I honestly believe that if it wasn't a tie vote, the whole season would have been edited completely differently.
The whole point of the edit, and in a lot of cases "under-editing," was to big Dom and Wendell up so much that nobody had a clue who was going to win out of the 2.
The whole story of the season post merge was how Dom and Wendell outsmarted everyone. The only sub-story was Laurel and Wendell's close bond. And when it came down to it, they were the only stories that mattered in association with the final outcome. If the editors tried to mask it as something else, they literally would have told a fabricated, false perception of how the game really went down.
Mediocre season over all, but a damn good finale.
**Sidenote:
I love how they repeatedly showed clips last episode and during the finale of Laurel stating that she hopes to "split the vote." She literally did just that haha, just not in the way she thought she would. Cheeky bit of foreshadowing.
