The Ten Dumbest Moves in Survivor History
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Okay. This might be my last top ten for a while. Then again,
I don’t know how I’m going to come up with enough blog posts during the hiatus
between the last season and the upcoming season. Guess I shouldn’t be doing two
a week. Hopefully, the official cast will be released soon so I can talk about
that. I don’t know when they plan on filming the 29th or 30th
season, but it is possible that they are filming it now. Possible, but
unlikely. Maybe I should do a list of all the twists that they could use for
the 30th season. I want to do a ten best tribes list (which would
contradict my claim that this would be the last top ten for a while, but I
don’t really care about that right now), but I’m not entirely sure what those
ten tribes would be. And since I’ve done a worst twists list, I might as well
do a best twists list, but I don’t have enough good twists on the list yet,
although I’m sure that I could if I tried really hard at thinking about it. I
forget what all the things I’ve promised to post but might not have posted yet
is. I guess I should look back at this blog. Besides, if I don’t read it, then
I’m not sure that anyone does. There is at least one person who says that they
are a player in this season, but I don’t think that anyone should be saying
that yet. In this case, it’s possible (but I’m not entirely sure) that this is
a hoax. I don’t want to look up any information regarding this season (or the
next two, for that matter) for fear that I could be spoiled as to who might
when. I want to know where it is, what major twists they might use, and who is
in it (but only if there are returning players). Other than that, I don’t
really want to know and don’t know why I look stuff like that up sometimes.
Also, hopefully these minor blog problems that I have don’t persist or I can
stop saying things in this blog that annoy me to some degree that have been in
my blog for quite some time and might annoy you too. The Survivor premiere
could not get here soon enough. And I don’t know how to fix the time zone when
my blog says that I post it at one time and that’s not when I really posted it.
I’m not sure that I want to post it either, although you probably know that I
live somewhere in either the Central or Eastern time zone and was not affected
by either of the two possible delays in the finale of Blood versus Water. You
know: the six minute delay or the twenty-five minute delay that I’m making a
big deal about for absolutely no good reason. Regardless, I should stop the
pointless commentary that normally accompanies these blog posts (one of the
things that I do that annoy me and probably a lot of you) and get to the point
of this whole blog post. Let me first think of all the dumb moves in the show.
I have decided to only include dumb contestant decisions and dumb moves that
were made in the form of challenges, twists, or some other form of production
decision, are not going to be included.
Before we get to the main list, I will do a list of
honorable mentions. While there are scores of dumb moves from various season to
choose from (not even all of the very dumb moves are what I considered to be
chosen on this list of mine), I will list what I think the dumbest moves are. I
don’t think that Colby taking Tina to the end in Australia was among the top
ten dumbest moves in the season of the show. As much as the women keeping Chris
around in Vanuatu inadvertently letting him win the game was pretty dumb, but
also unworthy of the top ten. Cindy keeping her car for herself in Guatemala
was dumb, but it was pretty much a no win situation for her that she would have
failed at anyways. Jason trying to use a fake idol in Micronesia only to have a
real idol and not use it was another dumb move. But he is also unworthy because
of the sheer number of bad moves that overshadow it. That is also why Ken
getting himself voted out in Gabon while trying to blindside another player in
the dumbest way possible (he more or less said, “give me your immunity necklace
so I can vote you out”) is not on the list. And as dumb as Matt was when he
reentered the game by winning Redemption Island only to get himself voted out
again by trying to redeem himself by telling the person he had thought of
blindsiding of his plan to vote him out, that is also not going to be on the
list. So, with no further ado, I will post the top ten dumbest moves and hope
that the order is good and the list is good considering how Survivor fans will
always argue about what the dumbest move of all time is (or has yet to be).
#10 From Survivor: Thailand comes one of the few interesting
parts of the season. It is still considered the reason why the affected player
should return for another chance, despite the fact that she has already become
a returning player. Shii-Ann betrayed her tribe at the merge. Well, that was
the problem. It wasn’t actually the merge. The contestants didn’t think of the
fact that nobody gave them new buffs that merged tribes typically get. They
were none the wiser to the fact that the two tribes did not actually merge. I
do wonder if this fake merge would have still happened if someone had accepted
the mutiny offer in a previous episode. But I’ve never liked the way they did
mutinies and was surprised the only time people accepted it. But, back to the
topic. Shii-Ann’s tribe was mean to her for most of the normal premerge part of
the game. In fact, she was the one who always got the votes at tribal council
that weren’t given to the person who was voted out. Like Cochran many seasons
later, she really wanted to flip. And everyone knew that she could have
betrayed the tribe had they actually merged. But because they didn’t, she was
immediately voted out once they lost the immunity challenge and didn’t end up
making the merge. Regardless, her tribe was screwed either way. But, since the
other tribe of the season doesn’t have a single returning player, this move
isn’t as dumb in comparison to many others because she got a second chance
because of it. That is why it only ranks as number ten, but it’s still more
stupid than any other action not on the list.
#9 From Survivor: Guatemala comes what might be an
overlooked dumb moment in the show, but still a pretty dumb move. Rafe had
everything going for him that season. He could have easily won the game. But
like other players before him, he messed it all up. And he messed it up at the
final three of all places. He had a final two deal with both of the players
that were left in the game. Thus, in theory, anyone could win the final immunity
challenge and if it wasn’t him, he would still be sitting next to them. That’s
when he impulsively threw it all away. His great game ended the moment the
final immunity challenge did. Due to Stephenie getting upset, Rafe released
Danni, the winner of the final immunity challenge, from their final two deal. He
then tried to take it back and got upset at Danni when she voted out the bigger
threat to win (him). He was the only jury member to vote for Stephenie to win,
because she played a pretty poor game that season and definitely lost it at the
final tribal council by poorly answering questions that the jury asked her.
Poor Stephenie. Danni also seemed to come out of nowhere to win the game to
when Rafe had everything going for him with great game play and a great
strategy. But then he released Danni from their final two deal.
#8 From Survivor: Heroes versus Villains comes a dumb moment
that I’ve already covered before. Tyson was given a simple task by his
alliance. Vote out Russell. That way, if Russell plays a hidden immunity idol
on himself, the other target named Parvati can get voted out. If Parvati plays
a hidden immunity idol, Russell can get voted out. But it only works if you
stick to your vote. Instead, Tyson decides to vote for Parvati at the urging of
Russell of all people to ensure that a threat would get voted out. Tyson must
have been that threat because he was the one voted out after he switched his
vote and Parvati played the hidden immunity idol that Russell gave her. Tyson
redeemed himself as a good player in the most recent season that he won. This
move, on the other hand, was just stupid.
#7 From Survivor: China comes the first of many events known
as the dumbest move ever made in Survivor. Such a thing had never happened
before, although it has happened since, only with one less idol than it first
happened. It’s always a dumb move but it was really dumb when it first
happened. James knew that he was a strong competitor. He knew that he was a
threat. Other people knew that he had not one, but two hidden immunity idols.
And if he played them, then he would make it very far in the game. But he
didn’t play either idol. He still has them both because he got voted out of the
game with them in his possession. And he’ll probably never live that down. He
has not had that many good experiences in the game, but this one was the only
time that it was his fault.
#6 From Survivor: Palau comes more of a strange moment that
came from a very unusual season. Ian, like many of these dumb players, had a
lot going for him. While I’m not certain that he would have won in a final two
against Tom, he definitely went about getting there the wrong way. At the final
three immunity challenge, he spent a very long time facing Tom. In fact, this
challenge lasted longer than any other challenge in the game. Jeff Probst
listed it as his favorite challenge, although I’m not certain that they’ll use
it again due to the length of time it can last. Ian and Tom went back and forth
over who should drop out and vote out Katie. And then, out of the blue, Ian
decides to give up immunity and his position in the game by saying that he’ll
drop out of the challenge so that Tom would take Katie and not him to the final
two. Now there were off camera game play that we didn’t get to see that much
where Tom stated that he always planned on taking Katie to the final two and
told Ian to do the same. I’m not sure if this is because Tom thought that Katie
was easy to beat or if it’s because he valued an alliance with Katie. I think
that it wasn’t because he wanted someone easy to beat, but I don’t know for
sure. I guess that I’ll have to listen to that Survivor Oz interview again.
Back on topic, Ian made a bad move that made many people mistake him for a
quitter (although can you really quit that late in the game?), but I think that
he might return at some point. I hope that he does, even if he has yet to be an
alternate for a returning player season.
#5 From Survivor: Micronesia comes another event considered
the stupidest move ever. As a matter of opinion, I have listed this here
instead of later on the list. In fact, my opinion might not even be what many
people think is the dumbest move of all time. Erik was playing, once again, a
great game so far. Well, according to him, he made a lot of mistakes in the
game. But he wasn’t going to do that when he gave up his necklace to Natalie.
Say what! Why would you give up your own form of immunity? The women didn’t
even want to try asking you to do that because of how dumb it was to do. And
that’s why you made a terrible move. Nobody remembers what other dumb moves you
might have made before that. When you returned to the game, you would also give
up the tribal immunity idol and the hidden immunity idol, but somehow, that
didn’t negatively affect your game. This bad move is what he’ll always be
remembered for.
#4 From Survivor: Borneo comes what is considered by many
(at least me) to be the first move to go down in history as incredibly dumb. It
was very dumb. You’d think that it being the first season might have excused
them in some way. But I just consider it to be a bad decision. Pagong should
have voted together in a majority. With Sean voting on his own, the Pagong five
could easily overpower the members of Tagi. Instead, they all cast individual
votes. Having not seen the episode where this happened, I don’t understand it.
And I think that the majority of the community will never understand it. Every
member of Pagong voted for however they wanted to instead of as a group. They
all got picked off one by one. And they would go down in reality show infamy.
#3 From Survivor: One World comes a shocking event that
could be the dumbest move that a group of individuals did. While the lead-up
will always be misleading since they can’t show us why this actually happened,
it will still go down as a horrible and terrible decision. Manono just won an
immunity challenge. They were safe. They didn’t have to vote anyone out. But because
of irritation with a certain tribe member, they thought of giving up immunity
to the other tribe. The decision was unanimous. It had to be. And if you are
agreeing to go to tribal council to vote out a member of your tribe, you could
potentially be giving your tribe permission to vote yourself out when they
otherwise wouldn’t have. And that is what makes the decision so dumb. While
Moto had given up immunity before, they had a perfectly good excuse (they’d
lose their great beach if they kept it). Manono would just become the dumbest
tribe in the show’s history.
#2 From Survivor: Heroes versus Villains comes an incredibly
dumb player by someone who should be a great player. JT was the only player at
the time to play a perfect game so he knew the great things that can be done to
play a game well to win. This was not one of his bright and shiny moments. This
was a very moronic moment. This is why many people hate him and consider him a
bad player, although I don’t think that one of Survivor’s worst players would
have won the game, especially not the way that JT won the game. Regardless, he
was pretty dumb to give his hidden immunity idol to a member of the opposing
tribe, that was even called the Villains or more evil tribe. JT’s tribe
probably lost the game because of this moment. (I just lost the game. And so
did anyone who understands what this comment means.) Poor JT thought that he
was helping the last member of a tribe being targeted by an all women’s
alliance. Instead, he helped a villain get even stronger.
#1 Okay, so I might end up cheating on this last item on the
list. The dumbest move of all time is actually the dumbest player of all time.
There is nothing smart that this player did any time he played the game. So I’m
giving the award to Brandon for being a horrible player. In both South Pacific
and Caramoan, he played the game in a worse way than any other player has. And
I was thinking that his uncle was pretty bad at the game. But I was wrong.
Brandon is the worst player. Under the pretense of not lying, he lies to
everyone about everything. He does very dumb things such as telling people who
the target is when they are getting voted out (and that person is the target),
making up more lies about players and then getting mad when people figure them
out. And the smartest thing he might have ever done was give up immunity to his
ally. Wait, that’s not smart at all. When he gave up immunity, he got voted
right out of the game. That move culminated and solidified his status as the
all time dumbest Survivor player. And the moves he made wrong were the worst
moves in the game.
I hope that this list doesn’t contradict any previous list
that I did. That’s why I had to switch numbers three and four with each other.
I don’t think that the most shocking moments are definitely the dumbest moments
of all time. These are the ten that I chose. I’m not sure if I’ll do a reverse
list and add numbers 11-20 or not. Hopefully, I can find something good to post
about in the future until this coming season airs. For now, this is Adam
Decker, signing off.
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