Actually, for once I actually picked the three top picks. Usually I am really wrong. Not this time. As long as they aren't dq'd, I did pick right for once. Picked pretty well in STDAvidson too. Two of my top picks got in the two top spots.
Just looking at the top 20, it seems as though voters had a tough time accepting anything that wasn't a very traditional splintery brown rope. I was afraid of that, actually, and said as much in my photographer's comments before voting ever started, and unfortunately it appears that I was right.
I'm going to have to look more carefully when voting in the next challenge as I did not vote for any of the top 5, in fact I don't remember seeing the first 2 at all