The Edgic Has Spoken

Basically what the title says! As we impatiently await the arrival of Episode 9, I decided to take another look at all the players left in the game to see if I missed anything. I weighed out the positive and negative aspects of all their edits, and ranked them based on who had the best ratio of positive vs negative, in an attempt to be as objective as possible.  #1. Andy (11:5)  got a mat chat  "i see this as a numbers game" confessional early on in premiere  plenty of strategic content  gained strategic prominence at the merge  has lots of allies and connections  plenty of personal content/growth arc fits all the themes  has told us his strategy of pretending to be pathetic to lower threat level, is shown doing it  has titled 3 episodes  high confessional time (12:51 mins)  gets some positive SPV from Genevieve and Rachel post-merge  Negatives  had a really, really bad Episode 1 that could've damaged his social credibility for the rest of the game gets clowned on constan

I was going through the last eight episodes, collecting clips for an edit , which allowed me to do a review of everything that's happened this season so far, and it's definitely a lot! I feel like Edgic is kind of getting lost in the sauce a bit trying to figure out who the winner of this season is. I'm 90% sure it's Andy, so let me break it down. (Also all GIFs courtesy of survivorgif.com!) Why I Was Wrong About My Previous Winner Picks This is my fifth attempt at a winner pick - my previous ones were Austin, Drew, Hunter and Charlie, but with those ones I think I was still so new to Edgic that I was getting hung up on the little details, so here's what I did wrong for each of them: Austin (45) - falsely equating an advantage heavy edit to a winner's edit (he's doing so well strategically, therefore he must win), discounted the importance of social game and consistent personal content Drew (45) - equated number of confessionals, strategic prowess ("bes