The Traitors is a reality competition where a group of players live together while a few are secretly chosen as “Traitors.”
The Traitors eliminate someone each night, while the rest – the “Faithful”, try to identify and banish them during daily votes.
The whole game runs on bluffing, paranoia, and social strategy.
If any Traitors make it to the end, they steal the prize; if only Faithfuls remain, they share it.
So, what if Barnsley FC took a trip to the castle?
Luca Connell (MF) – Faithful – First Murder: Connell barely had time to say his name before being taken out on Night One. A dramatic opener that made the Traitors feel powerful and achieved absolutely nothing strategically.
Kelechi Nwakali (MF) – Traitor – Banished: After killing Connell, Nwakali played the rest of the game like a man who knew he had already overdone it. The attention came quickly, the defence was poor, and he was correctly banished almost immediately.
Kieren Flavell (GK) – Faithful – Early Murder: Quiet, polite, and completely harmless. Which, of course, meant he had to go. An unequivocal Faithful removed simply for not causing any noise. His brother Ross will be fuming on X.
Fábio Jaló (FW) – Faithful – Murdered Early: Never accused, never suspected, never survived. The golden boy, one of the most straightforward murders of the series.
Nathanael Ogbeta (DF) – Faithful – Early Banishment: A classic victim of early-game panic. No evidence, no logic, just a feeling that quickly became a unanimous mistake.
Owen Goodman (GK) – Faithful – Immediate Banishment (Mid-Season Shake-Up): Arrived in a mid-series shakeup and was instantly shown the door – spearheaded by David McGoldrick. Possibly the shortest Traitors career ever recorded. Blink and you missed him (shame Didzy couldn’t in that tackle).
Charlie Lennon (FW) – Faithful – Banishment: Joined late and, despite being only 19, was somehow treated like a seasoned mastermind. The players didn’t know what to expect from the youngster. Banished not for in-experience, but for the crime of looking slightly too composed for his age.
Marc Roberts (DF) – Faithful – Murdered: Refused the Traitor’s seduction and stuck rigidly to being a Faithful. Murdered the very next night as a lesson to anyone else considering morals.
Josh Earl (DF) – Traitor – Banished: Killed Roberts and then spent the following day radiating guilt. Couldn’t handle pressure at all. Too much heat, too little subtlety, and an entirely deserved exit.
Reyes Cleary (FW) – Faithful – Banished: Correctly exposed Phillips and was immediately banished for it. One of the most Traitors outcomes imaginable. His banishment however, did spark some change in heads at the Round Table.
Adam Phillips (MF) – Secret Traitor – Banished: Played a clever, understated game until Reyes Cleary caught him sabotaging a challenge. A textbook Harriet moment by Cleary that unravelled everything in seconds.
Jonathan Bland (MF) – Faithful – Murdered: An old head on young shoulders who was beginning to piece things together. Murdered before he could turn his suspicion into certainty.
Patrick Kelly (MF) – Faithful – Banished: Arguably the sharpest player in the game, so turned on for someone so young. Unfortunately, everyone else noticed. In this game, intelligence proves to be a liability.
Tennai Watson (DF) – Faithful – Banished: Quiet, observant, and remarkably accurate. Correctly identified Phillips and Earl as Traitors and was promptly banished for being “a bit too switched on”. Once again, wits is a weakness.
Corey O’Keeffe (DF/FW) – Traitor – Seduced (Night Before): After two wrongful banishments, suspicion moved to the Winger. O’Keeffe spent several rounds under suspicion, absorbed the pressure, and came out stronger.
One of the few to actually recover after a bad round table. Smart game-plan by remaining Traitors, another leaves the Castle before ever meeting his evil team-mates.
Georgie Gent (DF) – Traitor: Played an almost slick game and reached the latter stages, only to be brutally backstabbed by the winner. A Traitor undone by his own side; perhaps deserved. Gent seemed more obsessed with getting tattoos than murdering faithfuls.
Eoghan O’Connell (DF) – Faithful – Permanent Suspect: Joined mid-season and never once escaped suspicion. Losing the beard didn’t help either. O’Connell lived every round table on the edge, lasting longer than his Northern Irish counterpart of a similar name. Somehow survived longer than expected.
Davis Keillor-Dunn (FW) – Faithful – Late Banishment: Went deep on consistency and calm, but late-game paranoia finally caught up with him – after the group collectively decided he looked too calm for endgame, which at any stage in The Traitors is considered a felony.
David McGoldrick (FW) – Faithful – Final Four – Banished: Experience carried him far, but when the numbers dwindled, experience simply made him the obvious choice. His game simply ran out of legs.
Jack Shepherd (DF) – Faithful – Finalist, Last Banished: Had suspicions, talked himself out of them, and trusted the wrong people at exactly the wrong moment. Cleared his own shot off the line, opened the door up for the Traitors to win.
Maël de Gevigney (DF) – Faithful – Runner-Up: Made the final without ever spelling a name correctly – he once called Cleary, “Deardry”. An impressive journey undone by his team mates when it mattered most. Shepherd didn’t trust the Frenchman in the end.
Vimal Yoganathan (MF) – Traitor (Another Seduction) – WINNER: Seduced, stayed calm, and executed the endgame perfectly. Picked his moments, made the right enemies.
His hothead came in handy at key points, eliminating Cleary, Watson, and Dunn. Vimal played the long game so well that half the group only realised he was dangerous during the winner’s speech. He pulled off a superb finish, one for the ages.
A deserved winner of Barnsley FC: The Traitors.
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