Failed Pagonging

The Failed Pagonging is the doom of many players of Survivor. Pagonging is named after the doomed Pagong tribe that never got it's act together in the first season of Survivor and was slaughtered by the Tagi Alliance lead by Richard Hatch. The Pagong tribe was voted out one by one till they were all destroyed. Pagonging is basically a form of total war where you completely and totally destroy your opponent, and it is very effective for a simple reason, whoever makes it to the end of the game with you will have as much blood on their hands as you do. When the dominating allliance outright crushes the losing alliance, the losing alliance must vote one of the enemy the winner of the game and make them a millionare.

The failed Pagonging has recently come about and been and 3 of the last 9 seasons have had winners come as a result of the failed Pagonging. The failed Pagonging is basically a fatal mistake for any tribe since it gives the jury a member of their defeated alliance to vote for, and somebody who has less, if not no, blood on their hands.

The first failed Pagonging was when Chris won on Vanuatu because the woman's alliance (The tribes had been split by gender at the start) decided to start voting out the weakest link in their own alliance, but in doing so, allowed Chris to get himself into a 4 person alliance with the three women on the bottom of the totem pole. The leader of this new alliance was seen as Twila, who was pretty much hated by everyone, allowing Chris to take her to the end and win the game.

The second failed Pagonging millionare was Danni on Guatemala who had her alliance be defeated, but then was kept around as the winning alliance always found itself in need of backstabbing somebody in their own alliance over voting out Danni. The offically most moronic play ever happened at final 4, when Rafe, one of the ring leaders of the winning alliance (The other being Steph) won immunity and had the choice to either vote out Danni, who was a potental physical threat, or to vote off Lydia, a tiny woman who really had shown no hope of winning a challenge. Rafe kept Danni around like an idiot and convinced Steph to do the same, then shockingly, Danni won immunity at three, booted that fool Rafe, and collected a million dollars for his and Steph's stupidity.

The final failed Pagonging was last year when Bob won because Sugar just couldn't bear to vote the old guy out whenever they had the chance, and he helped himself by winning immunity a bunch of times, but still, at final 4, Bob could have been booted, but Sugar, clearly thinking Survivor is far more important then it is, decided to keep him around and hand him a million dollars, I need more friends like Sugar.

So fully 1/3rd of the last 9 seasons have been failed pagonging victories. So a hint to anyone playing this game, if you got the numbers going into the merger, don't stop voting out the outgunned alliance till they are all gone, every last one of them! Then you can tend to your own house.