Russell is an amazing strategist, if you consider alienating and pissing off the entire jury a viable strategy. I believe it's usually called "being the goat".
He's great with x's and o's of how to move players around to benefit him, but his total lack of even acknowledging the social component of the game makes him terrible at Survivor.
And I'm not some Russell hater. I find his antics to be pretty entertaining. But he could play Survivor 100 times and he would never win because he fails to see to how his actions piss people off.
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