“I am not seeing any deep strategy this season.”
Here’s the way I see it. Everyone’s “strategy” is to get rid of the strongest players who aren’t part of “their” coalition. They are totally disregarding the beginning game (win tribal immunity with strong players) and going directly to the end game (bring the weakest loser with you to the final vote so you (the individual) can win. In short, almost all the players were playing the end game from day one.
It’s like they’ve all watched so much Survivor that they think they know how to win but have forgotten there is more than one stage of the game.
“.....It’s like they’ve all watched so much Survivor that they think they know how to win but have forgotten there is more than one stage of the game.......”
What? Sounds kinda’ like Russell. Get pounded in the final TC and then don’t change your game a couple of weeks later?
I still say as the final votes were read at the reunion/live show Russell’s face said he knew he had lost the next season also.