NOTE: This is NOT a ranking of the CBS Survivor seasons it is a ranking of the 1st Generation Suitman's Survivor seasons, a groupgame which began in August 2011 and ended in November 2012.
#5: Gabon- Brains vs Brawn (Season 20, August 2012)
Winner: Js21 (6-1-0)
Wiki page: http://bit.ly/NJYYSj
I seem to have fallen behind on my rankings here :o Oopsy. Better get going then..
Gabon was a top notch season. I mean this season was a pagonging, but yet it STILL makes Top 5. That says something. Plus, it wasn't any normal pagonging as you will soon see. The Brains were definitely far from united.
They Kota and Fang tribes, which had already switched twice, merged very late in the game with only SEVEN people left - four Brawns and three Brains. HOWEVER, Mittens, XJamzX and Qwerty3000 returned from Occultus Island making it a 5-5 equal merge on Brains and Brawn. The Strong Brawn alliance’s only casualty Mittens had now returned and they were set to be an unbreakable five. But on the new Nobag tribe, the entire Strong Brawns alliance was about to fall apart piece by piece, and it all started with a banning. At the merge, the only surviving idol bond of NeiltheNinja and Robinhood99 each received a hidden idol. But when DPimp shockingly got banned, the 5-5 equal merge suddenly became slightly Brain-sided. Following Teamjacz winning the first Immunity on the merged tribe, NeiltheNinja, knowing that he would just get pagonged out now DPimp was getting a self-vote and the Brains would use that, jumped over to the Brains and voted DPimp with them as he didn’t want to waste his idol on a banned person either, and not playing it would anger the old alliance. But Qwerty3000, thinking Neil’s idol would save the Brawns, didn’t want to work with the Brains that voted him off to he jumped ship and joined the Brawns. However when Robin played his idol on Game and the Brains plus Neil voted for DPimp, DPimp got the boot as the first Jury member. Js21 and Etaco then jointly won Immunity. At this point, the Strong Brawns alliance way falling apart fast and Js21 and Jamz used this to use their bonds with the Brawns to start discussing flipping. With Qwerty flipped to the Brawns and Neil flipped to the Brains, the Brains thought they had it in the bag. But they now knew that Neil had an idol, so the Brawns voted their betrayer while the Brains voted for their betrayer Qwerty. However, to try and flush out the idol, Jamz placed a vote for Teamjacz, which cause a 4-4-1 tie. When Neil was caught off guard by not playing his idol, Js21 and Jamz both flipped to the Brawns and Neil was blindsided. Teamjacz didn’t want Neil gone though, so he flipped from the Brawns and voted for Qwerty, but it wasn’t enough. Neil got blindsided, and GameTime never trusted Js21 and Jamz again. XJamzX won the next Immunity at the Auction. With GameTime and Js21 on Exile Island, Robinhood unable to vote and Teamjacz able to vote twice, the next vote was slightly unpredictable. But as he had flipped on the Brawns, the alliance decided to vote out Teamjacz, and the Brains even followed, creating a landside vote knocking Teamjacz out the game. The next vote was crucial, because, following GameTime winning Immunity, Js21 and Jamz thought it was time that a pagonging of the Brawns occurred, and they flipped back to the Brains and blindsided Etaco75, who blamed it on Qwerty and Jamz, leaving Js21 room to slip under the radar while playing both sides. This was followed shortly by Js21 winning Immunity, and the pagonging being completed with Mittens becoming Jury member five. At the Final Five, lady luck was on Js21’s side when he won his second Immunity in a row. The votes then piled onto GameTime, even by his ally Robinhood. An angry GameTime was booted from the game in 5th place. At Final Four, Js21 knew he needed to win Immunity or he was gone. He didn’t. Jamz beat him too it and earned a spot in the finals. After the named ‘Breakfast Bunch’ alliance of Js21 and Jamz forced a tie between Js21 and Robin, they plus Qwerty pulled rocks and Robin drew the short straw, becoming the seventh member of the Jury. In the end, the Jury ultimately voted for Js21 to become the winner of Survivor: Gabon, winning with six out of the seven Jury votes.
OK I want to first note that the Breakfast Bunch of Js21 and Jamz is probably one of my favorite duos of all time.
Then I want to note the fact that this merged cast was one of my favorite group of merged people in Gen 1. You had some great competitors like Js21, Jamz, Game, Etaco, Robin, Mittens, Teamjacz, Qwerty, Neil and DPimp. All of who wanted to WIN the game more than anything, evident by the moves they made in the game. To make it to this point in such a topsy-turvey game with tribe switches and Occultus Island, was an achievement in itself. This season ranks highly because of the cast, each of whom had their own strategy, and it wasn't a straightforward kind of pagonging which led to serious drama and divisions when it came down to the five Brains. Plus Js21 was a pretty good winner. Sitting next to two people who had already been voted out was a good strategy for him, and it payed of because people weren't angry at him and he won 6-1-0.
It was already something thought up by people ages ago... Tbh the majority of things on tengaged were thought up somewhere else... Few things were created on here...
Past vs Present
Second Chances
Brains vs Brawn
Everyone Has an Idol
NOTE: This is NOT a ranking of the CBS Survivor seasons it is a ranking of the 1st Generation Suitman's Survivor seasons, a groupgame which began in August 2011 and ended in November 2012.