At the start of every year, I set a goal for myself to read a certain amount of books. I wanted to beat my personal best of 460 in one year, so I set the goal for 500. Today I just read my 420th book. Not a big accomplishment, but I'm proud of it lol.

This was such a fun nostalgia trip for me. Before I start, there are some notes to be made. I never put the same show on multiple lists. So with that being said, there will be no Endurance, Kid Nation, or any of the cooking shows on here. Okay, let's boogie. 10. Family Double Dare: This is the first of three double dare shows on this list. None of these shows are bad at all, they are actually all good. This falls here because I didn't care for the inclusion of adults on a kid competition shows. 9. Get The Picture: Again, another fun show. I thought the concept was unique, but it fell flat against the other shows. I do wish it had more than one season to help refine it. 8. Nick Arcade: I loved this show because I loved video games. Getting to play the games and then answer video game trivia was my ideal game show. There really isn't a big competition feel to the show though. 7. Wild and Crazy Kids: I so wish this could be higher on the list. The challenges were unique and so fun to watch. It falls here because there are no prizes unfortunately. 6. Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?: I used to love this show, it had a kick ass theme too. I thought it was ingenious to include teaching along with the game to help kids out. 5. Finders Keepers: Omg I wanted to play this show so bad!! This was before even my time and I still went back and watched it. It does fall behind the others a bit just because of the others being easier to watch. 4. Double Dare 2000: I know I said I didn't like the inclusion of adults. This version revamped the rules and made it so much more fun. I came home from school every day and this was one of the first shows on. Sitting down with a Lunchable and watching this. So much nostalgia. 3. Double Dare: The original and the best of the three. Just an incredible show and I badly wanted it to be number one. There are two shows better though. Seriously though, go watch this show. 2. Nick Guts: This was basically the kids version of American Gladiators and it RULED!! I loved this show so freaking much and wish it just kept going on forever. 1. Legends Of The Hidden Temple: The best show of the generation of kids competition shows by far. It has everything you could want and more. I still watch repeats of this when I can.

I've had a lot of fun writing this list up. I do have an honorable mention to put on here first. Honorable Mention. Destination X: I would have loved to put this on my list because it's genuinely a great show. It only has one season and I can't do shows that only have one season on my list. There is a season 2 coming soon and I can't wait. 5. American Ninja Warrior: This is my comfort classic show and I love it so much. The last few seasons the format has changed drastically. It has ruined the prestige of winning unfortunately. 4. Deal or No Deal Island: I love this show, but the fact it got canceled because they handed out the biggest cash prize in history is hilarious. I wish it had way more seasons though. 3. America's Best Dance Crew: If you didn't grow up watching this, you missed out. Just the most incredible dance crews with so many diverse styles. Some of the most famous dance acts today were also on this show. 2. The Traitors: I am only judging the U.S. version here. That's why it finishes in the runner up spot. This is such a fun show and I love they brought back some of Reality TV's greatest and most have crashed and burned is amazing. I would love to go on this show so much. 1. The Mole: This is based on the original series and not the Netflix version. Watching this as a kid was crazy. Trying to be an amateur detective as a 7 year old was so much fun. I only guessed the mole correctly once, so maybe work as a detective is not in my cards. Just an incredible show all around, even the Celebrity versions were insane.

I expected the first part of this list to be way more controversial than it was. I do think one entry today will get a lot of people upset though lol. Anyways, like always you can comment or message me your disagreements. 15. So You Think You Can Dance?: I wish this could be higher on this list. If it was based on the early seasons only, it would be top 7 or 8 easily. The last 8 or 9 seasons had the format change and it just ruined the whole concept and vibes of the show for the worst. 14. Lego Masters: I do enjoy this show, I just couldn't put it high with all the other shows out there. There is no fundamental issue with the show, but it is geared towards a younger audience. 13. The Masked Singer: I think this show is awesome. Now saying that, the fun of the show is trying to figure out what celebrity is under the mask. Most of the time it's not a great inclusion because the person really isn't that famous. We do have some great winners though. 12. Beast Games: This has only had two seasons, so I can't put it in the top 10. It has a very good premise. I wish there wasn't so many contestants, but a lot of them do get eliminated early. The prizes and cash money are insanely awesome. With a few more stellar seasons it could easily jump way higher. 11. Wipeout: I wanted to put this in my top 10 so badly. This show is hilarious and I legit laugh for most of the show. It's still a very silly show that isn't too serious. It makes the show awesome, but the serious shows have to be higher. 10. RuPaul's Drag Race: Okay, okay, put the pitchforks down. I can explain. I'm not a fan of fashion shows, so for this to be top 10 means it's highly entertaining. I just dont enjoy fashion, but the queens are amazing and RuPaul is always awesome. It got top 10!! 9. Alone: I absolutely love this show. If you are not aware this show puts survival experts out in the wilderness with select tools and equipment that the experts chose. Whoever survives the longest wins and usually a few people are medically DQ'd toward the end of the season. It's just crazy what they can do and have to do in order to win. 8. American Idol: Again, put those damn pitchforks down!! This show was THE reality competition for so long and produced some of the music industries best artists in the last couple decades. The show takes a sharp decline when Simon left and my interest in it died down too. The winners also started not to become big in the music industry around then too. The revamped version isn't great either, which is a shame. 7. Fear Factor: This show was bat shit crazy back in the day. I mean the stuff these lunatics did for just $50K was insane. They were eating horse dicks just for the chance of making it to the final comp. The neutered down version is not my fear factor. 6. Endurance: This was my hardest choice I had to make. It was so close to making top 5, but the finale 2 seasons drop it down a spot. You could tell they didn't have their hearts into the production or casting for those seasons. The first few seasons were elite though. We also did get 2-time challenge champion Jonna. We also got misogynistic 2-time Survivor player Johnathan from this. Can't win them all.

I've done way too many ranking blogs at this point. I've talked about Survivor, Big Brother, The Challenge, The Amazing Race, Forgotten shows, and Food competitions. There's still so many reality competition shows that didn't fit into any of those categories. I have compiled the top 25 of those shows and ranked them here. Just to note, there won't be any shows from Netflix on here because I'm making a separate list for them. Once again, thank you for reading and you are always free to message me or comment about what you think of the lists. 25. The Apprentice: This is last for obvious reasons. The fact that oompa loompa was horrible before we all found out what kind of person he really is, shows how shit the show was. How are you the worst part of your own damn show?! I also don't care about seeing your son and daughter every episode either. It's just a really shit show. 24. America's Next Top Model: This was originally higher on my list and then I watched the Netflix documentary. Yeah, that really did horrors for the show. I honest to god cannot rewatch the show after seeing the doc. 23. The Biggest Loser: This should be a feel good story of people getting healthy and living great lives. That is not what happened in the slightest. They were torturing these people and most of them just gained all the weight back later on. It gets bonus points for having some good gameplay, but it was at the cost of people's health. 22. The Bachelorette: I do not like dating shows. I especially do not like dating shows where the producers rig who gets far. Congratulations on being two things I hate and having horrible success rate in actual marriages. 21. The Bachelor: Everything I said above, just here. It gets one spot higher because there have been more successful relationships after the show. 20. Project Runway: This is actually another show I never used to like, but ended up liking some of the seasons. It has produced some great fashion designers as well. This show just wasn't not made for guys like me lol. 19. The Voice: This may be very low to some people. I just can't rank a show highly, even if it's a good show, when nobody has become a star after winning. Literally no winner has gone on to do anything in the music industry. This has to be considered the biggest failure of a show in history. 18. Dancing With Stars: I like this show a lot, but too many times not the best dancer wins. I really hate when it's just a popularity contest and not based on who the most talented contestant is. 17. America's Got Talent: I feel like I'm just copy and pasting from above again. I stopped watching a couple seasons ago when a really bad dog act beat out actually talented people. More times then not the winner isn't the best performer. 16. The X-Factor: This show produced some insanely talented artists. The problem is the winners were not one of those artists. If the people or groups who didn't win are more famous than your actual winners, that's a problem.

We have made it to the finale of my favorite cooking competitions, thank you so much for reading along with lists. If you are new to these lists, welcome! If you have been reading for 5 weeks now, I'm so sorry you have to read my silly lists. Tomorrow I will be starting up a new list of the best competition shows that didn't fit in with any of my other lists. Thank you everyone again! 5. 24 in 24: This show is wiiiiiiild! The concept is crazy and it truly is a massive accomplishment if you win. 24 cooking challenges in 24 hours. The chefs just keep cooking for the majority of the time. There's only 3 seasons, so I can't rank it higher than the others. 4. Cutthroat Kitchen: Another crazy concept that was the show that got me into watching The Food Network. It's just hilarious watching these talented chefs have to work with all the sabotages each round. Alton is the perfect host and I wish it lasted longer in its original format. 3. Hell's Kitchen: I'm sure many of you expected this to be number 1. Truthfully I did too and then I remembered the outcomes of certain seasons and how the Casino owners dictated the winner. This is THE food show that started them all. I love Gordon and the show is amazing. I just can't have it higher because of some seasons being rigged. 2. Guy's Grocery Games: Guy Fieri is the perfect host and this shows you why. The concept was so crazy when it first started, I had no idea how it would last. Guy and his team always continue to reinvent the show and always make it interesting. This is my go to show when I'm eating too. 1. Tournament of Champions: This is the pinnacle of all food shows. The best of the best are lining up to compete each season. I love that they have to figure out how to beat the randomizer. The fact it's blind tasting and judging from the industries best is so perfect. Each winner was more than deserving and we never get an undeserving winner. They have to beat at minimum 4 other chefs to win. Just the perfect show.

I loved doing the first part of this list even if it is silly. I've got two more blogs regarding cooking shows and then I have around 3 more rankings lists to show all of you. Thank you again for reading my ramblings. 15. Wildcard Kitchen: I think this is a wildly fun concept and for the most part it delivers. Having to bet your own money on how well you can cook against your other chefs with your wildcard ingredient is awesome. The show does need some more refining for my taste though. 14. Food Network Star: This should be way higher, but the judges annoy me so damn much. I understand they are looking for people with great personalities, but almost every time they take out the insanely talented chefs over them. I personally want to see a mix of both and the only real stars they got were Guy and Tyler. 13. Worst Cooks In America: This is a blast to watch and I never get bored. The one drawback is I wish we saw what happened to the winners down the line. Do they continue cooking? Do they just suck again? I just want more of a followup. 12. Iron Chef: The show that really started it all for cooking competitions. The fact that the show was mainly remembered for the rivalry Bobby Flay and Morimoto had is the drawback. Some seriously amazing chefs competed. It was also filmed in the 90s, so the production isn't the greatest. 11. Masterchef: I love this show so much, but the amount of times it has been rigged is crazy. Season 5 is the biggest example because Joe was cheating on his wife with the eventual winner Courtney. She was a horrible chef and still won over some amazing chefs. There's been at least 3 other seasons where it was obviously rigged too. 10. Iron Chef America: I think this lands a bit higher than the original. It's a lot more drama filled than the original. The competitors have actual beef with some of the Iron Chefs and it makes for a lot more drama. There's been a lot of crazy competitions too. The Jon Fraser battle is still etched in my mind. 9. Beat Bobby Flay: I love this show so much because of how unique it was at the time. The fact that Bobby had to cook whatever the winner of the qualifier told him and he still won most of the time is just crazy. It ranks lower because it hasn't evolved after all these years. 8. Top Chef: I really, really, really like this show. Some of my favorite chefs ever I found by watching this. I do think that all of the finalists in season 2 should have been DQ'D for what they did to Marcel. They do also not eliminate the worst chef each week. That really irritates me too. 7. The Great Food Truck Race: This is my favorite summer time cooking show. It also made me want to run my own food truck for so long. It was such a drastic change in what shows we were given at the time. Food trucks also weren't massive like they are now when the show first started. It has gotten worse as the seasons went on unfortunately. 6. Chopped: This was a tough one, but chopped just misses out on my top 5. I absolutely adore this show and think it was such a revolutionary change in cooking shows. They do adapt and change the show which a lot of these shows don't. I do like eating watching these shows and sometimes it's hard to watch this while eating.

Guys, I have been working on a few new lists lol. I love cooking competitions so much, like it's a genuine problem. I had to narrow the list down to just cooking shows. You will not be seeing shows like Halloween wars or shows that are technically cooking shows, but it's more about the works of art they do instead of the actual taste of the food. The Great British Bake Off also won't be on here because it will be on another list. I also am not a huge fan of baking shows, so please don't harm me for when they are ranked lower haha. 25. Masterchef Junior: I just don't care for having actual children on these shows. I don't take pleasure in seeing an 8 year old girl bawling her eyes out when her souffle doesn't rise. They are very talented and some have gone on to be some powerhouses. It just isn't for me unfortunately. 24. The Ultimate Baking Championship: I'll be honest, I have only watched a couple seasons. This show just wasn't made for me. Like I said before, I'm not a fan of baking shows. It's just way too much formulas and scientific things for my liking. I will always be impressed by what they do though. 23. Halloween Baking Championship: This lands a bit higher because I love Halloween. Everything I said previously can just be copy and pasted here. 22. Next Level Chef: Unfortunately I just didn't get into this show as much as I wanted to. I understand that the concept was unique, but the execution just was boring to me. I watched the first 2 seasons and then just dropped the show because I was bored of it. 21. BBQ Brawl: I actually liked the first season a lot. It's been the seasons after that which has made me stop watching. The concept and the pit masters were very fun. The unfortunate thing is the show never evolved and grew stale after awhile. 20. Top Chef Masters: This is probably low for people, but the show never captured my interest. I do love they brought some of the best in the industry to see who is better. I do find it hilarious that the judges were chefs who were not on the same level as the contestants. Top Chef has this weird thing where they eliminate not the worst chef every time. This happens so much on Masters too. 19. Bobby's Triple Threat: This is another fun show, but also it's another similar show that Food Network likes to do. They wanted another Bobby Flay show, but couldn't just do a copy and paste of Beat Bobby Flay. Instead they bring in 3 very talented chefs that you have to beat on your way to challenge Bobby. Fun concept, just want a new and fresh concept for Bobby to do. 18. The Next Iron Chef: Very fun show, but the best season was the All-Stars. The drama was so much fun and like most shows he is on, Marcel steals the show. He is a reality tv villain born in a chef's body. The other seasons just don't measure up and that's why it ranks here. 17. Supermarket Stakeout: This is an incredible concept that I wish was better at the execution. I love Alex, but she is not the right host for this type of show. Alton would be the best host actually. I still enjoy the show, just wish it would tighten up the production. 16. Alex vs. America: I feel bad about doing this to both of her shows. I just don't find Alex as a captivating protagonist in these shows. She is a great chef, but just not as entertaining as her fellow hosts. This is also just another rip-off of Beat Bobby Flay which is another issue.

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After 107 games, I finally won a game on here! Thank you to Budweiser who took me to the final 2, I really appreciate it and you did deserve that win. Another thank you to JJ26 who worked with me as well. I only had alliances with you two, so to make final 3 together was awesome. Thank you to everyone I've played games with and was a massive nuke. My race partners know what I'm talking about haha.

I'm already sad that this list is over. I've had a ton of fun going back through these shows and I hope you guys have as well. Before we get to the final 5, I have an honorable mention. This show was on my list, until one of my friends reminded me that it isn't forgotten at all. Honorable Mention. The Mole(7 seasons; Aired from 2001-2004, 2008, 2022-2024): I figured most everyone only watched the new seasons and not the old ones, especially the Celebrity editions which were insane. Thank you to Nora for reminding me that everyone on here knows the show haha. Anyways, this was an amazing show. 5. Holey Moley(4 seasons; Aired from 2019-2022): This was such a hilarious show. It was a miniature golf competition akin to Wipeout. They had them play on these oversized mini gold courses and then they had to run through the obstacles they just played on. Having Rog Riggle and Joe Tessitore as the hosts just made it 100x funnier. 4. Face Off(13 seasons; Aired from 2011-2018): If you are looking for drama between cast members, this isn't the show for you. If you want to see how special effects makeup is done, then you will love it. They also got some of the best in the business to judge them and man did they critique the hell out of the contestants. Just absolutely amazing artists who then went on to work on some of the greatest films of our times. 3. Beauty and the Geek(5 seasons; Aired from 2005-2008): This show was amazing. The beauties having no idea how to interact with most of the geeks and vice versa was tv gold. Making the beauties have to learn general trivia was hilarious. The geeks having to learn pop culture and getting makeovers was equally hilarious. And shit, one of the beauties actually hooked up with a geek after their makeover. Just the peak of trash tv and I loved every second. 2. The Joe Schmo Show(4 seasons; Aired from 2003-2004, 2013, 2025): If you ever wondered how The Truman Show would work in real life, this is it. Holy shit this show was bonkers. They premise is simple, they have a reality show where everyone is actors except one person. Everyone is in on the joke except that one person. The goal is to make sure the regular guy never finds out that everything is fake. I know Matt, the first guy, still has some ptsd from this. Just please go and watch this. 1. Murder in Small Town X(1 season; Aired in 2001): This will always have a soft spot in my heart as it was the first reality show I watched. It was a murder mystery show where 10 people come to a town called Sunrise, Maine in order to help solve the murder of a predominant family. Each week through the clues they find, they eliminate 1-2 of the suspects, but one cast member is killed by the killer in the elimination round. The townspeople are all actors and it's just an amazing watch. It's a sad ending though because the winner was one of the firefighters who died in the 9/11 attacks.

I couldn't wait until tomorrow to continue the rankings. It looks like you guys didn't forget the first few, but let's see if you remember some of these ones. 9. Who wants to be a superhero?(2 seasons; Aired from 2006-2007): There is no way anyone ever watched this show. It was the dorkiest show I've ever watched, and I loved it haha. Stan Lee was the judge and these people had to create their own superhero. They created their own costumes and had their own superpowers. The people had to compete in challenges that would test how much of a hero they were. The winner got their own comic book made of them that was written by Stan Lee and got to star in a sci-fi original movie. It's so bad, it's good. 8. Pirate Master(1 season; Aired in 2007): I actually really liked this show and right in the middle of the season, it just stopped airing. The show did so bad, CBS pulled it after only airing 8 of the 14 episodes lmao. It was basically a bunch of people dressed like pirates hunting for a fictional treasure. The cast would be split into two tribes each week to hunt for a key to the ultimate treasure. The winning captain marked 3 people for elimination that the rest of the cast would then vote one of them out. The winner actually got $500K which is crazy. 7. Top Shot(5 seasons; Aired from 2010-2013): This is kind of crazy because the host is Colby Donaldson haha. It's pretty self explanatory, the show gathers the top marksman from the U.S. and they compete in shooting challenges with every type of hand weapon there is. Each week someone is eliminated and the winner got $100,000. It honestly is a really fun show because they make them live in a house together too. 6. Last Comic Standing(9 seasons; Aired from 2003-2010, 2014-2015): This show was great for a stand up comedy lover like myself. The format changed from season to season unfortunately. The basic synopsis is talent scouts hold open auditions and choose a certain number of comedians to be on the show. Each week there is a head to head battle between two of them in front of a studio audience. The audience votes on who is funnier and the other one is eliminated. The prizes also changed from a cash prize and a tv deal, to a talent contract and then to a live tv special. Some of the greatest comedians going today were on the show as well.

Okay, so I've been wanting to make a list like this for awhile. I had to get through the most popular competition shows first. I remember watching these shows growing up and nobody remembers some of them for one reason or another. I did some research as well to figure out why the shows ended as well. Okay, enjoy everyone! 14. I Love Money(4 seasons; Aired between 2008-2010): Now this theoretically should be way higher. As you can see here, I have listed that this show has 4 seasons. You may wonder how since you can only watch 3 of them. Well buckle up folks. Season 3 did happen, they filmed it and one of the trash tv stars did win. This winner's name is Ryan Jenkins. He was on the show Megan Wants a Millionaire. A few weeks after season 3 ended, he killed and dismembered his girlfriend Jasmine Fiore and then killed himself. So, yeah. Can't have this show ranked any higher because of all that. 13. Kid Nation(1 season; Aired in 2007): This was a fun show to watch, but man did they skirt around child labor laws so much. The kids filmed for 14 hours a day for a 40 day long season. They had to cook all their own meals and clean all their clothes and dishes by themselves as well. They only had one outhouse for all of them. The first time they could shower was after the firsg showdown. Kids accidentally drank bleach because of mislabeled bottles. The show also purposely made a little girl a villain through scripted lines which affected her in life afterwards. 12. 13 Fear is Real(1 season; Aired in 2009): I think I was the only one who watched this show haha. It was a horror themed reality show where one or two people were the killers and would send people into the elimination rounds that were based on that person's worst fear. The acting was horrible, but the challenges were insane looking back on. It had an among us feel to it as well where the contestants could accuse someone of being the killer. If they got it right the killer was eliminated, if they were wrong they were sent straight to the elimination round. 11. Ghost Hunters Academy(2 seasons; Aired between 2009-2010): This is a very niche show because if you weren't watching ghost hunters, you did not watch or care about this show. Basically it was amateur ghost hunters traveling to very haunted locations. They had to set up the equipment to TAPS specifications. They then had to use the equipment right and ghost hunt. After the investigation they all had to watch the hours of video and listen to the hours of audio to see if they could catch evidence of ghosts. The two members of TAPS would then review how they did and if they messed up enough, were eliminated. The winner got a job being an investigator for the Ghost Hunters team. 10. Dog Eat Dog(2 seasons; Aired between 2002-2003): This is more akin to Fear Factor. 6 people compete in a series of mental or physical competitions. The 6 people are told what the competition is and then vote one of the people to do that challenge. If the person fails they are eliminated, if they win then are able to eliminate one of the people who voted for them. The last one standing then had to beat the eliminated five in a trivia competition. If they won, they got $25,000, but if they lost the other five win $5,000. There was some batshit competitions that would never be allowed today.

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I live in upstate NY, been a Knicks fan since forever. I wrote a report back in middle school about how the Knicks, who were terrible then too, could win the championship again. Heartbreak after heartbreak each season. Finally, I get to witness a championship for the team I never stopped rooting for.

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