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[QUOTE="Deadrody, post: 3962563, member: 937"]
Eh.  Certainly if you define "best" as the most physical, that's true.  Mostly because their best asset is obvious and on display all day, every day.  But it's "outwit, outplay, outlast", so being "the best" can only get you to "outplay".  But even then, the "best" do still win.  And, again, there's still a lot of luck involved.  You hit the beach on day one and make an alliance with 4 people, and you end up in a situation where there is another alliance with 5, you're screwed.  Or they play an idol at the right time and negate your numbers.  Or they mix up the tribes and you end up on the wrong side of the numbers in your new group.

There are a ton of ways things can go sideways.  One of the biggest is being too arrogant and thinking your top abilities will carry you through.  Ozzy suffered from that three times.  Being "the best" just puts a bigger target on your back early on.  Better to sandbag a bit early to take the focus off yourself, and hold out until you really need it.

One of the things that has changed over the years is that people have become a lot more sensitive to who is being overly strategic in their thinking too early.
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