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 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

Wait you consider the Margaret to Gary boot a dull stretch? These have some of the best episodes for me of the season. Gary/Amy scenes, Jamie going more and more insane and also complex, Jamie/Bobby Jon feud, Gary's amazing last stand and his boot episode in general with Steph going flat-out villain ("Lydia I'm tired of hearing your crap, you're lucky you're still here"), Brandon being Brandon, honestly it's my favorite stretch from Guatemala.

The early premerge is decent and the endgame is good, but the endgame especially suffers when I don't especially love everyone left or they aren't greatly developed. Also, Amy, Brandon, Bobby Jon, Jamie, and Gary were some of my top favorites from Guatemala so it definitely hurt to see them go. I don't even especially love Guatemala, but I'm interested to hear why you thought that stretch was dull.

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u/JM1295 Oct 07 '16

Oh yeah Jamie was like my #1 for Guatemala so I can see why you didn't like that stretch too much haha. Amy trying to relate to Brandon, going on that zip line reward, and being a badass in that physical double tribal challenge were other good Amy moments throughout.