Endurance Rankdown

[Cruise meerkat Youssy]

@firetruck421

[Cruise meerkat Youssy]

YES @ THIS ELIMINATION! Cealey always got a LOT of hate (and she did deserve some of it, maybe not the HATE but the criticism of her actions) but Alex was just... why?! What was he doing on the show?! I never liked him tbh

[amplify26]

I can understand where you are coming from, but wow. Honestly didn't expect this to come so soon. (Why isn't E5 anywhere on the internet? We have to rewatch it!)

#67: Shep Allen (Endurance 2)

Almost voted for Jenna (E1) for this, until I realized relative to his time on the show, Shep had little influence on it. While he pointed out on the Cove that they were just a friendship, rather than an alliance, most of his time on E2 was represented by the handsome athlete bogged down by a weak but more significant partner. Even in Tide Pull, when Calley tries to persuade him to send Purple, he says that "what [he] knows now is nothing", hence little strategizing on his part.

[kwdrewfan]

Awww I love Shep! It's true he didn't do much (if anything) to contribute to the game, but he had a lot of heart; and despite his frustrations with Calley, at the end of the day, he was very kind and supportive with her.

#66: Antonio Iannicelli (E3)
While I do side with him in the Willa vs. Antonio drama at the beginning of the season (poor kid was just being attacked for the way he looks & speaks, basically), he was much less memorable than his partner and I can't seem to recall anything that he said during his time on the show.

[tony2012]

#65 Willa Zhou (Endurance 4)

About Willa, if her and Antonio were somehow able to get along, they probably would have at least made the final four. I don't know why she went after Antonio the way she did. Another part of me wonders how she would have gotten along with Kareem as her partner (he was the one that was bumped out by Antonio), or if the Blue team was able to win the ToF mission that Yellow later won.

Part of me is kinda baffled that Yellow decided to send Blue instead of Gray up to the ToF, but that's neither here nor there.

[Cruise meerkat Youssy]

Willa is literally such a mystery to me... to this day, it's like, wtf was wrong with her...? Anyway.

#64: Lauren Dixon (Endurance: Fiji)
I'm not gonna lie and say Fiji was one of my favorite seasons. Nor am I going to say that I even remember it particularly well. One thing about Lauren is that I did overall feel like she was a nice girl. She seemed sweet and had really good hair. She wasn't really involved in that much drama that I can recall. However, I felt like she was tainted a little by the Orange and Green alliance. She kind of became wrapped up in this control of the game and it kind of seemed like Green and Orange were the "popular kids" on the beach. So automatically, I don't really have a high opinion of them because of the way they exerted their control in the game. Ultimately, Lauren is the most inconsequential of those remaining from Fiji. She was nice but a little snobby, but neither here nor there. She doesn't really bring to mind any strong emotions either way. She is a happy mother now, though, so I'm glad she's doing well in her life despite making me feel old as hell.

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Jun 10, 2016 16:36:24 GMT -5 @firetruck421 said:

#63 Bjorn Leum (Endurance: Hawaii)

Choosing the rest of mine based on how much they impacted the game.

Bjorn, though remembered for only having four fingers, and being apart of the Green-Yellow alliance, targeted by EVERY OTHER TEAM.  Bjorn, as an individual, did not impact the game as much.  Though he was most definitely the strongest player in "Ring of Fire", Gray's teamwork overcame them, and they didn't receive the samadhi.

Didn't you mean Purple? Gray was eliminated relatively earlier on.

#62: Christa Scholtz (Endurance 2)

Man Christa, we saw a lot of potential in her! She played on the boys' rugby football team and seemed like an interesting character on the get-go. At the same time, especially because of Scooter's overarching role in the season, we never got to know her as well as we should. In addition, again because of Scooter, she hasn't done much towards influencing the game. So sadly, while she seems underrated, Christa should've done a little more.

[Cruise meerkat Youssy]

Christa and Bjorn are two of my favorite Endurance players but I agree with their positions on this rank down. But man did they seem like such cool people!

[kwdrewfan]

Totally agree with Bryan on Bjorn and Christa! Looved them as people (from what we saw), but I can agree that they didn't contribute much.

#61: Jacquelynn Pointer (E2)
She struck me as somewhat complacent towards the game until her position in it was threatened (although that could be due to editing), at which point she became unnecessarily vicious and... in my opinion, juvenile... about her desire to cause the Green team all kinds of pain and suffering. Nor did she do anything that had any affect on the game except for indirectly causing rifts between the boys in the beginning because they all wanted to be her partner.

[Cruise meerkat Youssy]

Jacquelynn I guess is kinda interesting. On paper she had a pretty big role for being on the second team eliminated. Like you said, she had the whole story line of all the boys wanting her and then the whole revenge against Green thing that went on for, like, an episode (and never came to fruition since she got the boot anyway). But... do we really know anything about her? Not really, when you think about it. I don't even think we know why all the boys wanted her as their partner. She was a rather silent person for most of her Endurance journey. I only remember her voice because of her semi-iconic quote "They better...pray that I don't come back"

[tony2012]

Jun 12, 2016 21:00:36 GMT -5 Cruise meerkat Youssy said:

Jacquelynn I guess is kinda interesting. On paper she had a pretty big role for being on the second team eliminated. Like you said, she had the whole story line of all the boys wanting her and then the whole revenge against Green thing that went on for, like, an episode (and never came to fruition since she got the boot anyway). But... do we really know anything about her? Not really, when you think about it. I don't even think we know why all the boys wanted her as their partner. She was a rather silent person for most of her Endurance journey. I only remember her voice because of her semi-iconic quote "They better...pray that I don't come back"

I think that if they had come back, the game would be a lot different. There would be two alliances of Brown/Yellow/Green and Red/Purple/Blue.

[tony2012]

#60 Skyler Russell (E1)

I don't really remember if Skyler (or the Orange team, for that matter), had any real impact on the game, outside of getting the first Samadhi, and being part of the short-lived four-team brotherhood. I remember them beating Purple in the ToF as well.

I think that Skyler ended up on some reality show after Endurance, because of some issues he was going through. Hopefully, he got those resolved.

[Cruise meerkat Youssy]

Poor Skyler.

#59: Jenna Jimenez (Endurance 1)
Jenna would of course later go on to become an Endurance champion, but I have to cut her Endurance 1 appearance here. Even during her short stay on E1, however, Jenna was really endearing. You could tell she was a cool, funky chick and I liked that about her. It's a great thing that she got a second chance to return on E2. Had she and Max stayed on E1, they probably would have gone farther and I guarantee Blue wouldn't have been such a powerhouse because Gray would have been their competition. But ultimately Jenna just didn't stay in the game long enough to leave a lasting impact on this season.

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Jun 18, 2016 17:03:44 GMT -5 @firetruck421 said:

#58: Max McFarland (Endurance: High Sierras)

Max.  Though he played a 'key' (Just take that out actually.) part in the PROG alliance, he really didn't do ANYTHING besides, let Dakota win the final 6 Endurance mission.  Which, I understand why, after all it's in the alliance, but why not just see who has what it takes to win?  That's what you're there for, right?

I understand how rude I'm being given that they were my age... right now... but Max didn't impact the game.  Sure, they tried to trick Blue into doing Wood, by saying they would do water the entire time, but that was KRISTINE'S PLAN.  (Plus, from Liz's POV, even though she never saw the show, thinks it is stupid.)

Interesting take. I actually thought that Max would have a little bit more influence because he came up with that strategy up a Temple. He would've had a lot more influence had he succeeded with that, but I see him as a pawn of the Purple Team.

#57: Chelsea Myers (Endurance)

Chelsea is one of my favorite contestants on that season, and she's great in her own ways, but what makes her the patron saint for quieter people also reduces her influence on the season. On one hand, we remember a lot of her in relation to others: the rock people, her friendship with Layla, her crush on Max, her hope they might win "Knotted Up" with the Samadhi, and her discussing with Lana about Sabrina. On the other hand, we also see her as someone who wasn't really playing the game--she mostly hung out with Skyler or the Green Team, and was only an observer, for the most part. Anyways, it still hurts a bit inside eliminating her at this point.

[Cruise meerkat Youssy]

Omg I can't believe you eliminated Chelsea! I'm in shock!

[kwdrewfan]

#56: Briana Vega (E6)
She was certainly memorable, but (in my opinion) only brought a whole load of negativity without much good to balance it out. She had a pretty sore attitude about the partner situation, even though I can understand the frustration, and although she did at least try to work with Kyle eventually, I never felt like she *totally* got over it. Plus there was all of her drama with the other girls.