Eighteen coworkers, $250,000, and a jury made entirely of people they had to betray to get there. Season 5 premieres Sunday, August 9 at 8PM ET, three hours early and uncensored on Rumble Premium. Here is every name on the sheet — the podcast chair, the trivia team, the office they walk in from, and who each of those actually ties them to once the doors close.
The connector. She co-hosts Friday Night Pints with Katic and Dante AND Big Boys Club with Katic and Dana B., which makes her the one person here with a standing relationship with three other players before a vote is cast. Every alliance has a hub; on paper this one is hers, and being the hub is also the fastest way to become the name everyone else points at.
Two-time Indiana captain, so he has spent six years in locker rooms where the loud guy gets voted on. The double overlap with Ella is the same asset and the same liability: it is two shows' worth of trust, and it is also the most obvious alliance in the building.
The third Pints chair, and the one who does it from the other end of the company — Ella and Katic are New York, he is Chicago. If those two are read as a pair, he is the one who gets to look like a free agent while voting like he isn't, and the building gives him the alibi for free: nobody looks at the guy who isn't in the room every day. The most useful seat in an alliance, provided nobody does the arithmetic.
The only returning player from season 4 in this cast, and a decade behind the camera before he was in front of it. He is also the one player holding a card from both decks: Big Boys Club ties him to Ella and Katic, and the Booze Ponies tie him to Feits, who the podcast map says is nobody's. The complication is the building. He moved to the Chicago office in 2025, so the two people his biggest alliance runs through are people he no longer sees every day — an alliance maintained over a camera, against a house where everyone else's is maintained in a hallway.
He announced this cast on the Barstool blog, so he has had longer than anyone to look at the board. He also shares a podcast with two other players, one of whom he used to date — an alliance and a rivalry wearing the same jersey, and the single most combustible fact on this cast sheet. And unlike every other alliance here, his is not just a show: all three of them work out of Chicago, so it is a podcast and a floor. That is the strongest starting position in the house and the one most likely to be called a bloc by week two.
The show she co-hosts with Nicky has spent episodes on their own relationship status, which means her closest ally in the house is also the person she has the longest public argument with. A jury game rewards people who can be liked while being lethal, and she has been doing the first half in public for two years.
The third FKB chair and the biggest outside audience in the house. She is also the one seat in that trio with no history to defend, which makes her the tiebreaker if the other two turn on each other — the best position at that table, and it was handed to her. The other thing on her record: she played The Dozen last season on Uptown Balls, alongside Tommy Smokes and Glenny Balls, and was released before this one. Two of the men she has to outlast already decided once that she was the cuttable one.
A daily-show host, which means a daily-show constituency — and an audience is worth something in a game whose jury has to face those viewers on Monday. The bigger thing about his tie is where it is: The Yak is made in Barstool's Chicago office, and he and Brandon work in that building — as do six other players, which makes Chicago eight of the eighteen rather than a lonely exception. Rone does the same show from New York, so the Yak table is a Chicago pair plus a man with a foot in both houses, and that third foot is worth more here than the two that match.
The most connected player on the sheet and it is not close: The Yak with Nick T. and Brandon, and Uptown Balls with Tommy and Glenny, which is two separate trios and five people he already owes something to. He is also the only one whose ties cross the company's own fault line — a New York guy on a show made in Chicago, with a trivia team full of New York players — which makes him the one person both halves of this house have a reason to talk to. He was in the first season and he co-hosted the reveal that named this cast. Nobody in the building has spent more time thinking out loud about how this show works, which is exactly the reputation that gets a man voted out fifth.
The biggest personality here and the hardest to hide behind. Mostly Sports gives him his own show and his own leverage, so his Yak tie runs one way: they need him more than he needs them, and a house full of people who need edit time tends to notice the guy who doesn't. He is also on the Chicago side of a house that splits eight to ten, which is the useful version of that: not an outsider, just the loudest man in the smaller half.
The favorite and the target, which is the same sentence. He has won this show, won Barstool's Most Dangerous Gameshow, won The Dozen — and he hosts a Survivor recap podcast, so he is the only person here who studies the genre for a living. The podcast map calls him a loner; the trivia one does not. He sits on Uptown Balls with Glenny and Rone, which is a standing weekly hour with two other players and the tie everyone will forget to count.
Old guard, no podcast in common with anyone here, and enough tenure that half the house has a history with him — the profile of a swing vote, and swing votes decide these. The one string attached: he plays Dozen trivia on the Booze Ponies with Dana Beers, which quietly connects the least-aligned man in the house to the Big Boys Club end of the room.
Came up through Barstool Idol, which is to say he has already won a company popularity contest by being unmissable. Unmissable is worth more in the jury room than it is in the first two weeks.
An interviewer by trade, which in a house like this is a transferable skill: his whole job is getting people to say more than they meant to. He is also on Uptown Balls with Tommy and Rone — meaning the man everybody is going to treat as the biggest threat in the house has a pre-existing partner nobody is looking at, and this is him.
Talked his way into the company from the timeline, so the entire résumé is persuasion. He is around the Yak crowd without being in the trio, which is the useful version of that — close enough to hear it, not close enough to be counted in it.
The only person in the house who has been punched in the face on pay-per-view for the company. A game about who can stand the office longest has an obvious use for that. No co-host here, no trivia team either — one of only three players walking in with nothing at all, which is the hardest first week and the cleanest jury résumé.
Her job is walking up to strangers and getting an answer out of them in ninety seconds. This game is that, repeated, with money on it.
Blogged part-time as a cartoon character for five years before quitting teaching mid-year to move to Chicago, and he came up through that office rather than the New York one. Which has already been held against him once, on camera: in November 2024 Barstool ran a segment in which the New York office voted on whether to send him back to Chicago. He is the only person walking into this house who has been through a version of this before, and the version he went through he did not win. No co-host here, no trivia team, and a show built on doing dares until they are finished — which is a decent description of the format he just signed up for.
