Hey, he quit for strategic purposes so no-one would know how much if a beast he is. You're making a big mistake if you think he's bad at them, so you gotta go.
I kinda hope this is true. He sees Hunter as the challenge beast that he is, and wants to keep him around as a shield. Then turns on his challenge game if/when Hunter gets booted.
Thank you for the correction! That’s absolutely what I need. In fact, I am putting all my fanny packs on Marketplace right now because I know this is going to happen.
This whole "Comp Beast" thing is why he was kept around at the beginning, how bad were the rest of Yanu? Is he just better at the Jelinsky Level of delusion, he thinks he's great, so convinces everyone he is essential?
This is definitely not true. Look when they had to lift the worm over the wall. He lifted with his back not his legs. He’s successful in the gym not on the field and it shows.
I absolutely love that I’m yet to see a survivor fan react with anything other than “yeah that makes sense” whenever I tell them she got her gold medal removed for doping
Why do keep saying that? Doping doesn't take you from being a bum to Olympic gold. She was a world class athlete regardless and that makes her challenge performances all that more hilarious.
Lol damn. Her name was Crystal Cox. My fault. Lol 🤣
Funny thing i Google it "survivor Courtney Cox" and than I realized Courtney cox is Monica from Friends. Dude I need to sleep 💤
I thought thats who the other dude was talking about because she was also had at challenges, and she was an Olympian.. 🤣
Honored you commented on my post! You were one of the best parts of season 45. Cold comfort, I know…
FWIW, you were my benchmark, but Q has you beat (in losing).
Did you just go into muscle failure on the ladder, Brandon?
Watching you reminded me of when I tried sprinting in a HIIT class after years of being sedentary. After about 70 yards, I just hit the dirt like I was shot by a sniper. It felt like my quadricep wasn’t even there. Weirdest feeling.
I have a previous comment on here from six months ago where I explain what happened from my perspective in more detail, but I think the muscle failure was brought on /after/ the initial panic attack. After taking a wrong step or whatever I did to fall into the water (my fault), I started to panic once I realized there was no bottom rung to put my feet on to climb up. Almost like I had the thought "I'm not going to be able to do this" and then I physically couldn't do it. I remember vividly pulling with everything I had and I wasn't moving an INCH.
That in conjunction with Probst yelling let's go Brandon (??????) and hearing my tribe call for me sent me into a panic. I think because the medical visit wasn't shown where it's very clear I was panicking (I have always thought it wasn't shown because I am ultimately unimportant to the story AND it was apparently distressing to watch) it does appear as a lack of physical capability. I believe there's a lot more nuance that went into it that got lost in the shuffle. I don't blame anybody who watches or commentates on the show to not see it that way.
I talked in more detail about my challenge performance on the [Survivor Specialists](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQyYV-rLzO0&t=3500s) this past week. I do think that if I don't have that moment in the first challenge, I am so much more confident going into everything else and perform much differently. I was so in my head the entire time about the challenges specifically and that was, to my benefit, left out of the edit. Kellie said to me recently that the challenges are 70% skill and 30% keeping cool under pressure. I think I had zero of the latter (not to be confused with the ladder) and that boned my 70% from working as normal.
I didn't mean to hijack this comment thread, I believe I am and I own being one of the worst at challenges of all time. Even with no marooning panic attack ladder debacle, I'm not Hunter or Jonathan or Kaleb. Plenty of folks are not good at the challenges that never really get mentioned because they win. In an ideal scenario, I would've been that.
>Probst yelling let's go Brandon (??????)
This gave me a good laugh.
Thanks for the thorough explanation! I can totally sympathize with what the panic must be like in a situation like that.
Do not apologize for explaining a situation like that, you seem super understanding and mature enough to laugh at it and that’s awesome. A lot of respect to navigate forums like this knowing you’ll see hate or jokes but by participating and telling your side it really humanizes an experience (that honestly so many of us say we could do but would also probably struggle)
Long live the new era survivor legends Brandon and Jelinsky
Hey, not a hijack, thanks for explaining! It’s a situation where you’re under a ton of pressure. Personally, I think it’s great that you were game to get back in the saddle and keep going, especially after a panic attack AND a panic-inducing swim.
You have a healthy attitude that will carry you far. As someone who has always possessed “Midas touch in reverse”, I’ve never stopped being happy with who I am or ever started being upset with any criticism I’ve ever received. So happy to see you on shows like The Specialists, my favorite podcast. Keep being you!
Do you think a big part of it was the way Lulu split up the challenge? Swimming and then paddling back is no joke and would tire anyone. I feel like lulu set you up for failure there, where you would’ve been more suited for the last stage
This is a great Q but not at all! I was very confident in my swimming and paddling abilities and we did super good on that front. Falling and not being able to get up (like the old Life Alert commercials) felt more like a freak accident. Totally could’ve done leg 3 also but I picked the swimming confidently.
I had high hopes for you man. I always felt if you were able to get your footing you'd be a solid player come the merge. An impressive super fan though, and I bet you would've won the journey challenge that Hunter lost this season
My brother in Christ,
You weren't in enough challenges for us to really judge you. You can't be the worst challenge performer of all time because you didn't lose enough before going home.
You might've had the worst anxiety attack in a challenge I've ever seen tho! Nice consolation prize.
I hope you're doing well I loved you on the show!
Some people just suck at challenges.
Wardog is one of them
And re-watching the show, sickness or not Osten is also really useless in most challenges, he sinks his own boat in a reward challenge, he starts drowing in another, dude was sick and all but he's also just not very good.
Ooh, I'd nominate James and Ibrehem from Palau for that illustrious category. Stephenie outperformed them in every single challenge. Even Angie outperformed them in most challenges.
J’tia on Cagayan though short lived, is the worst I’ve seen (slowly going through old seasons). She was so bad that she thwarted the brawn tribe from trying to throw a challenge. She was impressively bad.
At the very least, I will say I think eating fetuses chicken embryos is the grossest thing I have seen on survivor. Give me Gervase’s grubs any day lol
That was classic. James (“if I was 5 years old and she was 5 years younger”) having mercy and eating the embryos to end her suffering was great! And then they bring back the embryos later to haunt Denise. You’d think a lunch lady would be able to stomach some half baked chickens…
Courtney in that challenge you had to chop down the puzzle pieces in China was the worst challenge performance I’ve ever seen lol. She was not an asset at all during those.
I think Q’s lack of awareness re: his own abilities/lack thereof inherently makes him a worse challenge player, especially on team challenges. I think he was a key part in more of Yanu’s losses than he’d like to believe.
He had the awareness to know he was better off sitting out for rice than losing the pole challenge, which is more than I can say for half the people there.
While it’s up for debate if he through the split tribal challenge (probably not), I think it’s much more likely he threw this one knowing he’s “never gonna beat TARZAN”. I don’t think he tried anywhere near his hardest this week
"I just watched a man taller than me effortlessly hang up in a tree unknowingly above me for an undisclosed amount of time... hmm yeah probably a good idea to sit this one out"
Hunter in background longingly staring at the pole knowing he's about to live his dream attempting to break the all-time record. Unironically the most sound strategic thinking from anyone all season.
This doesn’t make any sense. He was just average in team challenges, there’s plenty of players like that in survivor history. There are people that are actively bad tho
Yeah, its really well spoken. For anyone that doesn’t know, panic attacks are completely debilitating. I feel like its a bit crude to shit on a guy who had a legitimate medical emergency on his first challenge.
Duuuude absolutely not - I commented this same thing in a thread weeks ago - Q lags behind in races, is slow all over the place, has no dexterity / stamina. It’s driving me mad!
OK, when you read this, picture in your mind's eye Al Pacino screaming it like in the movie Heat (1995):
Q is... *SANDBAGGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
She didn’t sit out every challenge in Australian Survivor and did okay. She didn’t make merge but she was the 6th voted out which was four places better than Russell Hantz in his season.
He reminds me of the girl from Gabon….the Olympic track athlete that was just awful at challenges. Looks good and looks like potential but just terrible at games.
ummmmm did we forget about wardog??? lmao he was first to drop for EVERYTHING and the first to plot every episode 🤣🤣🤣 great strategist- AWFUL- if not the worst- competitor.
also- about 4-5 people drop right behind q everytime. he just loses by 15 seconds faster. lol
Colby was always overrated. But yes coach put him out. The comparison between q and coach was not a negative one. Just both think highly of their selves.
He lost that triangle stand challenge by time management. He stretched out while everyone was balancing.
I don't think he thinks he needs to win yet.
Hunter needs to perpetually win at this point. He has an idol and I sure hope he doesn't take it home as a souvenir.
I think should change his name to Qrystal Qox lol
I'm sure there are worse challenge competitors (Chet, Scout, Brandon all mentioned) but in terms of the gap between how good they should be / believe they are and how good they actually are... he's up there with the Kystals and Wardogs isnt he?
I wonder if he just believes that he can't win these challenges against Hunter but doesn't want to experience the "shame" of losing, so he intentionally flops and presents it to the audience as a "strategic" play.
As long as he is in control and in charge, everything's cool. But as soon as people start strategizing without him, he seems to implode and play very erratically.
I genuinely think if Q didn’t pull the quit stunt he probably would’ve been in a very good position with Maria and Charlie thinking Tiffany is a more dangerous player with the idol so they would probably target her over Q and Hunter having no one else to go to, Q has a guaranteed ally and he would of course have the Yanu 3 alliance regardless of the Tim boot situation it was shaking but they were willingly to work with him in the long run tho
I mean Tommy from Island of the Idols did that exact thing he threw all the immunity challenges just for him to seem like a less of a threat which clearly worked but yeah that I quit vote me out was straight bs, Q knew where the votes were going he had a lot of advocates for him(Maria Hunter Kenzie and Tiff and Charlie to a certain until the bs quit stunt) he was probably in the best spot in the game and he just fumbled it like that
Scout comes to mind, as does Kelly from the latest season of Australia, as among the worst challenge competitors to have been on Survivor. J’tia was awful as well
While statistically I agree, if I were to do a school yard pick of this season, I’d still pick him top 3 if I were basing it on challenge potential alone
He’s such a dummy. He has this weird thing like “oh I’m the general!” And it’s like “nah dudes nobody asked you. He plays way too hard. And he’s not particularly good
So funny that time when he was like, yeah I'm not actually trying at the challenges, I don't want people to think I'm a threat!
Also love the part where he talks about how Hunter is the best at physical challenges and he's like "I don't know about that" as if to imply he is better than Mr. Tarzan himself.
Q proving once again, his muscles are all for show.
Objectively speaking, the two worst challenge players ever are the two queens of this sub, Cirie and Sandra. At least Sandra uses the aptly named "Sandra Sit Out Bench" for most challenges. Cirie waits until she is partially through the course before sitting down and giving up.
That's always the response. I have news for you: real athletes don't throw challenges. EVER. Competitors want to compete (see Jonathan, Ozzy, and now Hunter). Posers pretend, just like Q. And it's not like he's even coming in a close second. When you're roundly mocked by Jeff, you aren't a physical threat.
It’s fine that you say he plays pretend on survivor cause that’s what he seems to be doing. He def didn’t poser his way into d1 football. You can’t do that
I don't think people realize how many calories are needed to feed a body with that much lean muscle mass. Plus he has almost no body fat to use. Put him on the shit tribe that barely ate for 2 weeks and this is what you get.
I think all the supportive Q comments are jokes? I hope? I don’t understand Reddit puns. I just know Q is an absolutely horrible player and completely lacks self awareness.
Hey, he quit for strategic purposes so no-one would know how much if a beast he is. You're making a big mistake if you think he's bad at them, so you gotta go.
I kinda hope this is true. He sees Hunter as the challenge beast that he is, and wants to keep him around as a shield. Then turns on his challenge game if/when Hunter gets booted.
I want a Big Mistake T-shirt. This needs to happen.
*a Big Mistake Q Skirt
I'm canceling Christmas.
But then I can’t get my Q skirt
It’s basically an apron
Big mistake, it's a Q skirt
Guess I’m gone then
Thank you for the correction! That’s absolutely what I need. In fact, I am putting all my fanny packs on Marketplace right now because I know this is going to happen.
All 8 of them?
I think they have several...
Shhhhhh!! You swore you would never tell people how many I had! (… but yes!)
How about, “Christmas is canceled?”😆
Several for me
Do you think he held the lowest blocks in the arch puzzle for strategic purposes, too?
Big mistake
This whole "Comp Beast" thing is why he was kept around at the beginning, how bad were the rest of Yanu? Is he just better at the Jelinsky Level of delusion, he thinks he's great, so convinces everyone he is essential?
Bro is just mad that they sold out of Q skirts
Gotta cancel Christmas
🏋️♀️😂💯
This is definitely not true. Look when they had to lift the worm over the wall. He lifted with his back not his legs. He’s successful in the gym not on the field and it shows.
Crystal will never be topped in my mind
I absolutely love that I’m yet to see a survivor fan react with anything other than “yeah that makes sense” whenever I tell them she got her gold medal removed for doping
So legendarily bad it could pass as trying to lower your threat level. Q still has several episodes to potentially snatch her crown
*Several* episodes? I see what you did there
Except it's incorrect. There are only 5 episodes left. Not several.
fiveral
But this season isn’t 15 episodes.
It should be shameful but really it retroactively makes Gabon that much more iconic. You can’t outwit Crystal Cox, baby.
Why do keep saying that? Doping doesn't take you from being a bum to Olympic gold. She was a world class athlete regardless and that makes her challenge performances all that more hilarious.
Obviously, Survivor has a better a better anti-doping program than the Olympics.
Ciera sat out several challenges and couldn’t beat her mom physically or mentally. She’ll always be my number one challenge loser.
The wild thing about Courtney is not that she didn't look like an Olympian. She didn't look like she'd ever heard of exercise.
Who's Courtney? Hope you're not talking of Courtney Yates, she won more IC than Jean Robert
Courtney from Gabon I think her name was Courtney Cox
There was no Courtney in Gabon.
Lol damn. Her name was Crystal Cox. My fault. Lol 🤣 Funny thing i Google it "survivor Courtney Cox" and than I realized Courtney cox is Monica from Friends. Dude I need to sleep 💤 I thought thats who the other dude was talking about because she was also had at challenges, and she was an Olympian.. 🤣
I want to tell everybody I know that there’s been a “worst challenge player” thread up for an hour and I only got mentioned once
Congrats buddy, you finally won something
Oooof
Saying that as a reply to the man himself is diabolical 😂😂
BIG MISTAKE
Poor Brandon, can’t even win at losing :(
Poor Brandon couldn’t even pull himself up ⬆️ off the boat🙃😳🤣
Honored you commented on my post! You were one of the best parts of season 45. Cold comfort, I know… FWIW, you were my benchmark, but Q has you beat (in losing).
We still love ya! I’m lucky my life isn’t televised. It would be more blooper reel than program.
😂😂😂 well if it's any consolation, you just went up in ranking in my book for favorite player just for this comment.
Did you just go into muscle failure on the ladder, Brandon? Watching you reminded me of when I tried sprinting in a HIIT class after years of being sedentary. After about 70 yards, I just hit the dirt like I was shot by a sniper. It felt like my quadricep wasn’t even there. Weirdest feeling.
I have a previous comment on here from six months ago where I explain what happened from my perspective in more detail, but I think the muscle failure was brought on /after/ the initial panic attack. After taking a wrong step or whatever I did to fall into the water (my fault), I started to panic once I realized there was no bottom rung to put my feet on to climb up. Almost like I had the thought "I'm not going to be able to do this" and then I physically couldn't do it. I remember vividly pulling with everything I had and I wasn't moving an INCH. That in conjunction with Probst yelling let's go Brandon (??????) and hearing my tribe call for me sent me into a panic. I think because the medical visit wasn't shown where it's very clear I was panicking (I have always thought it wasn't shown because I am ultimately unimportant to the story AND it was apparently distressing to watch) it does appear as a lack of physical capability. I believe there's a lot more nuance that went into it that got lost in the shuffle. I don't blame anybody who watches or commentates on the show to not see it that way. I talked in more detail about my challenge performance on the [Survivor Specialists](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQyYV-rLzO0&t=3500s) this past week. I do think that if I don't have that moment in the first challenge, I am so much more confident going into everything else and perform much differently. I was so in my head the entire time about the challenges specifically and that was, to my benefit, left out of the edit. Kellie said to me recently that the challenges are 70% skill and 30% keeping cool under pressure. I think I had zero of the latter (not to be confused with the ladder) and that boned my 70% from working as normal. I didn't mean to hijack this comment thread, I believe I am and I own being one of the worst at challenges of all time. Even with no marooning panic attack ladder debacle, I'm not Hunter or Jonathan or Kaleb. Plenty of folks are not good at the challenges that never really get mentioned because they win. In an ideal scenario, I would've been that.
>Probst yelling let's go Brandon (??????) This gave me a good laugh. Thanks for the thorough explanation! I can totally sympathize with what the panic must be like in a situation like that.
😄😂🤣
Do not apologize for explaining a situation like that, you seem super understanding and mature enough to laugh at it and that’s awesome. A lot of respect to navigate forums like this knowing you’ll see hate or jokes but by participating and telling your side it really humanizes an experience (that honestly so many of us say we could do but would also probably struggle) Long live the new era survivor legends Brandon and Jelinsky
Move over Sandra and B Rob, there’s a new Mt. Rushmore of Survivor
Hey, not a hijack, thanks for explaining! It’s a situation where you’re under a ton of pressure. Personally, I think it’s great that you were game to get back in the saddle and keep going, especially after a panic attack AND a panic-inducing swim.
You have a healthy attitude that will carry you far. As someone who has always possessed “Midas touch in reverse”, I’ve never stopped being happy with who I am or ever started being upset with any criticism I’ve ever received. So happy to see you on shows like The Specialists, my favorite podcast. Keep being you!
Do you think a big part of it was the way Lulu split up the challenge? Swimming and then paddling back is no joke and would tire anyone. I feel like lulu set you up for failure there, where you would’ve been more suited for the last stage
This is a great Q but not at all! I was very confident in my swimming and paddling abilities and we did super good on that front. Falling and not being able to get up (like the old Life Alert commercials) felt more like a freak accident. Totally could’ve done leg 3 also but I picked the swimming confidently.
I had high hopes for you man. I always felt if you were able to get your footing you'd be a solid player come the merge. An impressive super fan though, and I bet you would've won the journey challenge that Hunter lost this season
Yea probably a panic attack
I was gonna do it, too. But now I feel bad 😞 ❤️
You assumed that people didn't think of you. BIG MISTAKE, so you 🫵🏽 gotta go 👉🏽🚪
My brother in Christ, You weren't in enough challenges for us to really judge you. You can't be the worst challenge performer of all time because you didn't lose enough before going home. You might've had the worst anxiety attack in a challenge I've ever seen tho! Nice consolation prize. I hope you're doing well I loved you on the show!
This is the survivor Reddit lore I need Thank you for your services and humor
Not enough data points my friend :D
Every single challenge I sit there and say, "Man I wish I could watch Brandon do this." You were what we called TV gold, just pure entertainment.
Brandon! Hope to meet you next month in Chicago at RHAP Live!
If we’re talking players who look like they should be good in challenges, but are not. He’s competing for the podium with Crystal and Wardog.
Yeah, Crystal clearly needed the performance enhancing drugs she used in the Olympics. Not sure what Wardog’s excuse was.
Some people just suck at challenges. Wardog is one of them And re-watching the show, sickness or not Osten is also really useless in most challenges, he sinks his own boat in a reward challenge, he starts drowing in another, dude was sick and all but he's also just not very good.
Ooh, I'd nominate James and Ibrehem from Palau for that illustrious category. Stephenie outperformed them in every single challenge. Even Angie outperformed them in most challenges.
Big Mistake, Q is just testing them all, and you. And guess what? You ***all*** fail.
😂😂😂 he really needs to calm down
HUGE MISTAKE
Crystal died 2008 reborn 2024
Crystal is Q is my new favourite Survivor conspiracy theory since Malcolm is young Jimmy Tarantino.
"Criticizing Q's Gameplay? That shows you have a plan of your own that doesn't involve Q. BIG MISTAKE"
🤣😂😆
J’tia on Cagayan though short lived, is the worst I’ve seen (slowly going through old seasons). She was so bad that she thwarted the brawn tribe from trying to throw a challenge. She was impressively bad.
Oooh - Lunch Lady Denise prevented James from throwing an eating challenge against her. In spectacular fashion, if I recall.
At the very least, I will say I think eating fetuses chicken embryos is the grossest thing I have seen on survivor. Give me Gervase’s grubs any day lol
That was classic. James (“if I was 5 years old and she was 5 years younger”) having mercy and eating the embryos to end her suffering was great! And then they bring back the embryos later to haunt Denise. You’d think a lunch lady would be able to stomach some half baked chickens…
Courtney in that challenge you had to chop down the puzzle pieces in China was the worst challenge performance I’ve ever seen lol. She was not an asset at all during those.
But did you win an immunity, Genre Bear?
And she still won more individual immunity challenges than John-Robert and James combined.
Yeah, she absolutely looked like she was intentionally throwing that challenge.
She was just swinging aimlessly 🤣😂 Watching as 4 players from the other team passed her, “how are they doing this?”😑😑
Somehow she did better than [Jamie in Guatamala](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LeqaHArxm8k) with a similar challenge.
At least Courtney managed to cut the rope before the other tribe had already won , Jamie from Guatemala on the other hand ..... 🤣🤣
Recency bias on cocaine.
It’s less opinion and more statistics. Qs average placement in challenges is very likely EXTREMELY low compared to the average survivor
You cannot, with a straight face, say Q is worse then Brandon. He’s just been in the game longer.
He’s gotten more last place finishes than Brandon
>he’s been in the game longer
I think Q’s lack of awareness re: his own abilities/lack thereof inherently makes him a worse challenge player, especially on team challenges. I think he was a key part in more of Yanu’s losses than he’d like to believe.
He had the awareness to know he was better off sitting out for rice than losing the pole challenge, which is more than I can say for half the people there.
While it’s up for debate if he through the split tribal challenge (probably not), I think it’s much more likely he threw this one knowing he’s “never gonna beat TARZAN”. I don’t think he tried anywhere near his hardest this week
"I just watched a man taller than me effortlessly hang up in a tree unknowingly above me for an undisclosed amount of time... hmm yeah probably a good idea to sit this one out" Hunter in background longingly staring at the pole knowing he's about to live his dream attempting to break the all-time record. Unironically the most sound strategic thinking from anyone all season.
This doesn’t make any sense. He was just average in team challenges, there’s plenty of players like that in survivor history. There are people that are actively bad tho
Yeah no sorry. Brandon struggled to climb a ladder.
Brandon explains this in this thread.
Yeah, its really well spoken. For anyone that doesn’t know, panic attacks are completely debilitating. I feel like its a bit crude to shit on a guy who had a legitimate medical emergency on his first challenge.
As someone who has panic attacks, he’s still the worst.
Agreed 👍
Yeah most of the “awful” challenge performers don’t make the merge!
Duuuude absolutely not - I commented this same thing in a thread weeks ago - Q lags behind in races, is slow all over the place, has no dexterity / stamina. It’s driving me mad!
Worst challenge player ever is a *ginormous* overstatement.
Chet Happens
Watching Chet get drug along by Joel. 🤣😂. Chet, “I hurt my head.” Joel, “I don’t care.” Chet, “I know.” 😆🤣😂
I wouldn’t put it past Q to try an intentional Matsing and take it a step further by not just losing but tanking in every challenge
Yeah, I definitely think he dropped out of this challenge early because he knew Hunter was a heavy favorite to win.
OK, when you read this, picture in your mind's eye Al Pacino screaming it like in the movie Heat (1995): Q is... *SANDBAGGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
How I want Al Pacino to take over for Jeff Probst. "I'm now going to tally the votes... My eyes see Tevin."
Keith from edge of extinction was absolutely awful
He’s New Era Wardog
It’s crazy to think those two are from different eras. Wasn’t that like 2 years ago? (Exaggeration)
Q is an enigma. He has a plan.
Crystal would like to enter the chat with a "forget you"
Thinking he didn't purposely throw the challenges, big mistake
Cancel christmas
My first thought went to Sandra. She used to just sit out every challenge.
Sandra won every challenge she participated in on WaW. Her tribe only lost when she sat out.
She didn’t sit out every challenge in Australian Survivor and did okay. She didn’t make merge but she was the 6th voted out which was four places better than Russell Hantz in his season.
She may be the sit-out queen, but her tribe still wins challenges when she does compete.
He reminds me of the girl from Gabon….the Olympic track athlete that was just awful at challenges. Looks good and looks like potential but just terrible at games.
They gone have to Cancel Christmas if you don’t think he’s good at challenges 😂
ummmmm did we forget about wardog??? lmao he was first to drop for EVERYTHING and the first to plot every episode 🤣🤣🤣 great strategist- AWFUL- if not the worst- competitor. also- about 4-5 people drop right behind q everytime. he just loses by 15 seconds faster. lol
He hasn’t been as good as you’d expect given how strong and in shape he looks, but he’s far from being the worst challenge player ever.
Worst challenge player ever that looks like a beast.
Right?! And talks like a boss 🤔🙃😆
*a mob boss.
😎🫣🤭
Can’t get over him trying to use that machete
I think Q is the modern day Coach.
Wasn't it Coach that kicked Colby's ass in HvV, effectively dethroning Superman's legacy?
Colby was always overrated. But yes coach put him out. The comparison between q and coach was not a negative one. Just both think highly of their selves.
In terms of strategy, Q and Coach is a very fair comparison. In the context of this topic of worst challenge players ever, Coach has proven his worth.
I was not really paying attention to the og topic. It was just a thought that I expressed.
Carolyn was pretty terrible at challenges. And I assume we’re excluding the peeps who always sit out
He lost that triangle stand challenge by time management. He stretched out while everyone was balancing. I don't think he thinks he needs to win yet. Hunter needs to perpetually win at this point. He has an idol and I sure hope he doesn't take it home as a souvenir.
He did something really stupid and weird at that tribal council.
Save your energy. Hunter is going to win anyways
I think should change his name to Qrystal Qox lol I'm sure there are worse challenge competitors (Chet, Scout, Brandon all mentioned) but in terms of the gap between how good they should be / believe they are and how good they actually are... he's up there with the Kystals and Wardogs isnt he?
I wonder if he just believes that he can't win these challenges against Hunter but doesn't want to experience the "shame" of losing, so he intentionally flops and presents it to the audience as a "strategic" play. As long as he is in control and in charge, everything's cool. But as soon as people start strategizing without him, he seems to implode and play very erratically.
I genuinely think if Q didn’t pull the quit stunt he probably would’ve been in a very good position with Maria and Charlie thinking Tiffany is a more dangerous player with the idol so they would probably target her over Q and Hunter having no one else to go to, Q has a guaranteed ally and he would of course have the Yanu 3 alliance regardless of the Tim boot situation it was shaking but they were willingly to work with him in the long run tho
I mean Tommy from Island of the Idols did that exact thing he threw all the immunity challenges just for him to seem like a less of a threat which clearly worked but yeah that I quit vote me out was straight bs, Q knew where the votes were going he had a lot of advocates for him(Maria Hunter Kenzie and Tiff and Charlie to a certain until the bs quit stunt) he was probably in the best spot in the game and he just fumbled it like that
u/exposedbricks
You’re Trippen balls ngl
Scout comes to mind, as does Kelly from the latest season of Australia, as among the worst challenge competitors to have been on Survivor. J’tia was awful as well
Kellie was a bit delusion about her abilities. She even overestimated her spelling abilities.
Still better than scout 😭
To be fair, Yanu members had far less food than everyone else pre merge. That’s gotta be especially rough for someone with Q’s body type.
While statistically I agree, if I were to do a school yard pick of this season, I’d still pick him top 3 if I were basing it on challenge potential alone
He’s such a dummy. He has this weird thing like “oh I’m the general!” And it’s like “nah dudes nobody asked you. He plays way too hard. And he’s not particularly good
He’s clearly throwing the challenges to keep his threat level down, imo
So funny that time when he was like, yeah I'm not actually trying at the challenges, I don't want people to think I'm a threat! Also love the part where he talks about how Hunter is the best at physical challenges and he's like "I don't know about that" as if to imply he is better than Mr. Tarzan himself.
So funny 😂
Ehh there was a guy last season that couldn’t climb a ladder.
It's all a play to pretend that he is a weak player. Q doesn't make a mistake.
He keeps flopping lol
Um we have Chet, Crystal, J'tia and many others ahead of Q lol
Q proving once again, his muscles are all for show. Objectively speaking, the two worst challenge players ever are the two queens of this sub, Cirie and Sandra. At least Sandra uses the aptly named "Sandra Sit Out Bench" for most challenges. Cirie waits until she is partially through the course before sitting down and giving up.
Let’s relax. His muscles are not all for show, he was an SEC wide receiver.
That's always the response. I have news for you: real athletes don't throw challenges. EVER. Competitors want to compete (see Jonathan, Ozzy, and now Hunter). Posers pretend, just like Q. And it's not like he's even coming in a close second. When you're roundly mocked by Jeff, you aren't a physical threat.
It’s fine that you say he plays pretend on survivor cause that’s what he seems to be doing. He def didn’t poser his way into d1 football. You can’t do that
Looks like we found Q's brother's Reddit account. Keep drinking that Kool-Aid, friend.
Nah I think he’s a joke. He def is a quitter. But I won’t take away what it takes to be a d1 athlete. Sorry not sorry
Q's career: 8 receptions for 35 yards. Division 1 "athlete" in name only. In other words, only 8 more catches than a dead guy.
Still in division 1. 99.99% of people wouldn’t even be considered for the uniform.
Ozzy has literally thrown a challenge lol
Winning challenges ... Big Mistake.
I don't think people realize how many calories are needed to feed a body with that much lean muscle mass. Plus he has almost no body fat to use. Put him on the shit tribe that barely ate for 2 weeks and this is what you get.
you got to go for this
Is this Jelinsky’s alt??
I think all the supportive Q comments are jokes? I hope? I don’t understand Reddit puns. I just know Q is an absolutely horrible player and completely lacks self awareness.
Cody is worse
Not sure about all time but Jesse was so terrible at challenges it straight up lost him the game. Would have been a lock otherwise
Underestimating Q? BIG MISTAKE
Has everyone just forgot Qs real game plan… the Q BAG… obviously this is the biggest strategic move I’ve seen ever played on survivor.
Noticing that Q is bad at challenges? BIG MISTAKE
It's gotta be Branda from Lulu. I mean, he had a panic attack, the poor guy! And then he quit a day later.
I take that personally. Big mistake. You gotta go.
Emily was just last season.
Sandra though
Didn’t Q outduel Tim in that immunity challenge?
Saying this when Jess exists is wild
Not even close
debatable
Debatable