A skinny video-game pro from the cursed Fang tribe had no business running Gabon, and that's exactly what made Kenny Hoang so much fun to watch. While the bigger names jockeyed, Kenny and Crystal quietly stacked the votes against Marcus and made the early kingpin the first name on the jury bench. Then at the merge he stood up and pinned the whole season's scheming on Charlie, talking the tribe into a 5-4 blindside and clearing out the other half of Kota's brain trust.
But Bob just would not lose immunity, and one by one Kenny's targets ran out while his own ride-or-die Crystal got voted off ahead of him. His torch got snuffed at the final five on finale night: Sugar slapped down her hidden idol to cover her pal Matty, wiped out every vote aimed there, and the redirect landed on Kenny instead. He goes out fifth, the sixth juror, the little gamer who actually got to play puppet master for a while before Sugar's idol he never saw coming pulled the strings out of his hands and left him one seat short of the finals.
