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In light of Bob's win, a major consideration in adapting the guidelines for the future should perhaps deal with guideline 2:

"The winner will typically have a fair amount of meaningful editing and typically won't be ignored in long stretches"

Yet in the last few seasons, we have seen winners come perilously close to elimination due to low visibility- Bob during the early part of their seasons, and even Parvati in S16 after the swap. I think that the rule of winners "not being ignored in long stretches" should be taken with a grain of salt when their tribe very rarely attends Tribal Council.
Had Bob, Parvati, or even Danni gone to Tribal Council more frequently, they could have been more heavily featured and thus score higher in Edgic's visibility charts. Not all characters provide the editors with as much material as Tom or Todd to keep ther story developing every episode even when their tribe keeps winning.

While this would not negate problems with long UTR stretches (an issue that may be resolved by looking at tone, as mentioned by other posters), it woud allow us to still consider 'Type B' players such as Bob as a possible winner despite (necessarily) low visibility while the other tribe is focused upon.

In response to this proposal of different types of winners:

Hints that the winner will be Type B can be found by comparing the edits of Sugar and Steph, as well as those of Nakum's axis of evil and Fang's stupid survivor. In future seasons, if we are able to peg such a player or tribe (and posters were saying from early on that Sugar would lose to the jury, so it seems fairly reasonable to do so), this would alert us to look for winners on the 'B' list.

Negative ties to the jury, and relationships of strong dislike towards players such as Steph and Sugar (mostly established through negative SPV during confessionals) might also be used in future as a discriminator to differentiate between Type A players that could win the jury vote and Type A players that could potentially sculpt the entire season but lose at final tribal council.

In other words, if the season seems to be edited 'normally', characters could still be eliminated by usual methods- the criterea for a 'Type B' winner are more of a contingency plan- IF the Type A players all have flawed edits, and IF one or more of these type A players seems to be shaping the game but being set up for a loss at the very end, THEN we can consider alternative 'Type B' options all the way down to Danni and Bob.

So using the second set of 'B' guidelines would not necessarily complicate edgic too much in a case where a Yul or an Earl (or a Marcus) could conceivably win. Rather, they would act as a backup, i.e. If a Marcus gets voted out and no other edit suggests a comfortable win, we bring Type B players such as Bob back into winner contention.