Guy Fieri’s Tournament of Champions III: Delicious Cut Throat Fun !

The best food show on The Food Network is Guy Fieri’s Tournament of Champions is the new Iron Chef replacement…

CelebnReality247.com was happily engaged in The Food Network’s newest prime-time destination on Sunday nights, Tournament of Champions III hosted by Guy Fieri.

For the first time ever, Guy is bringing together a whopping 32 of the greatest culinary masterminds in the world for a chance to earn the largest prize in tournament history: $100,000.

Guy Fieri is our favorite chef who hosts Diners Drive-ins and Dives, Guys Grocery Games and more.

But Sunday night was amazing as he put up the first 12 chefs in one of the most cutthroat competitions ever. It was win or lose, but first Guy ranked each of the chefs.

Tournament of Champions III immediately demonstrates reality TV food competition competitors on a high stakes win or lose round.

He pitted chef against chef in a blind judging and numerical scoring which either has them advance or exit. Episode one Michael Voltaggio took the win. The upset was Tiffany Derry beating out Timothy Hollingsworth (exec Chef of the French Laundry). The redemption round was won by Eric ‘Pong’ Adjepong who battled KBC. The final of four rounds went to the 2nd season winner Maneet Chauhan won by 2 points over #8 seat Richard Hales. It was a great first episode.

TOC III was intense and we are loving it!

Among talent competitions, it’s the most-fair, most-trustworthy structure I’m aware of. The judges don’t even know who is in the competition. The format also produces excellent food and entertainment, from the randomizer’s curveballs to the suspense of the chefs watching their food be judged from their trailers.

While the chefs are going head to head Justin Warner and Simon Majumdar take notes on what they are making so they can convey it to the judges.

Ready to find out who’s competing this year?

The chefs representing the East Coast are:

Eric Adjepong, Einat Admony, Karen Akunowicz, Kelsey Barnard Clark, defending champion and Tournament of Champions II winner Maneet Chauhan, Madison Cowan, Tobias Dorzon, Tiffani Faison, Darnell Ferguson, Amanda Freitag, Richard Hales, Christian Petroni, Michael Psilakis, Aarthi Sampath, Justin Sutherland and Bryan Voltaggio.

The chefs representing the West Coast are:

Carlos Anthony, Shirley Chung, Chris Cosentino, Tiffany Derry, Elizabeth Falkner, Phillip Frankland Lee, Timothy Hollingsworth, Antonia Lofaso, Crista Luedtke, Brian Malarkey, Aaron May, Joe Sasto, Jet Tila, Marcel Vigneron, Michael Voltaggio and Season 1 winner Brooke Williamson.

The Rankings West Coast and East Coast:

A Division – The Match ups for the West by rank Season 1 winner #1 Brooke Williamson vs #8 Crista Luedtke – ~~#2 Michael Voltaggio vs #7 Phillip Frankland Lee~~ – ~~#3 Timothy Hollingsworth vs #6 Tiffany Derry~~ – #4 Aaron May vs #5 Brian Malarkey

B Division – West Coast is #1 Jet Tila vs #8 Carlos Anthony – #2 Antonia Lofaso vs #7 Joe Sasto – #3 Shirley Chung vs #6 Marcel Vigneron – #4 Chris Cosentino vs #5 Elizabeth Falkner

A Division For the East Coast its ~~#1 Maneet Chauhan vs #8 Richard Hales~~ – #2 Amanda Freitag vs #7 Madison Cowan – #3 Tiffani Faison vs #6 Bryan Voltaggio – ~~#4 Kelsey Barnard Clark vs #5 Eric Adjepong~~

B Division #1 Darnell Ferguson vs #8 Aarthi Sampath – #2 Christian Petroni vs #7 Tobias Dorzon – #3 Michael Psilakis vs #6 Einat Admony – #4 Karen Akunowicz vs #5 Justin Sutherland.