Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-27477311-20180330055935/@comment-2002887-20180331010641

SuperAlex2902 wrote: Everybody thinks Ben's win is a conspiracy but he had a solid game that was far better than the peoples next to him and honestly production isn't rigging games people are just salty about the final 4 twist which was unexpected but his win is still valid. This has already been discussed here and on RHAP and other forums that obviously they did not rig the game for Ben. HOWEVER that twist is still broken in a sense as it devalues the worth of winning the final immunity challenge. Yes you're still safe but you have no control. And the reasoning behind it is ridiculous. I'm aware people said the same thing about the Final 3 but especially for seasons with 18-20 contestants, a final 3 accommodates that expanded cast size more. The Final Four tiebreaker doesn't really serve any useful purpose other than giving the Ben's and Ozzy's of the world a lifeline. But no matter what you do to get a "deserving" player to the end, people are always going to try to take out threats before that deadline. It just now pushes it further to final 6 or 5. Heck we will see more physical threats like Joaquin and Brendan go out pre merge too.

Ben is not a bad player though. At least unlike with Mike, Ben didn't essentially put himself in the minority. Sure he was a bit frantic at final 7 but that was already after he had been explicitly targeted by a majority of players. In Mike's case, yes Rodney was targeting him but Mike still had Dan and Sierra and he lost them through his own doing. However, Ben still needed three idols and a firemaking challenge to get to the end. His gameplay for those four rounds was finding idols over and over again. By Survivor gameplay standards, it's approaching the norm but it's still ineffective gameplay. Just like kicking lots of 50 yard field goals or shooting lots of three point shots in basketball, if you rely solely on that it usually doesn't work. It did for Ben, congratulations.