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The contestants have been full of surprises on My Kitchen Rules this year. With some of the strongest teams eliminated this early in the competition, it proves that truly anything goes in Kitchen HQ.
In the final elimination cook-off in Kitchen HQ, Tiffany and Giancarlo faced off against Zoe and Zac.
After some stressful time management and last-minute switch-ups, the loved-up couple, Tiffany and Giancarlo, were sent home.
However, it wasn’t a completely fair fight, as Simon, who was riding solo during this episode, admitted that he was deliberately scoring Tiffany and Giancarlo lower to keep Zac and Zoe in the competition, as he thought he had a better chance of beating them.
“We are in a competition for $100,000, so the strategy tonight is to keep Zac and Zoe in the competition and for Tiffany and Giancarlo to go home,” Simon said. “Do you want to [go against] a strong team, or do you want a guaranteed win against Zac and Zoe?
“I want to make sure that my score is really low for Giancarlo and Tiffany to drag that average down, and for Zac and Zoe, I want to inflate it a bit to drag their team average up.”
This isn’t the first time strategic scoring has taken place this season, at least according to fans, and viewers are fed up.
“This strategic voting is so unfair, the judges should pull them up on it,” one fan wrote online about Angus and Simon’s behaviour. “The show has gone downhill fast in the last few years, so far away from what it was supposed to be. I’m extremely unlikely to watch it next season.”
Speaking to WHO about their elimination, Tiffany and Giancarlo exposed the “strategy” and “alliance” that formed behind the scenes, revealing that they never really had a chance.
Tiffany and Giancarlo confirm strategic scoring rumours: ‘Our cooking ability made us a threat’
After the contestants gave their verdict on the teams’ main banquets, Manu and Colin disagreed with their feedback. Luckily, the judges’ scores have more weight than the guest teams’ scores, as their combined scores are averaged. However, that didn’t stop the teams from trying to lower the result anyway.
By the end of the night, Manu and Colin gave Tiffany and Giancarlo a higher score than Zoe and Zac overall, by one point. This meant that the result came down to the average guest team scores.
Tiffany and Giancarlo had suspicions that they would be scored unfairly, and told WHO that they left the elimination round defeated.
“I think our cooking ability made us a threat, to be honest,” Tiffany said. “And instead of that being something that was celebrated, it was something that worked against us. The whole point of the competition, I thought, was identifying your strongest competitors, challenging them and championing them.
“But yeah, it ended up being a little bit more about strategy and knocking out the best cooks instead of wanting to face them at the end.”
“I mean, for us personally, we would always want to be cooking against the best cooks,” Giancarlo added. “We want the best food out there. It was a cooking competition. I think that’s what it was about.
“We want to lose on that merit, on someone’s food being better than ours or whatever. So it was extremely difficult, even being thrown into elimination.”
While they understood that they had made some annoying mistakes along the way with the pressure cookers or their time management, they thought their pivot was enough to show their skill with dishes they have been cooking for over 20 years.
“We were already dumbfounded that we were thrown into elimination,” Giancarlo said.
“We actually noticed strategy being played there, especially with the comments around the table, specifically Harrison and Oliver, like you’re always throwing around the word ‘disappointed’, and like very overly directed,” Tiffany told WHO about the cook that led to their elimination round. “I mean, we don’t really know them too well at this point anyway, and we noticed that there was an alliance between a few people around the table in that episode.”
Tiffany and Giancarlo believe Simon should’ve been ‘disqualified’
After discovering that Simon had admitted to scoring strategically to eliminate Tiffany and Giancarlo from the competition, the lovebirds were not surprised.
“I don’t know what’s going on,” Giancarlo said. “Simon’s sort of all over the shop.”
“He just turned out to be the worst person,” Tiffany added.
“For a cooking competition to come down to favouritism or strategy or just blatant dishonesty, that is the most difficult thing for both of us to swallow in this whole scenario,” she continued. “And the fact that was allowed, like you should be disqualified. How is that allowed?”
“That was quite difficult because we honestly were practising, like it was almost sleepless nights from school, we were putting so much effort in,” Giancarlo said. “It’s dumbfounding now, looking back, looking at some of the other teams, how they cook, we were like, ‘Why were we bothering, you know?'”
“It became about popularity and favouritism and strategy over cooking,” Tiffany said.
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