| Genre: | Comedy, panel game |
| Creator: | Alex Horne |
| Presenter: | Jaakko Saariluoma |
| Country: | Finland |
| Language: | Finnish |
| Num Series: | 5 |
| Num Episodes: | 52 |
| List Episodes: | Suurmestari#Episodes |
| Location: | Task filmings: Kulosaari mansion (Seasons 1-2) Stansvik mansion (Season 3) Jollas mansion (Season 4)[1] Villa Frosterus (Season 5) |
| Runtime: | 44 minutes |
| Company: | Rabbit Films |
| Channel: | MTV3 |
is a Finnish comedy panel program on MTV3 that started on April 12, 2020, based on the British Taskmaster television format.[2] Competitors perform various tasks that they receive from the Grand Master.
The Grand Master is portrayed by Jaakko Saariluoma, and serves as the judge. In the each episode of each Season, there are four regular contestants with different fifth changing competitor each episode. Competitors perform tasks for points and the one with the most points wins. In each episode, the prize is different items from the competitors that the competitors have brought with them. The winner of each episode gets all the items brought in. The overall season winner, which is one of the regular contestants, wins the "Grand Master Statue", and is the contestant of the season. Tiebreaker tasks are not featured in Suurmestari.
The first series took a summer break on 17 May 2020, with three episodes from the first production season not shown, and the remaining episodes were shown on MTV3 and the streaming service on MTV from 13 to 27 August 2020. More episodes were released on 17 May 2020.[3] The first season was a great success, and for that, on August 27, 2020, a second season of the series was announced for spring of 2021.[4]
Suurmestari has won the Golden Venla award of the "Best Game Show" four consecutive times in the row; in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.[5]
In 2024, the series will get an Spin-off show, called Juniori Suurmestari (Junior Grand Master), where instead of well-known finnish comedians or actors, ordinary finnish children aged 8-13 get to compete for series of surprise rewards.[6]
| Season | Seating | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | |
| 1 | Janne Kataja | Roni Bäck | Jenni Poikelus | |
| 2 | Miika Nousiainen | Aku Hirviniemi | Kiti Kokkonen | |
| 3 | ||||
| 4 | Eija Vilpas | Fathi Ahmed | Pirjo Heikkilä | |
| 5 | Eero Ritala | Pamela Tola | Joonas Nordman | |
In bold are the winners’ scores.
| Season | Contestants’ scores | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Janne Kataja (143) | Roni Bäck (135) | Jukka Hildén (156) | Jenni Poikelus (143) | [7] |
| 2 | Miika Nousiainen (154) | Minka Kuustonen (158) | Aku Hirviniemi (134) | Kiti Kokkonen (134) | [8] |
| 3 | Riku Rantala (180) | Anna-Maija Tuokko (157) | Mikko Penttilä (175) | Jenni Pääskysaari (173) | [9] |
| 4 | Kalle Lamberg (166) | Eija Vilpas (130) | Fathi Ahmed (154) | Pirjo Heikkilä (151) | [10] [11] |
| 5 | Eero Ritala (197) | Pamela Tola (197) | Joonas Nordman (196) | Pirjo Lonka (207) | |
This is the first season of Suurmestari. The regular contestants of the season were Jukka Hildén,, and Janne Kataja. The season was won by Jukka Hildén.
This is the second season of Suurmestari. The regular contestants of the season are Aku Hirviniemi, Kiti Kokkonen, and . The season was won by Minka Kuustonen.
The third Season was announced by MTV in October 2021. The recordings of ten episodes were held during November 2021.[12] The regular contestants of the Season are,, Riku Rantala and . Season premiered on MTV in April 2022.[13] The season was won by Riku Rantala with record-breaking 180 points. Mikko Penttilä finished second, Jenni Pääskysaari third and Anna-Maija Tuokko last place.
The fourth Season was announced by MTV to start on 18 March 2023, with the regular contestants being Eija Vilpas, Fathi Ahmed, and .[14] The season was won by Kalle Lamberg. Fathi Ahmed finished second, Pirjo Heikkilä third, and Eija Vilpas last place.
The fifth season of Suurmestari premiered in March 2024, and the studio recordings were held in November 2023.[15] The regular panelists for this season are, Eero Ritala, Pamela Tola and Joonas Nordman.[16]
The filming of the Junior-version takes place in summer 2024, and is set to premiere during the same year.[6]
| Award | Year | Category | Nominated | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Venla | 2020 | Best Game Show | Suurmestari | |
| 2021[17] | Game Show | |||
| 2022[18] | Year's Game Show | |||
| 2023[19] [20] | Game Show |