one of the best things about survivor is without question the challenges heck for some casuals it's
the only reason why they watch the show seeing a bunch of players who are starving and weakening
by the day competing in grueling challenges to win immunity and great rewards is always
fun to watch you then have unique challenges like sketchy questions and know your jurors
which despite the lack of action it's still fun to see the social dynamics of
survivor having a massive impact on the quote physical part of the game and then of course
you have your challenged beasts like jonathan and ozzy just completely
dominating the competition while players like tatia and dan are remembered solely for their
horrendous challenge performances but sometimes the challenges of survivor aren't so fun to watch
as some contestants are put at a clear disadvantage in certain challenges
giving another contestant the massive edge in the competition what's going on guys i'm flynn
masters and today we'll be looking at the most unfair challenges in survivor history from an
obviously unfair circumstance to potentially a million dollar unfair challenge we'll be looking
at the players who are far and away given the advantage over their survivor peers or challenges
in general that were simply unfair to all parties involved before we begin be sure to smash that
like and sub button for more content like this with all that said let's begin with number five
at number five is the final four beauty challenge from survivor pearl islands the final four of dara
fair play lil and sandra enter tribal council expecting this to be a trivia or know your jury
type challenge as that was usually the case in old school survivor but jeff then revealed that
the jury would be competing against the final four in a trivia challenge and if the jury won
then none of the final four would win immunity so basically not only would the final four compete
against each other but they were also competing against a team of five essentially making this
a five against one challenge unsurprisingly the jury who were living the good life of ponderosa
would end up winning the challenge thus making all four vulnerable that night daryl would be voted
out unanimously with many fans speculating that production intently stacked the odds against her
as she was far and away the best physical competitor left in the game but lillian
sandra and fairplay would make for a much more entertaining final three and i hate to say this
but it won't be the last time you see a player get screwed by an unfair late game immunity challenge
at number four is shooting balls into a bucket usually taking place at the end of a survivor
challenge now on paper this challenge doesn't seem too unfair as this has been a common ending
for challenges in recent survivor seasons but in survivor kaguyan we saw this pop up at the final
15. going into the final 15 immunity challenge cliff was in danger of going home and being that
cliff was a huge gift for the show survivor just so happened to have this immunity challenge take
place right before the tribe swap and uh i think now is the perfect time to say that the reason
why cliff robinson was such a huge gift for the show was due to him being a former nba all-star
cliff scores the second for the prior try we're tied 2-2 cliff with the third for the braun tribe
there it is the bronzer brawn wins immunity seriously the end portion of this challenge
is so unfair for the opposing team that the only way they could ever win is if the team
with the nba legend threw the challenge oh wait a minute let's just throw it today let's get him out
it's trish that is now struggling
just only three feet down zatia can't get it she's going to swim back costing them a ton of time
banks are going to shoot for the brave tribe oh brain tribe now has another
problem neither of the women in the water can get the ball back to spencer dude we tried
so hard to blow that challenge seriously green tribe i tried to help you out but that team
sucks we saw nba champion scott pollard also get this same opportunity and go wrong
along with dean kowalski using his college basketball pass to save himself when he was
on the chopping block in island of the idols as i said it's one thing for someone like jonathan
to compete against the romeos and lydias of the world but it's another thing to have freaking
pro nba players compete against survivors who possibly haven't shot at basketball
in decades if not their entire life scott can win it right here god what's he doing
winnie and he does god go win reward at number three is the three chopped zero challenge we
saw originally introduced in survivor marquesas now yes the first installment of this challenge
led to the first ever power shift in survivor history and eventually leading
to the fall of the road to four but still that doesn't make this challenge any less unfair
this challenge is trivia based and simply put if you get the question right you get to take a shot
at whoever you want so theoretically you could answer every question right in this challenge
yet be the first one out simply because you're being targeted by the majority and likewise
somebody who gets all the questions wrong could make it far into the challenge since they're in
the majority alliance and nobody wants to target them and yeah the obvious problem with this
challenge is that there's literally nothing that people at the bottom can do about this
unless they miraculously get all the questions right and the other players are always wrong which
is obviously not realistic this challenge paid massive dividend when nelly and pascal realized
they're on the bottom of row 2 but after that we saw players like dave and rhino two physical
threats have essentially no chance to save themselves this ultimately led to season 29 san
juan del sur where the majority didn't even hide their strategy pissing off jeff and leading to the
death of this challenge and survivor good freaking riddance you guys have had two i'll go i've only
is this gonna be a friendly
we're just gonna see how this goes between the five of you for the rest of this challenge
yeah probably so why are we wasting our time just tell me who it's gonna be probably my mom's
going to win i'm going to win miss missy missy everybody else over here missy come over to me
at number two is not only an unfair challenge but probably the lamest challenge to ever take
place on survivor at the loved ones visit of survivor hhh the players as usual competed for
a chance to spend the day with their loved ones and the challenge they competed in was a rock
draw game a chance one by one the castaways and their loved ones drew rocks out of a bag and if
they had different colors they would be eliminated last pair left standing would win the challenge
no i'm not kidding this is an actual challenge that took place on survivor the obvious flaw with
this challenge is that unlike any other challenge in survivor history this is based solely on luck
and we all know how brutal the luck of the draw can be and the family reward challenge
is easily the most special reward for the players as after not seeing their loved
ones for a month the contestants are gonna fight super hard in a challenge to spend the day with
them yet due to production having to scrape the original challenge at the last second
it was literally the luck of the draw that determined who would receive love that day with no
chance to use any type of challenge skills to your advantage whatsoever chrissy the door is open ben
and kelly didn't match if you match your husband you win love you're in control chrissy draws white
white chrissy and keith match give him a hug
there's a tie here for number one as both these challenges took place at the final muni challenge
making it all that more unforgiving that these challenges were unfair they came in back-to-back
seasons too starting with guatemala the final three of rafe stephanie and danny had to balance
on a wobbly beam while holding onto a rope after the first hour they had to let go of one rope and
after another 30 minutes they had to let go of the rope entirely and find a spot on their pole
to stay on for the rest of the challenge and after rafe's mental lapse danny was basically guaranteed
to win at that point why you may ask well because she was taller than stephanie since the players
had to rely on resting on a log for the final part of the challenge danny was in more of a
standing position while steph was forced to be in more of a squatting position obviously making
the challenge much more difficult for stephanie after a hard fight stephanie dropped out while
denny was just chilling the entire time as if the supposed battle of will endurance challenge
was no big deal how are you feeling now danny i feel the same how about you steph i can't move
and then the following season survivor panama the challenged beast of terry looked to break
the immunity record with his sixth immunity win while his arch-nemesis rs looked to stop him
yet danielle was the one to win the challenge this challenge was a balance on a pad challenge
and because it took place on the water it basically came down to whoever weighed the least
giving danielle the massive advantage we saw a similar flaw challenge in survivor china
with courtney having the clear advantage over the rest but again this is a million dollar
challenge terry and arces pads were literally sinking into the water as opposed to danielle
who weighed 20 pounds less than these strong guys and to make things even more ridiculous
terry's reward the previous day was a whole bunch of food which again would theoretically make this
challenge all that more difficult you just simply cannot overlook how terrible it is to
have challenges of this magnitude having a basic fundamental flaw but hey terry's illumination
led to the formation of the final three to prevent challenge beasts getting screwed over
oh yeah never mind thank you guys so much for watching if you enjoyed this video and survivor
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