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13) Survivor: Koah Rong

The rest of these cuts are all going to be so difficult, but really, every season left is fantastic, and the slightest things that are wrong in a season will cause it to be cut. Unfortunately, Koah Rong is the next season being cut.

Koah Rong really is a gem of a season, and gave me back the hope in Modern Survivor that I had lost after two straight season of blandness and badness. This season almost feels like an apology to all the fans for Cambodia, because we got flashy gameplay this season, but we also got characterization and balanced editing, which made me care a LOT more about what happened in Koah Rong than ANYTHING that happened in Cambodia. The pre-swap was fun due to the craziness of the original To Tang tribe, and even though I hate Scot and Jason, I can appreciate everyone ELSE on To Tang, with Jenny getting an OTTP edit in episode 1 and then getting an OTTN exit in episode 2 <3. Darnell had a pretty standard first boot edit but even he got some good characterization in in his first episode, and Alecia was just a star and an inspiration to us all to never give up, even when it seems like you're down and out <3. Even Cydney was alright as the fun straightman of the tribe, although her aligning with Scot and Jason soured my opinion on her significantly until the post-merge. The first pre-swap episode of the season was kind of weak, but Peter's downfall was hilarious, and then the post-merge came. The early and mid post-merge was just great, there was crazy gameplay but we had actually gotten to know the people who were being blindsided, so I was FAR more invested in this season than Cambodia. However, my issue with Kaoh Rong is that after the amazing Scot blindside, things slowed down quite a bit. They threw in a lot of unnecessary strategy talk when in reality the end of the season was basically a pagonging of Julia and Jason and then Joe being med-evaced, with the final 4 really being the only round that was up in the air. Also, as much as I respect Michele's win, the fact that she won over Aubry made the ending of the season feel very anticlimactic, as she was sort of a MOR/CP narrator the whole time, whereas Aubry had a total winner's edit and was by far the most loved person  by the fanbase. That is enough to push the season down to number 13 on the list. It was a fantastic season that built up with crazy gameplay and blindsides and fun characters... and then sort of fizzled out.

12) Survivor: Nicaragua

I know that anybody reading this list will have been calling for Nicaragua's elimination a looooonnnnggg time ago, but I will never understand the hate for Nicaragua. It's one of three seasons of Survivor that I would consider a complete clusterfuck, and I LOVE clusterfucks. Nicaragua has fantastic character development in the early episodes, really focusing on the contestants as people and helping build this fantastic cast up for the endgame. Nicaragua has one of my favorite casts of all time, because it's just so all over the place. There's the ice queen of La Flor, Brenda, the dumb surfer dude, Fabio, the country singer with a moral dilemma, Chase, the sleazy real estate broker, Sash, the crazy mom who breaks down on day 5 but ends up being a favorite to win it all, Holly, the UTRFun crotchety old man from New York, Dan Lembo, OTTP fan favorite Jane who's actually a mean old crow (<3), Purple Kelly, Hurricane NaOnka, and the list goes on. This cast BRINGS IT and I love almost all of them for it. Also, the Nicaragua post-merge actually has some pretty fun gameplay, with Alina being ganged up on by almost the entire tribe, to Brenda and Sash blindsiding Marty, to Brenda immediately being dethroned by Holly and Jane of all people, to Jane's blindside and her dumping out the water, etc. People like to hate on Nicaragua because of the double quit but I thought it was a unique moment and also a really hilarious, one because everything Purple Kelly does is hilarious, and two because NaOnka quitting immediately after being one of the main architects of the biggest blindside of the game because "her joints are frozen" is hilarious to me XD. Overall, Nicaragua is an incredibly FUN season with a great cast and some crazy gameplay, however, it's this low only because some other seasons just do it better imo.