Glenda, I appreciate your perspective. I agree that it was wrong to put the question to him, right then at that moment without giving him even a chance to consider all the angles. That's what I meant about "no prep" -- I can't help but wonder if his answer might have been different if he'd been given some opportunity to think about it in advance. I don't know how they would have done that, without clueing him in to the fact that he was gonna win...who knows. Perhaps they could have given him a commercial break to at least think it over! But I think it was a bizarre twist.

And I agree that he deserves all the accolades he got, as well as the spotlight. I just personally don't think that it would have cost him much, if anything, to allow Rebecca to be hired as the "runner-up" so to speak.

Oh, speaking of Rebecca and her work with non-profits -- in that last task I kept saying to my husband "She's making a huge mistake!" by not giving the people there an opportunity to donate right then, on the spot. With ANY fundraising situation, the moment you are out of their eyesight, you drop out of their thoughts. It's being caught up in the hoopla, hearing the speakers, seeing the cause, that causes people to give. Sending them home with an envelope was a huge gaffe. I, like George, thought that Rebecca was just allowing herself to be pushed around by the Yahoo folks by not insisting that there be at least SOME opportunity to donate at the event. Hell, it was a charity event after all -- I can't imagine any of their "VIP" clients would have been offended to be asked to give.

So if it came down to the final task, Randall won for that reason alone.

But I do agree that he was a star from the beginning. I just don't think it would have hurt him to allow Rebecca to be hired, and in fact I think it would have made him appear magnanimous, and real gentleman.