Like your idea of letting the person who gets voted into the elimination to pick their opponent. That would be interesting for sure.
Re: the last episode
How in the world did the team that won, win. I don't even know their names. The related white and black kid. I mean, how stupid is everyone else that they were able to come back from 5th place and solve that puzzle like it was nothing. That puzzle looked familiar, like it's one thats used on previous seasons. Ecstatic that John and Vince are gone. I've never liked that guy. He's such a sleazeball yet cries so hard whenever anyone does anything underhanded against him. So it was great to see Cara beat them. Plus she's eye candy. Unfortunately the remaining cast going into the finals is a motley crew of weaklings. The white kid partnered with the black guy is a pussy. Jenna has done well in eliminations, but her praying mantis looking sister/cousin/whatever sucks at everything. Annessa is like 40, can't do shit, and her blubbery white cousin or whatever is even more useless.
So by all accounts, it looks like it should be smooth sailing for Cara to win this thing, which I think would be awesome. She's been a great competitor for a lot of years and shes sexy as fuck.