247 Ink Magazine (August/September) 2016 Issue #10 | Page 19

It was good to see you at the finale. Always a good time. Get to see friends. I really think this time, because the show has been called out on it’s integrity with who has been winning, I think this time they really made it a point of it doesn’t matter who has the most time in or years under their belt. I think they picked the art on it’s own and it finally stood up. Maybe the last 2 or 3 Ink Masters a little questionable since it felt like favoritism, but this time they didn’t show favoritism, I think they finally… They even went out of their way to say we’re not going to.. Yea, they went out their way to say listen, we’ve been getting a lot of flack, it’s truly not fixed, it is what we think, and I really loved letting the ar tists get rid of one person and that’s the smartest thing they can do because the 3 judges, biased or not, you’re not gonna have 14 biased people, not gonna happen so whether Christian pissed off a couple with the alliance, and Anthony was in the alliance too, so I think they did a great job and judged it the way they would want to be judged. I think they actually did. I do too. At first I thought if they hate a guy they would gang up and knock that guy out. I think so too, but at the end of the day everybody realizes how hard it is to get that far, especially like Jesse, Sarah, and people like that, know how hard it is to get that far, whether you like them or not, let’s just see how good the tattoo is, and I think Christian’s fell a little short 17