Behind the Screen: The Challenge: Free Agents - Cara Maria Sorbello

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Don't Abram & your horses miss you, Cara...

— dylan76

I can see her riding Laurel's coat tails all the way to the finals. At least she finally won't be this victim she's always potrayed as each season...

— timster3

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Discussion thread about The Challenge: Free Agents - Cara Maria Sorbello with 30 replies from the Vevmo community.

The Challenge: Free Agents - Cara Maria Sorbello

Youssarian ·
User image After three runner-up finishes, Cara Maria is ready to stop being an underdog and take her rightful place as a legitimate threat to win. Cara Maria arrives in Uruguay in the best shape of her life, but believes her mental outlook is keeping her from taking first place. She elaborates, "I know physically I can do anything, but mentally I second-guess myself. It's almost like I'm afraid to win." Pegged as an oddball, Cara Maria yearns to break free of the social awkwardness that has plagued her in the past. Is Free Agents finally Cara Maria's time to shine? Or will her unlucky streak continue?
30 Comments
dylan76#2
Really, again? Don't Abram & your horses miss you, Cara?
timster3#3
I can see her riding Laurel's coat tails all the way to the finals. At least she finally won't be this victim she's always potrayed as each season. No more teaming up on Ms. Cara!
toenails#4
Are she and Abram still together?
Debut Album#5
dylan76;398799 wrote:
Really, again? Don't Abram & your horses miss you, Cara?
For real. she's tolerable, But It's getting to the point where I'm just tired of seeing her.
challenge13#6
Never was a big fan until Rivals 2 when she was Cooke's partner. I think up until now that was her best performance and her standout besides her swimming lol
kaitbearrr#7
toenails;398884 wrote:
Are she and Abram still together?
Yes. She just moved to Montana this week to be with him.
Meelz#8
On the bright side of things, the physical maturation of Cara Maria is pretty cool -- especially since she took on Crossfit. All she needs is the confidence and she could mow over a lot of these girls, especially on this Season. Behind Laurel, (and maybe Camila) she's the strongest competitor on this cast.
Dash_Vegas#9
What the hell is this girl's Elimination record now??
auldx#10
Dash_Vegas!;407851 wrote:
What the hell is this girl's Elimination record now??
8-3
Leafie#11
Way to go Cara Maria! If Cara gets pulled for captain again, she needs to pick a better team so she can avoid the draw. She's 2/2 in the draw when she picks her team?
mark3210#12
2 big wins for Cara Maria! By the way, did anyone notice in the last episode that because they started with 11 guys and 11 girls, Cara's team was guaranteed to have 6 girls while Banana's team would get 6 guys? Bit of an imbalance there. Since people are asking about it, I noticed Cara says they "draw names" to decide the order of the draw (who goes first, second, etc). Not sure if we should call that a "pre-draw" or what!
auldx#13
I was wondering how they chose the order!
mark3210#14
Cara said she knew she'd be picking 4th prior to the evening's elimination (it was in her diary entry) so I'm thinking maybe the "pre-draw" of names takes place right after the nominations. Of course if the kill card is placed randomly (and I bet it is although that's never been addressed) then the kill card will be chosen randomly no matter the order they select. Although people still may want to control or not control their own fate. One thing I calculated: So far thru 4 episodes, 6 girls of 14 went into the first draw, 4 of 13 into the second, 4 of 12 into the third, and 5 of 11 into the fourth. If the girls were selected into the draw randomly each time (I know that's not the case since Cara has been on losing teams and never voted into elimination), Cara's chance of being in all 4 draws so far is only 2%!
TheCloser#15
Cara Maria is terrible making decisions! She can't pick a good team and she always picks the kill card smh...
EstimatedRoa#16
TheCloser;408582 wrote:
Cara Maria is terrible making decisions! She can't pick a good team and she always picks the kill card smh...
I think she had a disadvantage in the Bar Crawl mission. Even though she had first pick in CT, that team had to go first which is a pretty bad disadvantage. In the Bounce Out mission, she picked Zach first. I'm not sure if he's the one who did the drafting after that or if he was the one to select the team/ball combinations (as it showed on tv), but yeah if it was Cara selecting her team, she messed up. Isaac over Jordan confuses me. Maybe they wanted the biggest players, but I think Jordan or Leroy would make a better ball than Isaac. Hindsight I guess.
stuufman#17
TheCloser;408582 wrote:
Cara Maria is terrible making decisions! She can't pick a good team and she always picks the kill card smh...
It's not the team, it's the strategy they have, they have disadvantage in the bar crawl mission because they were first, I don't blame Cara on that one. But on the last challenge it was clearly Zach who made the decision on who was the ball and who was going on each round, I agree Cara could have switch one or two names when she was picking the team but overall I think they had a chance on winning,I blame zach on loosing that mission.
icubaby#18
I literally came back from the dead just so I could comment on how attracted I am to cara marie lately. Her body is incredible and she seems to have so much energy and spirit. I feel like we've really seen her grow up on the past few challenges. Now, how do I find myself a Cara?
toenails#19
She is definitely one of the hottest girls on the Challenge.
Debut Album#20
I'm really hoping she gets eliminated.
Fresh Meat#21
Debut Album;408991 wrote:
I'm really hoping she gets eliminated.
Why? Weren't you rooting for her last season?
Debut Album#22
Fresh Meat;408993 wrote:
Why? Weren't you rooting for her last season?
I was rooting for Cooke moreso than her.
nevidcm#23
I didn't like her on Rivals 2, but she's been enjoyable this season. I love the little dances she makes when she is safe from the Draw.
Desertpuma#24
nevidcm;409007 wrote:
I didn't like her on Rivals 2, but she's been enjoyable this season. I love the little dances she makes when she is safe from the Draw.
I enjoy her little goofy dances she makes whenever. Her youtube channel has some on it too.
nevidcm#25
Desertpuma;409271 wrote:
I enjoy her little goofy dances she makes whenever. Her youtube channel has some on it too.
Did you watch the video where she is imitating some people of the challenges. That was hilarious
Desertpuma#26
nevidcm;409288 wrote:
Did you watch the video where she is imitating some people of the challenges. That was hilarious
Yep! "Bacon!" (her imitation of Emily)
WESANDNANYFAN#27
nevidcm;409288 wrote:
Did you watch the video where she is imitating some people of the challenges. That was hilarious
She did Jemmye dead on "Kniiighhttt"
nevidcm#28
JEKFAN;409292 wrote:
She did Jemmye dead on "Kniiighhttt"
She nailed Jemmye, Camila, Sarah and Paula when she was saying "SHUT UP". Her impersonation of Mandi was hilarious.
PlatosCave#29
Yes, Cara's impersonations were dead-on in many cases. She'd got real talent. Also, in terms of timing I believe she did these after Seasons/Exes shows, and here's a link to her youtube video for those who missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eiabf4rxWc
anon4981298798#30
nevidcm;409300 wrote:
She nailed Jemmye, Camila, Sarah and Paula when she was saying "SHUT UP". Her impersonation of Mandi was hilarious.
I forgot about the Mandi one! I'm going to have to go rewatch that video now!
Youssarian#31
Her impersonation of Jemmye had me CRACKING up! Spot on!

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