The Challenge | Season 39 Episode 5 - "Countdown to Chaos"

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Hello people!

Ugh! Unfortunately I'm going to start this one on a bad note because I'm honestly so annoyed with this episode! Seriously, everything that could go wrong went wrong and, even though that made for a really exciting and thrilling episode, at the end of the day, the outcome is what matters the most and the outcome of this episode was just awful!

I don't know about you but, this season, there are a few people that I don't like but there are also a few people that I completely love - and one of those people is Ciarran. Ciarran, Zara and Jay are probably my favourites this season and I was gutted to see two of them do pretty bad and one of them going home. 

I'm just going to take the cat out of the bag (is that how the saying goes?) and say it - yes, Ciarran was sent home. And, to me, the worst part of it all is that he was sent home by Jordan of all people. But honestely, I saw that coming. There were a lot of talk in this episode not only about Ciarran but also about the fact that they suspected (Jay did) that the vets could come into play as mercenaries or something and Ciarran mentioned that he didn't know who Jordan was. Well, I guess, at the end of the day, that beat him the ass. If he knew who Jordan was he would have known about his mental games and would have been more prepared. But the thing is, he was expecting to go against Asaf and then they switched everything with The Draw because yes, The Draw is back. It's actually a lot! This Chaos section introduced a ton of different things and I guess I'm going the other way around and starting with the last things but yes, The Draw is back and, in this case, it's the Champ that does The Draw, and in there are three names - the person voted by the winning pair/team/person, the one voted by the house and someone/something else that we don't know what it is yet (but I'm eager to find out what it is!). In this case Ciarran was the one voted by the house and Asaf was the one voted by the winning pair - and there comes the second thing that annoyed me about this episode - the winning pair was Corey and Ravyn *eye roll*.

As I said, there aren't a lot of people that I don't like in this season but Ravyn is one of those people that I really don't like and I just can't wait for her to go home. Unfortunately, this wasn't it but with this new twist of the Champs, if she ever goes into elimination, I'm sure she'll be sent home. But, as far as the actual daily challenge goes, it was a pretty interesting one, and one that not a lot of people were good at, which was surprising and well, the outcome of it all you already know...

I guess the only things left for me to mention are the fact that, from now on, they don't win any more money and that each week the challenge will play in a different way - this time they were paired together but sometimes they could be put into teams or sometimes it can be an individual challenge so... Chaos. Oh and, not only Jordan sent Ciarran home but also, in doing that, he got 10,000 $ out of their final prize so now they have less tham 300K as their prize, and if they keep loosing eliminations they'll be out of money which make the game more interesting. Now they have to think about sending into elimination strong people in order to keep their prize money. However, that means not sending anyone home and so having more competition. It really is an interesting touch to this game. We'll see how things will play out.

Next episode I'm sure it will be a girls elimination so, as of now, I only want Zara to stay in the game. I would love to see her beat someone like Cara Maria or Laurel but I would rather keep her in the house and her having a better chance at winning this season because let's be honest - someone who's strong deserves to win this season, we can't have a lay up win this season and become a challenge champion, that just doens't sit right. Let's hope someone like Zara or Horacio or even Ed wins this season, someone that you can see has all the atributes of a Challenge Champion.

Anyway, these are my raw thoughts on this episode - thrilling, yes, but so damn annoying! And I'm actually so sad that one of my favourites (if not my favourite) went home... But yeah, let me know what you thought of this episode and what is your opinion on all the new rules to this second part of the gam? Tell me everything in the comments and well, next rant will come a bit later because I'll be travelling so I'm already warning. Okay, I'll talk to you then!

Love,

Daniela

The Challenge | Season 39 Episode 3 & 4 - "It's a Matter of Semantics " & "I'm Coming Out"

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Sorry I took a bit longer but last week two episodes came out and I had to watch them both before posting my thoughts - and that took a bit longer than I thought it would. Anyway so, because I watched the episodes in two seperate occasions, I don't remember very well episode 3 so I might not touch in some things but let's get to it.

Overall, I would say both of these episodes were kind of lackluster. Granted, I saw spoilers for both of them but both eliminations were kind of meh and, most of all, they didn't end the way I wanted - mainly the one in episode 3. However, what did happen was that they won money in both daily challenges! Wow!!!

The challenge in episode 3 was kind of an easy one so I had more hopes of them succeding, but the one in episode 4... Honestly, I really didn't think they would get all the money. Swimming and doing puzzles in 15 minutes?! Seemed impossible... But they did it and I'm happy about that.

What I'm not happy about is with the outcome of episode 3. Ravyn was finally called out for her bullsh*t and she freaking picked Jujuy to go against and honestly I really thought Jujuy could pull this one out but, unfortunately, Ravyn won and we'll have to deal with her another week...

And as far as the elimination in episode 4 goes... The same didn't happen because I wasn't exactly rooting for anyone in particular (Hughie or Kyland) - on one hand I like Kyland more as a person but I would love for Hughie to show them that he's not that weak so I would be happy with either of them winning. Kyland ended up winning which made me sad for Hughie but okay...

What I'm kinda mad about is the fact that Team UK sucks at voting - instead of all of them voting for one person, they burn votes on each other, afraid to piss off someone, and that always ends up with them loosing their numbers over and over again.

Anyway... Next episode Chaos begins and that's when the good stuff will start! I'm really curious to see how these eliminations will go - will they still pick someone? Is that someone who picks which champ to go against? Do they only pick someone after knowing which champ it is? I'm really curious to get the answers to all of these questions! But, it looks like Jordan will be the Champ in the next episode (as far as the guys go) but I didn't catch who the girl was so, we'll see.

And that's it for these two episodes. Let me know your thoughts on both of them and who were you rooting for in both eliminations. I'll talk to you later.

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge | Season 39 Episode 2 - "Two Lungs, One Heart, Can't Lose"

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Episode 2 of Season 39 of The Challenge and... I'm not impressed. This looked like it would be an interesting daily challenge (and it was!) but, spoiler alert, they f*cked it up again.

I guess I'll just jump straight into it and talk about the daily - It was kind of hard, I'll give them that, but with the right strategy I believe they would be able to pull it off.  Unfortunately, too many people wanted to take the ropes and be the leader that it ended just falling apart (literally). The only upside was that, for each ball that they got in, they would get some money so they ended up getting 6.000 dollars more, but not the 50K they would get it they finished the challenge.

Then, after that, came the drama of the nominations/deliberations.

Basically the two guys that didn't do their parts in the daily challenge were Hughie and Chauncey, which, for some reason, they just agreed it would be a guys elimination day. It does make sense after last week, but no one disagreed with that, there wasn't even a conversation about that but okay... 

Anyway... So everyone was split between Hughie and Chauncey and basically there are two teams now . US VS UK - so the US wanted to vote Hughie (sort of) and the UK just didn't. At the same time, the US were the ones to talk about Chauncey and, honestly, it was just a big mess that ended up being even bigger when Chauncey started talking during deliberation. He really did dig a hole for himself and the only thing that "sort of" saved him, was Ravyn putting into the Brits heads that Chauncey could only pick fromt he people who voted him in, which ended up being bullsh*t. It would be a cool twist, but no! So, at the end of the day, Chauncey was indeed the one to go into elimination and he chose to go against James because both him and Ciarran burned their votes.

I gotta say, I was half-half when it comes to who I was rooting for in that elimination. I was sort of rooting for Chauncey just because I think he's a good guy, but I was okay either way (him staying or leaving) and well... In the end James won and Chauncey went home to Amber and his daughter.

This episode was a little lackluster but, there's only 5 days 'till "Chaos" starts (aka the vets come into play) which I would say in about 3 episodes they will appear, and, from the preview, it looks like there will be a big fight and I miss a good argument/fight so I'm excited for that. Oh, and I don't think they'll get the money next week either so... But we'll see.

Let me know what you thought of this episode - of the whole drama, the whole situation with Hughie and Chauncey and do you think they'll get the money next week? Tell me everything and I'll see you in my next rant!

Love,

Daniela.