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Jessica Amornkuldilok

Place: Winner

Average: 2.9

Best. winner. ever. Lmao, I know I may sound overdramatic but it’s true! (If you want my favorite winners list, it goes Osi PNTM C4, Sheena from the next cycle, Jessica, and Noune from GrNTM C3). Sure, she had her 2 bad shots but every other shot she made was perfect or pretty good. Plus, her personality was lovely. In a cycle from of heated conflicts, it’s nice to see someone so happy and cheerful throughout. Yes, she does look old sometimes but I would’ve never known that she was 26, plus looking at her now, she looks almost 20 despite being 35! She was pretty technical when it came to shooting but I think it worked out for her since the final product was usually the shot with the least amount of flaws. Her face also looked great par say when she smiled (which she overdid a lot). She knew her angles well as it shows in her Zodiac, WWF, and Underwater. Plus, her walk was great, my favorite along with Trang! Jessica is one of my favorite winners of all time, everything about her was so perfect and I’m so happy she won.

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Kate Ma

Place: 2th-3rd Place

Average: 4.4

Yeah, might be a bit unpopular as Kate has gained a huge following nowadays and people see her as her winner now, which I understand a lot, though she isn’t my personal choice. Sure, she proved me wrong a lot by making some killer shots but she, like most of the other models, was a rollercoaster to deal with. She always had a ANTM style way of modeling to her, usually I get bored by it but from her, she worked it pretty well since she worked it well! Her try hard fierce face works a lot of the time, like her Siren and Boxing, but it just bored me whenever she did it anywhere else. She also was a bit of a mess when it came to posing as well, she worked it really well when she just went for it (Emotions) but she seemed to overthink a lot when it came to posing. She always stood to me as a solid 4th placer, though I adore her personality and how balls to the wall honest yet funny and nice she was. Seriously, she really carried a great energy during shoots and the house that I felt bad for her whenever the judges criticized her for her personality, only for her to tone it down and then get hated on them AGAIN. Kate is a lovely model, though not my favorite, but she is still amazing to watch

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Stephanie Retuya

Place: 2th-3rd

Average: 4.23

I may have been harsh to Steph as most of our final 7 were an unstable rollercoaster to deal with in the first place. However, Steph didn’t do half bad considered that she got 5 B2s in the show, yet I only agreed with 2 of them. Sure, her emotion was meh and she did linger in my bottom 3 for a few weeks but when she’s good, she’s really good. Quirky, Siren, Red Dress and Zodiac were all gorgeous and whenever there were bad weeks, she always stayed consistently good. The problem with her would be her overthinking a lot of the time. Seriously, when she just went with it, she did amazing but when she got stressed, she really overthink it and it showed. Her worst photos where the ones where she overthought the pose too much. At least she knew how to model her face well as I always found some praise for her face. The judges were quite harsh on her yet kept her for so long because of the filipina fanbase being one of the most rabid (which will show throughout the series, as they try to make the fanbase pleased by pushing the filipina reps to top 3 ala Jodilly, Monica, Maureen and Adela, no offense to some of them). I agree with most people that she should’ve been kicked out around the Emotions shot but in such a weak cycle, I didn’t mind her making it to top 3. She made some killer shots when she didn’t overthink and seemed like a sweet gal!

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Sofia Wakabayashi

Place: 4th Place

Average: 3.9

Maybe I was a bit harsh on when I talked about her being my least favorite Japanese rep since she still proved herself to be in my top 3 in this cycle. Honestly, I’m shocked at her average. I expected her to be much worse in terms of shoots but in my surprise, she did pretty good. Yeah, she did have her off moments and her walk was the worst out of the group but she improved a lot throughout the competition, especially in the later half. She had 2 shots in the beginning I didn’t like from but from wrestling above, she just slayed throughout staying good throughout. Even in that busted WWF week, she did decent enough. I’m not the biggest fan of her personality (her accent also kinda gets to me too), but in a cycle full of mixed feelings and a rollercoaster to deal with, at least Sofia steadied up and made some killer shots, so she’s in my top 3 easily.

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Aastha Pokharel

Place: 5th Place

Average: 4.3

BEAUTIFUL. Tell me that she isn’t the best looking model along with Marie in the next cycle. Her Nepal origin also adds to the fucking beauty in this pot. In a cycle of rollercoasters and flops, Aastha seemed to have some things under control. Besides 2 or 3 bad shots, I liked a lot of her shoots. Problem was that she was always a rollercoaster to deal with. Sure, her boxing is stellar and her red dress/underwater is really underrated in my eyes, but for most of her weeks, besides emotions/zodiac/beauty, she always produced decent enough shots to go through the week. That all said though, she knew how to model that face of her (beauty shot aside) and she was improving a lot on her posing (plus Steph was still in the competition) so I would like to bring her to my final 3 along with Sofia and Jessica, as I would to see her succeed in the Siren shoot and she was showing a lot of improvement alongside Sofia.

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Helena Chan

Place: 6th Place

Average: 5.7

Ok, let’s talk about her personality first. Bitch is Helena, she’s sad, happy, emotional, a bitch, a victim, she is everything and everyone all at once and brought some well needed drama throughout the cycle. She was a villain but someone to root for at the same time. She was the Janice of AsNTM before Janice came in. However, as a model, she was overrated by the judges to me though underrated at some points. Sorry, Helena Stans. Sure, she had proved herself to be a good model with her Indonesia shot, Dress shot, and her Zodiac shot, which she 100% deserve all of her praise but she was a rollercoaster for me to deal with as well. I hate her quirky shot and grown to hate it more and more as I look back, her WWF is laughable, her underwater is decent, and the rest of her shots are forgettable. She seemed to have a problem with relaxing to her poses and getting nervous before shooting, thus why her lips always looked off to me. Overall, I love Helena as someone to bring drama but as a model, she was a mixed bag for me, thus why I would out her at the WWF shoot, when she really flopped. Still, wonderful girl and brought some much needed drama!

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Melissa Th'ng

Place: 7th Place

Average: 6.5

Ok, so I may have been a bit biased for Melissa but honestly, I love her. She’s probably the best representation of what I look like (good luck with that lmao) and she was so nice and funny. It’s great to see someone who’s just grateful to be in the show. Also, like Trang, I felt bad for how she was treated. Her body was a bit thicker than the other girls but she, like Karolina G from PNTM C5, had an athletic body that so the judges always reminding her she’s plus sized even though she had a pretty slim body and the editors editing her eating more than everyone else (though I will add, her commentary on it was quite funny) All that said, she wasn’t the best model, hell, probably the worst out of the group. Sure, I found her underrated at points (Her quirky is good and no one can tell me otherwise) and her good photos were really good but when she was bad, she was BAD. Prada and Indonesia were horrible and her Zodiac was pretty bad as well. However, she was seeming to improve after Indonesia as she made her perfect beauty shot and a decent WWF. Her elimination did make sense in context since everyone in the top 6 deserved their spot but she was rapidly improving after a bad shot so I would’ve been ok with her moving forward. However, all that said, she was the weakest out of the 7 and I take Trang over her any day. Still, love the girl and fun fact: I chatted with her on Instagram once and she seems like a funny gal, so go follow her bitches!

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Rachel Erasmus

Place: 8th Place

Average: 6

First of all, I didn’t think I liked this girl as much as I did but as I got into the editing part of the rankings (as in changing ranks and calculating averages) I was shocked at how high she was! She got a lot of top 5 shots and when she was bad, she wasn’t the worst. Hell, even in that Prada shot, I used to have her at B3 but then she got moved to top 6, pretty damn impressing if you ask me! Anyways, she seemed like a very sweet gal but my problem with her a lot of the time was how she photographed short a lot of the time. It isn’t even her fault, I blame production for that but for her best shots, she seemed to look short (her zodiac would’ve been perfect if not). Overall, Rachel was pretty fine but compared to the rest of the top 7 we had, plus Melissa rapidly improving, Rachel left at the right time.