The way Sugar played the game was really, really bad for winning, but really good for getting far into the game. She let other people think that she was incapable of doing anything, and she basically did what Sandra did and went with any plan that got rid of somebody that wasn't her. However, unlike Sandra, she did it in such a way that, along with her behavior, made nobody like her, so she lost the jury vote. Anybody paying attention post-merge would have not only hated Sugar as a player but also as a person. Her edit pre-merge made her much more compelling than she actually was (the Randy boot was really, really unnecessary, and for Corrine to hate her THAT much must mean that there is something wrong with her if she gets along better with everybody else).