May 152010
Survivor Final 5 Analysis: Final Predictions

On Sunday the 20th winner of Survivor will be crowned.  This season of Heroes vs Villians has been an instant classic with great gameplay, horrible blunders, memorable moments, and big personalities.  Our pre-season predictions of a Hero dominated game ended up being horribly wrong, with predicted favorites leaving early and predicted dogs going deep into [...]

May 152010
Survivor Final 5 Analysis: Parvati Shallow

Game play
Parvati Shallow didn’t make much of a splash on her first season, as her alliance completely underestimated their opponents and found themselves making the walk of shame one by one. On Fans vs Favorites, we saw her come into her own and win it all. That transition from just another pretty face to the [...]

May 152010
Survivor Final 5 Analysis: Colby Donaldson

Game play
Colby is a Survivor legend, and deservedly so. On his original season of the show he was such a physically dominant player that he arguably created the term ‘challenge monster’, he also established that he put strategy second in many ways when he brought Tina to the finals just to make sure there was [...]

May 152010
Survivor Final 5 Analysis: Russell Hantz

Gameplay
Of the five players left in the game, Russell Hantz has probably had the largest impact on the game and the fate of the other participants. Russell’s read on the weakness of Tyson and the planting of his ‘Russell seed’, got Tyson to vote himself off of the island, and set the stage for a sweeping [...]