Russell and his trolls, I mean fans, think aggressively bullying around means “owning” the camp and winning Survivor. And they get shocked that it comes bite them in the ass when no one votes for Russell at the end. Big Shocker! If you bully some one like what Russell did, then it’s obvious your victims aren’t gonna like you, let alone respect you. And Russell and his fans expect the victims to “respect” his game play? Talk about being delusional. I wonder if they get far in life doing and thinking like that: victims should respect the abuser for bullying the victims. What world do these abusers live in? A self-centered, have a cake and eat it too, world? Yeah, Russell is the best, the best at not getting jury votes, the best at going to the end and not win, the best at being used, the best at being a sore loser.

Russell and his fans don’t understand playing to the end does not justify as the winner. Anyone can get to the end. The game is designed so that people are constantly eliminated. You can have a tribe full of lazy asses doing nothing and you would still end up with 2 or 3 finalists since elimination is mandatory. So Russell Hantz using the excuse that he worked hard to get to the end is not a good excuse, if anything it shows the game may be too much for him since he “worked hard”. Smart players don’t or shouldn’t have to work hard. Not like you’re building something and at the end you say you’ve worked hard, or like running a race and at the end you say you ran hard or you worked hard during training. This game Survivor is mainly a mind game. If you say you’ve worked hard using your mind then maybe you’re too dumb in the head and trying too hard. Smart player wouldn’t have to “work hard” just to get to the end since by default through the voting/eliminations someone or some 2 or 3 contestants will end up in the end naturally/eventually. Besides, the end isn’t really the end since you need jury votes. Since this is a mind game because the main focus is jury management, a smart player would use someone or some group of people to do the work for the smart player as the game progresses. A smart player would convince or indirectly get someone else i.e. the tool to vote on the smart player’s behalf and make that tool think that tool made the decision to vote someone else off. So when it comes to the jury, the jury would think it was the tool’s decision to vote them off, so the jury would blame the tool and antagonize the tool, while giving the winning votes to the smart player. That’s a mind game. That’s what Survivor is. For Russell and his fans to say that he deserves to be the winner because he worked hard to get to the end is just dumb. That’s like rewarding a special needs kid for just finishing the race. And Survivor is not that kind of a physical race where you cross the finish line you win, or a strength challenge like World’s Strongest Man where they’re judged by a concrete criteria that is physical strength, or a national TV game show like American Idol where the majority of TV viewers phone in to vote and decide. When you boil down to it, Survivor is about playing the people/the contestants and the majority of those who end up in the jury decide the winner, so it’s a mind game, a social game. Certainly reaching to the last day of Survivor is not the finish line, but just part of the game.

For the jury to vote one way or another, no matter how unpopular the votes may be, the jury gets the final say, not TV viewers. That’s the game. Besides, TV viewers only get a glimpse of what goes on over there or what the Survivor editors want us to see for entertainment values. Viewers don’t live with contestants 24/7, so what viewers see doesn’t reflect the complete story. Voting based off of that incomplete information would not do contestants justice.