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#18 - Ranking Suitman's Survivor Second Gen..

5 SuitMan13, Sep 19, 2014

#18: Venezuela (Season 7, July 2013)
Winner: Jeremy A./Lonelystar1 (4-3)
Wiki page: http://bit.ly/1o9mWqn
Sometimes I wonder what to think of this season. To sum it up, I'd compare it to One World. It was basically a season you would watch for mildly interesting characters, with little to no strategy involved at all.
This was the first season of the Second Generation to feature a COMPLETELY new cast, along with the return of the Back to Basics twist. A whole group of people who had never played before in my Survivor, First or Second Gen.
Pre-merge was again just trimming the fat. The most exciting pre-merge thus far on this ranking is probably Seychelles, but the problem there was that good people went. I didn't mind for much of the people who went pre-merge, as the main characters remained. Tim, Natasha, Will, Tony and Jeremy A. MADE this season. They were all... well OK four of them... were great likeable funny personalities who made the pre-merge of this season (and actually the season in general) worth the watch. So it was good that they all made merge.
The merge is where things started to pick up, and the season came into it's own. The Machiques tribe, led by Tim, Natasha and Jeremy, entered the merge six strong to La Esmeralda's four, which had major threat Will at the helm. The first vote of the merge was actually pretty simple and as you'd expect. After Will won Immunity, they had no choice but to take out the lesser threat, Fred. Then is when things get interesting. Jeremy A. didn't like the fact that Tim was heading up the tribe. He especially didn't like the fact that him and Natasha were an obvious final two. He planned to use James, who was self-voting, to his advantage and flip on the Machiques majority to get Tim out. However, this hit an immediate hitch as Tim won Immunity. So to gain a majority with Will, Nathan and Gump - the three La Esmeralda's in the minority - they all voted against self-voting James, putting an extra fifth number to their votes, and successfully blindsiding the Machiques tribe with James' departure. However Jeremy was now in a predicament. Voting against Machiques again would just cause a 4-4 tie. He decided his next move would be to flip back and get out Will, whom the Machiques alliance wanted gone anyway yesterday. However Will won Immunity, so Machiques were forced to vote out his right-hand man Nathan instead. Jeremy had now just alienated both his own tribe AND the enemy tribe by flipping and flipping back. To let the waters calm, he stayed with Tim and Natasha, finally taking Will out of the game, and leaving inactive Gump as the last La Esmeralda standing. It was at this point that Jeremy knew it was time to act against Tim and Natasha, or else they were going to go to the end. So he successfully convinced Tony and Oliver that they were going to win the game if they didn't vote them out soon, and, using Gump as a goat, pushed Tim and Natasha into the majority, taking them both out back..

SuitMan13
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#19 - Ranking Suitman's Survivor Second Gen..

10 SuitMan13, Aug 29, 2014

#18: Seychelles (Season 10, September - October 2013)
Winner: Sam S./superman11 (4-2-1)
Wiki page: http://bit.ly/1wOfeen
Now we move out of the realm of the seasons we wish never happened, and into the realm of the season that you never knew existed because nothing of any relevance happens. The season that makes you go - OH YEAH that season where Weber was an incoherent pseudo-villain.
It started when I thought it would be a good idea to have my first ever 20-person season as an all newbie season....... yeah no not one of my brightest ideas. Then we divided a cast full of people you won't be able to name (no seriously, besides Weber try and name someone from that season off the top of your head) intro four tribes. Because that of course helps activity levels. We then added in a Looting twist which was irrelevant and started it in ernest despite the fact the biggest names on the cast were Carraid73 and coolnarwhal88. Ouch.
Then we did the first challenge with our four tribes, and it was so inactive NOBODY won. So I just sent all four tribes to Tribal, and so Logan, Sharon, Dan and Rex left. No seriously. They were actual applicants. They existed. They lasted one day, but they existed. Then I did another two days with four tribes which led to the elimination of Brendan who was actually slightly relevant (screw you Weber), and then the tribe swap came. Another inactive departed in Jay (again, who?), and then followed the THREE MOST INTERESTING PEOPLE IN THE GAME. Chris and Ali both left by the hand of Weber (screw you again), followed by Will, whose personality only came out at the reunion when he was mad for some reason (still better than half this cast).
Still Chris and Ali's early departures were just bleh. The pre-merge in general was a mix of inactive boots and disappointing exits of good characters. But don't worry! The merge is what stops this season from being dead last..... ish. It starts off again with an equal 5-5 situation on post-swap Boileau and Lazare (three equal merges as the bottom three seasons LMAO). The vote itself is interesting as it leads to the blindside of Bennett... BUT he happens to be one of the only few decent root-able people still in the game. Double edged sword much? But don't worry, that is quickly fixed by the subsequent UNANIMOUS blindside of WEBER! (PRAISE THE LORD!)  HE was the person who flipped on Bennett and everyone ratted him out. So they got hid of him just like THAT. However there was still a problem since post-swap Lazare now had a 5-3 advantage over post-swap Boileau.
BUT, unlike Mongolia and Great Britain where they continue to pagong, the head honchos of Lazare - Klaus and Sam - decide to blindside their own tribunate Raphael (aka Smiley20 one of the MOST root-able players like EVER... possibly because most of the other choices were shit). They're worried because Raphael is tight with his two remaining tribemates from the original Cascade tribe of five (before the swap dismantled it)...

SuitMan13
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#20 - Ranking Suitman's Survivor Second Gen..

13 SuitMan13, Aug 28, 2014

#20: Mongolia (Season 1, January 2013)
Winner: Ty F./Flamelord (6-1)
Wiki page: http://bit.ly/1pmPRMP
A first season is supposed to set the benchmark for what is to come. Set up something for each season to aspire towards being as good as. But this one.... was a dull as dishwater. And it has not aged well.
After the First Gen ended in November 2012, it was revealed that the series was to be rebooted in January with everyone getting a clean slate. This obviously opened up the casting process to a LOT of people. There was tonnes of interest to get on the cast for the first season, however, looking back, few of the players from the first season have had any impact at all, as opposed to the first season of the First Gen which spawned BENLINUS, Gaiaphange, Hudspith and more. The cast now looks poor despite the fact literally ANYONE could play.
The season itself had a Back to Basics theme which was appealing and nice in the way that it was cool to finally have the raw format, but detrimental overall because there was northing to change things up. Pre-merge was mostly the same for both tribes - a majority of five people on each tribe dominating. An interesting tribal on Kerait lead to the heated pre-merge boot of AJ, and probably the defining pre-merge moment was the last Tribal before merge or the Tatar tribe, where Stephen shifted the vote to blindside Ethan instead of Sam - a move that would cause his own downfall at the merge.
The two tribes merged equally 5-5 (similarly to Great Britain actually - two equal merges as the bottom two seasons). The first merge Tribal was tense, with both tribes fighting hard to try and gain the majority. The Kerait tribe's main men - Logan and Tyler - were both trying to rally Sam over to their side. Sam wasn't immediately convinced, and the vote tied 5-5 between Mike and Logan. However the re-vote changed everything as Sam did decide to flip giving Kerait the majority. Then, just like in Great Britain, Kerait just kept control. For the next two votes nothing changed. Stephen, the main glue of the remaining Tatar members, was gone next, followed by Sam who subsequently exclaimed that he had "done a Cochran". Tate was down to just two members - Josh and Ty - to Kerait's five. THAT is where Tyler came in.
All season long Tyler had been sending confessionals about how much of a villain he was and how he wanted to take Logan out so badly. The problem is, he NEVER delivered on this, and just stuck with him on the votes. That is until the Final Seven. Knowing he couldn't beat Logan, he and Cory, who felt he was outside the loop on Kerait, both flipped and joined the last two Tatars to blindside Ashley, someone Tyler just disliked. WHY he went personal and got rid of Ashley over the strategically better option of Logan is still bewildering. Possibly his ego got in the way and he wanted to just move it in Ashley's face idk. But whatever happened he still had control, and, after Logan won Immunity,..

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#21 - Ranking Suitman's Survivor Second Gen..

19 SuitMan13, Aug 22, 2014

#21: Great Britain (Season 4, March - April 2013)
Winner: Kiko R./Kikorus (4-2)
Wiki page: http://bit.ly/WJASAK
So the ranking begins, as it must, with the shittiest season. Due to the amount of times it has been nicknamed Great Boretrain, it was obvious that the season was to end up here, and it's true, this season was one of the biggest disappointments in my hosting career, and I'll explain why.
Going into the season, it looked from the outset to be a season people would enjoy and one that would be extremely competitive. We had big names like Gaiaphage, Alyxandra, Etaco75, Yankeeman311, PizPaz, Janelle_Pierzina and Mattkwon1. The tribes looked (and were) equal in terms of challenge prowess, leading to an equal 5-5 merge.
However, the pre-merge was not interesting in any way possible. Despite a few decent confessionals from Alexandra, Evan, Chris and Dylan, five out of the six pre-merge Tribal Councils were unanimous bootings, with both Buckingham and Windsor holding immunity for two days each following a Double Tribal on Day 1.
The season had to redeem itself in the merge and become more exciting, and it started well with the 5-5 merge causing an immediate divide, which was solved by Windsor member Evan double crossing the Buckingham tribe by pretending to flip. After obtaining important info, Evan discovered they were targeting Alexandra, and she played an idol on herself, eliminating John from Buckingham. This was the high point of the season, as from there it declined into even more of a snooze fest as Jac, Chris and Matt were taken out one by one by the Windsor Five. The saving grace was Dylan, the last Buckingham, who won Immunity, preventing a full pagonging of the tribe, and giving Alexandra the chance to strike on big-threat Evan. This excitement was short lived as Dylan was then swiftly ousted next, and Alexandra was then betrayed by Kiko, leading to a disappointing Final Three of him, Gustavo and "Whiteboard" Adam (he got the nickname by saying in his final speech that he wrote everyone's names on a whiteboard and considered the moves he'd make. He did jack shit and it was a pagonging.).
Kiko got rid of Gustavo for a Kiko/Adam F2, probably the most unlikable Final Two of the Generation. Kiko triumphed over Adam (thank fuck), but the entire shambles of unanimous votes, pagongings and disappointments left a very bitter taste in everyone's mouthes.
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LEVEL OF STRATEGY: 1 out of 5.
Alexandra and Evan were the only two dominant strategic forces this season. Dylan, Chris and John from Buckingham had potential, but as soon as then got into the minority they couldn't do much to survive. It made matters worse that the twist of the season meant that ALL the idols of the season were with the Windsor tribe. You have to give Kiko SOME credit for pulling off the win, but the Alexandra boot was really the main credit he had. Not to take away the legitimacy of a UTR strategy.
ENTERTAINING/LIKEABLE PLAYERS: 2..

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