Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Tony didn't even win a single immunity challenge though. That is how you have to take out your biggest threat who is the one you can't vote out because they always have immunity.
He found the idols well and took advantage of just about everyone but his whole strategy fails when he has to hope that someone else wins immunity.
Tony made a lot of stupid moves and was saved by Woo making a pretty dumb move. Getting rid of Trish for instance was pretty stupid. It all worked out though but we end up having a lot of questions about Tony if Woo doesn't do what he did and hand it over to him.
I don't see why you're hung up on Tony not winning any IC's. He went into just about every TC with a hidden immunity either in his pocket or around his neck. He didn't need to win any challenges. The only challenge he might've needed to win was the last one because Kass wouldn't have taken him. But, Woo won and took him. You say he was lucky and he was to some extent, but that was the only challenge he needed some luck in. Many others who have won the game needed to get lucky in terms of who won a challenge at one time or another in their game.
You question what would've happened if Woo wasn't an idiot, but the fact is that Woo was painted through the editing as constantly toying with the idea of turning on Tony, yet he never did. My guess is him and Tony were a lot more solid than the editing let on and Tony knew 100% that Woo was never going to turn on him. So there really wasn't nearly as much risk for Tony in those circunstances as we were led to believe.
I agree that getting rid of Trish was stupid, but I would call that just about his only poor strategic decision in a game where he made about 40 more strategic moves than the rest of the cast put together.
Did he play a flawless game? No. But I would argue that you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in the history of the game that played a better game than he did from start to finish. He's definitely in the team photo for most dominant champs ever.
His best quality IMO was that he was proactive. He never once said "let's sit around and see how this plays out". He acted and reacted to every bit of information he got and every instance of paranoia that overcame him unlike 99% of the people who play this game.
He sucked at final trial though. All he had to say was that yes he made promises to them on his family, but more importantly before he came on teh show he made promises TO his family that he would do whatever he had to do and lie to whoever he had to lie to in order to win the game and make their lives better. That would've ended that discussion right there cause even a self delusional reality contestant is gonna have a hard time arguing that a promise to a stranger is more important than a promise to your family.
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