you'd think someone would have realized that their "classic" champion elims are cool one on one physical battles. logically it follows that you should want to do more of that...

obv its very rare to get elims as good as bananas vs darrell in any season so should be thankful for that. just wish it wasnt at the expense of the entire seasons format not making sense

It's not just the format of the elimination, it's also the actual challenges themselves. Last night's was absurd, CT got immunity based on barely touching the water last. The whole thing last 10 seconds, if that. The week before they had a random sprint that comprised a tiny portion of the overall team challenge. The week before that was that rolling thing, which would have been fine except the imbalance in the teams meant that Bananas got a second turn. And then finally the first challenge once the vets arrived was that terrible knockout game where the challengers had extra people and just swarmed the champs, and immunity was given out based on who was lucky enough to score the first goal. It's just a terrible format and it's like they're not even trying to come up with interesting and fair challenges. For example, why haven't we seen trivia yet? That's a perfect example of a challenge that would lend itself to a simultaneous team/individual competition and work with imbalanced teams, and yet it's nowhere to be found. Instead they're giving us ****.

Yeah, it's been bad. We aren't just olds yelling at clouds.

I'm liking Nicole. She's the only one of the challengers who can hang with CM and Laurel physically. She's a dude in a woman's body so of course she's horny. I don't get the hate. That promo that Camilla cut where she yelled directly in to the camera twice was way more annoying than anything Nicole did.

I feel like this is the best season they've had in a while because of the champion vs champion eliminations. Darrell overpowering Zach, Darrell vs Johnny, and CM vs Laurel. Too bad they couldn't get Landon out of retirement for this.

Shane on No Quitters was solid

shane has been pretty solid this season. going straight for the champion dudes was a great strat, probably something john would have done himself in the right circumstance

Shane has been elite. Great random addition to the cast. Pretty good competitor too.

Going after blood 15-20 feet (or whatever it was) in the air is pretty bold too. Especially CT and JOHN.

Great episode, painfully heartbreaking cliffhanger. Made worse by the fact that I forgot to follow in thread during watch. Nicole/Laurel stuff is pretty silly, but Laurel drunk and mean is pretty funny. Still have no idea how they're goign to finish the season format-wise.

I honestly think if she talked like a normal human being I wouldn't mind her as much.

yep

Got a tip through my wife's work that TEEJ is quitting after this season because he's going to join the Henderson Fire Department. Looked it up & apparently there are articles going back to 2015 about him training for this.

Seems crazy.

Can't find anything on Internet to confirm & the article I found from a year ago about joining HFD indicated that he didn't plan to quit hosting CHALLENGE until MTV kicked him off.

I honestly think Darrell would be a great host if he wanted a gig and wanted to give up competing. Perfect combination of low key demeanor, hate of scrub ass quitters, and proclivity for clowning on rookies.

The CT interaction with Bananas was an all-time moment right there. Fantastic CHALLENGE Episode all around.

The way CT asked, "are you serious" made it so much better. I'll have to watch it again, but it didn't seem like he was asking in a joking manner. He was looking at JOHN like, "Maybe this guy has a personality disorder."

Way too much Nicole.

She wrecked any shot of Laurel discovering herself with Cara Maria instead, unforgivable imo.

Darrell is definitely a solid choice for a future host. Mark Long would be fine as well. Please no Bananas.

It would be nice to have an aftershow or two after the big eps (perhaps next week to discuss champions eliminations), but not having Nessa in my life is overall a net positive.

CT seems like he'd be a great host too, but I see no reason TEEJ can't keep doing it

TEEJ would be an asset to any fire department and they should accordingly grant him leaves of absence.

I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance towards this season due to the mix of GOAT Champion interactions/battles and everything which includes Nicole.

Agree with that 100%. The lows of this season have been very low (Bruno, Amanda/Ashley, Nicole) but the highs have been awesome.

I am still wondering why we haven't gotten Free Agents 2. I think that was the best format I've seen.

I would love to see another Duel format. Not a huge fan of the draw from Free Agents

If I lived in Nevada I'd probably go full burn it down Lisa Left Eye Lopes style so Teej came to save the day.

Also agree Duel > FA as a format..Didn't really like the flip to see who goes in.

And I think if a former castmember was going to become a house then it would probably be John. He's just way more known/relevant than Darrell.

Bananas would be unreal bad as a host.

yeah hed make the entre thing about himself