I can’t wait to watch all 32 chefs compete for the grand prize of $100,000 on Food Network’s Tournament of Champions IV, which premieres tonight. Fans will recognize many of the show’s staples from previous seasons, including the Randomizer’s unpredictable challenges, the expert chefs’ blind tastings of the contestants’ dishes, the contestants’ sweaty, nervous watching from their trailers, and more.
The opening of the fourth season proved that the finest competition on Food Network is not changing anything that works well; the bouts were exciting and dramatic, even if they weren’t particularly close in terms of raw numbers.
Alex Guarnaschelli, reviewing her Alex vs. America co-star and host Eric Adjepong’s dish, famously said, “I saw this dish and I felt a wave of anger wash over me.” This was made possible by the blind judging system, in which the judges have no idea who is competing.
This individual has already fried a radicchio wedge and removed a chunk of turkey from the deep fryer. What? What, they went on a steamy date? They only had 10 minutes to come up with something for us. Alex will have a great story to tell once she figures out who she has been unfairly criticizing all along.
Not only did season 4 of Tournament of Champions feature various new twists and turns, but it also had countless unplanned, unexpected moments like that. It felt like it was going to make a huge shift, but then it surprised me.
The New Randomizer in Tournament of Champions Season 4
The Randomizer has also undergone some significant updates. There are still a total of five wheels, with the first four remaining unchanged from before: protein, produce, gear, and fashion.
Every cook now gets 30 minutes to present their dish in the first round. Instead of a rotating clock, we now have a “Wild Card.” Included in its menu are the options “Lower Seed Re-Spin,” “Higher Seed Re-Spin,” and “Guy’s Choice.”
Fundamentally, it doesn’t add difficulty but rather enables for one of the four categories to be re-spun, which means that selection might get easier or harder—or stay the same, as it happened in one of the battles in the premiere.
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Tournament of Champions Season 4 Cooking Showdown Competitors
Food Network has made it easy to keep track of the action and make educated guesses by providing a printable PDF bracket. Moreover, per Food Network, below is the whole roster of this year’s competing chefs, along with their respective rankings.
West Coast chefs
- Jet Tila: No. 1 seed, West Coast A
- Shirley Chung: No. 2 seed, West Coast A
- Nate Appleman: No. 3 seed, West Coast A
- Brian Malarkey: No. 4 seed, West Coast A
- Lee Anne Wong: No. 5 seed, West Coast A
- Adam Sobel: No. 6 seed, West Coast A
- Tracey Shepos Cenami: No 7. seed, West Coast A
- Carlos Anthony: No. 8 seed, West Coast A
- Antonia Lofaso: No. 1 seed, West Coast B
East Coast chefs
- Tiffani Faison: No. 1 seed, East Coast A
- Jose Garces: No. 2 seed, East Coast A
- Graham Elliot: No. 3 seed, East Coast A
- Darnell Ferguson: No. 4 seed, East Coast A
- Ilan Hall: No. 5 seed, East Coast A
- Eric Adjepong: No. 6 seed, East Coast A
- Kelsey Barnard Clark: No. 7 seed, East Coast A
- Britt Rescigno: No. 8 seed, East Coast A
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