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WylDawg wrote:

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seltzer3 wrote:

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Also the whole "Natalie won, because the jury was bitter towards Russell" doesn't really work. If that was the only case, than you would definitely have some votes being thrown at Mick (I would argue more votes for Mick than Natalie, based on UTR males generally get more credit than UTR females). You wouldn't have all the votes go to Natalie.

Exactly. Mick being thrown in the mix shows that Natalie's win wasn't a fluke because the jury had a third option.

Well, they had their option, but if they weren't going to vote for Russell then they were going to vote for who they liked more out of Natalie or Mick. I don't think anyone disputes that of the three, Natalie had the best social game. What we're disputing is that, if it hadn't been for Russell, Natalie wouldn't have been around long enough to play that social game. She freely admitted her strategy was to hitch herself to the Russell bandwagon. So if that bandwagon had been derailed, she would have been gone. Social game or not, remember she was #2 on the Galu boot order right behind Russell. If Russell doesn't make the moves he made then she would have never sniffed the final TC. And the strange thing is, had Natalie made the final TC with anyone but Russell, I would have felt she was the most deserving of the win. Compared to Mick and Jaison, who were beyond worthless, she would have been a great winner. But when she's in the final TC with the person who's basically 100% responsible for her getting there, then it becomes a bitter pill to swallow.