User blog comment:SimBrotherCo/The Frustrating Part of Survivor/@comment-5426845-20130502020027/@comment-2203959-20130502023258

You make a good point about Sherri - she did play great pre-merge, but going up against so many great returning players, I can't imagine even the best first time players getting lost in the shuffle.

But I think Erik has been way to focused on challenges/rewards and not so much on the game...he openly admitted Cochran hasn't offered him a final 3, yet he seems to be doing whatever Cochran says, being the split vote is great now, but if he's making the wrong decisions then it won't end well, I guess only time will tell.

But I can't get behind you on Eddie, he's done alright in the challenges I'll give him that. But his social game isn't whats kept Eddie around, its the fact that by talking to the guy for five minutes you know he has absolutely no strategic game...Malcolm has said in his exit interviews that it took him such a long time to explain to Eddie why voting out an attractive girl on Survivor is a good idea, he's playing the bachelor! And while unbeknownst to him, his lack of strategy will take him very far, it's not fun for a viewer to watch someone get drug along because he doesn't understan the game. There's a difference between riding coatails and not knowing what the hell you're doing.