Teams are gone, the end is approaching, not everyone will make it there. Keep in mind, this is just a roundup of the most prominent Challengers, not a full recap. The full episode is up on Paramount+, so you can stream it over there.
10. Tyler Crispen
After a victory in The Arena, Tyler returns and finds he’s in a bad spot when Tori wins another challenge. Fortunately, Faysal keeps Tyler safe, so the BB20 alliance remains strong.
9. Chanelle Howell
After advancing to the second heat of Speed Jumps, Chanelle seemed really confident in her abilities. Then, she flopped during that round. Despite this, she survived this week, largely due to her alliance with Tori.
8. Michele Fitzgerald
Michele has done a great job avoiding The Arena since she went into the first one, so she was concerned when Chris started to toy with the idea of putting her into elimination. She confronted him, and while he denied mentioning her name, it seems people have much stronger loyalties to Michele than Chris.
7. Cory Wharton
While Cory’s closest allies seems to be Faysal, Josh, and Chris, the other veterans still seem to have Cory’s back. When Cory’s name is tossed around by Sebastian, most people side with Cory. Despite this, Cory confronts Sebastian who tries to accuse Chris. Cory knows it’s a lie, and this makes Sebastian the obvious male to cast a vote on at the secret vote.
6. Cassidy Clark
As the direct female vote, Cassidy is upset, but she doesn’t have many allies in this game. So, she probably should have seen this coming (according to Michele). She finds herself in jeopardy when Chris starts to advocate for a female elimination, but Cassidy keeps her cool (relative to Chris) and manages to avoid this Arena.
5. Faysal Shafaat
As the male winner of Speed Jumps, Faysal had to make decisions with Tori, and there on two separate alliances. He convinces her to vote in two Survivor players to chip away at their numbers, but it means he needs to betray his new friend Chris. Faysal doesn’t take it too hard, and he realizes it wasn’t a bad move when Chris shows all of his cards in an attempt to avoid The Arena, which is a failed plan.
4. Michaela Bradshaw
Survivor players have been operating as a pretty strong unit, but Michaela recognizes that Chris is playing for Chris, not the alliance. She confronts him, but he admits that he feels good working with some of the Challenge vets. Then, Faysal betrays Chris, and Michaela starts to pick up on the fact that Chris is targeting any woman as an effort to force a female elimination. With this info, Michaela helps to the script and tries to rally votes for men, which effectively gets Chris sent to The Arena.
3. Sebastian Noel
During Speed Jumps, Sebastian was the front-runner in the first heat and got a strong score during the second round, but was defeated by Faysal. Fortunately, he wasn’t the direct vote, but he made the mistake of toying with the idea of sending Cory into elimination. This put a target on Sebastian’s back — not Cory’s — and he got enough votes that his ball is pulled at the Hopper. Then, he went into Trick, Trick, Boom with a lot of confidence, but it didn’t matter, because Chris pulled out the winning strategy and Sebastian is going home.
2. Tori Deal
Tori goes into this episode cuddling Sebastian, but she makes it clear that her goal in this game is winning — and despite a hard fall, she takes the victory for the females in Speed Jumps. At this point, Tori has so many allies that it’s hard to vote anyone into The Arena. So, she compromises with Faysal and votes in two Survivor players: Chris and Cassidy. By doing this, she remains in a great spot in the game, even if she doesn’t win next week. But, she won’t have a cuddle buddy to support her.
1. Chris Underwood
Going into this episode, Michaela expresses that she’s skeptical of Chris for working with other players like Cory, Josh, Faysal, and Sebastian. But once Faysal won Speed Jumps, he compromised with Tori and made Chris the direct male vote. Chris takes this personally, and he starts throwing a lot of girls under the bus so a female’s name will get pulled at the Hopper, keeping him out of elimination. No such luck, because everyone sees right through him. While he ended up in The Arena, he was finally able to find a winning strategy during Trick, Trick, Boom, and he remains in the game — probably with fewer allies than he had at the start of the episode.
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