PJMichaelangelo wrote:
Todd - IMO, the worst winner of all time. In 99% of the seasons, Todd wouldn't have sniffed the merge. Look at Mikey B. in Micronesia. He was Todd Pt. Deux, and his ass got bounced before Chet! Todd overplayed the game and the only thing that saved him was a cast with the collective IQ of his shoe size. Do we have time to count the blunders from China that led to Todd Herzog joining the ranks of Richard Hatch, Brian Hedik, Chris Daugherty, and Yul Kwon?
1) Leslie gives Todd her clue about where the HII is hidden.
2) Dave gives Todd his clue about where the HII is hidden.
3) Zhan Hu inexplicably abandons their plans to throw immunity, allowing Fei Long to go into the merge with numbers and two HIIs. (Yes, I know that if they'd thrown the challenge James would have played one of the HIIs and most likely Jaime would have gone home. But they didn't know about James having the HIIs, plus if they'd done what they planned they would have forced James to burn one. There's still no good reason that they didn't do this.)
4) James somehow never figured he needed to play one of his HIIs with only 3 TC's left where he could play them and gets blindsided.
4a) If James had played one of the HIIs, Todd still would have been possibly saved because Erik, for no discernible reason, voted that TC for James instead of Todd. Had James played one of the HIIs, this would have caused a tie between Todd and Peih-Gee, and most likely PG would have left in a revote.
5) Denise the Fake Lunch Lady decides, instead of joining up with Amanda and PG to get rid of Todd, to stay with her alliance of four (in which she knew 100% she was fourth). This strategy was last attempted by Caryn Groedel in Palau, and it worked for Denise about as well as it did for Caryn.
6) Finally, Amanda gives the single worst jury performance in Survivor history and snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, getting less votes than even Courtney!
There's at least a dozen non-winners I'd rank ahead of Todd. I'm not sure he'd crack my top 30, let alone my top 20.
1. Todd got Leslie on his side.
2. Todd guided Dave through the process of it, so that he would give it to him.
3. They wanted James to burn an idol. They didn't want him to have two, but...
4. With James having two idol's, Todd used it to his advantage by making a deal with James to give him an idol, which resulted in James not playing one.
5. Denise wanted to go to the other side, but Todd convinced her not to.
6. Two of Todd's four voters commented on how well he did in front of the jury, but no one said anything about Amanda.
