LAST EDITED ON 08-09-06 AT 10:32 PM (EST)LAST EDITED ON 08-09-06 AT 10:30 PM (EST)
After episode 1, viewers could tell only 4 teams from the others. The Hanlons, the Brownies and the Fogals for obvious reasons and Team Air Force "the real Hunters". If they are to win, their victory couldn't be said to have been hidden by the editors.
Some dominant winners do get edited for us to admire their strategy. Tom on Survivor even got a hero edit. Those winners are either loved or hated depending on the viewer. The restraint that you feel in the Air Force's edit (that I don't necessarily see), may be to avoid such an "all or nothing" reaction. More realistically, if they are winners, it is because the editors don't know how to develop characters. Like I wrote in the episode summary, we hardly knew the "Spooks" even if they were Final 4.
The other possibility is that we do have a surprise winner and if you look at my post #14, that could be the "Dummies".