Board 8 > darkx and Inviso rank the 2017-2018 season Survivor/TAR/BB contestants

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That's right, we're going to be counting down all 76 contestants/teams from Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, Amazing Race 30, Celebrity Big Brother 1, Survivor: Ghost Island, and Big Brother 20.

For those who followed when we ranked Survivor winners together about a year and a half ago, Inviso posted his list in order from worst-to-first, while I posted my own ranking/write-up for each winner in his order. (EG: Inviso - 34. Mike Holloway; darkx - 31. Mike Holloway; Inviso - 33. Judson "Fabio" Birza; darkx - 32. Judson "Fabio" Birza; etc.) This time we'll be doing it the other way - I'll be posting my list in order, and Inviso will follow up each write-up with his own thoughts on each contestant.

As of the posting of this topic, Big Brother 20 still has one episode left to air later this evening. My first ranking will be posted shortly after that finale wraps up.
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Tag!
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Yeah. This won't get finished.

Can we start this tomorrow afternoon? All my write-ups (that I've finished) are on a different computer.
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Just a recap of this year's contestants...

Ben Driebergen (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 1st place)
Chrissy Hofbeck (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 2nd place)
Ryan Ulrich (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 3rd place)
Devon Pinto (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 4th place)
Mike Zahalsy (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 5th place)
Ashley Nolan (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 6th place)
Lauren Rimmer (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 7th place)
Joe Mena (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 8th place)
John Paul "J.P." Hilsabeck (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 9th place)
Cole Medders (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 10th place)
Desi Williams (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 11th place)
Jessica Johnston (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 12th place)
Ali Elliott (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 13th place)
Roark Luskin (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 14th place)
Alan Ball (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 15th place)
Patrick Bolton (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 16th place)
Simone Nguyen (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 17th place)
Katrina Radke (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 18th place)

Cody & Jessica (Amazing Race 30, 1st place)
Henry & Evan (Amazing Race 30, 2nd place)
Kristin & Jen (Amazing Race 30, 3rd place)
Alex & Conor (Amazing Race 30, 4th place)
Lucas & Brittany (Amazing Race 30, 5th place)
Eric & Daniel (Amazing Race 30, 6th place)
Trevor & Chris (Amazing Race 30, 7th place)
Joey & Tim (Amazing Race 30, 8th place)
Cedric & Shawn (Amazing Race 30, 9th place)
April & Sarah (Amazing Race 30, 10th place)
Dessie & Kayla (Amazing Race 30, 11th place)

Marissa Jaret Winokur (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 1st place)
Ross Mathews (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 2nd place)
Ariadna Gutierrez (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 3rd place)
Mark McGrath (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 4th place)
Omarosa Manigault (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 5th place)
James Maslow (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 6th place)
Brandi Glanville (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 7th place)
Metta World Peace (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 8th place)
Shannon Elizabeth (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 9th place)
Keshia Knight Pulliam (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 10th place)
Chuck Liddell (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 11th place)
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Wendell Holland (Survivor: Ghost Island, 1st place)
Domenick Abbate (Survivor: Ghost Island, 2nd place)
Laurel Johnson (Survivor: Ghost Island, 3rd place)
Angela Perkins (Survivor: Ghost Island, 4th place)
Donathan Hurley (Survivor: Ghost Island, 5th place)
Sebastian Noel (Survivor: Ghost Island, 6th place)
Kellyn Bechtold (Survivor: Ghost Island, 7th place)
Chelsea Townsend (Survivor: Ghost Island, 8th place)
Michael Yerger (Survivor: Ghost Island, 9th place)
Jenna Bowman (Survivor: Ghost Island, 10th place)
Desiree Afuye (Survivor: Ghost Island, 11th place)
Libby Vincek (Survivor: Ghost Island, 12th place)
Chris Noble (Survivor: Ghost Island, 13th place)
Bradley Kleihege (Survivor: Ghost Island, 14th place)
James Lim (Survivor: Ghost Island, 15th place)
Stephanie Johnson (Survivor: Ghost Island, 16th place)
Brendan Shapiro (Survivor: Ghost Island, 17th place)
Morgan Ricke (Survivor: Ghost Island, 18th place)
Jacob Derwin (Survivor: Ghost Island, 19th place)
Stephanie Gonzalez (Survivor: Ghost Island, 20th place)

Joseph "JC" Mounduix (Big Brother 20, placement pending)
Kaycee Clark (Big Brother 20, placement pending)
Tyler Crispen (Big Brother 20, placement pending)
Angela Rummans (Big Brother 20, 4th place)
Sam Bledsoe (Big Brother 20, 5th place)
Brett Robinson (Big Brother 20, 6th place)
Haleigh Broucher (Big Brother 20, 7th place)
Scottie Salton (Big Brother 20, 8th place)
Faysal Shafaat (Big Brother 20, 9th place)
Angie "Rockstar" Lantry (Big Brother 20, 10th place)
Bayleigh Dayton (Big Brother 20, 11th place)
Rachel Swindler (Big Brother 20, 12th place)
Kaitlyn Herman (Big Brother 20, 13th place)
Winston Hines (Big Brother 20, 14th place)
Chris "Swaggy C" Williams (Big Brother 20, 15th place)
Steve Arienta (Big Brother 20, 16th place)
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Inviso posted...

Can we start this tomorrow afternoon? All my write-ups (that I've finished) are on a different computer.

I wouldn't be able to post until at least 7pm, so we can either wait it out or I can post my #76 tonight and you can just post in tomorrow afternoon.
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Either way works. Plus, if your 76 isn't one of the ones I've already done, that tells me what to focus on tomorrow.
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Inviso posted...

Plus, if your 76 isn't one of the ones I've already done, that tells me what to focus on tomorrow.

Even better.
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76. Ben Driebergen (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, 1st place)
Let me just get this out of the way before I go too deep into this write-up. I have the utmost respect and support for our servicemen and women past, present and future and hold nothing against Ben for being a former Marine or wanting that to be a part of his Survivor story and experience. In fact in the episode where Joe held Ben's Marine status over his head in an argument I thought Ben was 100% justified in going off the rails on Joe the way he did.

With that out of the way, Ben as a Survivor character is a completely different story. Early in the season I had nothing against him. I thought he seemed like a nice guy, but not especially interesting amidst all the colorful characters this season had to offer. But as the season went on he started to become this asshole who the producers constantly shoved down our throats, not as a villain, but as a hero, to the point where his edit in the last three episodes (including the fucking reunion) made him so completely irredeemable that it actually dragged what was up until that point a very solid, potentially top 10 season of Survivor into meh territory, and thats something that I cannot forgive. And that is the specific reason that he is at the bottom of this list.

I hate to say that a winner didn't deserve it, and even more so I hate to say that the producers rigged the game in favor of one castaway, but the final few rounds of this season seemed to work out SO perfectly for Ben just when he needed it most that it's hard to imagine that there wasn't a point where the producers decided they wanted this guy and his story to be the hero that America wanted to see win (despite the fact that at that point he had long since become an overbearing asshole and got even worse once things mysteriously began going his way). Case and point, Chrissy said in post-show interviews that the final idol he found was hidden in a spot that he frequented every morning just to sit and think, so there was a high chance that he was going to be the first to find it. Then the stupid final four "advantage" comes into play just when a big "favorite" needs something like that the most and screws the ACTUAL best player of the season out of a spot in the final three (and almost certainly a million dollars) that he completely worked for and deserved and would have gotten under the normal rules of the game that they were all expecting. So despite having been sitting at the bottom of the tribe since the final 7, waving idols in peoples' faces and insulting them, then crying when he thinks he's finally lost (oh hey that description kinda reminds me of one other Survivor contestant), on very little of his own merit and mostly by producer interference o wate i mean pure dumb luck, he gets to go to the final 3 with arguably the two least-respected players of the entire final 9 and win.

But Ben somehow manages to become even worse at the reunion, where literally the entire pre-final 3 cast except Lauren is ignored in favor of multiple extended montages of Ben like we've never seen before, and his Marine buddies coming up on stage to congratulate him and take up a ton of time. Because them shoving this jackass down our throats even more was somehow a better use of time than catching up with Jessica and Cole on their relationship and how it affected their games, or chatting with the ever-entertaining Joe. I usually love Survivor finale night, it's like a gigantic event to me. But this time it was just three hours of the entire Survivor staff jerking off a guy that I was already long-since tired of seeing and it made for a really, really sour ending and left a huge black mark on an otherwise solid season. So fuck Ben.
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Oh good. I won't need to rush a new write-up.

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75. Ben Driebergen (Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers 1st Place)

Ben would not be this low if he hadnt won Survivor: HHH. Im not one of those people who typically goes crazy and disowns a season because the winner is unsatisfying (usually because an unsatisfying winner is typically the result of a bad, season-long edit), but Ben is that ONE case in 36 seasons where an awful winner actively taints a good season. Its not even that hes a bad person (thoughwell get to personality soon), its just that the means by which he won the season are SO unconventional and emblematic of the problems with modern Survivor that it sucks.

Basically, Ben started out strong on the Heroes Tribe, right in the middle of all the action with little reason to worry about his safety. Fine. Great, even. And then he got swapped into a 3-1-1 minority against the Healers, where he bonded with Lauren and bonded with Mike. Fine. Then he reconnected with Chrissy and formed the Hero/Hustler majority against the Healer monolith. And at the right moment, he flipped against the Ryan/Chrissy/JP trio to take out JP, then played the part of a similarly-betrayed Hero right alongside them until blindsiding Joe. All of that is fine. Good gameplay, I cant complain.

But after all that, Ben established himself as a huge threat, and his own allies realized that he was a danger to their games. So they decided to target him. Lucky for Ben, he had a hidden immunity idol that hed kept a secret from everyone. He played it and saved himself. And again, I will not complain about Bens game prior to the final six. But thats where things start to get bullshit. Ben saved himself at seven with an idol. Then he goes out and immediately finds a second idol at the final six and plays it before the votes are even cast. Starting to get annoying. THEN he goes out and conveniently finals a THIRD idol right by where he tends to sit and give his confessionals (marked with a dig here marking.) He plays THAT as well. Thats three rounds in a row where Ben saved himself by finding a magic idol. Not strategic gameplay, not winning an immunity challenge. Nope, finding an idol.

But at least idols expire at the final five, right? And when Ben loses the final four immunity challenge, the other players could finally eliminate a guy they correctly identified as a huge threat? Yeah no. The producers decided to throw in a new twist that the final four vote went to fire-making, and wouldnt you know it? Ben beats Devon, securing a place in the finals and ensuring he wins because he had the best underdog story imaginable among the final three. Likeeven with the idol bullshit, Ben going out in fourth wouldve given him a perfect fallen hero story arc, and it wouldve given a great vibe to a strong season. Instead, its like if Terry beat out Danielle at the end of Exile Island and won the season.

Speaking of being like Terry, while Ben seems like a great person in real life, and I respect him bringing awareness to PTSDhe was kind of a dick in the game. Once he solidified his power in the early merge, he became extremely overbearing in an unpleasant way. He talked down to Chrissy and Ashley and acted like they were stupid for not going along with the course of action HE wanted. And then he was a complete cocky prick when he found himself on the outs and kept saving himself solely via immunity idols. So yeah, that definitely tainted his win a little more than just the circumstances did. It was like by the end game, the producers needed to white wash him and paint the opposition as either incompetent or assholes, and thats not fun at all. And it seriously diminished my enjoyment of the season, so Ben ranks low for me.
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Upon writing someone else's write-up, I decided to change my #76. That adjustment will be coming shortly.
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76. Joseph "JC" Mounduix (Big Brother 20, 3rd place)
You know, when I do these things, I generally try as hard as I can to rank everyone solely by what I see on TV. After all, I watch TV to be entertained, I should rank these people based on how well they entertained me, right? I mean, I'm not going to start hating Shawshank Redemption because of the sexual misconduct allegations against Morgan Freeman, am I? This is why people like John Rocker and Michael Skupin are more or less unaffected in my rankings on their seasons by their real-world activities. Part of me judging my rankings for Big Brother is that I don't watch the live feeds, so my opinion of these people is based entirely on the TV edit. As such, I initially had JC a bit higher on this list, because he WAS entertaining television. He thought he was this evil genius mastermind who actually had little more knowledge of what was really going on than FOUTTE. He was energetic in challenges and gave me the satisfaction of seeing Tyler/Angela/Kaycee not make it to the final 3 as a unit.

But the more I thought about it, the more I felt gross focusing on those things with this guy, the more I felt gross having him above people that I hated on television but are probably remotely decent human beings, and the more I thought it was fair to judge JC on the live feed reports despite not having seen them with my own eyes. Because this is something much more serious than your generic live feed hi-jinx and frankly should have been shown on the edit, especially in light of current events. And I'm not even talking about the race stuff with Bayleigh that was shown in the edit, because first, I don't think he necessarily used the word in a derogatory manner, and second, his lapse in judgement in using the word at all probably had something to do with a cultural disconnect.

But no cultural disconnect can explain or excuse repeatedly ignoring warnings not to sexually assault other Houseguests. If it were just the ice cream scooper incident and on that one occasion what started out as just general silliness went to far and he admitted and regretted it, then maybe that could be overlooked. Hell it happened on TV with Frank in BB18, and as soon as he realized he crossed the line he clearly felt terrible, apologized, and never did it again. Yet that seemed more necessary to show on TV than JC's stuff.

But yeah obviously it didn't stop there. Asking Rachel if she was trans was pretty bad, but again, there could have been some cultural disconnect there, especially considering JC is himself a member of the LGBT community, he could be used to people being really open with him about their orientation and just legitimately doesn't get people being private about it. But there's no way he doesn't get that he's not supposed to kiss Tyler while the latter is sound asleep. Or that if he accidentally opens the bathroom door on Haleigh he is supposed to close it instead of make her ask him repeatedly to close it. These are all things JC did that didn't come out on the edit because.....?
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Honestly, compare this to what Jeff Varner did on Survivor last year. It was a despicable thing for sure. But it was something that he did out of desperation and possibly even in a compromised state of mind, and he immediately realized the ramifications of what he said and obviously felt remorse. And while his genuine remorse does redeem his character a bit (character meaning who he is as a person, not a character as I often refer to contestants in their TV edit), it doesn't excuse the action and that tribal council still needed to be shown. And yet someone like JC who was repeatedly inappropriate with other Houseguests and clearly never learned or cared got a free pass and a gigantic applause when he went out into the crowd upon his eviction. And I can't blame the general audience for liking him, assuming they don't watch the live feeds or read RTV-specific internet sites, because there's really no way they could have known just watching the show on TV. So in a way this is still judging JC based on the edit - just what they deliberately chose not to show.

So yeah, JC Mounduix is a person with 0 respect for privacy or boundaries with other people and CBS was irresponsible in not showing this on TV. Even though all of the people involved said that they did not feel violated by him (the fact that I even have to type that fucking sentence makes me shudder), it's pretty obvious that if he does this in the BB house with cameras all over him, he does it in the real world too. And that's an assumption I don't feel guilty about making, and a ranking I don't feel guilty about breaking my usual guidelines for. Because at the end of the day, these other people that I have down low pissed me off on TV, but this guy is most likely a legitimate monster.
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Well ain't that a coinkydink.
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76. JC Mounduix (Big Brother 20 3rd Place)

I feel like Big Brother (especially since the show transitioned to 16 players with multiple return opportunities) has a much greater tendency to produce absolutely abhorrent players in rankings like this. Like, youd have to go back SEVERAL years to the combination of amazing BB17 and awful Worlds Apart before I could genuinely consider a player/team from outside of Big Brother to be the worst of the year. Also, I USED to include Celebrity Apprentice in rankings like these, so some of THOSE players mightve ranked lower, but this particular list is all about CBS, so Big Brother doesnt have an easy fall guy for abysmal personalities.

Ultimately, the problem seems to be twofold when it comes to Big Brother. First, were subjected to 24/7 (give or take) feeds of the players, so theres no hiding their worst qualities. And if said qualities ARE hidden, it becomes more frustrating to watch because we KNOW production is lying to us. And second, unlike Survivor, Big Brother is so much longer of a show. Its up to 99 days at this point in the franchise, and there are at least three episodes every week. So its very easy to get burned out and frustrated with players (see point one.)

Now, thats two paragraphs of exposition, so its time to delve into what I consider JC Mounduix to be CBS worst player of Fiscal Year 2018. Ultimately, while I would say my bottom eight were actively ruinous to their respective seasons, JC is the only one that I think was awful from a HUMAN perspective, as opposed to JUST damaging from a television perspective. Really, there are two halves to JCs awful personality, so Im gonna have to discuss them separatelybut Im sure there will be some crossover.

First and foremost, Ill cover the disgusting aspects of JCs personality, because Im sure people will be more inclined to agree with me there. Within the first week (two weeks?) of the game, it was already being reported that JC was going around and sticking an ice cream scooper into peoples genitals, and really, he only got worse from there. He refused to listen to the rules when being given explicit instructions by production, but because they never punished him, it kinda made production look like a joke. JC also had instances of openly using the N-word, and while Bayleighs response wasnt great, the show tried to portray JC sympathetically, when in reality, he scrambled back to his buddies and showed no remorse for his use of the word.

JC molested Tyler while he was sleeping, which plays into another nasty little aspect of his personality: JC was the equivalent of one of THOSE GIRLS that we see FAR too frequently to enjoy. You know who I mean: your Nicole Franzels, your Christine Brechts, your BB12 Rachel Reillys. Theyre the girls that need to be the sole center of attention, and work to take out any and all other females in order to wind up with a group of guys that dont really care about them. Yeah, JC got super jealous of Kaitlyn for being close with Tyler and Faysal, jealous of Haleigh for being close with Faysal, and jealous of Angela for being close with Tyler. Apparently all the attractive alpha males needed to ONLY care about JC, because JC was crushing on all of them.

What makes JC worse than usual though, is the way production handled him with kid gloves on the edited show. You KNOW he was cast to fill multiple quotas at once: gay, Hispanic, short. And since Big Brother LOVES casting their flamboyant gay men, they knew they could count on JC to be a big personality. Combine that with his difficult-to-understand accent, and CBS had all the footage they needed to shove at least ONE wacky JC segment into every single episode. If I was watching the show without ANY idea of behind-the-scenes stuff (or lacking the ability to think critically about gameplay), I would think JC was just some adorable imp brightening up my day.
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This brings me to the second aspect of JC that I honestly hate more than his awful actions. With the advent of longer seasons, Big Brother has become more and more about BIG alliances formed EARLY in the game, sticking together, and steamrolling all opposition. For me, this sort of gameplay tends to be boring, because if youre able to steamroll, then youre usually calm, and rational, and devoid of emotions. Needless to say, Level 6 will not do well on this ranking for me. But while there are times when my ire is directed at the dominant alliances themselves (for example, I think BB19 Paul is quite possibly the WORST person to ever appear on Big Brother), its very easy for me to find fault with the hangers-on who enable them for little benefit. This is the case with JC.

Now, for the first half of the season, I cant really fault JC for his gameplay. He played the middle, got out some threats, and held his ground when it came to choosing a target between Kaitlyn and Rockstar. BUT, JCs complete lack of comp skill meant that he REALLY needed other players to do the dirty work for him. And it was right around the first Scottie boot that I completely soured on JC. He definitely did some annoying shit early on (throwing hinky votes which further-weakened the ALREADY strategically weak FOUTTE side of the house), but Faysals HoH week takes the cake.

Basically, JCs strategy worked well because he was able to play the middle, and there was ZERO reason for anyone to waste an HoH week getting rid of him, because there was always an entire opposing side of the house to target first. But after Rockstars blindside, FOUTTE was already down in numbers by a 2-1 ratio, so it was the perfect opportunity to even things up while still riding the middle. Hell, JC was Faysals best friend in the house, and second-most trusted ally after Haleigh. He couldve gotten in Faysals ear to split up Angela/Kaycee and changed the whole course of the game.

What did JC do? He convinced Faysal to put up Scottie, his own ally, to further decimate FOUTTE and bolster Level 6. Level 6, the alliance that used JC, but pretty much put him at the bottom of their totem pole with Sam. And all the while, he gives these smug little DRs about being a mastermind and a puppet master that controls dumb puppet Faysal. I swear, I want to punch his face in whenever he scrunches it up into that cocky smirk. Needless to say, that was FOUTTEs last chance at a comeback, and we got a month of Scottie, Faysal, Scottie again, and Haleigh booted, before FINALLY Level 6 had to turn on their own, and they blindsided JC by targeting Brett.

Just to recap, JC thought he was a mastermind, thought he was running the show, was in fact enabling a boring alliance to steamroll, and then had the nerve to throw a tantrum when shit hit the fan during the double eviction. And then he survives over Sam to complete the humiliation. But at least we got that BB12 moment, right? Where Tyler/Kaycee/Angela tell the lone outsider theyve been aligned all game, and theres nothing he can go about it? Nope! After being utterly useless in comps ALL season, JC FINALLY wins HoH to guarantee his safety, ruining any chance at schadenfreude.

In fact, as of the writing of this write-up, his win ruins the endgame even harder, because instead of the finale being up-in-the-air as to which pairing make the final 2, we instead have it pretty locked down that JC is going out in third, which diminishes what could have at least been an exciting finale to cap off a boring season. Oh yeah, and fuck the little troll for acting like he was in the loop all season long. He got blindsided with the Brett boot, so he can get the fuck out any time now.
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darkx, I have no idea how you can put Ben below JC based on those two writeups. Yeah, Ben became unbearable at the end and his idols were suspect, but he never did anything that should've gotten him ejected like JC.
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Mewtwo59 posted...

darkx, I have no idea how you can put Ben below JC based on those two writeups. Yeah, Ben became unbearable at the end and his idols were suspect, but he never did anything that should've gotten him ejected like JC.

He changed his ranking. JC is his 76, which means Ben is his 75. Like me.
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Mewtwo59 posted...

darkx, I have no idea how you can put Ben below JC based on those two writeups. Yeah, Ben became unbearable at the end and his idols were suspect, but he never did anything that should've gotten him ejected like JC.

I put JC at 76 after the fact, because my initial list was based solely on the edit as I always try to do, but when I went to go to JC's write-up I just couldn't ignore everything that was being reported from the live feeds (which I didn't personally see so as the season was progressing it was regrettably easier to disconnect the two).
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Ah, OK. I missed your other post and thought the 76 was a typo.
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74. Brett Robinson (Big Brother 20, 6th place)
What good things can I say about Brett? Well he didnt molest anybody. He didnt singlehandedly ruin his season. So those things automatically save him from being in the bottom two. Um. He was kinda amusing in the Hide and Go Veto competition. Oh, and his blindside was beautiful and so well-deserved. So he provided me approximately 15 minutes of entertainment across 40 episodes. And thats about where the good stuff ends.

The short version is that I hated Brett because he was conceited and obnoxious, plain and simple. The long version is - Brett started the season by saying that he refuses to socialize with his co-workers because anyone besides him who works in cybersecurity must be a mouthbreathing DnD player. He proceeded to make this the MO of his entire character by constantly beating down Rockstar and Scottie, arguably the two nerdiest people of the season, while simultaneously bragging to the audience about being a cyber hacker. Oh did I say bragging? More like shouting at the top of his lungs in the DR as if everyone who watches Big Brother has a severe hearing impairment. It was extremely off-putting. His treatment of Rockstar was especially poor, as he not only took it upon himself to needlessly beat her down when he already had the upper hand over her, but also personally attack her at moments when she was literally not allowed to defend herself.

To make this all worse, Brett prided himself on being like this. He wanted to be portrayed this way, and judging by the fact that he finished in the top 3 for fan favorite, it seems like most of the audience like this type of character. Ive only seen three (four including CBB1) seasons of this show so far and if this is the type of character that the audience tends to enjoy it does NOT bode well for my future with this show. Regardless, this created a scenario where it was impossible to not dislike him in any individual episode. Even in episodes where I could tolerate him in certain scenes, like when he would calmly discuss a decent strategic move with Tyler or JC, or when he owned Hide and Go Veto with an admittedly excellent strategy and some pretty funny commentary, he would follow that up with shouting in the DR like a lunatic, usually about stuff we already knew, accompanied by a fake laugh that was pretty close to the most irritating sound Ive ever heard on television.

To sum it all up, one entertaining competition and a glorious exit were not enough to make up for the fact that Brett was an obnoxious try-hard and a mean-spirited asshole.
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74. Brett Robinson (Big Brother 20 6th Place)

There are a lot of archetypes I hate in Survivor and Big Brother, and the next couple entries will be made up of those archetypes, but ultimately, I rank Brett here because he was the most overbearing of this upcoming trio. Now, I have to preface this by stating that I never watched Big Brother 2, nor have I watched Big Brother 7, and unlike Survivor, its difficult to go back and watch old seasons due to the length, and the lack of feed context. But the fact is, I feel like Dr. Will was super popular in Big Brother 2, and hes become such a legend in the years since, that casting loves going out of their way to try and find a next Doctor Will. And maybe if I watched BB2/7, I would hate Will. I mean, I already hate his surrogate in Mike Boogie. But I DEFINITELY hate the people casting selects to try and replicate his beloved status among the fans.

When I talk about Dr. Will clones, what Im referring to is the trend to find one or two players every season who tick a majority of the following boxes. Male. White. Straight. Cocky. Arrogant. Intelligent outside of the Big Brother house. Shouty in the Diary Room. Relatively irrelevant to the action of the season, yet still given narrator duties because despite casting going out of their way to find upwards of sixteen people that will make good television, THIS GUY is the most telegenic. On a related note, usually talks himself up as being more important than is reality. Prominent examples of this would be: Brian Hart (BB10), Matt Hoffman (BB12), Nick Uhas (BB15), Zach Rance (BB16), John McGuire (BB17), Paul Abrahamian (BB18). Note that not all of these guys are AWFUL, and in fact, sometimes theyre NEEDED in a painfully dull season. But they fill similar niches.

This is where Brett comes in, and hes probably the biggest offender of this archetype. Brett made the final six of BB20 as the bottom rung of a four-man alliance, yet throughout the season, he was constantly portrayed as this absolutely hilarious personality because he gave tryhard speeches during televised moments, and amped up his douchebag factor whenever he was in the Diary Room. This is a guy whose only REAL accomplishments in the game were A. winning a single veto competition, and B. convincing FOUTTE that he was a free agentonly to do absolutely nothing with this deception other than laugh at them behind their backs. For fucks sake, in a season with a theme of technology and the internet, he claimed he was a cyber security expert and naturally got to give a ton of tryhard Diary Rooms. He sells SOFTWARE for fucks sake.

And Im not kidding when I say tryhard, because there were two very different Bretts in this season. Whenever he was just chatting with people and going about his normal routine, he was perfectly calm and, dare I say it, charming. THATS the guy who was SO convincing that Scottie came out of a conversation with him assured that Brett needed to go home out of sheer respect for his charisma. Hell, like I mentioned above, he managed to convince FOUTTE (a brain trust, I know) that he was a lone wolf on their side despite them nominating him twice and coming within one vote of evicting him twice. Yet the SECOND it came time for a Diary Room session, a nomination ceremony, a veto meeting, or a live eviction (or hell, his arrival at the jury house), he turns the volume up and starts playing a character.
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I dont WANT to watch some douchebag put on a fake persona to come across as an even BIGGER douchebag. I want to watch REAL people with REAL emotions, because Im not an easily-amused casual that laughs when someone yells in the Diary Room. Rockstars meltdown was great because ROCKSTAR had an emotional response, not because Brett constantly stood there and calmly told her to own it. Again, Brett had two settings: in a televised setting, he acted loud and flashy and fake, and in a non-televised setting, he became calm and boring. Thats an awful combination of personalities.

Brett also sucked for a lot of the reasons I mentioned in my JC write-up. Yes, he was part of the Level 6 core (because he was young and attractive and privileged and white, lets not get it twisted). He survived the block twice over Winston and Rachel because they were interesting and he was calm and boring. Calm and boring is smarter gameplay, so of course Level 6 kept him. But then Brett started branching out and usurping Tylers position as fake swing voteronly to let the entire other side of the house get decimated while he remained as guy who was distant from our alliance while getting kinda friendly with the jury. Needless to say, since he couldnt win most competitions to save his life, he got blindsided first from his alliance, but he lasted so long that it almost wasnt even satisfying. Brett was just such an unbearable and draining personality on the show, and he played a BIG part in my hatred for the season.
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Heads up, Vis - depending on how far along in your write-ups you are, I THINK my next one might be somebody you aren't prepped for yet. But I don't know, maybe you've gotten to them or maybe you DID hate them and I just didn't see you vocalizing it as much.
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But we have such a good streak of equal eliminations going!
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73. Shannon Elizabeth (Celebrity Big Brother 1, 9th place)
Shannon continues the trend of not being dead last by being slightly less awful than the person below her, yet in many other years could have been a great candidate for the bottom spot. Shannon was an absolute nightmare to watch during her time on Celebrity Big Brother. First off, she turned the whole first week into a gender war, and to me there's no easier way to make me hate a season than having it become a gender war. Omarosa may have sparked the flame, but Shannon was the one who did everything she could to keep it going. Until she didn't want to anymore because of a conversation that Keshia and Chuck had and "we still gotta take out da boys but wimenz alliance is over." So she spent the whole first week being an obnoxious gamebot who had the same three confessionals about needing to win and needing to take out the guys over and over again.

In the second cycle she was honestly not THAT bad. She was a little more toned down, a little less dominant, and going after Omarosa, which led to some pretty amazing moments from both ladies, PLUS she was on the outs for the first time and didn't even know it, and for a brief moment I thought that maybe Shannon was going to make a turnaround and become one of the good characters of the season.

Then the third cycle happens. Shannon is still in the game but on the outs due to some unusual circumstances, but even though the whole house is making it blatantly obvious that they want her out she cant see it, so we are once again treated to the bland narrator "I feel good about my alliance" confessional over and over again. Until she finally realizes she's going up on the block, and all of a sudden this crazy competitive player starts crying and sulking and painting herself as the victim when she painted the target right on her own back. Despite SIX EPISODES of her "I feel good about my alliance" confessional, she says how "everyone was against me from day 1

And then the boot episode happens, and much like the finale for Ben, Shannon's boot episode makes her totally irredeemable for me. It starts out by her throwing a pity party where she just cries to the people who already want her gone. She actually says that she will never watch Big Brother again if she gets evicted even though shes such a superfan. And from there it becomes two hours of the Shannon Going Away Party Show. And not one of the fun ones that leads up to a nice blindside either. It was a really unpleasant episode of everybody but Metta just being mean about the whole thing.

You know, I could ALMOST forgive this if this were somebody that wasn't there to play the game, but Shannon was there to play the game and she was playing it hard until she found out she was stuck in a corner. And rather than try to scratch and claw her way out, she gave up and pinned the blame on everyone but herself. It was a horrible two hour episode that was a horrible end to a horrible character.
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@Inviso I plan on doing two today, one being before 1pm.
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29. Shannon Elizabeth (Celebrity Big Brother 1 - 9th Place)

First things first, I'd like to point out that 29th is not praise for Shannon Elizabeth as a character, but rather an indictment of this fiscal year as a whole. I'm looking at the list around Shannon, and we're still not in the portion of the list where I'm confident in saying I outright LIKED a character (rather than just "liking" a character in the context of a particularly unpleasant season.) And this is the first write-up I've had to prepare on the spot, so I'll throw in a little bit about how I see where darkx is coming from, and understand the low placement. I just view it a little different.

If Shannon's story had remained static after week one, I would probably hate her. She was in an alliance and then flipped that alliance for dumb reasons, kept an awful character in the house, and alienated two far more interesting characters to go against the all-female alliance (which was desperately needed in this season when, spoilers, there was only one good male character out of the five in the house.) But then weeks two and three happened, and it somewhat salvaged her character for me.

Pretty much, in the wake of her winning HoH/Veto in week one and controlling the votes to target Chuck, Shannon ran afoul of the season's Paul/Tyler in the form of Ross Matthews, and he decided that girlfriend needed to GO. Not only would this have been hilarious karmic retribution for the bullshit she pulled on Chuck, but it also would've saved outsiders Keshia and Omarosa, which is always a good thing. Of course, Keshia had her meltdown and Shannon was saved. Then we get to week three and Shannon is OPENLY targeted by Ariadna (rather than the backdoor planned the week prior), which gives us a full week (actually, CBB1 was sped up, so I shouldnt really be calling them weeks, should I? Oh well) of meltdowns.

Its just perfect to see someone WAY overplay their hand and get punished for it. And unlike your Zeke Smith or Paulie Calafiore, her story arc was perfectly short. We didnt have to spend half the season waiting for her to get her comeuppance, it happened almost immediately. Thats great. And even better, the way she went out was, in and of itself, stupid overplaying on ROSS part, which meant HE got karmic retribution when Shannon turned into a shrieking hellbeast and rallied every booted player she could find to vote against him and deny his style of gameplay a victory. For blocking Ross from being rewarded for his arrogance, I cant rank Shannon all that low.
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Inviso posted...

She was in an alliance and then flipped that alliance for dumb reasons

This seems weird coming from the person who hated that Level 6 stayed loyal to Level 6, when any flipping most likely would've been for dumb reasons.
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mnkboy907 posted...

Inviso posted...

She was in an alliance and then flipped that alliance for dumb reasons

This seems weird coming from the person who hated that Level 6 stayed loyal to Level 6, when any flipping most likely would've been for dumb reasons.

Dumb meaning asinine justification as opposed to not beneficial.
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mnkboy907 posted...

Inviso posted...

She was in an alliance and then flipped that alliance for dumb reasons

This seems weird coming from the person who hated that Level 6 stayed loyal to Level 6, when any flipping most likely would've been for dumb reasons.

I think Shannon made a dumb, unnecessary move that immediately got her target.

I think Level 6 made the smart and correct moves that made the season extremely boring.

Zeke in Game Changers and Boston Rob in Redemption Island both still suck, despite playing the game at extreme opposite ends of the spectrum.
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Okay, fair enough.
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72. Tyler Crispen (Big Brother 20, 2nd place)
I initially had one more person below Tyler above Shannon, but when I went to go do their write-ups I had to find a way to justify putting Tyler above them and I couldnt come up with one, so I swapped them. Doesnt matter too much, theyll be next anyway. And honestly, just a little less praise for Tyler is never a bad thing.

So this is going to be one of the more unique write-ups on the list, as well as one of the longest because Im going to refer almost entirely back to a comparison I made earlier in the season of Tyler to a particular former Survivor contestant. Thats right, I actually had the balls to compare Tyler to Russell Hantz, and needless to say I got a LOT of criticism for that. And with the season finally over, not only do I stand by what I said, but I think the comparison has even MORE weight behind it. While its true that Tyler wasnt a proudly overbearing shithead like Russell was, everything else about his gameplay, edit, bits of personality, and even the hype surrounding him bears an uncanny resemblance to Russell.

First, gameplay. Much like Russell, Tyler doesnt understand the most fundamental aspect of his game - the social element. In Russells case, he thought that having an alliance that did what he said was playing a good social game. In Tylers case, he thought that being nice (though Ill argue this point in a bit) and making empty promises of final 2 to more than half of the jury was playing a good social game. Its not. It pisses people off and makes them question everything you said. Furthermore, Tyler admitted to intentionally making enemies on the jury to make himself seem like less of a threat. Newsflash - having enemies on the jury, intentional or not, doesnt make you SEEM like less of a threat, it MAKES you less of a threat. Russell had the same problem. He thought he could be a douchebag to people on their way out the door and have them overlook that at the end. To the surprise of literally nobody else in the world, they didnt.

Second, edit and personality. Like Russell, Tyler got a rather unique edit in the beginning because it was very clear CBS was hyping him up to be the breakout star of the season. So it was made to look like he had a small alliance against 10 other people and had to work to gain the majority, and managed to turn a 6-10 minority on day 1 into a 9-5 majority by the second eviction. But once he had the numbers, his once lively, intriguing confessionals became quite monotone and turned into slight variations on three generic ones - Level 6 has the power this week so were good. I have to convince _____ to put up their own allies so that Level 6 doesnt lose a member this week. and I need to make a final 2 deal with _____ so they will never vote me out. with the occasional Angela is hot. I once again refer back to Russell Hantz and his 100+ confessionals that were just variations on a few themes. It was not only very gamebotty but as the season progressed and it became more and more clear that FOUTTE was not going to mount an epic comeback, it got cockier and cockier (sound familiar), and some of the nastier aspects of his personality started to come out, like with Bayleigh (sound familiar) and really just made for an all around frustrating viewing experience.
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Third, the hype. As I said before, it was VERY clear that CBS was hyping up Tyler to be the breakout star of the season, just as they were doing for Russell in Samoa. And it worked. Just like Russell, Tyler won the fan favorite in a vote that was never in question, and just like Russell, the cries of bitter jury by the fanbase were almost immediate. And Im going to make a bold call right now, just like Russell, were not nearly done with Tyler. Hes going to be CBSs new baby. Within the next two years, we will see Tyler either return to BB (as a player, just to make that clear since were getting all these visits lately), and/or be cross-cast to Survivor or TAR. Hes way too popular for them to just abandon ship like that. And lets be real, they probably believe he was cheated out of a win too.

Just to wrap up, while Tyler wasnt horrendous as a personality (despite some increasing arrogance that was honestly not quite as bad and frankly more justified than the arrogance displayed by the rest of his alliance), his biggest crime was making BB20 an extremely frustrating season to watch without being nearly entertaining or original enough to make up for it.
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70. Tyler Crispen (Big Brother 20 2nd Place)

Yeah, Im happy that he got hit with a bitter jury. Tyler seems like a perfectly nice and rational guy, but he is the absolute WORST kind of player for making an entertaining season of reality television (I say, having already ranked three other BB20 cast members lower than Tyler.) I have a lot of almost-disjointed thoughts with regards to Tyler, so Im gonna try to keep this write-up semi-coherent, but that might prove difficult. Basically, Im gonna be rattling off a bunch of reasons why Tyler annoyed me, and sometimes they will coalesce into a larger picture.

First things first, I hate the fact that Tyler was head and shoulders the star of the season. This isnt like Survivor, where a whole season is filmed and the editors can craft a narrative and sometimes choose to focus on one character over another. No, Tyler was literally the star of an ONGOING season from week fucking one, and even if he was interesting, his shtick got old by the end of the first month. Yes, he had a ton of power and control in the house, but there were fifteen other people playing the game. The editors could afford to tell a better story.

Tyler finished the season with 303 Diary Rooms. The ONLY person who he did not have at least DOUBLE the Diary Rooms of was HALEIGH, who finished with 190, still a full 113 Diary Rooms shorter than Tyler. And for as much as I bash Brett for being fake, at least I can UNDERSTAND people liking his Diary Room sessions; hes loud and brash and could be considered funny by other people. Tyler thoughhe was just so straight-forward almost every time we heard him talk, and he had this mellow surfer affect to his voice. It doesnt help that FAR too much of his Diary Room content was him talking about playing both sides, or having a one-sided conversation where he sarcastically tells members of FOUTTE that sure Im on your side before revealing to the audience Im not actually on their side. #chocker.

Additionally, somebody posted an edgic chart for the season and Tylers edgic is just a long bar of toneless CPs with a few mixed-tone CPs towards the endgame. Thats awful. Like, Kaycee or Angela had awful edgic too, with LONG stretches of irrelevance, but Ill take irrelevance over the player getting pushed all season long as the main character. Jack Shepard was the main character of LOST, but he sure as shit wasnt one of the best, because he was just such a flat personality, with occasional bursts of intense shouting. Thats how I feel about Tyler. Hes the Jack Shepard of Big Brother 20.
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Now, all of that speaks solely to Tylers EDIT, but there are other reasons to dislike him. Strategically, I will admit he is a decent player. He is naturally charming and was able to come off as disarming, so people trusted him. And in the early weeks of the game, he was able to float in the middle of the house and I give him a ton of credit for FOUTTEs destruction. Sure, they were incompetent in their own right, but his insistence on blindsiding them, even during the Winston/Rachel weeks, made it so that alliance could never really solidify the way Level 6 did. His manipulation of Kaitlyn to take out Swaggy only made Level 6 THAT much stronger.

However, while I can admit that Tyler played a strong game early on, I hate the impact he had on the season. Yeah, the first month was great, but Tylers influence made the season so lopsided that once FOUTTE inevitably crumbled, it was just six straight weeks of watching the same alliance get picked off again and again and again, in large part because of the disparity in cohesion between the two alliances. And because Tyler was the figurehead, he got to claim credit EVERY time and got to give the Were ahead, but Level 6 needs to win this HoH to control the house this week Diary Room. Its boring, and everyone who talks about how he made so many moveshe really only made two moves: flipping Kaitlyn weeks 1 and 2, and blindsiding Brett (in what was honestly poor social play on his part.) Everything else was just stick with Level 6, make final two deals with people and thats it.

Im not gonna bash Tangela in this write-up because honestly? I dont really care. I dislike them both, but I dont dislike them as a couple. If anything, the relationship humanized Angela, and gave Tyler content beyond just constant gameplay Diary Rooms. Plus, I think the showmance is a part of what ultimately killed Tylers game, because he got sloppy and went from controlling everything, to letting Angela have more sway in his decisions. He needed her on the jury a little earlier to advocate for him, so keeping her to the final four did him no favors. That being said, Tangela was definitely the least interesting of the seasons three major showmances though, Ill say that much negative about them.

I dont think I have anything else to say about Tylers time in the house, so Im gonna close with the most actively-annoying aspect of Tyler for me: his fans. Its no secret that I was rooting for FOUTTE this season. Im aware and acknowledge that most (if not all) of them were awful people, but they were FAR more interesting than any member of Level 6. Yet ALL. SEASON. LONG. Tylers fans were utterly unbearable. The guy won the second power app and the AFP prize, so he was far and away the most popular player of BB20, which is fine. I mean, I loved Cody and Victor and DonnyIm not averse to rooting for the fan favorite. But this was different. This was overwhelming love and support for the overwhelming overdog of the season, whichwas awful to deal with.
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Look at previous fan favorites: Cody stood up to the dominant alliance. He wasnt an amazing player and made some definite mistakes, and people recognized that while still loving him. Same deal with Victor; he got evicted three times and came back twice. Its hard to argue hes a great player. James Huling was DEFINITELY not a great player in BB17, and Donny was just a likable dude in BB16. Youd have to go back to Jeff Schroeders second fan favorite win in BB13 before you find another overdog player that the fans just coalesced behind. And wouldnt you know itfans were horrible in defending Jeff, in spite of some of the worst aspects of his personality on display. This is what happened with Tyler.

From minute one of the season, Tyler was infallible to his fans. Everything he did and every move he made was amazing, and he was the best player ever, and they crowned him on the same tier as Will/Dan/Derrick even if he got evicted due to Haleighs bullshit twist (I know it was legitimately bullshit, but I sarcastically quote it because those same people calling it bullshit during Angelas HoH week then LOVED when it got Rockstar evicted a week later.)

But worse was the fact that Tyler was SO beloved that it tainted the rest of the season. No one formed organic opinions. Sam was the fan favorite for the first month until right around the time when she was kind of a bitch during her HoH week, at which point Tyler took over for the rest of the season. But the week of Haleighs HoH, Sam felt betrayed by Tyler, in large part because she was closer to FOUTTE than the remaining majority of Level 6, so she talked about flipping and wanting to go against Tyler (Tyler who, as was pointed out, was a massive threat playing an amazing game.) The SECOND Sam turned against Tyler, her popularity PLUMMETTED, and she didnt even make top three for the fan favorite award as a result.

This sort of thing happened again and again all season. Flawed players (ice bitch Angela or active sexual assault aficionado JC) were given a pass and beloved by the fans for their close relationship with Tyler, while Haleigh (perhaps the least offensive personality among FOUTTE) was actively demonized because she had the audacity to put him on the block one time. Even Kaycee, when it became clear that she was a real threat to Tylers win, suddenly started receiving a TON of hate. She starts winning comps and continues to stay loyal to Tyler and being completely inoffensive from a fan perspective, but merely standing up as a rival to Tyler made her an enemy.

That whole fan attitude was fucking annoying, and it happened ALL season, to the point where you couldnt criticize Tylers game without getting taunted. For fucks sake, there were arguments being made that: Kaycee is just Cody if she takes Tyler to the end, but if Tyler takes Kaycee, its because hes so good and he wants to beat the better player. It was like he could do no wrong, and of COURSE him losing is an affront to God Himself, and the whole jury format needs to be changed (to be fair, the final episode is always awful nowadays.) All that fuss over a boring, nice guy. And we had to deal with 99 days of that crap. No thanks.
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71. Kaycee Clark (Big Brother 20, 1st place)
So let me start with the good stuff about Kaycee, because despite her low placement on the list, I can say some good things for her. Well, for the first 6 weeks or so she was the nicest and least-try-hard member of Level 6, which actually says more about how awful that whole alliance was as opposed to her being really that great, because she was actually pretty boring and irrelevant. But Ill take boring and irrelevant over what the rest of them were. And Kaycee saved the day in the end by stealing the win from Tyler at the last second and not letting that kind of gameplay get rewarded. But neither of those things are all that great.

So now the bad stuff. For most of the second half of the season, Kaycee was almost as bad as Brett in the obnoxious try-hard department. I say almost because first off, her voice didnt make my ears bleed, and second, she was actually winning competitions and becoming a pretty crucial player, so her cockiness was at least somewhat justified. But I dont think a single episode went by in those Bayleigh-through-Sam weeks that didnt have at least one moment that made me go God I hate Kaycee. Aside from the diary room shouting, she also started to become very mean-spirited and hypocritical towards the other side of the house. She loved making false accusations of people being the hacker, and yet when she was legitimately the hacker she took any (correct) suspicions of her being it as personal attacks and responded with hostility. She was also extremely aggressive with Scottie when Brett was trying to take the blame for the rogue vote against her, and while this was mostly because Brett was giving one of the worst acting performances Ive ever seen and she had to make up for it in some way, she was being WAY too harsh on a guy who didnt deserve it and already had high anxiety as it was.

One more thing that got REALLY annoying about Kaycee as the season progressed was how two-faced she was. Shed constantly tell people how sorry she was that she had to put them on the block, or how it was a tough choice not to use the Veto, or that she really liked them and sympathized with them, and then go into the diary room and go PSYCH! I DONT FEEL BAD! which we already knew. She very much took a how dare you attitude to FOUTTE being happy or confident about anything, while CONSTANTLY being, during that time, the most stuck-up member of Level 6. She just came across as very standoffish and mean-spirited and it rubbed me the wrong way such that I was definitely not happy for her that she won, just happy that Tyler lost.
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44. Kaycee Clark (Big Brother 20 1st Place)

By the time the endgame of BB20 rolled around (and I consider end-game in Big Brother to be the final 6, aka the point where the power begins to shift away from the HoH and to the veto winner in terms of who actually controls the elimination), Kaycee was the second-best option in terms of producing a winner that would actively make me happy to see her win. This rank-off has already eliminated JC, Brett and Tyler, so it shouldnt really be much of a surprise that Kaycee was more palatable to me (and just barely to darkx, since he still ranked her below Angela.)

In short, Kaycee was the anti-Tyler. And given just how much Tyler infuriated me with his constant CP4 presenceKaycee was like the Sophie Clarke (whoa, similar last name) to Tylers Benjamin Coach Wade. Kaycee kept her head down early on and stayed off the radar, and of course the casual fans riot over this, calling her and Angela furniture. I wont deny that theyre boring as hell, but so long as Big Brother insists on forcing these 100-day seasons, its SMART to lay low until at LEAST the last month of the game or so. And because she kept her head down, I think Kaycee was able to escape a lot of the stigma that most of Level 6 picked up in one way or another from FOUTTE.

Late in the season, when the entire strategic plot turned into Level 6 runs circles around FOUTTE and picks them off for weeks at a time, Kaycees sudden transformation into a veto beast at least gave me a new storyline to cling onto. While she had a FEW instances of arrogance (particularly the scene where Rockstar emotionally apologizes to her when she thinks Kaycee is gonna go home as a pawn), Kaycee was far less offensive than the rest of her alliance and kinda served as the one grounding point in reality for me. When the rest of the season became JCs delusions of grandeur and Tangelas will they/wont they relationshioI enjoyed Kaycee just screaming Lets go! and winning everything. That amused me.

Most importantly though, since I fully admit that Kaycee was just an anyone but the four awful people shes aligned with choiceit was around Scotties second eviction that Kaycee really started to become appealing. Because up until that point, the entire fanbase had pretty much bowed down and accepted BB20 as Tylers coronation to Big Brother godhood. But then Derrick came out and announced to the world that hey guysuh, Kaycee is actually better positioned than Tyler. And the casuals lost their shit.

They couldnt outright hate Kaycee because she wasnt making moves against their god, but irritation was bubbling beneath the surface. You started to see posts about wanting Brett or JC to win HoH and take a shot at Kaycee, and she just kept winning vetoes and building momentum. And then she won and there was a massive meltdown over how everyone has to play like a boring sheep, masterminds never win anymore. After a season of sucking Tyler to the balls, Kaycee won after delivering the exact jury speech the fans hate, and I LOVED it. It was so delicious to watch the meltdown, since Tyler wasnt a jackass fans could enjoy watching lose. Nope, they had to suffer like I did as a FOUTTE fan all season, and I have Kaycee to thank for that.
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70. Bradley Kleihege (Survivor: Ghost Island, 14th place)
Aka the most annoying last name to spell ever.

You know, for all the hate Ghost Island gets (which is totally warranted, what a horrendously shit-tier season and lately thats really saying something), I think Bradley is actually underhated. The first half of Ghost Island was not THAT bad. There was some pretty decent stuff - Jacob being awkwardly awful, the Morgan blindside, Michael being a leader to the Malolo minority, the emotional stuff with Stephanie Johnson, and of course, the incredible Chris/Domenick rivalry. I actually thought it was shaping up to be a solid mid-tier season. But among it all was this little annoying, lazy, stuck-up kid named Bradley mucking up my television show.

In the early episodes, Bradley was shown to be lazy around camp and just a little bit arrogant while not actually really being involved in the episodes due to being on the winning tribe. While this UTRN is one of the worst types of negative edits to get aside from maybe just being a straight-up shit-tier human being, it can often foreshadow a Drew Christy-esque departure (and in fact, that was Drew Christys edit in the first few episodes of San Juan del Sur as well), so even though I disliked Bradley I remained cautiously optimistic. But then post-swap he ended up in the majority on the new Malolo tribe, and unfortunately because Malolo sucked this meant he was going to tribal council more often than not, where in addition to being lazy and whiny around camp, he decided to be stuck-up and rub it in the faces of the people obviously going home. Other than a really on-point voting confessional from Stephanie, this added NOTHING of value to the season and instead just made me annoyed with a season that, at the time, I was enjoying. Of course it would go way downhill later on, but thats a story for later.

This was just so bad that I couldnt even appreciate his boot episode. He was just being, in Domenicks words, a nasty son of a bitch to Donathan for no reason and I couldnt find any enjoyment out of the Roger Sexton-esque farewell episode, nor could I appreciate Bradley as an early boot villain because he had already long overstayed his welcome. And yet I firmly believe that had he stuck around even longer than he did, I would have put him at 73 just above Brett. Considering he wasnt even around for the shittiest parts of Ghost Island, I have to believe he would have made them even more unbearable.
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63. Bradley Kleihege (Survivor: Ghost Island 14th Place)

Bradley used to be my most hated Ghost Island cast member (really, the list has shifted a lot), but its hard for me to really kick up a fuss about an annoying pre-merge boot when the season was SO dull and SO dry, and Bradley at least had a story arc. I think if Bradley went out in episode four, I mightve even loved him as a character. He had all the makings of a quality villain. Arrogant, obnoxious, adversarial to nicer characters, and him getting idoled by Michael wouldve been a perfect downfall.

Instead, we have him shittalking Malolo beach for several episodes, taking advantage of a stupidly-early swap in which he wound up in the majority, and then he avoids the idol, allowing for several episodes of picking off the better half of the pretty alliance on NuMalolo. Then we get a second swap and he FINALLY gets blindsided because Chelsea didnt like the control he had over the game. But even THAT wasnt enjoyable because it was several episodes too late, and the editors used the boot to build up Domenicks story over Chelseas. So really, Bradley was just this minor irritant who thankfully got booted early. Thats all.
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Bump for darkx.
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Probably not until late tonight. Maybe 9 or even later. Thanks for the reminder though.
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My write-ups are done through Shannon Elizabeth at 29.
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Sorry. Bracket fever distracted me last night
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69. Angela Rummans (Big Brother 20, 4th place)
For a long part of the season I thought I was going to have Angela in my bottom 5. While she managed to escape that, shes still very low. The biggest problem with Angela for the majority of the season was that she was, in her own admitted words, a spoiled selfish bitch. She came into the season as someone who is used to getting what she wants, and continued to get what she wanted in the house, and wasnt shy about letting everyone know that. This was especially annoying in confessionals, when she would just talk about how happy she was that she was getting her way, or in her goodbye messages, when she would just absolutely rip into people for no valid reason. The worst one of all was Rachel, who was her best friend up until like, the day before she was voted out. And despite the fact that everything Rachel said to Angela was true, Angela tore Rachel a new one like she had absolutely no regard whatsoever for her feelings. And this was Angelas story pretty much up until Hayleigh was voted out. Not only was it grating to watch, but it also made her seem like just a horrible person.

So what made me ease up on her just a little bit? Well the first was the revelation of her backstory. I can totally understand how someone who was forced into competing at such a young age might turn out like that, especially if they felt they lost something of their childhood because of it. Second, her flirty scenes with Tyler were actually kind of adorable. Almost made me forget everything else she was doing. Third, she gave me the satisfaction of one of the most glorious blindsides ever when she used the Veto to send Brett home. Yeah she saved JC but lets face it he was never going home that night. She really saved Sam. Fourth, even though she was a bitch, at a certain point I actually began to appreciate the fact that she was so upfront about it, as opposed to the absolute fakeness of Tyler, Kaycee and JC. Even though she was terrible, it was almost a bit refreshing. So yeah, towards the end I started to appreciate her a bit, but she was still God-awful for well over 80% of the season so I cant forgive her too much.

And just like that, with only 8 entries in, the entire final four and 5/6 of the final six of BB20 is already eliminated. What a great season.
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71. Angela Rummans (Big Brother 20 4th Place)

On paper, Angela SHOULD have been a character I liked. Shes a bitchy ice queen with competition prowess, which works towards my love of badass alpha female villains. In practice however, Angela sucked. See, Angela turned out to be one of my least-favorite archetypes: the stealth bitch. This is a female player who has bitchy qualities, but maintains such a low profile that these qualities only manifest in boring, catty, high school fashion. Like Kaitlyn from Big Brother 15, she rolled her eyes and hid behind bigger characters, doing little to warrant her inclusion in the season.

Angela proved her competition prowess early on bybeing the 5th or 6th person to randomly find an object in a darkened room that randomly gave her a chance at winning power, which she failed at when competing against Swaggy. This put a target on her back (although being an introverted bitch probably helped with that), but she pulled a Homer Simpson and faded completely into the bushes for like, the first month and a half of the season. Sidenote: that shit is why we need shorter seasons, Big Brother. These long seasons only encourage players to keep their heads down as long as possible, much moreso than the complaints about bitter juries.

But of course, Angela is a physically attractive white girl (yeah, Im going SJW here, deal with it), so she got welcomed into Level 6 with open arms. And due to FOUTTE being hilariously incompetent, that really fed into her mean girl attitude, whispering behind their backs about how stupid they were (keeping in mind that this was BEFORE Level 6 began establishing themselves as decent in competitions). The first real sign of Angela being terrible though, came during Rachels eviction week.

To recap: Bayleigh puts Rachel up as a pawn and stupidly tells her about the power app she won, thus earning some trust from Rachel that Bayleigh tells the truth. Tyler wins the veto and goes to HoH Bayleigh with some intention of saving Level 6 from having two members on the block. Tyler, even though it was innocent in his mind, suggested Angela as a potential target. Bayleigh relays this information to Rachel, because at that point, I think the girls WERE gung ho about the whole all girls thing, which was why Angela pushed for Kaitlyn to leave over Rockstar. Rachel freaks out and relays that info back to Angela, BECAUSE SHE WANTED HER FRIEND TO BE INFORMED. Keep that in mind.

At that point, Angela is skeptical, so she gets confirmation from Tyler, and her immediate response is not Bayleighs a liar, but instead RACHEL is a liar. Rachel. Angelas final 2 ride-or-die at that point in time. Rachel going home at that point is whatever, because Level 6 was made up of emotionless gamebots and Rachels paranoia made her a liability. But then Angela delivers the bitchiest goodbye message possible to someone who thought she was her best friend in the house, and it was so unnecessary (and emblematic of Angela being a bitch in the same way Brett was entertainingonly in the Diary Room.)
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Of course, then Angela wins HoH, effectively killing the season since it allowed Level 6 to maintain the numerical majority they held ALL FUCKING SEASON. And again, shes completely bitchy to Bayleigh for dumb fucking reasons, when Bayleigh desperately wanted to be friends with the cool kids in the house. Bitchy goodbye message once more, and then Rockstar gets fucked over by the Hacker twist (which killed the season even more than Angelas HoH did), and wouldnt you know it, Angela leaves the bitchiest goodbye message of all.

Now, Level 6 was the casuals favorite alliance at the time, so they all cheered Angela and booed Rockstar. Fuck you Rockstar, you SJW bitch! ButRockstar WASNT FUCKING WRONG. Sure, she was mean-spirited in the things she said, but she called Angela privileged because shes pretty. Angela is from a rich family, and shes an anti-social bitch. You cannot tell me that if someone looking like Rockstar had Angelas same personality, she wouldve slid right in with the cool kids clique. And then for Angela to laugh at Rockstar with a I guess youre right, I get what I want, and I wanted you goneit was far more petty and proved Rockstars point more than even a fake Im sorry you didnt like me sort of goodbye message mightve been.

From that point on, Angela was sitting pretty in the majority, with everything going her way, and a new showmance to boot. She got booted in 4th because of a bad combination of JC winning HoH and Kaycee winning veto, but it wasnt like it was even a downfall. At the final four, SOMEONE had to go, and so what if she went out a week before she wouldve otherwise gotten second place. There really wasnt a satisfying ending for her once she got everything she wanted until the final week of the game.

The lack of a downfall is one reason why I hate Angela, her generally bland personality preventing her from being a truly detestable villain is another. But I think the worst thing of all is that because shes in Level 6, she was constantly lauded as being amazing and popular among the casual fanbase. And because she never at any point did anything to work against golden boy Tyler, fans didnt give a shit about her negative personality towards anyone else. Hell, her getting into a showmance suddenly made people outright LOVE her to the point where they felt so sorry that the poor rich girl was stressed out about her gymnastics training. Yeah, the casual fans really made this season more unbearable than it already was, and at least with Brett, I can understand the stupidity. But Angelas popularity just pisses me off. Shes an unpleasant, uncharismatic bitch.
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