I have decided to rank each of the RSF Seasons I have hosted based off of what I remember and with each part of this blog series, add my thoughts on the following season.
Seasons:
1. Moolah Beach - The inaugural season of the RSF Franchise. This was mainly chosen to draw people in as it was a game no one really thought of hosting at the time and it drew in 60-ish applicants which for me was a good thing for a 1st time host. Definitely regret initially opening applicants to either male or female as 50+ males applied and 11 females applied and probably wish I had just cast 20 individuals to be paired regardless of gender so that would be the main regret of hosting this so early on. As the only past season with very little info on it, this basically will place in the rankings based on nostalgia. I like the basic format of teams who perform having a better chance but luck playing a major part definitely hinders the season with teams being eliminated by chance and then the winning team determined with idols being eliminated 1 at a time until the winning team was the only one with idols left. Really the only memorable moment I can recall is announcing halfway through the season a challenge where players were ranked based on number of posts people had made in the house/confessional/living area threads and seeing people start to scramble to post despite the challenge already being over as soon as it began.
*ADDED ENTRY* - 2. Survivor East vs West - The first RSF Season which was designed to revolve around strategy and alliances was a bit of a disappointment, namely pre-merge. Many of the votes pre-merge including the 1st post-merge vote were very scattered due to a lot of the players focusing more on solo games or aligning with few people on their tribe. Benefits from having the more inactive players being ousted between mid to late pre-merge due to self votes hindering them. Post-merge was initially scattered then really focused on seemingly a core group controlling the votes until it was down to them. Most memorable moments come down to tribes initially divided by geographical location (first time the applications determined teams), a mutiny in which one player swapped creating a huge tribe and then a small group of 4, of which 3 went out late pre-merge and early post-merge with the last one left standing by Top 7 going on to win the season and the round before the pre-merge having a chaotic round with both tribes going to Tribal with half of the individuals safe. Ranked somewhat lower than Moolah Beach simply because it seemed there wasn't as much strategy mainly pre-merge and post-merge it was very straightforward based on my memory.
3. The Mole - This season suffered a huge hit early on from inactivity. Literally half the cast either quit or did not try within the first two rounds and that drops this season down in the rankings. In addition, the mole, sakwilla, was seemingly very inactive this season moreso riding things out to the end than trying to sabotage the missions which was their goal. The Mole really only showed up when the game started and at the final reveal when the Mole's identity was revealed. In addition, from a production standpoint, the winner of the season was obvious especially in the late game since the eventual winner, BOBROCKS333, was the only person who ever voted correctly on who the mole was. The only real memorable moments were either the inactivity early on leading to 5 people out in 1 round or the 3rd round of the competition where all but 2 people won exemptions leading to a face off in the quiz to determine the results of the Execution.
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I like these but I wanna find the new one and as these get longer it'll be more difficult