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Season 5

Cover image for the fifth season of the Swedish show Bäst i Test, picturing the hosts of the show.

Air dates:

26/02/2021 - 23/04/2021

Season synopsis

The fifth series of Bäst i Test, consisting of ten episodes, originally aired on SVT between February and April 2020.

This series includes nine regular competition episodes and a 'bonus' tenth episode comprising footage from tasks which didn't make the edits of the regular episode broadcasts.

The regular contestants for the series were Arantxa Alvarez, Johanna Nordström, Morgan Alling, and Olof Wretling

They were joined by a new guest contestant each week, in the form of: Anis Don Demina, Christine Meltzer, David Batra, Fredrik Lindström, Jesper Rönndahl, returning guest and former regular contestant Kristina Petrushina (aka Keyyo), Niklas Andersson, Nour El Refai, and Pernilla Wahlgren.

Notes

In this series, the pre-filmed tasks take place at a different Taskmaster house location than with the previous series, presumably due to Covid-19 restrictions.
In the studio segments, the contestants in this series are seated on separate chairs, rather than the shared sofas used in the previous series. Again, this is presumably due to social distancing requirements during the Covid-19 pandemic.
It also appears that the live studio segments in this series were not filmed in front of a live studio audience, but an audience reaction soundtrack was added later.

Season trailer

Season stats

Episodes Aired

10

Official Points

961

Observed Points

883

Disquals

33

Assignment Type

Special

0

0%

Split

3

5%

Tie-Break

0

0%

Task Format

Prize

0

0%

Activity Type

Judgment Type

Combination

0

0%

Unjudged

0

0%

No. of Task Briefs

Task Originality

Hosts

Taskmaster

Babben Larsson

Assistant

David Sundin

Season scores

There are some discrepancies between the official total scores for this season and the points seen to be awarded during the season. Both sets of scores, and the discrepancies between them, are displayed below.

Arantxa Alvarez

Official score:

177

Observed score:

165

Difference:

-12

Johanna Nordström

Official score:

176

Observed score:

161

Difference:

-15

Morgan Alling

Official score:

210

Observed score:

191

Difference:

-19

Olof Wretling

Official score:

214

Observed score:

195

Difference:

-19

Guest contestants

Anis Don Demina

Official score:

16

Observed score:

13

Difference:

-3

Christine Meltzer

Official score:

20

Observed score:

15

Difference:

-5

David Batra

Official score:

27

Observed score:

24

Difference:

-3

Fredrik Lindström

Official score:

14

Observed score:

14

Difference:

0

Jesper Rönndahl

Official score:

24

Observed score:

22

Difference:

-2

Kristina Petrushina (aka Keyyo)

Official score:

23

Observed score:

23

Difference:

0

Niklas Andersson

Official score:

15

Observed score:

15

Difference:

0

Nour El Refai

Official score:

22

Observed score:

22

Difference:

0

Pernilla Wahlgren

Official score:

23

Observed score:

23

Difference:

0

Official score:

184

Observed score:

171

Difference:

-13

Notes on discrepancies

There's an overall discrepancy of 87 points between the official final scoreboard and the total points seen to be awarded during the episodes.
Many of the differences could have been caused by additional tasks which were edited out of the episodes (in fact, 9 points can be attributed to such an unaired task in episode 4), but there also appear to have been some administrative errors along the way.
Ultimately, the discrepancies did not affect who was named as the winner of the series or, in fact, the rest of the contestants' overall standings.