I'm curious as to how (and if) they're going to introduce gender equalizers. Having both on equal footing for this first half was unfair to the women, but last time they did this the handicaps they gave the men were overpowered. Too bad it can't be split prizes or M-F teams.

Aside from that everything about this season has been great. The production has been top notch - a lot of creative touches like editing in superpowers for Turbo, etc - the episode formatting has basically stayed consistent and fast-paced, the finale is legit, and the new additions to the cast have mostly been excellent. I'll take Georgia, Bear, Theo, and Turbo any day before the smoke cigs and don't eat contingent of Smashley, Amanda, and the rest of their loser posse. In addition to having ****ty personalities, none of them would have survived the first half of this final.

That must have taken courage to admit.

Reminds me, I hope Dee and Ninja never come back. Totally gross behavior towards my boy TURBO.

EDIT: and Cara of course. What an embarrassing person. Whines constantly to bring attention to herself. The needle thing was ridiculous. Just STFU or leave. Can't wait to hear her use that as an excuse when she finishes DFL.

Lol live footage of ninja just totally passing out. Jesus.

Oh my god I love tj. “You’re a really good competitor but you gotta quit smoking cigarettes. Don’t be a ****ing idiot”

He’s the absolute perfect host for this.

That was amazing. One of the better teej moments since he told bird the thing several season ago

Lmao turbo tomahawking the tire thru the thing. Amazing.

Can’t believe how well wes did that first leg. He’s obv paying for it but that’s impressive.

Ninja is sick

This first leg would be a perfect final. Kinda dumb this is only half Jesus.

Hunter being self aware on puzzles is making me laugh hard.

Hunter really stepping it up this episode

Rewound to watch hunter stand totally dejected in the middle of the sudoku puzzle. Amazing.

No one can even walk

Just caught up. Amazing final when you consider what last year's finale was. Ashley would have ****ed off before getting to the bikes. Feel like Paulie would have done well in this final.

Theo is an animal and a fantastic add to the challenge.

What a first final leg.

I love how they didn’t make them do the 4th bike after seeing how much pain they were all in.

such a great season. 6 ****ing hours of running and biking thru sand with some puzzles and games thrown in. perfect

obviously some sort of eating part coming up given the intro with turbo. also I don't blame cara for not taking an iv in that torture van lol

Maybe there is a twist with the money at the end and it ranks by gender? Otherwise this is pretty unfair to the women.

Rooting for Wes, beating these ringers brought into the game would be huge for his Challenge legacy. And I don't know how many more seasons he can deceive everyone.

I can’t imagine trying to push the ball up that incline after running/biking x amount of miles. That looked like torture

Id try to eliminate Natalie here

Thats the obvious choice, they have a big lead on hunter and you dont want to get ****ed by some random gender equaliser.

And if we're to believe what we've seen, Cara would be way less hydrated than everyone else.

Eliminating 2/8 competitors in the first 1/4 of a final is the stuff of legends for whoever wins this. I figured Mattie would have trouble but Georgia surprised me.

It is going to take something awful to prevent this final and season not being in the GOAT conversation. Tribunal has to pick whoever is in 4th especially since she’s a woman and you have to assume a sex equalizer is coming.

I hate needles too and there is no way I would have taken it.

I think Georgia just went out too hard. She tried pushing through the exhaustion when at a certain point your body just has to slow down.

I don’t know how ninja legit passed out on camera then got back to finish fourth on that leg. That’s truly impressive WIM

I’ll also never not laugh thinking about turbo overhead throwing the tire thru the center

Yeah, totally different story if she was in the lead or close, but to pass out and continue when you're that far behind is truly another level of wanting it.

Can’t believe Theo went down to something basic like that.

Turbo > wes . Wes has more heart than i thought. This final was pretty epic, glad cara got ****ed by connect 4.

Thank you for not waiting till the ****ing reunion show to announce the winner.