The Challenge: Vendettas

Vendettas
Season 31
Presented by	T. J. Lavin
No. of contestants	28
Winner	Cara Maria Sorbello
Location	Gibraltar, BOT Marbella, Spain Prague, Czech Republic
No. of episodes	16 (including the two-part Reunion special/finale)
Release
Original network	MTV
Original release	January 2 (2018-01-02) – April 17, 2018 (2018-04-17)
Season chronology
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The Challenge: Vendettas is the thirty-first season of MTV reality competition series, The Challenge . The official trailer was shown during the special mini-series Champs vs. Stars . For the first time, this season featured alumni from the US version of Big Brother , and the UK TV shows Ex on the Beach and Geordie Shore , competing with alumni from the regular shows of The Real World , Road Rules , The Challenge, and Are You the One? . For the first time ever, there was only one winner. ^[1]

Format

The cast of the thirty-first season of The Challenge, excluding Tony Raines

28 players – each with unresolved grudges with other contestants – compete to survive in the game and win their share of $500,000. ^[2] Each round is designated as a male, female or genderless round. The main elements of the game are as follows:

• Daily Missions: Each round, the players compete in a challenge. The challenges vary between individual and team challenges. The winners split $25,000 for their individual bank accounts.
  • In an individual challenge, the three best performers in the challenge form the Troika, while the worst-performer of the designated gender is nominated for elimination.
  • In team challenges, the winning team elects the Troika among themselves, while the losing team must vote immediately and publicly for a teammate of the designated gender to face elimination.
• Troika & Inquisition: The three players in the Troika are immune from entering the Elimination Round. They nominate three players of the designated gender for the Elimination Round. The nominees face the "Inquisition", where they have the chance to plead their case to the Troika as to why they should not be voted-in to the Elimination Round.
• Elimination Rounds (The Ring): In "The Ring", the Troika votes for one of the players who faced the Inquisition to compete in the Elimination Round. The winners stay in the game, and earn a "Grenade". Grenades hold power that can be used on any other player by the elimination winner. The losers of the elimination round go home, and their individual bank accounts total is added to the final prize fund.

When eight players remain, they compete individually in the Final Challenge for their share of the $500,000 prize. Only the Top 4 players win the money in their bank account. Additionally, first place is awarded the money from the bank accounts of every eliminated player as well as an additional $150,000. Second place receives an additional $35,000, third place an additional $10,000 and the fourth place an additional $5,000. The other four finalists receive nothing.

Twists

• Purges: Some challenges are designated as Purges, where the worst competitors are immediately eliminated.
  • In the opening "Get Off the Rock" challenge, the worst-performing male and female are eliminated.
  • In the "Help Me, Rhonda" challenge, the worst-performing male and female are eliminated.
  • Due to uneven ratio of Males to Females, the "Outside the Box" challenge is also a Male Purge, with the worst-finishing male being eliminated.
• Mercenaries: For some of the Elimination Rounds, the nominated players face the Mercenaries instead of each other. The Mercenaries are experienced veterans, returning to The Challenge for a one-off challenge. Mercenary rounds occur during rounds that feature both a male and female elimination. A player winning against the Mercenary stays in the game, losing against the Mercenary eliminates the player. This means that all four or none of the nominated players could be eliminated depending on the results of each heat.
  • In the "Crazy 8" Elimination Round, the female nominees would face either Aneesa Ferreira or Tori Deal. The male nominees would face either Derrick Kosinski or Jordan Wiseley.
  • In the "Yankin' My Chain" challenge, the female nominees would face either Ashley Mitchell or Laurel Stucky. The male nominees face either Darrell Taylor or Frank Sweeney.

Contestants

Male contestants [3] Original season Finish Zach Nichols The Real World: San Diego (2011) Runner-up Kyle Christie Geordie Shore 8 Third place Leroy Garrett The Real World: Las Vegas (2011) Finalist Tony Raines Real World: Skeletons Finalist Brad Fiorenza The Real World: San Diego (2004) Episode 13 Nelson Thomas Are You the One? 3 Episode 13 Devin Walker-Molaghan Are You the One? 3 Episode 13 Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio The Real World: Key West Episode 10 Joss Mooney Ex on the Beach UK 1 Episode 7/8 Shane Landrum Road Rules: Campus Crawl Episode 7 Victor Arroyo Big Brother 18 Episode 7 Cory Wharton Real World: Ex-Plosion Episode 3 Eddie Williams Are You the One? 5 Episode 2 [lower-alpha 1] Rogan O'Connor Ex on the Beach UK 2 Episode 1

Female contestants [3] Original season Finish Cara Maria Sorbello The Challenge: Fresh Meat II Winner Kailah Casillas Real World: Go Big or Go Home Fourth place Kam Williams Are You the One? 5 Finalist Nicole Zanatta Real World: Skeletons Finalist [lower-alpha 2] Jemmye Carroll The Real World: New Orleans (2010) Episode 13 Natalie Negrotti Big Brother 18 Episode 12 Britni Thornton Are You the One? 3 Episode 11 Kayleigh Morris Ex on the Beach UK 2 Episode 10 [lower-alpha 3] Marie Roda The Real World: St. Thomas Episode 9 Veronica Portillo Road Rules: Semester at Sea Episode 7/8 [lower-alpha 4] Sylvia Elsrode Real World: Skeletons Episode 7 [lower-alpha 5] Melissa Reeves Ex on the Beach UK 2 Episode 5 Alicia Wright Are You the One? 5 Episode 4 Nicole Ramos The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines Episode 1

Mercenaries

Mercenaries	Original season
Aneesa Ferreira	The Real World: Chicago
Ashley Mitchell	Real World: Ex-Plosion
Darrell Taylor	Road Rules: Campus Crawl
Derrick Kosinski	Road Rules: X-Treme
Frank Sweeney	The Real World: San Diego (2011)
Jordan Wiseley	The Real World: Portland
Laurel Stucky	The Challenge: Fresh Meat II
Tori Deal	Are You the One? 4

Gameplay

Challenge games

• Get Off the Rock: This purge challenge is an overnight endurance race up the 1400-foot Rock of Gibraltar. For the first phase, contestants race through the streets of Gibraltar to a checkpoint in tunnels at the base of the rock, where they then must stand in a subway car overnight holding weighted boxes. The following day, players continue the race up the Rock of Gibraltar with staggered starts based on how they finished the first phase. The first-place finisher wins $25,000, while the slowest male and female contestants are immediately eliminated.
  • Winner:Joss
  • Eliminated:Nicole R. & Rogan
• Who's Got Balls?: Played in two heats, male and female, contestants must dive into a soapy pit and retrieve soccer balls, pull themselves back out of the pit using ropes, and deposit the balls into their respective bin. The first contestant to deposit three balls into their bin wins.
  • Winners:Bananas & Britni
• #Vendettas: Played on a giant hashtag structure lifted above water, this challenge is played in heats separated by gender. Contestants must take their 4 "hashtag" figures, and place them onto 4 separate opponents' poles. The fastest male and female to place their hashtags on their opponents' poles and make it back to their own pole win the challenge.
  • Winners:Devin & Natalie
• Food Wars: Contestants are divided into 7 teams of 3 and 1 team of 2. At the beginning of each round, they are asked a question, and the first team to buzz in is allowed to answer. If they get it right, they win that question and will then be able to select one other team to be safe from eating while every other team has to select a member to consume a food of the winning choosing team's choosing. If the members of the eating team are unable to finish their dish in the allotted time, their team is eliminated. The final round between the final two teams is an eating competition, with the first team to finish the dish winning.
  • Winners:Marie, Tony & Zach
• Gasping for Air: Played at night, contestants are divided into 4 teams. Each contestant takes a turn diving underwater down 15 feet, and then moving a metal ring along a rope stretched 150 feet underwater. There are three checkpoint stations for the contestants to stop and breathe out of oxygen tanks while underwater. The team that moves their rings the overall longest distance wins.
  • Winners:Bananas, Kailah, Kyle, Tony & Zach
• Puppet Master: Contestants are split into two teams and are chained together in one long chain. While chained together, contestants must work together to assemble pieces of a giant puppet together (with Aneesa and CT heads). The first team to do so, and pull the rope raising their puppet, wins.
  • Winners:Bananas, Brad, Cara Maria, Jemmye, Kayleigh, Kyle, Natalie, Nicole Z., Shane & Tony
• Car Crash: This challenge entails five cars that are lifting into the air over water and are being sprayed with water. Contestants are separated into 4 teams. Each member of the team must jump from car to car, going through the backseat once completing the jump. The team with the fastest contestant to complete the jumps wins.
  • Winners:Bananas, Cara Maria, Natalie & Nelson
• Kicking Ass: Contestants are divided into two teams and are playing a game of soccer. However, they will be playing on pogo stilts while in giant plastic bubbles. The first team to score two goals on their opponents wins.
  • Winners:Brad, Kailah, Kam, Kyle, Natalie, Nicole Z., Tony & Zach
• This Land Is My Land: Competitors are split into three teams. Each team has to stack up forty-five palates in order to raise their flag. Each team is split into three groups: Fabricators, who stack the palates; Suppliers, in charge of supplying the palates by running the palates that roamers supply them to the Fabricators; and Roamers, who must run across the beach and are in charge of supplying the Suppliers through a reservoir or stealing from other teams. The first team to stack their palates and raise their flag wins.
  • Winners:Britni, Natalie, Nicole Z., Tony & Zach
• Spanish Treasure: Contestants are divided into two teams. Each competitor on the team has to go one at a time to swim over to retrieve a ball. The competitor then has to dive down underwater and place the ball into a net attached to a treasure chest, elevating it slightly. They then swim back and touch a checkpoint before the next competitor on their team can go. Once the chest is brought up to the surface, the team is allowed to bring it back to shore, ending the mission. The team who does this the fastest wins.
  • Winners:Brad, Devin, Jemmye, Natalie, Nicole Z., Tony & Zach
• Help Me, Rhonda: This is an individual endurance competition. Competitors each have to race one mile up a hill towards Puente Nuevo bridge, where they then have to zipline across a chasm. They then have to run through the streets of Ronda back towards the bridge, before rappelling down the side of the bridge and then running to the finish line. The fastest male and female contestants win, while the slowest male and female contestants are eliminated.
  • Winners:Nicole Z. & Zach
  • Eliminated:Devin & Jemmye
• Outside the Box: Played individually, players are hooked to a moving semi-truck and forced to traverse from the truck to a dangling pillar with stacked boxes in-between. Players push themselves, alternating between the truck and pillars, weaving between the stacks of boxes. The boxes have varying point values, and if the player knocks over the stack of boxes, those points are added to their overall score. In addition, if a player fails to make the transfer, they will receive a transfer penalty. Those with the fewest points wins and gets an automatic ticket into the final challenge. The last place male (due to an uneven number of male and female competitors remaining) is eliminated.
  • Winners:Kailah & Tony
  • Eliminated:Nelson

Ring games

• Balls of Fire: Placed on opposite sides of the Ring in front of two goals, players must kick soccer balls through a wall of fire into their opponent's goal. The player to score the best of three will win and earn a grenade. In the event that nobody can score a goal for an extended period of time the game will be played in a sudden death round.
  • Played by:Cory vs. Nelson
• Chain Reaction: Players will start at the bottom of a chain ladder with only one rung connected on it and the remaining ones disconnected. On TJ's signal, players must build the rungs one by one while climbing their ladder until they can reach a bell. The first player to ring the bell will win and earn a grenade.
  • Played by:Alicia vs. Melissa
• Oil and Water: Players will be placed in an oil pit and must retrieve a ball that TJ will drop down a peg board. Once they have retrieved the ball they must bring it back and score it in their basket. During this elimination players must remain on their hands and knees at all time unless they are about to score. Each basket will earn a point and the first player to score three points will win and earn a grenade.
  • Played by:Melissa vs. Sylvia
• Troubled Water: Players will be in a tank of water. They will have to use their bodies to remove water until they get to the red line. Once they get to the red line, they will use a hammer to break the bottom of the tank and escape the tank. The first player to do so will win and earn a grenade.
  • Played by:Brad vs. Victor
• Crazy 8: Players will race for a ring in the shape of a figure 8. They must do whatever it takes to get the ring to their side. The first player to get the ring to their side twice will win the elimination. In an unexpected twist, four "Mercenaries" (Jordan, Derrick, Tori, and Aneesa) were brought in to compete against the players in the Ring. In order to stay in the game, they must win against the Mercenary. The players who win against their Mercenary will stay in the game and earn a grenade.
  • Played by:Jordan vs. Shane, Aneesa vs. Veronica, Kam vs. Tori, Derrick vs. Joss
• Basket Case: Players will start locked inside of a Spanish basket. On TJ's signal players must claw, smash, and tear their way out of their basket as quickly as they can. Once they have left their basket, players must run to their puzzle board and complete it as quickly as possible. The first player to successfully complete their puzzle will win and earn a grenade.
  • Played by:Kailah vs. Marie
• Not So Bright: Players will each start in front of their podiums facing their puzzle board. On TJ's signal they will press the button on their podium causing the lights on their board to partially light up. The players must then run to their board and flip the switches for those lights that are off. The puzzle board only remains lit when a player is touching their button so the players will have to memorize which switches need to be turned on without accidentally turning any off. The first player to successfully light their puzzle board in its entirety will win and earn a grenade.
  • Played by:Bananas vs. Devin
• Yankin’ My Chain: Players will start harnessed together, back-to-back, on a circular track. On TJ's signal players must run around the track to reach a bell that is on their opponent's side. The first player to reach and ring their bell will win. In another twist, four more "Mercenaries" (Frank, Darrell, Ashley, and Laurel) were brought in to compete against the players in the Ring. In order to stay in the game, they must win against the Mercenary. The players who win against their Mercenary will stay in the game and earn a grenade.
  • Played by:Brad vs. Frank, Ashley vs. Kam, Darrell vs. Nelson, Britni vs. Laurel
• Spanish Torture: Players will be tied and harnessed to two ropes running across the ring, one for their hands and one for their feet. On TJ's signal, players must shimmy across these ropes as quickly as they can in order to ring a bell at the end. The first player to make it across and ring their bell will win and earn a grenade.
  • Played by:Kam vs. Natalie
• Head Banger: Players will start on either side of a wall and, on TJ's signal, will charge through two walls as quickly as possible. After breaking through the second wall players will find two oversized balls that they must use to smash through a metal grate that will reveal two smaller balls that must be deposited in their tube. The first player to deposit both smaller balls into their tube will win and return to the game and earn their ticket to the final challenge.
  • Played by:Brad vs. Leroy

Final Challenge

First Stage: In the first stage of the final challenge, players must run along a course and complete three checkpoints. Before attempting each checkpoint players must retrieve a token found at the end of the mile and a half long course. Additionally, players will be required to wear various pieces of medieval equipment that will slow them down. For the lap to the first checkpoint players feet will be shackled together by chains. For the lap to the final checkpoint, players must each wear an entire suit of armor while they finish the course. The first two male players and first two female players to complete the stage will advance to Stage 2. The remaining four players will be eliminated from the final challenge and their bank accounts will be added to the final prize.

Checkpoints

• This is Torch'er: Each player will start with their own basket of torches. One at a time, players must take their entire basket of torches to the opposite end of the muddy field. Once a player has moved all of their torches they may advance to the next checkpoint.

Grenade: Players may simply return to their basket after depositing their torch or they may take a torch from their opponent's basket and return it to their starting basket before retrieving their own torch.

• Decked Out: Players will enter a dungeon where they will face either Bananas or Melissa who serve as Mercenaries. The Mercenaries serve as card dealers and each player must guess whether the next card will be higher or lower than the first, aces being high. If the player correctly guesses two of three cards they will advance to the final checkpoint. If the Mercenary wins they will be responsible for assigning the player a grenade that they must complete before advancing.

Grenade: If a Mercenary won, they could decide between drinking a glass of water, completing 50 jumping jacks or burying a log in the ground, as a grenade for their opponent.

• Backstabber: Upon reaching the checkpoint each player must wait for the next of their fellow players to arrive before playing. Competing one on one, one by one, players must remove swords from their board in amounts of one, two, or three. The player with one sword remaining on their board will win and advance to the finish line. (Note: Because Nicole Z. was disqualified due to an injury, Kam, the last person to arrive to the checkpoint. simply had to remove all of the swords before advancing.)

Grenade: The winner will also assign their opponent one of three ancient dishes; cheese, hot chocolate, or spicy tripe soup, to consume before being able to advance.

• Eliminated: Kam, Leroy, Tony, Nicole Z. (DQ)

Memory Smash: In the second stage of the final challenge players must memorize a puzzle key featuring various colored circles. Once they have memorized a portion of their puzzle they must go inside the castle and to the courtyard where they must recreate the puzzle on their own individual board. The first male and female to finish stage 1 were given a 30-second head start. The first player to successfully match their color board with the answer key will be declared the winner and receive over $370,000, money from both the final prize and also the cumulated bank accounts of all of the eliminated players. Second, third, and fourth place will each receive $35,000, $10,000, and $5,000 respectively. Each finalist will also receive the money earned from their bank accounts throughout the season. The results would later be announced at the reunion special.

Final results

• Winner: Cara Maria ($378,750)
• Runner-up: Zach ($72,125)
• Third place: Kyle ($20,625)
• Fourth place: Kailah ($25,625)

Game summary

Elimination chart

Episode		Gender	Challenge type	Winners		Troika	Ring contestants								Ring game	Ring outcome
#	Challenge						Last-place		Troika's pick							Winner		Eliminated
1	Get Off the Rock	—	Individual		Joss	—													Rogan
																			Nicole R.
2/3 [lower-alpha 1]	Who's Got Balls?	Male	Individual		Bananas	Bananas, Kyle, Brad		Nelson		Cory		Tony		Victor	Balls of Fire		Nelson		Cory
					Britni
3/4	#Vendettas	Female	Individual		Devin	Devin, Natalie, Bananas		Melissa [lower-alpha 6]		Alicia		Kam		Kayleigh	Chain Reaction		Melissa		Alicia
					Natalie
4/5	Food Wars	Female [lower-alpha 7]	7 teams of 3 & 1 team of 2		Team 6	Marie, Tony, Zach		Sylvia		Britni		Kayleigh		Melissa	Oil and Water		Sylvia		Melissa
6/7 [lower-alpha 8]	Gasping for Air	Male	4 teams of 5		Team 4	Tony, Bananas, Kyle		Brad		Devin		Shane		Victor	Troubled Water		Brad		Victor
7/8 [lower-alpha 5] [lower-alpha 9]	Puppet Master	—	2 teams of 10		Green Team	Kyle, Nicole Z, Tony		Joss		Devin		Nelson		Shane	Crazy 8		Jordan		Shane
																	Aneesa		Veronica [lower-alpha 4]
								Veronica		Kam		Kayleigh		Natalie			Kam		Tori
																	Derrick		Joss
8/9	Car Crash	Female	3 teams of 4 & 1 team of 5		Team 1	Bananas, Natalie, Nelson		Marie		Cara Maria		Kailah		Nicole Z.	Basket Case		Kailah		Marie
9/10 [lower-alpha 3]	Kickin' Ass	Male	2 teams of 8		Blue Team	Kailah, Tony, Zach		Devin		Bananas		Leroy		Nelson	Not So Bright		Devin		Bananas
11 [lower-alpha 10]	This Land Is My Land	—	2 teams of 5 & 1 team of 4		Green Team	Natalie, Tony, Zach		Brad		Kyle		Leroy		Nelson	Yankin' My Chain		Brad		Frank
																	Kam		Ashley
								Kam		Britni		Cara Maria		Jemmye			Nelson		Darrell [lower-alpha 11]
																	Laurel		Britni
12	Spanish Treasure	Female	1 team of 7 & 1 team of 6		Team 1	Brad, Tony, Zach		Kam		Cara Maria		Kailah		Natalie	Spanish Torture		Kam		Natalie
12/13	Help Me, Rhonda	—	Individual		Zach	—													Jemmye
					Nicole Z														Devin
13	Outside the Box	Male	Individual		Kailah	Tony, Kailah, Cara Maria	—												Nelson
					Tony		—			Brad		Kyle		Leroy	Head Banger		Leroy		Brad
14	Final Challenge	—	Individual	—															Nicole Z [lower-alpha 2]
																			Kam
																			Leroy
																			Tony
					Cara Maria	2nd: Zach; 3rd: Kyle ; 4th: Kailah

Game progress

Contestants	Episodes
1	2/3 [lower-alpha 1]	3/4 [lower-alpha 6]	4/5 [lower-alpha 7]	6/7 [lower-alpha 8]	7/8 [lower-alpha 5] [lower-alpha 9] [lower-alpha 4]	8/9	9/10 [lower-alpha 3]	11 [lower-alpha 10] [lower-alpha 11]	12	12/13	13	Finale
Cara Maria	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WON	SAVE	SAFE	NOM	NOM	SAFE	TOP 3	WINNER
Zach	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WON	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	WIN	WON	SAFE	SECOND
Kyle	SAFE	TOP 3	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN	SAFE	WON	NOM	SAFE	SAFE	NOM	THIRD
Kailah	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WON	SAFE	ELIM	WIN	SAFE	NOM	SAFE	WIN	FOURTH
Kam	SAFE	SAFE	NOM	SAFE	SAFE	ELIM	SAFE	WON	ELIM	ELIM	SAFE	SAFE	OUT
Leroy	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	NOM	NOM	SAFE	SAFE	ELIM	OUT
Tony	SAFE	NOM	SAFE	WIN	WIN	WIN	SAFE	WIN	WIN	WIN	SAFE	WIN	OUT
Nicole Z.	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	NOM	WON	WON	WON	WON	SAFE	OUT
Brad	SAFE	TOP 3	SAFE	SAFE	ELIM	WON	SAFE	WON	ELIM	WIN	SAFE	OUT
Nelson	SAFE	ELIM	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	NOM	WIN	NOM	DRAW	SAFE	SAFE	LAST
Devin	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	NOM	NOM	SAFE	ELIM	SAFE	WON	LAST
Jemmye	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WON	SAFE	SAFE	NOM	WON	LAST
Natalie	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	—	SAVE	WIN	WON	WIN	LOST
Britni	SAFE	WON	SAFE	NOM	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	LOST
Kayleigh	SAFE	SAFE	NOM	NOM	SAFE	SAVE	SAFE	QUIT
Bananas	SAFE	WIN	TOP 3	SAFE	WIN	WON	WIN	OUT
Marie	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	OUT
Joss	WON	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	OUT
Veronica	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	MED
Shane	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	NOM	LOST
Sylvia	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	ELIM	—	MED
Victor	SAFE	NOM	SAFE	SAFE	OUT
Melissa	SAFE	SAFE	ELIM	OUT
Alicia	SAFE	SAFE	OUT
Cory	SAFE	OUT
Eddie	SAFE	REM
Nicole R.	LAST
Rogan	LAST

Competition

  The contestant won the final challenge

  The contestant did not win the final challenge

  The contestant finished in the bottom 4, after being eliminated on the first leg of the final challenge

  The contestant won the challenge and was part of the Troika

  The contestant did not win the challenge but placed in the Top 3 and was part of the Troika

  The contestant won the challenge, but was not part of the Troika or nominated for the Inquisition

  The contestant won the challenge and was nominated by the Troika for the Inquisition, but was not selected for the elimination round

  The contestant was not selected for the elimination round

  The contestant was nominated by the Troika for the Inquisition, but was not selected for the elimination round

  The contestant won the Ring

  The contestant's elimination in the Ring was deemed a draw, but they were not eliminated

  The contestant lost the Ring and was eliminated

  The contestant won the challenge, but was selected for the Ring, lost and was eliminated

  The contestant was eliminated at the challenge

  The contestant was removed from the competition due to medical reasons

  The contestant withdrew from the competition

  The contestant left the competition for undisclosed reasons

Bank progress

Players	Episodes
	1	2/3 [lower-alpha 1]	3/4 [lower-alpha 6]	4/5	6/7	7/8	8/9	9/10	11	12	12/13	13	Finale [lower-alpha 2]
Cara Maria	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$2,500	$8,750	$8,750	$8,750	$8,750	$8,750	$8,750	$378,750
Zach	$0	$0	$0	$8,000	$13,000	$13,000	$13,000	$16,125	$21,125	$24,625	$37,125	$37,125	$72,125
Kyle	$0	$0	$0	$0	$5,000	$7,500	$7,500	$10,625	$10,625	$10,625	$10,625	$10,625	$20,625
Kailah	$0	$0	$0	$0	$5,000	$5,000	$5,000	$8,125	$8,125	$8,125	$8,125	$20,625	$25,625
Kam	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$3,125	$3,125	$3,125	$19,125	$19,125	$19,125
Leroy	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Tony	$0	$0	$0	$8,000	$13,000	$15,500	$15,500	$18,625	$23,625	$27,125	$27,125	$39,625	$39,625
Nicole Z.	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$2,500	$2,500	$5,625	$10,625	$14,125	$26,625	$26,625	$26,625
Brad	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$2,500	$2,500	$5,625	$5,625	$9,125	$9,125	$9,125
Nelson	$0	$0	$5,000	$5,000	$5,000	$5,000	$11,250	$11,250	$11,250	$11,250	$11,250	$11,250
Devin	$0	$0	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$16,000	$0
Jemmye	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$2,500	$2,500	$2,500	$2,500	$6,000	$6,000
Natalie	$0	$0	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$15,000	$21,250	$24,375	$29,375	$32,875
Britni	$0	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$17,500
Kayleigh	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$2,500	$2,500	$2,500
Bananas	$0	$12,500	$12,500	$12,500	$17,500	$20,000	$26,250	$26,250
Marie	$0	$0	$0	$8,000	$8,000	$8,000	$8,000
Joss	$25,000	$25,000	$20,000	$20,000	$20,000	$20,000
Veronica	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Shane	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$2,500
Sylvia	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Victor	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Melissa	$0	$0	$0	$0
Alicia	$0	$0	$0
Cory	$0	$0
Eddie	$0	$0
Nicole R.	$0
Rogan	$0

• Note: Dollar amounts in bold indicate that contestant finished in the Top 4 with that amount, and won it in the final challenge.
• Note: Dollar amounts in italics indicate that contestant was eliminated with that amount, and lost it upon elimination. The total amount was added to the Additional Bank, which was given to the winner.

Additional Bank: $220,000 ^{[lower-alpha 12]}

Competition

  The contestant won the final challenge

  The contestant did not win the final challenge

  The contestant finished in the bottom 4, after being eliminated on the first leg of the final challenge

  The contestant won the challenge and was part of the Troika

  The contestant did not win the challenge but placed in the Top 3 and was part of the Troika

  The contestant won the challenge, but was not part of the Troika or nominated for the Inquisition

  The contestant won the challenge and was nominated by the Troika for the Inquisition, but was not selected for the elimination round

  The contestant was not selected for the elimination round

  The contestant was nominated by the Troika for the Inquisition, but was not selected for the elimination round

  The contestant won the Ring

  The contestant's elimination in the Ring was deemed a draw, but they were not eliminated

  The contestant lost the Ring and was eliminated

  The contestant won the challenge, but was selected for the Ring, lost and was eliminated

  The contestant was eliminated at the challenge

  The contestant was removed from the competition due to injury/illness

  The contestant withdrew from the competition

  The contestant left the competition for undisclosed reasons

Voting progress

Last-place	Nelson last-place	Melissa last-place	Sylvia 2 of 3 votes	Brad 4 of 5 votes	Joss 7 of 10 votes	Veronica 6 of 10 votes	Marie 3 of 4 votes	Devin 5 of 8 votes	Brad 4 of 5 votes	Kam 4 of 5 votes	Tie Vote	Kam 3 of 3 votes	—	Brad 0 of 3 votes to save	Leroy 1 of 3 votes to save
Troika Pick	Cory 3 of 3 votes	Alicia 3 of 3 votes	Melissa 3 of 3 votes	Victor 3 of 3 votes	Shane 3 of 3 votes	Kam 3 of 3 votes	Kailah 2 of 3 votes	Bananas 2 of 3 votes	Nelson 3 of 3 votes	Britni 3 of 3 votes			Natalie 3 of 3 votes
Voter	Episode
	2/3	3/4	4/5	6/7	7/8		8/9	9/10	11		12			13
Cara Maria								Devin			Kailah	Kailah		Kyle
Zach			Melissa		Joss	Veronica		Nelson	Nelson	Britni		Kam	Natalie
Kyle	Cory			Victor	Shane	Kam					Kailah	Kailah
Kailah					Joss	Veronica		Bananas	Brad	Kam	Cara Maria	Cara Maria		Leroy
Kam				Brad	Joss	Veronica	Marie		Brad	Kailah	Cara Maria	Cara Maria
Leroy					Joss	Kailah		Devin			Kailah	Kailah
Tony			Melissa	Victor	Shane	Kam		Bananas	Nelson	Britni		Kam	Natalie	Kyle
Nicole Z.					Shane	Kam
Brad	Cory		Sylvia	Nelson			Marie		Nelson	Kam		Kam	Natalie
Nelson				Brad	Leroy	Marie	Cara Maria	Bananas	Brad	Kam	Cara Maria	Cara Maria
Devin		Alicia			Leroy	Veronica		Bananas	Brad	Kam
Jemmye							Marie	Devin
Natalie		Alicia					Kailah		Nelson	Britni
Britni					Joss	Kam		Bananas
Kayleigh				Brad				Devin
Bananas	Cory	Alicia		Victor			Kailah	Devin
Marie			Melissa	Brad	Joss	Veronica	Jemmye
Joss			Sylvia		Leroy	Veronica
Veronica					Joss	Kam
Shane
Sylvia			Brad
Victor
Melissa
Alicia
Cory
Eddie
Nicole R.
Rogan

• Bold indicates the contestant was in the Troika

Team selections

Food Wars (Ep. 4/5) Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Devin Britni Bananas Brad Melissa Kyle Cara Maria Joss Shane Leroy Kayleigh Sylvia Team 5 Team 6 Team 7 Team 8 Jemmye Marie Kam Kailah Nicole Z. Tony Natalie Victor Veronica Zach Nelson

Gasping for Air (Ep. 6/7) Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Brad Britni Devin Bananas Kam Cara Maria Jemmye Kailah Kayleigh Joss Leroy Kyle Marie Veronica Nicole Z. Tony Nelson Victor Shane Zach

Puppet Master (Ep. 7/8) Blue Team Green Team Britni Leroy Bananas Kyle Devin Marie Brad Natalie Joss Nelson Cara Maria Nicole Z. Kailah Veronica Jemmye Shane Kam Zach Kayleigh Tony

Car Crash (Ep. 8/9) Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Bananas Kailah Brad Britni Cara Maria Nicole Z. Jemmye Devin Natalie Tony Kam Kayleigh Nelson Zach Marie Kyle Leroy

Kickin' Ass (Ep. 9/10) Blue Team Green Team Brad Nicole Z. Bananas Jemmye Kailah Natalie Britni Kayleigh Kam Tony Cara Maria Leroy Kyle Zach Devin Nelson

This Land Is My Land (Ep. 11) Blue Team Green Team Red Team Cara Maria Britni Brad Jemmye Natalie Devin Kyle Nicole Z. Kailah Leroy Tony Kam Zach Nelson

Spanish Treasure (Ep. 12) Team 1 Team 2 Brad Cara Maria Devin Kam Jemmye Kailah Natalie Kyle Nicole Z. Leroy Tony Nelson Zach

Grenades

Ring game	Winner(s)	Grenades	Choice	Victim(s)
Balls of Fire	Nelson	Cash (Take $5,000 from any player who has money.)	Y	Joss
		Time Crunch (Add time to another player's challenge performance.)	N
		Put Up or Shut Up (Join the Troika or send a player straight into the Inquisition.)	N
Chain Reaction	Melissa	Team Up (Pick the teams for the next challenge.)	Y	—
		Money Hungry (Choose one player to drink 1 liter of cream before the next challenge.)	N
		Sit Out (Choose any player to sit out of the next challenge and automatically get sent into elimination.)	N
Oil and Water	Sylvia	Cash (Take $10,000 from any player who has money.)	—	—
		Endure (Choose any player to perform an endurance task before the next challenge.)
		Order Up (Choose the order for the next challenge.)
Troubled Water	Brad	Time Crunch (Add time to another player's challenge performance.)	Y	Kam
		Sit Out (Choose any player to sit out of the next challenge.)	N
		Blindside (Somebody has to compete in the next challenge blindfolded.)	N
Crazy 8	Kam	Lube Up (Lube up any player at the next challenge.)	Y	Cara Maria
		Endure (Choose any player to perform an endurance task before the next challenge.)	N
		Flip Out (Choose any player to wear flippers at the next challenge.)	N
Basket Case	Kailah	Cash Up (Take any player's money.)	N	—
		Team Up (Pick the teams for the next challenge.)	Y
		Put Up or Shut Up (Pick any player that has to win a spot into the Troika or face the Inquisition.)	N
Not So Bright	Devin	Weighted Down (Add weight to any player for the next challenge.)	N	—
		Tied Up (Tie up any player's ankles for the next challenge.)	N
		Team Up (Pick the teams for the challenge.)	Y
Yanking My Chain	—	Cash (Take any player's money.)	N	—
	Brad	Tied Up (Tie up any player's ankles for the next challenge.)	Y	Kyle
	Kam	Time Up (Add time to another player's challenge performance.)	Y	Cara Maria
Spanish Torture	Kam	Cash (Take any player's money.)	Y	Devin
		Endurance (Force a player to do 30 burpees before for the next challenge.)	N
		Time Crunch (Add time to another player's challenge performance.)	N
Decked Out
Station	Dealers	Grenades	Choice	Victim(s)
Higher or Lower	Melissa	Bury a Log (Force a player to bury a log.)	Y	Kam
		Do 50 Jumping Jacks (Force a player to do 50 jumping jacks.)	N
		Enjoy a Glass of Water (Force a player to drink an entire glass of water.)	N

Episodes

1. Eddie withdrew from the competition prior the "Who's Got Balls?" challenge in episode 2. His exit was not shown on-screen.
2. Nicole Z. was forced to withdraw from the final challenge, after she suffered an ankle injury on the first stage.
3. At the end of Episode 10, Kayleigh withdrew from the competition, following an incident in which Britni, Jemmye and Kailah threw her belongings from a balcony at the house.
4. Veronica was forced to withdraw after dislocating her finger against Aneesa in the "Crazy 8" elimination.
5. Prior to the "Puppet Master" challenge in episode 7, Sylvia was medically removed from the competition, after she was deemed too sick to continue competing.
6. In episode 3, Melissa suffered an accident at the house in which she lacerated her foot and was medically prohibited from competing in the "#Vendettas" challenge, due to the fact that it involved water. As a result, Melissa was automatically sent to "The Ring", instead of the last-place male.
7. In episode 4, "The Ring" was deemed genderless; however, as Sylvia was named the last place competitor, it became a female elimination week.
8. In episode 6, Natalie and Sylvia were deemed too sick to compete in the "Gasping for Air" challenge, but were safe due to the fact that it was a male elimination week. In addition, the grenade that Sylvia earned as the result of winning in "The Ring" in the previous episode was a "dud."
9. Jordan Wiseley, Derrick Kosinski, Aneesa Ferreira, and Tori Deal were brought in as Mercenaries to compete against Shane, Joss, Veronica, and Kam respectively.
10. Frank Sweeney, Ashley Mitchell, Darrell Taylor, and Laurel Stucky were brought in as Mercenaries to compete against Brad, Kam, Nelson, and Britni respectively.
11. In episode 11, the elimination between Nelson and the Mercenary, Darrell, came to a draw after they reached the time limit. Thus Nelson was allowed back into the game, but was not rewarded a Grenade.
12. The additional bank account of eliminated players' money was $221,375. However, for the final prize money, it was rounded down to $220,000.

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External links

• Official website

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original air date	US viewers (millions)
1	388	"When Worlds Collide"	January 2, 2018 (2018-01-02)	0.89 [4]
2	389	"The Power of Three"	January 9, 2018 (2018-01-09)	0.87 [5]

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