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.
#19: Philippines (Season 24, October 2012)
Winner: Leonine_Divine (7-0)
Wiki page: http://bit.ly/RyF7Wm
Pehaps another shocking placement? This one is hard to rank, because there are good points and bad points to Philippines, the bad points being explicitly pointed out by MMA lot.
The season (the penultimate 1st gen season) looking from the outs in looks a bit like CBS Tocantins. The minority beating out the majority and being the last ones standing. In part that was true, but a barage of thinks kind of.. aided them there.
Basically the season had a coaches twist which brought three formed players back to coach three tribes of whoever they liked. The coches were social player XJamzX, coaching Tandang, strategic player GameTime, coaching Matsing, and physical player PizPaz, coaching Kalabaw. Pre-merge, Tandang were decimated and later dissolved into the other two tribes. So pre-merge was a bit of a bore. There was an interesting blindside of Alyxandra after the dissolve, but then there was a medical evactuation which led to the merge.
At the merge, Tandang member DylanBT was cast off first, simple vote, bit boring, and then came along the lovely twist known as Victor But Voided. This twist meant that with half of the Final 8 Immune and with Leonine in possesion of the Odd Necklace, Kalabaw had to vote one of their own off. They were fine about this though, as they still had the numbers. But then the Survivor Auction happened and once again, by fate, all of Matsing were safe and Kalabaw had to vote out one of their own again. At the next Tribal, everyhting was even, all that had to happen was a tie. BUT, MMA voted in a different diraction to the rest of the tribe, adverting the tie, sending Mattkwon out, and putting Kalabaw in the minority, from which MMA and Ditzy were picked off.
OK so on the surface sounds like a good unpreditable season. But there were bad points. Too many people were Immune. I like twists. Twists make it fun, but on this occasion there was one too many. You could argue however, that Kalabaw should never have given the Odd Necklace to Matsing in the first place, and that MMA should have voted with the Kalabaw memebers. And that is fine. In my opinion though, the Twists weren't what tainted the season. It was the arguements and drama in caused afterwards which just made me sigh at it. Not only that but, compared to other seasons, the gameplay wasn't as good and it was really twists that shaped how the votes went, and those who know me know I love gameplay. So there. You may call this a harsh ranking, but whatever.
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.