Penner
- 4th Place -
Played by: Ptar64
Previous Seasons: Faroe Islands (25)
Fan Favorite Results: 1st Place - 92.04%
- 4th Place -
Played by: Ptar64
Previous Seasons: Faroe Islands (25)
Fan Favorite Results: 1st Place - 92.04%
Jeff Probst wrote:I was initially not stoked about Penner, but his reputation as a former winner has become legendary from about final 8 on. I thought he was going to UTR it and have an easy road to the end just by virtue of everyone loving him outside of the game. But then... he stepped his game up big time. I LOVED his feud with Heidi and that everyone called him out on his strategy of going to the end with goats AGAIN. This made his road there 10x harder and as such made him 20x more interesting. I would have LOVED him being the first two-time (legitimate) winner in Stranded history. He clawed and scratched his way from where he was and very nearly made it to the final. I loved Tammy and Heidi tag-teaming him and I loved watching people get the best of him, finally. Not since Cassandra/Candice/Penner in Faroe has there been such a fun cat and mouse game. I loved it. I think he has reached Legend status for sure and his performance here added so much to this season. Kudos to him <3. He's gone from likable winner to one of our greatest winners this season.
Caryn wrote:The biggest worry for the hosts when it came to you before the season started, was that you would just bulldoze your way through the season because you had a lot of friends, and a lot of people said in their applications that they couldn't wait to play with you and wanted to work with you. In fact, I would say that you were and still are one of the more popular winners this series has ever seen. And for the first half of the game, that much was true. You had shields all around you who were protecting you, the only time you even came close to facing any sort of danger was Cass flipping the vote on you but that plan flopped miserably, and Richard & Mookie were even saying they'd die on the sword for you. It got to the point where you were basically a cult leader, with your own cult of followers. But then, the whole Dale thing happened, which was honestly a blessing in disguise for you. Because it took away all your little shields and you suddenly had to fight for yourself. And you proved to everyone that you don't just talk the talk, you walk the walk. After Richard left you practically clawed and scratched your way to the F4. You did things and made moves that were out of your comfort zone, you aligned yourself with people who you didn't want to align with but had no choice to. You & Heidi created a rivalry that was amazing to watch. You showed us a side of Penner this season that I'd never thought I'd see. You were literally inches away from becoming the first two time winner, and I would not have been mad at that one bit.
Congratulations, you were Caryn's third favorite this season and receive the BRONZE medal
Kelly wrote:For a while it seemed like you were going to Boston Rob in RI your way through the game since you just had so many fans wanting to work with you, but then Dalegate happened and you were forced to actually play and oh boy did you play. There's a reason you're one of the most popular winners and that's because you are just that good of a player, I mean aside from maybe Ozzy, had you ended up in the final 3 with anyone else in the final 5, we would be crowning you as the first official two-time winner and so well deserved it would have been.
Varner wrote:I said it then and I will say it again: you deserved to win Faroe and anyone who says otherwise is plainly wrong. You coming back and playing as well as you did only further solidifies that fact. There were times during this season where I was sure you were going to be a two-time winner and you would have deserved it once again. I thought of you as one of the best players invited into this season and you proved without a doubt to be one of the best players leaving the season. Good game!
