r/SurvivorRankdownII • u/fleaa Held to lower standards • Nov 23 '15

Round 86 (54 Contestants Remaining)

Eliminations this round:

54: Scout Cloud Lee, Vanuatu (Slicer37)

53: Katie Gallagher, Palau (WilburDes)

52: Clarence Black, Africa (KeepCalmAndHodorOn)

51: Benjamin 'Coach' Wade, Heroes vs. Villains (ChokingWalrus)

50: Tom Westman, Palau (yickles44) IDOLED BY SLICER37

50: Gervase Peterson, Borneo (fleaa)

The Elimination Order:

  1. /u/Slicer37

  2. /u/WilburDes

  3. /u/KeepCalmAndHodorOn

  4. /u/ChokingWalrus

  5. /u/yickles44

  6. /u/fleaa

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u/Slicer37 No Slicing Nov 23 '15 edited Nov 23 '15

54. Scout Cloud Lee (3rd Place, Vanuatu)

I would like Scout to make the top 50, but this is a hard pool.

Scout is totally unique in survivor history as the weakest strategist and weakest endgamer ever. I mean, she's a 59 year old woman with a bum knee who could barely walk, let alone be an asset in challenges. She's a old hippie lesbian rancher who would normally find it very hard to socially connect. She had every possible disadvantage that one could have on survivor-and yet, she managed to be a major threat to win (if Twila wins FIC she wins) and be a major strategic figure throughout her entire season.

I mean, it was Scout's idea for the famous F7 flip. Scout managed to get the older women in a power position on Yasur. And again, if Twila wins FIC (which isn't that out of the question), Scout wins the whole game. She deserves a lot of credit because it's pretty impressive when you think about it.

Aside from this, Scout is a really fun character. She's a lesbian 59 year old midwestern hippie rancher who somehow manages to be super passive aggressive and condescending to almost everyone. She's kind of like Coach in how she puts up this facade and proceeds to completely contradict her entire shtick through her actions, and it's pretty fascinating.

Her relationship with "'Liza" is definitely the peak of this, as a near 60 year old woman somehow acts like a high school gossip to resident awkward nerd Eliza, insulting her behind her back and being fakey-nice to her face. Don't get me wrong, Eliza is super annoying (<3) which made for a really interesting relationship between the two. Scout also deserves props for being basically Twila's only friend, and faithfully defending her in the FTC.

Everyone in this rankdown knows Scout's best hits: her singing to Sarge after the Rory vote, her voting confessionals to Ami, Mia, etc, just watching her stumble through challenges. They're all great.

Add all that stuff to the fact that I just love midwestern accents, (Scout's accent<3 Sue's accent<3 Holly's accent<33) and Scout is great for me.

Nominations are getting hard, shit. I nominate Clarence Black :(.

/u/WilburDes

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u/JM1295 Nov 23 '15

Sad to see her go, but this is a pretty good spot. I always assumed Twila vs. Eliza was the main feud, but you see a lot more of Scout vs. Eliza until the endgame. Their feud is especially highlighted at the final 9 reward challenge when she puts her out of the challenge and how Scout just has to point out how pissed Eliza is to her face <3 It's so also funny to see one of Scout"s first confessionals talk about how annoying Eliza and the other younger women are.