Anya outscored Christian Siriano season-vs-season direct comparison of winners. Like Anya, Siriano won three weeks, and was top 3 in three weeks, but Anya was only in the bottom 3 once while Christian Siriano was in the bottom 2 on two occasions. Only two of the other eight season winners tied, or beat, Anya's weekly scores for the season. The other six all had less wins + top 3 weeks and/or more bottom 3 weeks. Anya also had to fight more weeks against more competition than the winners of early seasons. Season #1 only had 11 other designers for Jay to compete against, and he had 5 whole months to sew the Fashion Week collection, plus he only needed to compete for 9 weekly contests before securing a place at Fashion Week. Anya had three more grinding shows plus had four more fighting competitors plus only got 5 weeks to make her final collection. Project Runway was both harder for Anya's group, a longer season, and had less time to do well for Fashion Week. Some seasons the finalists were also given sewing helpers to finish their Fashion Week collections from designers whom were offed earlier.
Check out the graphics that show the 9 season scorecards taken from WIKIPEDIA.
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SEASON #9
Project Runway Season #1 -- Jay: 0 WINS, 5 HIGHS, 1 LOW
Project Runway Season #2 -- Chloe: 2 WINS, 5 HIGHS, 2 LOWS *
Project Runway Season #3 -- Jeffrey: 2 WINS, 2 HIGHS, 4 LOWS
Project Runway Season #4 -- Christian: 3 WINS, 3 HIGHS, 2 LOWS
Project Runway Season #5 -- Leanne: 3 WINS, 3 HIGHS, 3 LOWS
Project Runway Season #6 -- Irina: 3 WINS, 3 HIGHS, 0 LOWS *
Project Runway Season #7 -- Seth Aaron: 2 WINS, 3 HIGHS, 2 LOWS
Project Runway Season #8 -- Gretchen: 2 WINS, 3 HIGHS, 2 LOWS
Project Runway Season #9 -- Anya: 3 WINS, 3 HIGHS, 1 LOW
Chloe got 1 less win, but 2 more highs, but 1 more bottom 3, while Irina ties on wins and top 3, but had 1 less bottom 3. Christian Siriano performed worse, and twice was in danger of elimination in the bottom 2. Leanne was one more bottom 3 than Siriano despite tying on wins and top 3 with Anya. In the ENTIRE HISTORY OF PROJECT RUNWAY, only three designers ever won more weekly contests than Anya, and none of those won their season.