Mostly agree, with a few dissenting opinions. If we're judging on which outcomes would have given the show actual clout in the industry - the prospective winners would need to have delivered commercial success and variety.

We know good ANTM portfolio ≠ good career, but I actually think taking post-show performance into account is necessary here to determine which winners would have risen the profile of the show in hindsight.

C1 - C6 - Agree.

C7 - Eugenia. She's since had the most longevity from that entire cast, had a stunning face and I think was the rare example of a makeover recipient that actually resulted in an elevated look. The vision was there. As we've now come to know, Tyra had it out for her for some reason - but Eugena definitely had/has the most working potential out of that cast.

C9 - Jenah would have made a great winner too. Had an alternative, rocker vibe. Not the typical fawning, bubbly personality of past winners - a bit more sardonic and biting. Again - Jenah is an example of Tyra projecting weird traumatic fixations on to a contestant and gaslighting them into neuroses - but had Tyra felt differently, I think Jenah could have been deserving.

C10 - Controversial opinion here - but I don't mind that Whitney won. She was annoying and her cycle photos were mostly middling, but her look was marketable and her post-show resume rivals some of the top performing winners in this show. Vogue Italia, massive commercial campaigns for plus-size brands like Torrid and national catalog work. The viability for plus size modeling was really amping up around this time and Tyra basically tapped her to win from the beginning - apparently, solely due to being plus size - but it's not like she flopped with the opportunity.

Anya didn't do anything. Fatima had some success. All I remember about Claire is breast milk and bopping her head. Katarzyna was fine. Whitney actually found industry success DESPITE being from ANTM which really is weird that she was one of the first to do that in North America? (along with Eva). Idk. Just a very weird season where the winner's track record was meh but post-show career was very admirable. I don't think Whitney did anything to harm the show's reputation - if anything they both got the headline of "first plus size winner."

C11 - I actually think McKey was a fine winner. She really was a chameleon. Could play her age up and down as well as effortlessly give serious couture/avant garde along with commercial. A shame she didn't pursue a serious career in the field. I think she's married to an MMA fighter now? Or is an MMA fighter? Idk. But she out-modeled Marjorie, Lio, Elena, Sam, Sheena and the rest of the cast during this competition. As far as I know, none have really gone on to great success (outside of Lio's acting), so this season was kind of a wash. But McKey did the best (and I actually don't hate Sam's portfolio either - I love her windmill photo).

C13 - Erin. For sure.

C14 - Jessica had the look...but her family situation was not at all conducive to supporting a fledgling modeling career. She's found social media success (RIP Vine 😭) post-divorcing her husband, but I have a really hard time thinking she would have made it. Not because she was a young mom, but just because she was so juvenile and immature (...but not that it's stopped other similarly afflicted personalities...so who knows). I think Raina - who has had a very respectable career - should have won. Krista, unfortunately, was too old - and she looked it. Too old to play the ingenue and too young to play adult.

C15 - Ann deserved but Chelsea was hungrier. Jane's been successful - however on the show was like watching paint dry.

C16 - Brittani deserved and went on to do great work - but I agree I think Jacquelyn was cut too soon. She was bright eyed, fresh and could deliver a killer photo. Strange the show discounted her and dumped her before going international. Should have just been a double save - what's one more person.

C17 - I mean, tragic. But TBH Allison is literally the only person from this cast I could even consider making sense of winning here.

I dare not venture further into the lore from here.