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109. Scott Henry (Tough as Nails 2, 1st place)
For what it was, I found Tough as Nails 1 to be a decently enjoyable watch during the COVID drought. It wasnt anything spectacular, but it had a decent premise and a good season-long story arc with a very satisfying conclusion that saw the least-likable contestant blowing a sizable lead in the final challenge and coming in second TAR2-style. It was enough to get me to tune back in for season 2. While season 2 started out promising enough, it quickly went downhill due to the fact that there were only two consistently strong competitors and the fierce rivalry between them being the prevailing story arc indicated that they would almost certainly be the final two, and one of them was extremely unlikable. Wouldnt you know it, they were the top 2, and the unlikable one won it all.

Scott emerged as the de facto leader of Savage Crew this season after their official leader got ejected fairly early on. And he was a very poor leader. He was extremely bossy and disagreeable, refused to listen to his teammates and only considered his own strengths and weaknesses when strategizing who should perform what tasks rather than what was best for the group as a whole. He barked out orders in challenges that often caused more confusion among his teammates (and were often bad strategic calls or flat-out incorrect orders) and threw temper tantrums whenever they lost, despite the fact that many of their losses were largely attributed to his inability to cooperate with them and keep cool under pressure. The editors tried to make him likable by painting him as a former nerd who was made fun of for the corrective gear he had to wear growing up but it really didnt change the fact that he is a total alpha-douche now.

And it would be one thing if this was supposed to be our villain, but as I said before, Scott was one of only two people who consistently shone in the individual challenges, and the rivalry between him and Zeus was being built up to go all the way to the finals (and even then, Scotts resume was significantly better than Zeuss so by and large Scott was, from the start, the frontrunner to win it all), so the unlikability was magnified intensely.

In the end, Scotts team won the tiebreaker challenge (which they even got to largely due to a series of extenuating setbacks for Dirty Hands), and Scott himself won the individual game in a final challenge that Zeus fell out of fairly quickly (and if I remember correctly actually came closer to finishing third behind Sarah than he did to beating Scott), so for being an asshole all season and costing his team several wins in a game where every team win is worth money, he ended up being rewarded on both fronts. Bleh.

108. Was the final pre-finale boot of the season