Top 5 Biggest Edgic Blindsides In Survivor History

in the survivor community the term edgic is used  quite often edging is a combination of the words   editing and logic and it's pretty much what it  sounds like fans look for edit clues for the   winner eg the classic winners quote or the amount  of screen time they get regarding their strategy   and personal content given but at the  same time people need to use logic   like a player may get that personal content but  then be invisible for the next couple episodes   sure the personal content was a great look  edit wise but when you think about it logically   why would the winner of the season have  multiple episodes without a confessional   or if someone isn't that big of a character but  still receives consistent content that's a massive   giveaway that they're probably the winner because  when you think about it logically why else would   such a boring character who doesn't really add  much to the season gets so much content and to the   credit of edgic it has been pretty accurate over  the years especially since survivor has been on   for 41 seasons and edgy usually knows what to look  for a great example of this is aubrey and michelle   in korong aubry was insanely popular with the  casuals as not only was she a kooky and relatable   underdog but she made some of the biggest moves in  korong all the while she got consistent game and   personal content throughout the season making her  the clear favorite for the casual viewer however   edgic saw the clear winner adjecly and michelle  because despite aubrey having such an amazing   story michelle not only got a similar amount  of content but she got content at points   when she didn't need it i mean in the penultimate  merge boat an episode when she didn't even go to   tribal she got the most amount of confessionals  in that episode edgic saw that survivor couldn't   hide what a gem they found with aubry but at the  same time they also wanted to explain why michelle   ultimate beat aubry and michelle was the clear  frontrunner all season edit-wise so the point is   edgic is a good thing to look up on when  it comes to reading the survivor edit   however even edge it can be blindsided at times so  today let's take a look at the five biggest edging   blind sides in survivor history let's start off  with probably the most noteworthy egg blindside   in history with natalie white's win in survivor  samoa i mean it was simply so unprecedented that   a survivor winner could be this invisible natalie  had 15 confessionals compared to russell's 108   and didn't even get her first confessional  until episode 4. and the thing was this   wasn't even like a why russell lost type season  similar to that of coach in south pacific i mean   i guess that's obviously what ultimately  this could be labeled as but i mean come on   how badly do we need to stretch for that russell  was constantly praised in every episode by the   editors and the players and i would say the  negative content he got made up less than 10   of his edit and when you have the most amount of  single season content in survivor history that's   pretty impressive and the only real reason we were  given for natalie's win was her confessional about   bonding with the galu members which she also  brought up in her final confessional but again   it's such grasping for straws at that point and i  mean going into the finale mick had a much better   chance of winning edge wise and fun fact was  actually going to win heading into the final   tribal council but natalie's performance won the  jury over the closest thing to a shocking survivor   winner we had seen up until this point was danny  in guatemala but again to compare the edit of   guatemala to the edit of samoa is simply unfair  samoa was simply a season of survivor going all   in on a once in a generation player and completely  buried its winner in the process leaving ejic in   shambles however with russell losing samoa this  left ejic with a new theory survivor winners   couldn't be over the top there's actually a term  in the edge of community for the over the top   player episodes eg a performance where character  is so beyond out there and over the top that   it's impossible to ignore them and if there was  ever a character that fit this stereotype it's   mr tony vlachos every single episode the man was  a massive presence as he created spy shacks made   llama noises got into constant arguments all while  playing extremely hard as he found advantages and   flipped back and forth between alliances every  single tribal but after we saw russell lose years   prior people believed tony would have the same  ill fate and what was even worse for tony's cause   was that there was plenty of contenders in kaguyan  as opposed to samoa lj got an amazing edit despite   being a merge boot and was the front runner of  the first half of the game after he was taken out   the new front runners were spencer and wu wu  got the classic second in command winners at it   and was seen as protected by tony's over-the-top  shenanigans and in general he was just a cool   dude you could get behind as a winner and of  course spencer had one of the best underdog runs   in survivor history and every episode it  seemed more and more likely he would pull   off the win and believe it or not going into the  finale even cass was seen as a bigger threat to   win than tony by the edge of community due to  tony's insane over-the-top edit but this time   the over-the-top player did win and once  again left the echo community in shambles   except this time in the best of ways the editors  didn't try to hide tony they knew they had another   all-time great character on their hands and they  wanted to showcase all parts of him which included   all the bad and yeah there was a lot of bad in  tony's edit far more bad than russell's edit   survivor most likely knew that they would never  get a better character than tony to win survivor   and didn't edit out all the bad antics just  to make him a more appealing and prototypical   winner to this day tony remains the only over the  top winner in survivor history and with that end   of being a one in 40 it's safe to say edgic was  completely shocked at his win in san juan do sir   we got two obvious winner edits in jeremy and josh  i mean they both ticked all the check marks for   a survivor winner they had a bevy of personal  content they were shown to be the masterminds   and best strategic players of each tribe they had  far and away the most amount of confessionals and   going into the merge it looked like whichever  person came out on top would be set up good   to win the game and at the final 11 it looked  like jeremy was our winner of san juan del sur   after josh was blindsided in a 6-5 vote not  only was jeremy in the best position edge   wise but he was in a great position in the  game in general he was in the majority alliance   wasn't in a loved one's pair was trusted by many  people in the minority alliance and was a physical   beast who could easily win multiple immunities  but the very next episode after josh's blindside   jeremy and the audience were completely blindsided  in a 5-3-2 vote after jeremy simply accused john   of having an idol jon thought jeremy was too  dangerous and used his duo's alliance and reid's   vote to blindside jeremy this left the audience  completely stunned to not only have the biggest   contenders go out but go out back to back to  start the merge when they were the most prominent   pre-merged figures was insane and left people  scratching their heads at who could possibly   now win natalie's edit ultimately did pick up  and used jeremy's blind side as her revenge tour   but still this was so shocking that san juan del  sur was actually seen as a terrible season by   the fans who were watching it live in 2014 and a  large part of this is due to this massive etching   blindside fans felt like they essentially wasted  their time watching the first half of the season   since the story we were being shown didn't lead to  anything and they couldn't really get invested in   the final nine onwards it's one of the reasons  why i think san juan del sur is easily the best   season to re-watch because you know the shock  is coming this time but in the end the editors   didn't try to hide the dominance of jeremy and  josh's pre-merged games even though they didn't   add much else to the season and while it's cool we  got to see so much of the two there's no question   how much of an almost unforgivable shocking  two episodes their eliminations were now on   to season 41 and let's be honest there's been  a lot of flaws within this season the wokeness   the amount of advantages the confusing edit and in  general a lot of the problems with modern survivor   one thing that has been great is the cast there's  so many people who if they were to win this season   would be an absolute gem of a survivor character  winner but the main frontrunner to win this season   was tiffany and this is a case similar  to michelle's edit and ko wrong   and that while the casuals may find it crazy  that tiffany would be the front-runner to win   ejic was all over it tiffany was an over-the-top  personality who the show could have easily made   fun of on multiple occasions similar to that of a  nora yet the edit pretty much consistently showed   her to be a strong-minded player who was a  part of the yasay alliance that got their   hinted underdog foreshadowing with the turtles on  the beach scene tiffany also had a great premiere   episode got consistent content and didn't have  nearly as many flaws as the other top contenders   for example just look at her closest ally and evie  instead of evie getting all the content explaining   why voce was the one to go it was tiffany that  got all the content french contenders like xander   and liliana's content has been mostly tied to  advantages and the show simply had to show them   and then there's shan even edgy couldn't deny  her massive winners at it as she got so much game   and personal content far and away being the most  visible character this season however recently   we've gotten quite a bit of negative content from  shan with her showing to be paranoid and there's   little tidbits throughout these last couple of  episodes from other players saying that shane is   too bossy and needs to be taken out down the road  the edit was now clear at this point this was a   why shannon lost season with tiffany being the  one to win the game now tiffany definitely had   her flaws the big one being her paranoia shown  in episode two but mostly everyone agreed this   was a story we were being told but then she was  taken out with no real story at the final 11   like what why is someone who is getting such a  good edit especially for her archetype taken out   like this if you took one look at the edging forms  this past week you could see it's in absolute   shambles literally nobody has any idea now who's  going to win since tiffany was such an obvious   winner i mean is shane going to be the first  over the top female winner in survivor history   and with her being a woman of color the show  wants to highlight her ups and downs is xander   or evie going to pull off a natalie and shine  the rest of the season is an ally of shan like   desean ricard or liliana going to be the one  to come out on top in this weishan lost story   screw it maybe heather might win at this point  and survivor is really taking on a new era   and produces its first invisible winner in the  end this is the biggest edgic shock in a long time   and it will be really interesting to see how the  rest of the season plays out as the winner of the   season will definitely have a very unconventional  winner's edit at number one is an edgy blind side   so crazy that it makes everything else on the list  look like nothing like imagine the reactions to   tiffany's elimination times a hundred and i guess  it's only fitting that the train wreck season of   gabon would be the season to throw ejic out the  window the best edging blind side in survivor   history is without question marcus's boot at the  final 10 in survivor gabon i mean how just how   did marcus go in this spot this is a man who not  only got consistent content but his gameplay far   and away outshined everyone else it's been said  numerous times just how ridiculous cabone is but   come on look at marcus's competition basically all  the players who have been on fong at that point   have been made fun of numerous times by the show  and even the eventual winner bob had no type of   story whatsoever in part due to him being such a  non-factor gameplay-wise and going into the final   10 marcus was basically a boston robb redemption  island like front runner edge wise he was so out   in front that kenny who was most people's second  choice really wasn't even that much of a thought   to win either marcus had the edit backing  him up big time and was the only smart player   grouped with a bunch of morons and at the final  10 he had the majority alliance on the new   and old quota and of course was a great physical  competitor for god's sakes he even got the entire   tribe to throw the merge idol into the water  as that was really the only thing that could   stop him marcus basically had an easy ride to the  end but then to the shock of everyone there was a   second tribe swap instead of a merge but hey no  big deal he was still in the majority and even   though susie was on the bottom it's not like a  woman like her would ever pull off a big time move   and best of all marcus bob and susie's target  was marcus's only competition edge wise and kenny   so the little chance that marcus had at not  winning this season will be put to an end   this episode but then and not only a blind  side but the biggest blind side in survivor   etching history susie freaking smith flipped on  marcus and one of the most obvious winners ever   didn't even make it to the merge it's simply  unreal just how much marcus was built up only to   be taken out in 10th place and then as mentioned  kenny was now the new front-runner especially when   fong officially took over the numbers at the merge  however maddie's edit really picked up especially   during the moment he got with his girlfriend  during the family visit and he also became   a huge frontrunner going into the finale yet  neither of the two even made it to the final three   and we were left with the hilarious final three  of bob susie and sugar and to be fair bob was the   favorite to win in this final three scenario but  there was simply no save and edgic at this point   so not only did the front runners this season not  even make it to the final tribal council but one   of the biggest front runners in survivor edging  history was blindsided at the final 10 by susie   smith ladies and gentlemen that is gabon to a t it  throws logic out the window and that is why we all   love it thank you guys for watching and if you're  interested in learning more about edgic i'll link   an article in the description that describes  ejic more in detail if you like what you see   then smash that like and subscribe button and let  me know in the comments the most you've ever been   blindsided when watching survivor with that said  have a good one guys and i'll see you next time