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1. Borneo - Most diverse personality-wise; even the two old guys played different roles.
2. ASS - Not to say there weren't a few casting mistakes here, but let's be honest; this is more or less a really good sampling of past contestants. Had some of the female selections been improved (Alicia? Amber? Jenna L? No you-know-who?), it would absolutely be #1.
3. Marquesas - A lot of colorful personalities, but what I really love about this group--well, Maraamu at least--is that they really seemed to have fun out there but at the same time they played the game harder than ever before.
4. Africa - Even taking my all-time favorite out of the equation, this is a really solid bunch; particularly the men.
5. Pearl Islands - Not a universally great cast by any means, but the combination of three of the show's all-time most entertaining contestants really pushes it up.
6. Outback - There are a couple of blander personalities here, but it has its share of quirky characters and two of the most quotable contestants of all time in Varner and Colby.
7. China - I wanted to rank this over Outback just because I know it looks bad having the first four seasons in the top six, but I couldn't do it. There are some fantastic characters here but percentage-wise, it just doesn't stack up as well.
8. Panama - Most people either love or hate this group, but I kind of fall into the middle. I used to love it, but the cast hasn't really aged as well as I expected IMHO. Still, it's not a bad bunch overall.
9. Guatemala - Not a favorite season of mine by any means, but it's actually one of the more likable, personality-filled casts...at least when you take out the first four boots and 3/4 of the final four.
10. Amazon - Still gets my vote for most unlikable cast, but I can't deny they were entertaining.
11. Vanuatu - I almost feel like I need to put this in two groups, since the women had some pretty spectacular casting and the men had only two or three players that didn't blend in or fade out.
12. Thailand - The first meh cast. Not all that likable and Texas was apparently the pre-California with a sizable portion of the cast calling it home. You still cared about the show but you didn't really care about any of the contestants if that makes any sense.
13. Palau - Certainly a photogenic bunch but you can't say a whole lot else for them. They did luck out with a handful of them proving to be worth watching though.
14. Cook Islands - Another attractive group here, and I'm sure that the majority are likable people in real life. That doesn't really translate into great television though.
15. Fiji - This is what happens when you take an overall really unlikable group that somehow manages to make you dislike them so much that you just really don't care about them. You're not even rooting against them; you just don't even want to waste the energy it takes to hate them.
16. Micronesia - This was no doubt a good cast game-wise. They made some pretty impressive plays post-merge; the strategy was great to watch. But almost all of the fans seemed to be cast as afterthoughts; besides Kathy, Joel, and maybe Erik, it felt like they just pulled names out of a hat to pick the cast. And the favorites weren't really that much better. All ten of them could've easily been justified...in a full All-Star cast. Limited to just ten, there were a handful of "Really?" picks. It just seemed like they phoned in the casting--the real star of this season was the hidden idol.

Won't rank Gabon yet but it's probably around the Amazon-Thailand range.