User blog comment:TRRFan6/Smartest Contestant?/@comment-25097405-20151108201041/@comment-26910203-20151111023132

LOL, Scarlett had no strategy she imrpovised and that whole plot and character "development" is highly flawed if you ask me. First, sure she figured out the island was robotic but how could she be sure there was a control room AND a self destruct button? It could just have easily been controlled by a remote or something. Scarlett wouldn't have even found said control room without Max...and he did that by accident. Her whole "strategy" was simply improvised and full of plot conveniences, there are a number of other questions that go along with this.

Why does she pull a 180 when she only seemed to be slightly annoyed with Max? What if there was no escape in the control room...then what? What if Chris bailed? What about the other contestants, would they just sit there and wait for her to take their life? (Which is obviously not what happened). Scarlett's "strategy" is horrible, the others on the OP's list had clear goals and actually played the game. (Not gimme the money or I'll kill everyone...if I can find a way to do that...if I'm still around since I didn't try to eliminate any other characters or anything)