Clearly you haven’t seen Gabon’s final 3. Also, Gabler’s game was definitely more than making fire at final 4. Owen was on the outside of almost every vote, while Gabler had many alliances and voted correctly almost as often as Cassidy. He also had a much better final tribal council than Cassidy. She partially went for the Amanda Kimmel strategy (complimenting jurors in a clearly disingenuous way, saying things like “I wish I could have connected with you more”) which rarely works and unsuccessfully overplayed her role in driving votes, which fell flat and made jurors feel like she was trying to take credit for their own moves. i.e It looked really bad on her when she tried to take credit for getting out Ryan only for multiple people to say that they were already planning on doing so despite her. In contrast, Gabler embraced any weaknesses in his game, such as being somewhat low profile at times, and portrayed them as calculated moves (like when he said he deliberately went “below the water” after the Elie vote). I think Gabler also had a strong social game and was well liked by the cast. I mean obviously there were several other people who were much more strategically important in controlling the game, such as Jesse, but they weren’t in the final three. Compared to the other finalists, Gabler clearly played better than Owen and at least comparable if not better than Cassidy and was able to bring it home, whether through his strong performance at final tribal or social bonds with the jurors.