8. KINDNESS NEVER PAYS OFF (S14, SURVIVOR: KIRIBATI) http://tengagedgroups.wikia.com/wiki/Leli%27s_Survivor:_Kiribati
Coming in at eight place we have a game-defining moment from the fourteenth season, Survivor: Kiribati. This has been one of only two seasons where I used an original twist that would change how the game was fundamentally played, by having different contestants enter the game at various times during the season instead of having all sixteen contestants play the game from day 1.
Only six players were invited to play the game from day 1, among them season standouts Survivorgame1 and MrPokeguy9 who quickly formed an alliance that would take them far into the game. At day 20, they were the only two players left who had been there since the first day. Jimbo ( sahmosean), Joe ( TheEclipse) and Clair ( haycsclair) were set on voting Paul out for being a target, hoping to get Ollie and his allies Courtney ( NovaScotiaChic) and Lukas ( SirNiceGuy) to do the same. Ollie was originally sold on the plan and voted for Paul, but got cold feet because he didn't want to stab an ally in the back. So instead he continued to work with Paul and voted Joe out. But the following Tribal Council the tables had turned. Paul was now in possession of the Immunity Necklace, and Jimbo and Clair were set on targeting Ollie, and Paul was not as merciful as Ollie was at the last Tribal Council and quickly agreed to the plan to take out his day 1-ally Ollie, leaving him as the only player to have been in the game since the beginning.
The reason I liked this moment so much was because it really shows what a tough game Survivor is. If you want to go far and win a game like this, you can't be nice! You have to play dirty at some point.
7. AUSTIN'S LAST DITCH EFFORT (S9, SURVIVOR: VIETNAM) http://tengagedgroups.wikia.com/wiki/Leli%27s_Survivor:_Vietnam
Coming in as the seventh most memorable moment we're going back to a season that overall was not very memorable, mostly because of one duos complete dominance over the season. I'm talking about the ninth season of the series, Survivor: Vietnam, where six players who previously competed in the series returned after going out pre-merge in their original season. They were pitted against 12 newbies. Among the newbies were memorable players like Ryan ( KidA), Easton ( Notsae) and future winner of Survivor: Socotra, Shadi ( Chastain).
Among the returning players were Dexter ( thedarkpassanger) and Austin ( hinata0014). They formed an alliance early in the game and stuck to it all the way to the end, where they made Final Tribal Council together. Heading into FTC Dexter was the obvious favorite to win the title of Sole Survivor, but Austin was not about to go down without a fight. During FTC Austin started making accusations against Dexter that he had talked smack about several of the jury-members and he even showed screenshots of PM's Dexter had send him. Only one problem... They were complete fake. FTC quickly turned into a fight about whether the screenshots were fake or not.
Even though Austin still lost the season, he was still able to make the vote closer than anyone could have anticipated. Had one vote gone from Dexter to Austin, it would have been a tie. But ultimately Dexter took home yet another group game win, and became the Sole Survivor of Vietnam.
The reason I personally really like this moment is not so much because of the fake PMs. I'm actually not a huge fan of that. But I do like a player who have just completely abandoned all moral principles in his pursuit to win a game. Austin got 20th place in the first season he competed in, and he would stop at nothing in his quest to redeem himself and win the game his second time around in Vietnam. Both Dexter and Austin are memorable characters from my series. It's a shame we have yet to see them play for a third time.
And with that, there's only six more moments to go! What do you think of the moments so far? Should something be higher or lower on the list?
Here are two quotes from the next two moments (moments 6 and 5), coming up next:
6. "there is a god the two people i wanted out since merge go the same night. lordy hallelujah"
5. "*Stands up and applauds this tribe* Only took you like 6 tribals to realise but w.e"
And the list continues with moments 8 and 7...