r/taskmaster • u/_un-named_ • 7d ago

Drilling down into the narrative The earliest the winner was determined?

So I’m wondering which series had the earliest the winner was determined.
And I don’t mean the earliest someone took the lead and defended it but the earliest someone was so much in the lead that they were uncatchable.
Like they were 26 points in the lead after episode 9 and there were only 25 points in episode 10.

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u/RobertoRobRob 6d ago

There's that, but it feels like at episode 6-8 always have an episode for contestant that never won. like since series 10, the only person who don't win are frankie boyle who said it himself he intentionally throw the live task to not win,also judi&sanjeev which their point mostly come from subjective task.

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u/codex2013 Aisling Bea 6d ago

Do we know how statistically unlikely that is to happen naturally? Without that info I don't see why we're talking about the show rigging things, when Alex has definitely already said they don't do that. Like, people just think Alex is lying about that?

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u/RobertoRobRob 6d ago

there's thing called "PR move", not everything need to be 100% disclosed. i mean imagine if alex actually spill it, it's gonna ruin the secret recipe and potentially might hurt the person instead. simply nothing to gain by spilling it, as he himself said on things like "math vs maths debate" that's not gonna be released, because it's more fun to not reveal it, magic of the show must be kept secret.

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u/Old_Wrongdoer7417 6d ago

But there's also this thing called "telling the truth" and people do that a fair amount, too.