Endurance Coincidences??

[fanofe2]

Friendship is a piece. I'd say that counts as loyalty.

[Cruise meerkat Youssy]

I just realized that no one who was eliminated before the final 4 of any season has ever won a mission... not including the super team missions of E4 and E5 (in which Orange won both but got 5th place overall).

EDIT: Also not including any partner missions or returning missions etc. so no Chris E4 or Brown E3.

[amplify26]

Jun 6, 2015 18:21:43 GMT -5 Cruise meerkat Youssy said:

I just realized that no one who was eliminated before the final 4 of any season has ever won a mission... not including the super team missions of E4 and E5 (in which Orange won both but got 5th place overall).

The exception here is E4, where only the final three teams had won at least one non-Superteam mission. Just wanted to let you know.

Speaking of Superteams, the Purple Team is the only team to be on the winning Superteam all three seasons it was on.

Interestingly, the Blue Team won six missions on E1, but did not win another mission (excluding Superteam missions) until Endurance: High Sierras. Weird, isn't it?

Also, somebody already noticed this, but the two most popular seasons of Endurance, E3 and E5, had the least popular winners. Gray Team could be arguable, but the Green Team? Very few people believed they deserved to win. In addition, the Blue Team on E1 was the strongest team, whereas the Blue Team from E6 was (arguably) the weakest. Coincidence?

I've also noticed in the final four, with the exception of E4 and E6 (where the Green Team, coincidentally both the strongest teams in those seasons), the main underdog team won that Endurance mission.

E1: Green wins "House of Cards"
E2: Orange wins "Aqueduct"
E3: Yellow wins "Try Tri Again"
E5: Blue wins "Create Your Own Game"

And in the case of Green and Orange, it was their first (and only) mission win. Yellow and Blue won previous missions.

Beyond the legendary Curse of the Gray Team, in four out of the six seasons, Orange was the third team eliminated, with three out of those four seasons seeing them place fifth.

[Cruise meerkat Youssy]

Jun 7, 2015 0:01:31 GMT -5 amplify26 said:

Jun 6, 2015 18:21:43 GMT -5 Cruise meerkat Youssy said:

I just realized that no one who was eliminated before the final 4 of any season has ever won a mission... not including the super team missions of E4 and E5 (in which Orange won both but got 5th place overall).

The exception here is E4, where only the final three teams had won at least one non-Superteam mission. Just wanted to let you know.

D'oh! I totally forgot about them. For some reason I thought they had actually won something, lol (besides the superteam).

[amplify26]

Another thing I've noticed is how the Yellow Team was the only team in the Green-Yellow-Brown alliance to be eliminated before the finale on E2, while the Yellow Team on GYB the following season was the only team to make it to the final three.

[amplify26]

I also realized that if somebody did ruin or plan to ruin the partner selection, then karma returns to them in some way.

E1: Max ruins the List, then in Knotted Up, his team gets sent to Temple thinking they are the strongest team, but is the first team eliminated.

E4: Chris switches Michael and Jonathan so that Michael's partnered with Kylie and Jonathan with Daniela, the two teams, along with Blue, beat Chris' super team in Super Stumped, sent Yellow and Red to Temple, where Yellow is eliminated.

E5: Garret wanted to ruin the partner selection; in the surprise team color mission, he and Anna came in last and we're eliminated.

E6: Briana didn't like Kyle and wanted to change the entire partner selection, gets partnered with him anyways and got sent to Temple by Orange instead of getting the Samadhi, where they were eliminated.

[amplify26]

I was rewatching E2, and thought all the Yellow Teams after E1 could've done really well, but something tripped them up along the way. Proves "Luck" is a necessary piece on Endurance.

Shep and Calley: Yellow came close to winning several missions, but couldn't, especially in "Cherry Picker".
Monroe and Bryanah: Constant targeting by the other teams, lost their only allies, lost their pieces.
Chris and Callie: They had the potential to be a really strong team, but that Superteam mission tripped them over. I also read that Chris could've been really targeted because he was arrogant and immature.
Lilly and Aric: The whole popularity contest thing.
Kyle and Briana: Constant targeting by the other teams.

Seriously--if some things were different, then at least one of these teams would've made it to the finale.

[fanofe2]

E1 was Gray, Purple, Orange, Green, Red, Yellow, Blue
E2 was Gray, Red, Blue, Yellow, Purple, Orange, Green, Brown
E3 was Blue, Green, Red, Brown, Purple, Yellow, Orange, Gray
E4 was Gray, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Purple, Green, Red
E5 was Gray, Yellow, Orange, Red, Blue, Purple, Green
E6 was Yellow, Purple, Orange, Red, Green, Blue.

Orange was third to leave in four different seasons. Three of those seasons were in a row. The other two times, they did rather good.
Gray, as we know, was first to leave with one exception when they didn't go to the temple first.
LOOK CLOSELY AT E4 AND E5.
Yellow, Purple, Orange left in that order in two different seasons and a slightly different order in E3.
E2 went Yellow, Purple, Orange.
E3 was Purple, Yellow, Orange.
E4 was Yellow, Orange.
E5 was Yellow, Orange.
E6 was Yellow, Purple, Orange.
(There's something going on with Yellow and Orange, dontcha think?)
Nothing rhymes with Orange.

[fanofe2]

Keetin went to college in...Bloomington, Indiana...

[waterwoodfire]

Slight correction to the original comment. E1 Blue technically did betray their initial alliance (the brotherhood which was them Orange, Green and Purple). It's just they betrayed in the span of less than one episode and then remained with Yellow and Red for the reminder of the game.

[waterwoodfire]

With the exception of Green in season 1, the winner of an endurance mission would not lose at temple if sent there after the following temple mission. 

E4 Red was the only Red team to survive a trip to the temple of fate. The only other colour to have only one team that survived a trip to the temple was Gray. 

Yellow finished 6th in 3 consecutive seasons (tehachapi, high sierras and fiji).

[waterwoodfire]

Going back to superteams, Green was never on a winning superteam.

The Yellow-Purple=Gray superteam from Hawaii was the only winning superteam to include the eventual winner of the season.

[waterwoodfire]

Of the teams that went to temple at least three times, E5 Blue (who broke the three temple curse) were the only ones to do all of their temple visits consecutively following their first visit (E1 Green had a gap in between their first and second trips, E2 orange had a long gap between their 2nd and 3rd while E3 Yellow had a gap in between each trip).

[multiyapples]

Orange place 5th in 3 different seasons.

[waterwoodfire]

While the first three endurance champions won at least 3 missions before the finale as well as having either equal or more wins than their final opponents, none of the last three champions won that many and beat teams that won more missions in the finale.

[multiyapples]

1/3 of the seasons had someone from Winter Park, Florida, USA.