Furret has fallen well behind, and I'm not even sure what episode he's on anymore, so barring a late surge from my buddy, I'm the champion this time around. Still, wouldn't be sporting of me to stop now. Let's see how many points we can get.

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1. Tony Vlachos - If he didn't go home last week, he ain't going home at all. My boy is an immunity beast, has a hidden immunity idol, and has the social game to make players literally eat out of the palm of his hand. This season is his to lose.

2. Jeremy Collins - While I could get bit by this, since he's an easy vote out, my strategy the rest of the season is based on the assumption that Tony wins. In a way, you could say I'm metagaming off of SPECULATION. RISKY AS f*** BOYS AND GIRLS. With that said, Tony's path to the end probably means buddying up with Jeremy, who is an easy vote for everyone else, which makes him a number for Tony. Jeremy wants to get to the end. At this point, beggars can't be choosers. He'll ride Tony's coat tails for at least another week.

3. Michele Fitzgerald - Haven't heard anyone seriously pitch her name. The only person who has, pitched her as a backup plan, and was voted out last week. She's sitting pretty if her goal is to be a goat.

4. Nick Wilson - I think Nick is the perfect free agent, and thus, I think he's an easy number for Tony to work with this week. Nick needs to make a big move, and Tony doesn't. So Tony can give agency to Nick, and I think ultimately, he gets a chance to make the decision this week (or Sarah).

5. Sarah Lacina - Speaking of, I'm wondering how Sarah will play off Tony's blindsiding of her number one ally. She doesn't have other allies besides Ben in this game, so I think ultimately, it's too late to break away from Tony. She and him need to work together if she wants to get to the Final 4. She's too big of a threat, otherwise.

6. Denise Stapely - Beginning to think she's out either this week or next, but I can't be sure what the perception of her is. Since her destruction of Sandra, she's been too quiet. We have no idea what her end game strategy is.

7. Kim Spradlin - I never trust the edit, but this is a case where Kim could be set up as Tony's obstacle for the rest of the season. If so, then she won't go home this early. However, I think she has a pretty solid chance to be ousted really soon, because Tony has been shown to be extremely perceptive of threats to his game.

8. Ben Dreibergen - I think Ben is just the easiest person for everyone to get rid of besides Jeremy at this point. If Jeremy gets his way, Ben will be gone. He is a huge immunity threat, and it serves everyone best if they get rid of a threat to their ability to win a challenge. Keeping him around as an obstacle to Tony would be smart, but this group hasn't been shown to be capable of beating Tony.

Team Leggy - 133
Team Furret - 107
Team Leggy's Friend - 120

Well, my friend has fallen behind on episodes. So at this point there really is no more competition. I've given everyone a fair chance to catch up, and with most people stuck with less things to do, I don't really feel bad about disqualifying them. If you can't find an hour over the course of a week to catch up (in this case, I know they aren't working on top of it), then you don't deserve to win.

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1. Tony Vlachos - He's winning Survivor. I don't know how it's going to happen, but he's the only player where the edit makes sense.

2. Michele Fitzgerald - She's a capital GOAT. That's not an acronym for greatest of all time. It's just how big of a goat she is. She has about as much chance of winning the game at this point as I do. My guess is, everyone else knows it too.

3. Sarah Lacina - I was concerned for her safety, but she handled the Sophie blindside really well, and is still seemingly allied with Tony, because she has correctly identified that he's her only close ally left in the game. Her and Tony's fate the rest of the game are probably tied together. I have a feeling they will survive this episode.

4. Denise Stapley - This is where things start to be a little tougher to determine. In my mind, any of the next 4 can go, and this is because it appears to be a double boot episode. Two people are going home, and we only have the benefit of knowing relationships going into one of the episodes. The second one is totally blind, and requires us to project out. I "think" Denise is safe in the first half, which is why I have her as the highest of the four, but I also think she's run out of allies, and that she's not going to have anyone campaigning to keep her around in the second half. So she's in danger.

5. Ben Driebergen - I definitely see one or both of him and Jeremy going home tonight. Ben and Jeremy have been angling to get each other out, both only kept afloat because Tony wants to keep both of them around as meat shields. But these are winners. They aren't stupid. At least one of them is going home, as a way to hamper Tony, and of the two, I feel Ben is the safer one, because he's less likely to work with Tony going forward than Jeremy, who has been reliant on Tony to stay in the game. Plus, he has an idol. He seems safer.

6. Nick Wilson - Nick is a "hyena", and his life in the game has been very low-key. But he wants to come alive in this episode. The problem for him is, I think it's too late to turn on the jets, and he's going to realize this too late as well. I would not be surprised if Tony himself is the reason Nick goes home.

7. Jeremy Collins - Unfortunately, for Jeremy, I believe tonight is curtains. He's seen as a threat to win for some reason by the other players. Tony is soon going to run out of reasons to keep him around, and now everyone knows he has the use of a 50/50 coin. Michele may try to get this advantage back. He's just too dangerous to keep around. Even if he survives the first half, the second half seems too convenient a time to be rid of him.

Team Leggy - 140
Team Furret - 107
Team Leggy's Friend - 120

I'm a little worried about spoilers coming out and invalidating my awesome power-rankings season, so I've decided to jump in front of what I perceive to be coming, and post my rankings.

For the finale episode, I'll be ranking the final 5 in order of where I expect them to place. I'm not going to count the EOE returner, whoever it is. However, I will give myself bonus points if I correctly predict who the EOE returnee is. That will be below the main post.

The EOE returnee, wherever they place, will move everyone down one. If EOE returnee finishes fourth, then the 4th and 5th rankers on my rankings will become fifth and sixth. I will get points for every correct placement. 1 point for 6th place, 2 for 5th, 3 for 4th, 4 for 3rd, 5 for 2nd, and 6 for the winner. I can get a maximum of 20 points (if EOE finishes 6th and I get everyone right).

Here we go:

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1. Tony Vlachos - At this point, even if he doesn't win, I'm fine. But I have to be consistent. I had him as my pre-season winner pick, and I've had him in my top position the last three weeks. We're riding this bad boy all the way to the end. Hail to the king, baby.

2. Michele Fitzgerald - I look up and down this list of players, and all I can think is that she's a goat. Ben and Denise could easily finish 2nd or 3rd (depending on who comes back from EOE), but I think Michele is the most likely to be dragged to the end, simply because she's been on the outside of every vote all season basically. She's had zero social game, because nobody wants to play with her. Tony will play with her though, at the end.

3. Sarah Lacina - I actually think there's a good chance the EOE person comes back and makes it to FTC. So no, I don't think Sarah finishes third. I just don't know if Mr/Mrs EOE finishes 2nd or 3rd herself. Why am I confident EOE makes it to the end? Simple: this player will presumably be a good challenge competitor (something Tony hasn't had to face in a long time), and could go on an immunity run. If the EOE player is Rob, Tyson, or Natalie, that player will also have a hidden immunity idol. They would need to win one challenge, play their idol at Final 5, and then be able to make fire to get to the end super easy. I'll talk more on this at the end, but this is too late for an EOE player to come back in the game, and it's going to kill Sarah's chances of winning, is my feeling.

4. Ben Driebergen - Tony and Sarah's loyal follower will be cut right before the end. He's enough of a goat that they could realistically sit next to him at the end, but I think the most likely outcome is that Michele (ugh) wins immunity at F5, and that an EOE player with an idol comes back (why else would there be so much talk about idols on EOE at the end of last episode?) and plays it, leaving the only vulnerable players as Tony, Sarah, and Ben. Tony and Sarah won't vote for each other, and Tony also has his own idol to play. Ben will be a casualty of war.

5. Denise Stapley - Her Survivor bucket list is through, but her move last week gave her one last week for air. If you told me she was making the finale, I wouldn't have believed it. But she is drawing dead, has no allies, and Tony knows she wants him out. Bye bye Denise.

Edge of Extinction:

Now, I love the Edge of Extinction, conceptually. It's been really cool to see players stick around after they were voted out (particularly because MANY of my favorites were out before the merge). And now, there's drama. Only one will get back in, and I hope it's Rob. With that said, even if it is Rob, and he ends up winning the whole thing, I think it's worth noting how big of a farce it is to have the EOE returnee return with 5 people left in the game (to make it a final 6).

As I outlined in the Sarah plot point above, all the EOE person has to do is have an idol (at least three do), win ONE immunity challenge, and be able to make fire, and they are there at the end of the game even if they were voted out within the first week of the game. It's complete horse-s***.

Here's how this will go. I will list five players who COULD win the EOE challenge. I will gain 5 points if I get it first guess, 4 if second, and 1 if fifth. Anything after five is pointless.

1. Natalie Anderson - She had the most fire tokens. With her tokens, she bought an idol, three advantages in the challenge, and peanut butter (Which she shared with Tyson, at the least). She has the deck stacked. Truthfully, I don't think anyone besides Rob actually has a chance, because he's so good at everything, but we have to be fair.

2. Boston Rob Mariano - He's the best challenge competitor in the history of the show, and he almost won the last battle back challenge. Had he gotten another advantage instead of an idol last time, he'd already have been back in the game. He has a small chance.

3. Tyson Apostol - I think his story is done, but since he was shown getting an idol, I think it's possible that matters.

4. Parvati Shallow - I need a fourth person. She's had a lot of content. So at least it would make sense in the edit.

5. Nick Wilson - I needed a fifth person and he's the freshest person, even if he has no advantages.

Team Leggy - 153
Team Furret - 107
Team Leggy's Friend - 120

Just doing a final placement update.

My best friend got caught up and did all the rankings properly. Here's the final results:

Team Leggy +6, +4, +3, +2, +1 for placements, +5 for EOE (my best friend agreed with the style of rankings for EOE). Grand total of 21 points for the finale, to make for a final total of 174.

Team Furret - 107. Did finish the show, but fell so far behind with the season due to other matters that they conceded to me in private.

Team Leggy's Friend - Caught up, +6 (Sophie), +2 (Kim), +5 (Nick), +6 (Jeremy) for 19 new points (139 pre-Finale points). +6, +1 for placement points, +5 for EOE points, for 12 finale points, and a grand total of 151 points.

Team Leggy - 174
Team Leggy's Friend - 151
Team Furret - 107

Survivor: Winners at War was probably my favorite season ever. Shame we will never see a season like this ever again.