User blog comment:SurvivorYappers2526/Chris Daugherty or John Cochran?/@comment-24039655-20131011210510/@comment-68.224.126.235-20131016010239

Cochran did NOT dominate in challenges! NO! The 4 that he happened to have won were NOT PHYSICAL (except the last one I guess), and he won 2 of them with an advantage. I can't believe people are buying into his facade... he claims he's a physical threat but honestly he was pitiful in the rest of the challenges. And when he, like everyone else, threw a ball into an oversized net (which isn't even that hard!!!), Jeff Probst just HAD to PRAISE him for "going on a challenge tear." Oh God kill me. I'll admit he deserved to win, he really did but I mean he was sooooo arrogant and pompous and so into himself for being the "best physical competitor this season" (his words, not mine) that I just completely did a 180 on him midway through the season. He lost all appeal for me. But he deserved to win by far over the other 2 goats he brought with him.

But anyway, to answer the original poster's question, I think you should give the last spot to Chris Daugherty. He overcame the hardest odds and STILL won! And I don't ever believe he was cocky during his season, but I could be wrong. To me, Chris is a much better winner than Cochran for a number of reasons, the main one being that Chris knew no one going into his season so he had to rely on his social skills to get farther. He didn't have the advantage of already knowing 5 of his fellow competitors before the game started. Plus, he won on his first try, which is kind of better than winning on your 2nd or 3rd attempt. But I do admit, a win's a win.