How the Reality TV Shows bracket works
Reality TV tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Survivor or The Bachelor? RuPaul's Drag Race or The Amazing Race? — and after 23 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 5 rounds at the default 24-slot size (Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 24 shows in the field. 24 is not a power of two, so 8 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. The field is reshuffled on every play, 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 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
23 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 248 matchups
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-3 minutes start to finish.
All 24 entrants
All 24 entrants are listed below, including Survivor, The Bachelor, RuPaul's Drag Race and The Amazing Race.
Survivor
2000-present
The Bachelor
2002-present
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009-present
The Amazing Race
2001-present
Love Island
2015-present
Big Brother
2000-present
American Idol
2002-present
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
2007-2021
The Real Housewives
2006-present
The Great British Bake Off
2010-present
Love Is Blind
2020-present
The Voice
2011-present
Project Runway
2004-present
Shark Tank
2009-present
The Circle
2020-present
Jersey Shore
2009-2012
Too Hot to Handle
2020-present
MasterChef
2010-present
The Traitors
2023-present
Dancing with the Stars
2005-present
Top Chef
2006-present
90 Day Fiance
2014-present
The Masked Singer
2019-present
Queer Eye
2018-present
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 24 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 4 completed Reality TV Shows brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Dancing with the Stars
9W - 2L · won 2 brackets
82%
win rate
- 2
Love Island
4W - 1L · won 1 bracket
80%
win rate
- 3
The Amazing Race
5W - 2L · won 1 bracket
71%
win rate
- 4
Survivor
7W - 3L
70%
win rate
- 5
MasterChef
4W - 2L
67%
win rate
- 6
Project Runway
5W - 3L
63%
win rate
- 7
RuPaul's Drag Race
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 8
Jersey Shore
4W - 3L
57%
win rate
- 9
The Real Housewives
3W - 3L
50%
win rate
- 10
The Bachelor
2W - 2L
50%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- 2The default run puts all 24 shows in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Reality TV Shows bracket FAQ
How many shows are in the Reality TV Shows bracket?
The pool holds 24 shows. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 23 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. 8 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. 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 tier list take?
About 2-3 minutes — 23 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and you can abandon a run at any point without losing anything.
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 23 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.