#zettel #s-prep #survivor sourced from: [[Survivor 43]] # On Cassidy Clark "Being Robbed" of a Win in [[Survivor 43]] It's rare that I unironically use the sucks adage, "r.obbed g.oddess", but the general feeling applies here, in my honest opinion. What happened to Cassidy (wow it's like she died with that wording) is a standing example of why [[I HATE Survivor Edge of Extinction's Lasting Impact on the Survivor Series]]; suddenly, in order to play a winning game, you have to take out the biggest threat by winning the fire making challenge, even IF you happen to win the final immunity challenge. As a viewer, I cannot tell you the details about Cassidy's life on the island and whether or not she really was as "along for the ride" as Karla and, to an extent, Jesse made her out to be, ==but what I can tell you is that she 100% should not have needed to give up the final immunity necklace and beat Jesse in the fire-making challenge in order to even be considered for a vote to win==. That's fucking stupid and dumb and I disagree with that line of thinking 100%. She got there on her own skills and agency, and to offer a hypothetical, do you think the jury would've considered her a "worthy winner" if Owen or Gabler had won and forced her to beat Jesse in a fire-making competition and she did? Look, the jury is allowed to have their own opinions, and I have to be ok with that. I am of the opinion that the jury was right in [[Survivor Kaoh Rong]] (avoiding spoilers for that season here), and that the jury has a right to vote for someone based whatever parameters they see fit, and if they want to agree with the show's new direction of "quantifiable 'outwit', 'outplay' and 'outlast'", then so be it. but bet your ass if I'm ever on a Survivor jury of my own, I will make sure that the person I vote for aligns with my view of someone whom I'd be alright with having beat me. From this, I can confidently say that [[The Way to Win Survivor in the 40s is to play Under the Radar, Never Be Someone People Consider an Easy Target, and Make the Flashiest Moves possible in the Final 6-4]]. It's made worse by the outcome of Survivor 44 where Heidi gave up her final 4 immunity to make fire, won, and then still only received a single vote to win. While this might be a general example of two juries valuing different things in a space, it still stands that Heidi made the move to give up her own immunity to make fire in an attempt to bolster her game. and she managed to execute this plan in record time and she knocked out the likely winner had her opponent made the Final 3.