Survivor: Game Changers- Who Works and Who Doesn’t

This post is basically we wondering who was a good game changer. Did they make the cast of game changers? Were they snubbed? Did people who didn’t work still make the cast? Well, I thought that I would tell you what my opinions on this are. I’ll go through cast members and mention who I think is and isn’t worthy of the title of game changer.

I’m not sure how Jeff Varner changed the game. I know that he was eliminated due to strange tie-breaker rules that were replaced by even worse rules. Maybe he made enough of a difference to be considered a game changer, but I’m not sure how he did that.

Sandra is undoubtedly a game changer. If she wasn’t the first time, she definitely was a second time when she won a second time. Even if someone else manages to win the game twice, it will only be after Queen Sandra already did that.

As good a player as Cirie is, I’m not sure how she was a game changer. I know that she helped convince someone to give up immunity. That was a pretty interesting moment. I’m not sure what else she did to change the game. But if they are going with the best players, then she is worthy of it.

Ozzy probably changed the game. He was voted out a record number of times (4). He won what I believe to be the highest percentage of individual immunity challenges. He used the Redemption Island twist to his advantage by voting himself out in order to get back in the game. That is kind of unfair in a way. Poor Christine was doing so well at Redemption Island and then King Ozzy just has to dethrone her. So there are enough ways that I can see him changing the game.

JT did something that no other contestant before him had done. On the surface, it sounded very simple. Win the game unanimously with no votes against you the whole game. It is something that no one else had done before him. I’m fairly certain that only one other person has done it since him. To play a perfect game like he did is to change the game. And then, he changed it again the next time he played by being the only contestant to give his idol to a member of the other tribe. He did a lot to change the game, for better and for worse.

I’m not entirely sure what Andrea did to change the game. She joined an alliance, got booted by the alliance, won Redemption Island, and was voted out again. I’m not sure if she’s in this because of her being a winner of Redemption Island. She wasn’t that good a player, although there are worse people who are in the cast. I’m not sure how she’s a game changer.

What did Troyzan do to change the game? I’m not entirely sure. I just know that he has been an alternate for other seasons before this so production might have felt that he should play a season again. (I honestly don’t know if he was an alternate for this season as well and replaced someone else they wanted on the cast.) He was kind of annoying, although he’s hardly the most annoying. (Future top ten?) Maybe he changed the game, but I don’t know how.

Malcolm did some serious moves that changed the game. I don’t think that he was the first to make risky moves by revealing his idol to everyone and not playing it. But he really did shake up the game in Caramoan when his move with two idols brought us the greatest tribal council ever. These might not have been originally his moves, but they were all game changing.

Brad might be here due to more of a coattail connection than anything else. That, and production might have wanted him back after fans rejected him for Cambodia. He convinced Monica to burn a clue to the hidden immunity idol. I’m not sure what else he did besides that to get on a game changer list.

Let’s say that you are Ciera. You flip on the only two alliances in the game and cause the second known rock draw, first by actual known choice. And you help vote out your own mother. Can you imagine that? If you weren’t going to call her a game changer, then you don’t know much about her.

Sarah played in Cagayan and I honestly don’t know what she did that changed the game that much. I know that she was the person that season who went the longest without attending tribal council, but she wasn’t the only one who did that.

Tony really changed the game with his overly aggressive game play. He did so many devious things and still got the votes of almost all the jury, including a great speech by the great hero of that season. It is hard to say how he changed the game, but few would say that he didn’t.

I’m honestly not sure if Hali is the person that I’m most bothered by being in this cast. What did she do to change the game? I can’t think of anything notable she did when she played it. She wasn’t even a good player. While hardly the worst person from her original cast, she might be the least worthy of being called a game changer.

Sierra was possibly the most invisible person on her season. This makes me wonder what production saw in her that we didn’t see. I’m not sure how she changed the game. I’m glad that she is back, but we never saw much from her and we don’t really know what she would have done, then to change the game. Can you think of something?

Caleb more had a game changing thing happen to him than him actually changing the game himself. He was evacuated in the middle of a challenge and was unconscious the whole time. I’m not sure how he actually changed the game himself as he didn’t even go to a tribal council yet.

Debbie was a strange player and I’m not sure how she changed the game. She confused the editors who, apparently, kept changing her profession every time she gave a confessional. She was in control of an alliance that turned on her, but she’s hardly the only person that has happened to.

Tai was a mostly good player who didn’t have a good end game strategy. I’m not really sure if he changed the game. I know that there were twists that never happened before that he did in his own way. He was also the first person to effectively use a double vote advantage without being voted out. The main change that he did was being the first gay finalist not to get a jury vote.

I feel that Aubry is only in the cast due to all the ridiculous notions of the idea that she should have won the game her season. She sucked. Winners don’t constantly complain about things not going their way. I just don’t get the love of her. And she didn’t change the game. All she did was make fans complain a lot that the final vote went the way it did.

Michaela may have done something to change the game. She played it way too openly. While Aubry was too closed a player (in that no one knew that she was doing anything), she was too open. At one point, she was helping one tribe win a challenge and openly admitted that if people on her old tribe didn’t know what to do, then they deserved to be voted out. She’s kind of like Susie from Gabon, only I actually like Michaela. I’m ultimately not sure how she changed the game, but I’m glad that she’s coming back as she is entertaining. Hopefully, she can dial back herself a bit.

Zeke may not have done too much to change the game. Like Michaela, I’m glad that he’s coming back as there’s a lot of game left in him. Since he is the last player, I might as well get into how a possible alternate name of the season was Legends. That seems like a more general and acceptable name than game changer does as game changer is really broad?

Well, I’ll actually be back here with a random post sometime this coming Wednesday next week. There is still one more random post that I want to do before the season starts again. I know that Survivor starts next week, but remember that during Lent, my posts on each new episode will be on the Thursday after the episode, since I won’t be able to see it live. I guess that’s it for now and you can look forward to one more random thought about this season before it actually happens. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.