Okay here comes a Contrversial one.. One World. A season with so much potential, and it is a good season no doubt, but when compared to the other seasons, it just can't live up to them. This cast is the most compeitive cast since All-Stars, so it looks good.
Foa Foa(Winners)- Yellow Buffs
Juilan- Thesexiestdude1990
Natalie-OhNatalie
Andrew- Manipulation
Anthony- Bones0227
Mearl-Mearl
Stoner- Gaiaphage
Salani (Finalists)- Blue Buffs
AJ- Jflora18
Snow- Snowgirl57
Ben- Aesop
Zach- Tuter32
Dan- Duke
Jason- Dragonjason
Gaulu(All Stars)- Purple Buffs
Martian- Hudspith
Jet- Leonine_Divine
Ryan- Wangifold
Jimbo- Sahmosean
Jake-Lemjam6
Link- Themissinglink
Manono(Newbies)- Orange Buffs
Marrissa- Winner132
Me- Me2013
Stephan- SimvivorRway
Old- Oldnewz
Dakota- Dak236
Spinner- Spinner554
Now for the issues. I feel like for starters the pre-merge was modertly boring and dull espically the first swap. The only actual blindside was Martin, and even that wasn't exactly unpredictable or anything.
After tribe where swapped again it seemed like obvious allaince ran each tribe and all we did was lose everyone entertaining. The only intresting part was the unbareable Finalists allaince( Snow, AJ, Zach and Ben) start to get picked off. I have no clue why I HATED this allaince so much, as i love them all indvidually, but together... I could not handle it.
Even more going into the 3rd Swap we really did not see anything spectacular again until Natalie's blindside, which was the first really intresating tribal of the season. Snow going was something that should have happened ages ago, but her story of just barely surviving every vote, would be more intresting if it lasted longer.
So at the merge there where two really strong sides. Mearl/Stoner/AJ/Jimbo/Ryan vs Andrew/Stephan/Newz/Marissa with Jake/Dakota in the middle. I felt it was an obvious descion that they would go to Stoner's side, so I was shocked when Stoner/AJ fucked everything up and costed Jimbo his game.
After this though both myself and Joe where sure Stoner was getting to the end, and frequently refered to the game as 'Stoner's Charity' and due to my own flaw in the twist, it costed the games of extermly entertaing newbies 'Stephan/Newz/Marissa' , and also Andrew, who I felt had played an amazing game through the season.
So overall thanks to the twist the post-merge was rather predictable. After Ryan's boot it was a snorefest until Marissa handed over her win and got blindsided, however it never picked up after that.
The Final 3 was very good, and all very deserving, espically Stoner and Mearl for making it to the end THREE times. Dakota's win does not hurt the season at all though because people where saying from late pre-merge Dakota was a threat and needed to go, and the fact he still made it to the end is impressive.
So why is this season above the previous ones.
1- Activty
2- Better Confessionals
3- Despite having very few blindsides..
