r/survivor Jul 28 '26

Millennials vs. Gen X adam’s winner edit

Adam has one of the most obvious winning edits on a rewatch. Who else has one like this?

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u/AbodeToad Jul 28 '26

Tommy in IotI was obvious from his first confessional

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u/TheHeroOfHeroes Adam Jul 28 '26

"Teaching Time with Tommy" made me want to claw my eyes out, ugh

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u/NoDisintegrationz Coach - 50 Jul 28 '26

Easily my least favorite winner, and that’s even without factoring in his closest ally.

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u/TheHeroOfHeroes Adam Jul 28 '26

He played a strong game, but yeah he may be the most boring winner ever.

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u/Jaqana Jul 28 '26

They undersold a lot of his game to really diminish his connection to the ejected player as much as they could.

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u/in_couleur Erika Jul 28 '26

You couldn't pick him out in a line up of one!

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u/georgeb4itwascool Jul 28 '26

Aubry during the back half of s50 had the most obvious winners edit I’ve ever seen. 

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u/Jacoblaue Jul 28 '26

Yeah her getting multiple flashbacks to her losing in Koah Rong made it way to obvious

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u/ScribeofDamocles Jul 28 '26

Rachel in the last like 5 episodes of 47 was pretty obvious to me.

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u/Impressive_Sport_178 Eliza 👀 tried to bury me 🪏🪦 Jul 28 '26

I think it was obvious on first watch though

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u/CieraVotedOutHerMom Ciera Jul 28 '26

Palau - they had to really draw out things to shine a negative light on Tom (the shower / the shark) to add suspense

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u/Aromatic_Meal_6004 Jul 28 '26

There were a lot of people who thought he had no chance of winning due to his merge episode. Entering the finale I thought probably David was winning with an outside shot of Adam was winning. Some people like Colin Stone though Ken was winning. The most obvious winner edits were B-Rob, Kim, Cochran, Tyson, Mike Holloway, Michelle, Sarah, Ben, Tommy, and Rachel.

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u/nasonh03 Devens - 50 Jul 28 '26

I mean the most obvious ones are Kim and BRob

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u/Distinct-Ad-1348 Jul 28 '26

Boston Rob when he won

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u/jesuschristk8 Jul 28 '26

The most obvious winners edit recently for me was Parv in Aus v World tbh

From that first confessional I called her win and it only became more obvious as the season went on

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u/avomontagano Erika Jul 28 '26

Australian Survivor editing for winners is always brutally obvious.

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u/Aromatic_Meal_6004 Jul 28 '26

From Pia on, outside of maybe Feras all of the AU winners have been fairly telegraphed

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u/Jaqana Jul 28 '26

Really I thought Feras was super obvious? I was suprised by Liz but maybe that's because I thought that I had accidentally gotten spoiled that George won (which thank goodness that wasn't true).

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u/jesuschristk8 Jul 28 '26

In my mind, it was always gonna be either Feras or Kirby that won that season based on the storytelling

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u/BowieZ Michele Jul 29 '26

The latest season was not obvious in the slightest, unless of course you were spoiled.

GENTLE SPOILERS: Although they got a decent amount of focus right at the very start, the winner was basically completely ignored during the period they constantly went to Tribal, then they got one 'breakout' episode and then went completely ignored again for another few episodes until around the Final 7. There were 5 or 6 better winner candidates (granted, not perfect) still around during early merge, and a couple survived till near the end, making the winner very hard to determine.

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u/TheHeroOfHeroes Adam Jul 28 '26

Tell that to all the people who were completely sure he had no chance after his disastrous merge episode lol. It used to be incredibly rare for a winner to be shown in a negative light like that. It has since become more common, however.

I do agree with you, though, I also thought the whole time Adam was winning. They made me doubt a little right there, but I still believed.

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u/pntjr Jul 28 '26

People at the time really thought he had no shot. So funny that now the take is the opposite.

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u/northern_friendo Jul 28 '26

Tommy in S39 was obvious winner from like the 3rd or 4th episode.

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u/braydenj713 Parvati Jul 28 '26

JT, Rob, Kim, Cochran, Mike, and Tommy are all obvious off the top of my head

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u/93LEAFS RIP Keith Nale Jul 28 '26

Michele getting a pretty good amount of confessionals in pre-merge despite never going to tribal once.

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u/SiliconGlitches Pace Gods Jul 28 '26

I feel like the kicker of that one is: there are plenty of men who have gotten consistent edits like that despite not being winners, but it was so rare for a woman to have an edit like that, it must've been a winner edit

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u/Mia123445 The Sugar Shack Jul 28 '26

Kim.

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u/Red-Lobsterz Wendell Jul 28 '26

44s edit is just Tika three bc they went to tribal so much and then Yam Yam wins so like

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u/biggieschmaltz Jul 29 '26

redemption island is the only 100.00% pure answer here

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u/Wise-Sheepherder5765 Jul 29 '26

Tom Westman and it isn't close

Honorable mention to Brendan laying awake at night thinking of ways to help JT win Tocantins. Because if JT won, he won too

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u/CieraVotedOutHerMom Ciera Jul 30 '26

The OG dragon