It's hardly a surprise who'll be getting my vote
Tough call. Everyone has favourites.

APOLOGIES FOR KIND OF SPAMMING THE FORUM
also poll up

Vana without a doubt. Why the f*** he didn't invest her is beyond me. Had the process been the pre-Series 7 process where the winner would become Sugar's apprentice, Vana STILL would have made the final and likely would have been up against Richard over Joseph. Bad PM run on Week 3 aside she was consistently strong each week showcasing a variety of business skills and her pitch in the final was absolutely top notch. And she made the extra effort to go out of her way to tackle every issue Sugar had with her app. And even then it STILL wasn't enough.... for some bizarre reason.

Voted for Vana as I think she has been the best overall despite a bad week as PM. I also think she wiped the floor with Joseph tonight, it was just the finances that screwed her over.

Richard, Joseph and Charleine have also been impressive. Also think Ruth was fired too early.

Joseph and Vana were streets ahead of everyone else IMO. Vana professional and likeable (bar week 3...) and Joseph so, so competent.

But Richard was good (and specialised, albeit slippery/slimy) and I wish Ruth had been given another chance.

Her app was dodgy, and not a good investment. If you had 250K you wouldn't invest in her dating game as it's too risky, and would cost a lot more than the winners' prize. All Vana wanted was money to start off the project, then go looking for more investors.

She took part in some tasks, but when things turned sour for her, she became a fence-sitter.

Interesting poll results so far.
There are so many contestants in this poll which barely register, many getting zero votes, and the vast majority of votes are going to four of the final five.

An interesting idea would be just picking out of those who didn't make interviews

This year needed a none of the above option

Joseph was the proven article.

Why is Joseph so popular? I can't think of one thing he did well or memorably in the entire process apart from helping Elle lead on the cleaning/decorating task.

Genuinely confused why April has any votes at all. She had frankly the worst PM run going right off the bat in Task 1 (not as aggressive as Vana's but still made frankly stupid mistakes) and then went on to make even more stupid mistakes in Task 2 when she got the 35 year old women to advertise a product marketed at senior citizens.

The only moment she had where she showed herself to be good in any way was when she completely buried Charleine during the book task.
"Sorry what qualifies you exactly?"
"My creative writing degree"
That was absolutely amazing, but has no bearing at all on how good or bad April is overall.

Yeah. Even in that funny moment (which was quite good), it kind of proved that she should've stood up as PM.

Interesting that Scott has no mentions on best or worst side.

Vana, with Richard not too far behind. I wish we could have seen more from Ruth, as she was seemingly quite good on the first three tasks.

if i could have voted it would have been for Mergim