Winning in a Landslide and Why That’s Common

It is a common complaint among the switch from the final two to a final three that instead of a person bringing a goat to the end, they now bring two. They act as if it is easy for this to happen. But this did not change the problem that happens of a player winning in a landslide.

This didn’t used to be the case. In the first five seasons, only one winner won on a margin of more than one vote. Then in the sixth, we saw the runner-up get only one vote. It then became common for a lot of seasons to happen with blowout votes for the winner. My notes do not yet go up to all of the seasons that have happened thus far. (I’m hoping that it can sometime be caught up to the 40^th season.) But I do know that Ghost Island had the first ever tie for a win. But I’m pretty sure that the last season before that to be decided by just one vote was Nicaragua.

Why is winning in a landslide common? Well, some contestants are popular that make the end and others that are there with them just aren’t instead. Sometimes, a person just can’t seem to overcome whatever issues they have to get many, if any, jury votes. In fact, some people might be lucky to get them at all when people on the jury want to give someone else third place. That is worth talking about in another blog post.

Whatever you consider a landslide and regardless of if you like a person or not, most winners tend to have a lot of votes over the other people who are finalists against them. Considering how we get a lot of people who are likable, at least enough compared to others in the end, it is all the more likely that those people would get votes to win and win in a landslide. And it is probably going to keep happening as the game keeps going on and on. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.