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I like the idea of different guidelines for different winners, but we'd have to think long and hard about what guidelines to have for Type B winners.

Also I think for the whole 'complex tribe' rule that people here tend to miss the point about it and how it really helps determine the winner.

The tribe with the winner is NOT the complex tribe, the complex tribe has NOTHING to do with the winner. The complex tribe is usually the tribe with the most end gamers and end game dynamics.

What really matters for a tribe is what kind of an edit as a whole the tribe gets.Often the winner's tribe is shown as the guys to root for, like in Fiji for example we were supposed to cheer for poor Ravu, then after the swap all the sympathy for the poor Ravu tribe with nothing vanished, and I think Jeff even called the 'rich' Moto tribe the underdogs, even though all of their stuff made them have the energy and health to win all of those challenges in reality.

But the tribe we're supposed to cheer for isn't always the one that contains the winner. In S12 we were clearly supposed to root for Terry and his La Minion tribe over the chaotic Casaya tribe that always had lots of drama and entertainment. Yet in that situation there were warning signs in La Mina that showed that they did not contain the winner, such as when their tribe was shown as totally pathetic and incapable of accomplishing even the simplest tasks without their 'super' Terry.

This season Fang had LOTs of negative attention, both in them trying to get us to like Kota, and in constant (often very exaggerated) mentions by Jeff about how hopeless and clueless they were. Some key things in the recap should have popped out to us, like how the editors tried to hid conflict on Kota. In the recap of Kota's first TC, where they had a 7 to 2 vote, Jeff made it sound like in the recap Paloma was voted out unanimously, when she wasn't. That in itself may be meaningless, but what makes it important is how in another recap Jeff tried to make Fang sound as divided and dysfunctional as possible when they unanimously voted out Gilligan. I believe Jeff's words were something like "and then the usually chatoc Fang made an out of character decision, in unanimously voting out Gilligan, their weakest and oldest member". So according to those two recaps whenever Kota makes a divided decision it's 'unanimous', and whenver Fang unanimously makes what was clearly the right decision, to the point that even the editors can't deny it, they simply say 'Fang made an out of character decision', as if implying 'but Fang is still a bunch of morons running around with like chickens with their head chopped off'.

At times however it's quite simply impossible to use tribes to eliminate someone, like old Nakum and Yaxha for example. While you can argue about themes favoring some people on Nakum, there wasn't all that much editing to make us root for one tribe over the other, or to convince us that one tribe was filled with a bunch of morons who didn't deserve to win. But later on in Guatemala after the swap the tribes DID get edits that made it clear who to cheer for, and totally villainized just about everything one tribe did, while sugarcoating just about everything the other tribe did.

So the bottom line, a guideline about the tribe that holds the winner should say something along the lines of often the tribe we're met to hate will not hold the winner, and often the tribe shown as a bunch of incompetent morons will not hold the winner. But when it comes to seeing who we're supposed to be cheering for we should be on the lookout for manipulation that shows an attempt by the editors to make us love or hate a tribe, because lets face it, if one tribe keeps on losing everything, like Ravu and Ulong, then they're going to get some sympathy simply because of their situation.