And finally, we come to Donkosaurus Kong aka Steefosaurus. This is only the second Safe Words game for Steefosaurus. His first game was the last one played, Safe Words 12. Steefosaurus not only made the Final Four that game, he won the whole shebang becoming the first player to win their first game of Safe Words since Ceric did it in the very first Safe Words game played.
Now, he's got a chance to be the first player to win back-to-back Safe Word games and by doing so, he could remain undefeated in Safe Words. The closest a player has come to in winning back-to-back games is Lucario. He won Safe Words 6 and just fell short of the Final Round by placing 3rd in Safe Words 7. Mop it up sort of tied this feat as well. She won Safe Words 8 but hosted Safe Words 9. In Safe Words 10, she made it to 3rd place. Had she won then she'd have won the last two games she played but they wouldn't be back-to-back based on the numerical numbering of the games. The only other player to win a Safe Words game and then make the Final Four in the next game played is TOPHATANT123 who won Safe Words 9 but placed 4th in Safe Words 10.
Thus, Steefosaurus has a chance to make history by not only winning the first two games of Safe Words played by him but by being the first back-to-back winner. To do that, a player has to be able to progress through a lot of rounds. From Safe Words 6 - 7, Lucario went 18 rounds before falling in the 19th straight round he had played. Likewise, in Safe Words 8 and 10, Mop it up survived 18 rounds before losing in the 19th round of the 2 games combined. And can you guess how many rounds TOPHATANT123 went through from Safe Words 9 & 10 before falling at 4th place in Safe Words 10? That's right! He survived 18 rounds until he fell to a bomb word in his 19th straight round to end up in 4th place on his quest of back-to-back wins.
That said, the longest streak belongs to Triforce Hermit. He went undefeated through 14 rounds in Safe Words 2 and won the game and then went survived through the first five rounds of Safe Words 3 before falling in Round 6 thus making it through 19 rounds and falling in the 20th. Now, sure, maybe he was helped a bit by Phil's excellent eliminations in Safe Words 2 but it still allowed him to advance and still counts.
Right now, Steefosaurus has survived through all 12 rounds played in Safe Words 12 which he won. He has now survived through 4 rounds of Safe Words 13 putting him at 16 straight rounds of survival. If he can survive through the next 3 rounds and win the game then he will tie Triforce Hermit for the longest straight survival streak in Safe Words with a chance to claim the top spot in his next game played. To do so, he'll have to break the dreaded 19th round curse faced by the last 3 players who came close to winning back-to-back games. As everyone knows, it is a lot harder to survive in these last 3 rounds. Stratos, Insanolord, Unclebob and even ShyGuy are proof of that. Yet, Steefosaurus starts the Final Four in control of the bomb word giving himself a bit of an advantage to survive. Could he pull off a string of successful Bomb Word choices and pull off another stunning win or will a path to victory require some smart safe word choosing? Will Steefosaurus become the Safe Words wunderkind or will he crack under the pressure of Safe Words history?
We shall soon find out once he has selected our next bomb word to start Round 5!