You are missing my point. I had nothing against Yul personally (until his integrity spin) it's just that Cook Islands was a terrible season for game play. With an Idol that could be played after the votes were read, he never had to calculate if he needed to use it, never had to fear being backstabbed. With the surprise F3, he had a reserved seat to face the jury and, worse, his competitors could never organize a strategy to vote him out. Ozzy was waiting for the F3 challenge to beat him and take him out but that challenge never happened.

I'm not even talking about the supposed arrangements the producers made to see him get to the end. Yul's victory was reduced to winning the jury vote which, for a Harvard lawyer, wasn't much of a challenge.

About the idol, as soon as we heard about it in Exile island, we discussed at length how it could be used and many, many posters had figured out that strategy of blackmailing someone. There's nothing talented about what Yul did, just common sense. Hey, many Survivors never showed much common sense so maybe that's why Yul stands out but it takes more to impress me.