Yeah I LOVE Natalie as a winner, she was also my fantasy pick -yes, I had to point that out-, but just her overall gameplay was so well done by her, so I definitley prefer her as a winner over Tina -even though I love Tina alot!-.

But the cast is most important to me, and Australia def has a WAY more stronger cast, a more fair and evenly spread out edit which made you care for everyone, which SJDS failed miserably at. Also Australia has much more iconic moments that still hold up to this day, and I can't get over Australia's cast, it was just a really good one!! Also the edit that season truly nailed it. Thinking of Australia just reminds me of why I love Old School so much, so even though I love Natalie, Australia def takes the cake for me by a landslide!

Ohmygod... AO got beat by SJDS?

So, was it casuals that voted? Cause no die-hards would put a 21+ season (besides 25 and 28 maybe) above Australia.

I'm a part of alot of extremist diehard Survivor groups on FB (you know what I mean, practically FE but with more informed crazy people) and they would legit go on a witch hunt for all y'all bitches if they saw this, no joke!! They praise the shit out of Old School, I think every normal die-hard does as well. Because it really is good.

I'm calling recency bias on this. And plus half the voters haven't even seen Australia. So yeah...

I'm obviously pissed. So let me have this post for my rant.

Ah Lamps, sometimes I wish I could go back to those innocent times as a Casual. It only lasted a week though. But then I remember how much fun I have talking to fellow Survivor fans in-depth. And then I'm proud to be a diehard again. :-)

Yeah, but doesn't everyone have bias towards the beginnings of a passion of theirs?

JJ @ 20/11/2015 15:58

I think that's what it is - I really like the strategy side but I also love Natalie and that's a big part of it. I don't think it has to do as much with whether someone is a "die-hard" fan or not and that's up for interpretation anyway. Just like opinions, they're not all going to be the same.

Oh I know that, I meant more that it's common that old school gets more love than new school with die-hard fans.