We’re back again, but we met teams during last week’s episode.
Teams Contained
The cast is back after Nia’s DQ, and people are scrambling because Bananas is not the Hangnail — but we get to the daily Challenge quickly. The game is called Amazed and the cast needs to rush through a maze made of 100 shipping containers. In two heats, the teams need to rush in and find a Sudoku puzzle to complete — the harder ones are closer to the start and the easier ones are farther. Once completed, the pairs will run out of the maze and stop their time. The teams that get the most correct answers the fastest will win. Some teams are excited, like CT and Adrienne, because Adrienne loves Sudoku. Other people are less excited, like Justin who was more into cheerleading than math in school. Then, we have Ashley & Leo, where Leo learned about Sudoku yesterday but chimes into Ashley’s process a lot, frustrating her.
No. 1 Teams and No. 7 Teams
At the end of the first heat, it appears to be a footrace between CT & Adrienne and Olivia & Yeremi, but CT & Adrienne cross the finish line first because Yeremi took a wrong turn trying to get out of the maze. Then, the last team out of the maze is Aviv & Justin, but all teams completed the puzzle before the 45 minute time cap. The second group of teams compete, and some of them have no idea how to do Sudoku, like Nany & Jake. However, Theo & America have it the hardest, because they spend a third of their time in the maze simply finding a puzzle to do. Eventually, Michaela & Ben and Sydney & Turbo call for checks, but Michaela & Ben take the victory. At the end of the second heat, four teams don’t complete the puzzles: Bananas & Leka, Theo & America, Cedric & Cara Maria, and Nany & Jake. However, Bananas & Leka come in last because Bananas wanted to restart his puzzle near the end of the time cap. While Heat 2 seems like a flop, it did produce the winners: Michaela & Ben.
No Card to Show
Johnny Bananas is upset after the challenge, because it’s the first time in Challenge history he ever performed so poorly in a daily challenge that he got sent directly into the elimination. Now, he needs to get his opponent, and Michaela is a bit of a while card. She knows there are multiple groups of people in the house, and she wants to bait alliances into showing their cards. However, people refuse to give names as potential candidates for the second nominee. Gabe seems to be on a noble quest to redeem himself after ruffling feathers when he spoke poorly about Nia, and no one wants to rock the boat by doing something contrary to this plan.
A Set Shot
After the night out, Michaela decides to let Ben take the lead at the nominations. It’s a men’s elimination, Gabe’s fate is set, and she doesn’t want a target on her back. So, Ben puts up Derek C. because he’s viewed as very protected and it will result in Gabe going into the Arena. And he’s right, Gabe is unanimously voted into elimination.
Wonder Wall
The cast walks into the Arena, and they see a wall made of spiked wood. The game is called Hold Em Back and the wall is curved with three ropes going through it and three corresponding tokens. One player, the offense, will hook themselves to the ropes and deposit the three tokens into baskets. The defense will be pulling the ropes, somewhat blindly, to pull the offensive player back and prevent him from scoring. Bananas plays offense first, and he realizes how strong Gabe is. So, his strategy is to keep switching ropes and make progress while Gabe is catching up. This is fairly effective for the first two tokens, but he has to inch his way to completion for the final token. Eventually he gets there, but it takes a while. Then, Gabe goes and he has great speed. He gets two tokens deposited quickly, but Bananas is pulling him to prevent him from getting his final token in the basket. It doesn’t matter much, and Gabe “grizzly bear” walks to the basket and puts his final token in there, sending Bananas home.
2 Rookies Too Many
Once again, we end with The Selection. Here are the teams for next week’s challenge:
Ben & Olivia
Michaela & Jake
CT & Sydney
Adrienne & Turbo
Yeremi & Ashley
Leroy & America
Tay & Theo
Will & Aviv
Aneesa & Cedric
Derek & Dee
Derrick & Izzy
Leo & Cara Maria
Justin & Nany
But, Gabe & Leka remain, so for the first time, we have two new threats as a team, making the first rookie/rookie team.
Stop Being Polite 