Edmontask is back, and better than ever.

With this year's run already nearly sold-out, you don't really have many chances to see it this Fringe

The show, based on the worldwide British panel show hit Taskmaster (though the producers assure me, it is legally distinct), is incredibly ambitious for a Fringe show.

They record "tasks" over the full year with a total of 15 contestants, and then premiere the edited footage of that task, live in front of the panel that performed them and judged by the Edmaster.

This year, the production has been upgraded once again with a scoreboard on the projector (with contestant pictures, so you know who's winning!) and mics that work more reliably. But the core of the show remains intact, because it works.

There's a new Edmaster this year in Ethan Lang who plays it with a bit of a jovial, puppydog excitement. It works for the "banter" section off the top, which is cute and fun and got some earned laughs. He is definitely too lenient in his scoring, however, and I encourage future audiences to boo when he awards 2 points to a contestant that should have been disqualified.

Still present in the show is the 60-second "contestants do various random things at the start with the theme music playing underneath" which we can all agree is the worst part. I have not deducted marks for it.

It remains absolutely worth seeing, and I've bought one ticket for each panel. With this show likely to sell out the entire run (there's still a few tickets for Monday, and they're half-price!), it might be worth considering: does Edmontontask move somewhere like the Metro next year, and double its seat count?

(Disclosure: I auditioned to be the Edmaster, and they passed on me because they hated everything about me specifically as a person. And yet, I five-star their show. Truly, I'm a saint)