Talk:Russell Hantz/@comment-80.61.85.78-20131115160140

People don't give Russell enough credit. Yes he is an asshole indeed and yes he has no idea how to correctly play the social part of the game. But he was able to play the strategy part, he got Tyson to change his vote to Parvati and was therefore able to eliminate Tyson (now if Coach wouldn't have insisted to vote for Courtney he still would have been gone real quick), he got JT to give him his Hidden Immunity Idol, etc.

Now it is true that the other contestants had no idea who he was, but (if I'm correct) Russell had only seen Micronesia and had only seen it because the producers thought that he otherwise wouldn't have known how to play Survivor at all, so he also didn't know many of the castaways he faced in HvV and he hadn't seen how his strategy in his original season actually was like to watch from the outside so he wouldn't really have the chance to switch to a more social game. And in RI he did have bad luck, if he and Rob would have each others tribes I think Rob would have been gone quick and Russell might have been able to go far.