Winna certainly didn’t feel like a winner after being blindsided by his tribe in the first elimination post-merge.
After starting his game in the Titans tribe, Winna was left in the minority after a tribe swap saw Valeria and Charles move to the Rebels.
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Whilst Charles was unable to last, he and Valeria survived until both tribes were brought together. Initially, the alliances Winna shared with most of his tribemates kept him out of the firing line, but unfortunately for him, his double agent status soon made him the biggest target in Samoa.
“I don’t think it necessarily backfired [being friends with everyone] but it was the combination of everything happening at once,” Winna shared with New Idea the morning after his onscreen elimination aired.
“With Scott quitting and revealing my plan to get rid of Kitty and then me winning individual immunity and Feras having resentment towards me from when I took out Garrick…all those factors came together at once and they exploded.”
Whilst Winna doesn’t exactly have any regrets about how he played his game, he does share that he wishes he wasn’t as “dependent on Feras.”
“I overestimated my relationship with Feras. It wasn’t really shown on air, but we are properly close, but we [made sure] to separate our friendship from the game.”
Despite believing that Feras would side with him and vote out Caroline, Feras flipped to vote for Winna, something Winna believes he could have avoided if he had been more “proactive.”
“Five minutes before tribal [council] I was so cold sitting by the fire, I was hungry, it was wet and I told myself that I should probably go talk to Feras right now just to make sure that we are good and I didn’t do it and I reckon that was probably my biggest downfall, letting things play out.”
Reflecting upon his time on Survivor, however, Winna is still pretty chuffed with his experience.
“For the whole game, I played exactly how I wanted to, I had awesome one-on-one with everyone, I was very genuine and generous with my time, and I didn’t have to do any fake relationship building. I truly had a bond with most of the cast.”
As for how Winna believes the rest of the game will play out, there are three players in mind that he thinks have what it takes to be sole Survivor.
“I feel like I’m quite analytical in general and logical in how I see things but Mark, Feras, and Kirby were all thinking on another level. It’s like playing chess, but they were always 10 steps ahead,” he shares.
“The way their brain works…they are very logical and in particular, Mark is incredibly sharp with his words. The way he navigates [conversations] in particular…”
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