That's the basic guide. It isn't that all winners are the same, which at least to me is Quiddity's arguement (please correct it). It's that they tend to be in the middle. But the middle is different each season. Our job is to rate everyone fairly to see where the middle hits. Nothing amazing, or more importantly, condescending bout it. Stop reading spoilers and try it. Playing Edgic is actually fun. Why not give it a chance?
OTH, my argument isn't disputing 'a single winner edit', its disputing that the editors take care to edit the winner in a special way that necessitates the various rules that edgic has come up with to predict the winner. Pretty much the only thing I agree with edgic on is that the winner is not going to be completely invisible for the entire season. We'll never see the winner get an edit like Lilliana or Becky. (but then even determining what is exactly INV is tough, and I know many edgic supporters would admit that there have been many arguments over it in their threads) We can and have seen boring/UTR winners and over the top winners though. And why is that? Because the editing is not based on presenting a story, or any other major principles used by people here at the speculation part of the forum, its based on keeping the show entertaining and keeping the ratings up. Why was Danni given a much quieter edit than many around her? Why did edgic fail so miserably with Guatemala? Because Danni had many over the top, entertaining characters surrounding her, particularly Stephenie, who sucked up a ton of the female time on the show. And that's why Danni was edited in the way she was! Because from an interest to the viewer standpoint, she just could not compare to Queen Stephenie, Judd, the ex. NFL QB, and so on. It had nothing to do with a returning player being there and it certainly had nothing to do with this ridiculous notion made up AFTER the season was over that the story was 'why Stephenie lost'. Likewise Todd got a much more over the top edit as a winner than edgic was used to seeing because that's the type of character he was and the editors of the show knew they could show him in that way, keep the show quite entertaining, and keep the ratings up. He was never a 'distraction', as edgic thought he was. I don't think there's any such thing as a 'distraction'. Why were Aras, Yul and Earl edited as servicable, complex at times, but not that interesting players? Because that's the way their personalities were and there were many OTT (Shane, Courtney, Cirie, Yauman, Jonathan) or Ultra boring (Becky, Lilliana, Nick, etc...) around them, which resulted in them being around the middle. Hope that explains things better :P
