^Really? IMO April and Gina were better because they looked like models. As for April, when I was thinking of putting her in my list, I kept imagining her with her eyes bugged out of her head. Then I rewatched one of the episodes
P.S.: Giselle and Elina come close, and Jen comes close to least potential of C3 IMO
And @ anais, the 3 with the most potential eliminated first + three girls with not much potential in the top three + the one with the least potential of the three winning = Worst Cycle. When I look back at the cycle, Heather, Bianca and Lisa should've been the top three instead. They clearly have more potential than the actual top three.

As for performance, its clearly a different story-
C1: Giselle, Elyse, Shannon
C2: Shandi, April, Sara
C3: Amanda, Nicole, Norelle
C4: Christina, Naima, Kahlen
C5: Kim, Lisa, Nik
C6: Joanie, Dani, Sara
C7: Michelle, AJ, Melrose
C8: Jaslene, Jael, Brittany
C9: Saleisha(Yes, Saleisha ), Heather, Jenah
C10: Katarzyna, Anya, Dominique
C11: Marjorie, Analeigh, McKey
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Worst Performance-
C1: Robin
C2: Camille
C3: Kelle
C4: Keenyah
C5: Ebony
C6: Brooke
C7: Eugena
C8: Whitney
C9: Bianca
C10: Stacy-Ann
C11: Clark

I so agree with Babin, except I think that Kim and Saleisha sucked on performance.

Sharaun had least potential in cycle 11 actually..

- PERFORMANCE -

worst -

c1 robin
c2 heather
c3 kelle/jennipher
c4 lluvy
c5 ebony
c6 wendy :[
c7 megg
c8 whitney
c9 mila (please don't hate me babin) or bianca
c10 stacy ann
c11 sharuan

best -

c1 elyse or shannon
c2 shandi
c3 amanda
c4 brittany
c5 nik
c6 dani
c7 caridee
c8 brittany
c9 jenah
c10 katarzyna
c11 marjorie

- POTENTIAL -

worst -

c1 robin =.=
c2 xiomara
c3 magdalena
c4 sarah
c5 ebony
c6 wendy
c7 jaeda
c8 renee
c9 victoria
c10 claire
c11 sharaun

best -

c1 elyse
c2 mercedes
c3 ann
c4 brandy
c5 ashley
c6 leslie
c7 michelle
c8 dionne
c9 jenah
c10 anya
c11 mckey

most potential (In order of most in cycle)

c1. Elyse, Ebony, Tessa
c2. Shandi, April, Yoanna, Camille (yes she had potential even if she didn't use it)
c3. Kelle, Ann, Kristi, Amanda, Nicole (with a slimdown), Cassie (with smaller hips)
c4. Brandy, Christina, Iluvy, Michelle, Tatiana, Tiffany
c5. Nik (with smaller boobs), Nicole, Coryn, Kyle
c6. Brooke, Gina
c7. Amanda, Michelle, Jaeda, Anchal (with slimdown), Eugena
c8. Brittany, Diana, Natasha, Samantha, Jaslene
c9. Ebony, Victoria, Jenah, Mila (with slimdown), Heather, Bianca
c10. Katarzyna, Anya, Fatima, Kimberly, Aimee, Amis (without tan)
c11. Lauren Brie, Brittany, McKey, Marjorie, Hannah

least potential (no order)
c1. Robin
c2. Bethany, Heather
c3. Leah, Jennipher
c4. (soo hard) Brita (not the complete package)
c5. Ebony
c6. Kathy (post show its a different story) soo hard to choose
c7. Megg
c8. Whitney, Sarah
c9. no one really but as a whole Janet
c10. Claire, Marvita
c11. Sharaun

Most potential (in order by most in cycle):

C1: Ebony, Elyse, Tessa
C2: Shandi, Xiomara, April, Yoanna
C3: Yaya, Nicole, Amanda, Cassie, Kristi
C4: Lluvy, Naima, Kahlen, Christina, Brandy
C5: Kim, Nicole, Nik, Jayla, Kyle
C6: Brooke, Sara
C7: AJ, Amanda, Michelle
C8: Britt, Samantha, Dionne, Diana (as a plussie)
C9: About everyone
C10: Anya, Aimee, Claire, Kim, Kat
C11: Lauren Brie, Marj, McKey, Clark

@Yenegon, Kim's pictures got AMAZING toward the end, Saleisha was the most complete package, despite being mediocre.
@f1erce, I actually agree that Mila's performance in that first week was... How can I say this without using an offensive word?... unfortunate... Still, she shouldn't have left IMO.

what does performance mean anyway i just thought i was performance in photoshoots so i put mila because her smoking picture, she wasn't really doing well and she was laughing at the effect and stuff..

Performance = Pictures, Challenges, Walk, Commercials. Look and Personality don't count. ATTITUDE does though, if it affects the girl's performance.

Oh ok.. i guess my list is jacked up then

Kim only had like 3 good pics IMO.

TEAM MARJORIE!! This is fierce! MARJORIE FTW

c'est photographie amusant! (is my french correct, i just started french this semester at school)

^lol non, "cette photo est amusante"

K-J, I forgot Hannah! Though I was trying really hard to pick a top 3 for each cycle. But Kyle? For potential? Really? Why? I loved her but I didn't see anything very unusual in her...

MAB, I'm hitting you up with another list. Feel free to pick it apart, it seems I've got some pretty different opinions to you on actual performance.

These are ranked, by the way.

BEST GIRLS
C1: Giselle, Elyse, Shannon (okay, I agree with you there)
C2: April (by miles), Shandi, Yoanna
C3: Nicole, Yaya, Toccara
C4: Christina, Michelle, Kahlen, Brittany
C5: Lisa, Nik, Kim
C6: Joanie, Danielle, Leslie
C7: Melrose, AJ, Michelle (I agree with you here, too)
C8: Felicia, Brittany, Jael
C9: Jenah, Sarah, Chantal (I'm going to defend Chantal - I wasn't personally a huge fan but she WAS consistently strong. Either way, I agree that this was one of the worst cycles, and probably about the point I got sick of Tyra.)
C10: Katarzyna, Aimee, Anya/Lauren (tied)
C11: Marjorie, Analeigh, McKey

Worst? Let's see...
C1: Robyn
C2: Xiomara
C3: Ann
C4: Keenyah
C5: Bre (Ebony was eliminated too early for me to count it)
C6: Brooke
C7: Jaeda (Eugena was saved by a couple of her later photos)
C8: Cassandra
C9: Bianca
C10: Whitney
C11: Clark, though Joslyn may claim that position if she messes up enough.

Now, I challenge you to another list-off: each of the 10 completed cycles, from favourite to least favourite, and why.

this looks like fun let's see...

POTENTIAL:
BEST;
C1: Elyse, Shannon, Giselle
C2: April, Shannon, Yoanna
C3: Yaya, Amanda, Norelle
C4: Naima, Kahlen, Lluvy
C5: Bre, Nik, Coryn (sans eyebrows)
C6: Joanie, Brooke, Dani, Sara
C7: Melrose, Caridee, christian
C8: Felicia, Natasha, Jaslene
C9: Chantal, Jenah, Ebony, Mila
C10: Fatima, Anya, Katarzyna, Fatima, Stacy Ann, Lauren, Fatima, Kimberly, and Fatima

(Fatima is my all-time favorite contestant)

C11: Marjorie, Sheena, Analeigh, Samantha

Least (this is gonna be good);
C1: Robyn, Ebony, Tessa
C2: Anna, Heather, Bethany
C3: Eva (yes i'm serious), Jennipher, Magdelena, Kelle, Jennipher
C4: Keenyah, Sarah, Tatiana
C5: Ebony, Cassandra, Sarah, Jayla
C6: Nnena, Jade (with makeover only)
C7: Jaeda, Megan, Megg
C8: Whitney, Diana, Jael, Sarah
C9: Janet, Ambreal, Sarah, Lisa (yeah i said it)
C10: Whitney, Claire, Atalya (she looks too commercial and cutesy to me), Marvita
C11: MCKEY, MCKEY, and MCKEY (mannish and overrated to the eleventh power), Clark (unless she somehow changes her nose, her other features are gorgeous), Sharaun, Nikeysha

@atomicblue, I dun agree with your worst performance at all, sowwy. IMO Xiomara did much better than Camille bcuz Camille went overseas with like two decent pictures. Ann was better than Kelle IMO. Ebony is just too blah to ever be a model. Jaeda had stronger pictures IMO. Whitney C was terrible and Cass was better IMO. C10 Whitney wasn't as bad as Lauren or Allison IMO. Again, Sowwy

she had a great performance, but something about marjorie bores the death out of me. maybe is because her eyes are brown, or her hair is so just bland and her face is just naturally same old model face. im just bored i don't really see the face, she has nice body language, but the face is a bit vacant to me. its like a stare, but nothing behind it, this is the only picture that looks a bit life less to me

@ MAB - true, Camille was pretty terrible as well, but Xiomara only had one good photo for me - the celebrity one. I was unimpressed with all of her others (which is a shame, because I loved her personality). Ann and Kelle was splitting hairs for me - thoough I contradict my cycle 2 picks by saying this, Ann made it much further and therefore had more time to stuff up. Kelle was eliminated when they were still weeding out the weaker girls, and Ann (and, for that matter, Norelle) skipped that early cull.

I couldn't really count Ebony in cycle 5, or Allison in cycle 10 - for me, worst performance involves actually making it far enough to stuff up several times and both those girls were eliminated in week 2 (though I agree that they both sucked).

Eugena and Jaeda was splitting hairs again - had Eugena been eliminated a few weeks earlier, she WOULD have been my weakest for cycle 7, but she redeemed herself in her last weeks.

I could pretty much declare a tie between Cass and Whitney, but Whitney at least had ONE photo I liked (her "Killed by a Model" one) - I'd say that was stronger than any of Cass's.

Meanwhile, what have you got against Lauren? Her walk was terrible, and she couldn't do commercials, but at least she worked as a print model. Whitney's walk was too over-the-top (it had that same bounce the judges criticised Nik for), she overacted in commercials and spent most of her time in photos staring directly into the light. And on top of all that, she still WON.

^Lauren wasn't terrible, but I felt she wasn't as strong as any of the other girls in the top six. IMO the whole "Lauren had the best pics" thing was untrue. IMO Anya had the best pics, and every other girl in the top six was stronger than Lauren.

^I disagree Babin. Lauren was better than Dom. imo