“In Judges, Gideon asks God how to choose his men for battle. The Lord told Gideon to take his men down to the river and drink. The men who flopped down on their bellies and drank like dogs were no good to him. Gideon watched as some of his men knelt down and drank with their heads watching the horizon, spears in hand. Though they were few, they were the men he needed.” ― Jack Carr, The Terminal List
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This seems to be a pretty low bar for winning.
An incorrect conclusion in a passing reference to a narrative from the Bible doesn't seem to be a sign of winning.
The entire point of the Gideon account is NOT that Gideon had a clever way of determining who his best fighters were, but that it was impossible for him to win in his own strength -- victory would be a result of God.
Your description of the show suggests that God is left out of the picture entirely and that victory is achieved through use of the right personnel.
Yep the point in that filter was to reduce the numbers not assess who is most alert. That's man's assumption. God didn't need anyone to do it, He wanted to establish an event where they listened and obeyed Him (faith) and He delivered. We still talk about it to this day.