Just caught up with this episode last night, haven't watched semifinals yet and have still managed to stay spoiler free!  

I was a bit surprised that Tricia went home because it broke the reality show preview rule.  She was shown in the preview of the episode before as the target of Nyesha's "this is NOT next level cooking" pan pitching tirade.  So logic would say "oh she's in trouble" but then reality show logic says "they would never hint to who gets eliminated in the preview".

As others have said, the pan pitching was just completely unnecessary.  I think the pan may have landed on one of the huge spotlights at the foot of the stage.  

I didn't hate Tricia like so many here did.  I would have preferred to have gotten rid of Kenny.  He is so boring and his cooking is boring and not good.  His cuisines were so easy to fuse and he was handed the idea by Richard and he still mucked it up.  Pork fried couscous, seems like a no brainer.

Tricia did do herself in with the bearnaise sauce on the duck especially after Nyesha said it wasn't a good idea.  She had France and Greece, these cuisines would have been easy to fuse in my opinion.  Maybe duck wrapped in grape leaves with an olive-based sauce.

Isn't Tricia Chinese?  Her last name is Wang.  But she cooks Japanese food and not Chinese?  If she didn't get the Japan basket she wanted, why couldn't she have at least taken China?  She seemed proficient with many types of Asian cuisine, she knew how to cook Korean, so what was wrong with the China basket?  As an aside, it is kind of funny how when I went to google "Tricia Next Level Chef" one of the google suggestions was "Tricia Next Level Chef annoying".

I do like Courtney and I think it's great she made it to the final 6 considering she was picked last.  I am tired of Angie and her repeatedly saying "I AM the Next Level Chef winner".  I would have given her more criticism for her choice of cuisines, she picked two western European countries, just seemed very "safe" and not willing to be that creative.

(Not having seen this week's episode yet) I do continue to believe the final three will be Mariah, Reuel and Pyet.  And Pyet will win because of her Native American background.  I would like Mariah to win though.

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