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Becky was the one who initiated the foursome alliance of (Yul/Becky/Jonathan/Candice).

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And guess who has no shot of winning in that Final 4? Becky. The fact of the matter is that she had no end game whatsoever. She wanted to make it to the end with a group of people, and then just let things play themselves out from there. She completely failed to win any respect from the people she booted, the men she played with, or any of the jurors after the merge. How she ever thought she was going to beat Yul in a jury vote is beyond me.

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The funny thing is how people who I talked to, would always give Yul the credit for that and not Becky.

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And that was Becky's problem. She didn't earn herself any respect for any of her strategic play. She became friends with some of the women, and that was the extent of her jury manipulation. She never tried to impress Raro with her play, she never tried to win jury votes from people like Nate, Candice, Parvati, and Adam, and she completely allowed Yul to take all the credit for everything the Aitu 4 accomplished.

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Ethan's win at F4 shouldn't have been guaranteed, if the other three weren't strategic nimrods.

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Well, you can't hold this against him, really. He made an alliance early on with Lex and Tom, and one can say that it was a smart move to choose two men who were loyal and honest enough that Ethan would be in a good end game position with them.
What you can hold against him is the fact that he never tried to form any bonds with Kim J. until Day 38, he potentially could have lost to Tom in a jury vote (it wouldn't actually happen, but that's not really because of things Ethan did, but rather things Tom did/didn't do), and he didn't really form strong jury connections with Samburu members (beyond, "Look at me, I'm a nice guy."). Ethan had a good shot of never making his end game, and even there, he didn't actually set himself up for it that well, just riding the fact that he was a likable guy who wasn't quite as abrasive or over the top as Lex and Tom.

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But it's hard to lose with four aces, and the idol ended up being four aces for Yul.

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Except that after those four Aces had been used, Yul wasn't done playing poker. He still had a game to win, and it's not like he didn't do things to pull of that win. He was hindered by Ozzy's challenge domination, he was hindered by the fact that the cast was so young, he was hindered by the fact that people could hold his HII against him. He still won, and he didn't just luck into that. He earned respect from the jurors he was able to, despite the twist that meant he was going up against his biggest threat and would not have his most solid jury vote. He took credit for all of the strategy of the alliance, making sure all Ozzy would have going for him was challenge wins. He used the HII as a bartering tool throughout the game, trying to get some use out of it instead of holding it and giving him a free ride that people might be bitter about. Thanks to the fact that the jury was so damn immature, the fact that Ozzy was closer to the jury's age range, and the fact that the larger jury put Brad, Rebecca, and Jenny into the jury (three people who had been beat by Ozzy repeatedly in challenge, but who had never truly played with Yul strategically, and therefore couldn't have as much respect for his way of playing the game), Yul was faced with a very difficult jury vote no matter what. But he handled it with flying colors, staying close to the women in his alliance, making deals for jury votes, not alienating people like Jonathan (something Ozzy didn't figure out), etc.
I'm well aware that the HII gave Yul a huge game advantage. Maybe had there been no EI, things would have been different for him (you can't just remove the HII from the game and leave it at that, because that means EI decisions would have been different, Yul would have played differently, tactics would have shifted, etc.). But the fact is he did have that HII, and he used it beautifully. And from there, he played the rest of the game perfectly as well. He's not as solid a winner as someone like Tina or Brian by any means, but he certainly played a wonderful game, and you can't honestly say someone like Aras had a better grasp on Survivor than Yul.

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I've just always wondered why she was given so much credit for that strategy when it just seems...obvious to me.

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Agreed. Of course you're let anyone besides you be booted; that's just playing the game. It's when you actually bother to do something about your position that involves more than simply avoiding the next boot that you're using strategy. Making sure you're not the next one gone is the most basic play one can utilize, and Sandra would not have even been successful with it had others not made numerous mistakes and people not acted irrationally at times.

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After seeing all the challenges, you can't possible say he gave 110% in every challenge, can you?

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Um, if Aras had actually beat Terry in a challenge, he'd have been able to force out the HII, and no longer had to worry about being the one booted if Terry ever lost immunity. Aras couldn't do anything about the rest of the tribe losing to Terry, and Aras actually wanted to beat Terry if he was going to be less at risk, so Aras completely lucked out with the way challenges went down after the merge.

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You should definately ally with a person like that: she's the one who'd probably burn the bridges behind her.

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Except Cirie had a great social game. You don't plan to go to the end with a great strategist, tactical player, and social manipulator. That's just suicide.

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HE DID IT ALL BY HIMSELF!!!

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He won immunity for Terry all by himself? He put himself in the position to be beat by Cirie all by himself?

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Especially since he was one vote away from losing to a brain-dead hick.

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Man, I've got to watch Thailand again, because from what I remember, Brian had reasons to feel confident he would get the four jury votes he got. But I can't really argue it when I haven't seen the season since it originally aired (and even then, not all of it).

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Jenna. Social game? I say bitter jury.

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Yeah, and Jenna was completely helped by the mentality of that whole cast, too. I mean, the older women might have caused problems for her, but they were booted pre-merge, and while Jenna had a hand in that, I don't think it was because she was afraid of not having their jury vote later on down the road. If she was actually concerned with that, she would have done more to accomodate them.

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She successfully become the "last in line to be picked off" from every single alliance she joined/created.

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Had Sandra gone with her original alliance, she might have won, but it would have been risky. And more importantly, she didn't do a damn thing to make sure her alliance stayed in control. She was oblivious to the playing going on around her, and once Ruper went, the game was controlled by everyone besides her and Christa. She wasn't a threat, but she was in a post-merge situation where people actually were willing to backstab and betray as necessary to pick off the threats (and those situations don't come up too often). Put her in with some different players, and she clashes into an early boot. Hell, put her into a merge with some different players, and she plays the same oblivious game that ends up with her being picked off along with the rest of her alliance. Sandra lucked into Jon/Burton/Lill taking control, something that wouldn't have happened without the Outcast twist, and something Sandra was not planning to let happen (or even wanting to let happen; she wanted to eliminate that threesome). She was lucky Darrah started winning immunities, she was lucky Lill took her to the end (because she certainly didn't do anything to get on Lill's good side during the game), and she was lucky that the whole cast was so game savvy and manipulative that her terrible social game didn't backfire on her. Sandra didn't get herself into the Final 2; everyone else did.

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If Aras wouldn't win Terry, no-one would.

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That's how it ultimately played out, yes. But for Aras to have to bank on that shows how weak of a game he had. You can't rely on winning immunity challenges, and you sure as hell can't rely on another person winning immunity challenges. Aras not only needed to control the IC's for the entire post-merge game (which is a sign of a poor winner, as no one else had to rely on immunity as much as that), Aras needed someone else to control IC's for the entire post-merge game. There's a reason someone like Jenna or Tom gets flak for the times that they had to win immunity or else they probably would have been booted. Aras deserves that flak to an outrageous degree, because he needed those immunities far more often, and worst of all, he needed someone else to win those immunities, and one of the things you have no control of in this game is someone else's performance in challenges.

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If Cirie was so good, then how come Aras would've won her in the end?!?

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Like someone else pointed out, Aras was convinced Cirie would beat him, and that means he wasn't ultimately playing for the win (and that means he sucks). The jury votes are irrelevent (and completely debatable, by the way; I think Cirie would have gotten votes from Sally, Danielle, Courtney, and Shane, whose votes you give to Aras). What matters is that as far as Aras knew, Cirie would beat him. You don't go to the end with someone you think will beat you. Hell, you don't go to the end with someone you're not sure you can beat, especially if that someone is a sweet, lovable, older woman with a family to support and an underdog story arch who never had to rely on challenges like you did.