Re: Dick and Janelle Live Chat

"Brian Smith" <dcg_brian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> You seem to be saying because Ryan and Baller won questioned-based comps

> that they are better at such comps than Sharon. I disagree because her 
> overall record on number of questions answered is much better.

I'm not saying that Ryan and Baller are better at question comps. I think 
question comps are really toss ups. I'm just making the point that her
track 
record doesn't justify an assumption that she would beat them.


>Baller's win came on the comp where BB paired them off and we were told 
>that they had preselected who would go first conveniently having two
people 
>from Sharon's side go first since it was in BB's interest for them to
lose 
>that comp.

Baller also won the "more or less" competition and at the end Sharon
berated 
herself for missing an answer when she knew better. She also claimed to 
misinterpret the tiebreaker question in the F4 HOH comp. Her good but not 
great track record in comps may be due to choking under the pressure.


> but Sheila won and we saw no signs all season that she is strong. Why 
> Sharon decided not to try in that comp is something I don't understand.
It 
> might have cost her the game.

Sheila's win goes back to what I was saying about having heart. She was 
desperate to win that competition and she was not going to deliberately
drop 
no matter what. It was the same thing with James in the disco ball 
competition. Natalie, Janelle and Dani are some players who come to mind
for 
always showing a lot of heart in competitions but I never saw that same 
determination from Sharon.



> As for the final endurance comp you are discounting Sharon's size too 
> much. Baller and Ryan might be a lot stronger than her but they both
also 
> weigh more than double what she does. In the hamster wheel comp I say 
> Sharon would have done well based on her balancing skills. She looks
more 
> coordinated than Baller and she's smart enough to have figured out that 
> comp just as fast he did.

I'd guess she'd do better than Sheila did and better than Ryan could do.
And 
prior to the competition I might have predicted she'd perform better than 
Baller but his time ended up being incredibly fast.  He even commented
that 
he thought his weight helped him somewhat, which I can see because a
heavier 
person won't have to use as much momentum to move the wheel and can 
therefore be more precise.



> If I wasn't open-minded I wouldn't respond to many of the responses I
read 
> in this forum. I realize you are just disagreeing with me concerning how

> Sharon would have done in the final F3 and I'm simply saying I think she

> would have done better than you think.


I was mostly disagreeing with your comment that she definitely would have 
won two of the rounds. I do think her chances in round three would have
been 
quite good but assuming she would have been in the F3 with Ryan and
Baller, 
I think she would have had to pull out something we've never seen from her

before in order to win either of the first two rounds.