@Anonymous let’s get serious. No one will actually use these sites to plan their trips and the only people who will actually take the time to read the posts and go the website will be either family members, friends or kids trying to prep themselves for a run at the prize next year. whether or not the person can make a good video, of which zak’s is one of many on the website if we’re using this as criteria, is basically a moot point. there are however many billion websites out there, and looking over pat’s (the 2008 Travel Intern) listings, almost all of which have fewer than 10 views and which except for one or two lack any comments, it’s pretty obvious that the sta site is just one of millions out there providing information like this/no one’s really going to just “happen upon” these write-ups in the first place. accepting that this is basically an all-expenses paid joy ride for two lucky kids that will have little lasting value in the publicity arena and will probably only be read for actual content by future competitors, I’d much rather award it to someone who might never get this experience otherwise and may actually glean something meaningful from it because of this as opposed to someone who has been and will travel all over the world that has some videography talent (which will only fall on deaf ears).

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