Board Thread:Season 36 - Tikal/@comment-24603302-20161016033159/@comment-28511285-20161017021916

I believe that if the three best players got to the end, and Joanna, Marie myself couldn't be included, then it would be John, Claire and Christine.

John imo was the best all around player being social, strategic and great at comps! Of course, survivor is a hugely dynamic game, so the best don't always  make it to the end, however, if we simulated this a million times I think John inches ahead as winning the most. I feel like since he was seen as the Vatanchu leader he also is the merge boot the most times though haha. John I will admit I never directly made a move against since we were aligned, however had he stayed in the game I would have continued to talk him up as the big threat and continue painting a target on his back instead of mine.

Claire I think had a spectacular social game and was amazing at getting you to want to vote with her, even if it wasn't in your best interest. I think the most easy to point to example was how bad I felt voting her out despite it being the obvious strategic move considering Joanna was kind of inactive and Marie was always getting into fights with people right around the endgame. I think the move I made against Claire is pretty obvious. At final 5 I flipped against her Ally Christine since I knew Marie, Claire and Joanna had virtually no shot in beating me at a final immunity, and at final 4 it took hardly any convincing to get Joanna and Marie to vote her out.

Christine. Similar to John, but I  think Christine has the advantage of not appearing as quite as big a threat. She was great in challenges, willing to make moves to further her game and was really easy to talk to. I feel like her game could be described as both utr from many perspectives, but not so utr that people wouldn't vote for her at the end. My move  against Christine was when Claire and I convinced her to flip against  Marie and Michael. I firmly believed this sealed her fate. She admits to not fully trusting me in her jury speech, but clearly I made myself seem trustworthy enough in the immediate future for her to be willing to jump ship and side with me even though I intended to go against her the next round.

I should also mention Scott and Lexi as people who I think could be sitting here, however I just didn't see quite enough of you two since I was on a tribe with Lexi for literally a day so it's up in the air in my mind how she would have played if John didn't find that idol. Scott, I knew you a bit better but I still wasn't around you enough to see quite enough of what your strategy was to say "Oh yeah, he would have made the end", however I've seen that you did make final 3 in Koror and with what I did see I don't think its a stretch to think you could go far.

Thanks for the fun question!!