I watched the premiere of FOX’s new game show 99 To Beat last night, and the basic premise is a lot of fun. 100 players are all given a challenge to do at the exact same time, and whoever comes in last is eliminated. Then, during the next round, the remaining 99 players are given a challenge to do at the exact same time, and whoever comes in last is eliminated. On and on it goes until only one person is left, and he or she goes home with a million dollars. Pretty fun, right?
Well, it turns out that’s not exactly how it works. Much to my frustration and assumedly the frustration of everyone else watching, the show threw in a surprise team challenge. The 96 remaining players were separated into eight teams to compete in a relay in which they formed assembly lines and dumped water into buckets. I assumed the twelve members of the losing team would have to compete against each other in a subsequent challenge to see who went home, but instead, the show just sent the entire team home.
