'Survivor' 2014 Cast: Where Does Natalie Anderson Rank On All-Time Winners List After Season 29 Victory? [POLL, VIDEO]
The finale of CBS's Survivor: San Juan del Sur aired Wednesday night and crowned a new winner, but where does 28-year-old Natalie Anderson land in the list of all-time winners?
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Natalie won the title of Sole Survivor and the million dollar prize Wednesday night, beating out Jaclyn Schultz and Missy Payne in the Final 3. She made big moves in the game and played a good enough social game that most of the jury felt at ease crowning her the winner.
She played a relatively under-the-radar game during the pre-merge, which was helped by the fact that she only went to Tribal Council once. Making an alliance early on with Missy and Jeremy Collins, she managed to survive until the merge with relative ease.
After the merge she added Jon Misch and Jaclyn to her alliance in addition to Missy's daughter Baylor Wilson as they voted out Josh Canfield. She was blindsided when her alliance turned on her and voted out Jeremy, but she used that to light a fire under her belly and dominated the game from that point on.
She gained control by voting out Alec Christy without telling her alliance beforehand and blamed it on miscommunication. She then set her sights on Jon and successfully masterminded a move to get him out. As if this weren't enough, she played her Hidden Immunity Idol at Final 5 not on herself but on Jaclyn, hoping to gain her trust while simultaneously splitting up Missy and Baylor.
Then her most impressive move may have been convincing Jaclyn and Missy to vote out Keith instead of her at the Final 4.
On the whole, Natalie played a pretty great game that could be considered one of the best of all time. She certainly had more of a say in decisions than Bob Crowley from Survivor: Gabon or Fabio Birza from Survivor: Nicaragua. However, her game may not have been as dominant as Tom Westman from Survivor: Palau or Kim Spradlin from Survivor: One World.
Where would you rank Natalie Anderson on the all-time winners list?
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