Testimonials

The eating contest wasn't all that bad, most of the food was cooked. And seriously, how bad can any gross out challenge be where one of the supposedly terrible foods is peanut butter? Now, they didn't get any milk to wash that peanut butter down, but there was only a couple of foods that were instant vomit-inducing, among them the ubiquitous cow brains. I still don't think they have really justified any challenge requiring a leader, but this one came the closest, as I guess there was some strategy involved with picking strong teams to eat the food. As we have come to expect by now, the women were outclassed by the guys in this challenge, but this time they managed to at least keep it close, winning two challenges on performance and one on a puking disqualification. For the guys, Abram had a puking disqualification and Theo made out with Arissa's cutout, which didn't have the least bit of staged quality to it. Really, it didn't. Most importantly for the girls, the puzzle portion of the test was still left, so the girls had a realistic shot at winning the whole thing, if only somebody could form a coherent strategy for their puzzle.

If you are wondering, there was only one member of the chosen female leaders who made it past their eating challenge. It was, of course, Ayanna, who had to be coerced into leading, but tried her best to get her team ahead. Surely her supporting cast would be ready to listen to her as they put together the puzzle, right? Well, not exactly. The puzzle wasn't super hard, and the teams were even given a key to see how to put it together. I bet the girls wish they didn't piss Sarah off about ever participating again during the Gauntlet, because they could have used her puzzle solving skills at this time. After seeing that nobody was getting anywhere trying to follow the conflicting directions of Ibis and Angela, Ayanna had enough and decided to regulate. Saying a few people should read the key and give directions to people placing the pieces on the board. Sound strategy, but unfortunately, the girls had already did a little fubar job on the puzzle, so Ayanna's pleas for sanity didn't mean any thing when it came to securing a victory because the guys won. Each videophone was worth $1100, which seems like a great haul, but when you think you could have easily bought a laptop and a video camera that would give you the same capabilities, one wonders just how much that company had to pay to get their sinking product some buzz in the market.

During the girl's deliberation, they focused their attention on their leadership, or what was missing in their leadership. Aneesa was the first to speak up and lay the blame solely on Ayanna. Many agreed that her performance as a leader was lacking, they didn't like her style, and didn't want somebody like that on the team. Among the people to chime in against Aneesa were Ibis and Angela, who will likely catch on to the irony of their votes after they are voted off in the next couple of weeks. Now, call me a dimbass, but I didn't think Ayanna was all that bad. Her style is a bit abrasive, but she was a leader by example by beating the guys during the eating challenge, and she tried to regulate when chaos started during the puzzle part of challenge by doing some delegating. They lost, so she shares the blame, but she easily had the best performance of the leaders. However, after Aneesa spoke up, everybody fell in line. Again, Angela and Ibis voting for Ayanna is cruel irony. So often the newer people are complaining about how unfair it is to have the veterans around. Well, the girls had a chance to get rid of Coral, but did not capitalize. I was surpised Coral even offered to be leader, so as much as I think that she is the epitome of a lifetime challenge member, I have to say that she has now offered to be leader twice. Still, the reasons people used for keeping her around was she pulled her weight, which was not the case this evening.

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