Sophie says that if Ozzy came back, he would be as good to sit next to in F3 as Cochran, that Ozzy won't get the votes. I think she is wrong, but interesting perception.

I saw that clip & the fact that CBS left it out of the show & only put it on an insider clip actually bodes well for Sophie IMO because it shows she isn't 1/2 as smart as she thinks she is (or they are trying to make us believe) -- she talks about Ozzy having pissed people off & yet somehow imagines she's getting to F3 without pissing anyone off? And she somehow thinks 4 Savaii votes on the jury would go to her instead of Ozzy who proved his loyalty to them by going to RI to beat Christine to give Savaii a chance at merge? I also guess she didn't hear Keith tell Ozzy "Win this for us, bro" when he left RI. The fact that she can say what she did about Ozzy with a straight face is a clue as to why we haven't heard more "strategy" from her, so maybe her cr@p edit is actually protecting her (just like they are shielding her from Coach's religious hypocrisy & the "Coach kool aid" comments). The clip shows she assumes everyone else thinks the way she does & that isn't the mark of a very savvy Survivor player.

My belief with the female winner edit is that the producers don't believe that the audience will deliver ratings if they see a season pointing to someone like Sophie winning.

I'm reading this as if you find this acceptable and/or understandable. I hope I'm wrong about that.

And yep, Sophie kicked butt in the rice challenge & yet the focus was on how pathetic her competition was, not how great she did. The entire episode should have been HUGE for her, but it wasn't. Not good for her, IMO.

Maybe you're right about the throwing up not being a big deal* (although, to be fair, that isn't the only reason I'm so-so about her, but fine). Nonetheless, if Sophie wins it will be the worst edit ever for a winner. All she has is narrator confessionals & shielded from Coach (despite being 100% with him). Is that really enough for people to be picking her as a winner? IMO, no, it isn't -- it is a default "why Coach doesn't win" edit, not a "winner's edit." (Or, as I would say the default "female winner shaft" edit).

*I still disagree -- gross food challenges don't count because (1) the whole point of a gross food challenge is to "create TV" with people throwing up and (2) people at home can relate to throwing up with that type of challenge. Those factors don't exist in the coconut water challenge -- Sophie throwing up then made her look weak -- if she had only gagged & been able to continue without throwing up, then she would have looked like she "played hard." And, as I pointed out, they could have easily hid her throwing up if they had wanted (unlike with the gross food challenge which, as I said, is the point of those challenges)-- the fact that they didn't isn't good for her, IMO.