Thursday, February 11, 2010

The Greatest Survivor Contestants Ever


Tonight sees the premiere of the second full All-Star season of Survivor where they are splitting the best into Heroes vs. Villains. Over the twenty seasons of Survivor, there have been 303 different contestants that have tried to Outwit, Outplay, and Outlast each other. So in honor of the anniversary I rounded up a few of my buddies, Dan from TiFaux, Kim from TV Screener, Vance from Tapeworthy, and my resident Survivor fanatic Doug to figure out who is the Greatest Survivor Contestant of All Time. Well, at least who fills the slots two to twenty-five because of course it was the original winner Richard Hatch who was the unanimous number one. So here are the other twenty-four we came up with (note: the “w” denotes the winner that season):

1. Richard Hatch – Borneo (w) / All-Stars

2. Russell Hantz – Samoa / Heroes vs. Villains

3. Rob Mariano - Marquesas / All-Stars / Heroes vs. Villains

4. Rob Cesterniro - The Amazon / All-Stars

5. Tom Westman – Palau (w) / Heroes vs. Villains

6. Todd Herzog – China (w)

7. Yau-Man Chan - Fiji / Micronesia

8. Amanda Kimmel - China / Micronesia / Heroes vs. Villains

9. Yul Kwon - Cook Islands (w)

10. Stephen Fishbach - Tocantins

11. Rudy Boesch - Borneo / All-Stars

12. Jenna Morasca - The Amazon (w) / All-Stars

13. Sandra Diaz-Twine - Pearl Islands (w) / Heroes vs. Villains

14. Stephanie LaGrossa - Palau / Guatemala / Heroes vs. Villains

15. Chris Daugherty – Vanuatu (w)

16. Tom Buchanan - Africa / All-Stars

17. Lex van de Berghe - Africa / All-Stars

18. Rupert Boneham - Pearl Islands / All-Stars / Heroes vs. Villains

19. Colby Donaldson - Australian Outback / All-Stars / Heroes vs. Villains

20. Parvati Shallow - Cook Islands / Micronesia (w) / Heroes vs. Villains

21. Cirie Fields - Exile Island / Heroes vs. Villains

22. Kathy Vavrick-O'Brian - Marquesas / All-Stars

23. Ethan Zohn – Africa (w) / All-Stars

24. Bob Crowley – Gabon (w)

25. Ken Huang - Gabon


And for those wondering who are my favorite Survivors of all time, here is my list which I took a mix of the greatest strategists and the most entertaining throughout the last decade:

1. Richard Hatch – Borneo (w) / All-Stars

2. Rudy Boesch - Borneo / All-Stars

3. Jenna Morasca - The Amazon (w) / All-Stars

4. Russell Hantz – Samoa / Heroes vs. Villains

5. Tom Buchanan - Africa / All-Stars

6. Parvati Shallow - Cook Islands / Micronesia (w) / Heroes vs. Villains

7. Stephen Fishbach - Tocantins

8. Bob Crowley – Gabon (w)

9. Rob Cesterniro - The Amazon / All-Stars

10. Amanda Kimmel - China / Micronesia / Heroes vs. Villains

11. J.T. Thomas Jr. – Tocantins (w) / Heroes vs. Villains

12. Colby Donaldson - Australian Outback / All-Stars / Heroes vs. Villains

13. James Clement - China / Micronesia / Heroes vs. Villains

14. Ethan Zohn - Africa (w) / All-Stars

15. Rupert Boneham - Pearl Islands / All-Stars / Heroes vs. Villains

16. Yau-Man Chan - Fiji / Micronesia

17. Brandon Quinton - Africa

18. Earl Cole – Fiji (w)

19. Danielle DiLorenzo - Exile Island / Heroes vs. Villains

20. Cirie Fields - Exile Island / Heroes vs. Villains

21. Natalie White - Samoa

22. Todd Herzog – China (w)

23. Stephanie LaGrossa - Palau / Guatemala / Heroes vs. Villains

24. Yul Kwon – Cook Island (w)

25. Ken Huang – Gabon


Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains airs Thursdays at 8:00 on CBS. You can stream recent episodes over at cbs.com. You can also download Survivor on iTunes.



6 comments:

  1. Dang right putting Russ above Rob! WOOT! Go Russell!!!

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  2. Parvati should be up WAY higher

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  3. Brandon????? Didn't he get voted out like 12th

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  4. I found Brandon highly entertaining like the time he almost set himself on fire during the flaming arrow challenge, really one of the great moments in Survivor history.

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  5. Boston Rob's way better than Russell.... Russell's wicked cocky and he has no class. I mean Rob knows how to play this game with CLASS if there was a "right" way to play Survivor, I'd pick Boston Rob

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  6. THE AMAZING PART OF ALL THIS IS, THAT RICHARD HAD ALREADY FIGURED OUT HOW TO PLAY THE GAME BEFORE ANYONE ELSE EVEN GOT ON THE BOAT TO GO TO THE ISLAND.. LIKE ALL 1ST'S HE WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE ONE THAT DEFINED HOW THE GAME IS TO BE PLAYED AFTERALL HE SAID IN THE 1ST EPISODE THAT THE CHECK ALREADY HAS HIS NAME WRITTEN ON IT.

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