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As thailandsurvivor said, this happened in Pirate Master and it had the exact opposite result--the equivalent of the jury voted out the clear-cut "best" player because of bitterness.

If a contestant plays in a manner which pisses off the jury then that person is not the 'best' player (see Mariano). That so-called 'best' player will still lose whether he or she is voted out by the jury at Final 3 or Final 2. Sucks overall has a misconception about the game, its not just
about strategy and making moves to vote people out. The jury ultimately determines the winner and getting the jury to vote for you is just as important or perhaps even more important than strategy.

The jury questioning is the best part of someone trouncing a goat! And the Cook Islands final TC is easily the blandest of all time. I would much rather have 20 minutes of entertaining speeches and questions in a predictable Tom/Katie situation than a snooze-worthy Yul/Ozzy love-fest with 30 seconds of suspense as the votes are read.

I guess it depends upon what one prefers to see. You have the entire season to see contestants ragging on each other. I'd rather forgo 20 minutes (I don't think that it is that long anymore) of seeing the jury trouncing a goat and having Probst reading the votes be anti-climactic in place of 2 worthy contestants (by 'worthy', I mean that both contestants have a chance to win) giving their best effort in persuading the jury to vote for him/her over the other contestant and have Probst read the final votes be suspenseful, I definitely would have preferred seeing a Tom/Ian Final 2 over a Tom/Katie Final 2 or a Yul/Ozzy Final 2 over a Yul/Becky Final 2.

Is 5-2 really all that lopsided? All it takes is one person switching their vote to make it 4-3.

Well, the producers considered it lopsided enough to change from a Final 2 to a Final 3.

As disappointing as it was to see Amber win All-Stars, can anyone really argue that Jenna Lewis played a better game that season and/or would have been a more satisfying winner?

If the jury votes for Jenna Lewis over Rob or Amber, then Jenna played better that season period. I thought that Amber played a better game than Rob and if I were on the jury, I would have voted for Amber over Rob. Again, Rob is too much of an egomanic to realize that with the final decision, the jury (and not Rob) holds all the power. Probst repeats this every season. The jury can vote for whomever they want and for whatever reason they want. In 17 seasons, I immediately thought that the jury made the right decision in 16 out of 17 seasons. The only exception was Amazon and after I thought about it a bit, I agreed with their decision to award Morasca the million dollars.





What I was trying to say in my original post is that I would have preferred that the producers had left well enough alone and kept the Final 2 rather than go to a Final 3. But they became dissatisfied with it and made the change because the reading of the final votes had become anti-climactic. In my initial post, my original intention was suggesting that the producers could have retained the Final 2 and had the jury rather than the final 3 IC winner vote out the last juror and it would have eliminated their objections.

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Well, the producers considered it lopsided enough to change from a Final 2 to a Final 3.

They switched it to F3 because Terry came in third. It wouldn't have mattered whether Aras/Danielle was 7-0, 6-1, 5-2 or 4-3, they still would have changed it. Exile Island was not an obvious finish (well for those unspoiled anyway) because you didn't know how Sally and Austin were going to vote. Anyone who calls that ending predictable in hindsight either read spoilers or is lying.

It was obvious (to me anyway) that Aras would beat Danielle. Danielle had some negative aspects to her edit that are not generally shown for someone who wins. Shane criticized her for being lazy and not working much around camp. Bobby called her an idiot. Aras was portrayed as a golden boy and Terry's main rival. I don't recall anyone having anything bad to say about Aras for the entire season. Aras had his conflicts with Terry but in most of their differences he was right. The only time that Aras screwed up was when he said that Terry was biased against women but he later apologized. I would have been shocked if Danielle had won over Aras.