User blog:TDFanatic52/Total Drama Revenge of the Island Top 5 MVP

Total Drama Revenge of the Island has brought us a new batch of contenders to compete for the million dollar prize with some of the original contestants showing up for cameo appearances. Among the thirteen cast members, there are five that stood out to be the most strategic out of all of them and played the game to win.

For this list, it does not matter if they make it to the merge or not. What matters is how strategic they played the game. Without any more delay, lets begin.

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This one I had a bit of trouble as there were two that deserve this spot. The one that I picked is none other than Zoey.

In my honest opinion about Zoey, she is a sweet girl, but there is evidence to show that she had life somewhere between isolation and sheltered. During her time on the island, she has shown to have a good social standing with the contestants and is great in challenges. However, her social and nice nature was used against her when a fellow contestant eliminated her lover. Her challenge skills would soon follow as another contestant eliminated her because of her capabilities.

With Zoey being a social player, she is a threat. However, she lacks social awareness and her big moves involve eliminating people who she doesn't have a great friendship with, thus making her at our number five.

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Ladies and gentlemen, you all better watch out because sliding into our next spot is a greased Lightning. Pun was intended.

Lightning is somebody who lacks any intelligence and takes great pride in himself. He is arrogant and does not play with his head, only with his muscles. Despite Lightning was eligible to be voted off the show for all but two episodes, he has shown to be a decent strategic player.

In Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon, Lightning convinced Cameron to eliminate Jo instead of avenging Cameron's recently eliminated friend, Mike. By eliminating Jo, Lightning was able to narrowly avoid the following Lelimination and won the final three challenge. Based on how two of the past three seasons declared their winner, Lightning did play it smart at the time and eliminate the bigger challenge threat in Zoey than eliminating Cameron who he had some negative history with episodes prior..

Because Lightning caused Cameron to blindside Jo and eliminate a likeable and a more stronger contestant in Zoey, Lightning deserves number four.

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Third place is Jo, a small name for a big character.

Straight from the first episode of the season, Jo has been a strong leader. She easily took control of the team and teamed up with a fellow powerhouse, Brick. In Backstabbers Ahoy!, she tried to use Zoey's frustration to help the in the challenge. Jo would later switch teams and made a short-termed alliance with Lightning. When they lost, Jo eliminated her original ally, Brick.

She made the merge and revealed her cutthroat ways to Lightning, which is her undoing in her elimination episode.

Due to her aggressive behavior and leadership capabilities, Jo made number three on this list.

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Recently, I thought about switching one and two up, but I decided against it. So, our runner-up for this list is ROTI's own antagonist, Scott.

Contrary what most people believe, I actually found Scott's strategy to be brilliant. His strategy for the pre-merge phase of the game was to eliminate the bigger threats, which he accomplished in Ice Ice Baby and Backstabbers Ahoy! by getting rid of B and Dawn respectively. His sabotaged worked well as others took the blame for them. In Runaway Model, Scott used his strategy to gain sympathy for the Maggots, which he used Zoey for. When he got swapped to the Maggots, he showed Zoey the infamous Chris McLean statue head to strengthen her trust in him.

Scott manipulated his way to the merge and made what I can only consider to be his fatal flaw. In Grand Chef Auto, Scott won the ability to single-handedly eliminate a contestant, to which he eliminated Mike. By breaking Zoey's trust, he would later become her number one target. He narrowly avoided being eliminated the next episode but Scott's mischievous ways soon came to an end in Eat, Puke, and Be Wary.

With his social ability to shift the blame onto others on his sabotages and the sabotages themselves, Scott rightfully deserved the number two spot.

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Finally at number one is the bubble boy, Cameron.

Cameron's evolution in the game was fantastic. He started off without any experience outside of a bubble and played an amazing social game. With his original team constantly winning challenge after challenge thanks to Scott's sabotages, he was able to get a grip and play a good social game.

During the team phases, he developed a friendship with Mike, realizing that his friend had multiple personalities. In an agreement to help him and to eliminate Scott, the two became best friends. After Mike got eliminated, Cameron realized that he was in a prime position as the others would go after the more physical contenders like Jo, Lightning, and Scott. In accordance to that, he played an under-the-radar game and avoided elimination.

While Cameron "stole" Lightning's immunity in Eat, Puke, and be Wary, he would find himself on the chopping block for most of the game. His weak appearance would help him make it to the finals when Lightning eliminate Zoey.

I do consider Cameron to be the official winner of ROTI, and with his social awareness and using his strengths and weaknesses to his advantage, I declare Cameron to be the most valuable player of Revenge of the Island.