I like your views of the winners. Reading your analysis, I see that I'm generous with the 10s! These DAWS are far from perfect.

I'd like to make 2 comments:

1- "Brian H: Played a divide-and-conquer game that we haven't seen before or since"

The way I look at it, Chris played the same game, without the numbers, that Brian played with them. They had as many side deals with other players and, while those deals should have, could have, cost Brian the game, it was Chris' separate deals with Twila and Julie that saved him.

2- "Stephenie... a self-made pariah"

Rob M was a self-made pariah, Steph had help: Rafe's strategy was to destroy Steph's game and he guided her down that path. Danni, I think, deserves a little credit for being the only one to see that Xhakum's (what a horrible tribe name!) leaders were working at cross-purposes and she jumped right in between them to boot Judd and Cindy.