Thread:Fedora Kid/@comment-26278817-20151126025739/@comment-1734566-20151201002412

And actually, 16bit, I wanted to come back to the primary point you made in your original comment - and I know you're willing to actually have a conversation here, rather than troll like Lucina or others - and I have to ask you; why exactly are you already calling Jeremy "one of the best strategists in the series" thus far?

Again, compared to how much I utterly hated him in Season 29, I think he's absolutely much better in this season, as a player and a character. However, I feel we must be honest and never go too far and over-praise him when he really hasn't done that much. Immediately out of the gate, yeah, he was definitely on top of the game and rapidly formed a solid majority alliance, and his "Meat Shield" strategy was VERY clever indeed. However, he struggled to maintain power during the tribe swaps, and the ONE and only tribal elimination pre-merge that he had any part in, he did NOT organize - Monica's blindside was 100% Kimmi's brainchild.

Then post-merge, what do you have? Kass's boot, OK, sure. Then what? Jeremy completely BLEW IT in the episode of Savage's boot by choosing to not split the vote, even though the option WAS presented to him and the fear mentioned that Kelley MIGHT have an idol, and even though they had a 9-3 SURPLUS, Jeremy still opted to toss all their eggs in one basket...which, of course, cost him his right-hand man. Then you have the Wiglesworth boot, where Jeremy allowed for himself and his closest minions to be persuaded by Wentworth into making that move, even betraying such allies as Tasha...just because...why? That move was orchestrated by Wentworth and had ZERO benefits for Jeremy, as far as I'm concerned, ESPECIALLY when they chose to get rid of Wiglesworth OVER Wentworth, who was obviously a bigger threat. Then, sure, Jeremy used one of his own idols to save Stephen - whoop. A good move, sure, but as BarBar would say, an idol play is never anything to get THAT excited over, since it doesn't really require that much skill/strategy, ESPECIALLY when it was painfully obvious that Stephen's name was coming up. And then, finally, most recently, we have this last boot, where once again, Jeremy was 100% outsmarted on the Fishbach boot, only this time by Spencer, even AFTER Fishbach had the advantage.

So again, I ask you...what makes Jeremy THAT amazing? I agree he is still one of the top three strategic players this season, alongside Spencer and Wentworth, but he's nothing spectacular. Heck, even Varner was a better player and made more successful and game-changing moves than Jeremy has thus far. If I had to pick the season's #1 strategist, I'd probably have to pick Kelley.