Survivor China

On Sunday's season finale of Survivor China, the castaways competed for pizza, soda, and beer. In order to win this reward, the castaways had to build a miniature version of the Great Wall which involved building and crossing a bridge, digging for wall (puzzle) pieces, climbing a tower, and assembling the pieces correctly. Amanda Kimmel's puzzle solving skills won her the pizza, soda, and beer which she shared with Todd Herzog. That move alone changed my views of Amanda from smart to genius. Amanda Kimmel gets yet another chance to come up with more cunning ideas and get Todd to carry them out for her. Additonally, in most of the immunity challenges Amanda Kimmel has performed better than Todd Herzog which would give her the biggest advantage assuming Amanda Kimmel and Todd Herzog ate the same portions. I would of loved to win that reward because pizza is my favorite food and soda is my favorite drink. I wouldn't have any beer because I'm only 16 and even if I was 21 I still wouldn't drink it because I'm strongly against alcohol. The final immunity challenge required the castaways to balance delicate Chinese dinnerware on a disk. If any piece dropped, the castaway who was holding it was out of the challenge. Amanda Kimmel's clever strategy to put the dinnerware upside down making the dinnerware sturdier won her immunity and a guaranteed spot in the final 3. Before the final immunity challenge was revealed I was hoping they would be hanging from the Great Wall. That would of been an awesome challenge to watch. At tribal council, Denise Martin was easily voted out 3:1. The final 3 which consisted of Amanda Kimmel, Courtney Yates, and Todd Herzog went back to camp for the last time to have a Day 39 feast and tore down the Hae Da Fung Camp. At their final tribal council, the jury voted for Todd Herzog to become Sole Survivor and win the $1,000,000 grand prize 4:2:1 with Amanda Kimmel receiving only 1 vote from the jury. What a shame that was, Amanda Kimmel who clearly played a smarter game didn't win the title of sole survivor because the jury didn't know everything that actually went on between Amanda Kimmel and Todd Herzog. I'm almost certain that if the jury voted live (the votes are already read live to prevent spoilers) that Amanda Kimmel would of won hands down. Despite of the finale disappointment, Survivor China was still an incredible season.