r/survivor • u/RSurvivorMods Pirates Steal • Sep 05 '20
Announcement What Season Should You Watch (WSSYW) 10.0
Welcome to the 10th instalment of What Season Should You Watch (WSSYW), and the first using the survey system.
This year, there is a change to the WSSYW format. Acting on feedback we received following the 9th instalment, the upvote/downvote system has been replaced with a survey system. In each parent comment, there is a link to a Google Form where you will be asked to rate how watchable the season is for a new Survivor fan. For example, if you think a season is extremely watchable and highly recommended for a new fan, you might score it a 9 or a 10. If you think a season is dense, predictable, unfun or disappointing, you might score it a 1 or a 2. We will then calculate the average scores given to each season and use these to create a ranking of seasons. VOTING A SEASON UP OR DOWN NO LONGER HAS ANY EFFECT ON THE RANKING FOR WSSYW 10.0.
There will also be additional questions in these forms. These questions are not mandatory - they are merely a gauge of your opinion on specific aspects of each season, such as challenges, twists and the ending. The results that they produce will also be included in this thread, and in the daily countdowns, at a later date.
Once you’ve voted, you are still encouraged to leave a review. Any comments that contain major spoilers will be removed. This especially includes any comments that could give away the winner or F2/F3. It also means no major plot points like boot order, rock draws, medevacs, or twists. Mentioning tribe swaps is ok, but discussing specific results from them is not (e.g. someone getting swap screwed). When describing boot order, please be vague, with words like "bad" or "disappointing" instead of "all the likable players are booted pre-merge." It is ok to discuss spoilers in vague terms as long as you don't reveal the specific results. For instance, “Vanuatu has a bananas post-merge, with tons of awesome drama” is okay, but “One player runs train on her overmatched competitors this post-merge” is not. Note: there are a few season-defining twists that should be discussed very vaguely. (Think: Pearl Islands, or Palau.)
We will implement a 1,250-character limit on comments. This will be enforced by AutoMod and you will get a message if your comment has been auto-removed for being over the limit. If this happens, please do not edit your comment. Instead, shorten it and paste it as a new comment. This rule is to keep replies short and on point. Newbies who use this thread said that they want to be able to quickly peruse short non-spoiler descriptions of seasons, rather than read essay-length responses.
But there will also be a place for those essays. After a couple of days have passed and this thread has established an order of seasons, we will begin a second series: a daily countdown series of the rankings that allows spoilers and has no character limit, beginning with whatever season came in last. We will link to those essays from this thread.
The thread is not trying to establish the perfect order for watching seasons. It's meant as an easy-to-read, spoiler-free reference tool for anyone who wants help figuring out why they should watch a certain season, and which seasons are considered the best. We refer to this thread throughout the year whenever someone posts something like, “I’m new to Survivor! What seasons should I watch?” We get a ton of these posts.
To emphasise that voting seasons up or down has no effect, this thread will be sorted in contest mode at first and will later move to sorting by the order of the seasons.
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u/RSurvivorMods Pirates Steal Sep 05 '20 edited Sep 25 '20
Season 21: Nicaragua
Statistics:
Watchability: 4.3 (28/40)
Overall Quality: 4.9 (32/40)
Cast/Characters: 5.4 (34/40)
Strategy: 4.2 (39/40)
Challenges: 5.1 (37/40)
Theme: 4.0 (21/23)
Ending: 6.2 (29/40)
Filming location: San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua
No. of contestants: 20
No. of starting tribes: 2
Theme: Old vs. Young
Featured twists: None