In addition to taking out the reigning champ, she faced the higher seeds. Tally up all the seeds (lower numbers = higher seeds) and you get:

NA = 128
JM = 165

You didn't have to face anyone in single digits.

BlueSeats wrote:btw, bocker, you've done a phenomenal job setting up this tourney, calling it, charting it, etc. really well done.

yeah man kudos

Perhaps a brief recap of the beauties she downed on the way to the crown?

NYKBocker wrote:

BlueSeats wrote:Bocker, we need a closing ceremony and an acceptance speech.

Perhaps a brief recap of the beauties she downed on the way to the crown?

I defer to you on this. I like your posts and how you romantacize each player.

Wish I could, bocker, but Nicola is feeling too raw, so we're heading to the pier for an early lunch and whole lot of wine.

Solace wrote:To be honest, I think the only reason Nicola lost was because Blue's posts were kinda stalkerish.

It was not a good round from me.

I made a couple of critical errors, and Bocker made one hellova smart move.

First off, and I don't want to take more credit than I deserve, but I do think I played a role in Josie turning the momentum against Bellucci. I truly feel Nicola would have crushed the 47 year old Bellucci. So that was my most critical mistake.

Then, the next round started the following day without rest or buildup. That round against Rafaeli took work and I was tired. The finals began and it was like I like I didn't want to be there.

Furthermore, Bocker made a GREAT play by giving Nicola, the underdog, top billing in the final. Why great? Because in doing so he surrounded the voting buttons with Josie's two best photos, wet top directly above and thrust ***** below. In a race decided by 1 vote he jumped into a commanding lead. I was down 5 early in the game. I believe because of that shrewd move. Not complaining, Bocker, on the contrary, I tip my hat. That's gamesmanship.

So I was quickly down 5 and Nicola was getting "bad calls". Panos, the Greek, of all people, was decidedly off her bandwagon, and Frenchie was calling her a dog, and Bocker laid down another barrage of bikini shots. That's when I wrote "BlueSeats proceeds defiantly..." Truth be told, I was shaken.

I really had my doubts Nicola could beat Josie. In all my other matchups I truly believed Nicola was the prettier player (and prettier than grandMILF Monica,) but Josie, while a little bit generic, really had no flaws to exploit. And even if she did, I felt that after waging two negative campaigns against Decker and Rafaeli the crowd wouldn't tolerate another one from me. So, since I decided smearing Josie was out of the question, and not feeling I had the overtly sexy photos to work with that Josie had, I would play up Nicola's "loveliness." But I over did it - and it got weird even for me. The damning thing was, even though I led about half the round, I always felt Josie would pull ahead in the end. I was playing desperate.

And so, even though those last two (anonymous) go-ahead votes for Josie in the final 30 seconds were very suspicious, it's as though it were foretold, and I accept them without reservation.

So I applaud your criticisms. I agree with them. But I'm not sure my faults were as detrimental to Nicola's success as Bocker and Josie's strengths.