User blog comment:CD-TDA/Mainspace Race - Week 17/@comment-1734566-20140903043840

Well, first, let's just look at the finalists (and don't neither of you bother to correct me, since I'm just gonna state MY thoughts, followed by my vote).

BarBar. Your strategy is very chaotic, unbalanced, rather un-strategic, and mostly based on dumb luck. Your first plan of action was, on Day One, to form fake one-on-one alliances with EVERYBODY in the game (and don't even try to deny it; KG, Mygeto, and several others told me that you approached them individually just as you approached me). Then, as the game progressed and you got a general idea of the alliances, you started PM'ing random people with anything ranging from fake rumors, to fake quotes, to flat-out lies in an attempt to spread dissent among the alliances, in the hopes that your wild shooting in the dark would score a successful hit. Case-in-point, the week I was eliminated, you PM'd GODuncan with several fake quotes from me outlining an elimination order within our alliance that had him on the bottom, hoping that you could convince him to flip against me. Don't bother trying to deny this either, because in this case, that would make either you a liar, or GODuncan a liar, since he already told me that's exactly what happened. Again, I maintain that even such a chaotic strategy CAN work...with a huge and risky element of blind luck. Ryan quitting, Mikey's freak elimination, Stry's internet problems, my blindside, KG's repeat of history, and other factors that led to ALL of the bigwigs being taken out early/unexpectedly were all a huge factor in you getting this far; please don't deny this.

And then we have Batman. Admittedly, he played a smarter strategy early on of just being under-the-radar, and was repeatedly cited as a likely "first person out" by TDF's predictions. Yet his performance in the week where Mikey left should've been a clear indication of his potential. Nevertheless, he continued to stay scarily quiet. He then rather cleverly infiltrated my alliance, albeit, with GODuncan's help, only to be a mole who reported back to BarBar. This, admittedly, was a fairly good strategy. However, with Codyfan's elimination, it became evident that Batman's strategy as a whole is just "betray everyone," which could've been more disastrous for him if this had happened earlier in the game.

SO. We have a person with a crappy/chaotic/mostly luck-driven strategy, who admittedly made more edits, vs. an underdog whose strategy was to stay under the radar, then betray everyone. I still maintain that this is the Duncan vs. Beth of Wiki competitions. I.e., this is the WORST final two this season could've possibly had (except for a final two with Landry in it. :P). So, by a hair's diameter, I pick the lesser of two crappy evils. I vote for...

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...Batman. Your strategy was more consistent and less luck-driven.