Survivor 20 season ends with unexpected champion floating to victory

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Russell, Parveti, and Sandra (photo: CBS)

Wow, once again a floater wins an extreme reality game show, in this case the floater being Sandra Diaz-Twine.  It is hard to comprehend what the juries are thinking when they make these choices giving the games to the weakest players.  I mean, I can understand why you would not want to give the win to Russell after he totally man handled you in the game.  I can understand why you would not want to give the win to Russell after he completely manipulated the game to arrive where he wanted to be once again.  I can even understand why you would not want to give the win to Russell after he humiliated you by his total lack of regard for your poor little feelings.  But for the love of all things Survivor I cannot wrap my mind around giving the win to Sandra.  Sandra?  Really?  Sandra accomplished nothing along the way once again losing every single challenge put in front of her.  Russell said it best when he described her strategy as simply, “I gotta get rid of Russell,” lol and this wound up being the winning strategy!

It makes sense really.  Russell so completely pissed off the jury, he ensured whoever showed up at the end opposing him would be a lock to win.  Parveti who truly rocked the game, making what appeared to be all the right moves, truly dominating the challenges, killing the social game could not compete with someone who ran the, “Gotta get rid of Russell,” strategy.  What really blows is the fact these competitors were all seasoned players, heck, Survivor masterminds really, well all save Randy perhaps.  With this great wealth of Survivor gaming ability and knowledge, not one of the jury members gave Russell their vote.  Sadly, this sends a message which has been repeated over and over again, float your boat to a victory!  The sad part is when they attempt to validate these victories pointing their finger to strategy.  Come on people, lets get real here.  There were two strategists in the final three and they lost, plain and simple.

Don’t get me wrong, I think this season was quite simply the best season of reality programming I have ever witnessed.  There is just this feeling of ughh.  Is all you need to do in order to accomplish a win in these games fly under the radar and float?  Whats the point?  Where is the drama in that?  Russell being his normal self, suggested that America be given a say in the victor.  Jeff quickly pointed out the game of Survivor has had the same rules for 20 seasons and they all knew the way it went.  Course, the game is screwed.  Like it or not the games  winner got to where she was by pissing off no one, doing nothing, and accomplishing no goal she set out to other then the 1 million dollars the jury handed her.  Unbelievable.  The more I dwell upon it, the more I just can’t imagine how this group of people could give her the gold.  Well I can see why, and I do understand what they were thinking, I just disagree with their reasoning.  I do feel like allowing America to have some type of a say would only positively impact ratings for the show and make it more enjoyable for those watching.  Will this happen? Who knows, perhaps some variation of an America’s Vote would breathe something new into Survivor, but is the game really that far off?

Think about it, I can’t imagine too many people out there thinking that Russell had a chance of winning going into last nights episode.  I think Russell’s game was flawed because he did not consider the social game.  When questioned about this directly Russell dismissed the question to the point of ignoring it altogether saying that doesn’t matter I play to get to the final three.  Great!  You made the final three,  along the way you burned every single bridge, destroyed each vote and basically let your social game destroy your possibility of winning Survivor.  Like it or not Russell, your choice to ignore the social aspect of the game is the reason you are not the sole survivor.  For these reasons, I feel the game is not that screwed up in choosing who should not win.  I just have issue with who the jury chose to win.  Granted it was a split decision but there is no way folks didn’t hold Parveti’s alliance with Russell against her.  Hmm, I guess you could point to it being a flaw in her game but even so, now we get back into where we give the game to a floater.

I have to agree with Russell, Sandra was a terrible player who did not achieve anything she set out to in the game.  All except the million lol.  WTF!

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