John Fincher spent Survivor: Samoa on Galu, the powerhouse tribe that steamrolled the pre-merge while Russell Hantz's Foa Foa got picked apart. That early dominance carried Fincher to the merge with the numbers — and then he watched Galu's supposed advantage come undone.
He hung on for 30 days and even won immunity to buy himself time, but the old Galu alliance fractured at exactly the wrong moment for him, and he went out ninth. A strong, steady player caught on the wrong side of one of the game's great pre-merge-to-merge collapses.
