I call BS!
I have never seen a show as obviously rigged as this one. OMFG! WTF!?! It's so obvious this show is rigged, it's not even funny. Either this show is rigged or the judges of this show are completely incompetent. Here are some points on why I say this:
#01: The eliminations don't correspond to the judges' deliberations AT ALL. For example, let's say there are two models on the bottom during the elimination process. Let's call them "Model A" and "Model B". During the judges' deliberation they will mention MORE positive stuff about Model A than they will about Model B. And yet after the deliberation Model A is the one who gets eliminated. How does that work??? Also, if you take a good look, most of the time during an elimination it's usually Tyra's own personal favorite that goes through, regardless of their performance. And certain models will get through for the dumbest reasons. For example all of the other judges might say that Model B is out, or they might say more negative things about Model B than about Model A, but then surprise surprise Model B gets through just because Tyra likes their voice or their eyes or their backstory. This is just completely ridiculous. Also, in many cases a model that clearly has a better OVERALL performance than another one will get eliminated while the one with the weaker OVERALL performance is put through. In other words the eliminations in this show make no damn sense at all! It also seems like Tyra's vote counts for more than the other judges votes, and that the guest judge's vote isn't even taken into account.
#02: Many many many times you can clearly see the judges playing favorites regardless of a model's performance.
#03: At the very least about 40% of the time the judges make MASSIVE mistakes in their decisions on who gets eliminated, as well as who becomes the next top model. Now, I know that the judges aren't perfect, and I realize there will be some mistakes here and there, but a 40% (or more) error rate is pretty damn big. With such a high error rate it's clear the show is either rigged or the judges are some of the most incompetent people in the world.
I really hope they fix this crap with the VH1 reboot of the show. Because this is just utterly ridiculous.