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Steph in Palau was a great gameplayer. That tribe being such a disaster was because Jeff hurt his ankle and quit. They most likely would've won the episode 3 and 4 IC's with Jeff there and fully healthy, and then at F12 it would've been 6 Ulong vs. 6 Koror and anything could've happened. Jeff hurting his ankle screwed all of Ulong and was terrible luck, not just for Steph but for the whole tribe. Everyone was scared of her by the time she got out because everyone thought that if they let her go any further, she would've won.

Keeping Danni over BJ wasn't a mistake. Danni was a complete non-entity at that point and BJ was a huge physical threat (well, way bigger than Danni at least). Judd, yes that was a mistake, but after that point it was just Rafe screwing up everything. Lydia she could've handled better, but all that could've done was POSSIBLY get Lydia's jury vote, because Rafe was voting Lydia no matter what, and there was no way Lydia would beat Danni in a tiebreaker, so she was going home no matter what. I still don't see Lydia voting for Steph against Rafe or Danni, though, because according to Danni and Rafe post-show, the 3 of them (Danni/Lydia/Rafe) were way closer at the end of the game than the editors showed us.

teph DID try to save Cindy but it obviously didn't work because the other three pretty much determined that Cindy needed to go when Steph and Cindy were on reward. The best thing Steph could've done was throw a vote at Danni or Lydia but that would've just been stepping on Rafe's toes. I would've thrown a vote at Danni or Lydia if I were in her position, but I can understand why she didn't, because I thought Cindy was going to vote for Steph either way, but apparently not

I''m not trying to say that Steph was some kind of an amazing player in Guatemala, I'm just saying she gets too much flak, when in reality, Rafe (and his paranoia and moral dilemmas) is the reason Danni won, not Steph's screwups.