Top Shot Season 2

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Yeah, the popularity contest part is BEYOND stupid!

 

I agree, bad decision to go that route this year.

 

No love loss seing Ashley go. He was a complete a-hole to Jamie in the kitchen and karma bit him in the ass.

 

Guy's was a boner bag.

 

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.

 

Yeah if they were shooting at a real target, the target would have been gone after the first shot.

 

Lots of our questions are answered in this interview Caleb (season 1) gave to Jay (season 2)

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts/2011/04/08/gun-nuts-radio-jay-lim-from-top-shot-reloaded

Thought I'd throw this out there as some of you might be interested.

 

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.

 

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.

 

I agree with that. They should do it like the challenges at the end. If you haven't competed yet you are sequestered. Would be fairer to everyone.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Hmm what about they vote for one guy to go to elimination and the other guy is determined by performance? Probably wouldn't eliminate the personality drama of this season.

 

I think an email to the producers are in order. Great idea!

 

Once they go to equal footing competition (no more teams) than elimination should be based solely on performance in the competition. Worst 2 performers go to the elimination challenge.

It's /supposed/ to be free-for-all at that point, so why have the vote for elimination? All it does is introduce personality drama that is much better left on the cutting room floor.

 

George still annoys me especially his whining about the rickety contraption. Obviously it didn't bother him too much since he won.