The quickfire cooking seems to be decent but something seems to happen to a lot of the contestants after that. A fear of losing seems to be getting more prevalent as the season goes on. I'm hoping after restaurant wars things will loosen up with them.
That being said I really liked how her team seemed to want to protect Amanda when she was too ill to attend. Nice short, terse answers with no room for drama, "She's under the weather, being attended to, she'll be fine". Good for them.