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Kitty Pryde1 wrote:

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18. Sandra (She's weaker and a woman, which automatically puts a target on her back. Also, she'd be a minority tribe member which also automatically sets her apart from the others. She'd have the biggest uphill battle in any other season.)
17. Todd (He's scrawny and he's a student of the game, which means he wouldn't be helping in challenges, and he also would be viewed as a schemer and a threat in any other season.)
16. Tina (She's just not cut out for a survival situation, and in other seasons, she would be booted early just for being weaker and older and a woman.)
15. Jenna (She has some strength, but her win didn't show her using the same social finesse of inoffensiveness of someone like Parvati or Amanda. Odds are, in a non-gender divided season, she would be targetted early on as a weakness around camp.)
14. Bob (No strategy, but at least he had strength and worked hard around camp. Still, his age puts a target on his back no matter how strong he is.)
13. Richard (He's a strong guy and he's arrogant and willing to take on a leadership role. That puts an automatic target on his back over other players.)
12. Aras (He's also physically strong, but might be viewed as naive to keep him around longer than someone like Richard. Still, his immaturity would put a target on his back sooner rather than later.)
11. J.T. (J.T. is a nice guy, but he's too strong, and in a season where everyone plays for themselves, he would have many more people gunning for him as a physical threat than he did.)
10. Tom (Tom's in a similar situation to J.T., but I think him being able to play the NYC firefighter card might be more beneficial in terms of getting people to maybe keep him around a little more. Plus he could probably kick J.T.'s ass in a challenge.)
9. Amber (She's only gone as far as her closest ally carries her, and since she has a knack for teaming up with the biggest bitch/asshole in the cast, generally that person will get targetted and Amber will follow shortly thereafter.)
8. Brian (He's more than likely to make it far because he's good at sweet-talking, but eventually his strength will catch up to him and people will view him as a threat, especially since he tries to play without emotion, which is needed sometimes.)
7. Parvati (She's strong enough to avoid that early boot like other women might get, and more social than someone like Jenna, but Parvati's problem comes from her somewhat clique-ish attitude which could definitely rub people the wrong way and get her targetted.)
6. Ethan (These top six are players I think could make the final episode nine times out of ten, and choosing between them is difficult. Ethan ranks lowest because he's a physical threat and a threat in terms of being the type of player who people would be afraid to face on the jury.)
5. Yul (A young, muscular guy is going to be targetted more often than not just because of what kind of player he APPEARS to be, and Yul has the added problem of people thinking that, because he's Asian, he's a mental threat as well. Still has a good shot of going deep in any season though.)
4. Chris (He's able to appear sensative enough, but there is always the possibility of him pissing people off and either getting voted out due to spite, or losing a jury vote because of his attitude towards the people he's sent out of the game.)
3. Vecepia (These top three are EXTREMELY hard to choose between, but I went with Vee first because she has the slight possibility of being targetted for being older, or for being outcast due to her race. She's very adaptable though and strong, so she could go far in most seasons.)
2. Danni (As Jenna, Amber and Parvati have shown, it is very easy to make it far in the game by being a young, semi-athletic girl. Danni adds onto that by also being kind and being a leader without sticking her neck out into the line of fire. But her being a woman automatically puts her at a disadvantage against most men in the game, given the sexist nature of the jury.)
1. Earl (If a guy can never watch a show and get recruited off the street, only to go from being on a losing team to winning the game unanimously, he's probably gonna do well in any situation you choose to put him in. Earl's strong without being viewed as a physical threat. He's compassionate and nice without being viewed as a jury threat. He's basically great for going deep in the game time after time after time.)

ThrowMeGabon wrote:

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This isn't about the best winner. This is about the person who would win most if they played the game 100 times. In some ways, Sandra is the best winner because her win was so unlikely...and Earl was the worst winner because it was so predictable.

Kitty Pryde1 wrote:

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Buccaneer wrote:

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ThrowMeGabon wrote:

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This isn't about the best winner. This is about the person who would win most if they played the game 100 times. In some ways, Sandra is the best winner because her win was so unlikely...and Earl was the worst winner because it was so predictable.

I know and Sandra would win the most if the game was played 100 times. People will always underestimate her! She will outsmart the competition every time. To put her last is a big joke especially with winners who couldn't even make it to the merge in All Stars and just lucked into their wins the first time.

If the 100 seasons being discussed are all All-Stars, then yes, Sandra would succeed much more often than many other winners. But we're talking about: you play the game multiple times with different casts and no one knows anyone else every time. Sandra would be at an automatic disadvantage early in the game due to her physical weakness, her mouthiness, her ethnicity potentially seperating her emotionally from her tribe, and her gender automatically putting a target on her back, regardless of her skill in challenges.

kenc333 wrote:

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I love Sandra, and think she's the most entertaining winner of all-time, but Kitty's probably right in that she's not the kind of player that would consistently go far based on skills, physical abilities and personality. If you're to say that Sandra could find a way out of being eliminated, I'm sure all of the winners could do that... Amber had a hand in having Jerri voted out before her in the most unbalanced tribe swap ever, Danni got Judd, etc thrown out before her, Bob saved himself through Sugar when Randy went... I think the question has to be, what can Sandra do that no other winner is capable of?

If I were to choose the winners who would consistently go far, my top 3 would probably be Danni, Earl and Parvati.