Very tough but here's me trying to make a top 20 while I'm bored right now. The toughest part is that there are a lot of castaways that I liked A LOT on one season and not so much or at all on another season.
Therefore, I'm ranking people on their BEST season(s), which I'll specify. If I liked them about equally on all seasons then I'll just put (all). Here goes.
1. Tony Vlachos (Cagayan)
2. Woo Hwang (Cagayan; great in both but his #2 status was in Cagayan)
3. Malcolm Freberg (all)
4. Amanda Kimmel (all)
5. Cirie Fields (all)
6. Stephenie LaGrossa (all; in particular Palau)
7. Jonny Fairplay (Pearl Islands)
8. J.T. Thomas (Tocantins; all)
9. Ozzy Lusth (Cook Islands, South Pacific)
10. Rob Mariano (Redemption Island)
11. Eliza Orlins (all)
12. Corinne Kaplan (all)
13. Courtney Yates (China)
14. Troyzan Robertson (One World)
15. Brenda Lowe (all)
16. Parvati Shallow (Cook Islands; almost as good in her other two as well)
17. Shane Powers (Panama)
18. Sandra Diaz-Twine (all)
19. Vytas Baskauskas (Blood vs. Water)
20. Jessica Kiper (Gabon)
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21. Jonathan Penner (all)
22. Aras Baskauskas (Panama)
23. Russell Hantz (Samoa)
24. Ciera Eastin (Blood vs. Water)
25. Alecia Holden (Kaoh Rong)
26. Tai Trang (Kaoh Rong)
27. Jud Birza (Nicaragua)
28. Rodney Lavoie (Worlds Apart)
29. Earl Cole (Fiji)
30. Cindy Hall (Guatemala)
31. James Clement (China)
32. Keith Nale (Cambodia)
33. Bobby Jon (all)
34. Phillip Sheppard (Redemption Island)
35. Twila Tanner (Vanuatu)
36. Missy Payne (San Juan Del Sur)
37. Jeremy Collins (Cambodia)
38. Caleb Reynolds (Kaoh Rong)
39. Alicia Rosa (One World)
40. Dreamz Herd (Fiji)
41. Matty Whitmore (Gabon)
42. Chelsea Meissner (One World)
43. Sierra Reed (Tocantins)
44. Jason Siska (Micronesia)
45. Kelley Wentworth (Cambodia)
46. Stephen Fishbach (Tocantins)
47. Natalie White (Samoa)
48. Alec/Drew Christy (San Juan Del Sur)
49. Yau-Man Chan (Fiji)
50. Jennifer Brown (Worlds Apart)
Shoutout to Chris (Vanuatu), Anna (Kaoh Rong) & Jaison (Samoa)
Probably kinda different result compared to when I was ranking people right after watching (or maybe not that different, idk). Either way, I feel like this is an even more accurate representation of how much I like the characters since it's kinda based on who has ended up most memorable for me after I've let the characters and seasons really sink in.
First I was just going through all the casts and listing potential top 20-30's just to not forget anyone and I ended up picking around 50 instead so that's why I just went with a top 50.
