The Floor

As in every trivia game, it is always fun to test your own skills and knowledge at home with your family against the contestants.

The premise is interesting in an overall outlook. But when you actually see the show, you find that it is less about skill and more about luck, random chance, and uneven rules.

I summarize and suggest some changes which could really add to the show's potential:

1) Contestants who excel and win several games in a row should be «saved» for the final round. In this way, you make sure the final will be exciting and batlled among the very two, three or four best. To watch a poor contestant who is called for duty just in the last round and wins it all is very disappointing and anti-climactic.

2) A failed answer by a contestant should be transfered to the opponent, that is, a pass or fail would be 'inherited' by the other, just as you inherit categories. This makes chances more even every time a difficult item is shown in the screen.

3) The required level of specification is uneven and unfair across categories. In some matches, just the last name is enough, but in others, a detailed and full compound answer is needed for the answer to be validated. Arbitrary criteria should be rectified to make matches fairer.

4) Also the level of difficulty across categories is uneven. Some involve the easiest images of everyday items (a spoon, a notebook, traffic lights), and other categories have a different kind of prompt which makes them quite more difficult, such as showing Shakespeare's quotes to guess the name of the work. This might be interesting but it is not fair and suggests suspicion of rigged hands.

5) Finally, all the «scripted» short remarks by the contestants, shown between matches as fillers, sound fake, and they put viewers off instead of creating expectation or interest. Less is more, in this case.

Rob Lowe is okay. Not smashingly good or epoch-making, but fulfills the role well enough.

In short, the show is promising and basically good, but I expect more changes and adjustments in next seasons.

I absolutely love the concept. Yes, Rob Lowe may be phoning it in, but he's still better than most modern hosts (except Higgins). People complain about the pace, but I think it's perfect. Great balance of down time to game time. I hate too much interview time for contestants, but this show doesn't do that.

I agree about the "Randomizer" not being as random as they try to portray, but that's what you should expect. All entertainment has a goal to entertain. Not mad about that.

When it comes to game shows, I care about a fun watch that I can engage in. That's this show. Can't wait for the next episode.

I love this show so much but I can't stand that they brought in a multiple time Jeopardy champion "David" (who's already won over $700K on Jeopardy) to compete against all the other normal folks in season 3! It's just not even enjoyable to me, if I wanted to watch a Jeopardy champ, I'd watch "Jeopardy" lol. Please "The Floor" producers, don't do that again lol. "David" at the start of the show was almost a millionaire from Jeopardy but now he wants another $250K (plus other bragging rights I'm sure) when to the other regular people competing that money could be truly life changing. Otherwise this show is very good, esp if you love trivia like I do! It's very unique and I highly recommend watching!

Wow! What a great new show which commences with having.a welcomed 81 contestants stand on a floor grid with each contestant owning their specific category which varies from bugs, to cereals, to technology categories and anything else that can be categorized which is basically unlimited.

The Floor which uses two contestants to battle against each other with one contestant winning their opponents share of the grid floor. Strategically the viewing audience can witness how one or more contestants may become vulnerable as grid spaces are won or lost and the contestant who wins the most grid spaces during the weekly game also wins a $20,000.00 prize with the last (wo)man standing winning the Grand prize of $250,000.00.

Mathematically speaking we can see that the weekly prize value of $20,000.00 and the Grand prize value of $250,000.00 which will take several weeks to eventually be awarded indicates that this game show is not about the producers giving away millions of dollars or neither cars or luxury vacations. No, this game show is more about a competitive game show where the audience can play along guessing as the two contestants battle each other to win the other contestants grid(s) that they currently own. The two battling contestants start off with a thirty (30) second clock which only descends with a wrong answer, and a three (3) second penalty if a contestant passes on a clue. The contestant whose clock goes from 30 to 0 seconds first loses their match and sent packing home.

If you win you continue, and if you lose you go home. The host is well known film and Tv personality. Rob Lowe who takes a backstage to the contestants whose backgrounds are as diverse as the catgories they are competing for. This game is like Jeopardy with its categories but on steroids since Jeopardy has three (3) contestants and The Floor commences each new game with eighty one (81) contestants.

I give this new and exciting game show a perfect 10 IMDb rating and it's been a long time since.a successful game show such as Jeopardy, Let's Make a Deal, and/or. The Price Is Right came along.

I get the lights and the fun every day people playing. Not sure why we need to know the inside scoop on every player, especially the ones that lose right away. How hard would it be to move this faster and have a couple more rounds of players actually playing the game? Is it really that hard to come up with questions for this 'game'?

The premise is solid, the execution is mush. Advertisements and deep dives into people we really have no want or need to know about completely ruin what could have been a fun time for all.

I had a conversation with my wife about this show before she had seen an episode and I asked her to watch episode one and tell me what her grade would be. Her first sentence was, "When they finally played the game, I was in the other room doing something else."