User blog:TDFanatic52/Change My Opinion- Test Blog

Okay, so I've been wanting to do this for a while. Change My Opinion (CMO) is based off of the Change My Mind series posted on YouTube by one of my favorite pod-casters, Steven Crowder. Crowder, if you don't know, is a conservative and posted these videos to open debate and for one side to hear the others opponents. A less controversial one of the series is the one on pro-life/pro-choice. The rest of the video series varies.

With that said, I do not intend on splitting the wiki on politics, race relations, religion, etcetera. Instead, I am hoping to achieve at least one of two things:
 * 1) Improve the wiki's debating skills
 * 2) Hear good arguments from the dissenting opinions on certain TD topics.

The ideas of this series is intended are Total Drama Related. So something like "I love this story line because a, b, c..." or "I believe (insert finalist name here) should have won Total Drama (season) because s/he did x, y, z..." Nothing too controversial I hope.

As the title suggest, this is a test blog. Hopefully, this idea catches on and becomes a weekly thing like N3's Cap This. If not, then at least I tried. Without further delay, lets start this test CMO.

MY OPINION: Scott played the best game in ROTI and he could have been one of the season's finalist.

Scott is a jerk in ROTI. That is something that most of us can agree on. However, there is a big difference between a winning game and the best game. See Paul Abrahamian in Big Brother (US) 19. At first, I find his personality to be obnoxious and could not wait to see him leave. After careful thoughts on ROTI, I came to the conclusion that Scott did well on the team portion of the game and had he played the merge episode correctly, he would've been a finalist for Revenge of the Island.

In the first episode of the new season, Scott was introduced along with the rest of the ROTI cast. After having the boat blown up and a small race through the woods, he was put on the Toxic Rats. With the Rats getting a saw for having their team be completed second after the Mutant Maggots, they had to cut down a totem pole and ride it like a log down the river to the cabins. B managed to find a way to cut down the totem while stacking the team on one another. Scott took notice of this and began to plot B's demise. Needless to say, the Toxic Rats lost after their initial cabin blew up. Presumably, Scott took a safe route and voted for Staci, somebody who was weak and was annoying the team.

At the beginning of Truth or Laser Shark, Scott came into the Rat's cabin scared and scratched up. The men asked what happened to him, while in the confessional, Scott exclaimed that he was looking for the McLean-Brand Chris Head. Instead of telling his team the truth, he lied and said that he was smooching one of the ladies. This was a good move because if his team found out that he was looking for that head, they would deem him untrustworthy or everybody would go out looking for it, reducing Scott's chances of finding it.

While the Rats lost yet again, partly thanks to Scott's sabotaging strategy, he managed to keep himself safe by convincing everyone that Dakota is the weak link. This is also a good, early move as Dakota hasn't contributed much to the Toxic Rats and she tends to spend most of the time modeling for paid paparazzi. Also, it puts Scott in a power position as the team looks up to him as their unofficial leader.

Scott's sabotaging ways began to work in his favor. In Ice Ice Baby, he once again sabotage his team and a short-term rival in B. B used a mirror to began to melt the Maggot's ice castle, Scott manage to divert the angle of the ray to his team's castle, melting it and causing them to lose. As Scott was a possible nomination seeing as how he picked the worse out of the two castles, his sabotage was blamed on B. What is so great about this move was not only did it get rid of a long-term threat in B, but Scott managed to turn B's closest ally in Dawn against him.

With four Rats remaining, the chase was on in Finders Creepers. Scott attempted to slow down him and Sam in order to lose yet again. However, Sam's persistence to win gave the Rats their first win.

With the teams having a new member in episode five, Scott planned to take out Brick. This is the safest move Scott can do as Brick is the newest Rat on the block and he managed to get off on the wrong foot with the other Rats. In order to put the final nail into Brick's coffin, he began to steal the contestants' most prized possessions. However, when he got caught sabotaging the team, Scott began to switch targets. Thanks to Dawn carrying around a large bag to put in souvenirs. Scott put all of the missing items into Dawn's bag and publically framed her for being a thief. With nobody to even listen to her, Dawn got eliminated while Scott is still in the good graces of his team.

Seeing as how a cast of thirteen was down to nine in Runaway Model, Scott started to weasel into the Maggot's sympathetic graces through the means of Zoey. He tried to be sad at Dawn's elimination even though it was a blatant lie since he was the one who led the chage against Dawn. Like a fish, Zoey took the bait. With the Rats losing another one, it came down to Brick, a strong player with no sense of fashion, or Sam, a team player. Seeing as how Sam did cause the team to lose, something to which Lightning hates, and Brick knowing that the only chance he has of staying is to vote off Sam, Scott (presumably) voted to eliminate Sam.

When Chris decided to switch up the teams, Scott and Jo quickly volunteered. I will talk about this decision later on in this blog.

With the Maggots having five members, Scott attempted to lower that by causing the Maggots to lose on his terms. However, thanks to a small misfortune on Scott's end in A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, the Maggots won. Anne Maria quit and Dakota returned to fill in the scheduling gap.

In the next episode, the farm boy was aware of a plot to send him home. However, he also managed to find the McLean-Brand Chris Head. In a bold and daring move, he showed it to Zoey, gaining her trust. While thanks to some observations from Jo, the Maggots lost once again. While Scott did receive the most votes, the statue protected him and Dakota was sent packing yet again

The teams have been merged in Grand Chef Auto. Thanks from the help of Mike, Scott gained immunity and the power to send one contestant home. Since Scott was no stranger of shaking the game, he voted to eliminate Mike. This, personally, was a big move but not the correct move. I'll explain more on that when I get to why I believe Scott had a chance to win this season.

Since Mike's elimination, Scott's game took a turn for the worse. He was spared from being eliminated in Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon thanks to some strategy talk Lightning had with Cameron. However, his antics caught up with him in Eat, Puke And Be Wary with Cameron and Zoey getting rid of the devious farm boy.

I am not saying Scott is without his flaws. He did make two mistakes- one minor and one major. His minor mistake is being too quick to join the Maggots in Runaway Model. It did look like Mike was under the impression that Scott and Zoey have a thing going on. However, that decision was too quick for Scott and it could have been far worse had he and Zoey not had a chat earlier on in that episode. His major mistake is getting rid of Mike. Now, is the great transition on how Scott could have won Total Drama Revenge of the Island:

Up until the merge, Scott had played a great game. He got rid of likeable threats in B and Dawn, and he went with his team on what I would consider to be safe votes- Staci, Dakota (first time), and Sam. He gained Zoey's trust and help her get out of an awkward friendship with Dakota. What can go wrong? Have the ability to eliminate one contestant, that's how.

I cannot emphasize how much this move is damaging. Yes, I do like plain old Mike and his elimination in Grand Chef Auto broke my heart. However, for strategy reasons, yes, Mike is a good person to eliminate for a big move. Yes, Mike did try and send Scott out giving Scott the reason for revenge. However, a smarter and a better move would have been to eliminate Cameron.

By eliminating the bubble boy, Scott is not betraying Zoey's trust as much. His reasoning could range from the simple "You voted for me last time, now here is payback." to "We barely talk and when we do, you told me Mike's secret. How can I trust you when you broke your promise to your friend?" That should be good of an enough reason to eliminate Cameron while making it seem that he is still on Zoey's side.

With Jo and Lightning having a feud, Scott would seem to be in the final three with Zoey and Mike. If Scott did want to get rid of Mike, the final five would have been the best time. Jo and Lightning hates each other and want the other gone. If Scott went up to both Jo and Lightning and promised to vote the other off in exchange to vote for Mike first, he would have been in a better position.

While being heartbroken by Scott's betrayal and Mike's elimination, Scott can make up grounds with Zoey by telling her that either Jo or Lightning (presumably Jo since she is the more likely one to do it) forced him to convince Lightning to vote for Mike instead of Jo. This would lead Jo to be eliminated in the final four. At the final three, the only thing Scott needed to do is to convince Lightning to eliminate Zoey if he won. If Zoey wins, Scott would have been in the finals since Lightning and Zoey haven't had a conversation in the season and Scott did indeed work with Zoey before.

Total Drama Wiki users who just finished reading this post, please try and change my opinion.