Torchflame wrote:
I think in the end, no matter how you play the game. What counts is getting those votes at the end.
I think in the end it does come down to this. In the game there are rules (regardless of the twists or the extra help that HII provides), and the rules are simple: win challenges, both RC and IC. If you lose IC, find a way to convince your tribe members to keep you. If you succeed at that every time you go to TC, you stay as long as you are not voted out. Build alliances/numbers, give reasons that you are valued at camp, and when it comes to individual IC, win them as much as you can. Then when you are part of the F2 or 3, convince the juries, no matter how bitter they are, or how many bitter jurors there, that you should get their votes. If you succeed at convincing enough jurors of this you win.
The crutch that everyone is getting themselves into, in this thread, is who played what kind of game better than the other, and that's not applicable. Each person is different; each person has their own approach and their own agenda going into this game, and it may or may not change. Each person comes in with a certain amount of luck, and abilities to achieve things such as camp work or their own portion of the challenges. Each person socializes a certain way according to their personality, upbringing and the mox of people at camp. That just the way it goes; to say some one played a better game is based only at what we saw, not necassarily what happened. And often we hear how different a person really is in the game based on exit interviews, not extra footage shown by MB. So the winner really should be who made it to the end and convinced the jurors to vote for them, and nothing else.
