Kenny Hoang came to Gabon as a self-styled strategic assassin — a video-game pro who fancied himself the puppet master and, improbably for a slight underdog on the disastrous Fang tribe, actually pulled a lot of strings. He out-maneuvered bigger personalities, engineered votes, and bluffed his way through a chaotic season as one of its sharpest tacticians.
His unraveling was self-inflicted: convinced to turn on his closest ally late in the game, Kenny made the move and watched it cost him his own foundation, going out in fifth. A bold, scheming run that flew higher than anyone expected before the knives turned inward.
