They did vote for her to go into exile multiple times though. That said, exile was hardly a punishment since it essentially gave her immunity and fruit to eat as the rest of her tribe starved.
Earl played the statistically best game coming 0.1% away from being 100% perfect. He got 100% of the Jury votes, voted 100% correctly and only got 1 stay vote.
@@OnceUponAnIsland I agree. I don't count "incorrect" votes that were part of a successful vote split or had an even better strategic purpose than just voting with the majority. JT's vote for Erinn to secure Coach's jury vote is perhaps the best example of this. Voting "correctly" in that case would actually be a negative for JT, as it could potentially put Coach's jury vote in jeopardy. There really is very little that I can criticize about JT's game.
Well, technically Earl voted incorrectly one time, and that was on the Mookie vote. But that was because of a vote split, so it doesn't really count as "incorrect" in essence.
I love how the very premise of your entire comment is wrong. Earl voted against Alex in a split vote, and Mookie ended up going home. By this count he is statistically tied with JT, who voted incorrectly twice.
I never realized how hilarious it is when Jeff is reading off "Mike.. does not count." over and over and literally every single person is pissed and then there's Mike sitting in the middle with a huge toothy smile on his face 😂
Would've been Hilarious if you mentioned Sugar's game from Gabon as a joke. "Up next we have Sugar from Survivor Gabon. A game that was so perfect, that I think it went a little bit TOO perfect." Literally 0 votes casted against her throughout the season, only to then have 0 votes casted for her to win Survivor. I think the only player that didn't have their name written down on that piece of parchment the entire season without Med Evacs or Quitting the game.
I know “technically” Earl didn’t get a perfect win, but I still personally think his game is deserving of a perfect or pseudo-perfect title because that one stray vote takes nothing away from his gameplay, and also makes no sense in the context of the season.
Earl played a top-five game in my opinion. It was kind of like a pitcher who gave up a bloop single in the second inning and then was perfect the rest of the way. Not technically a perfect game but still incredibly impressive.
@@bigbuffguy9589 reminds me of spankie jackzon of drag race down under was in the bottom in the first episode then proceeded to be on the top for the remainder of the competition and won the crown
JT played the Absolute Perfect Game, on top of his achievement he got the Fan Favorite Award for his season. Cochran lost the award in his season to Malcolm
Natalie on SJDS is also super close. She never had a vote cast against her, and got every jury vote except 3. 2 of them were for family members and the other one was from Reed who cast his just so that Missy wouldn't get second place.
The Jeremy win is *EASILY* the most impressive in my opinion. *The first ever NO VOTE tribal council* _(WHICH WE LATER FIND OUT ENSURED HIS PERFECT SEASON thus making the night extra special)_ *was the highlight of any regular season voting… outdoing the fire making challenges and rock drawing in my opinion.*
@@noahswartwout-jk8fyI agree, during FTC this was my last straw to the point I thought to myself that I’d vote for Spencer if I were on that jury. I mean how is the baby’s gender relevant to the game? That was disgusting manipulation. Not to mention, both Spencer and Tasha probably wanted to have children later, why is it more important that the baby is coming now as opposed to sometime in the future? Ugh
I feel like Tony’s win in Winner’s of War should’ve been mentioned. I know Natalie had 4 votes for her in the end(which doesn’t make the cut off in your list), but this was also a jury of 16. I mean, Tony never had his name written down to be voted out and won 12 final tribal jury votes, that was very impressive.
If I included every winner with 3 and 4 votes off from being perfect then the list would have ballooned from 9 winners to 19. That's literally half of the 38 winners we currently have.
Tony missed it by 4 votes. I guess we could keep moving the goal posts. So counter point, Tony was never getting those 4 votes. Ethan was shy by 2 and could have gotten them.
@@OnceUponAnIsland I understand your point, but I just feel like Tony was a special case and could’ve at least been an honorable mention. Obviously this is your channel and I’m not trying to tell you what to do, just wanted to share my thoughts :)
No problem. It's all opinions. I concede that Tony's WAW game was more impressive and a lot more fun to watch. This list was compiled strictly by the generally agreed upon definition.
I'm glad you pointed Sandra's near perfect game, one vote and she would have been the first in Season 7. Many fans like to bash her because they're salty about HvV but Sandra worked hard for her wins, even if she's not as flashy as other fan favorites. Also note how Sandra agreed or directly orchestrated JT's vote outs at HvV and Game Changers, the first person to play a perfect game.
She shouldn't have won HvV. It's not a discredit on her game. She's still one of the best survivors of all time. Her game on Pearl islands had equal weight socially that it did strategically. When Rupert was voted out she showed how adept she is at shifting the target and even leveraging information. HvV should have been Parvati quite simply. On the basis of immunity wins, strategic prowess and tbh I find it hard to believe her social game was weak. It's Parvati. The Russell factor is what distorted everything unfairly. Sandra is ultimately an unsatisfying victor
@@kamohelo6418 I'd have to disagree. She played simply amazingly during Heroes vs Villains and I was rooting for her the entire time because she was playing so well. I think she did bad in tribal council which causes people to think that her actual game wasn't pitch perfect. She managed to weazel her way to the end while being in the minority alliance through pure social game.
@@gamingwithjay3 listen. I have massive respect for Sandra but we need stop dressing up her HvV win. The Hero tribe was massively flawed as a collective, they were high on their own supply. Sandra provided very little strategic value, did not win challenges and ladies agency for the post-merge portion of the game. She coasted by on the basis of being a 'non-threat' in Russell's eyes. Her performance in HvV is far opposed to her Pearl Islands game where she was very much in the driving seat and had her own agency whilst showing her ingenious style that we all love. I won't take her win away from her because frankly I can't but it's not very high up to me on the totem pole because I think the jury actually were so flawed in the way they judged. Parv should've been the winner if we are quite honest since Russell was a kamikaze. They both played better games than Sandra. I wish Jerri actually went to the end and won because at least she would've have been a much more satisfying winner. Sandra still is one of my favourite players and characters but let's be real
Personally, I think Brandon was setting Ethan up to lose a vote anyways by asking that question. Either that or Ethan could’ve just said that no one on that jury is undeserving, even if it is a cop-out.
@@OnceUponAnIsland Yeah though I think he could have "sold" it better... I think Ethan saying "You" is probably the best answer. Saying someone else just insults another person, and then risks Brandon not liking that answer.
Ethan’s mistake was that he didn’t explain his answer. Brandon gave him the option to not explain himself, but obviously it doesn’t look good to bash a juror on their own question and not even own up to it. It was honesty without conviction.
Honestly I'm STILL amazed Sherry went to final three AND had the audacity to say "I don't need your vote". Girl. Yes you do. If you want to win this money, you NEED every vote you can get. SMH
"All about Survivor is what YOUR jury wants". You nailed this perfectly. And also this is the reason when I see arguments like "they would've won/lost with the modern jury" stupid and insulting to most of the players (argument common especially for Samoa). You should know and give what jury wants to hear, and not "know better than them how to vote".
What about Natalie Anderson? She was very close to a perfect win, only reason she didn't get it was because of the blood v water twist, and how the finalists loved ones voted for them.
IMO part of Sandra's strategy that never gets talked about is how she pits herself against villains like Jonny Fairplay and weak, unstable castaways like Lill, including taking them to the F3. This most likely gives her a much higher chance of having the jury vote for her.
Still should've never won HvV. Jury did an absolute terrible job of fairly judging her game (or lack thereof). Parv should've won. But her Pearl Island game is top tier and is a staple of her "as long as it's not me" style with a lot of strategic weight also behind it. Queen stays Queen. Her GC game is also underrated
@@kamohelo6418 Parvati didn’t have as good jury management as Sandra did in that season but it wasn’t shown on the show. Plus her having at some point in time been showing her actively trying to get Russell out made her look like the underdog to Russell being the overdog in the jury’s eyes, and since they were against Russell and his terrible messiness, that gave more of a reason to vote for Sandra.
Personally I think that if you nullified votes at tribal using an idol they still count as votes to your total. I believe that the perfect game is more about your social game than idols, but hey everyone has their ways and this is still a great video👍
@@Keisha531 You're not necessarily wrong but the definition of a perfect game isn't about impressiveness as much as it is about recognizing when someone never even came close to losing.
But the definition also allows players to play a perfect game by winning immunity. I think if JT lost immunity towards the end of the game he would have been voted out, for example. The way I see it: immunity is a part of the game and getting it in the form of the necklace OR the idol is another way, besides social game, to avoid votes and get the perfect game.
JT will always be the most perfect winner to me, not only because he was the first one to do it and blaze the trail, or because the only other purely perfect winner was a returning player, but because I think part of a perfect winner should also be how well liked you are by the jury. And JT clearly left everybody else in the dust in this category.
That was my favorite season to watch by far. Absolute legend, I love that man. To see his growth from his first season was awesome, and knowing he was such a huge fan made it even better
Negated votes officially do count towards/against a perfect game according to the Survivor Wiki, and in my opinion, that is the correct method of determining whether a winner of Survivor played a perfect game or not. Playing an idol to negate votes is one thing; being so likeable that no one writes your name down is something else entirely.
Actually no, Wiki states that some believe votes voided by an idol does not count but then states it's not actually accepted. If Jeff says it doesn't count, then why would it count.
I'm curious which winner had the "worst" game (received the most votes throughout the game while still making it to the end and winning) I have a feeling it'd be Richard Hatch 🤔
Honestly I think Jeremy’s win was the best one. The decision on whether or not he played his idol was the difference between him being sent home and him winning the game, and that’s a little bit more admirable than winning the popularity contest against your runner ups.
I kind of see Earl Cole as a perfect game even though technically Rita voted against him. She only did that because she couldn’t vote for Sylvia or Anthony as she was in an alliance with them and knew there was no chance that Earl was going home. She liked Earl and didn’t want to see him voted out. Earl was on the right side of every vote, essentially had no one who wanted to vote him out, controlled the game, and got all the votes at the end. That’s an impressive game even if he didn’t actually get a perfect game on account of one vote that wasn’t intended to vote him out. The perfect game is a cool statistic, but it’s not the end all be all of the game. I think Jeremy played a solid game in Cambodia and those three votes at the F6 Tribal that he idoled out don’t take anything away from his game in my opinion (although if we want to be technical those idoled out votes don’t count 😜) Although it would be cool if Jeremy actually had the perfect game status, but I’ll take an asterisk. Still counts!
Strongly disagree about your assessment of Ethan. I'll give you Kim P's vote, heck I'll even concede Kelly's vote (I know that she voted for him to win but god dammit why didn't he just guess 4?????), but Brandon's question would have guaranteed he lost someone's vote. If he says Frank like Brandon wanted him to say he just loses Frank's vote.
@@OnceUponAnIsland He would be blatantly lying though and I don't think the jury would have respected that. I guess we'll never know for sure. I actually remember watching it when I was 7 and was so flabbergasted when Kim had to pick a number between 1 and 1000 and guessed 3, and then Ethan has a perfect opportunity to say 4 and says 888. I don't know which answer is worse. I will concede I find Ethan's jury speech to be one of the worst out of people who actually still won but I think Brandon's question put him in a no win situation.
@@BrettMKW Ethan said 888 because him and Kim had a talk about their favorite movie and she mentioned three digit number between 600-800 in there...you can even see Ethan struggling cuz he tried to remember what shes talking about
I think part of managing the jury properly lessens the chances that you get a question like this to begin with. I like how Stephen Fishbach joked that every question was basically a different iteration of tell us why JT is so amazing.
I agree with your call on non-counting votes to also not be counted towards the "perfect game" criteria. A perfect game is no negative votes against you and all positive votes for you. How you get that done can vary on how you use the game's functions in order to achieve that. If the reason you had no votes against you is you knew when you play an idol, I would argue that's an instrumental part of a perfect game. Knowing how to use all of the game's functions in order to stay "clean".
Whenever I think about who played the best *strategic* game, esp winners, I think about Todd. Maybe Tony. But I always forget about Earl like he played a great game. He probably played the most BALANCED game of anyone. He found a good balance between strategy and social game. Or, rather, he made his social game a large part, but not the only part, of his strategy. Even against Yau I think he would've won.
Because I think it's relevant here are all the other winners that either received no votes to Eliminate or Swept the Jury (so perfect in either their ftc or normal game): No Votes to Eliminate: Tina (Aus), 4-3 ftc Brian (Thailand), 4-3 ftc Nat A (SJS), 5-2-1 ftc Nick(DVG), 7-3 ftc Tony(Waw), 12-4-0 ftc Swept Jury: Adam(MVGX), 6 Votes against
While I DO understand the perception of calling Jeremy a "perfect winner" and saying Mike came close on account of using their Idols to negate votes, I do still consider negated votes (especially when them being negated is the only reason someone survived a Tribal) to count as votes against, on the basis of intent, as they were very much made to get said person voted out.
Nope.. officially they’re nonexistent and it’s only that way because of their gameplay and strategy. With that I’m mine I don’t know how you don’t include them.
I really expected Stephen to put together a better final tribal performance. He should've leaned more into the idea that he didn't have the natural charm and skills that JT did, meaning he had to work harder to get to the position he's in than JT did - instead he brings it up but doesn't bring it full-circle making him look like he didn't really know what he was doing. Using JT's football logic, winning survivor would be based on your ability to build a fire or shelter, which we all know isn't the case. If Stephen had portrayed the relationship like JT was the quarterback of the team but Stephen was the coach (which it pretty much was), he would've at least picked up a vote or 2.
If Survivor were like baseball, it would be two perfect games (J.T and Cochran) and one no-hitter (Jeremy) Ethan - Perfect game broken up in the ninth do to a home run. Sandra - Perfect game broke up in the ninth due to a single. Tom - Perfect game broken up in the first inning due to an error. No hitter broken up in a ninth with a single. Danni - Perfect game broken up in the eighth inning due to a single. Earl - Perfect game broken up in the first due to a single. Pitches one-hit shutout. J.T - PERFECT GAME!!! Cochran - PERFECT GAME!!! Mike - Perfect game broken up in the seventh due to a walk. No-hitter broken up in the ninth with a single. Jeremy - Perfect game broken up in the seventh due to a walk. Pitches no-hitter.
I liked Mikes game, other than the auction blunder. But it went to show how crucial it is to eliminate challenge threats. He had bad challenge competition, so was able to steamroll through to the end. His early game alliances were strong enough as well to get him deep. Having allies that aren’t very good at challenges comes in handy, since you can get to the end with them and then simply win immunities, forcing others to have to go after each other, keeping your hands relatively clean. Garners you more jury votes I feel.
I agree, though I feel like that auction blunder would be more well received by the other players in this newer era. Hyper aggressive/risky moves are rewarded in todays game.
Kim or B Rob played such dominate games which I think they played the best. Kim being 1. In the video JT was extremely impressive and everyone wanted him to win.
@@danielmiller5 I think the Tocantins cast was significantly more difficult than the Caramoan cast. Cochran had pre-game alliances, and he benefited from a fans v. favorites format and two enormous goats. Don't get me wrong. It's still a very good game, as he didn't really make any mistakes. But JT's game was a lot more impressive to me. Also, Jeremy didn't play a perfect game. He got his name written down three times. Negated votes are still votes
I think without The Edge Tony could have had a perfect game in WaW. Jeremy would probably vote for him if he wasn't against Natalie, and everyone else who didn't went out pre merge, so never knew him. Unfortunately that is a huge what if, and it is also true that if Natalie isn't at final tribal, Sarah is, who probably gets Ben, Sohpie, and maybe Yul's vote(Because Sarah would donate 100k to ALS research) . So it is kinda not super close, but still he had no votes case against him, and got 12 final tribal votes, which is the most anyone has gotten, in an all winners season
Sandra would have deserved it if not for the fact that her answer to Tijuana was absolutely terrible. I very much got the impression that Tijuana's vote was decided at final tribal council.
Sandra played a perfect game in season 7 in my books, Ti voting Lil just seemed random to me, Sandra was so close to being both the first two-time winner AND playing the first perfect game - those who don’t believe she deserves the title of Queen are deluding themselves
We can now add Jesse from the latest season to this list. If he had won fire making against Gabler, he would be on this list or maybe once grudge vote away. He played an incredible game!
Mikes position at the auction was already compromised. Everyone knew he was on the chopping block. The auction didn’t blow up his game- he was already fairly screwed by the time of the auction
Ethan made the right decision answering Brandon for that question. Why piss another person on the jury off, especially since you're not even sure the one asking the question will vote for you if you pick someone else?
Now, Erika Casupanan was also close to playing a nearly perfect game having only two votes cast against her all theough the season and just having one vote not for her in FTC winning 7 - 1
Statistically, who was the least perfect winner? The most votes cast against and least votes at final tribal? I’m sure it can be found, Chris Underwood is obvious but maybe Richard Hatch or Todd as they played messy games as well.
Gotta throw an honourable mention to tony in winners at war I mean he was so close to having the perfect game in one of the toughest seasons ever if not the toughest in terms of competition
Coming back to this a year later, I didn’t think we’d see another near perfect game in the newer era of survivor. I’m fairly glad to say it can still surprise me that it happened considering Erika was only 3 votes off from a perfect game. Wonder if the winner of survivor 43 will have a near perfect game as well. We do have a few contenders after all.
I can only think of Danny, but that would require him, at this point, to basically take Shan and Liana to the end. Shan will blow her game up beyond repair if she gets to FTC mark my words, and Liana will be seen as a minion and won’t get much respect. In that scenario, and only that scenario, Danny can clean sweep a jury. Any other scenario and somebody else will also get votes.
I feel like honestly Tony deserved a mention for Winners at War. He should have had a perfect game, and he also almost tied the record for individual immunity wins, and all of the votes he lost were at final tribal with the largest jury in history. The jurors who voted against him either didn't play much with him because they were out at edge in the pre-merge, with the person they voted for, or it was Jeremy, a great friend of Natalie's. He was at the largest disadvantage, being placed against all winners and having to deal with the edge of extinction without a vote ever cast against him until the four at final tribal.
Tom, Mike, and Jeremy are some of my all-time favorite winners. I rooted for all of them though their entire games and was so happy that they won their seasons. I also liked JT, but I liked him less after he came back. So, that has always diminished my feelings toward him.
Natalie White should be considered for being close honestly.. hear me out, she received a total of 8 votes all season, but all those votes came from one tribal council (a regular vote & a tie breaker vote), with the people voting for her expecting to go to Rocks, so they voted for her with the intent of her not getting voted out, so no one ever voted her out with the intent to send her home, and she only missed 2 votes of the Jury. So numbers wise not even close to perfect game, but with context, it’s pretty good!
I think you should’ve given Sugar an honorable mention for her perfect game in survivor Gabon. No votes against her OR for her. Perfect.
LOL
THE PERFECT GAME
They did vote for her to go into exile multiple times though. That said, exile was hardly a punishment since it essentially gave her immunity and fruit to eat as the rest of her tribe starved.
@@jofujino ez win
if i was there i wouldve voted for her, she was awesome
Earl played the statistically best game coming 0.1% away from being 100% perfect. He got 100% of the Jury votes, voted 100% correctly and only got 1 stay vote.
J.T. only voted incorrectly once and that was when he threw a vote on Erinn knowing full and well Coach was going.
@@OnceUponAnIsland I agree. I don't count "incorrect" votes that were part of a successful vote split or had an even better strategic purpose than just voting with the majority. JT's vote for Erinn to secure Coach's jury vote is perhaps the best example of this. Voting "correctly" in that case would actually be a negative for JT, as it could potentially put Coach's jury vote in jeopardy. There really is very little that I can criticize about JT's game.
Well, technically Earl voted incorrectly one time, and that was on the Mookie vote. But that was because of a vote split, so it doesn't really count as "incorrect" in essence.
There was one vote casted against him in his season
I love how the very premise of your entire comment is wrong. Earl voted against Alex in a split vote, and Mookie ended up going home. By this count he is statistically tied with JT, who voted incorrectly twice.
I never realized how hilarious it is when Jeff is reading off "Mike.. does not count." over and over and literally every single person is pissed and then there's Mike sitting in the middle with a huge toothy smile on his face 😂
He is kinda cute.
Would've been Hilarious if you mentioned Sugar's game from Gabon as a joke. "Up next we have Sugar from Survivor Gabon. A game that was so perfect, that I think it went a little bit TOO perfect." Literally 0 votes casted against her throughout the season, only to then have 0 votes casted for her to win Survivor. I think the only player that didn't have their name written down on that piece of parchment the entire season without Med Evacs or Quitting the game.
😂😂😂😂😂 true.
I know “technically” Earl didn’t get a perfect win, but I still personally think his game is deserving of a perfect or pseudo-perfect title because that one stray vote takes nothing away from his gameplay, and also makes no sense in the context of the season.
Earl played a top-five game in my opinion. It was kind of like a pitcher who gave up a bloop single in the second inning and then was perfect the rest of the way. Not technically a perfect game but still incredibly impressive.
@@bigbuffguy9589 honestly great comparison lol
@@bigbuffguy9589 reminds me of spankie jackzon of drag race down under
was in the bottom in the first episode then proceeded to be on the top for the remainder of the competition and won the crown
JT played the Absolute Perfect Game, on top of his achievement he got the Fan Favorite Award for his season. Cochran lost the award in his season to Malcolm
I think Danni needs more credit here. To be on the bottom from the merge to the end and be only two votes shy of a perfect game is incredible!
Natalie on SJDS is also super close. She never had a vote cast against her, and got every jury vote except 3. 2 of them were for family members and the other one was from Reed who cast his just so that Missy wouldn't get second place.
The Jeremy win is *EASILY* the most impressive in my opinion.
*The first ever NO VOTE tribal council* _(WHICH WE LATER FIND OUT ENSURED HIS PERFECT SEASON thus making the night extra special)_ *was the highlight of any regular season voting… outdoing the fire making challenges and rock drawing in my opinion.*
Idk his gameplay is overshadowed by his constant my wife is pregnant and that's why I deserve to win over anyone else baloney.
@@noahswartwout-jk8fyI agree, during FTC this was my last straw to the point I thought to myself that I’d vote for Spencer if I were on that jury. I mean how is the baby’s gender relevant to the game? That was disgusting manipulation. Not to mention, both Spencer and Tasha probably wanted to have children later, why is it more important that the baby is coming now as opposed to sometime in the future? Ugh
@@hed0nismbotlol
This is survivor
Play all your cards
I feel like Tony’s win in Winner’s of War should’ve been mentioned. I know Natalie had 4 votes for her in the end(which doesn’t make the cut off in your list), but this was also a jury of 16. I mean, Tony never had his name written down to be voted out and won 12 final tribal jury votes, that was very impressive.
If I included every winner with 3 and 4 votes off from being perfect then the list would have ballooned from 9 winners to 19. That's literally half of the 38 winners we currently have.
@@OnceUponAnIsland But those jury’s didn’t have 16 people. If you look at it percent wise, Tony came closer to a perfect game than Ethan in Africa
Tony missed it by 4 votes. I guess we could keep moving the goal posts. So counter point, Tony was never getting those 4 votes. Ethan was shy by 2 and could have gotten them.
@@OnceUponAnIsland I understand your point, but I just feel like Tony was a special case and could’ve at least been an honorable mention. Obviously this is your channel and I’m not trying to tell you what to do, just wanted to share my thoughts :)
No problem. It's all opinions. I concede that Tony's WAW game was more impressive and a lot more fun to watch. This list was compiled strictly by the generally agreed upon definition.
I'm glad you pointed Sandra's near perfect game, one vote and she would have been the first in Season 7. Many fans like to bash her because they're salty about HvV but Sandra worked hard for her wins, even if she's not as flashy as other fan favorites. Also note how Sandra agreed or directly orchestrated JT's vote outs at HvV and Game Changers, the first person to play a perfect game.
She shouldn't have won HvV. It's not a discredit on her game. She's still one of the best survivors of all time. Her game on Pearl islands had equal weight socially that it did strategically. When Rupert was voted out she showed how adept she is at shifting the target and even leveraging information.
HvV should have been Parvati quite simply. On the basis of immunity wins, strategic prowess and tbh I find it hard to believe her social game was weak. It's Parvati. The Russell factor is what distorted everything unfairly. Sandra is ultimately an unsatisfying victor
She won it though so she did have the best game still. You don't get to have the best game if in the end the jury doesn't want you
@@kamohelo6418 I'd have to disagree. She played simply amazingly during Heroes vs Villains and I was rooting for her the entire time because she was playing so well. I think she did bad in tribal council which causes people to think that her actual game wasn't pitch perfect. She managed to weazel her way to the end while being in the minority alliance through pure social game.
@@gamingwithjay3 listen. I have massive respect for Sandra but we need stop dressing up her HvV win. The Hero tribe was massively flawed as a collective, they were high on their own supply. Sandra provided very little strategic value, did not win challenges and ladies agency for the post-merge portion of the game. She coasted by on the basis of being a 'non-threat' in Russell's eyes. Her performance in HvV is far opposed to her Pearl Islands game where she was very much in the driving seat and had her own agency whilst showing her ingenious style that we all love.
I won't take her win away from her because frankly I can't but it's not very high up to me on the totem pole because I think the jury actually were so flawed in the way they judged. Parv should've been the winner if we are quite honest since Russell was a kamikaze. They both played better games than Sandra. I wish Jerri actually went to the end and won because at least she would've have been a much more satisfying winner.
Sandra still is one of my favourite players and characters but let's be real
@@gamingwithjay3 simply isn't true
Crazy how Gabler was one vote off from joining this
Yeah he def should’ve been in the video imo
@@rosemulet The video was made during Survivor 41, check the upload date.
@@OnceUponAnIsland Sorry!
Personally, I think Brandon was setting Ethan up to lose a vote anyways by asking that question. Either that or Ethan could’ve just said that no one on that jury is undeserving, even if it is a cop-out.
Yeah, I wonder what the right answer would have been for Brandon? Maybe Frank since he doesn't like him.
@@OnceUponAnIsland Yeah though I think he could have "sold" it better... I think Ethan saying "You" is probably the best answer. Saying someone else just insults another person, and then risks Brandon not liking that answer.
@@GordyByGordy The answer would be "The juror that thinks Kim should win."
Ethan’s mistake was that he didn’t explain his answer. Brandon gave him the option to not explain himself, but obviously it doesn’t look good to bash a juror on their own question and not even own up to it. It was honesty without conviction.
Honestly I'm STILL amazed Sherry went to final three AND had the audacity to say "I don't need your vote". Girl. Yes you do. If you want to win this money, you NEED every vote you can get. SMH
"All about Survivor is what YOUR jury wants". You nailed this perfectly. And also this is the reason when I see arguments like "they would've won/lost with the modern jury" stupid and insulting to most of the players (argument common especially for Samoa). You should know and give what jury wants to hear, and not "know better than them how to vote".
What about Natalie Anderson? She was very close to a perfect win, only reason she didn't get it was because of the blood v water twist, and how the finalists loved ones voted for them.
and the only reason Jaclyn got two votes was because Reed didn't want Missy getting second. She 100% would have had a perfect game
She was close, but she missed it by 3 votes. Everyone in this video is 2 votes or less.
@@floatinrocktubetalk3768 that's Natalie White this is Natalie Anderson from season 29
@@OnceUponAnIsland fair enough but I think the context of those three votes is important.
IMO part of Sandra's strategy that never gets talked about is how she pits herself against villains like Jonny Fairplay and weak, unstable castaways like Lill, including taking them to the F3. This most likely gives her a much higher chance of having the jury vote for her.
Still should've never won HvV. Jury did an absolute terrible job of fairly judging her game (or lack thereof). Parv should've won.
But her Pearl Island game is top tier and is a staple of her "as long as it's not me" style with a lot of strategic weight also behind it. Queen stays Queen. Her GC game is also underrated
@@kamohelo6418 She won twice with the same strategy. Sure, not as strategic as Parv or Russell, but an impressive feat nonetheless.
@@rowanmoon 100%. Sandra is a legend. Mount Rushmore.
It wasnt a strategy it was luck lmao
@@kamohelo6418 Parvati didn’t have as good jury management as Sandra did in that season but it wasn’t shown on the show. Plus her having at some point in time been showing her actively trying to get Russell out made her look like the underdog to Russell being the overdog in the jury’s eyes, and since they were against Russell and his terrible messiness, that gave more of a reason to vote for Sandra.
Personally I think that if you nullified votes at tribal using an idol they still count as votes to your total. I believe that the perfect game is more about your social game than idols, but hey everyone has their ways and this is still a great video👍
Agreed, imo a 'perfect game' means getting no votes cast against you, regardless of whether they counted or not.
Knowing to use an idol the one time you were the target is maybe more impressive than slipping under the radar.
@@Keisha531 You're not necessarily wrong but the definition of a perfect game isn't about impressiveness as much as it is about recognizing when someone never even came close to losing.
Jeremy’s “perfect” win is definitely debatable. It technically does meet the requirements to be considered a perfect win, but it lacks technicality.
But the definition also allows players to play a perfect game by winning immunity. I think if JT lost immunity towards the end of the game he would have been voted out, for example. The way I see it: immunity is a part of the game and getting it in the form of the necklace OR the idol is another way, besides social game, to avoid votes and get the perfect game.
JT will always be the most perfect winner to me, not only because he was the first one to do it and blaze the trail, or because the only other purely perfect winner was a returning player, but because I think part of a perfect winner should also be how well liked you are by the jury. And JT clearly left everybody else in the dust in this category.
cochran is one of my favorite winners, his transformation from the nerd to the alpha was great to see, wish he was on waw
Cochran is my fav as well he is great
That was my favorite season to watch by far. Absolute legend, I love that man. To see his growth from his first season was awesome, and knowing he was such a huge fan made it even better
Not a winner but Cirie in game changers technically also played a perfect game and was eliminated with no votes
Also Paschal I believe
Technically Colton in BvW played a perfect game under that definition.
@@dashieprodx blimey, under that criteria, so did Kourtney in One World.
@@RandomIndyWrestling Heck, under that criteria Jonathan and Wanda from Palau.
Seems we all need another look at the definition of technically….
Negated votes officially do count towards/against a perfect game according to the Survivor Wiki, and in my opinion, that is the correct method of determining whether a winner of Survivor played a perfect game or not. Playing an idol to negate votes is one thing; being so likeable that no one writes your name down is something else entirely.
Actually no, Wiki states that some believe votes voided by an idol does not count but then states it's not actually accepted. If Jeff says it doesn't count, then why would it count.
@@paulsancho88 the votes don’t count to eliminate someone, but they still count in terms of someone voted for you.
interesting point that we see kim’s win as one of, if not the most, dominant but it’s nowhere near statistically perfect by these standards
I think the fact that Jeremy was able to play his idol at the ✨perfect time✨ makes his win even more valid
I'm curious which winner had the "worst" game (received the most votes throughout the game while still making it to the end and winning) I have a feeling it'd be Richard Hatch 🤔
Honestly, a great question. Could even workshop into a top 5 list tbh, jump on this Idoled Out.
Ben - 14 votes
Chris U - 13 votes
Aras - 11 votes
Natalie W - 10 votes
Wendell - 10 votes
@@OnceUponAnIsland Hahaha my first thought is Ben. Guess most of these are negated votes through idol or those weren't counted?
I was thinking Aras had more votes than Ben tho...🤔
@@mjtestaverde418 6 votes at f7, 4/5 votes at F6, 4 votes at F5, not to mention before f7 and premerge. Ans 3 more votes if not for FMC.
Sierra calling Stephen "weak" just pisses me off for obvious reasons
Honestly I think Jeremy’s win was the best one. The decision on whether or not he played his idol was the difference between him being sent home and him winning the game, and that’s a little bit more admirable than winning the popularity contest against your runner ups.
I kind of see Earl Cole as a perfect game even though technically Rita voted against him. She only did that because she couldn’t vote for Sylvia or Anthony as she was in an alliance with them and knew there was no chance that Earl was going home. She liked Earl and didn’t want to see him voted out. Earl was on the right side of every vote, essentially had no one who wanted to vote him out, controlled the game, and got all the votes at the end. That’s an impressive game even if he didn’t actually get a perfect game on account of one vote that wasn’t intended to vote him out. The perfect game is a cool statistic, but it’s not the end all be all of the game. I think Jeremy played a solid game in Cambodia and those three votes at the F6 Tribal that he idoled out don’t take anything away from his game in my opinion (although if we want to be technical those idoled out votes don’t count 😜) Although it would be cool if Jeremy actually had the perfect game status, but I’ll take an asterisk. Still counts!
Jeremy’s was perfect for sure because he played the idol when he knew he needed too, and that technically made it so he never had a vote against him.
Strongly disagree about your assessment of Ethan.
I'll give you Kim P's vote, heck I'll even concede Kelly's vote (I know that she voted for him to win but god dammit why didn't he just guess 4?????), but Brandon's question would have guaranteed he lost someone's vote. If he says Frank like Brandon wanted him to say he just loses Frank's vote.
He could have said the least worthy to sit up there was Big Tom. Big Tom ain't switching to Kim J. He hates her lol
@@OnceUponAnIsland He would be blatantly lying though and I don't think the jury would have respected that. I guess we'll never know for sure. I actually remember watching it when I was 7 and was so flabbergasted when Kim had to pick a number between 1 and 1000 and guessed 3, and then Ethan has a perfect opportunity to say 4 and says 888. I don't know which answer is worse. I will concede I find Ethan's jury speech to be one of the worst out of people who actually still won but I think Brandon's question put him in a no win situation.
@@BrettMKW Ethan said 888 because him and Kim had a talk about their favorite movie and she mentioned three digit number between 600-800 in there...you can even see Ethan struggling cuz he tried to remember what shes talking about
I think part of managing the jury properly lessens the chances that you get a question like this to begin with. I like how Stephen Fishbach joked that every question was basically a different iteration of tell us why JT is so amazing.
I agree with your call on non-counting votes to also not be counted towards the "perfect game" criteria. A perfect game is no negative votes against you and all positive votes for you. How you get that done can vary on how you use the game's functions in order to achieve that. If the reason you had no votes against you is you knew when you play an idol, I would argue that's an instrumental part of a perfect game. Knowing how to use all of the game's functions in order to stay "clean".
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Thanks for watching!
Honestly I always thought that Ethan told Brandon "you" bc one would think brandon would respect the honesty
Whenever I think about who played the best *strategic* game, esp winners, I think about Todd. Maybe Tony. But I always forget about Earl like he played a great game. He probably played the most BALANCED game of anyone. He found a good balance between strategy and social game. Or, rather, he made his social game a large part, but not the only part, of his strategy. Even against Yau I think he would've won.
Because I think it's relevant here are all the other winners that either received no votes to Eliminate or Swept the Jury (so perfect in either their ftc or normal game):
No Votes to Eliminate:
Tina (Aus), 4-3 ftc
Brian (Thailand), 4-3 ftc
Nat A (SJS), 5-2-1 ftc
Nick(DVG), 7-3 ftc
Tony(Waw), 12-4-0 ftc
Swept Jury:
Adam(MVGX), 6 Votes against
While I DO understand the perception of calling Jeremy a "perfect winner" and saying Mike came close on account of using their Idols to negate votes, I do still consider negated votes (especially when them being negated is the only reason someone survived a Tribal) to count as votes against, on the basis of intent, as they were very much made to get said person voted out.
Nope.. officially they’re nonexistent and it’s only that way because of their gameplay and strategy. With that I’m mine I don’t know how you don’t include them.
@@rthompson9809 you’re wrong, they count, cope
Negated votes are still votes, they’re just votes that don’t count.
And now Gabler was just one jury vote away from a perfect game iirc
I just posted a video about Gabler yesterday!
It was nowhere near "perfect" but Yule deserves some credit for the number of moves he made to somehow bear Ozzy
He is a great winner.
I really expected Stephen to put together a better final tribal performance. He should've leaned more into the idea that he didn't have the natural charm and skills that JT did, meaning he had to work harder to get to the position he's in than JT did - instead he brings it up but doesn't bring it full-circle making him look like he didn't really know what he was doing. Using JT's football logic, winning survivor would be based on your ability to build a fire or shelter, which we all know isn't the case. If Stephen had portrayed the relationship like JT was the quarterback of the team but Stephen was the coach (which it pretty much was), he would've at least picked up a vote or 2.
i love your channel
Same here!
Earl is a classic and timeless winner
A Dawn comercial popped up literally when Phillip was about to say "Dawn" 😂
Honestly, I consider someone that didn’t get any votes during the main season, then winning (no matter how many votes) a perfect season.
I'd consider Jeremy's win to be more of a "no-voter" like a no-hitter in baseball
Thank you for making this video and also for adding the Bible verse at the end! God Bless
Jeff’s PI finale shirt will live rent free in my memory forever
Im a little surprised that Adam doesn't have his own segment here, he did get that Unanimous jury vote
He missed it by 6 votes! You need 2 or less to crack this list. 00:40
I thought Boston Rob would be on this list, But then I saw the he had a total of 6 vote against then Phillip got 1 vote at final tribe council
7:28 Even Katy's surprised someone voted for her! lol
Spencer from Cagayan and Cambodia is my FAVORITE competitor and was the biggest opposition to Tony.
If Survivor were like baseball, it would be two perfect games (J.T and Cochran) and one no-hitter (Jeremy)
Ethan - Perfect game broken up in the ninth do to a home run.
Sandra - Perfect game broke up in the ninth due to a single.
Tom - Perfect game broken up in the first inning due to an error. No hitter broken up in a ninth with a single.
Danni - Perfect game broken up in the eighth inning due to a single.
Earl - Perfect game broken up in the first due to a single. Pitches one-hit shutout.
J.T - PERFECT GAME!!!
Cochran - PERFECT GAME!!!
Mike - Perfect game broken up in the seventh due to a walk. No-hitter broken up in the ninth with a single.
Jeremy - Perfect game broken up in the seventh due to a walk. Pitches no-hitter.
I like this analogy. Gabler can be added to this list as he only missed 1 juror vote at the end.
@@OnceUponAnIsland Perfect game broken up with one out in the ninth.
I’d give an honorable mention to Nick(David vs Goliath)
I didn't expected Danni would make to the Final in Survivor Guatemala🍊🍎
New to the channel - would love to see a video on Cochran one day, he was my favorite
Every winner is guaranteed a video about their win.
I liked Mikes game, other than the auction blunder. But it went to show how crucial it is to eliminate challenge threats. He had bad challenge competition, so was able to steamroll through to the end. His early game alliances were strong enough as well to get him deep. Having allies that aren’t very good at challenges comes in handy, since you can get to the end with them and then simply win immunities, forcing others to have to go after each other, keeping your hands relatively clean. Garners you more jury votes I feel.
I agree, though I feel like that auction blunder would be more well received by the other players in this newer era. Hyper aggressive/risky moves are rewarded in todays game.
Which winner do you think played the best game?
Out of the ones in this video, I would say Tom.
Kim or B Rob played such dominate games which I think they played the best. Kim being 1. In the video JT was extremely impressive and everyone wanted him to win.
Tony WaW easily
@@danielmiller5 I think the Tocantins cast was significantly more difficult than the Caramoan cast. Cochran had pre-game alliances, and he benefited from a fans v. favorites format and two enormous goats. Don't get me wrong. It's still a very good game, as he didn't really make any mistakes. But JT's game was a lot more impressive to me. Also, Jeremy didn't play a perfect game. He got his name written down three times. Negated votes are still votes
Which winner has the "worst" game? (Most votes throughout the season/barely winning the finale)
I think without The Edge Tony could have had a perfect game in WaW. Jeremy would probably vote for him if he wasn't against Natalie, and everyone else who didn't went out pre merge, so never knew him.
Unfortunately that is a huge what if, and it is also true that if Natalie isn't at final tribal, Sarah is, who probably gets Ben, Sohpie, and maybe Yul's vote(Because Sarah would donate 100k to ALS research) .
So it is kinda not super close, but still he had no votes case against him, and got 12 final tribal votes, which is the most anyone has gotten, in an all winners season
No because Sarah and Tony would’ve split votes
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OH I MISSED THESE VIDEOS
I know this has nothing to do with anything but I am very tickled by the cut off cheers at the vote ceremonies
Sandra would have deserved it if not for the fact that her answer to Tijuana was absolutely terrible. I very much got the impression that Tijuana's vote was decided at final tribal council.
Sandra played a perfect game in season 7 in my books, Ti voting Lil just seemed random to me, Sandra was so close to being both the first two-time winner AND playing the first perfect game - those who don’t believe she deserves the title of Queen are deluding themselves
If you like this video then check out The History of the Survivor Car Curse! - ua-cam.com/video/ui6VaiVHnR8/v-deo.html
Did Sugar from Gabon not pull off something that should be on this list?
@@platypus3830 She didn't win.
@@OnceUponAnIsland She didn't get any votes through Tribal Council, though.
@@platypus3830 Ok... but she lost 7 jury votes and didn't win.
@@OnceUponAnIsland It's stil impressive that she could go so long without a vote. I bet you couldn't have done better. 😏
Appreciate the verse at the end
even if tom didn't statistically play a perfect game i still think he's the strongest ever survivor winner
Fun Fact: The first "Perfect Game" was technically by Jonny in Survivor UK Season 2
But nothing happened that season, so eh
They made me feel bad for Dawn but hey life is full of the range of all emotions.
Absolutely loved jeremys game plus his family story throughout the season, definitely my favorite perfect winner
I can’t believe Mike freaking Gabler would be on this list now.
Thanks for the video.
You are welcome!
GIve me Cochran as King and Sandra as Queen of Survivor.
Great vid 😄
We can now add Jesse from the latest season to this list. If he had won fire making against Gabler, he would be on this list or maybe once grudge vote away. He played an incredible game!
This list is reserved for those who won.
great vid ty subbed
Jeremy is my favorite player ever
I still think Jeff blew that up for Mike. I wonder if anyone else noticed before Jeff spoke up
I liked how Katie looked confused at her vote
Mikes position at the auction was already compromised. Everyone knew he was on the chopping block. The auction didn’t blow up his game- he was already fairly screwed by the time of the auction
I love these
Ethan made the right decision answering Brandon for that question. Why piss another person on the jury off, especially since you're not even sure the one asking the question will vote for you if you pick someone else?
Haha I'm looking through Wikipedia and Brian Heidik almost made this list if he had gotten one more vote at final tribal council
Now, Erika Casupanan was also close to playing a nearly perfect game having only two votes cast against her all theough the season and just having one vote not for her in FTC winning 7 - 1
She was 3 votes off so 1 shy from making this video.
Statistically, who was the least perfect winner? The most votes cast against and least votes at final tribal? I’m sure it can be found, Chris Underwood is obvious but maybe Richard Hatch or Todd as they played messy games as well.
Ben Driebergen with 14
💯 on Jeremy being a perfect winner
Time to update this list ;-)
Its said Lil got that 1 vote because she was having a meltdown about how bad she performed. Production allegedly told Tijuana to cast a pity vote.
Gotta throw an honourable mention to tony in winners at war I mean he was so close to having the perfect game in one of the toughest seasons ever if not the toughest in terms of competition
He played an impressive game but he was off by 4 votes. 19 winners are within 4 votes aka half of all winners.
11:00 Survivor "Token Jeans" 🤣
I got a new idea of the next survivor history video how about talking about the unlonged tribes that are down in numbers when reaching the merge
Great idea! The patrons pick what videos I make :)
@@OnceUponAnIsland thank you for the comment 👍👍
Honestly steven could had a chance if he had confidence and straight out stated that it was a team effort to be were he was
Coming back to this a year later, I didn’t think we’d see another near perfect game in the newer era of survivor. I’m fairly glad to say it can still surprise me that it happened considering Erika was only 3 votes off from a perfect game. Wonder if the winner of survivor 43 will have a near perfect game as well. We do have a few contenders after all.
I agree Erika killed her season. 100 percent on every vote...
I feel parvati’s micronesia game was perfect too!
She was 7 votes away!
Is there anyone on season 41 who is on track to be perfect?
I can only think of Danny, but that would require him, at this point, to basically take Shan and Liana to the end. Shan will blow her game up beyond repair if she gets to FTC mark my words, and Liana will be seen as a minion and won’t get much respect. In that scenario, and only that scenario, Danny can clean sweep a jury. Any other scenario and somebody else will also get votes.
SHAN
I feel like honestly Tony deserved a mention for Winners at War. He should have had a perfect game, and he also almost tied the record for individual immunity wins, and all of the votes he lost were at final tribal with the largest jury in history. The jurors who voted against him either didn't play much with him because they were out at edge in the pre-merge, with the person they voted for, or it was Jeremy, a great friend of Natalie's. He was at the largest disadvantage, being placed against all winners and having to deal with the edge of extinction without a vote ever cast against him until the four at final tribal.
The perfect game isn't determined by personal opinion, just the numbers. 19 winners were within 4 votes of perfection.
If you watched Australia survivor, David the golden god pretty much had the definition of a perfect game in his returning season
His numbers say that he was 6 votes off from a perfect game.
I also believe a factor of perfection is to correctly be on the right side of each vote.
If we are going by the definition set by the show in season 14, then it is not factored at all.
Tom, Mike, and Jeremy are some of my all-time favorite winners. I rooted for all of them though their entire games and was so happy that they won their seasons. I also liked JT, but I liked him less after he came back. So, that has always diminished my feelings toward him.
Did I miss Boston rob? Dude beat down Natalie and Phillip in redemption island
He had 7 votes against him in his winning season. You need 2 or less to make this list.
Cochran just pips JT because he had 2 other finalists to contend with. And he’s my all time favourite player :)
Natalie White should be considered for being close honestly.. hear me out, she received a total of 8 votes all season, but all those votes came from one tribal council (a regular vote & a tie breaker vote), with the people voting for her expecting to go to Rocks, so they voted for her with the intent of her not getting voted out, so no one ever voted her out with the intent to send her home, and she only missed 2 votes of the Jury. So numbers wise not even close to perfect game, but with context, it’s pretty good!
Natalie White was 10 votes off from perfection. Only 4 other winners are that far or further away.
@@OnceUponAnIsland I mean yes obviously I won’t deny nor never denied that lol, I just thought the context of the votes were interesting!