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3. Chris Noble (Survivor: Ghost Island, 13th Place)

Yeah, generally you can tell how good a season is by how early my favorite character or team was eliminated. While sometimes a BAD season may have some high-tier characters, there really isnt a truly GOOD season where I look at the cast and say this double-digit boot is the best this cast had to offer. All-Stars, Cook Islands, Micronesia, Samoa, Redemption Island, Caramoan, Millennials vs. Gen X, Game Changersat BEST these seasons are okay. Ghost Island? Doesnt even reach that level, and thats evident by the Noble One reigning supreme at thirteenth place.

So first off, going into this season, I didnt have a lot of reason to be excited for Chris. Ghost Island had an EXTREMELY young cast, and Chris felt like the kind of generic mactor typically thrown into a bloated season to fill up space. And maybe he wouldve been exactly the kind of character his archetype suggests, if not for the seemingly-random decision his tribe made to appoint him leader in that initial challenge. Fearing that his team would lose EVERYTHING if he didnt act quickly, Chris forfeited the first reward challenge of the season in order to win some basic supplies. This didnt sit well with fellow alpha male Domenick, who quickly voiced his displeasure with Chris decision, and sparked the rivalry that would dominate the first half of the season.

Naviti was the FAR more interesting tribe of the two starters in Ghost Island, in large part because of the war waged between Chris and Dom. Both gathered their troops and divided the tribe squarely down the middle (Dom/Wendell/Morgan/Kellyn/Bradley vs. Chris/Angela/Seabass/Chelsea/Des), and it became clear that Chris was the inferior general of the two. Sure, he was awesome in challenges and dominated on more than one occasion (only losing one immunity all season), but he lacked the social skills and strategic know-how to parlay his strengths into an actual advantage. As a result, the first two episodes were mainly about him and Domenick hating each other.

From episode three onward though, Chris burgeoned into a favorite for me. Yes, he got a miraculous send-off to Ghost Island, sparing him from the most volatile tribal council of the season. But once there, he got to give us a touching story about how he was playing for his mother, to win the money and help her with her disease. This was touching, surebut it also came in stark contrast to the downfall of his edit. From episode three onward, Chris was this Captain Ahab figure, desperate to take out his rival in Domenick, but everyone else in the game saw him as a complete buffoon. Even his ALLIES thought he was an idiot and didnt want to go along with his cockamamie plans.
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