TJ: The Challenge pushes players to compete
in extreme competitions in order to avoid elimination,
all in hopes of winning the grand prize of $500,000.
Now, for the first time ever,
players from Big Brother,
Survivor, The Amazing Race
and Love Island battle it out to become the first
Challenge: USA champion.
ANGELA: I don't think the Love Island guys have any idea
what they're getting themselves into.
If you want to play dirty, we can play dirty.
LEO: Big Brother-- they're all snakes,
each and every one of them.
-(whooping) -DESI: People just
can't help but scheme
and lie.
TYSON: You know what would make
this game better? Me.
♪ ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ This is a war cry for freedom ♪
♪ I'm looking for the new leaders... ♪
Here we go.
-Oh. -Whoa.
It's an outdoor, but indoor.
I'm Tyson. You know me from Survivor.
I've never felt closer to God
than getting handed a million-dollar check
from a large corporation
for lying and cheating
on national television.
I've always been aware of The Challenge.
My dream here is to win every single challenge
all the way to the end.
♪ Freedom deep in my bones, yeah... ♪
TIFFANY: I went on Big Brother and did not win the game,
but I won the best prize of all.
I won America's heart.
I actually love The Challenge.
Plus, there is money on the line.
I was born strategic, and so,
I plan to come into this game
and mastermind my way through.
♪ Whoo, this is the place, yeah, I know it... ♪
Nice!
On Big Brother, I was known
for being cold-hearted, ruthless,
stone-cold, and
I think that's what I'm going to be doing here.
Nice to meet you. What's your name? Danny.
-Danny. Danny. Yeah. -Survivor. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-How you doing? -Good. How you doing, Danny?
-Nice to see you, too. -Nice to meet you.
Nice to see you.
I was on Survivor Season 41.
I did not win, but I feel like I played a great game.
I was an undrafted free agent.
I tried out for the Dallas Cowboys,
ended up making the team.
If I have to stab someone in the back
to get me further in the game, that is something that I am
definitely willing to do.
CAYLA: I'm Cayla.
-Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you, too.
Yes.
I-I would like to think. (laughs)
I am from Season 33 of The Amazing Race.
I am very familiar with The Challenge.
I've studied it. I'm a fan of it.
I want to keep a low profile, and then
beast mode my way through the end of it,
and really show people that I might have been a sleeper,
and you might have underestimated me,
but I will play.
-Hi. Xavier. -Cayla.
-Xavier. Nice to meet you. -Thank you.
Nice to meet you. This is my-- What show?
-Amazing Race. -Amazing Race. Okay.
I know all about The Cookout. Big Big Brother fan.
I wasn't even in The Cookout, actually. I-I...
-What?! -I wasn't a part of it at all. No.
I am the winner of Big Brother Season 23.
I want to extend my legacy. I want to win The Challenge.
Four members of The Cookout,
the most dominant alliance
to ever play Big Brother, are here--
myself, Tiffany, Kyland and Azah.
We're going to look out for each other,
but I don't think it's going to be the same commitment
that you saw on Big Brother.
-Hi. -Um, what's your name?
-Desi. -Desi, I'm Shannon.
Going into Survivor, I was very fresh out of the pageant world.
I won Miss Virginia twice,
and then competed at Miss USA,
where I finished in the top ten.
I was not Miss USA,
but I'm here to be Miss Challenge USA.
ALL: Whoa!
-Something's happening. -Wait. What is this?
-Oh, wait. Look at the shadow. -The shadow.
-There's a shadow. -Oh, man.
-Shadow. -Oh, baby. -(overlapping chatter)
(cheering, applause)
(indistinct shouting)
(whooping, applause)
Yes! Now it's real.
The Challenge host, mastermind,
owner of the final himself.
I get giddy like a kid.
I cannot believe that I'm seeing TJ walk out here right now.
Buenas noches, everyone.
ALL: Buenas noches!
Welcome to The Challenge: USA.
(applause, cheering)
(indistinct shouting)
Now it's real. Now it's real.
I'm TJ Lavin. I'm the host of the show,
and I am so happy to see each and every one of you.
Looking around, I see a lot of people
who really know how to play games.
Maybe you were isolated on an island,
or you raced across the world,
or you had Big Brother watching you 24/7,
or you fell in love, only to get your heart broken
at the end. I mean, what?
-That part. That part. -That part. -TJ: Come on.
CASHAY: I'm constantly asked about Cinco.
We were paired up on Love Island, we dated.
We broke up. It didn't work out, but at the end of the day,
we both want to win and just, you know, it's uncomfortable.
That's the tea. (laughs)
TJ: In any case, this is The Challenge.
We're built different here.
You will be faced with challenges and eliminations
that are harder than anything that you've ever done before.
Now, you make it to the end, there's $500,000 up for grabs.
(whooping, cheering)
TASHA: When I competed on Survivor,
I came just short of winning as a runner-up.
I'm here
to do whatever I need to do to win
this game and
$500,000.
Now, to start things off, I'm going to give each of you
a little seed money in your personal Challenge account.
Everyone's going to have $1,000.
Unfortunately for you,
that is not enough money
to make it to my final, which is the ultimate goal.
To qualify, you have to have $5,000
in that personal Challenge account.
There are two ways for you to earn that money.
You can either win a challenge or win an elimination.
Now you're not just playing for the coveted cash prize.
You're also playing to earn your spot
in the first ever International Global Challenge Tournament,
streaming exclusively on Paramount Plus.
-Let's go! -(cheering, applause)
Now I know some of you have some catching up to do.
And maybe some of you want to get to know each other.
Whatever the case, get in the house,
get used to the new digs,
and I'll be seeing you very soon. Good luck.
(applause and cheering)
(indistinct chatter)
Oh, my gosh.
Oh!
(all exclaiming)
(indistinct, overlapping chatter)
♪ ♪
-(laughter) -(indistinct chatter)
BEN: I was on Survivor Season 35 and Season 40.
And when I played Survivor last time,
I played a very loyal game, a trustworthy game.
This time, it's not going to be like that. I'm here for myself.
Oh, my gosh. Look at... I'm official!
-Guard my bed. Don't let anyone take it. -Yeah, yeah.
DEREK: I'm competing against a pro cyclist,
swimmers, football players, basketball players.
Every single type of athlete seems to be in this house.
And then there's me, who did high school chess club.
So, my initial strategy coming into the house
is strategic and social gameplay.
I heard there was a little Big Brother drama.
That's what I heard through the grapevine coming in here.
My season, there was an alliance.
X, uh, won our season.
Azah, Kyland and-and Tiffany were in it, as well.
-And Tiffany. -Okay, and they all formed
an alliance against you guys?
And we had no idea they were working together,
so, like, for 65 days, X was my best friend,
but he was never working with me.
The Cookout was
an alliance on our season.
They made an alliance and made it all the way to the end.
Me and Derek were pawns in The Cookouts' game.
And honestly, what I'm excited about is getting my revenge
on the whole alliance.
XAVIER: Alyssa is easily probably
the closest ally I have from the Big Brother group.
She's someone I know
will have my back.
So is there, like, any weird feelings?
That's... This is what I heard about.
No. Like, we're all still really close
'cause we respected the gameplay.
But it is definitely hard to, like...
Are you gonna have trouble trusting, maybe, in this game?
Yeah.
DEREK: I trust Alyssa
100% with my game right now,
and I'd say she's probably my closest ally.
The Cookout took us out one at a time.
Alyssa and I were both betrayed by our closest ally, so,
it's time for a little bit of revenge.
♪ ♪
-Nice. -(whooping)
-Hey, nothing but love. -Nothing but love for sure.
-TJ signed off. -It'll be fine. It won't be awkward.
-We'll be fine. -No, not awkward at all.
-We're-we're both chill people. -So chill.
Why are you just repeating what I'm saying?
It's been too long. Been a long time.
It's been too long? Just the pat?
-Thank you. -Good to see you.
I have not seen Kyra since we broke up.
We were driving from Tahoe down to Lake Arrowhead.
It was an eight-hour drive.
We broke up about hour four.
(laughs quietly)
And we haven't really spoken since.
Phew.
KYRA: Unfortunately, all love stories do not end well,
but I don't want to let it, like, hurt my game.
I got this tattoo. It says "fearless,"
and that's the way I want to live it in this house.
I want to focus on this game. For me to get past it,
-I don't got to talk to her. -(muffled snort)
CASHAY: I'm not going to be in another, like,
Love Island situation. Like,
I just... I can't. Him with anybody--
like, if they get together, I'm gonna keep my distance, because
it's, like, at the end of the day, I don't want to...
I don't want see it, I don't want to pretend
that, like, we're mad. It's uncomfortable.
Like, we literally just broke up,
so it's, like, it's just a lot, you know?
Just know that we're here for you,
-and we got you, whatever you need. -Yeah.
CINCO: Having to relive this breakup
with me and Cash every day is gonna be very annoying for me.
I'm definitely not here for a relationship at all.
Um, I feel like that... that show, Love Island,
is already past for me. Right now,
I'm just gonna focus on the task at hand, and that's the game.
I was the winner of Amazing Race Season 32.
I love games, so this is like a glorified board game,
and everyone here are my little pieces,
and I just need to set everyone up in a way
that will benefit me in the long term.
LEO: The benefit of having just James, Kayla and I
from The Amazing Race is that we're sort of the outliers,
so we could literally infiltrate
any of the other groups that are here--
Survivor, Big Brother, or even Love Island.
I'm trying to have a lot of alliances this season.
Watching my cats,
I know to land on all four paws.
(whispering): 'Cause they ain't got nothing
-on The Amazing Race. -No.
-We got this, bro. -(laughing)
It's a happy family right now.
Once people start getting called out,
-once people... then... -Mm-hmm.
-Once a line is drawn in the sand. -Yes.
I think that'll happen on the first elimination.
-Yeah. -Let's get it to happen. -Here to compete.
-Here to have fun. -Let's clear this house out.
SARAH: The second
I walked in the house, that's it, it's over.
Just write me the check right now.
I'm walking away with this money.
I've been a cop for 16 years.
As a police officer, you need to control the environment,
and that's just like how this game is.
-Yeah. -I just kind of want to see who's
-gonna rip each other's heads off, honestly. -Right?
DOMENICK: I've taken second place
on Survivor: Ghost Island.
This time, no more second place.
I believe the Survivor players have the best brain
for this game, and I believe we're able to deal
with the elements better than anyone else out here.
JUSTINE: We are probably the best show
when it comes to building relationships.
There's been several people come up to me and say,
"The social aspect of this game brings me anxiety."
-And I'm like, "Not... Being where we thrive." -Not...
-Ooh. -Right. And me thinking in my head,
I'm like, "That's been the easiest part so far."
Like, literally easy peasy.
I got my bestie Justine with me.
I'm so excited
that Cely is here with me. We don't spend,
like, more than a day apart.
I'm the winner of Love Island Season 2.
I'm trying to, like, elevate and test myself
physically and mentally because I know this game is insane.
So I want to just see what I'm capable of.
I really just thought that I can come in here
and make everyone my bestie,
but by the looks of it, there's, like,
talking happening in corners.
I'm, like, trying to wiggle my way in there.
What I'm not excited for is
climbing up that mountain. I thought,
"Um, can we just have conversations?"
Big Brother might have all the numbers, but
-Love Island is the tight group. -Yeah.
-Those are the ones that last to the end, the ones -Mm-hmm.
-that are actually loyal to each other. Boom. -Mm-hmm. Right.
The other thing I do feel is, like,
I feel like Survivors kind of, like--
they just kind of, like,
stick together amongst themselves.
The Survivors are staying together.
-They're telling us? -That's what they're telling me.
But I, too, have not.
I have not had a conversation with Sarah.
I had a conversation with Sarah, and unless she's playing me...
Like, I mean, she could try, but
I have my eye on her, like, hard.
Like, I mean, in my dream world,
-her and Angela go toe-to-toe. -Mm.
SHAN: I am an itinerant speaker.
I'm a pastor that travels, but
when I play Uno, when I play Monopoly,
I'm not playing as a pastor. I'm playing as Shan.
I'm playing as a person who's competitive.
I'll pray for you, but I have no problem saying goodbye.
SHANNON: We don't know what we're doing.
I feel like I'm just not prepared.
-I'm not used to working out, like... -Yeah.
Like, for this, and-and, like, what I'm doing.
Like, my whole body's sore.
And I didn't even start the game yet.
What's your body sore from?
-KYRA: She worked out. -Just doing shit.
Like, trying to do push-ups.
-Hey, you did it. -Like, my shoulders are busting out.
I don't even know if I could even do one again.
It's just very stressful.
-None of your business. -(laughter)
Enough.
Being blonde, and being on Love Island already,
kind of, I'm already not being taken seriously.
I know I'm a bad bitch and what I'm capable of,
but this environment is so intimidating
that even the baddest bitch would be running for the hills.
It-it's scary.
KYRA: And you might, in this whole journey,
prove something to yourself that you didn't even expect.
Like, the best times when we grow
and prove stuff to ourselves is when we are uncomfortable.
♪ ♪
Welcome to the first ever Challenge: USA.
(cheering, applauding)
You are gonna be playing in pairs.
Oh...
TJ: These are coed pairs.
And, lucky for you,
I'm gonna let you choose your partners.
So go ahead, get it done.
There's just, like, a lump in my throat,
because I know it's gonna shake things up in the game,
and I'm just hoping it doesn't blow up my game in the process.
There's a lot of people that are like,
"Are they gonna be good, or are they gonna screw me?"
Angela, Angela, Angela.
-Yeah, we-we got this. -(overlapping chatter)
I want to work with Tyson because
he's a strong competitor,
physically and mentally.
He's so well-rounded.
This is gonna be great.
I only know little about David,
and that's from what I've seen on Big Brother.
David went home first on Big Brother,
so I'm not trying to go home first on The Challenge.
-Okay. -Okay. There we go.
BEN: I'm pretty nervous.
You can only get further in this game
if you have a good partner--
one that's gonna compete, and one that's gonna give 100%.
♪ ♪
I'm seeing these strong partners, Cinco and Desi.
I'm seeing Sarah and Enzo.
The next you know, here comes Celybird.
"Hey, Javonny. Want to be my partner?"
I'm like, man, I'm happy she's short and small,
'cause I could carry her.
♪ ♪
I have a little history with Shan from Survivor.
I voted her out, and my wife, Kiki, told me,
"If Shan is out here,
you make sure that you watch out for her."
I'm sure the last thing that she would want me to do
is partner with Shan, and now I'm stuck.
♪ ♪
TJ: Now that you're all paired up, I hope you chose wisely,
because that could be the difference between
you making a half million bucks and going home empty-handed.
Without further ado, let's get this party started.
Today's challenge is called Down To Do the Math.
To begin, two teams at a time are gonna start
on the roof of this 22-story building.
Then when I say go, you will rappel down,
see a series of equations that you must solve
all the way to the ground.
You will each be randomly assigned
a different color that corresponds
to the numbers of the equation you need to solve.
You will then place the answer in the answer key.
You'll have three chances to get that number correct.
If you don't get it right, you got to run up the stairs
all the way back up to the top and do it all over again.
Oh, my God.
ENZO: Nah, yo. I got to do this
on the first try. There's no way I'm going up
22 flight of stairs and doing this thing all over again.
There's no way.
The team to get this done the fastest
will win today's challenge, be safe from elimination
and receive $10,000
to be put in your personal Challenge accounts.
-(cheering, applause, whooping) -All right!
That's $5,000 each, which also qualifies you to run my final.
Today's losers will be going straight into the Arena
for possible elimination. Make it happen.
The order has been chosen at random. Good luck.
(applause and cheering)
(laughing)
Just look ahead.
SHAN: Let's go, yo!
-Do work! Do work! -Let's go!
(truck horn blaring)
(car horn honking)
All right.
-We might have not... -How do you say "no" to this?
We might have not worked out in a relationship,
but we both trust each other.
I know this is the dude that I want to hop off
-this big building with. -A building with? You want to jump
-off a building with me? -And-and right until the end.
-Yeah, I have that confidence. -Yeah, all right.
In-in this section of life for sure, yeah.
-Cool. That's fair. -Yeah.
I know there's a beautiful v-view back there, but I'm good.
I'll see it when I'm on the ground.
22 stories. Are you serious?
I cannot stand heights,
and I specifically made sure
that my apartment was on the second floor
so I don't have to go up the elevator.
I'm praying, I'm speaking in tongues,
and I'm just hoping against hope that this safety rope
that is supposed to keep me is going to keep me.
-All right, everyone, ready. Go! -(air horn blows)
KYLAND: Come on, Azah.
Just walking.
Don't get your hand caught in the...
Lower your hand, so you don't get caught.
Ah! Why is it so hard?
'Cause you got to lean back more.
The second that I saw Cashel was shaking in his boots,
it set a fire under my booty to be like,
"All right, Kyra, this is on you. Pull through
and-and... and lead this damn thing."
Lean back. One, two. One, two.
One, two. One, two. Let's go.
-AZAH: I'm looking for the loop. -Yeah, we're good. I got two.
-Right? Good. -Yes.
Okay, just look straight in front.
-One, two. One, two. One, two. -(truck horn blaring)
-Okay, three, three. -Mm-hmm. Three.
-One, two. One, two. -Okay. Three.
Five K on the line! Get that five K!
CAYLA: You're going to go down this skyscraper.
You will have to do math problems, and at the very end,
put your answer into the big box.
-KYLAND: That's 12. We're good. -12.
KYLAND: See, lower, faster now.
-AZAH: Mm-hmm. -We got time, Azah.
-AZAH: Plus eight. 20. -KYLAND: 20. Thank you.
-Fuck cleat... -Just pull your feet back. There you go.
They're doing the math now.
SHANNON: I was talking to Sarah,
and she was like, "I'm scared shitless."
And I looked at her and was like,
"That doesn't make me feel any better, Sarah!"
Sarah from Survivor.
I'm scared.
-CASHEL: Three. -One, two. Temp score is 12.
-KYRA: Let's go. One, two. -12. One, two.
-Times three. -KYLAND: Times three. 60.
Keep going. We got to lower faster.
-AZAH: Minus 15. -BOTH: 45.
AZAH: Times two. 90.
-Plus 100. 190. -190.
-What's 190 divided by two? -Uh, eight. Uh, 95.
-KYRA: One, two. -CASHEL: 52.
There's no fucking way they're doing math right now.
Wait. Yeah. There's no way.
KYLAND: Right? Yeah, maybe back to the... back to the wall.
-AZAH: Plus 60 is what? -255.
-AZAH: Times three. -Times three. 765, right?
-AZAH: Okay, yeah. -Wait. 755 or 765?
-AZAH: 765. -Done, let's go.
-52. -KYRA: 52 times two.
KRYA: 156.
BOTH: 156. 156.
-(whooping, applause) -Oh, yes!
-Yo! Here we go. -There we go!
-Okay, lean down before. Okay. -Sit down, sit down, sit down?
Now we got to get up. Go.
-Oh. (stammers) Got you. -(mutters)
KYLAND: Get up, stand up.
755?
KYLAND: In order to prepare for The Challenge,
I went back, and I was watching the last ten seasons.
I looked up who won each season,
and so I was watching them as much as I could,
and I prepared accordingly, and now,
I bring it all together, uh, to make sure I win.
Stop, stop it.
Wait. Oh, fuck.
-Check. -Check.
That's not correct.
Keep going. Keep going. Keep going.
You got two more tries.
KYRA: 100 plus 60 is 160.
-You got it. -160. 160 times two.
-755. -(mumbles)
-Check. -That is incorrect.
-(overlapping chatter) -This is your last attempt,
or you gotta go back up.
-CASHEL: 320. Yeah. -320. 320.
-Yes! -KYRA: 320.
-320. We're just dropping down. -Okay.
-Five times three is 15. 735. -735?
-Yeah, but... -Okay. Check!
No, you got to go again.
Not it. We're off. Yup.
-Okay. We got to go again. Okay. -Yup, we got to go.
-Boom. -320. Check.
-(blows) -That's correct. Good job. -(Kyra shrieks)
-Yeah! Yeah! -We did so good!
Yeah!
-Ah. Thank you for doing that. -(chanting): Kiss! Kiss!
Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!
CASHEL: I know we can't be more than friends,
but, uh... you never know what's going to happen.
(ding)
KYLAND: We got to start again. (sighs)
-Fuck. -AZAH: Don't worry about it.
KYLAND: I know.
Here we go.
Stand up straight. Walk.
-(groaning) -You got it.
KYLAND: Rest on the top.
Man, that's a hike.
-I ain't gonna hold you. -That's a brick.
-That's, like, 2,000 steps. -That's a brick.
DEREK: I don't want to make it
to the very end with The Cookout,
but this is the first challenge.
Kyland is a strong competitor, and he is loyal
by my side for now, and it would
make no sense for him to go home.
KYLAND: 95... is 155.
Times three.
-465, not 7. -Okay.
Basically, we added 100 more than we needed.
I hate making dumb mistakes, and I hate losing,
and right now, I'm doing both.
-465. -(air horn blows)
-That's correct. Good job. -Let me sit down.
KYLAND: Let me sit down. Let me sit down.
In the shade. In the shade.
-Good job, y'all! -Good job, guys!
Yeah. No, probably in the shade.
I got it. (laughs)
Get that... get that strap off so she can breathe.
She's struggling. Ah, no, I get it.
-Azah, are you okay? -She all right? -I need water.
DANNY: Azah can't breathe, her lips are chapped
because she's dehydrated.
It's a very scary sight,
and it lets us know that we need to focus as we come down
'cause we don't want to have the same thing
happen to us.
KYLAND: Water. Let's go.
ALYSSA: Azah passing out
definitely makes you realize how intense these challenges are.
Like, this isn't Big Brother anymore.
KYLAND: Azah is looking very gassed, so,
I'm not really sure what to expect.
I put in so much preparation to be here,
so to not even have a chance
to really show that and possibly
be sent home on, like, one tiny mistake--
that's frustrating.
-I'm sorry I slowed you down. -No, no, no.
I should have held all the math numbers. It was me.
Shouldn't even have done that. Shouldn't even had to do it.
-Round two, ready. -BEN: Stay positive, right?
-Manifest that stuff. -Mm-hmm.
-I'm not looking down. -Me, neither.
-Go! -(air horn blows)
-Ooh! -BEN: There we go.
-Good job. Good job, so... -Okay, ready?
-Yup. -One, two.
Four times four. 13, 14, 15, 16.
-Mm. -16.
JAMES: 12 plus 48. 60.
-60 times three. -JAMES: Times three. 180.
SHANNON: We look good, baby! We look good!
At one point going down the building,
we checked ourself out in the mirror, and we were like,
"We look the fuck good." You know what I mean?
WOMAN: Let's go, you guys! Let's go!
640 divided by eight.
So we're 80, right?
SHANNON: Yes.
As an Amazing Racer, I like to think that I want to use
my surroundings to my benefit,
and thankfully, the window cleaner didn't come
any time as of lately.
JAMES: 220.
SHANNON: 220.
-ALYSSA: 250 times three? -BEN: 750.
-Go. -(indistinct shouting)
-I can't reach it! -Check, check, check, check. -All right.
-(air horn blows) -Good job.
-Yeah! (laughs) -Yeah.
-BOTH: Check. -(air horn blows) -Good job.
-Yeah! -Yeah! I love you, babe!
SHANNON: Good job. How'd you know that?
How did you know...
I didn't want to be here. I was intimidated,
and I wasn't ready for it.
Fast forward.
I turned over a new leaf.
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling confident.
My head's in the game. I'm ready to kick ass.
(whooping)
TJ: All right, this is round three. Here we go.
-Focus on the window in front of you. -Yeah.
Double date, yo. (whoops)
-Wow. -Hey, but you know what?
-What? -Look where we at.
-Yeah. Uh, I... -Look where we at. Look where we at.
Look at that way. Just look that way.
TIFFANY: Leo says,
"Tiffany, I need you to look around
at where you are."
I said, "No."
-Ready. Go. -(air horn blows)
Oh, shit, Leo.
Oh. It's okay. It's okay.
-All right, I'm comfortable. You ready? -Yeah. Me, too.
(indistinct shouting)
12 plus eight is 20. 12 plus eight is 20.
Like this, huh? Three.
LEO: 56 times two. 112.
(cheering, applause)
156 minus 100 is 56. 56, okay?
(muttering) 160.
LEO: Oh, hold up. What's it get up to? 320.
320. Go down. 320. 320.
Hell, yeah, you're fucking killing it, dude.
You know what? My cats Leo and Leah would be proud, 'cause
cats love heights.
We don't love water, but we love heights.
So my cats taught me well.
ENZO: I like Leo. I like Leo.
I think he's a little weird
'cause he brings up the cats a lot.
LEO: We on top of the world!
Let's not make it weird, bro.
DOMENICK: 465. 465.
-Go, go, go, go, go! Just take me! Just take me! -320.
Go. Get it, Leo, go!
LEO: That math right. We should have math right.
-That's it. Check, check, check. -Check, check.
Check, check, check, check.
-Time! -(air horn blows) -What's up?
-What's up? What is up? -(applause and cheering)
-What is up? -Yes, baby. Yes!
I feel like my time is great,
and I need to win this challenge
and help Kyland and Azah.
-Check, check, check. -All right! -(air horn blows)
-Good job. What? -Yeah. (whoops)
-Tiffany and Leo. Teo. -Teo.
Round four.
Hey, we so smart, we dumb.
-Javonny, please. -(laughs)
Don't listen to anything Javonny says.
Last one down has to buy the other group a shot.
-Okay. -Okay.
-Go! -(air horn blows)
Wait. Let's go slow and steady,
-'cause I'm, like... -Come on. There's no numbers yet.
(overlapping shouting)
JAVONNY: Five times three.
-CELY: Five times three. -15.
CELY: 15.
16 plus 20. 36.
JAVONNY: 100 subtract 20.
-80. 80. -CELY: Shit. 80, yeah.
-Okay. That's all right. -CELY: Sorry.
I can't even think. My brain? Scrambled eggs.
Don't ask me the color of nothing.
Don't ask me any questions
'cause I won't be able to tell you.
-BOTH: 400 divided by four. -(indistinct shouting)
-90 times four is 360. 360. That's it. -90 times four?
That's it. All right, twist, twist, twist.
You're to the left, You do three. I do six.
-I'll do zero. Check. -(air horn blows)
-That's correct! Good job! -Let's fucking go, baby! -Ah!
DEREK: When I stack my performance
against the people that had gone before us,
I feel like, right now,
we're probably number one or two.
-130 times six is one, three, zero... -Zero.
-780. -780?
JAVONNY: Yeah.
(indistinct shouting, cheering)
Slow down.
(indistinct shouting)
Fuck it.
-That's correct. Good job. -(air horn blows)
(whooping, cheering, applause)
JUSTINE: Love Island is definitely underestimated.
I'm just hyped, though, because I have my best friend with me.
There's no way I would have been able to just
play this game without Cely here.
I love her.
KYRA: Fucking feel that.
My heart starts to sink.
Me and Kyland might come in last.
Ugh. I'm scared.
Oh. Oh. Ooh!
-TJ: Okay, round five. -(air horn blows)
-ANGELA: We got this. -TYSON: We got this.
-(car horn honks) -(Cayla screams)
Shit, shit. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
-(gasping) -Oh, my God. What the fuck?
CAYLA: Oh, you're good now. As long
-as you lean back, we're fine. -Okay.
Sorry. Oh, what are we?
-We're pink. Uh, we're pink. -We're pink.
-CAYLA: Three. Three. -Three.
-22 times 33 is 66. -TYSON: 66.
ANGELA: 66 plus four is...
-It's 100. Divided by five. -TYSON: 20.
Good job, guys.
Come on!
SHAN: It looks like Thor and freaking
Wonder Woman are rappelling
down the line.
TYSON: 250.
-DAVID: Times five. 550. -It's 550.
ANGELA: I was a gymnast,
and then I was a professional pole vaulter.
And then I did stunt training, so I just feel like
everything I've done in my life has, in a weird way,
prepared me for this competition.
TYSON: 750. That's all of it.
Run, run, run, run!
-Check. -(air horn blows)
-Yeah. -Oh! That's right!
(applause)
-Oh! -Yeah. Yeah, that was it.
Tell your friends, bro. Tell your friends.
JAMES: Tyson is a legend
because he not only won Survivor but he's played
four freaking times.
-(grunts) -(shouts)
DAVID: 115 divided by 5? Is 15.
-CAYLA: What is it? -15. Oh, shit.
-What? -CAYLA: Times 5. That says 115 times 5.
DAVID: 565.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
DAVID: 565.
MAN: Keep moving, keep moving.
-There you go. -Check.
Nope, that's not correct.
CAYLA: 565?
AZAH: Am I a competitor? Yes.
Do I want to win? Absolutely.
I want everyone to put their best foot forward.
But if anyone wants to get an equation or two wrong,
I-I don't mind, either.
-465? -Check.
That is incorrect.
This is your last attempt
-or you're going back upstairs. -15 times five.
(muttering indistinctly)
I'm literally shaking in my boots
after seeing what happened to Kyland and Azah.
I don't want to be thrown down into an elimination,
so I need to get out of this daily challenge, uh, survived.
XAVIER: You guys got it.
Please, please, please, come on. Focus.
DEREK: Give it one more. Give it one more!
-I don't know. -(groans)
Check.
That is incorrect.
This is your last attempt or you're going back upstairs.
CAYLA: 15 times five. 30.
KYLAND: It's not really in my nature
to you know, hope for failure from others,
but...
I don't want to lose this game.
-500... -50?
15 times 5.
15 times 5, 30.
60, 70. 70.
-(air horn blows) -TJ: Yes, that is correct.
-Good job. -CAYLA: Yes.
Yes. We don't have to go back...
I don't know what it is,
but I actually work best under pressure.
So, we said it was
115 times 5, right?
And somehow I got it.
It's 575.
-(Cayla whoops) -DAVID: 22 stories.
Did not have to go up the stairs.
Yes.
-TJ: Round six. -SARAH: You got to lift up
-on the rope just a little. -You got to be there for me, like,
-"Yo, come on, let's go. You got it." -Yeah, yeah. I'll get you.
-I got you, I got you. -All right.
Former SWAT team member, rappel out of buildings.
Let's go, let's do this.
I'm safe no matter what, right?
DANNY: Yep, we got two-- we got two.
We got ours and theirs.
-You ready? Go. -(air horn blows)
-DANNY: Let's fucking go. -SHAN: Orange.
-ENZO: 5. -SARAH: Come on, let's go, let's go. 5.
-Come on. -ANGELA: Sarah is a badass.
She has been an MMA fighter,
she runs, like, ultramarathons.
I am very intimidated by her.
-SHAN: 8... -DANNY: Times 2.
-16. -DANNY: 16.
-DANNY: We gonna conquer some fear today. -SHAN: I'm scared.
-Fear will get conquered. -I'm scared.
Kiki, my wife, had one piece of advice.
"Come back. Don't die."
If I die, she's gonna kill me again. (chuckles)
-Hey, you got it! You got it! -Let's go, Danny! Let's go, Shan!
-CASHEL: Y'all got it! -SARAH: Can't see this number.
ENZO: 430 times 6?
SARAH: Wait, the last number...
DANNY: 36, 36...
SARAH: This is our last one. This is our only go.
130 times 2...
(grunts) All right, go. What'd you get?
-DANNY: 360. -All right.
-(air horn blows) -Yes!
Wow. That was so fast.
-Yeah! -DANNY: It's really, really surprising,
'cause I was not confident in this partnership,
But if I ever hear the Shanthem,
then I know that-that I need to watch my back.
Check.
-That is correct, good job. -(air horn blows)
-(applause) -Man.
-Holy shit. -TJ: Very impressive.
TJ: Last but not least, round seven.
-Here we go! -(air horn blows)
Come on, you got it. We got it.
-Let's go. Oh, we're good, we're good. Come on Let's go. -Here we go.
-DESI: All right, 180, 180. -Minus 30.
DESI: 150, sorry.
-TASHA: 350, 350. -XAVIER: 300, 300,
-3-3 times 2 is 600. -TASHA: 600.
55, 70. H-Hold up. Here we go.
Be 4 divided by 8.
-8, so we're at 80. -DESI: 80, okay.
-80 plus 30, 120. -120.
-TASHA: Times 5. -XAVIER: That's 115, and that's 5, by 75.
-XAVIER: 220. -TASHA: 220.
XAVIER: Come on, come on, come on. Hey.
-(cheering, applause) -TJ: Go, go, go, go.
Get it, get it, get it.
-Check. Ready? Check! -Check! -Good.
-CINCO: Shit! Let's fucking go. -TJ: So fast.
-Great job. -CINCO: Let's fucking go!
-XAVIER: 575. -Correct. Good job.
(cheering, applause)
TASHA: Good job, good job, good job.
I was like, "That's intimidation!"
Appreciate it, boy.
♪ ♪
TJ: That is how you start a Challenge.
-Wow. -(cheering, applause)
Let's go.
My expectations were here.
-(laughter) -LEO: Oh, come on, man!
I'm at a loss for words, 'cause even Kyland and Azah,
you guys had to go twice, but you still killed it.
-I mean... -(cheering, applause)
Obviously, you got last place today,
so that sends you into the elimination round.
But don't get your heads down, because that was amazing.
Three teams were separated by 17 seconds.
Wow.
Danny and Shan.
(cheering, applause)
Tyson and Angela.
(cheering, applause)
And Desi and Cinco.
(cheering, applause)
But the one team to get it done the fastest...
-...Angela and Tyson. -Yeah! -(cheering, applause)
DANNY: I'm trying to hide the look of disappointment
on my face, but if it has to be anybody,
as long as it's a Survivor player
in the winning, uh, chair, I'm okay with that.
Angela, Tyson, you two
are the only ones safe from elimination.
You will also be receiving $10,000.
-(cheering, applause) -And the money.
5,000 bucks each right in your personal Challenge accounts.
That also qualifies you to run my final.
And as the winning team,
you will have a huge decision to make.
You are gonna go back to the house,
you're gonna deliberate and decide which team
you want to send into the Arena
to go against Azah and Kyland.
I'll see you very soon.
Tyson and Angela, I'll be getting
who is going into the Arena
at the elimination round.
-Got it? -DEREK: Ooh, my God.
TJ: All right. Get out of here.
-See you soon. -(applause)
(cheering, applause)
TYSON: I feel great winning the first challenge.
I think it sets the tone.
And I have Angela,
the strongest female, on my side.
We already have enough Challenge bucks
to get to the final,
and in my mind, I'm like,
"Now all I have to do is survive."
Survive?
DANNY: Challenge one, let's move.
All right, so, Tyson and Angela just won,
so that's one Big Brother side, that one from Survivor side.
So we know it's gonna be hard for them
to likely touch either of those.
And we're all teamed up with the Survivors.
We're all teamed up, so they're likely gonna be looking
at Amazing Race and Love Island.
Um, there's only-- the only duo I can think of
that has both would be James and Shannon.
Shannon's been talking about
how, like, she doesn't really care to be here.
ALYSSA: She has been saying that.
It's just not really smart
for Tyson and Angela to go after people on their same show.
It's too soon to ruffle any feathers.
And although I don't trust Kyland and Azah,
I really don't want them to leave this soon.
It's better for Big Brother in general.
It's numbers that are on my side,
but at some point, I'm gonna want them out of this game.
(laughs softly) Is that bad?
I like this side.
♪ ♪
KYLAND: Ooh!
That's dope.
So, how are you guys feeling?
I feel okay. Um...
We both want to respect whatever wishes that you have,
um, but we would love to, you know,
have a fighting chance, and we would love
if our thoughts would be considered as well.
Okay, that being said, let's look at these groups here.
We have Kyra and Cashel.
No Big Brother, no Survivor there.
Cely and Javonny.
Welcome to my crib.
BOTH: And Shannon and James.
Which one, just you, out of those three,
would you prefer?
It's a toss-up between, um,
Cely and Javonny and Shannon and James for me.
Okay.
I would probably lean towards James and Shannon.
ANGELA: Shannon, I don't want to speak for her,
but I have heard some things that...
I would go to the point of saying
that there's people that want to be here more than her.
Okay.
Shannon supposedly doesn't want to be here.
I don't even care if that's true or not.
Secretly, I don't give a flying fuck, dude.
Get 'em all out of here.
That is also a factor.
It's like, somebody who doesn't want to be here
probably won't fight as hard.
But James is also a part of
the smallest other alliance...
-AZAH: Yes. Amazing Race, yeah. -...Amazing Race.
That's the least blood on our hands...
...in the situation that Kyland
isn't able to eliminate James.
KYLAND: I didn't come here just to make it past this first challenge.
I came here to win it all.
I've been working out my body
harder than I've ever worked out,
so I feel incredibly confident
that I'll be returning into the game.
I think we have everything we need.
-I'm ride or die with you. -Me, too.
-Like, for reals. -All the way to the end.
All the way to the end.
ANGELA: Tyson is the strongest in this house.
He is super athletic, he was an ultramarathon runner,
a college swimmer, he's smart.
I definitely think I can trust him.
I just feel like we get each other.
And I think that he's just gonna be a good one to work with.
Perfect.
-Yeah! -(whooping)
♪ ♪
TASHA: On the island,
there were no parties.
There were no adult beverages.
But here we are on The Challenge,
and this game is different, and I'm loving
every minute of it.
We about to get lit!
CASHEL: Let's go!
(cheering, applause)
Let's go!
That's the other biggest group.
CELY: Me and Javonny, we didn't do too good
to where, like, we're a threat.
The only thing that I think might get us
is the fact that we're both from Love Island,
and clearly, people are threatened
from Love Island and, like,
they want to be us so bad. (laughs)
But honestly?
I think we're okay.
And then, obviously, we're so close,
-and, like, I would have... -We're so tight.
-I know. -And they're gonna want to break that up.
Cannot beat a Big Brother team today.
Kyra, let's go, baby!
-Cheers. -Cheers, girlie-boss.
SHANNON: I'm ready to shake my ass at the bar.
We need to make some friends and we need to show these people
that we have what it takes to be in the game.
(cheering)
DANNY: Love Island
having a blast.
Just dancing around the club,
having a good time.
I think they're gonna be in for a hard lesson.
Hey!
Honestly, if it was me,
I'm gonna use this opportunity to put the best competitors in
to either take them out or maybe Kyland
and Azah get lucky and take out the best opponents.
Then, on the flip side,
something like Shannon and I...
Hey!
...if we were to go, it's not gonna ruffle any feathers
with anybody else in the house.
How do you protect Shannon in that situation?
It will have to make sense for Tyson.
He's won a million dollars on Survivor.
He's playing a long game.
JAMES: You have Tyson from Survivor,
you also have Angela from Big Brother.
And it started to click that
I happened to be a partnership of an Amazing Racer
and a Love Islander.
Now I'm gonna have to figure out a way
to use my knowledge of The Challenge
and levering the relationships that I have
and playing the game to make sure that Shannon and I
do not see elimination.
♪ ♪
TIFFANY: So, everybody has really been, like,
pretty cool with each other.
ANGELA: I feel like the Love Island girls I have, like,
-the least relationships with. -Mm-hmm.
TIFFANY: I like her as a person,
but, to me, she's very emotional.
I have always been very tricky or crafty,
and I don't want to see anyone from Big Brother go home.
I am going to do my best
to make sure that someone is in
this elimination that Kyland and Azah can beat.
I just want to mentally prepare you.
-I really think we're going into elimination. -SHANNON: Why?
-What did you hear? -People keep asking me,
"Does Shannon want to quit?"
-I changed my attitude. Like, I changed... -Totally.
-I said that. -I'm making this into a positive experience.
Yes, and I think people are using that
-as a reason... -I thought people already saw that.
...to throw us into elimination.
I am super competitive.
I mean, I won The Amazing Race.
But I wasn't always the most competitive person.
I think, growing up, because I was an effeminate gay man,
I was very underestimated,
but when I started to step into my power
and really accept who I was,
I found a new competitive streak in me.
Because my knowledge of reality TV,
I know how all these people operate.
And that's gonna help me do what I came here to do:
divide and infiltrate.
I don't want you to stress about it right now,
because I'm gonna try to do what I can
to make sure we don't.
I think people are underestimating us.
-Mm-hmm. -Because we're cute and we walk around,
-but they don't know us. -Mm-mm.
♪ ♪
DESI: What made me want to participate in The Challenge
is that you can win your way back in
by doing something physical and proving yourself,
and that's something that no other game has.
So we're just really eager to see where everybody stands.
'Cause these are, like, big, big players in this game,
so anything could happen.
♪ ♪
TJ: All right, everyone,
welcome to the Arena.
(cheering, applause)
The Arena is where all of the elimination rounds
are gonna be taking place
on this season of The Challenge: USA.
First, we got to get some players,
so we're gonna start it off
with the losing team from the last challenge.
Azah and Kyland, come on out.
(cheering, applause)
AZAH: I'm playing for myself.
I want to take myself to the final
to prove that I can do it, that it's not about
the strongest or the fastest, it's about you having
that heart and that determination to get ahead.
$500,000 would be absolutely great,
but achieving a goal
that I have set in mind for myself
is worth more than any money.
TJ: On the other side,
we have Tyson and Angela.
By winning the last challenge,
you not only split $10,000 in your Challenge accounts,
but you were also tasked with choosing one team
to send into the Arena to go against
the losing team from the last challenge.
So, Angela, we'll start with you.
TJ: Tyson and Angela.
Which team are you sending into the Arena
to go against Azah and Kyland?
Cely and Javonny.
-Tyson? -TYSON: I agree with my partner.
Cely and Javonny.
JAVONNY: What the hell?
There's some left field shit.
JAMES: After my talk with Shannon,
we were both working the system.
Shannon with me makes her a strong force.
I really think Shannon can beat Azah,
and I don't know if you want to talk to Azah about that.
It's survival mode at this point.
I want to be here. I want to play the game.
I'll just keep whispering in their ear a little bit.
Yeah. I feel like Angela listens to you.
I feel like she does, too.
Tyson has definitely evolved through the years
when I watched him on Survivor,
but if there's anything that has remained the same,
it's that he's always going to think,
"What is going to help me
get to the end?"
And, hopefully, I can be an asset to his game.
SHANNON: This is not Love Island,
and my problem was people saw me weak.
I had to mentally
snap myself right out of that
and tell myself, "You deserve to be here."
I might complain, but when it comes down to it,
I'm in it, and I'm in it to win it.
I'm gonna fight and try and stay in as long as I can.
TJ: Cely, Javonny, come on down.
-Come on, Cely. -(applause)
CELY: I'm like, "Why?
Why would you do this to me?"
I'm immediately shaking in my boots.
TYSON: You're welcome, James.
You owe me big-time.
Tonight, you are playing Knot So Fast.
As you can see, there are two giant pyramids in the Arena.
There's also 250 feet of rope for each team.
I'm gonna strap one side of that rope to your back.
When I say go, you are gonna climb in, out and around
that pyramid, making it as hard as you can to unravel,
because after 20 minutes, you're gonna trade places
and then undo what your opponent just did.
First team to completely unravel their rope
and put it in the circle
will win tonight's elimination round, stay in the game.
Loser goes home. Got it?
-Got it. -Good luck.
I think the biggest thing is focus and peace.
I don't want to be frazzled.
I don't want to be caught off guard.
JAVONNY: Yeah! I'm ready to go, yeah!
-Let's go! -Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
JAVONNY: Let's go! Hey! Hey!
-(chuckles) -Hey, I'm talking to you, hey!
Hey, let's go! Yeah, let's go!
You know, I'd rather save my energy for the game
-and not before. -Yeah, we don't pass out
on 22 stories and steps.
Yeah, we ready to go.
We'll let the victory be loud for us.
TJ: And one more thing, guys,
whoever wins this...
...wins their opponents' entire Challenge account.
Loser goes home empty-handed.
Ready?
-Go. -(air horn blows)
Come on, Azah.
Don't stop.
-Come in. You good? -Mm-hmm.
KYLAND: I'm pulling the slack.
And you pull there, you pull there.
Okay. All right.
-(applause) -Let's go, guys!
CELY: Pull that, pull that, pull all that.
Come on, Javonny.
CASHAY: Help him out, help him out.
Oh-- Help him out.
(grunts) Come on. Climb under.
Come on, Javonny. Pull it.
The end of the day, it is an opportunity
to show people not to mess with Love Island,
because we got a whole lot to offer,
and if you throw us in elimination rounds,
we will be coming back.
(both grunting)
KYLAND: Az, you're pulling me back.
-AZAH: I'm pulling it, but... -Then there's no--
I didn't realize you were getting caught.
-Just let me know. -AZAH: Okay.
Me and Kyland have a bit of an interesting history.
We were both in the same Big Brother alliance,
but we kind of couldn't really stand each other in the house.
-Switch with me? -Okay.
-Oh, wait, we can't. -I can't switch.
No worries, you're good.
But we're partners.
This isn't just me. This is Kyland.
Kyland's been training for this for months.
I have to dig super deep in order to get this win.
KYLAND: Stand up-- Use your legs. There we go.
Keep moving, keep moving!
Rope through there. I'll follow you.
-(grunts) -Oh.
CASHAY: Yes, yes,
yes, yes.
Keep going, Cel.
CELY: Pull it tight.
-Under, under, Javonny. -JAVONNY: This way, this way.
CASHAY: Yes! Get low, get low.
You can hop over and start pulling it into here.
TIFFANY: He should be doing this
and she should be doing that.
Kyland and I have a very special bond.
He gets me, I get him.
I don't think anyone has my back in here
like he would, so I need him here.
-I'm stuck. -Okay, thank you.
(grunts)
CELY: Come on, Javonny.
Power through.
Let's go.
Come on, this is what we've been training for.
All this, let's just start knotting it.
Come on. Go, go, go, just to start doing this.
(cheering, applause)
KYLAND: Keep going, Azah. You're doing great.
Azah, wait, don't fall.
Azah, ready? Azah.
Push, push.
CELY: All this extra, let's just knot it.
-Go under that, go under that. -Push through.
Now go this way.
DEREK: They might need to cut that rope. Shit.
-(chuckles): I know, right? -Like, get a chain saw.
(whooping)
-CELY: Come on, Javonny. -ALYSSA: Work together, work together.
CELY: It's anybody's game, let's go under this. Let's go.
KYLAND: I'm giving them another hard-ass knot.
You got to keep moving.
-(cheering) -Five!
Put it over your head. Put this over your head.
TJ: Four! Three! Two!
-Time! -(air horn blows)
-(cheering, applause) -Good job, everyone!
Good job, everyone!
All right, let's switch them up.
SHAN: Azah,
you got this, Azah, you've got this.
AZAH: My eyelashes
are completely gone at this point,
but I really, honestly, don't even care.
I didn't come in this challenge to look pretty.
Right now, I need to win.
All right, you ready?
SHANNON: Come on, Javonny!
This is what you came for. Come on!
(cheering, applause)
-Go! -(air horn blows)
SHANNON: You got it, come on!
Let's go Celybird!
(Javonny grunts)
SHANNON: Here we go.
Yes!
SHAN: Come on, Azah!
Come on, Azah, go under and in and pull!
I can't step inside.
CELY: With all this over that way, either way,
we could still get all the rope over the inside.
-Looking good. -CASHAY: Cely is, like,
barking orders, she's killing it.
Like, she's fighting for her life.
Big Brother wants to rule this whole thing and have,
like, a bunch of Big Brother people in the final, so...
it's important to knock their numbers down.
-Want to go under there, Azah? Go under. -I'm stuck.
-TJ: Both teams struggling. -Oh, my God.
-Get over. Let's go, let's go, let's go. -All right, hold on.
-Pull this over, let's go. -TJ: It's anybody's game.
(shouts)
Azah, I need you to pull again. It's too heavy for me.
Pull that, pull that.
KYLAND: Azah, pull.
-Go. Pull. -(both grunting)
KYLAND: Please, pull. Azah.
-(cheering, applause) -TJ: Both teams struggling.
CELY: Come on, don't stop, don't stop, don't stop.
Come on. Pull that, pull that.
-Pull all that. -(grunts)
Cely got the fire,
she got the heart,
I'm in it to win it.
Keep pulling that rope!
Yeah, Cely.
-(grunting) -Come on!
-It's anyone's game. -KYLAND: Keep going, Azah.
-You're doing great. -SHAN: Come on, Azah, go under and in and pull.
Good job, Azah.
-(grunts) -TJ: Ooh-ooh!
Kyland working overtime.
JUSTINE: I'm super frustrated
with Tyson and Angela.
It is hard to watch.
I can't even get myself to, like, yell anything,
cheer her on, I'm just literally there frozen, like, praying.
I'm literally, like,
talking to God like, "Please, help my good sis."
ALYSSA: You got it. Come on!
Let's go, Az, this is it!
See? Wait, wait, I can untangle this piece now.
-(cheering, applause) -TYSON: Find the loops
-and get under them. There you go. -ANGELA: Nice.
CELY: If we can get ev-- all of it into the middle.
CASHAY: Cely, you guys are still in it. Keep going!
-Okay, wait, wait. One, two, three. -Okay.
Javonny, if we literally just... Let's go, let's go.
Go to the circle and start pulling that rope.
KYLAND: Okay, Azah, let's just jump.
-Come with me. -(cheering, applause)
They need to start pulling, pulling that rope.
-KYLAND: Don't stop. -AZAH: I'm not stopping.
Keep going, Azah.
SHANNON: You got it.
Come on! Pull!
-Check. -(air horn blows)
Wow.
(cheering, applause)
(panting)
Damn.
Sucks to lose and it sucks to suck.
It sucks. A lot.
-Good job, good job. -And I told you... Sorry, I'm drooling on you.
It's okay.
-(whooping) -Yes! Yes!
KYLAND: First winners of first elimination, 1-0 record.
Let's go!
AZAH: Hey, Mama, hey, Mama!
-I won my first challenge! -Hey!
-Great game, everyone. -(cheering, applause)
Good job, guys.
Unfortunately, Javonny, Cely,
you lost tonight's elimination round,
so this ends your time here on The Challenge.
Take care of yourselves.
-Thank you. I love you guys! -Bye, guys.
Even though I'm the first one out,
like, I think I definitely surprised myself
and proved that, like, I'm a fighter.
I definitely would want to come back
and be a little bit more strategic next time.
(cheering, applause)
JAVONNY: It sucks, man.
We fought hard, we give everything we got,
and... I'm still cracking jokes.
Still being who I am.
It don't change nobody, baby.
KYLAND: You guys are awesome.
(wolf whistling)
Obviously don't want to see my best friend go home.
Um, that's my number one in here.
The only person I really trust,
and playing this game without her like this
is gonna be really, really hard.
Tyson and Angela,
I'm feeling a little vengeful.
Azah, Kyland, kept quiet until it counted.
Congratulations to both of you.
Incredible job. Go ahead and rejoin the group.
You are still in the game and you know what?
You each have an extra thousand dollars
that you took from your opponents.
Congratulations.
(cheering, applause)
Great job.
Now... I have one more thing to show you.
(contestants murmuring)
TIFFANY: I don't know what TJ has up his sleeve,
and TJ thinks that everything's funny,
and nothing that TJ thinks is funny is funny to me.
(laughs)
KYLAND: Oh, TJ,
what you doing to us?
I'm not sure to be excited or scared.
DANNY: My heart drops.
I really don't like twists, so I'm super nervous.
DEREK: About to open this door?
The anticipation.
-What? No. -(all oohing) -What the fuck?
-TASHA: Is it gonna do it at random? -BEN: Yeah.
TASHA: It's gonna do it at random?
The Algorithm is a program
to randomly select your new teammates...
...every elimination...
...so that you never have the same teammate twice,
till it's not possible anymore,
and then you will never have the same teammate
twice in a row.
Holy crap.
-It's been fun. -It was a good run.
It sucks that I have to leave Angela.
We were looking forward to continuing
the partnership and just steamrolling our way
to the end, which, now it's all by chance.
XAVIER: Aw, damn. Aw, damn.
Now you can't just use your numbers
to steamroll the competition.
Now, you have to try to navigate
a twist that could essentially put
anybody in jeopardy
on any given challenge, in any given week.
Yeah, this-this game just got a lot harder.
The Algorithm is cute and all, but I love to be in control
of my own fate, and who knows what that thing
has in store for us?
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