User blog comment:Courierthekid/Most Deserving Runners up./@comment-26485526-20181212235903

I’ll add another one here that I’ve seen, and certain people still argue...

Benjamin “Coach” Wade: South Pacific The argument for Coach to have won South Pacific is pretty close to the argument people try to use for Russell “Bitter Jury Syndrome,” except while I sort of see the argument for Russell since Natalie was hidden in the background for each move except the Erik move post-merge (though Natalie White is an underrated winner, imo), Sophie on the other hand was very active strategically, and it was out in the open that she was Coach’s right hand... except she wasn’t. Coach was SOPHIE’S right hand (she said in her jury speech she viewed him as a young girl she could drag along) and she let him be the obnoxious loudmouth that he is and piss away his jury votes, for her to swoop up when they sat at the finals together. Sophie simply suffers from the fact that Coach was louder and had probably about triple the confessionals she did. Most of the jurors, from both tribes, had no respect for Coach’s game. Sophie knew she was blunt and unapproachable, but her strategic game kept the season on track because she was in such a prime spot to go to the end, with two people she knew she could beat, Coach and Albert. To me, there is no argument for Coach to have won this season, and he is quite deserving of the “runner-up” title. This makes me wish casuals would look into more than just the confessional count when watching, but we know that won’t ever happen.