Yeah, I think Sugar's point has often been misinterpreted. It's not that he has anything against well-educated people - on Young Apprentice, he always made a point of supporting the value of a good education. It's more that he doesn't see an academic degree as a guarantee of someone being good in business. In that respect - and I speak as someone with a host of academic and business qualifications - he is right.

You only have to look at some of Britain's most successful businesspeople - Sugar himself, Branson etc - to know that it's perfectly possible to be a great entrepreneur as long as you have a great idea and the right mindset to follow it through. Education helps, of course, but a degree doesn't enable you to spot a great idea. In contrast, some of the most academically brilliant people I know wouldn't last 5 minutes in business.

So, Luisa wins?

It must just be me, but I think it's so obvious that Leah won even without any spoilers from YH attendees.

Something interesting I've seen - apparently Ricky (winner of last series) is going to be working alongside the winner. Not sure how either Luisa or Leah would fit with this to be honest.

Recruitment for Leah's clinics?

Sounds like it:

Since winning Ricky established Hyper Recruitment Solutions, a recruitment service for science and technology jobs, and he's soon going to be working alongside the next graduate of Lord Sugar's TV business finishing school

http://tv.uk.msn.com/features/the-ap...and-lord-sugar

I would say Leah's a bolt-on as well but, per the following article, all the winners under the new format will work under the same roof. It's not necessarily a lead.

I would make Leah the firm favourite ahead of tonight. I think she deserves it too - with the better business plan.

Alright everyone, I just want to say its been a very successful series for spoilers this year!

Looking at the results:

Week 1: Though we knew very little, the consensus was Evolve to lose and Jaz to get fired.
Week 2: We correctly predicted Evolve to lose and Tim to get fired (for the most part)
Week 3: We correctly predicted Evolve to lose and Sophie to get fired.
Week 4: We correctly predicted Endeavour to lose, but Uzma getting fired was a bit left-field as we had deduced she'd stay longer due to her Tweeting Timeline. We guessed it while the episode aired, though.
Week 5: We correctly predicted Endeavour to lose and most of us backed Zee to get fired.
Week 6: As with last year, Week 6 was our worst week. We were pretty confident all week of Endeavour losing, which meant for the most part, Rebecca was overlooked as a potential firing. We knew she'd go if Evolve lost, though.
Week 7: We correctly predicted Endeavour to lose and Kurt or Natalie to get fired, but the YF poster confirmed it was both of them.
Week 8: Split for most of the week. Half of us were right in saying Evolve to lose and Jason to get fired, but the other half predicted Endeavour to lose and Jordan to get fired. So it was a mixed week.
Week 9: Correctly predicted Endeavour to lose, but none of us really considered Alex as a firing opportunity until it was revealed the Alex Final poster was lying and it was confirmed by the person who went to YF.
Week 10: Correctly predicted Endeavour to lose and Myles to get fired.
Week 11: Due to spoilers, the signs were pointing towards a Leah-Luisa final anyway before the YF poster arrived and confirmed our suspicions.
Week 12: Thanks to several pieces of information, most of us had deduced by broadcast that Leah would win.

So well done everyone!

I would like to say thank you to TheAuburnEnigma, Sherlock Holmes, Frally, Mr XcX, Malik24, Tyjet, Belligerent Boss, Hownbrowncow and DundeeBoy for all helping out with spoilers all the way through. In addition, I'd like to thank Thenetworkbabe, Monkseal, Tommo781, CaroUK, Pathetic Fallacy, Skippy Upwood and Slouchingthatch and several others for many positive contributions in this thread. I would also like to thank Mike Teevee, OffTheCuff and Sausages2714 for revealing who was fired in Weeks 7, 9 and 11, significantly helping us out on those weeks. I apologise if I've missed anyone out.

Overall everyone, thanks for your contributions and for making this thread successful this year!

I'll see you all again next year!

I enjoyed this thread very much!

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who gave information and all the incredibly clever detailed analysis of the snippets of film. I enjoy the show much more when I know who is going, and I've enjoyed this series very much thanks to the posters on here.

Thanks y'all.

Look forward to playing detective next year

Thank you for providing such accurate spoilers! I promised myself that I would stay away from this thread this year, but I only made it to week 5 Hopefully I can do better next year, but I'll probably see y'all before the series is out

Ah, bless you! I too have enjoyed this thread very much indeed, and would like to thank everyone for their spoilers, opinions, hints, fun comments etc etc. No doubt we will all be here again next year.!

Really enjoyed this thread this season - see you all next year!

Until next time...

Thank you again to everyone who made it interesting & fun to play. Especially miketeevee for the accurate spoilers