User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Analyzing the so called "floaters" of every season./@comment-22535514-20160804202000

I hope this does not offend you, but I do not think you grasp what a floater is. A floater is someone who intentially plays all sides without being loyal to really anyone; going where the structure and power is. What you are defining a floater is a coattail rider. Being a floater is a strategy, so almost every single TD character is discounted from being a floater.

Owen was not really a coattail rider, but he did not have a strong plot. His interactions with others, and his personality got him further, while others had bigger targets on them. Not intentional on his part.

DJ never did anything important. He might have done well in a few challenges, but he cost his team more than a few challenges as well, so his "comp prowess" is discounted. He had an alliance with Geoff and Duncan which prevents him from being a floater, but he did ride their coattails. The other two had stonger personalities, a stronger presence, and had bigger positions of leadership in their team and whatever else they involved with, which DJ benefitted from.

Sadie was a floater not from strategy, but because she isolated herself with Katie, and when she was eliminated, Sadie further isolated herself. She would be considered a coattail rider, but she isolated herself to beina  position where she was not strategically or intentionally floating.

Neither Beth nor Duncan were coattail riders. Beth had solid alliances with Justin and Lindsay, which did carry them pretty far. She tried to have some sort of control over strategy pre-and post-merge. Duncan was very strategic as well. He kind of was a floater in a strategic sense; he allligned with Harold and Leshawna at one point, then switched to Heather, switched to Justin, and then switched to Courtney.

Neither of them are floaters. Owen had alleigence to Noah, and later Duncan. Owen was on the outs of his team, so he had no one to ride on. Cody was absolutely a coattail rider, and rode Sierra right until he was eliminated; literally and figuratively.

Lightning was not a coattail rider. He was by himself the entire competition, and had no loyalty to anyone. If anything, he WAS a floater. He went to where the power was during the teams, then was with Jo for a few episodes, switched to Cameron, and stabbed him in the back a few episodes later. Lightning was a floater in strategy sense.

Scott had no strategy in All-Stars, and he rode Courtney until she left, and he was useless until his boot the next episode. Not a floater, but an idiot, and a coattail rider who did nothing. I do not understand hwo you consider Max a floater (coattail rider), and Scott to not be one.

RRace is a different dynamic and structure, so there is no such things as floaters. Their win was BS though, and I am not changing it.

Having a storyline does not discount from someone being or not being a coattail rider or a floater (which involve strategy). Not having a stoyline means you are irrelevent, or reveinging unneeded camera time for doing nothing. They can intertwine with one another, but they are not the same thing.