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Thursday, November 16, 2023

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

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