshot duel tore it, and it ripped fully off the bone when he stood up from a confessional right after. Production offered him Marty's wheelchair for the final, but he chose to limp out and shoot his free throws anyway. He's saving the full account for his Boy Dad podcast.
So I tore my meniscus during that worm challenge. Then right after, it ripped completely off the bone when I stood up from the confessional. Ironically they offered me Marty’s wheelchair for the final but I wanted to limp out and hit my free throws.
Tommy rips the blindside, admits he 'played like a pussy'. Tommy says the misconception that he's ruthless doesn't fit here — he's actually mad, and he's naming names, saying Rone and Marty turned the lessons he taught them into the blindside that cost him $250,000 and the win. He owns his side of it too, admitting he let his heart run the game instead of his head. One account calls the fallout great TV, the kind of scorched-earth answer that could save Tommy's season.
Tommy smokes legacy might have been saved by going scorched earth. Great TV. Great content.
The biggest takeaway about from Tommy on this season of #SurvivingBarstool:
Tommy thinks Rone might genuinely not be a good guy after he blindsided him in Surviving Barstool
Rone's jury speech surfaces, laying out his whole game from day one. Facing a jury he admits he screwed over 'in one way or another,' Rone walks them through the idol he found on day one and the pitch to Pat that turned his tribe. It's the actual case that, per the cast, already won him the money before he ever opened his mouth here.
“It started with me finding an idol on the very first day.”
*SPOILERS* Each finalist gets one chance to convince the jury to vote them as the winner of Surviving Barstool Season 5
Before his own speech, Rone helped Dana build his. Rone tells Dana his speech needs to walk the jury through his game beat by beat rather than assume they saw it — and to look up from the page, unlike finalists who've read off paper in past seasons. He name-checks last year's finale pulling roughly 700,000 viewers as the stakes for getting it right.
“I've watched Surviving Barstool before, and I've watched these finals where guys read their speech off of a piece of paper, not even looking up at the jury.”
Shoutout Rone for being such a good friend and helping Dana with his speech #SurvivingBarstool
Tommy admits the blindside 'felt betrayed on a personal level'. Tommy stops short of a full explanation on Twitter, promising to unpack it on Apartment Show and Out and About instead. He owns that he broke his usual no-emotions rule for once, calls it a lesson learned, and says he's going right back to feeling nothing.
I happy posed with Will an hour after he blindsided me and voted for him to win. It’s not like I have a history of being a sore loser before this season. Actually quite the opposite! This one just felt different. And sure maybe I was being a gay emotional pussy but that’s how I was feeling in the moment and for once in my life I decided to let myself mad about something and say what I actually felt instead of always just voluntarily and happily taking shit. But lesson learned. Never again. Back to no emotions!
Brandon Walker rips the vote that changed Rone's game, calls out Marty and Dana's hypocrisy. Brandon Walker's tribal-council breakdown traces how one blown move flipped Rone's entire strategy, and turns it on Marty and Dana for arguing Rone shouldn't get the money over in-game lies when they had their own side deals. A second castmate pushes back too, still stung by being told Rone and Marty showed no remorse right after voting him out — proof the resentment didn't end when the season did.
Brandon Walker has a few things to get off his chest before everyone votes for the winner of Surviving Barstool
Brandon Fuckin Walker crushed it at Tribal last night! #SurvivingBarstool
Rone says his own jury speech got cut for time, and the beef it aired isn't settled. Rone reveals a chunk of his jury speech never made air — more material painting him as a villain — and says the guy it was aimed at is still holding a grudge. He's choosing to stay friendly and leave the next move to the other side, which reads as the first real crack in the post-finale unity the cast has been projecting.
“They also cut a lot out of his speech” -Rone “Like what?” -Sas “He was just talking about more stuff about how I was a bad guy” -Rone “Are you guys back on good terms now?” -Sas “He’s still upset about it” -Rone #StoneColdKiller #SurvivingBarstool
Portnoy blames Tommy's non-moves for Rone's win, Stoolies pile on. Portnoy doesn't let Tommy off easy, saying he saw Rone and Dana's move coming a mile away and that Tommy's passivity handed them the win. He also knocks Dante and Feits as no help in Tommy's corner, while Stoolies Clubhouse says they expected Tommy of all people to respect the blindside as good gameplay.
Tommy it’s cause Rone and Dana used you like a used cum rag and you should have seen it coming a mile away. You got dominated in your own game. Your lack of moves led directly to their victory. I was screaming at the tv. It was so obvious. I had a hard time watching my boy get massacred like that. Like Dante has brain damage. Feits doesnt have killer instinct. It was up to you to maintain control
Tommy Smokes@TomScibelliI happy posed with Will an hour after he blindsided me and voted for him to win. It’s not like I have a history of being a sore loser before this season. Actually quite the opposite! This one just felt different. And sure maybe I was being a gay emotional pussy but that’s how I was feeling in the moment and for once in my life I decided to let myself mad about something and say what I actually felt instead of always just voluntarily and happily taking shit. But lesson learned. Never again. Back to no emotions!
This is INSANE!!! Would expect Tommy to understand the game/respect the move more than anyone!! I don’t get it
Rone fires back: Tommy's mad about a game plan he admitted to himself. Rone answers Tommy's grudge directly, pointing out Tommy said on camera during the season that his own strategy was manipulating personal friendships. If that's Tommy's own playbook, Rone argues, he has no standing to be furious that Rone ran the same play on him.
Tommy held a grudge against Rone after saying he was going to be “manipulating personal friendships” and betraying Rone in the ring of fire #SurvivingBarstool
Barstool's own finale clip puts the jury tally on the record: 6-2. The company's finale clip finally nails down the numbers behind Rone's win, confirming a 6-2 jury vote over Dana. Rone uses the moment to defend his game again, pointing to four individual immunity wins and asking what more he could possibly have done to win people over.
“I won four individual immunity challenges. What the fuck could I have done differently?”
The winner of Surviving Barstool Season 5...
Analysts pin part of the 6-2 vote on Marty and Dana running as a package deal. Fans jump in defending Dana's game, pointing out his blocks got forgotten in the finale chatter. Sports Central builds on that, noting Marty helped land idols and Dana won four challenges straight, but the jury clearly didn't weigh title strength — they punished the pair for being inseparable, which is part of why Rone's game read as the cleaner, solo path to the money.
@danabeers People forget about the blocks too!
Rone played the best game, but Marty and Dana were viewed as a package deal and it hurt them
Tommy co-signs a jab about how bad his and Rone's beef looks from outside. A fellow podcaster jokes that his own show survived because he and his co-host never turned on each other the way Rone and Tommy did — needling that their chemistry would be shot if they had that kind of grudge. Tommy doesn't push back or laugh it off; he reposts it and says it puts his own feelings 'more concisely and clearly' than he has, doubling down instead of cooling off.
“I would cut both of your guys throats. Wouldn’t even think about it” -@lilsamsquanch66
This is essentially putting it more concisely and clearly than I have. But yes exactly this.
Tommy doubles down: trivia team, office every day, dinners with Rone. Asked point-blank whether he's still mad 'in the moment,' Tommy doesn't just repeat the denial from earlier — he lists receipts: the two talked for hours the night of the vote, they host a show together, sit on the same trivia team, and have had dinners since. It's a much harder line than the vague 'we've been fine' from before, aimed straight at anyone still buying the beef.
Tommy gives an update on his feelings towards Rone today
Me and Rone talked for hours that night and a bunch since. We do a show together, are on the same trivia team, talk in the office every day, have been to dinners in the past few months. I’ll make jokes about it to him but idea that I’m still actively mad at and hating him is crazy and just not true
BFW draws a line: Dana and Marty's anger is fair, Tommy's isn't. BFW plays devil's advocate on the Yak, splitting the losing side in two: Dana and Marty lost $250,000, a legit reason to be upset, but Tommy took the loss personally because he's 'the surviving expert' who loves the show more than most who play it. It's a new angle on the pile-on — not just picking apart the vote, but picking apart who's allowed to be mad about it.
“ Dana and Marty were very upset that they lost $250,000, I think that is a very legit reason to be upset. Now Tommy, a little bit different…” -BFW on Yak #SurvivingBarstool
Tommy downplays the Rone beef: 'we've been fine for the past few months'. After days of trading shots over the finale, Tommy tells The Yak the heat is mostly for show — he says he and Rone talked for three hours at the bar the night of the vote and have been fine since. He admits he still jabs Rone about the game, but says it's lighthearted now, a softer read than the back-and-forth blame that followed the 6-2 vote.
Tommy owns the hypocrisy charge, but says two days of anger was fair. Tommy stops dodging the hypocrisy line Brandon Walker and the jury math have been throwing at him and admits it outright: yeah, it looks hypocritical. His defense isn't that the anger wasn't real, it's that four close friends lying to him for a shot at $250,000 earns a couple days of being mad, game or no game. It's the first time he's engaged with the criticism directly instead of just downplaying the beef.
“I think in the moment you’re allowed to feel like, when 4 of your close friends lie to you out of your favorite game for $250,000, you’re allowed to be mad for 2 days. I think that’s fair” -Tommy #SurvivingBarstool
Tommy walks the beef back: he and Rone talk every day. After days of trading shots, Tommy softens the story — he says the two of them talked for three hours at the bar the finale aired and have been fine for months since, still jabbing each other but lightheartedly. It's a different tune than the guy defending two days of anger, and Viva La Stool can't resist the tag that Tommy is doing just fine.
Good news is that Tommy is doing fine!
Dana Beers takes the 6-2 backlash but draws a line at the Yug Station. The heat from the jury vote hasn't let up, and now it's spilling past Dana's own game onto his side project. He says he can absorb shots at himself fine, but stray shots at the Yug Station are a different story, and he tosses out a Q4 comeback tease that lands more like a warning than a plan.
Been catching a lot of shit since the Surviving finale and that’s okay. I can handle it. But I’ve seen a couple people take stray shots at the Yug Station. That’s crossing the line. It’s almost like they don’t know about the Yug Station’s Q4 comeback
Rone undercuts Tommy: 'the consensus was no' on being as close as before. Days after Tommy swore they talk every day, Rone gets asked directly by Caroline if the two are back to where they were — and doesn't let him off the hook. He walks through it out loud, second-guessing his own answer before landing on 'no,' a real crack in the friendship Tommy just spent a post insisting was fine.
“Do you guys feel like you guys are as close as before”-Caroline “I think the consensus was no”-Rone
Dana Beers looks back on his four challenge wins and a finale speech he wishes he'd scrapped. On Barstool Big Boys, Dana Beers walks through his own run: four challenge wins, a title he leaned on in his final speech, and regret that he read off a list instead of speaking from the gut. He chalks it up to five days of game-drained exhaustion in the office, easier to see now than it was in the moment.
“I wish I just was like way more particular and off the cuff.”
Had the chance to share my thoughts on my Surviving Barstool experience on @barstoolbigboys today. Felt great to get it all out there. Please give it a listen
Rone answers Tommy's 'we've been fine' with a flat no. Tommy had just told the Yak he and Rone were fine, jabs and all lighthearted. Rone quotes it right back and says pretending three months of dinners and office time erased the game would be dishonest, and calls out the pot shots he says still slip in.
“I think it would be disingenuous for you to act like our relationship is where it was before the game” -Rone
Keegs calls Dana's finale speech uncompelling, says he played with his heart, not his head. Keegs says Dana's post-season reckoning missed the mark, from the temper tantrum after the loss to a finale speech that didn't land. His read: Dana played with his heart before his head, an idea he credits to Tate at the final jury, while Marty was the strategic brains behind Dana's four immunity wins. It's the sharpest office critique yet of how Dana handled a game he didn't win.
“Deeply disappointed in our guy Dana” -Keegs #SurvivingBarstool
