User blog comment:PKMNAdventurer/WHAT? CODY DIDN'T WIN TDWT?!/@comment-1944824-20101116092922/@comment-3214036-20101119141836

How do you "work hard" at a reality show? Cody was an average to slightly above average competitor. He was a team player who rarely hesitated to assist his team and get his hands dirty. He was the deciding factor in two of his teams wins (Japan and Greece). I can only think of one team victory Heather directly contributed to (New York). When you get past the "strategizing" and observe how well they performed in the actual challenges, they were pretty much equal and made about about the same number of mistakes.

Cody relied on dumb luck to get as far as he did but don't pretend like Heather didn't as well. All the competitors rely on luck to an extent. If Chris decided to not make the Amazon episode a reward challenge, she would have been eliminated and wouldn't have even came close to winning.

As for the Alejandro, I'm not sure if the fact that he was a creep who manipulated people and cheated them off the show by pretending to be a nice guy makes him a particulary strong competitor. Anyone can do that if they have looks and charisma to do so.

For the record, I don't mind that Heather won. I'm just defending Cody from your obviously biased opinion of his record as a competitor ( such as claiming that even Ezekiel worked harder than him).