Headscratchers / Cupcake Wars

• Does anyone really believe that the Cupcake War is being held literally hours before whatever gala event it's scheduled to have the winner at? The third judge is always some big honcho that is spending a few hours tasting cupcakes instead of doing the final prep for said event.
  • For that matter, does anyone else believe that those master carpenters are actually making those displays in two hours?
• Why on earth bring in a contestant that is known to use Beer in her recipes and then kick them out when they use beer? Admittedly its a Girl Scouts contest so whatever but they could have placed her in a better suited challenge. It seemed like the brought that contestant on just to kick her out.
  • They also had exactly one vegan-specific baker on the Rob Zombie episode, where the vegan restriction seemed to be a late-revealed twist rather than the whole point like the first all-vegan episode (indeed, one of the other bakers bemoaned that she had had very little experience in vegan baking). Surprisingly though, the vegan specialist was eliminated first.