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Top Shot Season 2

14K views 110 replies 24 participants last post by  RonDawg 
#1 ·
Debuts February 8. History Channel has been showing promo videos for it last weekend, in-between Ax Men and Top Gear.

http://www.history.com/shows/top-shot with info on this season's participants. Not surprisingly, there are a couple of cops, several ex-military, and even a cowboy shooter a la Denny Chapman.

Even though Season 2 has yet to air, the producers are already taking preliminary applications for Season 3.
 
#52 ·
So Colby was calling the shots, but was he seeing them, or was he getting info from the spotter (behind the shooters).

I thought down range might have been too far away to pick up the shots with the naked eye, but that could just be camera angles and such that made it look that way to me. If the other guys could actually see all of that, then the others should have been able to pick up some 'pointers' from the other's results.
 
#53 ·
So Colby was calling the shots, but was he seeing them, or was he getting info from the spotter (behind the shooters).

I thought down range might have been too far away to pick up the shots with the naked eye, but that could just be camera angles and such that made it look that way to me. If the other guys could actually see all of that, then the others should have been able to pick up some 'pointers' from the other's results.
My guess is the spotter was letting the contestant(s) know where they shot. Not sure if it was loud enough for those on the bench to hear or not. Colby's part was probably edited in later to make it look like he was calling it right after the shots were taken.
 
#55 ·
But that contradicts what george said when he went to shoot. He specifically said he used the doping info from the prevous shooters and that they were shooting to the left.

He knew this somehow.
Then the ones on the bench overheard the spotter, which wouldn't surprise me at all, but Colby was probably either edited in or repeating the spotter, just my guess.
 
#56 ·
I got this from the History.com forums. Caleb from Season 1 interviews Jay Lim:

http://blogtalk.vo.llnwd.net/o23/show/1/692/show_1692507.mp3

Jay gives some interesting insight into the show's production. He said that besides Brian, and obviously Joe, nobody knew how they actually scored in the .50 cal shoot. I bet that George was surprised that his arch-enemy actually beat him by a second. Unfortunately Jay doesn't shed any more light into the George and Jamie show beyond what many have already guesses.

As far as that is concerned, Jamie himself posted that he had "words" with another contestant at the house and that is what is fueling all the hate towards him. It wasn't George but certainly one of George's bunk buddies...I'm guessing Ashley.

A funny note: Jay's interview was interrupted because he saw a cop checking out his NSX parked out front. Jay was phoning in the interview from home. Jay left the phone off-hook and carried it outside with him, and you can hear the cop tell Jay that one of his neighbors called to complain about the car. The cop can be heard saying "72 hours" which is the limit for parking a car on a public roadway in CA.
 
#57 ·
My guess is the spotter was letting the contestant(s) know where they shot. Not sure if it was loud enough for those on the bench to hear or not. Colby's part was probably edited in later to make it look like he was calling it right after the shots were taken.
I htought I saw the camera cut to Colby on-range announcing the hit location during the contest.
 
#58 ·
I don't think I've cheered for any episode as hard as I did this one. I loved the look of the faces of the others (particularly George) when Jaime outshot everybody else, and thus spoiled their plans to get rid of him :up:

While George is the blowhard of Season 2, it appears that Ashley is the one with the real personality beef with Jaime. I'm glad he got eliminated. His refusal to even acknowledge Jaime after he lost just shows a total lack of class.

I'm also glad that Chris R. finally recognized that Ashley as being a troublemaker and helped to send him to elimination. I'm just curious how George is going to act the remainder of the season now that his biggest cheerleaders/enablers are now gone.

George needs to knock it off with saying the eliminations are "performance based." The only person who will believe that after last week's episode is himself.

Did Brian (Gunny) always share a room with Jaime, or did he move in with him for some more elbow room (and to get out of that toxic environment)?
 
#59 ·
Too bad Ashley had it in for Jamie. As the last member of the red team, he could have partnered with Jamie and Joe to make the elimination selections fair this round.

Have to agree with George on the F.A.L vs AR-15. For the purposes of the challenge, the recoil really made it harder along with the small platform.
 
#60 ·
Why even bother with the competition, since they had already decided who was going to go to elimination before they even GOT to the competition portion? So sad that Jaimie screwed it up for them by winning.

If they do the damn personality crap for elimination next year, I'm done. The two worst performers should be in the elimination challenge. Not the ones that the 'cool kids' don't like.
 
#65 ·
JoBeth66 said:
Why even bother with the competition, since they had already decided who was going to go to elimination before they even GOT to the competition portion? So sad that Jaimie screwed it up for them by winning.

If they do the damn personality crap for elimination next year, I'm done. The two worst performers should be in the elimination challenge. Not the ones that the 'cool kids' don't like.
The person who wins each competition has "immunity" from being voted into elimination.

I too hate this modified format.
 
#66 ·
I have only been watching the practices and elimination challenges this year. Don't care for the reality show stuff. That being said, based on the comments here I decided to watch a few snippets of the reality part the last couple of weeks. Holy cow, what a bunch of dirtbags. George and Ashley in particular.

Perhaps Jamie is a really bad guy and I simply don't know it because I haven't watched, but if not, George and Ashley should be ashamed of themselves. What an embarrassment to themselves and their military brothers/sisters.

Also, the popularity contest angle is retarded on the part of the producers. This Top Shot, not most popular shot. The worst performers should be up for elimination. Anything else is just ridiculous.

Finally, the 1,000 yard shot challenge... What a great way to ruin an awesome challenge. It should have been least shots. George may be a tool but that was a phenomenal shot. That's the sign of a true marksman to me. He did a great job of gathering all the information he could from the guys ahead of him then made the final calculations when it came time for him to shoot. 1 shot 1 kill in 30 seconds is a hell of a lot more impressive than 3 shots 1 kill in 26 or 30 seconds.
 
#69 ·
Yeah if they were shooting at a real target, the target would have been gone after the first shot.
Someone else in this thread pointed out that the 50-cal they were shooting would be used on materiel targets as opposed to people, so the target would be unlikely to run off.

But I agree that there should have been some kind of per-shot penalty.
 
#70 ·
Finally, the 1,000 yard shot challenge... What a great way to ruin an awesome challenge. It should have been least shots. George may be a tool but that was a phenomenal shot. That's the sign of a true marksman to me. He did a great job of gathering all the information he could from the guys ahead of him then made the final calculations when it came time for him to shoot. 1 shot 1 kill in 30 seconds is a hell of a lot more impressive than 3 shots 1 kill in 26 or 30 seconds.
They should have made it a combo of the time and the amount of shots. Maybe add 5 seconds for each missed shot or something like that. They also should have not had all the contestants watching each other shoot. The way they did that challenge the first person to go was at a major disadvantage over the ones who shot later.
 
#72 ·
I don't recall there being any rule changes from last season to this season. In the team challenges, they really couldn't objectively judge the worst since it was a side by side challenge.

After watching a couple of the guys run the first challenge this week it was kind of obvious to me that Jamie would win it. He's a Navy Rescue Swimmer. He is usually either shooting from a boat or a helicopter. Neither are all that stable.
 
#73 ·
I don't recall there being any rule changes from last season to this season. In the team challenges, they really couldn't objectively judge the worst since it was a side by side challenge.
IIRC, in the first season, once they went from teams to all the shooters competing as individuals, they no longer had voting for the elimination round. All eliminations from that point forward were determined by the challenges.

You weren't shooting to win immunity, you were shooting not to get eliminated.
 
#76 ·
Perhaps Jamie is a really bad guy and I simply don't know it because I haven't watched, but if not, George and Ashley should be ashamed of themselves. What an embarrassment to themselves and their military brothers/sisters.
No you aren't misinterpreting anything. Jaime is to Season 2 what Kelly was to Season 1: the one everybody wants to pick on, for the most lame reasons. Kelly was due to perceived "immaturity" (never mind his detractors were acting even more childish) and Jaime because some feel he's being secretive and misleading about his Navy career.

Yet George is the one whom many current and ex-military feel is the one who is pumping up his resume. Those same folks are also quite embarrassed about the behavior of all the military-experienced members of Season 2, but in particular George.

George and Ashley and their fanboys/girls of course try to make excuses that "creative editing" is to blame. Creative editing does not create what does not exist. Creative editing does not make George say "F___ You" when asked about Jaime winning against Jay, and does not make Ashley totally blow off Jaime when saying his goodbyes to the remaining competitors.
 
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