To all the ones who came in second.
People have been wondering what we could possibly rank for our penultimate episode of this show. Well our answer is it’s time to uplift the unsung heroes. The ones that almost got their time in the sun and spotlight but never quite went the distance. They are the almost-winners, the bridesmaid but never the bride, the silver medalist. And so just like this being the second last episode, it’s time to bring in the second place team in all of Ranked as that was only fitting to tackle this very topic. Join the B-Team Laura Gordon, Sarah MacDonald, Bradley Sales, and Leslie Cserepy as they lock Tuong in a box and embrace the glory that they finally deserve while ranking Top 5 Runners Up.
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Ground Rules
- Runners up being defined as the one who ends up in second
- Leslie’s Rule: “If you’re number one, you are DONE”
- Nominations can be real or fictional or conceptual
- It doesn’t need to be a person. Everything is in play for this episode.
*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as our own personal unordered lists.
Group Top 5
5. Rocky Balboa
4. Pepsi
3. The B-Team (yes you heard that right. AKA Laura, Sarah, Brad, Leslie)
2. James Marsden’s Movie Characters
1. Buzz Aldrin
Laura’s List (unordered)
- Michelle Kwan
- Chocolatta letter (see Top 5 Christmas Stocking Stuffers)
- B-Team (Laura, Sarah, Brad, Leslie)
- Adam Lambert
- Susan Boyle (American Idol)
- Clay Aiken (American Idol)
- Canada (second biggest country)
- Al Gore
- Buffalo Bills (never won a super bowl but went multiple times)
- Middle Children
- Alfred Russel Wallace (to Darwin)
- James A. Garfield (second president to be assasinated)
- Anne Boleyn (second wife to Henry the VIII)
Sarah’s List (unordered)
- Buzz Aldrin (second man to walk on the moon)
- Neanderthals (to Humans)
- Pokemon Rival in every Pokemon game
- Toros (from Bring it On movies)
- Dash (from the ending of The Incredibles)
- Burger King (to Mcdonalds)
- Hydrox Cookies (to Oreos)
- The Hare (Tortoise and the Hare)
- San Jose Sharks in 2016
- Vegeta (to Goku)
- Adam Lambert
- Women in Stem: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Marie Tharp, Rosalind Franklin
Brad’s List (unordered)
- Pepsi (to Coke)
- James Marsden’s Movie Characters
- Citizen Kane (to How Green was my Valley which won the Oscar)
- Jacob from Twilight
- Chicken Drums (second to flats when talking Chicken Wings)
- Glenn Close (never won an oscar but nominated multiple times)
- Robin (to Batman)
- Chewbacca (to Han Solo)
- Batman Begins (to The Dark Knight)
Leslie’s List (unordered)
- Rocky Balboa (in Rocky 1)
- McDonald’s (to Mixue Ice Cream & Tea)
- Takeru “Tsunami” Kobayashi (to Joey Chestnut in Netflix’s Chestnut VS Kobayashi Unfinished Beef)
- Avengers End Game (to Avatar in Top grossing movies of all time)
- Mick Foley (to The Undertaker in WWE Hell in the Cell)
- Shit (it’s literally #2)