Two Chopped judges against one Iron Chef. The math, again, was not on Bobby's side.
Scott Conant is the man who built Scarpetta, who is famous for the spaghetti tomato basil that became Manhattan's most copied pasta dish of the 2010s, and who now runs Empire Diner in Chelsea and Rise & Thyme in Dallas. Amanda Freitag is the longtime Iron Chef America competitor, Chopped fixture, and former chef at The Harrison and Empire Diner before Conant. They have judged Bobby together on television for fifteen years.
They cooked together against him. Two chefs who know exactly how Bobby cooks, working in concert, brought a tag-team dish that, per the broadcast, was completed before Bobby finished his own. The math, plus the inside read, plus the experience — Bobby was outnumbered three different ways.