User blog comment:MightyUke416/Survivor: Advantage Island - Uke & Just/@comment-26910098-20180325004505/@comment-26485526-20180325005906

Phyllis: Just compared Phyllis' game to Vecepia's in Marquesas, which was pretty accurate. She voted with Katrina against Marielle in the first vote, putting her on the bottom. But, with Zapotec winning the next few challenges, she made it to the swap.

From there, Phyllis flew right under the radar all the way to the final 9, going completely undetected until then. At the previous vote, Nathan had called out Ruben as being the one holding all the power, and out of desperation, knowing that there was a target on his back, Ruben called Viola out too in order to put a target on her back. Phyllis was in Ruben's alliance at this time, and even though Ruben said he was playing his idol, Phyllis wasn't sure if Viola had one herself or not, and didn't want to take any chances. As such, Phyllis had her alliance (Ruben, Marielle, Karlie) switch their votes to Viola's number 1 ally, Juarhala. Then, she went to Viola and Juarhala, told them of the plan, asked to join a final three alliance with them. Viola and Juarhala didn't know how to take it, and debated back and forth who to put the idol on.

At the same time, it was widely known that Gavin, who was also aligned with Viola and Juarhala, had an idol of his own. Since Gavin wasn't in her alliance, she decided that she wanted to flush his idol out as well. In the end, everything worked the way Phyllis hoped it would as Ruben played his idol on himself, which Viola followed up with by playing hers on Juarhala. As a result, everyone's votes, except for Phyllis', were negated by idols, and her vote for Gavin was the difference, sending him home.

From there, Phyllis went right back under the radar and let all of the bigger players take each other out. At the final five, she received the only vote against her that she got all game, which was cast by Daniel, who told all of the other women that Phyllis would win if she got to the end. As such, at the final 4, it looked like the target would be on her yet again. However, Phyllis told Viola that everyone on the jury loved Karlie, while telling Karlie that Viola had the strongest strategic game of all of them. As a result, Viola and Karlie ended up targeting each other, allowing Phyllis to make it to the Final Tribal Council.

At FTC, Phyllis told the jury that she flew under the radar on purpose, and leveraged her move to get rid of Gavin as proof that she was playing strategically the whole time. Her good FTC answers, on top of Viola's villainous game-play and Marielle's "attitude problem," was enough to get her five votes to win, and the title of Sole Survivor.