Top Ten Most Deserving Winners

Okay, before I get to the gist of this post, I should tell you that no matter how much I like or hate a particular winner, I don’t feel that anyone should have won over another person. Basically, anyone who wins shouldn’t have lost to some other player for any reason whatsoever. And I’m not going to say that anyone who won didn’t deserve it as they clearly had some way of beating the other contestants even if I didn’t like it in the end. This blog post will mention who, for whatever reason, I felt stood out as most deserving of the sole Survivor prize. This may not even be the same as who I would pick for the top ten winners of Survivor. In my mind, these are the winners who had to overcome lots of problems and may not have had it as easy as some other winners. But, I might as well get to my choices.

Honorable mentions: Tina proved that a nice person could win, but I feel that another nice person did a better job with winning and I’m putting him on the list instead. Vecepia invented a new way of playing the game that could result in a win. As a floater, she proved that there were different ways to produce the win. But I’m not sure that’s good enough to put on the list. Earl won unanimously and that could have gotten him a spot on this list, but I felt that others did better at that. Kim played a wondrous game from start to finish. But in a way, it wasn’t that much of a difficult route to the win that others might have had. Mike had to win a bunch of challenges to defeat the alliance that he was not part of anymore and still got their votes to win. But I’m just not sure enough that he should be on the list compared to those that I did pick. So I’ll get to the actual top ten now.

#10 Jenna: This may be an odd pick to some, but she was the first contestant to win in a landside losing only one single jury vote. I’m not entirely sure why people hate her. But she played a game that got even a notable enemy of hers to vote for her to win. She had to have done something right.

#9 Ethan: One of my favorite winners, Ethan was pretty much prove that nice guys can actually win the game of Survivor. He played a truly great and respectable game and won because of it. If you saw the Survivor Showdown that I was in, then you’ll notice that the person who picked Ethan for most likable contestant was the person who won that round of the debate. He truly is a great person and didn’t do well on All-Stars simply because people were afraid that he could win again. I have the feeling that it’s possible he could if he appeared on the show a third time.

#8 Jeremy: Here’s a contestant that faced the most jury members ever in the history of Survivor and got every single one of their votes to win. It can be hard to believe that nobody ever thought of targeting this nice guy throughout the game. Maybe he had it a bit easier than most, but he was still up against other great finalists and got ten jury votes to win the game.

#7 Richard: On the surface, some may think that he had it easy being the first winner and the fact that not many other people were actually playing the game this season. But here’s a guy who was always playing to win and he had the cockiness to tell everyone that he was going to win. And he actually did win. Without him, we might not have alliances and the game would be completely different. Can you imagine the game without alliances? It would be totally different and wouldn’t work. This guy helped make Survivor into what it is today.

#6 JT: Mr. Perfect Game himself has to be on the list, especially since he was the first person to ever get no votes against him throughout the whole game and then win every jury vote. You can’t do that easily. Proof of that is that he’s the eighteenth winner and only the first person to achieve this feat is quite legendary for him. You might be wondering why he’s only number six on this list, but you’ll have to wonder who else could be a more deserving winner than him. Well…

#5 Tom: Here’s a player who spent a record time in the game immune from being voted out. From being on the dominate Koror tribe to winning a record number of individual immunity challenges (a record shared with four other players), Tom was a great player who played one of the best games that I can think of and remember being played.

#4 Tony: Imagine being one of the hugest villains in Survivor history and actually winning the game even after flipping on various people throughout the game. And unlike some villains, he didn’t rely on a bare minimum of the jury votes the way someone like Brian did. And he never even won an immunity challenge either. Can you believe that someone like him could actually win in the end? So many people would have been betting against him, but I knew that he would probably win and he did.

#3 Sandra: If you don’t have her on here for her first win, then you’ll definitely have to put her on here for winning the second time. There used to be a stigma against former winners and no one cared, it seems, that she actually overcame that by getting far in the game. In the premerge part of the game she had to deal with being in the wrong alliance where people either flipped on it to the other side or were voted out. Soon, she was left all by herself, and yet wasn’t targeted by the rest of the tribe. Then, when she made the merge, she had the opportunity to join the heroes and flip on her old tribe mates. She didn’t do this and still got all of the votes of the heroes to win. Can you believe that she actually won? There are only two other people that I felt had more to overcome.

#2 Chris: From the very first challenge, he was on the outs. It’s hard to believe that he actually lasted past the first tribal council. Then, when the men were outnumbered at the merge, he thought that he would be the last in the obvious elimination order. After losing the pivotal immunity challenge, the women on the tribe decided to get rid of one of their own. Then, everything fell apart for them. Chris was able to overcome a lot of odds and then win.

When it comes to this list, I am putting people on here based on what they did when they won, how they won, and what they overcame in order to win. The person who I think is most deserving of the win probably had the most going against her.

#1 Denise: First, you are on a tribe that loses every freaking challenge. You get moved to another tribe and they start losing the challenges. So you then make it to the merge and you’ve attended every tribal council thus far in the game and will have to go to every tribal council during the rest of the season in order to win the game. Every contestant knows this about you and people start to target you. But you are able to get different alliances in this game to work with and against each other to further your own life in the game. At the end, you might have some stiff competition, but you are still able to pull off the win. After going to every tribal council during a season, you win.

Well, I hope that this list isn’t controversial to anyone, especially the winners that aren’t on this list. This might be one of the more questionable posts that I’ve done, but I still hope that others like it and aren’t offended by it. That’s all regarding this post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.