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Sicycat wrote:

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Former winners like Jenna Morasca, Amber Brkich and last season's Natalie White beat male allies who dominated the challenges and controlled the vote. All of them played smart social games, but a big part of that was doing as they were told and pretending not to have ideas of their own.

For better or for worse, Stephenie LaGrossa refuses to play that way.

Jenna won 4 IC's, Matthew won 2 (plus 2 RC's) - Matthew no more challenge dominant than she and he clearly had no control over votes whereas she had a pivotal role in boot of Roger, Deena, Christy and Rob C.

Russell was not dominant in challenges.  Russell dictated one vote: Monica.  Jaison/Natalie/Galu decided Erik boot.  Shambo fingered Kelly and Luara.  Mick said get John, not Dave.  Dave went next at Shambo's directive.  Shambo went based on Jaison's comments.  Jaison went based on Mick's comments. Mick said F4 vote was to be Brett and Natalie put her foot down and told Russell any other vote was a mistake.  Russell heard what others said, voted accordingly and took credit because going along with their wishes helped him advance.  Yes, Natalie did what she was told but she also did what she thought was right to look out for herself, Russell can't read people and didn't see that.

Steph refuses to play a game where she forms an alliance and sticks to some of her allies, instead allowing others to dictate votes, destroy relationships she relied on and improve their chance of winning at her expense.