If we are draging up Fea's last village .... you might say you won fair and square Sauce but that doesn't change the fact that I was right......
As for Brin ... my guess is that the wolves chose someone who hadn't attracted much suspicion either by words or vote.
I don't see anyone suggesting that they are gifted and no wolf pack is going to kill an innocent Gil during the night unless he had revealed himself as gifted . There is always too good a chance of getting him lynched.