User blog comment:TubbzyWubbzy/Why I Hate Redemption Island/@comment-99.224.135.202-20131128020540

I don't like redemption island cause it takes away from too much of the strategy aspect of the game. 1. In reward challenges after the merge (and occasionally before) the winner was sometimes given the chance to bring others along show alliance lines and giving an opening for things to get shaken up. 2. There is hardly anytime in the episodes to show much of any strategizing going on between players. I also miss the actual survival aspects of the game that they used to show (fishing/gathering and work load) that often used to play a role in strategy, but that's been less even without RI.