Catching up now. Camila trying to lynch herself has to be one of the dumbest and smartest moves in challenge history depending on how you look at it.

SHANE

What a ****ing elite move

Didn't think the episode was great. Wayyyyyyyyyy too much Nicole + knowing we're going to lose one of the three best male competitors (almost certainly Bannans) as well as one of the two best women (presumably CM but I don't think that's a lock).

On the plus side there was this:

...followed by JOHN realizing any rebuttal would be a lie, so he changed the subject. Priceless piece of editing.

amazing episode even with the cliffhanger

Nicole is going to be a fixture for years to come

We rewinded the CT Bananas bit at least 4 times. Kept getting funnier and funnier.

Nicole gives me a rapey vibe

yeah if Nicole becomes a prominent player on this show i'll prob stop watching.

and I think she might

Shane on No Quitters pod fwiw

Also its prob not a good sign for the shows future when they have champions who have great elimations then new underdogs who arent interesting and have ****ty eliminations.

Yeah, they need some fresh blood asap

I found the Laurel lesbian stuff really interesting tbh. Really seems like she is a lesbian and it would make sense. Her kinda realizing it live on tv is pretty crazy.

Her and Cara should have told Andy Dick to **** off and hook up with each other instead.

Also a really great ep all around for CAMILA

There's still time for Cara and Laurel to hook up after wrestling each other to the ground during the elimination, keep the faith Woody

couldnt watch live

is mtv serious not having it available online yet

hate to be the bearer of bad news, but The Challenge is not shown live.

I did find that part of the show interesting. The thing I don't understand is how anyone, male or female, has any sexual attraction or interest in Nicole in any way. I can barely stand to watch her on TV. I'd want to kill myself if I was dating her.

is amanda really trying to act like she's above everyone else

I think some of that is the fault of the producers of the show tho. Champs are getting legit awesome eliminations, and challengers are getting trashing like ringing bells, etc.

They need to have more physical 1 on 1 challenges. This season is clearly showing us that. I'd love to see hunter go 1 on 1 with nelson in balls out, as it'd be fun to see nelson on his ass and hunter roid out.

the fact that we are losing either bananas or darrell while nelson is still around proves that the format is failing

this daily challenge was pretty cool but really did nothing for me. you cant have two "teams" compete when one has to also care about individually winning. its like if you had a basketball game except for just one team it also matters if you score the most or fewest points

JOHN was finished before they even stepped in the arena. You could see it every time they showed his face post challenge.

oh man looked like darrell knocked the ball away from bananas just before the cliffhanger

darrell v. ct in the final champ elimination is gonna be great

hope its hall brawl

The thing I hate the most about this stupid format is the trash talking by the "underdogs" after the champs lose. Very annoying. Like if I beat Lebron one-on-one but he was blindfolded and had earplugs in. Big f'ing deal.

I think this show has (finally) passed me by. I don't care about the young people, with the exception of Nicole, who I loathe. It's too late for some kind of crazy "twist," because all we'll have left are 4 champs anyway.

They should have had the same number of champs as underdogs, not had any ridiculous handicaps in the challenges, and let the champs destroy. Oh well.

Crazy that Nicole is being able to single handedly ruin the greatest show of all time for me.

Thats Aneesa+Sarah levels of bad. Not even a great elimination saved it. Im ****ed.

You guys sound like old man yells at cloud at this point. It's exhausting.

Getting a good LOL at everyone complaining about champs vs champs eliminations. Everyone bitched in the past about how the eliminations all sucked because all we ever got was two lame people going against each other or one of the weaker competitors getting blown out against someone strong, and everyone was bored until you hopefully finally got one good elimination match at the end of the season. This format guarantees 3 awesome elimination matches, and they're very spread out over the course of the season.

Could the format use some explaining as to exactly what they're playing for, and/or some better balancing of teams? Sure. Could the underdogs eliminations be set up better? Maybe. But the elimination format for the champs has been great.

Should have rotated guys elims and girls elims instead of rotating teams. That would at least solve the kamikaze Shane issue.

This is a fair point but still, if the producers just read this thread then the show would be way, way better for the reasons people are saying.

You can't really make new stars on the show if the challengers always do ****ty eliminations, let them bang some heads. Let Hunter roid rage on someone like Brad/Abram.

I think it's just gonna become an individual game eventually or something.