User blog comment:UnderAPineapple/Pineapple Talk 1: Over-Rated Players/@comment-26485526-20170802171727

Most over-rated in the Canon series, hands down is Ozzy Lusth because in his first 3 seasons he was an arrogant prick who only knew how to win challenges, yet I've heard many people claim that he deserved to win Cook Islands and South Pacific, HELL NO! As for Game Changers, he was slightly more likable (as likable as an arrogant prick can get, I guess). But in that season, he was just meh.

Mike Holloway is by far the most over-rated winner of the series. As I described in my Canon rankings when I got to Worlds Apart, Mike was the Head Asshole of his alliance of assholes. He was described by Sierra in a post game interview as a "crazy person" through the course of the season, which caused her to cast her jury vote for Carolyn as she believed Carolyn was level-headed and played a better game (which automatically makes Sierra the smartest juror that season). Furthermore, yes Mike was a bit of an underdog post merge... or at least that was the edit they tried to give him. Mike was an underdog in the same way that I am an actual dog. He put HIMSELF in the bad position by being a cold-hearted game-bot at the Auction by initially refusing to let other castaways have their letters from home. Dan and Rodney both got tons of heat that season (and rightly so) for some of the stuff they said and did, but Mike was by far the person I hated most of the cast because his positive edit was so over the top and forced, despite him also being an asshole, which made it incredibly cringe-worthy. Although I do believe that people who have to rely on challenge wins to stay in the game are over-rated in and of themselves, I would have respected his game a million times more if he was actually a semi-likable person.

As for fanon characters, I explained in Tangle's blog over a year ago as to why I believe Alexis Mandel of Peru, Chandler Lamar of Qatar, and Jason Drysdale of Montserrat are overrated. I don't feel like typing the whole thing out again to explain my reasons, so I'll just link the blog here and people can scroll if they like: http://survivorfanon.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Tanglefrost/Over-Rated_Fanon_Characters%3F Since that blog post was published though, there are a couple other fanon characters I'd like to add:

Fran Xie - Survivor: Laos: Yes, I have Fran on my "Favourite Castaways" chart, because she is amazing, I do believe she is slightly over-rated. People just kind of seemed to bow down to her and credit her with completely dominating the game from beginning to end, which wasn't entirely the case. Laos had other fantastic players as well, such as Meredith Gutierrez and Charlotte Thicke, who both played good games and deserve more credit for the way the season played out.

Megan Rios - Survivor: Tasmania - Vengeance Finally, someone from my 2nd season. Again, don't get me wrong here, Megan played a fantastic game in Tasmania. But like Fran, she's another one that seems to get a little too much credit on this wiki for the game she played. Personally, I don't see her post-merge game in particular as anything that special, especially compared to her allies Cameron Shugg and Gail Ibarra, yet Megan still managed to win Player of the Season. So yeah, I don't think Megan's a bad player, or undeserving of the Player of the Season title by any means, I just think that there were better players in Tasmania.