ECP, you may enjoy this: I know our main discussion of editing tricks was about the Fogals and cutting and putting scenes out of sequence, but another trick is how to present the eventual winners. Do you hide them, do you slowly reveal them or do you make them the focus of the show? Air-Force is such a stronger team than the rest that if they are to win, the editors didn't trick us. They showed them and all their good work with 1 episode to make us doubt.

However after last week, I'm starting to think the "Lets-Dum-it-down" team is going to be our surprise winners. The Not-So-Genius had what appeared to be a swan song episode with a lot of focus on Sam's difficulties during the climb, his team mates encouraging him on, his perseverance and final accomplishment. Since it wasn't a swan song, it could be the start of a new arc that leads them to the win.

It was a team that looked dead in the waters not too long ago.
If the grads don't get injured, the Brownies aren't there in the swamp to be last and keep the Not-So-Genius in. The Grads had been better than Miss Usa so they could've been ahead, leaving no one for the Not-So-Geniuses to beat. I guess if they do win you'd have an example as to how far the editors can trick us!