This show infuriates me so much. The other reviewers are either being paid to write the reviews or they're really that clueless to the rampant and obvious flaws of this show.
There was one other review on this site that predicted correctly, two weeks before the finale that, Jacquelyn, the girl in the corner that is completely safe until the very last round, would win the game. Well my friends and I predicted that she would win as well by the fourth episode (or some other lucky chap in the corner).
1. Now comes the first dumb issue with this show. The game format and rules are horrendous.
1a. There is no reason to ever aim for bigger territory until the finale. If you lose, you get eliminated. If you win the territory, then all the other contestants would gun for you, so you'll have to continuously defend yourself in single elimination rounds over and over.
1b. There is no inherent advantage to winning rounds. Imagine having high blood pressure and winning 79 rounds, only for a guy to just win one round and take home the grand prize. People with over a certain number of territory should be immune from being picked by those who have not played yet. Or, maybe give a person who previously won rounds extra time for each round that they won. There needs to be some kind of seeding to ensure that we actually end up with people who are good in the finale instead of the mid-tier players we see.
1c. In around half the matchups, the loser lost because they skipped a few obscure questions and not because they were faster or more knowledgeable.
2. Lots of contestants were really awful in their very own category. If your own category were US states, country flags, capital cities, or geography, you would expect them to actually know where countries or capital cities are. It's either common knowledge or could be rote memorized between episodes.
3. The show producers and backstage people are colossally stupid.
3a. Never mind the stupid rules, the producers should not touch anything trivia-related ever again. I swear if they show an eggplant and someone says "aubergine" (which is how most people outside of the US call eggplants), the backstage people would be completely clueless. One of the contestants was shown chips, and she said... "chips" and they didn't accept her answer because it had to be "potato chips".
3b. There were rounds were the images were obviously AI-generated garbage that looked absolutely awful and indiscernable. The category would be animals, and there would be an AI-generated image of a giraffe with wings, flying in the sky. There's no way copyright is so tight that they couldn't find proper, real images of animals.
There was one other review on this site that predicted correctly, two weeks before the finale that, Jacquelyn, the girl in the corner that is completely safe until the very last round, would win the game. Well my friends and I predicted that she would win as well by the fourth episode (or some other lucky chap in the corner).
1. Now comes the first dumb issue with this show. The game format and rules are horrendous.
1a. There is no reason to ever aim for bigger territory until the finale. If you lose, you get eliminated. If you win the territory, then all the other contestants would gun for you, so you'll have to continuously defend yourself in single elimination rounds over and over.
1b. There is no inherent advantage to winning rounds. Imagine having high blood pressure and winning 79 rounds, only for a guy to just win one round and take home the grand prize. People with over a certain number of territory should be immune from being picked by those who have not played yet. Or, maybe give a person who previously won rounds extra time for each round that they won. There needs to be some kind of seeding to ensure that we actually end up with people who are good in the finale instead of the mid-tier players we see.
1c. In around half the matchups, the loser lost because they skipped a few obscure questions and not because they were faster or more knowledgeable.
2. Lots of contestants were really awful in their very own category. If your own category were US states, country flags, capital cities, or geography, you would expect them to actually know where countries or capital cities are. It's either common knowledge or could be rote memorized between episodes.
3. The show producers and backstage people are colossally stupid.
3a. Never mind the stupid rules, the producers should not touch anything trivia-related ever again. I swear if they show an eggplant and someone says "aubergine" (which is how most people outside of the US call eggplants), the backstage people would be completely clueless. One of the contestants was shown chips, and she said... "chips" and they didn't accept her answer because it had to be "potato chips".
3b. There were rounds were the images were obviously AI-generated garbage that looked absolutely awful and indiscernable. The category would be animals, and there would be an AI-generated image of a giraffe with wings, flying in the sky. There's no way copyright is so tight that they couldn't find proper, real images of animals.