Talk:Jon Dalton/@comment-5431849-20120821151743/@comment-74.109.123.104-20120909040129

No clever strategy? Starting a fight with Rupert was a pretty outside the box way of trying to eliminate the most powerful player in the game at that point. He orchestrated the blindside of the season when he and Burton teamed up with Darrah, T, and Lil to vote off Rupert. Later in the season after Burton screwed up by picking Jon to join him on reward leaving Lil, Sandra, and Darrah alone (which got Burton voted out), Fairplay was dead in the water until he caused Darrah and Lil to fight and target each other. Fairplay would have had at least a 50-50 (and that's probably being conservatative) of winning had Lil chosen to take him into the finals. I've always thought, he acted differently, his strategic moves mirrored Rob Cesternino in many ways. Both were in the majority alliance early, recognized that their current alliance wouldn't take them to the end so they flipped while maintaining a working relationship with the original alliance (Sandra and Christa for Fairplay, Jenna and Heidi for Rob), and both lost the game due to losing a balance immunity challenge at the final 3.