That was the worst season in the show’s history. It was definitely one of the worst from entertainment, gameplay, quality of the contestants, but with the Dan incident, that puts it far over the top as the clear worst season in the show’s history.
I don’t think Tommy played a great game, but he wasn’t that bad of a winner. He had good relationships. Good social game and understood strategy within the game. He didn’t run the game, but he’s an all star caliber of survivor player, albeit probably like a 3rd or 4th best player on most seasons. I didn’t think Dean was a good survivor player. He did well with advantages, but that was his whole game.
Season 40 looks very interesting. I wanted to see Kim play again because she completely ran over a terrible cast in her win. Tony is my favorite player, so that’ll be fun to watch, but I have a feeling he’ll run himself out of it in the first few episodes. The cast looks good. There are only one or two winners not there that I wanted to see.