He tried to play differently and redemption island. But nobody gave him a chance so he stuck to his old ways

Nah, that’s Boston rob

Y Asghar won. learn to spell

LA Grove You obviously never watched redemption island. He changed his whole gameplay

@@gotomymostpopularvideo3235 The fuck he did.

First time he played he was in final three and didnt win because the jury were a bunch of salty bitches. 2nd time he played he was in the final three with legendary players and he was a newer player to the game. 3rd time he couldnt even get of the ground because his tribe were shitting there pants because of him. And this time he was just having fun. If it would have been the normal survivor he would take it much more srs. Also, he had a massive target on his back because he is RUSSEL HANTZ! Watch his first 2 season and you'll realise he is one of the best players to have ever played!

xd_ crashie the second time he lost because he had easily the worst jury management in survivor history. Yes, he completely deserved the first season he was on and it was stupid for zapatera to throw the challenge but he just was way too rude to the heroes.

@@winterrys I've watched all of his seasons. He is indeed a phenomenal player, but he lacks social prowess, which explains why he lost both times he made it to the final tribal council. If he had a good social game, he would've been collecting those jury votes instead of burning them. A good social game is just as important as a good strategic game.

@@ianteoh60 True.

@@domchocolate9094 yea he should have won his first season.

THESURVIVORGUY charlie he never really stood a chance, no one was playing and he had a huge target on himself.

@@australiansurvivorinsights9624 I thought he should've played the idol

yeh, he was full of himself “i’m the best player here” and i think he should’ve not shone the rest of his team members his immunity idol, it probably wouldn’t of mattered cause he’d put such a big target on himself, but i think australians see him different like a bad side of him , but the americans think of him as a god. he played shocking, and that’s why you never celebrate early

@@bidzyyy6709 cant believe he thought he was better

Blake Kanavatoa yes, plated very stupid

Eager Turtle OMG it’s u I watch your vids so much lol

Thanks!! 😊

Eager Turtle hahaha 😂

Agreed, but he didn't get idoled out, right? He just went home with an idol around his neck because he didn't play it. I'm a fairly new Survivor fan, but my understanding is that if you get idoled out, it's because you go home after someone else's successful idol play.

#JeffProbstKingOfSass

Well said. I feel like he does that a lot with rob. He’s very hypocritical. He makes a whole video talking about rob being fat and then goes on Australian survivor being just as if not even more fat

Russell may be a Survivor Legend, but I just don’t think his style of play really “works” anymore (even if Tony proved that you can aggressively bulldoze everyone like Russell and still win)

​@@addi543Tony also brought is goat Woo to the final, and in WaW he was nice to everyone, and no one stood a chance against him

​@@idkwhatsgoingon4584 Tony didn't bring Woo. Woo brought Tony to the end

Neither did any one else lol.

@@seamino8329 lol

First time I've seen him on Australian Survivor

I didn't either

Same here

Terrible player

@@chickenchicken9072 Agreed!!!

@@chickenchicken9072 Brilliant strategist, terrible player overall, will never win

Amazing strategy, poor social game, he is a great player and changed the game forever. Now everyone wants to see big moves, ONLY BECAUSE OF HIM.

It's true but he isn't like this as much anymore.

Still looks like the same bandy-legged troll to me.

@@purplearies9746 haahaha

@@purplearies9746 Courtney Yates

Aussies

His ego got in the way in Samoa and HVV too

Tony learned by the third time (Winners at War) to lay low in the beginning. Russell seems to be incapable of that because of said ego.

And currently tony is a loose cannon in the merge phase of season 40

@@toshe67 well he won the thing so

Yeah but Tony actively didn’t care when he got voted since he knew he was screwed from the start. Russell was just cocky.

He still managed to do what only one other person did, make it to the very end in two back to back seasons. Plus, not counting the WaW final three since the entire point was that the season was all former winners, only four other people made it to the end twice. Also let's be honest, the reason that Russell lost both of his seasons was because of a bitter Jury. They were more voting against Russell than they were voting for Natalie or Sandra. Let's be honest, HvV was Russell or Parvati's season to win.

@@faultyvideos2215 Oh I partially agree. Anyone who says Russell is the best is wrong. Anyone who says Russell is the worst is wrong. He has fairly good challenge performance and is a MASTER of manipulation and strategy, building alliances and breaking rival ones, and hunting for idols. He's unfortunately atrocious at the more personal social game of forming genuine bonds and terrible at jury management. He deserves the credit for making it to the end back to back, especially in Samoa. He hustled to get his alliance to the finish line. He imploded in HvV though and tanked his alliance's chances at winning and he was seen as a goat. However, he doesn't deserve to win either season because he was too arrogant and came off like a bully when he consistently alienated others, causing the jury to be bitter towards him.

@@faultyvideos2215 Oh and no matter what, Russell is 100% a legend in the show and one of its icons. Russell heavily changed how the game is played and evolved it to a faster and more aggressive game.

@@mrjollyguy25 ill concede that perhaps Parvati should've won HvV, but Russell should've won Samoa. He fucking CARRIED that season on his shoulders! He and Shambo are the only reasons that Samoa is as great as it is. He objectively played the best game, managing to pull a Pagonging on a tribe that was double the size of his own come the merge. Natalie was nothing more than a goat and Mick was a terrible leader. The only possible threats to Russell by the final episode were Jaison and Brett, and he eliminated both of them, so that takes care of that. Like I said, they weren't voting FOR Natalie. They were voting AGAINST Russell. The jury was just bitter. Like Tina said way back in the Australian outback, the jury shouldn't vote for someone just because the other person fucked them over. But if Samoa and HvV are anything to go by, they did not listen at all.

@@faultyvideos2215 Late reply, but yolo. Actually no I legit don’t agree that the jury was bitter in Samoa. Throughout the season the players were impressed with Russell‘s gameplay and kept saying he was a massive jury threat because of how he was leading his minority alliance to the end through strategy. They would have been more than fine admitting they got beaten by a skillful player because that player didn’t even betray them! Russell was completely loyal to Foa Foa. The Galus weren’t pissed about losing, they just straight up hated Russell as a person. If you’re on the jury, you’ve lost the game, and you get a say in who you’re gonna lose the game to. No one wants to reward someone they see as arrogant, condescending, and slimy, and that’s what they saw Russell as. They no doubt saw his tenacity and strategic brilliance and idol hunting skills and also his final immunity win over Brett, but at the end of the day, they still want to vote for someone they like. If Russell did all that but talked to people on a personal level, he would’ve won. But he didn’t. And Natalie built real relationships with them and laid it all out during that FTC, and much of it was edited out. Russell carried Natalie and Mick to the FTC, but Natalie was the one who had the correct read on the jury. She knew she needed to befriend them early in the game and then gave the right arguments in the FTC fully knowing how they were thinking and what they were looking for. Oh, let’s also give credit to Natalie for being pivotal in voting out Erik. She was using her bonds with the women of Galu to get the dominant alliance to fracture, which it did. That was Natalie’s only major strategic move, but it was vital to Foa Foa’s success. Russell did everything else.

Dude Zapatera is pathetic.

Jarin I don’t disagree tbf, it’s just part of a pattern I see

He was right to blame the jury in Samoa and Zapatera. But yeah he is very delusional when it comes to loosing

well, it needs to be acknowledged that the times he lost in the finals, it was the jury. they voted bitterly, not based on gameplay. he was the most deserving in HvV and Samoa and that’s undeniable

j.p. I agree with Samoa but Parvati should have won HvV

The fact that his social game and jury management is in fact exactly WHY I can easily deny he's a good player and call him a terrible one instead. Social IS strategic. The good players realize that.

@@SpanishFly120 there are flaws in his game obviously but he is still one of the best players to play and not win. The moves he made with idols, being able to flip coach and Jerri on their alliance to give him the majority and not to mention playing back to back with like 10 days in between season 19 and 20 but still making it to the final tribal in both….theres no way you could call him a terrible player

Loser🤣

He was voted off 3rd in Survivor Redemption Island

@@snuffedtorch3683 yep

Chris Albert Samiana better than Colton for sure still

@@blum3721 His bad too but at least Colton never claimed to be one of the best survivor contestant ever. Plus this video is not about him. It's about the self proclaim King of Survivor.

@@nasierbrown8974 don’t disrespect cirie like that

@@connorlogan9800 Samoa maybe but not heros vs villains

@@nasierbrown8974 probably top 30-20

I think he would do better expecially on how we are seeing him being a huge target but doing good

I would love to see Boston Rob on Aussie survivor

@@liamcastline He'd run circles around them

JMaster98 he’d be voted out first, his target is too big

@@JMaster9877 literally

He's right that's not real survivor

EnglishMuthaFucka what’s fake about this exactly, as opposed to him being buttmad that he was second boot again?

ElectrikkPaperClipxx they have bathrooms and non boiled water

@@ElectrikkPaperClipxx they dont really survive, is the answer, and maybe im wrong but i swear most people in this seasondidnt even play a good/proper game

Ben Allen does that change the fact that the aussies cancelled his ass without throwing a challenge this time?

paula it's not that he is bad it's just that he comes off as over confident and he just comes off as a jerk and everything and people can be butthurt lol

@@imchris4668 yes, and coming across like that is bad gameplay.

@@kingwinifred4393 I wouldn't say it's necessarily bad gameplay I think it just depends on how the people actually take it if they take it personally then yes it's bad gameplay if they don't take it personally then that's then do I think it depends on the person

@@imchris4668 It's his fault they take it personally. He could be a lot fucking nicer.

@@kingwinifred4393 it's not that he wasn't nice it was more he was cocky he wasn't he rude towards other people but he was trying way to hard to control the game too early and he got caught

He hated Boston Rob in heroes vs villains and then Boston Rob won redemption island.

lol he is okay

Rob did the same thing in the only season he managed to win. A bunch of girl followers. Weakest victory in Survivor history.

@@jotunblod grant? phillip?

@Kane Phillip truly one of Boston Robs best female goat allies

he is he is a evil genius but his social game is ass

XWE PODCAST That’s a big flaw in someone’s game so he’s not the best. He’s definitely top 5 tho

I’d say in his prime he was easily a top 3 player of all time. He should have absolutely won his first season and deserves more recognition for being a runner up in Heroes vs Villains.

in his first 2 seasons he was an amazing player but after that he got over cocky

hockeysong I mean he’s always been cocky 😂 but so have a lot of really good players.

@@roryodonnell4119 i would believe that if he didnt crap on Sandra for the millionth time.

Mina Gee He’s not a champion of losing, he is the best player ever. If you watched his first season, you would know that he definitely deserved his win. If you lost 1,000,000 dollars to a goat, you’d be pissed as well

@@gotomymostpopularvideo3235 Bruh. You can''t actually make it to the end twice and not come anywhere close to winning either time and still be considered the best player. He's very skilled and could be the best in finding idols and strategically manipulating people, but his challenge performances are just average, his social game is ridiculously bad, and his jury management is probably even worse.

@@gotomymostpopularvideo3235 he is objectively not the best player

Matthew Enriquez He actually was pretty close in samoa if you watched the episode

He probably woulda Found another one and another and so on.

Yes he would’ve survived that tribal, but he would’ve been gone the next tribal. Hell his tribe could’ve thrown the next challenge like in Redemption Island just to get him out right away. The only move he had was hope he swayed them and keep his idol

Ethan Snider I think it’s too late for him now. His reputation precedes him

Tone it down like Tony Vlachos in WaW

Dexter Angelcyk he’s definitely a narcissist. He can never be wrong in his mind. It’s been 10 years and he still talks about how he should have won.

Spider Fury Justice?

They do. Moana did, Shane did.

Actually Australians know who Russell was, I lived in Australia from 2011 to 2015 and Survivor, the American TV show, used to run on air so Australians were actually familiar with the players of the American TV series. Being that said, I don't know what you are talking about, specially when you watch this season of Australian survivor and you notice that the Australian players do know who Russell is and why they decide to get rid of him as fast as they can.

Rob on the jury is due to the design of the game

Samoa was by far his best game(bar jury management). He made quite a few mistakes in HvV and RI as well. The only difference is that in HvV, his mistakes were covered by Parvati or the Heroes being even bigger dumbasses. RI and Aus Survivor, his mistakes got punished as there was no one to cover it, and they were fed up off him

Yeah

More like Ye in a NASA jacket.

TheGrayLink He still chocked. He is just complaining. If production doesn’t like him he must of done something :/

Mario Reality Shows 2 like I said look up his podcast and yeah I agree with you he played to hard and to fast

He’s just a sore loser

That’s if he’s telling the truth....

He did it to himself

Boi, you cancelled, next

Anyone can play Monday morning quarterback and say he should've played it. I just don't understand why he didn't write Jackie's name down.

He’s managed to do worse every time. Last time he played he was 3rd out. This time he was 2nd out. It’s nearly impossible to do any worse, but if he’s first boot on his next season it’d be insane

@@pikachadd He went: 2nd Place, 3rd Place, 3rd person voted out (2nd person to get fully eliminated, due to Redemption Island), then 2nd person voted out!

Smart play would've been to lay low and play up the "I'm old now" card but being a 4'9 midget along with being a 3x loser he's got a chip on his shoulder.

well for champions and contenders season i would say Zach and Jackie was much worse than Russell although RUssell did shit and got 2nd boot

@@thefirespecialist9007 Redemption Island vote off for Russell was unfair tbh they threw on purpose

CHANNEL MUD Yeah it did seem a bit suspicious, if you go to his podcast KZfaq channel (and i think there is a few videos on his main account to about it to) he reveals all the dirty truths that are on Australian survivor.

No he just finds idol normally!

He watches the camera person and they indirectly show him where he should be looking

And worst gameplay.

@@IronMuffin89 honestly he did better than Zach and Jackie even if he was 2nd boot

Ya and he plays way too hard early on in the game. When everyone else isn't looking for the idol and not doing much strategizing it is better to not strategize a lot and look for idols because it puts a huge target on your back

If he plays again

On his KZfaq channel he says he wants to play again and that he’ll play a lot differently

Russell refuses to go on Australian Survivor as he doesn't believe it's real Survivor

@@radioranger12 Well hes kinda right but as a viewer those things don't inhibit the experience for me.

@@brandonthompson548 me either

Agreed he should have played the idol it was dumb he didn't play it tho