Tournament of Champions

This is a truly terrific food show. It is so well conceived and executed - compliments to the creators.

There is one negative for me - I'm really sick of hearing howling from the audience. The people screeching/hoooting sound like utter morons and I really hope they are told to cheer and applaud in future seasons.

Guy Fieri deserves high compliments for his leadership in this series. Please Guy, tell the howlers to stop - it doesn't add a thing to the show!!!!!

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First of all, I'm not a Guy Fieri fan. If this were 150 years ago, Fieri would be the traveling snake oil Guy who carries with him his progeny as the Guy Jr. Who is miraculously "cured" by his daddy's concoctions.

I am, however, a cooking competition fan. Top Chef is the GOAT. This competition pales in comparison mainly due to the "ultra-hip" host and his nepo-baby in training. I mute the sound whenever Fieri is shouting his cutesy-pie reductions of phrases into "clever" aphorisms and then repeated again and again.

The actual bit of dramatic tension comes from the "Randomizer" creating a mashup of styles, ingredients, cook time, etc. Other than that, this series is overblown plug-and-play with otherwise earnest chefs and sous chefs trying to obtain a cash reward and garish professional wrassler's champion belt that is nearly impossible to carry gracefully and is obviously embarrassing to hold.

Why is cable and all these crap ads still on?

And the winner is...

Watch five minutes at least of ads lol

Doesn't it get old you plebs? Even if I were streaming it it would still be lame.

Thoroughly enjoyed the format. It was fun seeing a lot of the food network faves compete in a challenging event.

Even with an annoying and screaming host, the randomizer and the chefs kicks ass, and that includes the rotatinmg judges and sidekicks.

What these chefs comes up with in such short time is amazing!

Don't let the punkrock wannabe presenter put you off, because it's a really good cooking show!