Welcome to the finale of my Survivor rankings. If you've stuck through it this long, congratulations. This is the post you've been waiting for. At the risk of being long-winded, I will say that this game is proof you don't need 10 million twists to make a game interesting. Let's just get right into it.
All Stars is the kind of game where you look and say "what the fuck happened here" and have to ask someone for context. Truly a one-of-a-kind experience to play and host.
This season started off with a bang as the Kendwa tribe lost the first immunity challenge. This tribe was basically immediately divided into a pro- Kelly0412 alliance and an anti-Kelly alliance. After many now-bannable words were exchanged, the vote deadlocked between CoachWade and Absol, with Kelly subsequently going home in a chatzy rock draw at the very first tribal council. There really is not a more iconic way to go out.
After the swap, the hapless Nungwi tribe lost 3 challenges in a row leading to 3 swapfucks of people who were otherwise in a decent position, at the hands of bamold1999, RickDev, and awwsum11:
The most painful boot of the series happened the next round, as Nungwi managed to win and Will's Survivor OG haycsclair was sent home after obscurity (a nasty and disgusting individual for this) flipped on the re-vote to avoid rocks. Loser!
It was also during this time that nmh95, Timberlie, and purplebb4, all determined to make sure Canary Islands won All Stars, used the mutiny ticket twist to end up on the same tribe and formed the "Mutiny Mutants" alliance, which in my opinion is probably a top 10 most effective alliance in group game history.
Anyways, after this the tribes swapped back to 2 again and J2999 and awwsum11 were voted out. For what reason I honestly forget, these boots were kinda forgettable.
At any rate, the merge vote brought 3 misplayed idols, 2 deadlocks, and another rock draw in which DanielzSnooz ended up getting the boot:
12th - Daniel (DanielzSnooz) (Kendwa/Kendwa/[Chukwani/Kendwa]/Unguja) (6-6-0(0)-0(0)-0(0)/5-5/Drew Black Rock)
After this, the majority (barely) managed to stick together and vote Brady out for 11th. At this point, the Mutiny Mutants were on the bottom and, aided by the majority alliance imploding, began to claw their way back. Capitalizing on none of them trusting each other, they bounced back and forth to get Sagar, Absol, and Johnny all voted out:
At the final 7 vote, nmh95 pulled maybe the craziest blindside I've ever seen on bamold1999, sitting on call with him to convince him not to play his idol while the votes were read. Absolutely brutal and something that probably would have made me log out for good, so I definitely give Tylor credit for still coming back to vote on jury.
In the end, purplebb4 was crowned a two time winner in a 6-1-1 vote at the final tribal council after Brad and Nathan got roasted by the jury.
This season is #1 because this write up really doesn't do justice to how much fun I had hosting and how great it was to watch (I also owe a huge shoutout to TotsTrashy for all the production help). It was the ultimate story of the minority alliance defying the odds and coming back from the dead, and hands down the best game I've ever hosted!
