4. Sarah Lacina
For the majority of the season, it seemed as though Sarah Lacina had enough heroic undertones, social breakthroughs, and important personal character development growth necessary to fulfill a winner’s edit for Survivor: Winners at War. A majority of that notion got sidelined as soon as Tony began what I believe to be his coronation edit, exploding in popularity at the Final Nine and cruising all the way to the end.
There was an important conversation back at camp after Tony pulled off the 4-3-2, with Sarah noting that they can get past this blip in the road until it ends her game. She seemed serious enough to willingly end her friendship with her other half of the Cops-R-Us duo if he was truly out to get her, and so far, that hasn’t proven to be the case.
What nailed Sarah’s winner edit into its coffin was Michele’s accurate conversation with Sarah, declaring that it’s in nobody’s best interest to keep him until the end. The fact that Sarah is really willing to go full ride-or-die with Tony Vlachos after he betrayed her, countless others, and in a game for $2 million suggests, to me, that her allegiance to the “construction worker” will be her downfall.