[staytrue]

“The problem with these systems is that it isn’t always excellence that is rewarded, more political skill”

There was a show “the weakest link” where a group of contestants filled a pot with money by answering the right questions. After each round , they voted off the weakest link. At the end, one person took home the pot of money.

In the early rounds, they did vote off the weaker players to get more money in later rounds.

But in the last few rounds, they started voting off the strongest player to eliminate competition.

[OKSooner]

Yep. I recall a particular episode where Norm from Cheers (I forget his real name) was kicking serious butt. (His charity, btw, was a local Catholic charity from his hometown of Boston.)

The profane bimbo Kathy Griffin more or less told all the other contestants, on the air, to vote Norm off and he was gone. (Body language, whispers, evil eye expressions...)

I think in the third round after he'd demonstrated that he was the smartest one there.

(No kidding, the guy was that good.)