After meeting and talking one-on-one with each of the Survivor Gabon cast members at pre-Ponderosa, the location where they stay and wait until the game starts, I decided to try to rank them based upon how they'd do in the game. Having watched every episode of every season of Survivor except the very first episode, I thought this would be an easy task. It was not.

In fact, I think my familiarity with the show made it more difficult, because I realized there were so many...