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Best Survivor Season Tournament (Finally Updated)

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 4:18 pm

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I wanted to do something fun while Survivor is off the air, so I went through a multitude of fan sites and podcasts and averaged together any season rankings they did, resulting in the seeded tournament shown above. But this is our turn to determine the greatest season, and I hope it leads to a lot of people vying for their favorites! Even if a season you love doesn't win, please feel free to campaign for it to make it as long as possible. :D To vote, all you have to do is post in the thread, and I'll leave each round open for 48 hours. For this first round, I'm gonna do 4 matches at a time, but later on when things get more contentious, I'll start slowing the voting down. So without further ado, let's begin!



Match 19: Micronesia vs. Tocantins

Match 20: Borneo vs. Palau


Time Remaining: (expired on 2016-07-25 14:52:03)
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 4:19 pm

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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 4:24 pm

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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 4:27 pm

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Match 1: Come on Heroes vs Villains easily
Match 2: Marquesas. Tough one honestly. I did enjoy Samoa but I think Marquesas is some early survivor gold.
Match 3: Cambodia. Not a big fan of either, but Caramoan was just depressing. I'm doing a watch thru of Caramoan right now :(
Match 4: Amazon. Rob C did some game changing stuff, but I do love me some Hyena ass licking in africa.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 4:34 pm

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1: Heroes vs. Villains (though how it ever got anywhere near the #1 slot is beyond me)
2: Marquesas
3: Cambodia
4: Amazon
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 4:49 pm

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1. I've personally always found Heroes vs. Villains to be overrated as a lot of underwhelming characters go super far (Colby, Rupert, Danielle, Candice) and it's essentially a boring pagonging disguised by #BIGMOVES and idol plays. But it's obviously better than what's almost universally seen as the worst survivor season. VOTE: Heroes vs. Villains

2. Samoa could have been a great season if the editors weren't busy sucking Russell's dick, but Marquesas had great characters that go unmentioned in modern Survivor (#BringBackJohn/Neleh/Sean/ZoeZanidakis) and it was the first season to have the minority tribe
such as in Cook Islands
flip the majority on its head, so, VOTE: Marquesas

3. I'm probably gonna have a lot to say about Cambodia later on, but all that needs to be said now is that Caramoan is complete shit. VOTE: Cambodia

4. I feel that Africa is a really underrated season, and if it were up against Heroes vs. Villains I'd be trying to make a case for it, as crazy as that sounds. Frank, Tom, Lex, T-Bird, and Clarence are all hilarious post-merge characters, and even though the game essentially becomes a pagonging, it's a constant power struggle brewing between Ethan, Tom, and Lex as they dance around the line of going against each other, constantly trying to take out each others' numbers for down the road. Also it contains the downfall of Silas Gaither, one of the best oldschool storylines. Africa's pre-merge is easily better than Amazon's pre-merge in my opinion, which is filled with repeated storylines of the men being idiots. Which is funny, but predictable. The pre-merge does contain my personal favorite challenge in the mixer, which leads to a lot of great one-liners and Dan asking Heidi for shampoo when Rob already asked her the same thing and she said no, as well as JoAnna Ward, the utterly amazing trainwreck of a human being that didn't want Jaburu to keep the immunity idol in their camp because it was sacrilegious. However, the post-merge of Amazon is a constant back-and-forth with Rob flipping the game on its head every 3 days, and that half of the season holds up exceptionally well even today. You also have Heidi, aka Morgan McLeod 1.0, who it's a tragedy the show has never brought back. So as much as I love the cast of Africa more as a whole, I'm gonna have to VOTE: Amazon
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 5:45 pm

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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 5:47 pm

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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 5:48 pm

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1. HvV - Sandra redux plus an intense pre-merge makes for a strong season. Plus love letters <3. Redemption Island is one of the few seasons that I gave up and didn't watch all of the episodes.

2. Marquesas - Kathy was an amazing character and knew how to create a minority alliance to success in a game where minority alliances never had yet succeeded. Samoa had great moments, and had a strong potential arc with the alliance of few toppling the large tribe but the overall narratives were overshadowed by people taking the game so personally (but for logical reasons).

3. Cambodia - Caramoan I liked and it had some strong moments with strong characters. This created a lot of distractions from the overall game so that the pre-merge was still interesting for those pre-merge boots. I think the vitriol in this season came from truly evil people and some behind the scenes gaming that the overall public was not wary to. For me, though, Cambodia was a great concept with great characters and great narratives with a strong winner.

4. Amazon - Rob C took this game, but even moreso, Deena thought strategically and set the scene for a dynamic game where for the first time it was not a simple us vs. them narrative. People were seen as individuals, strategically, and emotionally. This season changed the overall theme for future survivors. I liked Africa quite a bit for the young vs. old dichotomy because I somehow really enjoyed Brandon and Linda as characters. The casting had strong diversity, and the location should have better than it was. If Africa had the same cast, but was filmed about five years later, it has the potential to be a top notch season. What kills this season is the context. Back then switches were new and now they're commonplace. The stories in that season were great, but the strategic gameplay was so weak because there was no comparison to be seen yet.
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Sun Jul 10, 2016 7:22 pm

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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Mon Jul 11, 2016 6:20 am

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In post 9, pickemgenius wrote:HvV
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Mon Jul 11, 2016 6:22 am

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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Mon Jul 11, 2016 9:38 am

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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Mon Jul 11, 2016 9:42 am

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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Mon Jul 11, 2016 9:56 am

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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Mon Jul 11, 2016 1:29 pm

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In post 1, BROseidon wrote:HvV
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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Mon Jul 11, 2016 1:47 pm

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Get Samoa the FUCK out
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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Mon Jul 11, 2016 1:58 pm

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Vote Count


Heroes vs. Villains (13)
vs. Redemption Island (1)
Marquesas (9)
vs. Samoa (5)
Cambodia (13)
vs. Caramoan (1)
Amazon (13)
vs. Africa (1)


Still keeping it open until the deadline for new people to vote who haven't seen the thread yet :)
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Post Post #18 (ISO) » Mon Jul 11, 2016 3:05 pm

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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Tue Jul 12, 2016 2:43 am

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do you want to give reasoning for your votes? there's no such thing as a bad opinion
unless you think Reed had a good jury speech
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Post Post #20 (ISO) » Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:08 am

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Yeah Reed didn't have a good jury speech

He had a GREAT JURY SPEECH
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Post Post #21 (ISO) » Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:36 am

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Post Post #22 (ISO) » Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:52 am

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HVV
: RI is worse than BB15. There's nothing positive to be had here. Its treatment of Rob is masturbatory, more than half the cast are braindead, and the only bright spots are Francesca and Matt. I didn't mind spending so much time on Matt's spirit quest because it was like watching a different show, which is exactly what I wanted to do during this.

Marquesas
: I enjoyed Samoa when I first watched it and don't hate it as much as a lot of people do, but Marquesas is really good and perpetually underrated. I may be the only person in the world who thinks Gabriel is a great premerger, plus I enjoyed seeing the outsiders band together and throw off their shackles.

Cambodia
: Caramoan was so bad that I lost access to the season 4 episodes before the end and didn't even care enough to find them somewhere else, making them the only episodes of Survivor I haven't seen.

Amazon
: The most devastating ending of any Survivor season and/or terrible editing of Jenna hurts this for me, but it has a lot of good characters and Rob makes it a more pleasant experience by hating on all the people you hate. Christy is a goddess.
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Post Post #23 (ISO) » Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:06 am

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Post Post #24 (ISO) » Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:02 pm

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In post 21, Drench wrote:question is why are we using a shit image when we could be using this
I heavily considering using Challonge, but I wanted to generate more discussion by having time for each round along with public voting!
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