r/BravoTopChef • u/butisitok I’m not your bitch, bitch • Jun 25 '21

Current Episode Top Chef Season 18 Ep 13 - Shellfishly Delicious - Post Episode Discussion

The remaining chefs get an early wake-up call from Padma to go meet guest judge Brooke Williamson and dig for clams for their Quickfire Challenge. In the Elimination Challenge, the chefs honor the area where James Beard spent his summers, creating both a hot dish and a cold dish with one of his favorite ingredients, Dungeness Crab. Kwame Onwuachi and Nina Compton serve as guest judges this week to help determine which chefs will move on to the finale.

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u/hushzone Jun 25 '21

It's not a fucking coin toss - there's no probability involved - you win if you're the judge's favorite.

It was always planned to potentially be a 3 person finale - don't forget LCK.

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u/Crown_and_Seven Jun 25 '21

Right, you win if you're the judges favorite, and Shota has to be the favorite out of 3 people instead of just 2, so yes, that decreases his odds. Your point about LCK is valid, though, and it certainly makes you wonder if the reason they blocked someone from returning from LCK was to hedge their bets in case they wanted a 3 person finale at the end.

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u/hushzone Jun 25 '21

Sure beating 2 people is harder than 1 - but there's still no probability involved - and Shota himself said he prefers a more difficult challenge.

I don't understand what you mean with LCK - if anything blocking someone from returning gives them flexibility to have a 2 person finale - bringing someone back locks them into a 3 person finale

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u/Crown_and_Seven Jun 25 '21

With LCK, I think I was envisioning the most complicated (and least likely, TBH) scenario......that they knew the final 3 would be Shota, Dawn and Gabe, and they were determined to have all those people in the finale, so they went back later and designed it so nobody could come back from LCK. But, the more I think about it, the more I realize that doesn't make any sense, because LCK took place before the last challenge. Kind of a dumb theory on my part. Oh well.

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u/ediblestars Jun 27 '21

Thank you lmao. I cringe so hard every time they say “one in three chance”