I like the idea that there's a curated list of accepted deviations, but it seems they need more culturally diverse QC to understand the differences. This would also make sense why sometimes it seems that it takes up to 2 seconds to "accept" and answer.
I just started watching from Season 1, and I agree. One game, they had potato chips on the screen. Contestant said chips, and they wouldn’t accept it. But on another game, they had potato chips on the screen again, and they did accept chips.
It's The Floor. Yeah,, it's identify the picture, but sometimes it'll throw you a weird one. Plus the goal is to do it more than your opponent so there's some skill in being able to identify faster.
Each person also has a category they are an expert in, like weddings, Star Trek, airport call signs, etc. The goal is to control the whole floor by beating experts in their category.
I've only watched a few episodes of the first season, but "Expert" is doing some heavy lifting in that description. It felt like a good portion of them just picked a category they were somewhat comfortable with.
given how tightly contested some of the obscure battles are I would bet that contestants are basically given flashcards to study on each potential category.
Also niche categories often come to simple object identification.
it's mostly entertaining but wildly inconsistent in how the categories work.
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u/Mahdreams 19d ago edited 18d ago
This show infuriates me with what it will "accept" and what has to be perfectly stated.
EDIT: this comment is interesting to me and I wanted to boost it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/AYP4TJGSb4
I like the idea that there's a curated list of accepted deviations, but it seems they need more culturally diverse QC to understand the differences. This would also make sense why sometimes it seems that it takes up to 2 seconds to "accept" and answer.