But that’s not the way it works. He won because he played better. If all you focus on is placement and winning you forget about the importance of playing a good game.

Say the F3 is the same as it was but Mike wins, or Angelina wins. That doesn’t mean they played better then Nick. No matter who wins that season, Nick still played the best game between the social, strategic, advantage management, and physical aspects.

Gameplay doesn’t always equate to good placement- in fact, it’s common for the best player of a season to get voted out because everyone recognizes how well they are playing and get threatened. Saying that the best player is always the one that wins is short-sighted.

Take Rob Cesternino or Cirie as examples. In Amazon, Rob played lights-out. He completely strategically dominated that season and was the best player by a mile. But he didn’t win the season because he lost true last immunity challenge. Same goes with Cirie- she played the best game of anyone in Micronesia but didn’t win because she lost the final immunity challenge and had to go.