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Spencer selling Tony much better than Tony did.
Spencer's speech was the classic argument for why Tony should be the choice by a huuuuge margin. What's always fascinating about this game though is you can't know these people like their fellow competitors do, and Tony clearly pissed a lot of them off. Also you have some whiny spoiled brats on the jury who will vote with their bitterness.
Only Tasha with the bitter vote, Tony should cut a good size check to Spencer.

Happy with Tony winning if Spencer couldn't.
Did they show this and I missed it?

 
Woo's an idiot. So dumb. It's a game for a million dollars. Kirby still hasn't gotten over taking Tina IIRC.

I really don't like the guy, but Tony deserved the win and I'm glad Spencer said so to the jury.

 
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The primary mistake people like Woo make is in thinking they're playing to beat the other players.

In tae kwon do, you are trying to beat a person and the martial art is your tool.

They are playing to beat Survivor, and the other players are their tools to win.

You don't take the best player to the end, you take whoever helps you beat the best game ever.

 
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Also, how freakin' scary was Tony's Lieutenant? If they ever make a movie about undead ghouls taking over a New Jersey precinct I think we found our lead.

 
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It's a shame we didn't get a Spencer/Tony finale. That would have been epic. Spencer will surely be invited back for another season.

Tony definitely deserved to win, but got lucky with Woo's stupidity.

And man Morgan is sooooo conceded, but man I could drown in those fun bags and would go with a smile.

 
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"Woo hasn't made a decision all game and now he has all the power" :lmao:

Pretty positive Tasha's was a sympathy vote so that Woo didn't lose 9-0.

 
I was so glad to see Spencer make that pitch to Tony at F4 to look ahead to F2. He was really playing the game that we only speculate about after the fact in this thread. He's the only guy I've seen laying this stuff out looking far ahead and looking at the best moves for other people to make and working it into his strategy. Great player. I gave him a lot of credit weeks back for being the first player we've seen who's explained his jury vote while still in the tribe to try and affect the strategy before he's voted out. Now he pulls that move at F4 and I'm thinking "Thank you, finally someone gets how to play this game hard."

Sucks it didn't work, but so happy to see the move even tried and I hope we see it again.

 
Tony really gagged on the jury questions. Why didn't he say Woo also voted you all out.

And to answer Jeremiah and Trish's ridiculous line of questioning Tony should have said, "My father would have told me to do whatever it takes to get that money for my family."

Relieved it was 9-1.

Overall very satisfying season. Best player won. Sweetest part was Kass coming up a half-second short. Looking at the jury vote she may have beaten Woo as well.

 
I don't usually care who wins but I definitely wanted to see the best player prevail here and it was Tony.

I respect Woo's decision. He knew he didn't deserve to win the game and didn't want to be one of those players that nobody respects for winning. If opening this martial arts school is what he wants to do, he will do well with it and his speech about trying to beat the best will carry some weight there.

People play this game differently, he only wanted to win it one way, not going to be criticize him for it. If the free money comes with a burden, it may not be worth it.

 
Very glad to see Tony win. He deserved it. Just wish he could have won it without relying on Woo's stupidity.
Tony won it because he kept a loyal player like Woo close to him. He relied on him all the way to the end, that was a good bet on his part.

Tony clearly wasn't good at the individual immunities so his decision to vote out Trish and keep Woo may have been the best one that he made.

No regrets about how he won it, he made all the right reads.

 
Loved Spencer's play to Tony and was shocked that Tony didn't run with it. It made perfect sense, and on paper it was probably the proper play for Tony. I have to wonder if part of the reason he kept Woo was because he felt he could persuade him

 
I don't usually care who wins but I definitely wanted to see the best player prevail here and it was Tony.

I respect Woo's decision. He knew he didn't deserve to win the game and didn't want to be one of those players that nobody respects for winning. If opening this martial arts school is what he wants to do, he will do well with it and his speech about trying to beat the best will carry some weight there.

People play this game differently, he only wanted to win it one way, not going to be criticize him for it. If the free money comes with a burden, it may not be worth it.
Tony created that burden in Woo's mind. Masterful. The whole "honor" storyline was just a crutch so Woo could rationalize not disappointing Tony. Spencer was spot on. Woo was the loyal dog.



 
Loved Spencer's play to Tony and was shocked that Tony didn't run with it. It made perfect sense, and on paper it was probably the proper play for Tony. I have to wonder if part of the reason he kept Woo was because he felt he could persuade him
Think that was a major factor. Plus Tony probably figured he had a better chance at immunity against Kass then Spencer. Also planning on who Kass would take not a sure thing. She's vindictive and dumb enough to throw it all away to spite Tony.

 
Loved Spencer's play to Tony and was shocked that Tony didn't run with it. It made perfect sense, and on paper it was probably the proper play for Tony. I have to wonder if part of the reason he kept Woo was because he felt he could persuade him
What would the rules for the tiebreaker have been? If there is any chance that Tony has to draw a rock, it would be an idiotic play.

Plus you keep Spencer in the game and he wins the next challenge, you are done.

He played it the right way obviously.

 
Loved Spencer's play to Tony and was shocked

that Tony didn't run with it. It made perfect sense, and on paper it was probably the proper play for Tony. I have to wonder if part of the reason he kept Woo was because he felt he

could persuade him
What would the rules for the tiebreaker have been? If there is any chance that Tony has to

draw a rock, it would be an idiotic play.

Plus you keep Spencer in the game and he wins the next challenge, you are done.

He played it the right way obviously.
Why would Tony draw rocks? There would have only been votes for Spencer and Woo, they would have to make fire. This was covered during the episode.

All in all, a really good season. Survivor is at its best when you have all new players.

Probst definitely seemed on something last night, perhaps he was ripping up bumps.

 
I was so glad to see Spencer make that pitch to Tony at F4 to look ahead to F2. He was really playing the game that we only speculate about after the fact in this thread. He's the only guy I've seen laying this stuff out looking far ahead and looking at the best moves for other people to make and working it into his strategy. Great player. I gave him a lot of credit weeks back for being the first player we've seen who's explained his jury vote while still in the tribe to try and affect the strategy before he's voted out. Now he pulls that move at F4 and I'm thinking "Thank you, finally someone gets how to play this game hard."

Sucks it didn't work, but so happy to see the move even tried and I hope we see it again.
Spot on. Super impressed with Spencer. I thought the same stuff Jeff did at the beginning of the show; Spencer had no shot (and found him annoying). Boy was I wrong.

 
I was so glad to see Spencer make that pitch to Tony at F4 to look ahead to F2. He was really playing the game that we only speculate about after the fact in this thread. He's the only guy I've seen laying this stuff out looking far ahead and looking at the best moves for other people to make and working it into his strategy. Great player. I gave him a lot of credit weeks back for being the first player we've seen who's explained his jury vote while still in the tribe to try and affect the strategy before he's voted out. Now he pulls that move at F4 and I'm thinking "Thank you, finally someone gets how to play this game hard."

Sucks it didn't work, but so happy to see the move even tried and I hope we see it again.
Agree. Quite impressive. I was bummed it didnt get him to the final 2.

 
I hope next season they tone it down with the freaking hidden immunity idols. Two or three is plenty, and definitely never have a special powers idol again.

 
Great season. People cheering for Kass is puzzling. I've never disliked a person on the show more. Completely delusional, smug. Can't say it enough. Tony v spencer would have been the best final 2 ever, right? Was Woo nervous at the finale or mad that a million dollars slipped away that easily.

When Tony went to celebrate with friends they had a shot of Alexis ### in the background. It was immaculate.

Morgan at final tribal was terrible. Just shut up and take your shirt off.

All new players all the time. No special power idols. What a great season.

 
I always find it amusing at the end when they jury members rip the last 2 people for lying, deceiving and breaking promises. It is impossible to have 2 people left who did not lie, cheat and break promises.

 
Woo supposedly hadn't seen himself in a mirror in 39 days, yet his mustache and beard were meticulously trimmed during the whole run of the show. Was someone else shaving him?

 
Tony also lives his "real" life under a certain honor and duty. But he was smart enough to know it means nothing on a TV game show. And he's got the million and Woo joins the ranks of "dumb" Survivors.

He's the Asian Keanu Reeves. His confesional where he was trying to think of what would happen if the votes were tied was hilarious. "Would we have to fight each other?"

 
And man Morgan is sooooo conceded, but man I could drown in those fun bags and would go with a smile.
Those fun bags are going to be hanging to her navel by the time she hits her forties. I don't get the fuss over her.
Because she's still in her 20's?
So. I think her boobs look freakish. They are too big for her body structure.
Yeah, I hate it when that happens.

 
Loved Spencer's play to Tony and was shocked

that Tony didn't run with it. It made perfect sense, and on paper it was probably the proper play for Tony. I have to wonder if part of the reason he kept Woo was because he felt he

could persuade him
What would the rules for the tiebreaker have been? If there is any chance that Tony has to

draw a rock, it would be an idiotic play.

Plus you keep Spencer in the game and he wins the next challenge, you are done.

He played it the right way obviously.
Why would Tony draw rocks? There would have only been votes for Spencer and Woo, they would have to make fire. This was covered during the episode.

All in all, a really good season. Survivor is at its best when you have all new players.

Probst definitely seemed on something last night, perhaps he was ripping up bumps.
Loved Spencer's play to Tony and was shocked that Tony didn't run with it. It made perfect sense, and on paper it was probably the proper play for Tony. I have to wonder if part of the reason he kept Woo was because he felt he could persuade him
I was thinking Woo/Tony made a deal off camera that if Tony voted Spencer, Woo would take Tony to the final. You have got to remember they aren't going to broadcast anything that takes the suspense away.

 
I was so glad to see Spencer make that pitch to Tony at F4 to look ahead to F2. He was really playing the game that we only speculate about after the fact in this thread. He's the only guy I've seen laying this stuff out looking far ahead and looking at the best moves for other people to make and working it into his strategy. Great player. I gave him a lot of credit weeks back for being the first player we've seen who's explained his jury vote while still in the tribe to try and affect the strategy before he's voted out. Now he pulls that move at F4 and I'm thinking "Thank you, finally someone gets how to play this game hard."

Sucks it didn't work, but so happy to see the move even tried and I hope we see it again.
:goodposting:

 
Woo supposedly hadn't seen himself in a mirror in 39 days, yet his mustache and beard were meticulously trimmed during the whole run of the show. Was someone else shaving him?
Genetics. Some men lack the hair follicles required to grow a full beard. This is fairly common in Asians and even more so in Native Americans.

 
Final tribal was odd in that I thought it may have been the best final tribal ever (at least that I can remember).. but that is only because of just two jury members' comments. All of the questions were silly and didn't mean much at all... except for Trish and Spencer.

I really had the feeling Woo was winning the jury over with his opening comments and the whole honor thing. I thought he swayed most all of them to vote for him, especially after the damage Trish put on Tony. But then Spencer stood up. Game over.

Spence countered essentially everything that was said before him by convincing the jury that Tony deserved to win. It was brilliant and Tony owes Spencer everything, IMO, for winning this.

Great season.

 
Spencer had his chance and a lot of time on his side, but he choked on the puzzle. If I didn't see it I would have never ever guessed Kass would come back on that challenge to beat Spencer. It's almost like her puzzle came with easy instructions.

Spence blew it there. But he almost talked Tony into at least tying the vote. Great player Spencer was. His pitch to Tony made great sense.. but Tony got lucky that Woo is such an idiot that he could be persuaded by a guilt trip.

 
And man Morgan is sooooo conceded, but man I could drown in those fun bags and would go with a smile.
Those fun bags are going to be hanging to her navel by the time she hits her forties. I don't get the fuss over her.
Because she's still in her 20's?
So. I think her boobs look freakish. They are too big for her body structure.
Yeah, I hate it when that happens.
:lol:

Listening to her speak though is tough. She probably had 30 lines on the whole season and 20 of them were her saying how hot she was or how ugly someone else was. She is not that hot.

Great season. Thought they had a good cast that gave them good stuff. Always frustrating watching them answer questions from the jury. The Pavarti chick nailed it when she said you can't argue with them, just have to agree. It's always so bizarre that the people getting grilled don't come back to it's just a game and explain it more that way.

Tony seems really jumpy to be a cop.

 
Man I would have loved to hear Kass's pitch to the jury. The fact that she was aware she was seen as the goat and people didn't like her opened the door to some good stuff.

Other than the winner, probably my favorite season yet.

I can't tell if I'm meh about Blood v Water II because I didn't like it, or if I'm just not separating it from Redemption Island, which I hated.

 
Woo's an idiot. So dumb. It's a game for a million dollars. Kirby still hasn't gotten over taking Tina IIRC.
Yep. Honor and codes of conduct are great and all. But it is a game and Tony played it well.

Woo can say what he wants but I would bet that he has and will continue to regret his decision to sit with Tony. Same as Colby when, like an idiot, he took Tina instead of the dbag. History repeats itself I guess.

 
Man I would have loved to hear Kass's pitch to the jury. The fact that she was aware she was seen as the goat and people didn't like her opened the door to some good stuff.

Other than the winner, probably my favorite season yet.

I can't tell if I'm meh about Blood v Water II because I didn't like it, or if I'm just not separating it from Redemption Island, which I hated.
I loved how everyone called her a goat and openly said no one liked her like she wasn't sitting right there.

 
Not excited about another Blood vs Water season. I like getting to know new people on the show.

But in any case, please.. for the love of all that is holy.. DO NOT bring back Rupert. Please. No Cochran, no Parvity, no boston rob, no Russell and no coach.

Tasha is ok to bring back. Love her.

 
Woo's an idiot. So dumb. It's a game for a million dollars. Kirby still hasn't gotten over taking Tina IIRC.
Yep. Honor and codes of conduct are great and all. But it is a game and Tony played it well.

Woo can say what he wants but I would bet that he has and will continue to regret his decision to sit with Tony. Same as Colby when, like an idiot, he took Tina instead of the dbag. History repeats itself I guess.
Except Tony deserved to win over Woo, not so much Tina over Colby. If Tony had brought Woo over Kass and Woo won because everyone liked him, that would be a lot more like the S2 situation.

Woo was not a very smart guy, that was clear throughout the season. Tony clearly worked him better than Kass was willing to.

My final thoughts on this one.. Tony overplayed and is a nutjob but it's a well earned million. Kass is not as horrible as she's been made out to be.. she made a decent point about being a woman v being a man and making the moves she did. Of course her overall attitude sucked when things weren't going her way, but Tony was no gem himself, and probably deserves just as much "personal" criticism for some of his crap.. all the often unnecessary lies and swearing and then ESPECIALLY how he worked LJ into half-heartedly agreeing to vote out Woo, then used that as his full justification for blindsiding LJ. Not sure why he wasn't fully called out on that.. LJ was almost there then just said #### it. It totally blew apart his assertion that he never blindsided anyone who wasn't first planning to turn on his alliance.

Also Kass' big catch-up and trouncing of smug Spencer made me sorta happy. It was a good moment for her and her husband. And Spence is kind of a little #####. Sorry.

 
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I wonder how much influence Spencer's final question and comments to the jury mattered? I wish they had asked that. I felt that Woo was swaying them somewhat with his honor talk and Tony seemed to be taking it on the chin from many in the jury... Then Spencer stood up and as someone already posted - game over. It'd be interesting to know how much influence that speech to his fellow jury members impacted their vote.

 
I like Woo a lot. He seems really genuine and cool.

Not sure how Spencer is a #####. He always gave props to everyone else on their moves, tried his best to win challenges and play the game strategically, never gave up and was never mean to anyone. :shrug:

Tony deserved to win. He played a fantastic game.

 
I wonder how much influence Spencer's final question and comments to the jury mattered? I wish they had asked that. I felt that Woo was swaying them somewhat with his honor talk and Tony seemed to be taking it on the chin from many in the jury... Then Spencer stood up and as someone already posted - game over. It'd be interesting to know how much influence that speech to his fellow jury members impacted their vote.
"Oh yeah, that's right I forgot...this is a game for a million dollars and Tony kind of ran it the whole time and controlled every outcome and found idols that I didn't even bother looking for because it was hot and I was tired. I guess give him my vote. Eff it."

 
I like Woo a lot. He seems really genuine and cool.

Not sure how Spencer is a #####. He always gave props to everyone else on their moves, tried his best to win challenges and play the game strategically, never gave up and was never mean to anyone. :shrug:

Tony deserved to win. He played a fantastic game.
Well he threw Woo under the bus when he lobbied for Tony, and he #### talked Kass enough that he struck me as a sore loser. Granted, he's just a kid. I was pulling for the guy, but I felt like it was a little karmic justice there when he got his season ended by the ##### from hell who proved smarter than him when it counted most.

And like he said, Tony deserved the win. We'll see how he does next time.

 
Not excited about another Blood vs Water season. I like getting to know new people on the show.

But in any case, please.. for the love of all that is holy.. DO NOT bring back Rupert. Please. No Cochran, no Parvity, no boston rob, no Russell and no coach.

Tasha is ok to bring back. Love her.
I think they are in a good groove. They have one "all-star" season and one "all new" season per year. This seems to work well.

I personally was kind of "meh" about the Blood vs Water, but more so because I really wasn't a big fan of the people they brought back. It seems like they picked a lot of very average players from past seasons.

I think 3 appearances is the limit where they've almost over-saturated the audience on a player. I can't think of a single well known player in your above list that I'd like to see come back. Even Russell, who for some reason I liked a lot, I don't want to see him back.

But I do think there is one scenario where I'd love to see the big stars come back. Raise the stakes to 5 million. Lengthen the game to 45-50 days on the island, and put them through torture. Now that many of them are "reality stars", I'd like to see them come back and get put through the grinder in a bigger way than ever before, with more money on the line.

In lieu of that, I agree it's time to pass the torch to a newer generation of players.

From this season, Spencer, Tony and Tasha are slam dunks to return. I think Cass returns as a villain one day as well. Even though everyone hates her, she did a great job of almost getting to the end.

 

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