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According to the Recap, Matty wins.

Why does Matty win?

Mostly because Bob, Corrine, Sugar, Susie, Crystal and Ken don't all for different reasons.

But also because his story makes sense, in a not-making-sense kind of way. We may ask ourselves - "why was the Fang tribe edited so negatively if the winner comes from it?" The answer is, he doesn't. Matty is not a Fang member. Fang is merely the obstacle he had to overcome in order to get to the end.

According to Jeff (and we can't discount all the Fang-bashing just because he now refers to them as the underdogs), Matty was stuck with bickering, weak, negative, losing losers who are only good at losing. Matty is not one of them. He is the one who is giving his all in challenges - in contrast to G.C - and is doing well at them - in contrast to, say, Crystal. It's not a coincidence the recap focused on the challenge in which all of his tribe gave up on carrying the snake (namely Sugar and Ken) except for Matty who gave it his all. It's not a coincidence Jeff called his challenge win against Bob "legendary" or "epic" or something to that affect. Matty is not part of the problem. Fang is Matty's problem. He just has to find a way to overcome it.

He makes a four-person alliance with Randy, Susie and Dan, only to have them all leave to new-Kota and for him to be left alone at the always-losing Fang, helpless and defeated. He can't wait to get out of the ghetto. And at last, he does.

And now he is "good" to Corrine's "evil". He succeeded in avoiding Fang's negativity, which stuck to Susie, Ken and mostly Crystal. They're all underdogs now because Matty is part of them, and Jeff can't say "Matty's the underdog" because Jeff is smooth and it'd be too obvious. Susie, Crystal and Ken are not redeemed. Susie is the fool who stumbles out of the bathtub too early, who tells Corrine she was gonna vote for her. Crystal is the bickering loser who is a prime reason Fang sucked and is always involved in the negativity that goes around camp. Ken is the liar who fooled Sugar into voting out her ally, who is getting smug and arrogant now that he has the power. Matty avoided all those negative traits, although in real life, he was probably pretty weak in the strategy department, just like Susie, and pretty smug in his new-found success, just like Ken, and sometimes negative and petty, just like Crystal. In the show he is none of those things. He is the good force, who tries to keep his tribe's moral up and sings a lovely song to his lovely girlfriend.

Sugar is our final-tribal-council loser. Ken is the player who gets too comfortable and falls just short (re: Ace, Marcus and Randy). It's not doubt Ken is getting - for doubt we need to root for him first, and the editing hasn't gotten that far with his character.

So Matty is our winner. He started weak, and he doesn't have a perfect edit, but he's all we've got. Although I would love for him to get a Marcusesque boot, with Susie as the surprise winner. Hey, anything is possible - as this season proved all too well.