The Best Reality TV Shows, Ranked
Rank reality TV head-to-head, Survivor vs The Bachelor and Love Island vs Big Brother, then compare your reality show list with the community. Early results (n = 15): too few finished brackets to call a leader yet. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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Too Hot to Handle2020-2024
90 Day Fiance2014-present
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Reality TV Shows: early results
Early results (n = 15). Win rate across 305 head-to-head picks from 15 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Reality show | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Survivor2000-present | 33–9 | 78.6% | 4 | 42 | |
| 2 | Dancing with the Stars2005-present | 21–12 | 63.6% | 3 | 33 | |
| 3 | MasterChef2010-present | 21–13 | 61.8% | 0 | 34 | |
| 4 | The Real Housewives2006-present | 18–13 | 58.1% | 1 | 31 |
Reality TV Shows: an early tier list
Early results (n = 15) Too few finished brackets to call yet; the tiers settle as more people play. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Nobody yet
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- Survivor
- Dancing with the Stars
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- MasterChef
- Love Is Blind
- The Real Housewives
- Love Island
- Jersey Shore
- The Amazing Race
- American Idol
- The Great British Bake Off
- + 2 more
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Keeping Up with the Kardashians
- RuPaul's Drag Race
- The Circle
- The Voice
- 90 Day Fiance
- The Bachelor
- Top Chef
- Shark Tank
- + 1 more
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- The Masked Singer
- Queer Eye
- Too Hot to Handle
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Nobody yet
How the Reality TV Shows bracket works
This reality show ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Survivor or The Bachelor? RuPaul's Drag Race or The Amazing Race? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Comparing two shows is far easier than sorting 24 of them at once, which is why the finished list tends to survive a second look.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 24 shows. The draw changes every day and New draw reshuffles it whenever you like, so the same show can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 or 24 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 24 entrants
All 24 entrants are listed below, including Survivor, The Bachelor, RuPaul's Drag Race and The Amazing Race. Updated
- Survivor2000-present
- The Bachelor2002-present
- RuPaul's Drag Race2009-present
- The Amazing Race2001-present
- Love Island2015-present
- Big Brother2000-present
- American Idol2002-present
- Keeping Up with the Kardashians2007-2021
- The Real Housewives2006-present
- The Great British Bake Off2010-present
- Love Is Blind2020-present
- The Voice2011-present
- Project Runway2004-present
- Shark Tank2009-present
- The Circle2020-present
- Jersey Shore2009-2012
- Too Hot to Handle2020-2024
- MasterChef2010-present
- The Traitors2023-present
- Dancing with the Stars2005-present
- Top Chef2006-present
- 90 Day Fiance2014-present
- The Masked Singer2019-present
- Queer Eye2018-2026
Tier list instead?
Load all 24 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own reality show bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 24 so more of the 24 shows make the field.
- Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Questions people ask
How many shows are in the Reality TV Shows bracket?
The pool holds 24 shows. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 24 slots.
Which shows are included?
Survivor, The Bachelor, RuPaul's Drag Race, The Amazing Race, Love Island, Big Brother, American Idol, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, The Real Housewives, The Great British Bake Off, Love Is Blind and The Voice, plus 12 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Reality TV Shows bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and a run saves after every pick, so you can stop and jump back in later.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other show grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two shows that never met. If you would rather place the shows into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 24 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the Reality TV Shows community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 24 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a show I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own shows, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 24 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.