User blog comment:DuskEars/Congo AMA/@comment-28913090-20191127120056/@comment-38115759-20191127122702

1. The most over-rated castaway was probably Lindsey, I know I'm copping out by going with someone who was eliminated early, but she had such a big fan base for someone playing a terrible game?

Racquel also had a too-large fan base for a bad player, but I think she was a little more sympathetic than Lindsey. Lindsey put herself into the bad situation, Racquel got swap-screwed.

It's hard to call anyone who made it to the end over-rated because there was support for almost everyone (apart from Jim and Carolyn) in the Final Nine and the last bad player left at 10 imho.

As for under-rated, I think people were sleeping on JoAnne until FTC. She was a solid player, but people weren't really looking at her until very late. It was confusing for me, but better late than never.

I also think Peter and Shelley were both very under-rated, they both had chance after chance to take control of their tribes only to have their plans fall apart and leave back-to-back, if things had gone different for them they could have run their tribes. I think they were great mirrors for each other. Those two and Hector were my favourite string of boots, so that adds to it a little, I think.

2 - Favourite scene to write was easily Aaron revealing that he was lying about his wife's pregnancy. A little predictable and a little cheesy, but it was fun.

Other than that, Tee's vote off, Shelley's vote off and Kyle confessiong his feelings for Craig were all pretty good.

3 - Congo has been through the wringer over the years, man. I've had a 32-player version, a 20-player version and a 16-player version. When I settled on 24-players (the original number) I dug up my old notes and changed the personalities of the cast to fit the modern day a little better. But despite all that it mostly stayed the same, surprisingly.

The one change of note is I originally had Aaron 3rd and Jim 4th, but that was changed so the Strikeforce weren't as dominant. (Also as I said below, Jim was meant to be a robbed King and a 3rd place finish would have added to his three-time-player arc)