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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #25 on: April 08, 2013, 05:01:55 PM »
Here's my official ranking:

1. Guatemala
2. Gabon
3. Cook Islands
4. All Stars
5. Pearl Islands
6. Heroes vs Villains
7. Micronesia
8. Fiji
9. Australian Outback
10. Philippines
11. Borneo
12. China
13. Redemption Island
14. South Pacific
15. Vanuatu
16. Palau
17. Samoa
18. Marquesas
19. Africa
20. Tocantins
21. Nicaragua
22. One World
23. Amazon
24. Panama
25. Thailand



I disagree

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #26 on: April 08, 2013, 06:09:51 PM »
Mick and Jaison were pathetic, sry.
I liked them as people, but i do agree that they were pathetic players and also totally underserving.
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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #27 on: May 10, 2013, 04:41:19 PM »
1) Micronesia (eliza jury reactions and erik giving away idol.)
2) Palau
3) Philippines (Its just stands out in bad recent seasons )
4)Borneo
5)Australian Outback
6) All-Stars
7)China (A break from the tropical beaches and Todd's strategizing  :yess:
8)Vanuatu
9) Guatemala
10) Caramoan (Malcolm returning, Brenda returning :yess:
11) Cook Islands
12)Fiji
13)Panama
14)Gabon (liked two switches)
15)Nicaragua (BRENDA :yess:)
16)South Pacific (don't love it but don't hate it either)
17)One World (liked one world twist but not the cast "over arrogant troyzan etc.)
18) Pearl Islands (don't like Sandra)
19) Heroes vs Villains (villains I like elim early and heroes pagonged)
20) Amazon
21)Tocantins
22)Africa
23)Marquesas
24)Thailand
25) Redemption Island ("rob zombies" and matt not flipping  :'(
26) Samoa (russell :( :'(

based on earlier posts, I think others will disagree

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #28 on: April 03, 2015, 12:04:23 PM »
Might be interesting to see what some folks think on season breakdown, now that we've got more activity boosting the Survivor community - here's my rough season breakdown by tier, can't exactly place them line by line:


Tier 1: Micronesia, Heroes v Villains, Caramoan, Philippines, Thailand, Cook Islands, China, Samoa, San Juan Del Sur, Guatemala

Tier 2: Borneo, Aussie Outback, Panama, Tocantins, Marquesas, Worlds Apart, Nicaragua, Cagayan, Blood vs Water

Tier 3: All-Stars, Palau, Pearl Islands, Africa, Amazon, One World

Tier 4: Vanuatu, Fiji, Gabon, Redemption Island, South Pacific

Tier 1
Guatemala was the first season with an idol and had a colorful cast that I think is under appreciated, some obvious great seasons in that first tier are due to "returnee" status, and I thought some unique folks in Philippines/Cook/China/Samoa were fantastic, Russel owned his season and I don't find him nearly as unlikable. Todd's China dominance and Brian's Thailand game really appealed to me, even if Brian nearly bombed out in his FTC to edge out the horrendous Clay.

Post-merge SJDS was awesome too.

Tier 2
Some early series greats created a lot of foundation for me in watching this show, even though I watched S3-S10 after a lot of newer ones. Tribe dynamics in Tocantins, Panama, and Cagayan were fun to watch and see play out, much like Worlds Apart is currently (and depending on what happens moving forward, World Apart could move up to Tier 1 for me.) The first instance of BvW was a nice twist and Nicaragua has a slew of colorful characters I'd love to see play again, even if people didn't like the season overall.

Tier 3
All-Stars was a bit disappointing for me - really thought they had a lot of floaters come back, even if they were iconic that doesn't mean I wanted to see them play again (Rudy, Tom B...most of the winners even weren't fun a second time around); Palau I was meh on because I thought Steph went deeper after her tribes decimation, but glad she didnt' so Guatemala could happen. The rest are just either seasons where predictable things happened, or I didn't like the characters as much (though granted I didn't appreciate Rob C in Amazon until much later, and was bummed he was an early All-Stars boot.)

Tier 4
Vanuatu, meh, not bad and I like that the ladies took over, but then Chris won and I was like "ugh." Fiji and Gabon had some cool characters (CORRINE!) but overall not fantastic seasons (Big Brother style Fiji and the weird division of tribes in Gabon..)

Redemption Island + SPacific - in theory, cool to have 2 returnees from other seasons and see how that dynamic works out, but Redemption Island as a concept was always SO predictable, rarely did someone "upset" out there and kick out someone super strong. Not to mention I'm not a Boston Rob fan, Philip was disgusting (now I appreciate Ashley from that season SO much more for her fierce play), and Coach was tiring in his third appearance.
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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #29 on: April 03, 2015, 12:21:17 PM »
1 Cagayan
2 Palau
3 Heroes vs Villains
4 Micronesia
5 Philippines
6 Caramoan
7 Samoa
8 Guatemala- 1st season i watched
9 Tocantins
10 South Pacific
11 Exile Island
12 Amazon
13 China
14 Blood vs Water
15 Cook Islands
16 San Juan del Sur
17 One World
18 Redemption Island
19 Pearl Islands
20 Gabon
21Fiji
22 All- Stars
23 Nicaragua
24 Vanautu
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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #30 on: April 03, 2015, 02:11:57 PM »
I just gotta say Caramoan is one of the worst seasons EVER, along with One World. They shouldn't be rated as high imo. OW was just boring and predictable while Caramoan had the worst possible group of returnees :iok I only liked Brenda, Malcolm, Corinne and Andrea (also Franny, who... didn't really play... again..) and they were all considered FAVOURITES... (:;) The whole Philip stealth r us parody left a horrible stench. Plus all the Dawn meltdowns.... :groan:
Oh, and I hated Cochran, so... yeah...

From recent seasons, Cagayan is definitely the best. :<3

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #31 on: April 03, 2015, 02:35:39 PM »
My personal ranking and organization of tiers.

1. Heroes vs Villains
2. Cagayan
3. Micronesia
4. China
5. Cook Islands

6. Borneo
7. Tocantins
8. Australia
9. Pearl Islands
10. Blood vs Water
11. Philippines
12. San Juan Del Sur
13. Guatemala
14. Samoa

15. Caramoan
16. Palau
17. All Stars
18. Panama
19. Amazon
20. Africa

21. Gabon
22. Thailand
23. One World
24. Nicaragua
25. Vanuatu
26. Marquesas
27. South Pacific
28. Fiji
29. Redemption Island

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #32 on: April 04, 2015, 08:46:38 PM »
18 Redemption Island
19 Pearl Islands
20 Gabon
21Fiji
22 All- Stars
23 Nicaragua
24 Vanautu
Pearl Islands was AN AMAZING season imo. I can't believe you put RI ahead of it.

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #33 on: April 04, 2015, 09:41:47 PM »
This Gabon hate is unjust and unlawful

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #34 on: April 04, 2015, 09:43:08 PM »
RI and SoPa are definitely at the bottom of my list.


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« Reply #35 on: April 04, 2015, 11:45:35 PM »
^ OMG YES, South Pacific was a horrific season, Savaii getting pagogned and then Ozzy almost winning to make the season a little better but chokes at F4 IC, and a F3 of Sophie,Albert, & Coach? Hated the F3.

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« Reply #36 on: April 05, 2015, 09:27:16 AM »
Ew sevii were gross. Coach should've won

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #37 on: April 05, 2015, 12:36:44 PM »
This Gabon hate is unjust and unlawful
Totally! I was a really great season with interesting twists and ann amazing cast! The winenr was great too btw :<3

In SoPa I was rooting for Savaii - Keith, Whitney, Jim, Dawn (before she was a Caramoan freak) - and all of the worst people made it to the top, thank God Sophie won and not someone like Albert or Rick.. And btw I liked Ozzy & Coach on for entertainment (though I'd have rather had just 18 newbies), but didn't liked their gameplay that specific season and didn't want a returnee to win.

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #38 on: April 05, 2015, 12:48:16 PM »
I actually do like Gabon in some ways, but for me compared to other seasons, the tribe assignments in the beginning we're ridic and made it super unbalanced. Gillian, Susie, Crystal, Randy should not all have been on one original tribe. Granted they didn't know Crystal would suck at every challenge :P

SoPa's Christine/Stacey <3<3 - I loved Dawn that season, and Sophie winning redeemed a lackluster season. I am anti-Coach, though. Also Rick, like easily up there for one of the MOST invisible castaways of all time. Barely any confessionals and somewhat of a Keith in that he had no clue what he was doing.

Redemption concept could have worked out well, just an odd mix cast and HATE Philip.
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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #39 on: April 05, 2015, 01:00:04 PM »
Oh yeah, I forgot my two favourites - Sophie and Christine - were on the outs and were booted pre-merge :( I was hoping for Christine to return, but then Ozzy came.....
Pretty much the same was with RI - Kristina and Francesca were on the outs and they were like my favourite people on Ometepe.... AND I'm a superfan of Russell because he brings so much to the game, but he and the awesome Stephanie + Krista as well got booted pre-merge :gaah: At least one of them might return.

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #40 on: April 05, 2015, 01:37:40 PM »
I actually do like Gabon in some ways, but for me compared to other seasons, the tribe assignments in the beginning we're ridic and made it super unbalanced. Gillian, Susie, Crystal, Randy should not all have been on one original tribe. Granted they didn't know Crystal would suck at every challenge :P

Unbalanced but they all got to the jury stage :P

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #41 on: April 05, 2015, 01:46:22 PM »
I ranked everything based on how good the
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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #42 on: April 06, 2015, 11:24:43 AM »
I actually do like Gabon in some ways, but for me compared to other seasons, the tribe assignments in the beginning we're ridic and made it super unbalanced. Gillian, Susie, Crystal, Randy should not all have been on one original tribe. Granted they didn't know Crystal would suck at every challenge :P

Unbalanced but they all got to the jury stage :P

Doesn't impact season quality overall for me though, my point was it was extremely boring when Kota won nearly every challenge because they had a much stronger team, even after the swap happened. Granted with the old folks on Espada in Nicaragua the same thing happened, but tribal dynamics were a bit more interesting and I just felt they had some people playing harder out there. Though the double-quit of Naonka and Purple Kelly should be a huge plummet for me since I hate quits with a passion :P

Also random fact about Gabon I just found out - 5 players were age 29 :P
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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #43 on: April 06, 2015, 02:04:36 PM »
Randy's vote out is one of the best tribal councils ever sorry. Also Sugar's story arc is incredibly glam

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #44 on: April 06, 2015, 08:14:28 PM »
I loved Gabon, lots of big characters (Sugar, Randy, Corinne, Crystal <3)


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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #45 on: April 07, 2015, 09:53:44 AM »
Crystal is one of my all-time favs, and I don't hate Sugar as much as others do, maybe I need to move Gabon higher. XD

The rolling giant ball down mountain challenge with Ace/Dan as goalies was fun to watch haha.
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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #46 on: May 06, 2015, 10:06:35 AM »
Jeff hated Gabon but the viewers loved it. Maybe seasons Jeff hates = viewers love and seasons Jeff likes = viewers hate? :funny:

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #47 on: May 06, 2015, 10:07:37 AM »
Jeff hated Gabon but the viewers loved it. Maybe seasons Jeff hates = viewers love and seasons Jeff likes = viewers hate? :funny:

Could be true! As far as I know, he hates San Juan Del Sur, and that season was just as good if not better than Cagayan!

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #48 on: May 06, 2015, 11:26:38 AM »
Jeff hated Gabon but the viewers loved it. Maybe seasons Jeff hates = viewers love and seasons Jeff likes = viewers hate? :funny:

Could be true! As far as I know, he hates San Juan Del Sur, and that season was just as good if not better than Cagayan!

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Re: Rank the Seasons/Favorite and Least Favorite Seasons
« Reply #49 on: May 06, 2015, 01:07:00 PM »
I'm hoping for another culture-themed season like China, Guatemala and Pearl Islands. I think Philippines was the last season of that kind.
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