skinny wrote:
The show keeps picking "contestants" that claim to have studied the game, be huge fans, etc, yet every season people do the exact same thing. Early on when the challenges include physical requirements, they vote out the strong people because they will be threats later in the game. Then they lose all the challenges and being at risk of being voted out. Many of the late-game challenges are more about balance and mental strength than about pure physical strength, so I think their thinking is flawed. Keep the early tribe strong so you don't go to tribal, then beat the others with the mental game after the merge.
Or am I looking at this wrong? I don't remember ever really seeing that strategy used, has it worked in the past? They always talk about keeping the tribe strong, then usually vote out the strength. Although, as others pointed out previously, last night's vote didn't show much actual ability in challenges...
It's become a bit too formulaic. The really weak people are vulnerable in week 1, possibly week 2, then everyone goes after the strong players, the really shit ones are kept around for as long as possible because everyone wants to have them in the final with them. James should have been kept around. I'm also getting a bit bored of the challenges, it's virtually all a physical challenge then a puzzle. Not much variety.