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Stephenie LaGrossa (dominated most of the game, except on the original Yaxha I believe where it seemed like Gary was the leader.

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Steph didn't 'dominate' the game. Rafe did, then later Danni when she completely duped him into blowing up his game too. Steph was the figure head, but Rafe was the one making all the decisions.

Example:

Rafe: I want to vote out Cindy.
Steph: I don't know... I've already backstabbed Jamie and Judd, thats another jury vote I'd lose.
Rafe: Too bad.

Lo and behold, Steph votes out Cindy, loses her jury vote.
And unlike the true strategists and dominators like Richard Hatch, Tina Wesson and Rob Mariano, Steph lucked into the numbers when the switch put her from a tribe down by one member to the tribe up by one member. Thats a 2 immunity challenge swing right there, and she was put in that position solely by luck (or producer manipulation, if you believe like I do that certain things in Guatemala were rigged in Steph's favor)

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Proved herself a big threat by being one of Ulong's F2 yet still made it to the F2 in Guatemala, that's a big accomplishment, look at how fast the F2ers lost in allstars.

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Steph lasted early on in Yaxha because its women were ultra weak (Morgan, Brianna, Lydia, and an injured Amy). Voting out Steph while they were still around would be insanely moronic (odd how all the weak women were on Steph's tribe, eh? Seems a little too convenient to me). She made it through the mid game because she had the numbers, of course she wasn't gonna go. She made it through the end game because she was a huge goat. Ironically, keeping Steph the goat around was one of Rafe's big mistakes, for she was much more an attractive F2 partner than he was which is why Danni voted him out.

That said, Steph certainly deserves credit for lasting as long as she did in Palau.

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Jamie's already said he was going to vote out Stephenie soon, probably the round after he got voted out, so voting him out was necessary for her survival even if she could have beaten him in a jury vote.

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Not really, because at that point Judd and Rafe certainly wouldn't have voted against her, Cindy probably wouldn't have either. Thats 4 of 7 votes right there. Bobby Jon and Danni trying to vote Steph off didn't make a difference, I doubt Jamie trying to have would have either.

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And despite popular belief from his big villain edit Judd wasn't a goat, the only person who made it to the jury that didn't like him was Rafe)

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Thats right, he wasn't a goat. That said, I still think Steph would have beat him in the final 2 although it would have been close (4-3 or 5-2).