I honestly think if the partners part broke his way exactly that Johnny R had a chance to beat Bananas. Getting saddled with Devyn for the 3rd leg was definitely the worst one to draw.

Props to Bananas for beasting the bike part and the entire final really. Being small and having great cardio makes it especially valuable for him to be a great political player.

feel like he would have been closer to Zack's time than the Johnny's

Yeah no way Roylee approaches the top of the leaderboard

They didn't even say the gap Bananas won by he probably slaughtered Johnny. Anyone notice Nany is so unaware of just about everything with her commentary... good for the lol's though.

yeah the only thing he lost to Johnny was the order of cities on the coast puzzle and it didn't seem to be by much.

Beat him by 20 mins on the bike alone. He probably didn't lose the mountain much, I bet that was like 5 mins. Probably won by like 30-45 mins total at the least

You just saw a big muscled dude who hadn't had WIL or cardio issues die on a mountain, and you think that a big muscled dude who has had proven cardio issues would have won? Ooooookay then.
Agreed with Devyn on the third leg being the worst one to draw, thought they both handled their leg with her about as well as they could. Riley lost on the bike, Bananas deserved it.
They showed the mountain times (although who knows if they were accurate)-Riley beat Bananas by like 30 minutes on the mountain. It was 2:00somethin to 2:30somethin.

BANANAS THE ONE TRUE GOAT

LOL ZACH

LOL BANANAS HATERS

GTFO



how dare any of you ever doubt BANANAS again
dude just WINS

This post has so much WIL I think I just caught some of it on the east coast

lol manji

here's the thing, anyone who thought zach would dominate simply don't have a lot of CHALLENGE experience or expertise

i ain't mad at ya, go back to around The Island and start binge watching some seasons

You won't doubt Bananas as the all time WIM leader or CT as the GOAT all around contestant ever again

I'm #teamBananas now but you've got to think shouldn't you sort of be the GOAT when you commit your entire life's work to CHALLENGES? At this point the prophecy has been fulfilled, he's just adding to the legacy.

Overall thoughts, I missed seeing it live thanks to a work dinner running way long, f'ing terrible:
* Pretty funny that everyone was bitching about Zach possibly losing because he drew Devyn and that it ended up being Laurel who almost lost because she drew Zach in the third stage. It's too bad that Zach and Devyn weren't together in the third stage, would have been great.
* Didn't love that the first stage was so much shorter than the other two, thought they should have been pretty equivalent.
* Starting everyone up the mountain at the same time was dumb, should have made them race to the top with a staggered start by cume time. Just to see if everyone was done before Devyn started, if nothing else.
* That being said, the climbs of both mountain parts looked pretty sweet.
* The bike part was random and weird. Who tossed that in? But it worked as it probably decided the guys and girls winners, and they ended up being the right people.

Reunion thoughts:
* Hasn't Bananas tried to open several businesses? Might not want to say you've never had a job bro, not exactly the best look for anything you try to do when you're done with this.
* Agreed with whoever said CT had no real storylines this season-at the end of the show I was thinking "Wow, CT barely talked" but I guess there really wasn't anything for him to talk about.
* Please let that be the last we see of Jessica.
* Please let that not be the last we see of Devyn. I don't want her to make more finals, but she's definitely entertaining.

Overall, I've always oscillated in my opinion of Bananas-always felt like he skated a bunch in terms of eliminations and always got his panties in a wad when his name came up, but that he was also playing the game well. Obviously not the case this season, he definitely deserved it. And he remains the best person in the house in terms of randomly rustling jimmies in order to entertain himself that I hope he continues doing this for a while.

Jessica likes to talk and no one was talking to her on the Reunion, so she finally couldn't take it anymore and inserted herself into the Bananas/Jordan discussion randomly. Cracked me up.

CT this season was like a defending champ in any sport. You've been there and done that last year, you plod through the regular season, get to the playoffs and turn it up a notch. The story was unfolding perfectly for back to back titles and then ****ing puzzles happened!

in order for you to be a GOAT contestant don't you have to be able to assemble a puzzle, it's a huge part of the game...

CT is GOAT because if I'm drafting a cast for all around entertainment and competing, he's the #1 pick

love CT but he would not have done better than bananas in that final. could have seen iceland all over again

for entertainment no question CT is #1 in history though this season may have begun a decline

Some of you have no concept of the fact that there are different types of fitness. This is all fast-twitch muscle/strength and acceleration vs. slow-twitch muscle and endurance.

Fast-twitch
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Zach
CT
Roylee

Slow-twitch
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Johnny R
Jordan

And then the greatest of all time... Bananas with an epic combo of both.

Fast-twitch gets you through the eliminations where you gotta knock people out and slow-twitch wins you the final.

One last note... Johnny R would've won had he and Bananas swapped Devyn-legs. And Jordan would've crushed either had he gotten there.

Just thinking how Landon would have probably shipped it even if he had Devyn for all 3 legs. Dude was a beast

Lando would be closing in on a million in lifetime earnings if he gaf about Challenges.

As strange as it sounds, I wonder how Preston would have done in this final. He seems pretty fast and has some endurance, though his WIL would have likely left him back in Devyn territory.

I could see preston being terrible in the kayak, being awesome in the mountain climb because he's so light, and then being mediocre on the bike/volcano

Sorry if this has been covered but any chance they all chopped 4 ways before getting there and realizing only 3 of them were participating in the final?

I'm sure CT saw some piece of it

U really think Leroy gases like Zach did in the 2nd and 3rd legs? I think Leroy has better endurance than Bananas and he might be a decent rower, just so happens to suck at swimming

If only we knew how Leroy fares in tasks that involve rowing down a river in Final Challenges...if only

I really hate that they pair up a guy and a girl for the final challenge.

We all want to see CT vs Zach type eliminations, and I think the producers should find a way to get creative in setting up those clashes more often throughout the show and also in the final challenge.

Maybe some round robin events - some physical, some mental, etc.

It just seems especially dumb this time since it's "Free Agents" and then when the money is on the line they all of a sudden have to rely on some douchebag who can't run a mile in less than 10 minutes.