Natalie's endgame is almost like a series of assassinations. Every round she does something different, uses a different element of the game to send her target home. Vote splits, idols, coercion, manipulation, and good old fashioned deception. An absolute Survivor masterclass.
So about that according to Kass and Woo there was some producer interference with this outcome while I agree Tony’s win was magnificent (and his winners at war game was even better) he wasn’t the real reason he got taken
@@Colaman112 its most likely not. Some conspiracy that was started on i think reddit a while back but I've never seen any evidence to the claim whatsoever
San Juan Del Sur has the most exciting endgame in Survivor history and so much of that is due to Natalie's AMAZING play. Jeremy was so right in saying that "Nat balled out." I wish more people would appreciate it and am so glad you did!
SDJS is such an underrated season honestly. I love the post-merge so much, it's so exciting and pretty much everyone is entertaining as hell! Plus, Natalie is a top tier winner
@@bomberdawesome AGREED! I understand why some people didn't appreciate it on a first watch, but it's one of the best on a rewatch. The endgame is just so epic.
I agree with Nat being number one. Her end game is so fun to watch I have a weird affection for Sophie's end game in SoPa cause I think it's hilarious. I love that its almost entirely yelling at albert and squashing his attempts to make a big move. I also love that she beats Ozzy in a challenge that seemed to be custom picked for him to win it, poetic
Yeah, and another underrated part of Sophie's endgame in SoPa is her convincing Coach that Brandon was a jury threat who needed to be taken out at final 5 (with her "pleasure dome" argument), and shifting the target to Albert instead if Brandon won immunity. I think this moment shows how strategically she approached the game, and that she probably had much more influence than the edit showed.
Sophie played such a strong game in SoPa. It wasn’t flashy or necessarily the most entertaining, but she knew exactly what needed to happen for her to have the highest chance of winning, and she made sure it did.
@@joannechoi8476 Apparently Brandon actually was a jury threat according to post season stuff. They just gave him a weird edit to make him seem like he couldn’t win. I remember Sophie talking about that on RHAP where she wouldn’t vote for Brandon, but she recognized that other players would actually vote for him at the end and he had a great chance at winning. Would’ve been poetic for Brandon to play in such a different way than his Uncle Russell to the point where Russell looked down on him, yet Brandon still ends up winning.
imagine carrying the last half of the season on your back and arms... I mean, she does crossfit so... 💪🏾 from the merge, Jeremy's blindside, and to the end the season was on fire! (in a good way)
What’s crazy is Amanda Kimmel in Micronesia pulled Cirie in the group, giving Parvati the majority and kept her from going in the beginning, solely took Alexis out, helped manipulate Erik to give his immunity up and got food out of him betraying Natalie, won the immunity over Natalie securing her fate, TOOK parvati to the end herself after defeating Cirie and being one of the few players able to eliminate her (cirie) altogether. This was after being on a losing tribe either way and wading through 90% of tribals and is the first female to find and correctly play an idol. Parvati had a great game but so did Amanda. That’s why Micronesia is deemed so good, not just the twists and manipulation, but because the final 2 (even the final 3) were such good players and really shined in their own ways and in completely different game styles. The fans also don’t get enough appreciation as they really matched up to the favorites.
To be fair about eliminating Cirie over Parv, Amanda probably loses to Cirie as well. I don’t know exactly how the votes shake out, but I think that the same three women who voted for Parvati to win alongside Cirie would vote for Cirie if she was in the final two with Amanda. It would be down to Parv to be the deciding vote
As you hinted at throughout the video (lmao), I expected Chris U to be here since basically his whole game was the endgame. He got an idol played on him, successfully played an idol, and make a bold but genius call to make fire at final 4. He probably gets less probs because he wasn’t there in the earlier merge to set up any of this, but the way he played those last 3 rounds (+ FTC) was so fun to watch.
Chris' victory certainly gained more esteem in my eyes after Winners at War. WaW made me realize just how difficult it was for him to play such a clean game after reentering, in contrast to Natalie's performance in Season 40. I know Chris gets flack for making what we call "obvious" plays when he came back into the game, but now we see those decisions were actually a lot harder to make in practice. It's not easy to give up immunity at final 4 to take out the biggest threat in fire, as evidence by Nat choosing to hang onto immunity instead of going to fire against Tony. (This is not Natalie slander btw, she's my second-favorite winner ever from San Juan Del Sur, but I was not a fan of her endgame in S40)
@@matthewarrojas5183 yes but keep in mind Chris had no affect on the game while he was on the Edge unlike players like Natalie in WaW. I don’t think it was enough for him to win, but I can see why they voted for him
Denise and Michele's end games in their winning seasons were quite amazing. Both of them were the most legendary underdogs of their season as Denise was the last Matsing member standing, and Michele became an underdog once Julia left at the final 7. Denise excelled at her social and strategic maneuvering and Michele excelled at both social and physical game. Seeing Denise go to every tribal council and still be the one to win was an amazing story, and with Michele, she pulled off clutch immunity wins when she needed them most and was quite the catalyst of wild card players excelling at the game. Another endgame I really like in a meta sense, Natalie White in Survivor Samoa made a smart decision to pump up Russell and Mick as her meat shields and let them sink their games further and made her look like the best pick to win the season. She essentially became the last woman standing after Shambo goes. She read between the lines and knew that the men were dominating all season long. Natalie just stood out of the spotlight and won the game by maximizing her social prowess and jury management to gain all 7 votes to win.
I feel like how clutch Michelle is under pressure isn't talked about enough. In WaW too she had a clutch immunity win in the final 6 I believe, and possibly a second if I remember right
@@lionboy1053 for real. Im still mad that her advantage competition for the "Vote a jury" doesnt count as an immunity win. Because if it counted, she would be tied with Kim spradling as the most immunity wins ever by a female. She legit wins immunity whenever she needed to. Kind of crazy how underrated she is. In the challenge however, she was legit the biggest threat they wanted to take her out badddd
David was always my favorite player since he started out as a scared and rather helpless person but as the game developed he put himself in the best position possible to win the game. In the end Adam outplayed him, but those two were amazing to watch and you could tell they really respected each other.
YESSS NATALIE she's my favorite modern survivor winner! i LOVED her in SJDS and i loved the post merge of that season in general, it was a fascinating case study in how your social game really means everything; natalie had such strong social bonds that she knew she could get away with the moves she pulled off. i feel like most people don't give enough credit to jaclyn's game that season either, she had amazing game sense and was super savvy. i would love to see her invited back to play again someday!
I think Sophie's South Pacific endgame is very underrated, particularly how well she played during the Brandon boot. (with her "Ozzy's pleasure dome" argument and all)
Sophie in general is incredibly underrated. In a game where everybody acts like big moves are the way to go, Sophie set herself up great and just did some small adjustments when necessary. Albert and Coach both were a mess, and both were clearly aching to do something crazy, so for Sophie to realize that she was already on the course and just had to convince these 2 to stick with her was actually really good. Not to mention she had a great FTC.
@@4Tom4lepus4 Yep, she's a top-half winner imo. Unfortunately she got a small edit for a winner, and people are just salty that she beat Coach and Ozzy, lol
@@joannechoi8476 Yeah, the edit and people's absolutely blind love for Ozzy, who, let's be fair, is actually not a good player, definitely didn't work in Sophie's favor when it comes to how the audience perceives her. I personally love her. I find her dry sense of humor and her sarcasm INCREDIBLY entertaining, her yelling at Albert? Gold. And no matter how many times I watch it, I still get such satisfaction from her fucking up production's plans and beating Ozzy in a season clearly designed for him.
I agree I was happy she won I like coach and Izzy but I didn’t really want them win for some reason I wanted a new player as rob won the last captain season
i feel like the reason natalie’s end game is better than the rest is because she was so unexpectedly assassinating everyone but differently. the split vote counter, the split vote blindside, the idol play n was even the swing vote in the f4 having missy.. MISSY of all people’s faith in her hands to a potential fire-making. she was flashy n ballsy with it n everything. quadruple-kill.
I rewatched it to and Natalie had a major pre merge purple edit just something noticed which is weird as she’s part of the most notorious alliance in survivor history
Some of the best games are when they're playing for revenge. Sandra getting revenge for Rupert in Pearl Islands motivated a lot of her winning endgame. Natalie's revenge for Jeremy is a thing of beauty!
Natalie A's post-merge and endgame were both so good and get really underestimated. Even moreso than Parvati getting Natalie B thirsty for her to such a degree that she turned against and voted out her loyal Idol-carrying goat in Jason at Final 8, and refused to vote for Parvati in Erik/Alexis's 3-2-1 split plan at Final 6, leading to her throwing her game away twice for Parv's sake, lol.
Something I just realized that interesting is that both Tony and Natalie have won, yet both have also been voted off first, and they were in the final 2 for winners at war
@@cousinmose3193 .. due to something she had 0 control over. They were looking for any reason to vote someone off first and her & Jeremy simply being on the same tribe is what did her in. Her legacy stays in tact.
@@survivorbbfreak6709 Her legacy does stay in tact. But to say she had no control over her boot is total crap. You're probably one of those people that thinks she should have won over Tony.
@@survivorbbfreak6709 I think there is one thing on WAW that damages her legacy a bit. It's that she didn't try to take out Tony through fire. Despite that, she's still one of the best of all time.
I know everyone is talking about Nat's end game, But lets talk about Chris D for a moment. While his end game was nice and filled with good choices and even better manipulation, His FTC is a masterclass on how to do it right.
Vecepia’s endgame is definitely one of my favorites and it’s very unique as it starts very late. Her move to slit Kathy’s throat 5 seconds after she drops still gives me the chills
Not really. Woo was under the assumption he was going to lose regardless. If you watch that episode you realize Tony pushes how Kass will beat him in a final 2. I think he knew he wouldn't beat Tony but he would rather Tony beat him then possibly Kass.
Like him or hate him, Chris U might have had one of the best endgames ever, and it sucks to see him not even be an honorable mention. He came back automatically as public enemy #2 and got somebody to play an idol for him, convince Rick to give him back his idol, win an immunity, and finally give up his guaranteed finale spot to take down the biggest competition. In the context of just endgames, not entire games, underwood might be one of the best
Natalie's arc on Survivor plays out the way Arya's arc should have played out on Game of Thrones if D&D had just pulled their heads out of each other's asses.
I also loved how when Jon was in danger she saved him (by telling him to play his idol) even though she wanted him gone. She knew it wasn't the time. The self control
Honestly, it makes sense for her not to go for it yet. He was viewed a threat by the oppositions enough to be targeted and plus had he gone the numbers are 4-4 next tribal.
Worlds apart Mike Holloway…. Not for strategy, most definitely not for strategy. Just for pure entertainment of being the main target the entire time and most hated for his auction move. Watching the others scramble when he wins every immunity challenge after challenge.
So no one gonna talk about Mike’s endgame? He was in a 5-2 alliance minority, caused 2 people to blindside, and ended up running the game by the final five. He had everything set up to ensure his victory after that. Mike is criminally underrated, and will always be among my favorite winners.
Hell, I'm convinced that at final 4 and potentially final 5, IF Mike doesn't win immunity he stays, at this point Carolyn was on Mike's side (but until final 5 vote wasn't fully), and he might've also had Will (they made that final 3 deal), so, let's say hypothetically, final 5, Mike loses, Carolyn wins, Carolyn knows that she's safe now, and most likely always safe final 4, she uses the idol on Mike, they vote out whoever they want (probably still Sierre), and for F4, well, it's unknown if (presumably the votes stay the same) Mike or Rodney would win, Mike wins, endgame stays the same, Rodney wins, Carolyn wins in most likely a landslide, the only 2 who'd want to vote for Rodney and Will, would be Rodney and Will
love that you teased us with chris's endgame but then showed us adam's endgame. genius. edit: peridiam you're such a tease, you did it with every single one. i love the way you make your videos lmaoooo
Before watching, I just want to say JEREMY should be included in this. He is definitely one of the most overlooked Survivor winners and his endgame was pretty damn perfect.
I agree but I feel his endgame was a little weaker then his mid-game. His game is definitely overlooked by Kelley Wentworths which I never understood. Definitely a top 5 survivor winner.
@@kenneyp.9456 I know they did but I think her game was pretty subpar overall. Although I don't think her mindset for the game is bad, her execution is pretty bad.
@@bomberdawesome I love Wentworth but I do agree that Jeremy's game was stronger than hers. I liked Wentworth's underdog status as she was in the minority alliance and had the savvy to know when to save herself, but Jeremy's overall game deserved him the win over her.
Tony in season 40, sophie vote. Navigating idols and disadvantages , making strong final deals with multiple people so much that he can rely on jeremy and nick even though he has no intention of keeping them, winning immunity, and fire. Then his final speech, the dicotomy of staying in the game and being safe versus riding with ghost island, two seperate but equally dominant games clashing with the largest jury in survivor history, just for him to win in a landslide. Natalie is truly amazing and her endgame in 40 is great as well but she didnt have the resume tony did and thus didnt win
Idk if kristie from survivor Australia had an amazing endgame choosing Lee and El over Matt and flick, or if she just had the best tribal speech ever and told us she knew what was going to happen when she full well didn’t. I still can’t tell if she knew what she was doing the whole time, or BS’ed her way through final tribal to get an almost unanimous win. Either way she’s still one of my fav winners
Parv was playing for 2nd in Micronesia, she needed to cut Cirie. That is a blind spot in her game. Little we forget final 3 was the norm at this point. That idol at 5 could have been used to get out Cirie at 5. Ah well.
yes! natalie still remains my favorite winner just in terms of her story, and i think i’m definitely biased as sjds was one of my earliest seasons i watched. but for me, after tyson and tony won back to back (2 villains that i didn’t necessarily root for) it was so refreshing to have natalie pull out all the stops and actually take the cake! i was so happy to see someone win who i actually rooted for! i remember being scared that missy and jaclyn were going to snipe her in some crazy 2-1-1 at f4 but thankfully that didn’t happen. that’s another crazy aspect of nat’s game, she never even had her name written down once!
Reid actually wasn’t just being petty towards Missy when he voted for Jaclyn to get second place. He knew Jaclyn’s struggle with surrogacy and the expenses that come with trying to have a child this way, so he was helping her out
If Ricard makes it to the end i think he’ll win without a doubt but if he gets voted out, Erika makes the most sense. Of the 5 left, only Ricard and Erika really have a case to make and the jury isn’t completely bitter or angry at them. As opposed to Deshawn who angered a lot of people on the jury (shan and liana especially) , Heather who’s been completely invisible for whatever reason and Xander who never saved anybody in his alliance and kept everything for himself. This season has been so chaotic so watch heather win in the end somehow lol 💀💀💀💀
Xander's alliance? Everyone In his starting tribe wanted him out until they needed him for a number. Once Evvie was thrown under the bus about revealing Xander's idol, he was on his own.
Xander is playing from the bottom and is still at the final 5. Still has a idol in his pocket and played a fake. Also has one an individual immunity with a chance to win 2 more. He’s the underdog, if he gets to the end he might win. Against Richard most likely not, but anybody else? He has a shot.
I completely agree with this take on Erika deserving the win since Ricard didn’t make it, and can’t believe people are shocked and appalled that Xander didn’t win. Like what did he actually do?
After last night I can kinda see why everyone dislikes Xander. He's dumb, bad at this game and he's very full of himself and was not being edited as a goat that he was. If he didn't have the best idol game of all time he would be pre merge. It must be incredibly annoying to want to vote a player out but he keeps winning immunity or fucking with your mind about his idol.
Maybe it’s personal bias, but I’d switch out Chris for Danni. She accomplished a similar feat by being the underdog and getting to the end. Chris was just so hammy, I couldn’t believe people fell for his stuff. His FTC just came across as insincere. Maybe it’s more on the jury, than Chris himself. The juries for Adam, Parvati, Tony, and Natalie all appreciated good gameplay over bs. So I preferred their FTC performances over Chris and FTC is a huge part of the endgame. I know that Chris and JT are considered to have among the best FTC, but there was too much bs.
Good list but I'd probably bump Tony down to the bottom because he put himself in a position where he had to convince Woo. He should have turned on Woo at five, still voted out Spencer at four, and then he's sitting in a final immunity challenge against Kass and Trish. Of course, then Kass likely wins, takes Trish and Trish wins making Cagayan a much less beloved season. It's tough. But going solely by the odds, Tony made the wrong call even if the results played out perfectly for him.
I think you saying Kass likely wins the final immunity challenge and deciding to take Trish shows that path was the one with fewer odds for Tony. Woo is much more susceptible than Kass. There is no way Kass would ever consider taking Tony. Woo was much easier to manipulate.
@@miz_flamingo1470 That’s a dumb move. I would still feel more comfortable convincing Woo as with Kass I would have to predict that she would make a suboptimal move. Tony had much more sway over Woo and I don’t think he can reasonably assume that Kass would take him as that doesn’t make sense. You always want to take the beatable opponent to maximize your chances of winning. If Kass thought that was Tony or if she wanted to take Tony because she would rather lose to him then that’s suboptimal in my opinion.
Natalie's endgame is almost like a series of assassinations. Every round she does something different, uses a different element of the game to send her target home. Vote splits, idols, coercion, manipulation, and good old fashioned deception. An absolute Survivor masterclass.
It is why my fave winning game is hers.
one of my favorites!!!
Natalie’s game is like riding the fastest roller coaster you could ever imagine.
She’s the best winner no one can change my mind
Best endgame ever. She was incredible
All the Chris Underwood shots in between entries 😂
Bahahah yea that got me rolling
Those had me dying
technically his game consisted only of the endgame
Sometimes you tell people you want to vote them out of the game and it works for you. 😆 thanks for the shoutout and another great video!
I got to say man, you're one of my all-time favorite winners. And that bit about trying to play the podium ornament was CLASSIC.
Tony managing to convince Woo to take him to the finale instead Kass is just pure genius.
So about that according to Kass and Woo there was some producer interference with this outcome while I agree Tony’s win was magnificent (and his winners at war game was even better) he wasn’t the real reason he got taken
@@rosstheboss6266 Well, that's disappointing if true.
@@Colaman112 its most likely not. Some conspiracy that was started on i think reddit a while back but I've never seen any evidence to the claim whatsoever
Kass may win that tho
i guess he “woo’d” him
San Juan Del Sur has the most exciting endgame in Survivor history and so much of that is due to Natalie's AMAZING play. Jeremy was so right in saying that "Nat balled out." I wish more people would appreciate it and am
so glad you did!
SDJS is such an underrated season honestly. I love the post-merge so much, it's so exciting and pretty much everyone is entertaining as hell! Plus, Natalie is a top tier winner
@@4Tom4lepus4 yes agreed 100%!! give natalie and SJDS the respect they deserve!
Unpopular opinion but SJDS is league's ahead of BvW
@@bomberdawesome AGREED! I understand why some people didn't appreciate it on a first watch, but it's one of the best on a rewatch. The endgame is just so epic.
💯, best season imo.
The series of episodes for Natalie's end game is so satisfying to watch.
I agree with Nat being number one. Her end game is so fun to watch
I have a weird affection for Sophie's end game in SoPa cause I think it's hilarious. I love that its almost entirely yelling at albert and squashing his attempts to make a big move. I also love that she beats Ozzy in a challenge that seemed to be custom picked for him to win it, poetic
Yeah, and another underrated part of Sophie's endgame in SoPa is her convincing Coach that Brandon was a jury threat who needed to be taken out at final 5 (with her "pleasure dome" argument), and shifting the target to Albert instead if Brandon won immunity. I think this moment shows how strategically she approached the game, and that she probably had much more influence than the edit showed.
Sophie played such a strong game in SoPa. It wasn’t flashy or necessarily the most entertaining, but she knew exactly what needed to happen for her to have the highest chance of winning, and she made sure it did.
@@joannechoi8476
Apparently Brandon actually was a jury threat according to post season stuff. They just gave him a weird edit to make him seem like he couldn’t win. I remember Sophie talking about that on RHAP where she wouldn’t vote for Brandon, but she recognized that other players would actually vote for him at the end and he had a great chance at winning. Would’ve been poetic for Brandon to play in such a different way than his Uncle Russell to the point where Russell looked down on him, yet Brandon still ends up winning.
@UCZsC1cmkGPUk3AQJ4k05SGg Exactly, and Sophie knew this, which is why she convinced everyone else he had to go.
Natalie definitely had the best end game in Survivor history. What a photo and clean finish. No argument.
imagine carrying the last half of the season on your back and arms... I mean, she does crossfit so... 💪🏾
from the merge, Jeremy's blindside, and to the end the season was on fire! (in a good way)
natalie white top five winner of all time🔥🔥🔥
Her and Keith were the main reasons I finished watching that season. But it was worth it to see Natalie's game, one of my favorite winners.
@@mkr836 Her name is Natalie Anderson.
I could argue that..
I love how every single time he would tease the next player it was always Chris Underwoods end game clips.
What’s crazy is Amanda Kimmel in Micronesia pulled Cirie in the group, giving Parvati the majority and kept her from going in the beginning, solely took Alexis out, helped manipulate Erik to give his immunity up and got food out of him betraying Natalie, won the immunity over Natalie securing her fate, TOOK parvati to the end herself after defeating Cirie and being one of the few players able to eliminate her (cirie) altogether. This was after being on a losing tribe either way and wading through 90% of tribals and is the first female to find and correctly play an idol. Parvati had a great game but so did Amanda. That’s why Micronesia is deemed so good, not just the twists and manipulation, but because the final 2 (even the final 3) were such good players and really shined in their own ways and in completely different game styles. The fans also don’t get enough appreciation as they really matched up to the favorites.
To be fair about eliminating Cirie over Parv, Amanda probably loses to Cirie as well. I don’t know exactly how the votes shake out, but I think that the same three women who voted for Parvati to win alongside Cirie would vote for Cirie if she was in the final two with Amanda. It would be down to Parv to be the deciding vote
THE Amanda Kimmel
@@gengarcrobat1576 I feel like Cirie is the kind of person to give an amazing FTC performance and would win over Amanda
As you hinted at throughout the video (lmao), I expected Chris U to be here since basically his whole game was the endgame. He got an idol played on him, successfully played an idol, and make a bold but genius call to make fire at final 4. He probably gets less probs because he wasn’t there in the earlier merge to set up any of this, but the way he played those last 3 rounds (+ FTC) was so fun to watch.
That was at final six not 7 so it’s less impressive but still pretty cool
Chris' victory certainly gained more esteem in my eyes after Winners at War. WaW made me realize just how difficult it was for him to play such a clean game after reentering, in contrast to Natalie's performance in Season 40. I know Chris gets flack for making what we call "obvious" plays when he came back into the game, but now we see those decisions were actually a lot harder to make in practice. It's not easy to give up immunity at final 4 to take out the biggest threat in fire, as evidence by Nat choosing to hang onto immunity instead of going to fire against Tony.
(This is not Natalie slander btw, she's my second-favorite winner ever from San Juan Del Sur, but I was not a fan of her endgame in S40)
@@matthewarrojas5183 yes but keep in mind Chris had no affect on the game while he was on the Edge unlike players like Natalie in WaW. I don’t think it was enough for him to win, but I can see why they voted for him
Denise and Michele's end games in their winning seasons were quite amazing. Both of them were the most legendary underdogs of their season as Denise was the last Matsing member standing, and Michele became an underdog once Julia left at the final 7. Denise excelled at her social and strategic maneuvering and Michele excelled at both social and physical game. Seeing Denise go to every tribal council and still be the one to win was an amazing story, and with Michele, she pulled off clutch immunity wins when she needed them most and was quite the catalyst of wild card players excelling at the game.
Another endgame I really like in a meta sense, Natalie White in Survivor Samoa made a smart decision to pump up Russell and Mick as her meat shields and let them sink their games further and made her look like the best pick to win the season. She essentially became the last woman standing after Shambo goes. She read between the lines and knew that the men were dominating all season long. Natalie just stood out of the spotlight and won the game by maximizing her social prowess and jury management to gain all 7 votes to win.
I feel like how clutch Michelle is under pressure isn't talked about enough. In WaW too she had a clutch immunity win in the final 6 I believe, and possibly a second if I remember right
if I were peridiam i would put Denise and Michele in instead of Chris and Adam.
@@cookiecrumble619 Michele is still so underrated. annoying.
@@lionboy1053 for real. Im still mad that her advantage competition for the "Vote a jury" doesnt count as an immunity win. Because if it counted, she would be tied with Kim spradling as the most immunity wins ever by a female. She legit wins immunity whenever she needed to. Kind of crazy how underrated she is.
In the challenge however, she was legit the biggest threat they wanted to take her out badddd
@@cookiecrumble619 yeah she needed both f6 immunities as she was very in danger both of them
David was always my favorite player since he started out as a scared and rather helpless person but as the game developed he put himself in the best position possible to win the game. In the end Adam outplayed him, but those two were amazing to watch and you could tell they really respected each other.
YESSS NATALIE she's my favorite modern survivor winner! i LOVED her in SJDS and i loved the post merge of that season in general, it was a fascinating case study in how your social game really means everything; natalie had such strong social bonds that she knew she could get away with the moves she pulled off. i feel like most people don't give enough credit to jaclyn's game that season either, she had amazing game sense and was super savvy. i would love to see her invited back to play again someday!
I think Sophie's South Pacific endgame is very underrated, particularly how well she played during the Brandon boot. (with her "Ozzy's pleasure dome" argument and all)
Sophie in general is incredibly underrated. In a game where everybody acts like big moves are the way to go, Sophie set herself up great and just did some small adjustments when necessary. Albert and Coach both were a mess, and both were clearly aching to do something crazy, so for Sophie to realize that she was already on the course and just had to convince these 2 to stick with her was actually really good. Not to mention she had a great FTC.
@@4Tom4lepus4 Yep, she's a top-half winner imo. Unfortunately she got a small edit for a winner, and people are just salty that she beat Coach and Ozzy, lol
@@joannechoi8476 Yeah, the edit and people's absolutely blind love for Ozzy, who, let's be fair, is actually not a good player, definitely didn't work in Sophie's favor when it comes to how the audience perceives her. I personally love her. I find her dry sense of humor and her sarcasm INCREDIBLY entertaining, her yelling at Albert? Gold. And no matter how many times I watch it, I still get such satisfaction from her fucking up production's plans and beating Ozzy in a season clearly designed for him.
Sophie is definitely underrated. She won a captain season and her edit fell victim to the returning player hype.
I agree I was happy she won I like coach and Izzy but I didn’t really want them win for some reason I wanted a new player as rob won the last captain season
the Gilmore Goats had me choking sir.
i feel like the reason natalie’s end game is better than the rest is because she was so unexpectedly assassinating everyone but differently. the split vote counter, the split vote blindside, the idol play n was even the swing vote in the f4 having missy.. MISSY of all people’s faith in her hands to a potential fire-making. she was flashy n ballsy with it n everything. quadruple-kill.
I rewatch Micronesia all the time just to see the endgame. The Black Widow Alliance were mesmerising to watch.
I rewatched it to and Natalie had a major pre merge purple edit just something noticed which is weird as she’s part of the most notorious alliance in survivor history
The Chris slander is top tier this video 10/10
Some of the best games are when they're playing for revenge. Sandra getting revenge for Rupert in Pearl Islands motivated a lot of her winning endgame. Natalie's revenge for Jeremy is a thing of beauty!
MY GOD FINALLY ADAM KLEIN IS GETTING THE RESPECT HE DESERVES
Natalie A's post-merge and endgame were both so good and get really underestimated. Even moreso than Parvati getting Natalie B thirsty for her to such a degree that she turned against and voted out her loyal Idol-carrying goat in Jason at Final 8, and refused to vote for Parvati in Erik/Alexis's 3-2-1 split plan at Final 6, leading to her throwing her game away twice for Parv's sake, lol.
THE GILMORE GOATS?? I screamed
Something I just realized that interesting is that both Tony and Natalie have won, yet both have also been voted off first, and they were in the final 2 for winners at war
Well, Tony was actually a second boot but I get it
@@StarLight72267 first off his tribe
@@teresawatson1038 that was Ciera
Natalie is truly one of the best players of all time. Her winning season and her performance in Winners at War speak for themselves.
Yeah like the part where she was the first one voted out🤣
@@cousinmose3193 .. due to something she had 0 control over. They were looking for any reason to vote someone off first and her & Jeremy simply being on the same tribe is what did her in. Her legacy stays in tact.
@@survivorbbfreak6709 Her legacy does stay in tact. But to say she had no control over her boot is total crap. You're probably one of those people that thinks she should have won over Tony.
@@survivorbbfreak6709 I think there is one thing on WAW that damages her legacy a bit. It's that she didn't try to take out Tony through fire. Despite that, she's still one of the best of all time.
her preformance in being the first boot does indeed speak for itself.
Natalies endgame is just so satisfying to watch
I think Tony's waw game was really good the moment he took out Sophie he just ruled the game from there
agreed!
Lol at the amount of Chris Underwood clips sprinkled in
I still feel like Adam is underrated. He's always thinking outside the box.
Dude ,,How do you say number two in lama?" absolutely killed me xD
I know everyone is talking about Nat's end game,
But lets talk about Chris D for a moment. While his end game was nice and filled with good choices and even better manipulation, His FTC is a masterclass on how to do it right.
Vecepia’s endgame is definitely one of my favorites and it’s very unique as it starts very late. Her move to slit Kathy’s throat 5 seconds after she drops still gives me the chills
Does anyone feel Woo taking Tony to the finale was just as foolish as Erik giving up his immunity to Natalie?
Not really. Woo was under the assumption he was going to lose regardless. If you watch that episode you realize Tony pushes how Kass will beat him in a final 2. I think he knew he wouldn't beat Tony but he would rather Tony beat him then possibly Kass.
Definitely big L on woo’s part, I believe woo even told kass he’d be the stupidest survivor player taking tony to the end.
In my opinion, Natalie Anderson played a top 5 game of all time.
Even tho it was a joke, Chris Underwood's end game was pretty much perfect. He somehow ended up being the best player besides devins and won
Thank you for being the only Survivor UA-camr to pronounce Tony’s last name correctly.
'The Gilmore Goats' really got me.
Like him or hate him, Chris U might have had one of the best endgames ever, and it sucks to see him not even be an honorable mention. He came back automatically as public enemy #2 and got somebody to play an idol for him, convince Rick to give him back his idol, win an immunity, and finally give up his guaranteed finale spot to take down the biggest competition. In the context of just endgames, not entire games, underwood might be one of the best
"The Gilmore Goats" had me DYING lmaooo
All the Chris Underwood fake-outs were hilarious
Natalie's arc on Survivor plays out the way Arya's arc should have played out on Game of Thrones if D&D had just pulled their heads out of each other's asses.
I also loved how when Jon was in danger she saved him (by telling him to play his idol) even though she wanted him gone. She knew it wasn't the time. The self control
Honestly, it makes sense for her not to go for it yet. He was viewed a threat by the oppositions enough to be targeted and plus had he gone the numbers are 4-4 next tribal.
those chris underwood edits were so dirty i love it
Worlds apart Mike Holloway…. Not for strategy, most definitely not for strategy.
Just for pure entertainment of being the main target the entire time and most hated for his auction move. Watching the others scramble when he wins every immunity challenge after challenge.
So no one gonna talk about Mike’s endgame? He was in a 5-2 alliance minority, caused 2 people to blindside, and ended up running the game by the final five. He had everything set up to ensure his victory after that. Mike is criminally underrated, and will always be among my favorite winners.
Hell, I'm convinced that at final 4 and potentially final 5, IF Mike doesn't win immunity he stays, at this point Carolyn was on Mike's side (but until final 5 vote wasn't fully), and he might've also had Will (they made that final 3 deal), so, let's say hypothetically, final 5, Mike loses, Carolyn wins, Carolyn knows that she's safe now, and most likely always safe final 4, she uses the idol on Mike, they vote out whoever they want (probably still Sierre), and for F4, well, it's unknown if (presumably the votes stay the same) Mike or Rodney would win, Mike wins, endgame stays the same, Rodney wins, Carolyn wins in most likely a landslide, the only 2 who'd want to vote for Rodney and Will, would be Rodney and Will
Thank you for posting the video.
love that you teased us with chris's endgame but then showed us adam's endgame. genius.
edit: peridiam you're such a tease, you did it with every single one. i love the way you make your videos lmaoooo
Love the Chuck montage throughout.
Love the footage of EoE thrown in there as a mixup😂
That final episode of winners at war had everyone going crazy
Nicely put!
My absolute favorite Survivor endgame must be the meme himself Chris U. He was so unexpected that he completly blew my mind and I loved it .
Before watching, I just want to say JEREMY should be included in this. He is definitely one of the most overlooked Survivor winners and his endgame was pretty damn perfect.
I agree but I feel his endgame was a little weaker then his mid-game. His game is definitely overlooked by Kelley Wentworths which I never understood. Definitely a top 5 survivor winner.
Jeremy and Nat still my favourite winners.😩
@@bomberdawesome because people wanted her to win so bad
@@kenneyp.9456 I know they did but I think her game was pretty subpar overall. Although I don't think her mindset for the game is bad, her execution is pretty bad.
@@bomberdawesome I love Wentworth but I do agree that Jeremy's game was stronger than hers. I liked Wentworth's underdog status as she was in the minority alliance and had the savvy to know when to save herself, but Jeremy's overall game deserved him the win over her.
sandwiched between his buddy pal
Woo & his Llama goat Kass is my favorite quote from this whole video
Absolutely savage to fill the video with clips from EoE and not even have Underwood on the list haha
Natalie has grown on me as one of my favorite players immensely; that endgame in SJDS is just pure brilliancy.
this video is very well timed lol
Tony in season 40, sophie vote. Navigating idols and disadvantages , making strong final deals with multiple people so much that he can rely on jeremy and nick even though he has no intention of keeping them, winning immunity, and fire. Then his final speech, the dicotomy of staying in the game and being safe versus riding with ghost island, two seperate but equally dominant games clashing with the largest jury in survivor history, just for him to win in a landslide. Natalie is truly amazing and her endgame in 40 is great as well but she didnt have the resume tony did and thus didnt win
I wouldn’t mind a part 2 of this where you mention 5 more 👀
Encore! Encore!
I like how you put clips of Chip in the video to try and throw us off.
Tony convincing Woo to take him to the finale was one of the greatest plays I've ever seen till today.
I love how you kept showing Chris
hope you make a video about best moves done by runner ups though
Jenna Morasca should be an honorable mention imo
Clean video!
This video really makes me want to watch these seasons of Survivor
Tony at that Tribal Council still cracks me up.
Idk if kristie from survivor Australia had an amazing endgame choosing Lee and El over Matt and flick, or if she just had the best tribal speech ever and told us she knew what was going to happen when she full well didn’t. I still can’t tell if she knew what she was doing the whole time, or BS’ed her way through final tribal to get an almost unanimous win. Either way she’s still one of my fav winners
When he teases Chris Underwood's end game the whole video :(
That Chris fake out was hilarious😂😂😂
I liked watching survivor, then grew to love it by s20 and once i watched Tony & Nat in s28-29 it became an obsession.
Parv was playing for 2nd in Micronesia, she needed to cut Cirie. That is a blind spot in her game. Little we forget final 3 was the norm at this point. That idol at 5 could have been used to get out Cirie at 5. Ah well.
the chris u clips are killing me lmfao 💀
yes! natalie still remains my favorite winner just in terms of her story, and i think i’m definitely biased as sjds was one of my earliest seasons i watched. but for me, after tyson and tony won back to back (2 villains that i didn’t necessarily root for) it was so refreshing to have natalie pull out all the stops and actually take the cake! i was so happy to see someone win who i actually rooted for! i remember being scared that missy and jaclyn were going to snipe her in some crazy 2-1-1 at f4 but thankfully that didn’t happen. that’s another crazy aspect of nat’s game, she never even had her name written down once!
Spoiler
Erika had the best tribal performance I’ve seen in years
Reid actually wasn’t just being petty towards Missy when he voted for Jaclyn to get second place. He knew Jaclyn’s struggle with surrogacy and the expenses that come with trying to have a child this way, so he was helping her out
If Ricard makes it to the end i think he’ll win without a doubt but if he gets voted out, Erika makes the most sense. Of the 5 left, only Ricard and Erika really have a case to make and the jury isn’t completely bitter or angry at them. As opposed to Deshawn who angered a lot of people on the jury (shan and liana especially) , Heather who’s been completely invisible for whatever reason and Xander who never saved anybody in his alliance and kept everything for himself. This season has been so chaotic so watch heather win in the end somehow lol 💀💀💀💀
Xander's alliance?
Everyone In his starting tribe wanted him out until they needed him for a number. Once Evvie was thrown under the bus about revealing Xander's idol, he was on his own.
Xander is playing from the bottom and is still at the final 5. Still has a idol in his pocket and played a fake. Also has one an individual immunity with a chance to win 2 more. He’s the underdog, if he gets to the end he might win. Against Richard most likely not, but anybody else? He has a shot.
I completely agree with this take on Erika deserving the win since Ricard didn’t make it, and can’t believe people are shocked and appalled that Xander didn’t win. Like what did he actually do?
After last night I can kinda see why everyone dislikes Xander. He's dumb, bad at this game and he's very full of himself and was not being edited as a goat that he was. If he didn't have the best idol game of all time he would be pre merge. It must be incredibly annoying to want to vote a player out but he keeps winning immunity or fucking with your mind about his idol.
I would love to see Baylor play again. Young, Witty, and her and John ran the alliance and she had ties with the other side
I love how you always pan to Chris Underwood just to fake us out lol. cheeky bastard! hahaha.
Is this a re upload? I swear we’ve already seen this
Maybe it’s personal bias, but I’d switch out Chris for Danni. She accomplished a similar feat by being the underdog and getting to the end. Chris was just so hammy, I couldn’t believe people fell for his stuff. His FTC just came across as insincere. Maybe it’s more on the jury, than Chris himself. The juries for Adam, Parvati, Tony, and Natalie all appreciated good gameplay over bs. So I preferred their FTC performances over Chris and FTC is a huge part of the endgame. I know that Chris and JT are considered to have among the best FTC, but there was too much bs.
Good list but I'd probably bump Tony down to the bottom because he put himself in a position where he had to convince Woo. He should have turned on Woo at five, still voted out Spencer at four, and then he's sitting in a final immunity challenge against Kass and Trish. Of course, then Kass likely wins, takes Trish and Trish wins making Cagayan a much less beloved season. It's tough. But going solely by the odds, Tony made the wrong call even if the results played out perfectly for him.
I think you saying Kass likely wins the final immunity challenge and deciding to take Trish shows that path was the one with fewer odds for Tony. Woo is much more susceptible than Kass. There is no way Kass would ever consider taking Tony. Woo was much easier to manipulate.
@@Ren_Davis0531 Actually kass actually said in her jury talk thats shes gotta take tony to the finale with her if she win the final immunity
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That’s a dumb move. I would still feel more comfortable convincing Woo as with Kass I would have to predict that she would make a suboptimal move. Tony had much more sway over Woo and I don’t think he can reasonably assume that Kass would take him as that doesn’t make sense. You always want to take the beatable opponent to maximize your chances of winning. If Kass thought that was Tony or if she wanted to take Tony because she would rather lose to him then that’s suboptimal in my opinion.
I really enjoyed tony in winners at war as well. I am a big tony fan I admit, but the Sophie vote was very good in my opinion
Natalie is my 100% favorite and I was very fortunate to have met her and Nadiya at a CrossFit competition before they competed on Survivor.
"The Gilmore Goats" 😂🤣😂
I am thinking 42’s winner end-game could be in this video! They had an amazing end-game.
Natalie and Tony have 2 of my favorite winning games ever!! Both iconic
All of those clips of Chris Underwood. 😂😂😂
Maybe do too 5 winners pre merge game
Laura and Sherri on Caramoan and Tracy (Micronesia) or bust
but why Chris Underwooodddd that’s my mannn
Natalie anderson and tony working together would be extreamly dangerous
I just can't believe Chris U didn't make the list!!!!!
Looks like tonight was another Colby vs Tina ending..
I see what you did there. I see U. Chris U.
natalie is also my favorite winner! idk something about watching her as a young kid was rlly inspirational to see an an unapologetic female winner.
Not the Chris U. scenes 😭
Correct me if I’m wrong but we don’t have our 40th winner yet, do we? With Sandra and Tony winning twice.
i was rooting for natalie for the number one spot. her game has always amazed me
Make fun of him all you want, Chris Underwood played a perfect game when he got back in.
Hello, Peridiam. I forgot the video where you put all the video sources of the episodes of each season. Can you please share it again? Thank you.