Since its inception, the ratings of the variety show "The Strongest Brain" have been quite good.
Of course, the ratings wouldn't last nine seasons if they didn't work.
However, if you want to talk about the reputation of the show, it is really embarrassing, it can be said that it is worse than one season.
When Wei left in exchange for Professor You Jianning, the challenge project also underwent a qualitative change.
Any audience that chased after the first season can feel it, and it was rare to answer questions on tablets before, and now every project is related to tablets.
Either the challenge project is directly a "mini-game" on the tablet, or there are props on the spot, filling in the answers on the tablet.
Some people may say that the times have progressed, and in this high-tech era, more electronic products should be used.
To be honest, I don't think there's anything wrong with combining projects and high technology, but these seasons haven't been very good.
In fact, in the previous show, I have also played high-tech, such as Bao Yun and Yu Zhan's "Cangjie Zaozi", which uses VR technology.
That competition was played twice, because the first technical failure occurred, the project was not only very technical, but also very real, and the final result was also clear at a glance.
Compared to previous projects, the current topic is almost like a joke.
Because of the addition of tablet computers, there are more multiple choice questions and more opportunities for trial and error, which leads to a lot less difficulty of the project.
For the old fans of the show, why do they always miss the people of Shui Ge, Bao Yun, and Wang Feng?
On the one hand, their ability is really strong, and on the other hand, the challenge project is really well designed, allowing the players to fully display their ability.
To put it bluntly, if you put the contestants from previous seasons into the current show, they really can't necessarily win, because the project can't.
I believe that everyone also found out from the introduction of the contestants at the beginning of the show that in these two seasons of the show, there are memory masters every time.
You know, regarding memory, there are competitions every year, and some players are ranked above Wang Feng.
For these players, their participation in "The Strongest Brain" is to challenge some memory projects to prove themselves, which can also be said to be to tell everyone that they are better than Wang Feng.
However, in these two years of projects, none of them have been purely about memory.
In other words, even those who have a memory test are just lost, and the previous memory problem has become a thing of the past.
These memory masters are not afraid of how difficult it is to remember, they are only afraid of not having the opportunity to show, but unfortunately, these two seasons do not have a chance, several memory masters are brushed down in the first stage, it is really a pity.
To put it bluntly, the loneliness of the two seasons of "The Strongest Brain" is not because the contestants are not good, the key is that the project is not good, and the operation of the program group is not good.
Let's take the latest episode of this season as an example, and everyone will know what the current show is.
The format is unfair, the game depends on luck, and this season of "The Strongest Brain" has completely changed its flavor.
First, choose your teammates.
In this stage, 12 players need to be divided into two teams to compete.
Under the voting choice of everyone, Zhu Keqi and Bai Yupeng became the captains, and the format of voting for the captain was relatively fair.
However, the format of the captain's selection team is somewhat unfair, the two of them need to play a game of "number secret order" to select people, and each card can be selected to choose a person.
First of all, this game is a form of game, and there is a distinction between hands and hands.
Everyone knows that the backhand is more dominant.
So, who should come first and who should come first? The program team actually adopted a coin tossing method to decide.
I really want to ask, is it fair to rely on luck to decide who plays first and who comes back? This is not as fair as "stone scissors cloth"!
Secondly, the captain's one-way choice, is this fair to the other players?
Don't look at these players as if the relationship is good, but after all, they don't get along for long, and it is already too much to let them tie their fate to others, and now they actually have no choice.
Zhu Keqi and Bai Yupeng are very strong, they deserve to be captains, but it is not that others are inferior to them, such as Huang Ruoyi, Cao Yidong, Gong Jinsaibo, Meng Jie, their abilities are worthy of captainship, why should they be chosen?
Since it is a team game, the team should go in both directions, not the captain who chooses who is who, which is not fair.
Whether it is at work or in life, I believe that everyone has people who like and people who don't like.
Only after two people have their eyes can they achieve the effect of one plus one is greater than two.
Just as the so-called twisted melon is not sweet, if someone chooses a team he does not like, then he will definitely not be able to exert his full strength.
Second, special formats.
Before the start of the first event, the program team announced a special format.
Contestants can redeem resource cards for booster chip functions, including clone chips, resurrection chips, order chips, interference chips, and gain chips.
Of the five chips, the resurrection chip is the most useful, and can directly challenge one of the players on your team after failing.
Next is the clone chip, because someone else has a resurrection chip, and you can clone it and use it together.
Then there is the order chip, which can adjust the opponent's platoon arrangement.
The interference chip and the gain chip can be said to be useless, one is to reduce the opponent's preparation of the prop, the other is to increase the preparation time of the other side by ten minutes, which has no impact on the game.
So the question is, how do you get these five chips? First come, first served, whoever shouts fast gets the best.
When I saw this format, it was really embarrassing, was the program group design a little sloppy?
Isn't this game as fair as when choosing teammates?
What's even more ridiculous is that in addition to "first come, first served", blind boxes have also been added, what is drawn, and how can it be fair?
I really want to make a suggestion, if the program team really can't design, then just rock scissors cloth! Much better than the current gameplay.
Third, dye the chessboard.
This is the first challenge project of this issue, and it is still difficult from the perspective of the challenges of the contestants on the spot.
However, if you see through this project, it will be very simple.
This event is a relay race, each player has a five-minute challenge time, and each plate can be reset if it is not completed within the specified number of steps.
If you read the rules, you will understand that this project is faster than reasoning.
The number of steps specified for each challenge is twelve or thirteen steps, and the maximum number of steps is not more than fourteen.
I just want to ask you, how long does it take for you to mess around with fourteen steps in a plate?
It is no exaggeration to say that it can definitely be ordered in twenty seconds.
At this rate, you can order three sets in one minute, and you can order fifteen sets in five minutes.
When there are no penalties for this project, there will be no irreversible consequences for pointing out mistakes.
In contrast, the lucky mess is faster and more accurate than reasoning, but unfortunately the players do not realize this.
Of course, the contestants didn't do it the way I said, but that doesn't mean they didn't rely on luck, or they wouldn't have reset so many times.
As a challenge project of "The Strongest Brain", it is actually faster and more accurate by luck than by strength, is this ridiculous?
The simple topics of these seasons have been complained about, and now there is no need to use the brain to do the problems, it is enough to rely on opportunism, how can such a project be fair.
This project is absolutely overturned, and it can even be said that it does not deserve to appear on the stage, there are too many loopholes.
Fourth, breakout matches.
This format is divided into offensive and defensive sides, with 1 person on the offensive side and 5 players on the defensive side, and the attackers can only win if they win the first place.
Simply put, this is the 1V5 race, which is really ridiculous.
As we all know, the projects in these seasons are very simple, anyone can do it, it is nothing more than a matter of speed.
Since everyone can do it, the probability of one person challenging five people winning can be said to be very small.
It is true that this format has not been seen in all variety shows, but I think it is flashy and has no practical significance.
To put it bluntly, the challenge of 1V5, winning is good luck, losing is also a matter of course, isn't it?
Fifth, the Forest of Falling Stars.
The props of this project are still relatively beautiful, but this difficulty is a bit embarrassing.
Let's put aside the difficulty this time, only say that it is unfair.
As you can see from this figure, the distance between the players and the props is still relatively close, and the distance between the six players is relatively far.
According to normal logic and this position, the leftmost player will inevitably look at the leftmost fragment first, and the right edge of the right fragment is too inclined to see the whole picture.
In the same way, the first player on the far right sees is the rightmost fragment directly in front.
For the leftmost and rightmost players, whoever is lucky will be able to find the feature points and complete the challenge first.
Compared with the players at both ends, the player in the middle position is the most dominant, because he does not have too much angle on the left and right sides, which is more conducive to finding feature points.
In addition, there is also a distraction factor, that is, the fragments seen by the players at both ends may be blocked from each other.
You can look at the picture above, from this point of view, the pink fragments are obviously obscured.
It can be seen from this situation that the middle players have a better advantage, because their angle will not be blocked, the observation time is longer, and the range is wider.
In this project, Huang Ruoyi's position is in the middle, and his perspective is the best, which I think is inseparable from his good results.
For Monger, 1V5 itself is a bit unlikely, his position is still on the far side, and the chance of winning is even smaller.
To be honest, the two events in this issue are unfair, and the mini-game of choosing teammates is also unfair.
The best project should be fair and impartial, as long as there is an element of luck, it is a failed design.
This season of "The Strongest Brain" is a complete change of taste, I think it is more appropriate to call it "strongest luck", what do you think?