In the latest episode Kass brought her chaos back front and center in an attempt to oust Tony. In the end she backed out of the move and did nothing instead. It did, however inspire me to take a closer look at Kass her journey this season.
Kass will most definitely be remembered as ChaosKass that made the move that was a turning point this season and thus she will have made her impact on the season whatever still happens. But ever since that move, Kass is under the impression that she played an amazing game and everyone else is dumber then a bag of rocks. Is that true or is she just having a massive brainfart? In the end she is in the final 5 while thirteen others aren’t so she must have done something, right?
Say what you want about Kass but she did make her mark on this season. At the start of the season I didn’t have high hopes for the mother/attorney. She did however struck me of having the potential to be a player like Kathy from Survivor Marquesas and the first all-stars. A more older women with a lot of experience who is calm and can read people very well. Kass might be in the same age group with a lot of experience but with a self-proclaimed nickname as ChaosKass you aren’t calm and reading people didn’t turn out to be one of her fortes either.
Kass her season can be summarized by three events. First you had the dilemma between keeping Spencer or J’tia early on in the season. At that moment she was pretty much in control of a decaying tribe together with Tash. She was 50% responsible for choosing to keep Spencer over J’tia, so saying she should have kept J’tia instead, like she did last episode, is just highlighting your own flaws in the season. But was it the wrong choice? I would rather argue against that. J’tia was a loose canon. She might have been loyal then but there’s no guarantee she would stay loyal, or at least any more loyal then Spencer. Spencer was an added value in challenges and eleven episodes in, Spencer has proven his loyalty to the brain which is something you can’t say about Kass. That kind of irony is typical about Kass.
The second event is the move that will determine her legacy on survivor, not only as a survivor player but also as a person. Flipping to the Solana alliance was a completely unnecessary and emotional move. The fact the Kass didn’t see that the Aparri alliance had to cater to Sarah because she was the swingvote, is proof of Kass her limited survivor skills. From Tasha her interview on the Survivor aftershow, we learned that Kass was still considered, at least by Tash as part of her Final three. And I think that goes for a lot of people in the Aparri alliance. So basically did Kass not only throw away a final three deal but she also pissed off 5 people, which make it pretty much impossible to win the game at this point.
ChaosKass seemed like a one-time thing because after that Kass took a backseat and didn’t do a whole lot. What she did do was get more arrogant by the day. She seemed to think that the move she made was an amazing move which is very questionable.
It took two Tony blindsides for Kass to cause some chaos again. Frustrated with Tony she approaches Woo, Tash and Spencer to blindside Tony. Now, you have to give her credit that she’s making a move and the move itself isn’t a bad one. The only thing is that Tony is the wrong target. It’s best for Kass her game to vote out Trish since she’s the biggest jurythreat because she played a good game and made few enemies. In the end she realized that Tony is not the correct target since he’s disliked by a lot of people. So she aborts the plan and stays with Tony to vote out Tash. This is a missed opportunity to me since she could have continued with the plan but only changed the intended target to Trish.
This brings us to the future of Kass this last couple of episodes. Kass has a high chance of making the final three at this point. Her only obstacle is Trish because an all-brawn final three is the only way Kass doesn’t get in the final three. If Tony is smart he takes Kass to the end instead of Trish aswell but I’m still not sure if Tony sees Trish as that big of a jurythreat.
Now to her chances to actually win this game? Zero, I would say. Even with a final three of Kass, Woo and Tony, I believe she’ll lose to Tony and probably even Woo. Kass has burned to many bridges to stand a chance but I’m sure she’ll blame it to a short-minded and bitter jury. It may be a bitter jury but she hasn’t played an amazing game that deserves to win. She made one move that had a big impact and it was a bad move. So in the end ChaosKass will have colored this season but as a survivorplayer she was more of a storm in a glass of water if anything else. See you next time!
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