Its’s official. MasterChef is over, and people are not happy about who won.
Having aired its nail-biting finale last night, viewers watched on as coffee-roaster Matt Sinclair and teacher Elena Duggan battled it out to be the crowned champion and take home $250,000 in prize money.
Three original dishes and one 91-step Heston Blumenthal creation the is definitely not home cook friendly later, Duggan took home the glory.
The Masterchef Australia 2016 finale with Matt Sinclair and Elena Duggan. Post continues…
Viewers of the hit Channel 10 show were outraged for Sinclair, who proved himself to be a strong competitor and crowd favourite from early on.
“Matt is Australia’s new Shannon Noll,” one Twitter user wrote, suggesting that much like the What About Me? singer, Sinclair too, was a the runner-up robbed.
Others thought Matt’s consistency throughout the season was not taken into account.
But like all previous seasons, overall performance is not considered in the final scores of the night.
But when it’s all said and done, the clinching moment that landed Elena her win was her ability to deliver Blumenthal’s frankly bamboozling dish that brought home the win.
And at least one Twitter user seemed to understand.
Until next year, MasterChef.
Top Comments
Nonsense, it has nothing to do with matt being better throughout the season (which it was)
It has everything to do with how the finals work, rounds 1-2 are scored to make it even, only the final round really matters.
Round 1, Matt won by 1 point? please, his was a straight x9 dish, got a random 8/10. Elenas being a 7/8/8? please, it was a 7/7/7 dish. Then we have round two. Gary said he could not have made Matts dish, it was inventive, creative and likened to a long standing classic. a clear 10/10/10. Elenas? as good? again, please, it was a 9/9/9 dish.
The rounds were scored to keep the difference as close as possible, going into the final round it all came down to the dessert (which is especially funny this season since desserts have been the premiere thing to cook this entire season)
not to mention that like every season since Marion, the script writes for MA:AU have tried to find the best cook-book seller and run with it. It was Chloe, then it became Elena. She was a favorite to win from the start.
It's really crap how the best cooks can go home on one bad cook. For us to continue watching, they need to give contestants a cumulative score whereby the lowest score each week sees that person go home. Otherwise, it's not really about the best cook winning but more about luck. Absolutely Matt deserved to win, although Ellena was a close second. Really hate seeing good cooks go home every season because the producers don't rectify this.