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RJ Sobczak 18th Sep 2016 10:18:27 PM
Nick hangs on
Posted in Hanging With Nick (Challenge 21 Thread)
RJ Sobczak 8th Sep 2016 10:33:47 PM
Ryan Lilly you have no idea how encouraging it is for you to fangirl over most of the weird shit I wrote in this VL
Posted in Ranking the ROP .gifs with Jen and RJ
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 11:38:28 PM
Congratulations Curtis. What a rags to riches story.
Posted in Episode 17: "It All Comes Back To Ruben"
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 11:29:35 PM
FINAL SCORES
PLAYER SCORES+


PW SCORES+

Posted in Okanagan Fantasy
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 10:38:25 PM
It turned into like 24 hours of frantic scientific rating, so we'll call it fair.
Posted in Ranking the ROP .gifs with Jen and RJ
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 9:28:19 PM
I do it for you baby.
Posted in Ranking the ROP .gifs with Jen and RJ
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 9:15:34 PM
1. Holli
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Edgic Rating: OTTM
As I alluded to earlier, Holli was much more successful in the execution and circumstances of her funny face.


Average Clip Rank: 3 (Jen: 2, RJ: 4)
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Average Quote Rank: 2 (Jen: 1, RJ: 3)
Holli's defining characteristic was that she didn't take shit from anybody, and this quote has that in spades. She's a fantastic narrator, and her quote alluding to her completely correct warnings to Vic and Corey on the way out of the game are pitch perfect for her.


Overall Average Ranking: 2.5 (Jen: 1.5, RJ: 3.5)
Nick and Holli got identical scores from me, so Holli winning is completely Jen's will. Bow to her.
Posted in Ranking the ROP .gifs with Jen and RJ
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 9:07:02 PM
2. Nick
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Edgic Rating: CPP
Nickposting has never been so scientific.


Average Clip Rank: 5 (Jen: 5, RJ: 5)
Remember when Patrick Haught temporary tattooed Nick's initials on his leg? That was weird.


Average Quote Rank: 3 (Jen: 4, RJ: 2)
Okay so out of all three of the final three, Nick hits the emotional aspect of his group of three the hardest out of all three, and thus is the most engaging of all three by leaps and bounds. Obviously we all know how that ended, but let's never forget how Nick is positively perfect in every single way.


Overall Average Ranking: 4 (Jen: 4.5, RJ: 3.5)
Nick getting second is probably the biggest upset of this thread.


Up Next: Guess
Posted in Ranking the ROP .gifs with Jen and RJ
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 8:59:58 PM
3. Sam
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Edgic Rating: OTTP
Well now that's just adorable.


Average Clip Rank: 3 (Jen: 3, RJ: 3)
On display here is the goofy, silly side of Samantha Vicario. If you ignore the horrific animal abuse, Sam is having a great time. We're having a great time. Everyone's having a great time. Okay maybe Buster isn't having a great time.


Average Quote Rank: 10 (Jen: 11, RJ: 9)
This is the other side to Sam. Sam is a very decisive player who commits emotionally to her game and doesn't look back. This quote does a good job contrasting the clip, and my one real complaint is that it underemphasizes how important Vic was to her in the game, and that's what stops her from reaching the top third of the quote rankings.


Overall Average Ranking: 6.5 (Jen: 7, RJ: 6)
Sam does admirably here, which is great for her. I still know she's going to be upset that she doesn't win this. She'll have to deal with it.


Up Next: PROBABLY EITHER NICK OR HOLLI IUNNO
Posted in Ranking the ROP .gifs with Jen and RJ
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 8:41:26 PM
4. Jenna
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Edgic Rating: MORP
For somebody who isn't present for half of her gif, Jenna makes a strong impression HEY KINDA JUST LIKE THE GAME


Average Clip Rank: 2.5 (Jen: 4, RJ: 1)
I personally thought the infamous "Makeup Tutorial" confessional would be the one to pull from, but this clip serves Jenna equally well and perhaps depicts the side of her that she would rather display. As opposed to manic, Jenna is playful, cheerful, and ostensibly a little drunk. During her time in the game, Jenna showed that Wojans can be even more delightful via the application of a little (lot of) alcohol.


Average Quote Rank: 11 (Jen: 8, RJ: 14)
So it's a shame that we are left with a comparitively weak quote. While it definitely defines her time in the game, Jenna's quote says nothing of her place on the bottom of the Tagish Boys Club or her relationship with her brother, nor does it capture her magnetic personality or her unique perspective. It's fine, but it's just kind of there, whereas Jenna was always anything but "just kind of there."


Overall Average Ranking: 6.75 (Jen: 6, RJ: 7.5)
All things being said, Jenna reaches impressive heights in this list. Somewhat appropriately, she ends up just above Zoie who was a player who seemed cut from the same cloth as Jenna and whose journey nearly mirrored her own. It would have been great if those two had started on the same tribe, and it was shortsighted that they weren't. (@prod)


Up Next: A juror
Posted in Ranking the ROP .gifs with Jen and RJ
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 8:32:18 PM
5. Razek
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Edgic Rating: OTTN
This would be OTTN if it were just the bottom half. The top half just makes it even more OTT.


Average Clip Rank: 9 (Jen: 9, RJ: 9)
The Weakest Link challenge was such a fun time. So many people got to shine during it, and Razek was indeed one of the stars. This clip hearkens back to Razek suffering and striving for his tribe, only for them to come up short. It was a very positive, very tribe-oriented part of his stay in Okanagan.


Average Quote Rank: 6 (Jen: 2, RJ: 10)
And also there was this. Obviously "Bitch be gone!" was an entertaining moment in the game, but I hesitate to give it elite marks as a person's sole verbal entry into Okanagan lore. While Razek brought a lot of negativity to the game, I find it hard to throw my full weight behind a quote that exists only to disparage its object, as this does with Casey. I don't know. Maybe I'm going soft.


Overall Average Ranking: 7.5 (Jen: 5.5, RJ: 9.5)
As befitting the larger than life character he was in the game, Razek turns in a very good score here. He was the focus of pre-swap Haida, and his highs and lows in his short time are immortalized appropriately here.


Up Next: A chick
Posted in Ranking the ROP .gifs with Jen and RJ
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 8:17:29 PM
6. Zoie
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Edgic Rating: UTRP
Just like Zoie, this gif just kind of chills here, happy to be itself amidst a sea of gifs who care more about being gifs than she does.


Average Clip Rank: 10.5 (Jen: 11, RJ: 10)
The best clips of this ranking usually do one thing very well: They represent the most important qualities of their subjects. Zoie's is no exception. Zoie happily strums her ukelele, giving the audience little to no mind as she goes about being cooler than you. You're not gonna win this ranking by playing the ukelele, and Zoie was never gonna win the game given her sporadic effort at times, but that's fine by her I suspect. And we all can enjoy her just the same.


Average Quote Rank: 5 (Jen: 6, RJ: 4)
Unlike Zac, Zoie does touch on the relationship with her brother that defined both of their games. Like her clip, it's offers a unique perspective of somebody who isn't immersed in ORGs like the rest of us terrible people. Contrary to her clip, the bit about her brother calls back to one of the more emotionally fulfilling relationships of the season, and anything that reminds me of Zac and Zoie hanging out will probably do well.


Overall Average Ranking: 7.75 (Jen: 8.5, RJ: 7)
In a more pure world, Zoie's 6th place would reflect her finish in Endure, and not the 16th she received, but I expect she would be more entertained by a sixth place finish here than in the game itself.


Up Next: Another premerge boot
Posted in Ranking the ROP .gifs with Jen and RJ
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 8:02:26 PM
7. Jesse
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Edgic Rating: OTTP
If Jesse didn't have an OTT gif, we wouldn't have even bothered with this ranking tbh.


Average Clip Rank: 7.5 (Jen: 8, RJ: 7)
I get the feeling that Stephen only had to watch 7 seconds of video to find this clip. It is quintessential Jesse to the point where I feel that using words other than "Jesse" to describe this clip would be doing it a disservice. Jesse is a huge character, and that's one of the reasons he was great.


Average Quote Rank: 8.5 (Jen: 9, RJ: 8)
This is one of the other reasons. Beneath the OTT surface, Jesse was always a good narrator and game player. Here we get a variation of the tired "I have no regrets. I'm proud of the way I played" snoozefest of a quote, but Jesse decides to SHOW and not just TELL us this. He doesn't just say he has no regrets; he elaborates on why he doesn't regret his gameplay. This alone vaults him out of the doldrums of the high teens to the trade winds of the single digits. Solid effort.


Overall Average Ranking: 8 (Jen: 8.5, RJ: 7.5)
With this gif, Jesse submits a very solid entry and further confirms my suspicion that in a world very similar to ours, he would have been a good winner of Endure Okanagan.


Up Next: A premerge boot
Posted in Ranking the ROP .gifs with Jen and RJ
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 7:51:34 PM
8. Miller
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Edgic Rating: OTT
It seems like a crime to give Miller the same edgic that Vic got. It's like they're not even playing the same sport. But alas, we do what we must.


Average Clip Rank: 9.5 (Jen: 6, RJ: 13)
I mean ... I get it. Miller's DOING STUFF and given the number of static clips that we have, the kinesthetic quality of it certainly grabs the eye. However, Miller goes through the motions with all the enthusiasm of a stripper at a truck stop bar, and I'm equally as enthralled.


Average Quote Rank: 10.5 (Jen: 10, RJ: 11)
Unlike Kate, Miller's quote injects a little emotion into the final three situation in which he eventually found himself. For whatever else we've said about him of late, Miller did have a strong emotional attachment to both of his fellow final three members and would have been devastated if Corey had managed to thwart them in the 11th hour. This quote reflects that nicely, but it still holds back a bit too much.


Overall Average Ranking: 10.5 (Jen: 9.5, RJ: 11.5)
With Miller done, Nick claims the spot as the highest ranked member of the final three slash the finale in general! Another accolade to add to his trophy case. Will he take the top spot?


Up Next: The first person to pull single digit rankings across the board.
Posted in Ranking the ROP .gifs with Jen and RJ
RJ Sobczak 7th Sep 2016 7:38:16 PM
Jen @ 7/9/2016 19:32
They never officially named their alliance but I'm glad for whoever came up with that in VL because it just fit those 3 too perfectly.

IT WAS ME!
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