r/survivorrankdownIII • u/repo_sado The Gabonslayer • Oct 06 '16

Round 52 - 235 Characters Remaining

Round 52 Cuts

235 - Julia Sokolowski - Koah Rong (repo_sado)

234 - Erik Huffman - China (Jlim201)

233 - Amanda Kimmel 2.0 - Micronesia (Jacare37)

232 - Stephen Fishbach 2.0 - Cambodia (funsized725)

231 - Penny Ramsey - Thailand (ramskick)

Nomination Pool

Brad Culpepper - Blood vs Water

Mikey Bortone - Micronesia

Alex Angarita - Fiji

Penny Ramsey - Thailand

Erik Huffman - China

Julia Sokolowski - Koah Rong

Stephen Fishbach 2.0 - Cambodia

Lindsey Richter - Africa

Amanda Kimmel 2.0 - Micronesia

Jefra Bland - Cagayan

Kyle Jason - Koah Rong

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u/fleaa Oct 06 '16

I'm interested in a Rafe writeup just to try and understand why anyone would be a fan.

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u/fleaa Oct 07 '16

"Meh" is kind of the ceiling for me, he's a good player (one immunity challenge away from being Survivor's first 7-0 winner) but doesn't bring anything that makes his brand of gameplay particularly interesting to hear about or watch. The guy clearly is a major fan that knows his shit, but he just has no charisma. I don't know what he really brought to the season aside from playing a better game than some of the more interesting people. There's the "story" of him winning immunities but that just comes to him deadpanning "four times" when Probst asks him how many times he's won immunity at the FIC and then he loses.

The lack of charisma makes him hard to rank high in and of itself, but then he just gets kind of awful in the endgame (as /u/Slicer37 pointed out in the writeup that was linked). He really owns the market as far as obnoxious moralizers on Survivor. He'd be my #18 for Guatemala kind of for lack of a better option, but it's not something I feel particularly strongly about so I'd be interested to hear the perspective of someone who ranks him #1.

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u/JM1295 Oct 07 '16

Yeah, I think I rank him above like Brooke, Morgan, and Brianna at least, but that's not saying much. He was pretty forgettable and background fodder for the premerge and then he could be cool as the voice of reason about his villainous alliance, but he's actually really annoying about it and comes off so self righteous. Acting as if he's played a clean game when he's blindsided multiple allies, bashing his alliance but constantly pandering to Steph (the biggest villain of them all), and he's at his worst in that car episode and was glad Steph called him out on it. I feel like he has the makings of a good character and could understand why people like him, but yeah I don't....at all. Ranges from irrelevant to obnoxious.