Amanda is the best player to never win
Amanda received 4 votes to be the winner before she received even one vote against her that counted. Read that sentence again. Go ahead. I'll wait.
The first vote against her that actually counted was Sugar's vote in HvV on Amanda's 81st day playing Survivor. 9 tribals featuring Amanda in China, and 13 in Micronesia without a single vote against her that counted. That's over 80 consecutive days without a vote against her that counts. It's still a record. And frankly it will never be beaten. That's an insane stat that even the likes of Parvati can be jealous of. Amanda held the record for most days on the show on two different occasions and if she plays a 4th time she could easily own it again. Comparing her to players with similar resumes like Boston Rob, Cirie and Russell she has less votes against her than all of them, more votes to be winner than Russell and Cirie combined - Boston Rob is 2/4 making the Jury stage of the game where Amanda is 3/3.
No other non-winner comes even close to Amanda's Resume. In fact Sandra is the only player period who even comes close, receiving one vote that counts from Colby before her second season ended after getting none in Pearl Islands. And while head to head is largely irrelevant, lets not forget that Amanda is 2-0 head to head vs Cirie.
In closing, Amanda is a better player than most winners and a leaps and bounds better player than anyone else who hasn't yet won. It only took two of the top three winners ever, Todd and Parvati, to stop her. The only blemish on her record that I can see is getting less votes than Courtney who she has a 1-1 head to head with.
Posted Dec 16, 2018, 11:50 PM UTC · edited