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100. Jamie Newton (Survivor: Guatemala - 8th Place)

I can greatly appreciate Jamie's spirit and drive to play the game. He started off in the minority on his tribe with Lydia and Brian, but they managed to turn it around by getting the majority alliance to turn against both Morgan and Brianna (who were useless anyway). His story really picked up when the swap came around and his rivalry with Bobby Jon started up. They had the first reward challenge where Jamie lost it for his tribe by failing to cut a rope while Brandon did it in two shots, but despite Bobby Jon's showboating when he won, Jamie still wanted to at least finish the challenge, despite the blow-out. Then he taunted Bobby Jon after another challenge win and things blew up at the ball-rolling challenge when the two got all up in each others' faces and started yelling at one another in a rather hilarious scene. You see, Jamie is insane, and after continuing to taunt Bobby Jon during the first merge challenge, he started to get paranoid to the point where his tribe wanted him gone. Steph blindsided him, which, to quote Jamie, was "NICE!" And then despite their rivalry, he and Bobby Jon became good friends and bonded over their mutual hatred of Stephenie, which is always a good thing as far as Guatemala Steph goes.


99. Scout Cloud Lee (Survivor: Vanuatu - 3rd Place)

A lot of the hate for Scout seems to stem from the fact that she's been an annoying hag since the show ended, with her encyclopedia-length blogs, and that's the reason she ranks so low on my list. But still, Scout was a pretty damn good player, which says a lot given just how strong, strategically, the cast of Vanuatu was. She was clearly the weakest player in the game by a long shot, partially because she went 38 days with the wrong size of artificial knee, yet rarely, if ever, was she targetted. Leann, Eliza, Lisa, Twila...they all had people gunning for them, yet Scout was so wise that she just managed to get people to like her and not want to vote her out. She was annoying in a funny way during the show, when she randomly pissed Sarge off after rory was voted out. And she proved to be a smart player when she helped improve her position in the game by turning the tables on Leann and blindsiding her out of the game. Plus, Scout was really the only person to see through Chris' bullshit, which is a positive for her because even though I love Chris, the other women were kinda gullible.


98. Brandon Bellinger (Survivor: Guatemala - 10th Place)

Brandon made a big impression on me in the first episode of Guatemala because he was pretty much the ONLY guy on Nakum to not get either sick or injured during the 11-mile hike to their campsite. He was just a charming, southern guy who worked hard and kicked ass in the challenges, like the aforementioned challenge that Jamie lost, where Brandon chopped through his two ropes with a rock in only a few seconds. He was part of the NuYaxha tribe, which may very well be my favorite tribe ever, because everyone on it was so likable, except for the guy they booted first. By the way, Brandon gets a lot of respect from me because he was aligned with Blake, yet when everyone turned against him, Brandon didn't want to break his word (because they had made an alliance while peeing together, XD), so he voted with Blake against Brian. Overall, he was just a really nice guy who tried his hardest and I think really got screwed by the fact that he and Danni were the only two players that had no real connection with Steph, and he was viewed as a much bigger physical threat than Danni.


97. Ken Hoang (Survivor: Gabon - 5th Place)

Going into Gabon, I was really rooting for Ken to win because I'm a gamer, and if a scrawny, Asian nerd could win Survivor, then it's possible for ANYONE to win Survivor. He started off the game with a goofy little relationship with Michelle, which led to a hilariously innuendo-filled conversation in which they shared termites with one another. From there, Ken was in the minority, but was saved by a swap, which got him back into the majority. It was Ken's relationship with Sugar and the fact that he was the one talking to her that led to the amazing blindside of Ace, which took out a cocky, arrogant asshole, and the dumbass douchebag who aligned with him for stupid reasons. Ken survived a close call against Marcus at the final ten, which has gotta be one of the best tribal councils ever, and he was calling the shot come the merge. He was pissed at Charlie, so Charlie went home first. Sadly, Ken got cocky and that's what drops his ranking this low. He made a bad move at the final seven and as a result, he was booted two rounds later. But still, he did pretty well for himself, and I was pleased to see him last as long as he did.


96. Bobby Jon Drinkard (Survivor: Palau - 10th Place)

God, Bobby Jon is easily in the upper echelon of hot guys on Survivor, moreso for his appearance in Palau than his time in Guatemala (where he looked like a crazy person). Bobby Jon was a very hard worker and he gave his all in ever challenge Ulong faced. He was the reason that Steph got split up from her four-person alliance (although that's also because Ian picking Katie was dumb as hell.)And even when Jolanda was blindsided in the first episode, Bobby Jon stood by her and voted with her. After all, she had made him her first pick for the Ulong tribe. As mentioned before, Bobby Jon gave his all in every challenge, yet he just couldn't seem to pull off a win, because Tom would outpace him at every turn. Bobby Jon's futile attempts were so sad, because he was really trying his best, yet nothing would ever work for him due to the incompetence of most of his tribe. Of course, it was even funnier when Bobby Jon lost the fire-building tiebreaker to Steph, because it meant that not even ONCE during Ulong, had Bobby Jon won a challenge to keep himself safe. Palau made me glad he got a second chance in Guatemala.