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Okay, I see your point... which was that the editing was skewed towards the Favorites to the extent that, had one of the Fans (say, Natalie) been a strategic mastermind with a phenomenal social game, we would have seen them edited into the background unless they actually managed to win.  I do feel, though, that the casting of that tribe in the first place was skewed to favor the favorites, because there were a lot of the fans that were, frankly, duds.  (Kathy, Chet, Jason...)  It is entirely plausible that Natalie had a much better social game and relations with the jurors than I had perceived or editing had shown, or that enmity towards Parv/ Cirie/ Amanda would have helped her in that she could win in an Amber-like fashion, getting the votes cast against her opponent.  Natalie's style of play would be not unlike Vecepia's or Danni's in that she deliberately kept herself off the radar and made deals at the end, problem being that Natalie was outside the three women on the Favorites tribe, and they would fear that she would sweep the Fans votes.  Bizarrely, I think Parvati is actually the one that Natalie has the best chance to beat in a final... in that Amanda had  James and Ozzy, and I have to say that I suspect Cirie would be a formidable opponent for Natalie to face in a final two situation because I think if any of those three women could get some unlikely swing votes to forgive her, it would be Cirie. Like Amanda, I actually think Natalie is a lot more dangerous in a final three situation than a final two because she has a few core votes she can rely on and hope that her opponents split the rest.