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The efforts at trying to explain how Monica might - just might - be a valid edgic winner, often accompanied by the caveats "of course, it's a big IF... she isn't my FIRST choice, but she really can't be eliminated..." are fascinating.

UTR UTR UTR. "This is how they'd edit her if she won..." Well, this is how they're editing her, and if she won, this was how she was edited. Not proof, more of a circular argument. If an INV INV INV edit won, I do believe we could say that she was edited INV INV INV.

A few things on this:

- I am trying to be prepared for a "Type B" winner so that there are other options if all of Foa Foa suddenly gets picked off. We've never had a season before where the editing gave 80-90% of the airtime to one tribe and a large portion of that to a single person. That leaves Galu with 10-20% of the airtime, and Monica is one of only two people who has had a presence in every episode (with Shambo being the other one). It's a small presence, but in all three episodes, she was put in there for seemingly no reason. If you look at the airtime her tribe is given, she suddenly becomes a stronger candidate.

- To make a comparison, Monica right now is just like Parvati having a string of 3-4 UTR episodes (and 1 borderline INV) one right before the merge because she never went to Tribal Council. The story was on Malakal the whole time so there was no point in having her (Parvati) in the episodes for no reason when she was not involved.

- The situation is also similar to Bob and Tom winning from a dominant tribe. The producers can't always get lucky with their winner. Tom got airtime on Koror because he was the leader and the important character there. Bob wasn't that interesting or that strategic so his airtime suffered. Ideally, someone from Foa Foa would win, but if the winner happens to be someone random like Bob, it just might happen that the winner happens to play no part in the first 3-4 episodes or whatever.

- I have always looked for people who got unnecessary attention in the editing, like Aras getting the fire/meditation scene in the Exile Island premiere, Todd getting the scene with Jean-Robert, Tyson getting the nudity scene (that one didn't work out), and right now, Monica is fitting in to be one of those people.

- I'm indifferent to Monica (and most of the cast) so I'm not playing favorites and trying to keep her in. The editing this season is different from the past and there are some definite anomalies that we've never dealt with before. Russell H. is another one. I think you have to kindof readjust and react based on that, and apply Edgic principles based on the situation of the season you're dealing with. If Monica was in Tocantins, I would have eliminated her already but both tribes were given fairly even airtime too.

- As I've done since Episode 1, I'll keep the people like Mick, Ashley, Jaison, Liz, etc. as my top contenders by the traditional guidelines, but I still keep Monica and Russell H. as possible alternate-type winners. I fully understand the arguments that "if Russell wins, it's not Edgic." I think he's the reason for the exceptional circumstances to begin with, but I do think, given the situation of this season, Edgic could be reasonably applied to a Monica win so far. We'll see. I'm completely prepared to be wrong and if so, that's fine.