I'm glad he didn't win, too.
Did he play best?
No.
There's an aspect to the game that he COMPLETELY ignored. Which is that, while you're slipping the knife into back after back after back, you finesse it to divert attention away from your stealth or immediately do damage control or SOMETHING to blunt the pain.
What you DON'T do is gloat and preen and strut and pat yourself on the back about how brilliant YOU are and how STOOPID everyone else is.
Betsy. Man, Betsy had him figured out all over. Too bad he decapitated her early on. She'd've tripped him up big time.
I also thought Natalie's win was COMPLETELY at the hands of Erik and his excellently put, very pointed, intelligent and thoughtful question. Which opened the door in the jury's mind to reward her for, if nothing else, her tenacity.
BTW - Biggest shocks of the Survivor ending?
A) That Sham knows the meaning of the word feckless.
B) Brett's interested in a bro-date w/Mick....