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James, 42nd place? 42nd place?! *shakes head*

See above.

Amanda voting out Denise a top 20 stupid move (something known only in hindsight as a bad move), yet Denise settling for fourth place not anywhere on the list?

I don't think it's something that we just know is a bad move in hindsight. I understand why she thought the jury would be sympathetic to Denise, but I don't think it was difficult to see that Todd was the bigger threat even as a viewer, and Amanda, having lived with these people for so long, should have had much greater insights about how the jury would vote than the viewers anyway. I mean, she's obviously a smart girl and smart player for the most part, so she should have been sizing the jurors up since day 1. It's hard for me to understand how she would miscalculate their preferences so badly. Anyway, the bottom line, like I said, is that she had 3 options and she clearly picked the worst of the 3.

As far as Denise not flipping sides, like I said previously, I don't really see what she did as being a stupid decision. The absolute best thing for her to do would have been to flip sides and voted off Todd, then flip back and vote off PG and Eric. But the unfortunate fact for us as viewers is that 95% of the people on the show would never be so creative as to do something like that, so I don't really see her a being particularly stupid for not thinking of it. I don't think that by doing what she was doing that was settling for 4th place either. I think she figured that there was a good chance that Todd would be voted off at Final 4 and that scenario, and the the jury vote between her and Amanda and Courtney, would likely be her best chance of actually winning the game. And even if she didn't think about who she would to best against in a jury vote, I'm sure she at least thought about the possibility of Todd being voting at Final 4. And if she really thought she had no chance with Todd and Amanda, then I'm sure she would have switched. It's not that she was giving up or something. She really thought she had a chance at Final 3 with them, and I think it's understandable for her to have thought that.

I have the right to disagree with you. Dre's decision to ask for the car is a stupid thing that need to be on the list and Brian Heidek's "failed" puzzle challenge, giving Ted the win, is NOT stupid.

Dre's decision to enter into that agreement with Yau-Man IS on the list. And I've debated this a thousand times, but Brian Heidik clearly did not lose that challenge on purpose. If he wanted to lose, he wouldn't have worked so hard to get ahead of everyone else, and he wouldn't have been pissed at Ted afterwards. That whole theory has never made even the slightest bit of sense.