Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-1294345-20170519024806/@comment-25629305-20170525041135

I think a lot of people aren't giving Cirie's game this season enough credit. Like, yeah, she's not super aggressive. She's not a challenge dominator like Culpepper or a flip-flopper like Sarah, but she is one of the biggest masters of social dynamics in Survivor history, and she doesn't shy away from playing hard.

As soon as the merge hit, she worked her magic to send Hali home over Michaela, preserving a long-term ally for herself. And notice that at the final 12, it was CIRIE who was shown pulling together the numbers to take down the Sierra/Brad alliance, not Zeke and not Andrea. It was CIRIE who got the credit from people like Aubry: "Do I want to be on Team Cirie?" SHE was portrayed as the one pulling together the alliance.

Immediately after that, she's shown putting a bug in Sarah's ear about Brad and Sierra. Not to take away from Sarah's move at all, but Cirie certainly had at least some kind of influence on that.

She and Andrea were portrayed as the dominant duo in the game, but in true Cirie style, she somehow managed to fly under-the-radar while Andrea got the blame, and ruthlessly cut Andrea's throat when she needed to.

And the move to take out Tai with Sarah's advantage was genius. Y'all are too harsh on her. Had it worked, she would've marched to the end unopposed with Sarah, Aubry and Michaela all by her side and both of Tai's idols out of play.

Coming in with the target that she had, Cirie has played a FANTASTIC game. She's really gone above and beyond, surpassed ALL of my expectations, and proven exactly why she's such a legend. Truly an amazing player AND character and one of my favorites of all time.