Thread:Fedora Kid/@comment-2091662-20141218114510/@comment-1734566-20141231031810

And Russell's social game doesn't necessarily suck - he's just brutally honest about his superiority. Again, Tony played practically the EXACT same game as Russell, verbatim, in Cagayan. The primary difference is that whenever Tony's reputation took a hit because he screwed someone over, or was caught lying on his dad's grave, etc., it was Trish who bailed him out and did damage control. Russell didn't have a solid right-hand person to do that for him. And furthermore, Tony had a massive cheerleader on the jury in Spencer, which, again, Russell didn't have - instead, Natalie W. had a massive cheerleader in Erik Cardona. I'd argue it was simply circumstance - you switch the two and put Russell in Cagayan and Tony in Samoa, you'd see basically the same result. People have proven time and time again that you can play a strong, aggressive, dominating game - Boston Rob, Tyson, Tony - and still win. It's just all about who's on your jury, and whether or not they'll properly award you the win (those I just mentioned), or completely rob you (Russell, Parvati, Coach).