cRaZy's SFC: Season Rankings

cRaZy's SFC: Season Rankings
Let's get these out of the way....

#15: SFC10 "Battle of the Tribes"
I have voiced to great length my opinion on this season, and it can be summed up into this one word, Disappointing. Granted not everything about it was "BAD" For instance the pre-merge up until the final 14 was actually really well done, and some of the characters wound up surprising me Like Sanza, Emilee, Ventious, and Starr, but unfortunately that was basically it! The lack of character substance, and the rules being broken over, and over again with characters getting into fights, Minerva literally getting naked for almost all the challenges, Terrible casting choices in Phil, and Adrian, STUPIDEST MOVE IN THE SERIES HISTORY, lack of consistency in characters (Looking at you Ryuia...), A both Negative, and Boring Merge, The worst Final 8 ever, the worst Final 3 where every other word they said was "Fuck", Bonnie lasting all the way up to the Final Freaking three AGAIN! even though we already knew she was losing in the first episode, and top it off with the crowning the worst winner to Date in Jackie who was super obnoxious, and out of context in every single thing he did in game and you've got yourself a bad season.

SWSU-Master did admit that writing an All-Stars Season will almost always have major repercussions such as so, and so's favorite character being forced into the supporting role, nothing left to develop, etc. It's just for some reason I feel this season could have been salvaged if some of the cast left at different places, and that if some people were actually given some much needed development (Like Adrian or Phil the two least developed Castaways we've had in a long time!) Or made the winner a bit less visible, so we could appreciate him better as a player, or if Jeff Probst could drop the Rulebook down and actually kick Bonnie out of the game as opposed to the predictable Vote off we all saw coming Light Years before the first comic came out. Being brutally honest here when Bonnie eventually left the game I shook my head and sighed because it wasn't satisfying at all. In short that is why SFC10 is my least favorite Season of all the seasons.


#14: SFC12 Fans vs. Canons 2

Warning, very angry Rant ahead.
The most recent completed season of SWSU's SFC series....and...........I'm sorry, but why don't more people dislike this season? Was I the only one here who honestly hated pretty much the entire season? What in God's green Earth was so good about this season? I mean honestly this season was BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
This season has MANY FLAWS, so many in fact  that it makes me kind of pissed off just typing this entry. Firstly of course.....Enter........Throughout the whole seasons airing I steadily got angrier, and angrier that something as asinine as Enter OPing the playing field was going down, and if there's one thing i really hate in Survivor it's when the rules are broken.....This season had absolutely no rules for the entire Pre-Merge. And it wasn't until the merge where the group finally figured out there was cheating going on, and sadly they had to bide their time and get rid of the cheater, which took what felt like Months from a viewers perspective. Now in theory something as complex as this sounds quite brilliant on paper, it sounds like it'll cause lots of water cooler talk for the fans and they can discuss how Enter was getting away with everything....but alas we all kind of figured it out that he was cheating, and as the episodes went on my patience grew tired, and eventually I just up, and quit the season, that's right this season as it aired made me quit reading live. I truly believe without any hesitation in my mind that,

ENTER FUCKED THIS SEASON UP!
I can go on, and on, and on about how this French/Japanese/Robotic Twat spammed Idols, broke rules in challenges, cheated on a daily bassis, and constantly ruined what were leading up to be good episodes with a shitty idol play pay off. And the fact it took a combined herculean effort of the whole cast having Maggie play the Martyr to ruin his systems in spamming idols, and finally get his stupid ass out of there.....but even then when he left it wasn't very satisfying since I found the majority of the cast to be either Unlikable, or just flat out boring. Especially since it appears hitting someone isn't in the same fucking ball park as spamming the same played idol over, and over again. Jesus!

So with something as Heinous as that Robotic waste of space surely the rest of the cast had to boost it up some right..... The whole cast sucked too!

I could tell we were in for a rough season since the first episode! they got rid of the Super likable Power Ranger Uri, and we kept Shelby...oh God Shelby, just the absolute worthless piece of Cat piss SFC had ever seen. I swear her running gag of being lazy wasn't funny neither was her shtick where everyone would say SHUT UP SHELBY Every fucking episode, the way she behaved was gross...just gross. Oh and then there's players such as Phoenix Wright who was a stratbot the entire time, Kim Possible who literally BECAME A ROBOT during the season with her constant strategy talk, and then of Course the Great Season Ruiner himself Enter.

It's important to note that I think the original Fans vs. Canons season was in my humble opinion far superior to this one. I actually really liked a lot of the cast in SFC4, and yeah it wasn't exactly the greatest season ever, but at least it didn't have someone fucking up the story with constant idol spamming, and shitty character derailments. Another thing about SFC4 was that I felt like I got to know most of the cast pretty well. I knew who were the good guys, bad guys. The story wasn't so convoluted, and the plot made sense, and the castaways who were sharing scenes with their canon counterparts felt organic and more realisitc than they were in SFC12, and really all i need in a season is someone to route for.... However in season 12...I don't get those same feelings at all. In all honesty I don't even know what to think of half of these guys season 12. I hated pretty much all of them except for like four People (Mike, Lola, Spongebob and Bowser). It became hard to like anyone this season since I either was annoyed by them, or bored of them, I cannot remember a single thing any of the cast really did that absolutely wowed me, and the stuff that did Wow me made me angry that something as dumb as what I saw in the comic happened in the first place!

Look, if you really like this season, then you know what congratulations, you like it good on ya, but yikes, God have Mercy on me because I really couldn't gel with this season at all it was so bad, and it made me quit reading the series for a time, now that I think about it it may be my least favorite Survivor Fanfic of all time....ugh for now I'm just going to put it in my bottom two of the series right now. It's good to see Writers taking risks in their works, but sadly I don't think it worked.

That is what I think of SFC12....It was a rare combination of both Boring, and infuriating.


#13: SFC8 "Midway Island"
The premise for the season was leading up to one of my favorites in the series, and I loved the stuffing out of the midway Islands twist so much. The option to flip over to the other tribe was a unique plot device where characters were able to escape a vote, or screw over an alliance. The Possibilities were numerous, and the pre-merge portion of the game was awesome with the twist being used very well, and I loved that the twist was then changed at the merge where players could vote at Midway Island for someone to never be able to vote for that rounds Tribal Council all in all t was a great Idea for a Twist and I'd love to see it come back someday. My Major gripe with the season wasn't the twist though it was the cast. This seasons castaways were either a "Love em, or Hate em variety" and a lot of my early favorites were voted out Pre-Merge leaving us with a pretty negative cast at the merge. Malik was annoying with his mannerisms, and his mesh mouth. Iraneus was annoying with his sexual harassment, Heinz did a major 180 and turned into one of the biggest morons the series had ever seen, Matt was just so generic a douchey, Hannah's nickname is annoying, and i still refuse to call her O*****, Geena was the biggest Bore the show had ever seen ever, in terms of players she's the most Boring castaway ever rivaling Jonas Otsuji of one world, and Joe Dowdle from Tocantins. I liked Melanie as a winner, but her victory was waaaaay too easy for my taste, to the point i was really starting to get sick of her because it was established by like Eppy 5 that she was the winner.

Basically if one thing about this season was that players seemed to lack common sense with several of the players making irrational choices when it was quite clear that Melanie was running the show, also this Jury was my least favorite it was a very boring FTC. In short the season was predictable and that's what made it so....meh.

#12: SFC7
I actually really like most of the characters this season. It had a lot of shifting gameplay, and Ker, Krauss, Ventious, and Wrecker were my favorites. I liked that we learned about the Rules of Survivor and that the rules of destroying property forced you to get a penalty vote, and that come from behind win from Ker was so satisfying to watch. "But cRaZy! Why is the Season at number eight?" you might ask, well that's fairly simple. The season ranks fairly low because of two things.

1) Russell Hantz on Ho'Aku: Talk about starting it on the wrong  note. For the first time in SFC the players competed with returning player Russell Hantz, and good God was he annoying! I 'm not really sure why SWSU-Master decided to go with this route where one Real Life Player would join the Fan Characters and in a sense ruin the entire Pre-Merge by finding idols, and playing them eliminating all the likable castaways first. I guess not enough Fan Characters were sent in or something because the troll lasted into 12th Place, and those episodes where he was in dragged on waaaay too long with people having Bullcrap excuses to keep him in. I don't know why he was brought back, and I hate the fact he was really involved in the season at all in short his appearance didn't help.

2) The Audience votes for a Winner: This was just a dumb idea. Survivor isn't supposed to have an Audience votes for the winner option it's a terrible idea that shouldn't be implemented at all in an actual season, and it betrays the very name of the game. Plus we all knew that Wrecker had no shot at the Win since Ker was a combination of Clown/Ninja Gaiden badass lovable woman. I voted for Ker to win, and in the end I doubt my vote really mattered at that point since it would be a dark day in Hell if Wrecker won. Wrecker isn't supposed to win that's why I like him a villain if he had won that season I would've hated him. SWSU-Master did point out he wanted to show why this Audience votes for a winner is a bad idea for actual Survivor but in the end we already knew that and he was better off with Manya making the Jury.
All and all the second half of the season was incredible. As soon as Russell left the game felt like it actually started. The Come from behind victory of Ker over the Corsonans, was enough to make me put it above the other two.

#11: SFC4 "Fans vs Canons"
Another very Predictable season, but the premise was good. This season holds a special place in my heart since it was the first season I ever read Live. It was a great introduction to the series and I have a higher appreciation for it than most readers I think. Overall I still enjoy this season, but I will admit out of most of them I think this one hasn't aged as well. Most of The Fan, and Canon Characters seem to have no motivation this season, and it made for a boring season, plus Luke is just terrible. I used to really like him because I loved Final Fantasy, but I was blinded by My Final Fantasy love to realize just how abominable of a character Luke was. Other than Luke though I really liked Barney. He might have been a bit Vanilla for some people but I found his straight man attitude enjoyable. He was a physical threat who had a dynamic relationship with his Canon counterpart Lily the two of them were a great team and made it all the way to the final four where they finally turned on each other. I find Barney's Victory highly underrated since nobody else has ever been able to get all the Jury votes other than him. Also his sarcastic remarks were pretty funny too, so overall I was satisfied that he was the first Physical threat to win in the end.
Also worth noting P. Bear is A GOD! Holy crap if it weren't for this big Polar Bear then the season would have been painful to read, he was so cool, and likable. Also this was when we saw Minerva at her finest taking names, and blindsiding them, her "Little Miss" vote is always amazing every time I read it. and Kala was introduced that season as well! Love her and her Happy Stick, and Kevin, and Omay. So overall I know that the season isn't the best, but I find it underrated.

#10: SFC6 "All-Stars"
My favorite of the ASS in SFC. I know a lot of the villains left early on, and that the season had a few casting mistakes (Lucky) , but I really did like this season. The gameplay was always shifting, and it was pretty unpredictable at times. The men getting picked off one by one at the merge, and Bitsy's victory were great story arcs, and out of most of the cast I'd say about 16/20 of them were able to keep their classic characters in check like Hogan, and Gatemaster, while others wound up developing new story arcs altogether like Vinnie, Mary, and Al.
The big complaint I had with the season though was Violet. Good golly he was annoying. Bitsy also has lost some points for me on the re-read as the she did sort of become a bit of an attention whore, and her depression stage was always a chore to watch. in short I like this season, but it's not in my top five.

#9: SFC1
Ah the original season who could forget about the genesis of the series. SFC1 was a great season, and it has one of the better strategic victors in Sky (Raccoons <3). Also I liked a ton of the cast members this season (Other than Oran, and Meredith....blech her arms da fuq!?) and i can say that this cast was overall really good. The trick to writing a good series is to make sure that your first season is good, and that's exactly what it is, a solid season. My complaints are minor, but I will talk about them.
The Animation wasn't near as good as it is now, and that's mainly because this season was written in 2006 (7 YEARS AGO) and clearly a lot of the characters looked kinda wonky, but they have vastly improved as the seasons progressed, and SWSU-Master has crafted his work. And some of the characters were kinda....forgettable... For instance Suzanna was just remembered as the nice girl, and Phil was the fat guy. Heck even Sky tends to fall into obscurity as a winner because he was sort of Low Key at the beginning then really started playing Hard near the final 7. Other than that though I still think the story was good, and the season was able to garner enough fans so that it could go on for Several years to come.

#8: SFC15

A solid season! This marks the third season in a row in SWSU recent seasons that I believe were very strong! Great cast, fun twists, awesome story everything was solid, and even if the winner wasn't as good as previous ones Taro was still a fun character on his own. I'd say this season was a bit close to teetering on bad had Brandi stayed to the finals because she was a massive asshole who sucked, and the blatant cheating from Shaega and Taro really perturbed me in the long run.

With that said this season was a fun one, and no where near as bad as others, so it shall rank right here in the middle as a fun season to read for anyone curious.

#7: SFC14

The next season that I also enjoyed was SFC14. The cast was actually a reall fun group and the One World twist finally felt utilized to perfection with several characters interacting with one another, and shifting gameplay and alliances constantly kept the game in flux. The deserted twist was actually my favorite Twist in the series history because it added a whole new level of depth to Tribal Councils as whoever was deserted after an immunity challenge had immunity for a number of days, but still had to attend tribal councils and vote people out.

I also really liked the endgame and how it played out with two sisters dominating the game even if they never fully agreed on things together. It was a very fun season and the best part of it all was we were introduced to the greatest NOT VILLAIN in SFC history, the big bear Diego <333333 I could write a whole essay on Diego, but alas I am pressed for time.

Fun season overall.

#6: SFC5 "The Cursed Islands"
A highly underrated season the twists were awesome, and Marius, and Gatemaster are one of my favorite alliances ever. Along with that was probably one of the best Rivalries the series has had with Greg vs. Marius. The game was always unpredictable, and the cast was actually really good. I loved Jessica, Amy, and even Joseph. The pre-merge boots were pretty good too with Sin, and Audrey taking the Bribe curse in the tiebreaker, as well as the Hidden Renny game that went on for the rest of the season was always a great way to keep people's attention on the comic. Maria/Mo's cRaZy looking faces, and shoot that finale was one of the best in the series with the first tied runner ups in a Final 3 with the winner winning by one.
My problems with it are minimal.  Some of the Curses were a bit unfair, and the gimmick did get rather annoying. Although Greg was a great rival to Marius, he was really Boring whenever the conflict wasn't around. Miranda was a boring Runner-Up, and Marius going into CPNN5 Dickface mode sort of annoyed me...and Gatemaster camera hogged the stuffing out of this season, some of his jokes were pretty flat, but others were downright hilarious. in the End I feel this season deserves more love, and it is secure at number 4.

#5: SFC9
One of the better seasons is definitely Season 9. The season when it aired was a breath of fresh air after SFC8 and it brought wind back into the series sails. The cast was solid, and the Second best Winner of the series in Cherman being so adorable, and failing in almost every single challenge was pleasant. The season was epic because the characters were all over the place. Starr being a trainwreck, Brenton, and Madison having that Mactor alliance, Donovan and Fish's rivalry, Frank being a badass old dude, Sanza being your not so typical hero, and Tofuchao UTRN overall along with Kathy Angel <3. The season gets points taken from it though because....
As many awesome castaways there were there were also a fair share of Forgetable characters. Summer, Zachary, Jo, Ieaka. Also Adrian was on this season and you all saw what I thought of him being just a massive failure, and of course...Bonnie, or "Priscilla" as she was known for this go around. Priscilla really was a great villain, but the season afterward made me disgusted that she was even on a season in the first place. In short the season was Epic, and it deserves credit for being a wild, dark, and amazing season, I just hate Bonnie way too much now to put it any higher.


#4: SFC13

I fucking love this season!

What a great step up from Season 12 in everyway possible, Great Pre-Merge, Amazing Post Merge, Unique, eccentric, fun and interesting castaways. A quadrillion blindsides, Heroes, and Villains! Season 13 is a season that most survivor writers wish they could write I am in awe of the writing, and characters this season as they all delivered in some form or another, and Jim as a winner was just icing on the cake!

This season will probably stand the test of time as one of SWSU best seasons yet, and I look forward to seeing what happens next time. I'm sorry for the small writeup for this one seeing as I have to re-read it, but I truly believe this is a top tier season and it deserves it's recognition asone of the best Survivor Fanfics of all time.

#3: SFC2 "Brains vs. Brawns"
I love season 2, no really this season is amazing. The story is sooooo captivating, and the gameplay was turned on its head multiple times. Numerous blindsides, and a great Underdog victory with Ellise, and my favorite Villain ever Vinnie. I like this season had memorable characters, awesome gameplay and plenty of epic moments. Exile Island was used for the first time in the series, and it was used perfectly. The double idol play is my favorite moves ever, and of Course who could forget about Mary, and her absolutely abysmal attitude, and Anti-Furry mentality? Now for the nitpicks...
Chris was an unlikable anti-hero who lead one of the worst alliances in the series history "Good People alliance FTL (Barf)" and I never got the hype over Kris honestly, she has a crappy social game and that's why she lost. I wish Jasmine had more development. Also I started to think about the seasons theme of Brains vs Brawns and I have come to the conclusion it should NEVER BE USED IN A REAL SEASON OF SURVIVOR. I mean the twist sounds good on paper, but it's like you have a group of dumbasses who suck at strategy versus Type A Business types who know how to win, so basically I think that the Brains vs Brawns twist is kind of stupid in the long run, and it should only be used in a comic style Survivor season. Still even though I have those nitpicks the season is great, and deserves high praise.

#2: SFC 11

That's right the most recent season is now my second favorite season ever! I don't care if it's recent, but I just wanted to let y'all know my stance on it.
This Season had the best cast ever, I mean it even the people i absolutely hated filled a storyline perfectly, Great Camp Drama, and shifting gameplay encompassed with a memorable twist with all the idols. I loved the shit out ESP Alliance, as Well as ATW Alliance. Even the Bumble Fucks Casey, Juiced Up, and Claus were hilarious characters. I just loved everything this season brought and the overlying story was one of the best ever.

Edgic vs Logic is a highly debated subject in the Survivor community, some saying it's a perfect way to figure out who will win, and how they would get that far, where as the logical fans say that you cannot pinpoint exactly every single thing in a season, and that's what I loved about Eli, and Paine so much. They were both Polar opposites of one another and symbolized both sides. Eli, Paine, and Sunflower really did turn the game on it's head with one of my Favorite Tribal Councils of all time now With Flay getting blindsided and Artemis getting completely owned by Sunflower. I also want to get in on the subject of Angel winning the game.

I have seen a lot of people having negative comments about how Eli was robbed and that he deserved to win over the lady who did absolutley nothing all game long, well let me give you a different perspective here. Wasn't there an actual season of Survivor where The apparent greatest player ever was "ROBBED" by a girl who rhode his coat tails to the end? That's right if there's one thing this end game reminded me the most of it's Survivor Samoa. Look everyone Eli had to lose he was never destined to win the game he had made too many mistakes especially with how he blindsided his partner Paine and took Angel to the end with him. This season is probably the most relevant season of the series since the fan community of actual Survivor tends to now lean towards Fan Favorites and making it so that the popular player returns all the time. I just want to say Angel is a very deserving winner and she's awesome, so you should all calm your tits about how Eli was robbed because he had no one to blame but himself for his loss.

So in short I feel this season is a microcosm of Survivor right now, but done correctly. I know if Eli were a real person he wouldn't want people to be angry over his loss he is too big of a fan to let his mind be clouded by bitterness. So Please don't hate Angel even if her snarky attitude wasn't always warranted she won fair and square and no one else deserved the victory over her.


#1:SFC3
Predictable putting this one up here right? Well even if It was predictable you can't blame me for it. The season is just that good. I think the best part of this season wasn't the gameplay, but the characters. The cast this season was the one of the best IMO, most of them were fleshed out well rounded players who made sure you remembered something about them, (Other than Minnie, and Beth...). The gameplay wasn't that bad either the three tribe dynamics were great to watch, and Baxter on his first go round was a great Villain who lost to the Goddess of the series in Montana.
BTW Montana & N Underdog Alliance was the best alliance of the entire series thus far. Montana winning after wanting to quit from day 1, going to the end and beating the best player that season just goes to show that down to its roots Survivor is a social game, and that the way you treat others is what rewards you/gets you in the end, and I am so freaking happy Montana won SFC3 no one else would have sufficed, all that development would had been for absolutely nothing in the end. This season is the best for me, and I hope you like it just as much as I do.

Thanks for Reading guys! as Always!

Stay cRaZy