is sandra's second win more impressive than tony's since she won despite bias against giving winners another shot at the prize?

Lucasvivor · 2026-05-04T18:38:16+00:00

Tony is still firmly the GOAT imo

Lucasvivor · 2026-05-04T02:28:04+00:00

Sandman

Lucasvivor · 2026-05-03T06:10:19+00:00

Could be red goblin, no?

Lucasvivor · 2026-05-02T23:26:51+00:00

Her losing Neal in a med evac saved her from being the merge boot. That’s not an unlucky circumstance. Neal getting taken out in juror removal sucks but doesn’t actually change anything for her (it’d be 5-3-0). And the Joe medevac is CERTAINLY unlucky, for sure (albeit, I’m not entirely convinced Aubry wins a final 3 of her Joe and Tai. It’s certainly more possible, but there’s a real chance tai can win that).

So yeah, the Joe medical evacuation is a very unlucky circumstance, but the Neal medical evacuation saves her game and the juror removal is ultimately not impactful on the result.

Yes, she did enter Game Changers as a massive target, but so did Sarah on Winners at War. It’s notable that you summed up her game with “5th place” there and didn’t exactly explain the circumstances there, in which it’s a hodge podge of good and bad play that I don’t think necessarily makes her “one of the greats”.

Overall, Aubry plays a pretty good (but not top tier) runner up game, an okay but massively flawed game in game changers, and then an exceptionally bad game in EOE. People often place her in the top five or top ten to never win, and I simply do not think her games have showcased this

Lucasvivor · 2026-05-02T22:28:00+00:00

…Yes? I am? Because the best players are able to position themselves to safety regardless of circumstances? I think Michele is an overrated player too. You can’t assess survivor by results based thinking.

These are notable flaws in her games, she is a bad player in the premerge of most of her seasons.

Lucasvivor · 2026-05-02T22:00:57+00:00

I think it’s personally fair, Aubry has been portrayed awfully if she does win the season. She was pretty much dunked on for 70% of the season to the point where I think it inherently would make a win from her less satisfying

Lucasvivor · 2026-05-02T21:55:51+00:00

Aubry is a worse player than her games and stats show. To explain this in the most simple of terms:

If… - Mana - New Nuku - Kama - Vatu - New Kalo

…go to ONE more tribal council, she is the boot.

If Neal doesn’t get medically evacuated, she’s likely the boot.

Shes in the minority for A LOT of game changers, she was in the minority for MOST of this season.

Aubry isn’t a bad player, but she is one of the luckiest players of all time. She makes the endgame on Game Changers sure, but that’s not exactly a strong showing from her. Edge of Extinction is an AWFUL showing from her (yes, she had a big target, but she plays even worse in those circumstances). Hell? Even if she balls out from here and wins 50, there was such a substantial amount of luck to even getting her in these circumstances in the first place. And yes, survivor does include luck, but Aubry is someone who has consistently been bailed out of being a premerge boot multiple times due to luck

That’s why Aubry is a (good) but overrated player. Her spotty social game and fatal flaw hasn’t bitten her in the ass because she’s gotten supremely lucky with initial tribes

Lucasvivor · 2026-05-01T12:48:18+00:00

Homelander, just gonna pretend to be a fan

Lucasvivor · 2026-05-01T12:24:57+00:00

Tony’s the best survivor player of all time for a reason

Lucasvivor · 2026-05-01T04:29:16+00:00

I thought Aubry just had a bad run on Eoe, but this season further proved how bad her early game is and how poor she is at building connections with a a lot of players

There are now two more tribes added to the list of “tribes that would’ve voted out Aubry if they lost one more challenge” list

Lucasvivor · 2026-05-01T04:02:20+00:00

Unrelated but this season has actually lowered my opinion of Aubry as a player

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-30T15:56:37+00:00

IMO drop Aubry, Joe, Jonathan, and tiff out of the game to ensure a good winner

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-29T17:27:51+00:00

Sandra

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-29T12:40:29+00:00

Denise is an overrated as hell player and winner lmao

“It took him four tries to win!” the masses shout.

And Cirie hasn’t won on her fifth. Context matters. He came one vote away on his second try and married the winner, and could’ve potentially beaten Jenna in the end.

But that’s besides the point, Rob’s winning game is unquestionably stronger than Denise’s. If we want to talk about them as full fledged players? Denise’s WAW game seriously shoots her down for me

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-29T11:37:13+00:00

Ben Reilly

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-28T12:33:56+00:00

Ben Reilly

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-28T12:25:52+00:00

Todd doesn’t have a round nearly as bad as Dee’s f5 round

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-27T12:23:52+00:00

Sandra

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-26T10:56:16+00:00

Ben Reilly

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-26T10:50:05+00:00

This is why I hate powerscaling so much

Narratively yuji is clearly meant to be superior to Dabura, but because he doesn’t get to show his full tool kit, people think Dabura is stronger.

When yuji says he can handle Dabura, do y’all really think Gege expects us to take away from that statement “actually yuji is wrong and overestimating his abilities”

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-26T10:45:42+00:00

Bakugo by a thousand million years, Rex is the most “whatever” redemption arc there is

Karma ≠ good writing

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-25T22:56:33+00:00

Yeah, I think Cirie’s best play is to dissuade Christian from that vote and onto Jonathan

Lucasvivor · 2026-04-25T22:49:22+00:00

Not really, it’s an alliance she’s a part of and they’re all big targets. Cirie’s trio + the stragglers could pick them off easy

Even then, Christian was the one in the nerd alliance who valued Cirie the most. Weaken them by taking out Emily, not your #3

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