Behind the Screen: The Challenge: Vets & New Threats - At Least Someone's

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Izzy completely fell apart this season. I would like to see her get another chance though...

— Sportsman180

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Sportsman180 ·

Izzy completely fell apart this season. I would like to see her get another chance though.

Tay is a complete non-entity outside of the eliminations.

I'm super disappointed with the rookie alliance falling apart, even though none of them working together actually seemingly benefits them lol.

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Sportsman180#92

Izzy completely fell apart this season. I would like to see her get another chance though.

Tay is a complete non-entity outside of the eliminations.

I'm super disappointed with the rookie alliance falling apart, even though none of them working together actually seemingly benefits them lol.

Sportsman180#93

Olivia and Theo burning their vote with Izzy's life in the game on the line is a next level of dumb. I didn't understand that at all...

OS Kajun#94

Olivia and Theo burning their vote with Izzy's life in the game on the line is a next level of dumb. I didn't understand that at all...

Who did you want them to vote?

OS Kajun#95

Izzy completely fell apart this season. I would like to see her get another chance though.

Tay is a complete non-entity outside of the eliminations.

I'm super disappointed with the rookie alliance falling apart, even though none of them working together actually seemingly benefits them lol.

I think Izzy had a solid rookie season and I think would have a strong return. 

Sportsman180#96

Olivia and Theo burning their vote with Izzy's life in the game on the line is a next level of dumb. I didn't understand that at all...

Who did you want them to vote?

Jonna? She's not working this them. And even if she is, Izzy is bringing way more value to their alliance.

Or Dee? Dee makes even more sense.

OS Kajun#97
Jonna? She's not working this them. And even if she is, Izzy is bringing way more value to their alliance.

They were never going to vote Jonna because of the connection she has with Derek.

Sportsman180#98

Jonna? She's not working this them. And even if she is, Izzy is bringing way more value to their alliance.

They were never going to vote Jonna because of the connection she has with Derek.

Not saving your minion that's feeding you all of the other side's information is very silly to me.

Sportsman180#99

I'm utterly sick of pairs format. Like I'm not even saying it's bad for this particular cast, but I'm just done with skittish burn votes and so many moving pieces that everyone just takes the safest options.

Give me two or three teams...

OS Kajun#100
Not saving your minion that's feeding you all of the other side's information is very silly to me.

Reporting info to an ally isn't a minion. If she was feeding info to Michaela she would be praised for lol. She came in with no connections and had to build relationships and she was part of a solid alliance. She needed Olivia, Olivia needed her. Y'all did the same thing with Rachel & Aviv when they had the power in that alliance.

Derek is real life best friends with Olivia and has been best friends with Jonna for like 15 years pre-Real World. Jonna has probably also built a friendship with Olivia. Voting Jonna over someone she was still getting to know would have made no sense.

OS Kajun#101

I'm utterly sick of pairs format. Like I'm not even saying it's bad for this particular cast, but I'm just done with skittish burn votes and so many moving pieces that everyone just takes the safest options.

Give me two or three teams...

Agree here. Give us a teams format that is fair AKA sitting people out.

Sportsman180#102

Not saving your minion that's feeding you all of the other side's information is very silly to me.

Reporting info to an ally isn't a minion. If she was feeding info to Michaela she would be praised for lol. She came in with no connections and had to build relationships and she was part of a solid alliance. She needed Olivia, Olivia needed her. Y'all did the same thing with Rachel & Aviv when they had the power in that alliance.

Derek is real life best friends with Olivia and has been best friends with Jonna for like 15 years pre-Real World. Jonna has probably also built a friendship with Olivia. Voting Jonna over someone she was still getting to know would have made no sense.

Maybe there is a valid argument to save Jonna.

They absolutely should've gotten 4-5 votes together for Dee or Sydney then.

OS Kajun#103

I'm so proud of Cedric for proving the haters wrong and having the 2nd most points for the guys! Also, I'm shocked Dee is so low!

entrepreneur#104

I'm so proud of Cedric for proving the haters wrong and having the 2nd most points for the guys! Also, I'm shocked Dee is so low!

around this time in the season, only you knew Cedric was there handling business.

killakashhh#105

Turbo ate that human Derek up! Smile

kvm1977#106

Olivia and Theo burning their vote with Izzy's life in the game on the line is a next level of dumb. I didn't understand that at all...

Who did you want them to vote?

Jonna? She's not working this them. And even if she is, Izzy is bringing way more value to their alliance.

Or Dee? Dee makes even more sense.

Jonna?  She's in their alliance because of Derek  lol

CosmicDiva#107

I've lost interest in this season already tbh.

Sportsman180#108

I've lost interest in this season already tbh.

Format's ALWAYS fall apart after 6 to 8 episodes. It's gotten stale already.

Shoutout to the dummy editors for showing the points board showing Izzy eliminated BEFORE her elimination!!!

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killakashhh#109
Oooo 
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Sportsman180#110

I've come to the conclusion that I favor a double, single, single, double, single, single, double, etc. format of eliminations. Or something of that variety. Entering Episode 8, there's still 25 people remaining, it's still too many people for this format and it's devolving again into "when in doubt throw in rookies vs the rookies". If they did the above format, we'd be down to 22 already. 

I don't hate getting to know everyone with the extra time, but the single eliminations turn into such a SLOG. The game simply moves too slow.

Even better, there should've been kill cards/swords in the arena. One is women's elimination, one is men's elimination, one is DOUBLE. After a male or female elimination, you add an extra card of the opposite gender to make it a 3/4 chance they are playing.

All of a sudden, NO ONE wants to get voted in under ANY circumstances and the strategy and political game would've flew into overdrive.

Hauserman#111
Oooo 
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What's this in regards to

Hauserman#112

I missed the episode, I was busy trolling the maga's over the news. Was the episode any good?

Sportsman180#113

I missed the episode, I was busy trolling the maga's over the news. Was the episode any good?

Not really. I would say probably the worst of the season. It felt very first half of Spies, Lies, and Allies where "Hey, let's thrown in rookies!" became the primary way of thinking.

Hauserman#114

Keeping up with tv shows is so hard man, by the time I'm done with work I got school and I just wanna use my free time to nap. I be forgetting to tune in looool. I swear this wasn't this difficult when we didn't have to adult

OS Kajun#115

I didn't think it was awful. Just not tons of action.

Sportsman180#116

The points system and leaderboard needs to stay. It's super relevant information and clearly determines who's doing well and who isn't.

In fact, the bottom two men and women should face elimination at some point in the season as a twist.

Challenge 17#117

Another good unique elimination.  They've been great this season. So im fully expecting a janky one coming 

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