SPOILERS: Nah man, this show is rigged, and nobody can convince me otherwise
>!These judges had it out for Asia-Pacific. One of the strongest teams at the start of the competition, completely shredded within the span of five episodes.!<
I was already suspect as hell when Shompa was eliminated through a surprise double elimination the judges decided to make up on the spot, because up until that point she was one of the strongest performing members of the Asia-Pacific team. But after last night I'm convinced this was always the plan.
Two team challenges back-to-back, but for some reason the rules change, and rather a whole team getting eliminated, it's now the two lowest performing individuals across the lowest teams, and one of those eliminations just so happens to be the last-standing member of Asia-Pacific after the other two Asia-Pacific members were eliminated last episode? Not only that, but you leave the worst performing individual on the Asia-Pacific team to be eliminated last, even though they never had a single high ranking dish, never won a single challenge, and was low ranking four times?
>!And like, just remove Asia-Pacific from the conversation for a moment. Tkaiya? Over Basia or Peter???????!<
I don't know man. I'm not usually a conspiratorial person, but that seems awfully targeted. Foo was definitely the weakest link of the Asia-Pacific group, but if you're going to change the rules up on team challenges and how people are judged, and 3 of the 4 individuals you eliminate are from one group, then I think it's absolutely fair of me to question whether or not those eliminations were justified.
To me, it reads opportunistic; like the judges were jumping at any opportunity to remove the strongest contenders the moment they performed poorly in the competition - even if someone performed worse than they did. The only reason why I'm convinced Jaime didn't get eliminated during the wedding episode is because it was irrefutable that Aghata performed far worse than she did, and nobody paying attention would have been able to accept her getting eliminated.
I had some high hopes for this season, but it's so flagrantly choreographed. If Jake or Dave get pushed out in the next couple episodes, I'll probably stop watching because it will be so obvious that they're setting up someone to win, and it certainly won't be anyone deserving of it.