Yes two results were filmed.
Diana smashed that service challenge while Ben and Karlie struggled and panicked, and it was nice to see the judges recognize her superior dishes and performance. Sheâs been fantastic and calm and poised all season and deserves to win, but itâs been Ben, Ben, Ben for the last week or two. He has the story and they want him to win, so Diana has to shut him out tonight.
Surprise surprise Ben is doing another ice cream.
Iâm pretty sure every cook since the start of finals week has featured an ice cream. Embarassing.
Surely Diana will win.
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And ANOTHER ice cream in round 2. For real?? 
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During tonightâs episode of Have You Been Paying Attention, Tom Gleisner said something like âif you are watching this after MasterChef, congratulations (winnerâs name)â before asking the comedians a question about this yearâs prize. Since the show was taped yesterday, did Tom know the winner beforehand?
Or maybe did two versions. HYBPA is heavily edited.
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Ha, canât believe Diana won after Benâs fruits were CLEARLY more impressive - what a joke. So obvious they played whichever ending they liked there - and Iâm betting without the negative publicity Ben had attracted with the drink driving charge, it would have been his.
Reminds me a little of Adam Liaw winning with his cracked snow egg compared with Callumâs far superior dish.
However, even considering that, I hated the sight of Ben on TV - the neck tatt, the frantic on-edge running around, the general appearance of a Gold Coast gym junkie - and the fact he was cooking ice creams every time was ridiculous. So Iâm happy Diana won overall even though she was treated as a non-entity throughout.
Letâs remember next year to look out for the âElena editâ - whoever pops up half way through the series, having not seen them before, is generally in the final/wins.
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I couldnât stay awake last night to watch the Grand final,Iâll watch it tonight.Congratulations to Diana,Iâm happy that she won.
At the end of the day though Ben did not deserve 9s and 10s in the first 2 rounds, especially for doing ice cream again. There should have been a point in this competition where he was penalised for that (lack of inventiveness) or producers stepped in to ask him to think up something else. I just donât understand how he got away with doing 7 or 8 cooks in a row doing ice cream and still getting constant praise. Ice Cream and crumb AGAIN is not a finale worthy dish. Diana should have been way more ahead after the first 2 rounds.
Great result anyway. A consistent cook who barely cracked under the pressure won and deservedly so.
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True, totally agree.
Benâs fruit was definitely better when it came to appearances but the judges said Diana had nailed the flavours. I am pleased Ben didnât win. Making 4 ice creams throughout the series, then two in the final showed a lack of creativity. His second round dish last night was basically a replica of his dish the night before. In comparison to 2015 and 2016 there werenât too many âwowâ moments this year when it came to creativity and innovations.
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Iâm glad Diana won. For her performance over the whole competition she deserved it, but the judging of the final dish was pretty dodgy. I thought for sure Ben would get at least 1 point more from each judge, giving him the win. How lame of Matt to justify a 9 for Diana, the same as he gave Ben, saying that two of the fruits ate well. Even so, Ben deserved to lose points for twice getting help reading the recipe correctly.
I am so sick of Ben saying heâs drowning or wonât get finished etc. etc. every single cook. The VTs this season, from Ben and Sarah in particular, really detracted from the show. The confected drama is too much.
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Diana is the second Malaysian Chinese to win the title after Adam Liaw in 2010.
The perfect score Diana received in the first round came to be the main difference between her and Ben, as the latter won the next two rounds. Diana was more creative in the mystery box round and free cook and nailed the flavours, while Ben was impressive with the presentation in the second and third rounds. But where was his creativity when he made two ice creams in a row?
Both contestants failed to include the liqueur centre in the pressure test, goes to show how complex that âtrio of fruitsâ is.
I also notice that only winners of the past 4 years (Emma Dean, Brent Owens, Billie McKay, Elena Duggan) and last yearâs runner up Matt Sinclair attended the winner announcement.
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It was a thrilling finale, I enjoyed it more than last yearâs, mainly because of the climactic final challenge.
Diana was impressive & had been for much of the season, I also had been wanting her to do well more than Ben.
Whilst Ben did really well in recovering last night & doing better in the final challange, he was let down earlier in the finale.
Also⌠Flavours ALWAYS win 
Yeah just a pity itâs something that can never be confirmed by the viewer!
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Some quotes from Ten chief content officer Beverley McGarvey from this morningâs press release:
As it heads for its 10th season next year â a remarkable achievement for any television series â MasterChef Australia remains a powerhouse across all screens and one of the most loved and successful family television shows in the country.
Last nightâs conclusion was gripping television and the perfect end to what has been an amazing season. Congratulations to both Diana and Ben for their extraordinary cooking and for everything they achieved this year.
MasterChef Australia was the first reality cooking show on Australian television and it remains the best. The 2017 season produced some unforgettable moments, from the dazzling food presented in the judgesâ auditions, to Yotam Ottolenghi Week, Japan Week and â of course â last nightâs stunning episode.
We have some very special things planned for season 10 next year and we cannot wait to bring it to all Australians.
The press release also mentions that the 9th season has an average 5 city audience of 930,000 viewers and was No.1 in 25-54 demographics. The MasterChef website on Tenplay had 25.3 million video segment views â up 12% on last year â and 7.4 million video views, up 10%. MasterChef was also popular on social media, with 1.55 million Facebook likes, 220,000 Instagram followers and 14.4 million total impressions on Twitter.
According to the Taste liftout in todayâs Herald Sun, Kirsten Tibballs worked over six weeks to create the trio of fruits dessert for last nightâs finale. She said she started with four fruits but had to reduce to it to three due to time constraints. Kirsten will serve it at the dessert degustation pop up at The Press Club restaurant in Melbourne CBD this Thursday (July 27) and the next. Also check out the video at Savour School on how to make the dessert at home.
Itâs certainly not all doom and gloom for this season of MasterChef. Looking at results in the key demos, the show was regularly more popular than House Rules, The Voice and even True Story with Hamish and Andy.
Check recent results for example - every episode of MasterChef in week 27 outrated The Voice grand final in 16-39, with 3 episodes outrating the winnerâs announcement.
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She had six weeks yet couldnât finish, so how long did the contestants have to make it? Iâm guessing not six weeks.
Probably the most crucial / key points 
It doesnât say whether the time constraints were her own in creating the fruits or in the show for the contestants to make them. They barely made three in six hours, so four would have taken 7-8 hours.
I wonder if the fourth one was going to be the banana that George joked about.
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