“Tournament Of Champions: All-Star Christmas” Is Enjoyable Occasions

HOLLYWOOD—When this sequence first premiered a number of years again it was one among my favorites as a result of it took one of the best cooks within the nation and compelled them to compete in opposition to each other in a bracket model event. The first season was superb since you noticed titans of cooks being knocked out by underdogs.

With that stated, Guy Fieri’s “Tournament of Champions” began to get a bit stale as we entered season 5, and season 6 was simply dreadful. Why? It was a few of the worst enhancing I had witnessed that made it so apparent who was successful every spherical and the judging simply wasn’t nice for me. NOTE TO FOOD NETWORK: please work in your enhancing as a result of a few of these battles made it so clear who was successful it took the enjoyable out of issues. What does that imply? I shouldn’t know the winner earlier than the judging even takes place.

With that stated, we had one thing sudden with “Tournament of Champions: All-Star Champions” that witnessed some high tier candidates’ ones that we’ve got not seen within the competitors in a very long time like Alex Guarnaschelli, Aaron Sanchez, Marcus Samuelsson, Shirley Chung, the Voltaggio brothers, Marcel Vigneron, Damaris Phillips and Aarti Sequiera return to the foray. Those had been some faces we haven’t seen compete shortly.

We did get our common opponents in Mei Lin and Nini Nyguen, Jet Tila, Lee Anne Wong, Tobias Dorzon, Adam Sobel, Britt Rescigno, Kevin Lee, Sara Bradley, Amanda Freitag, Maneet Chauhan, Stephanie Izard and Antonia Lofaso. However, issues are totally different this time round is 2 dishes must be made. One is good, the opposite is savory.

So, we’ve got esteemed pastry cooks like Sherry Yard and Zac Young competing alongside titans. Yeah, it’s rattling enjoyable to witness, however I’m about to go off on one of many battles that was so apparent WHO WON and WHO SHOULD HAVE WON, just for them to win in opposition to to titans of cooks that didn’t carry their finest.

Aarti and Christa ought to have gained that battle in opposition to Antonia and Alex. I imply we had a tied rating, to not point out the plating on Aarti and Christa’s dishes simply regarded stellar in my view. It looks like “Tournament of Champions” is on this period the place they don’t wish to have the upsets they’d within the first 2-3 seasons of the sequence. Hey, that’s what made the sequence a lot enjoyable. If it turns into apparent; it’s not a lot enjoyable anymore in the event you ask me.

I cherished a few of the mixtures within the battles to date at this level that simply appeared loopy. However, I feel it’s time for the sequence to combine issues up much more at this level. There must be one other layer of mayhem to the sport to make it extra unpredictable as a result of it has gotten a bit stale at this level and it’s not as thrilling because it has been earlier than previously. How a few high seed GETTING to decide on who they battle after a victory or such. Shake up issues in a approach that the opponents and viewers don’t see it coming. New episodes air Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on The Food Network.