Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1488211" data-attributes="member: 259">Not sure I understand.  First, sure, maybe he'd earned the first pick; I'm not saying it was unfair.  I'm just saying that he did the bet with the hand he was dealt. Second, a nitpick:  when he chose O, Nick was already taken.  Omarosa, Heidi, and Katrina were the only ones left.  All the final five (Kwame, Bill, Amy, Nick, and Troy) were spoken for by that point. There's really very little difference between picking a bad employee and getting stuck with one, given that he was, one way or another, going to end up with Omarosa.  The only real difference is:1) By picking Omarosa, he didn't get to determine who the third member of his team was.  If he felt there was a significant difference between Heidi and Katrina, and that Bill would feel the same way, it was foolish to choose Omarosa.2) By picking Omarosa instead of getting stuck with her, he avoided giving her one motive to sabotage him.  In the end she sabotaged him anyway, but it wasn't a bad move for him to pick her instead of getting stuck with her. However, it did just occur to me that he could've played his cards differently.  Assuming for a moment that Nick is better than Troy, given that Nick was in the final four, he could've arranged the choosing like this: Bill:  Amy!Kwame:  Nick!Bill:  Troy!Kwame: Omarosa!Bill:  Katrina!Kwame: Heidi! This would've meant he didn't have his best buddy on his team -- but maybe that would've worked to his advantage?  Potentially Troy would have a pretty strong motive not to do his best in working against Kwame; potentially this motive would've been strong enough that Bill's second pick would've been Katrina instead of Troy, allowing Kwame to get three of the final five on his team. That would've been a much riskier proposition, however, than what he did in the pick.  And it would've meant seeming to betray Troy, which would've been extremely difficult for Kwame, I think. Daniel</blockquote>

Verification