"All due congratulations to Jasmine Mitchell, who won by making efficient, if not exactly memorable, bakes that stuck to classic flavors that never ventured too far beyond Paul and Prue's preferences. But her win came at the end of a season that was most notable for a recurring pretense: that the technical matters as much as the signature and the showstopper."
"This entire season made clear that is simply not the case, a statement as ludicrous as, say, "Paul's level of bronze is naturally obtained." As the series has continued, the technical has become progressively harder and the contestants' success with it that much rarer, making for a challenge that's become increasingly difficult to factor into the equation of who should win and lose each week."
"The technical now only matters when Paul and Prue decide it matters, and even for a competition series defined by the judges' subjectivity, the uneven handling of the technical has become a frustrating indication of how far GBBS has strayed from the format that made it a sensation. The contestants have now grown up in the GBBS era, and their awareness of what the judges want, and how important it is to practice signatures and showstoppers before they arrive in the tent,"
The technical challenge has become progressively harder and inconsistently applied, making success rarer and its influence on eliminations arbitrary. Contestants now prioritize signatures and showstoppers through rehearsal and homework, reducing the technical to an occasional judge-dependent metric. The imbalance elevates practiced performances over spontaneous testing and alters the intended equal weighting of the three challenges. The season's winner produced efficient, classic bakes aligned with judges' tastes rather than adventurous creations. The current handling of the technical undermines competitive fairness, favors familiarity with judge preferences, and warrants redesigning the technical format to restore balanced skill assessment.
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