It’s challenge time once again. This week, we start with a challenge where teams have to carry 10 exercise balls through an obstacle course, and then solve a puzzle.
There seem to be 2 different strategies for this one: some team are taking fewer balls to go through as fast as possible, and others are trying to take as many as possible to minimize trips. This obstacle course is so long that minimizing trips seems to have been the clear winning strategy, since the only teams that got through were the ones that were able to finish in 2 trips.
Devin and Leroy get a very easy win, only being at all challenged by Faysal and Amber. Which means: we get a Devin and Leroy episode, and fortunately all the confessionals that come with that. Leroy listing everything he would spend $300k on when he first went on the Real World (strippers) was classic Leroy. Another highlight was Nicole and Melissa not being able to understand each other’s accents.
In between the challenge and the house vote, Sylvia and KellyAnne make up. Happy for them, a fun team, and I always love to see KellyAnne around.
At the vote, Adam and Steve try for a sympathy vote because Adam is sick. This would’ve been incredibly effective up until about 2003, unfortunately their challenge careers are old enough to legally drink, and in 2025 if a strong team is vulnerable they’re getting extra targeted, and almost everyone voted them in.
At the elimination, KellyAnne and Sylvia get sent in. Teams have to solve a puzzle while rope falls like an hourglass, and then hold up the rope that fell for 5 minutes. Whoever manages to do that first, wins.
Adam and Steve blaze through the puzzle, and that was pretty much the game. KellyAnne and Sylvia were extremely impressive, but once they finished the puzzle second they never had a chance, Adam and Steve weren’t going to drop.
Also important for this episode: the music is back! A former staple of the main franchise Challenge, and present in All Stars, it had been missing from the first 2 episodes. This time there was a cover of “Say You’ll Be There” and also Graduation by Vitamin C.
The episode closes with an Ashley and Aneesa fight, does this mean similar to KellyAnne and Sylvia that they’ll make up next episode and then get eliminated? We’ll find out next week, where it looks like it’s time for another jumping off of trucks challenge.