The show needs to stop matching 20-something contenders with 40-somethings in the first round.

It's just humiliating for the older contenders to be matched up with someone a couple of decades younger than them in their first heat. It's a forgone conclusion that the elders will lose and it sucks all the fun and drama out of the show. The heats should be more even than this. What happens after then is up to fate, but the show is obviously arranging the heats deliberately to knock out the older ones ASAP. They deserve a fairer shake at it.

EDIT: I'm not talking about the most recent episode specifically, I'm talking about the show in general. Does this sound familiar;

"Tonight we're matching a 43 year old parent of three that does a bit of rounders in their spare time with a 23 year old semi-professional athelete that trains 6 days a week".

How is that fair?