re: The Challenge s39 - battle for a new champion

Yeah, with only 10 people left, you have to wonder about trying to win the whole thing.

There is simply no way that James, Moriah, Colleen, or Olivia can win. I don’t think Nurys can, either.

So if I win, it would be moronic to not get Jay and Emmanuel in the elimination, especially if it’s only 1 of 3 who come out.

Berna is mentally a flake so I don’t see how she can win a whole challenge either.

Michelle may honestly be the 3rd or 4th most likely person to win, but this episode has almost wrapped it up for Jay or Emmanuel.

I know Jay realizes this, and I’m curious if he throws Emmanuel to the wolves if he wins or one of his closest friends wins.

His problem is that his stupid gigantic alliance is so large that it would take real effort to keep Emmanuel out.

They basically need to turn on Berna because she will always pick him and isn’t a snake like Olivia. Which means they need to turn on Colleen because she will always pick Berna.

James will do as he is told.
Nurys is the one person outside the alliance.

It needs to be something like Jay-Michelle-Corey-Olivia-Moriah-James and you have
be firm with James that he has to pick a woman (Colleen would be the easiest because she doesn’t start shite but she may also have the best puzzle skills).

This leaves out Colleen, Nurys, Berna, and Emmanuel.

Then you’re hoping for something puzzle based with nothing has tough as the wall climb Zara had to do because otherwise Emmanuel will coast.

lets see the fallout

He is such a bitch. I think he is technically correct but both he and Nurys have done a bit of backstabbing so he comes off as a hypocrite (and of course, Colleen also would have voted him out if she had more courage).

Emmanuel saving Jay was interesting. Certainly not a strategic choice and could be his biggest adversary in the final.

With how good Nurys is at puzzles though, she could be the favorite, especially factoring in how puzzle-dominant this season is.

Berna is such a loser and wants to be liked she was too dumb to see it would have been much smarter to have an all girls final for her

Jay saw nurys come back and decided she was a big threat so he just hid behind believing what Colleen and berna told him as fact so he could toss her in. He’d be more likable if he embraced being a manipulator instead of always trying to pretend he’s playing a straight up game

Last episode still stings, but at least Michelle went home. And the best part is it's because she sucks and not some social thing. She played a great season protecting herself and made it really far for someone who sucks at challenges.

This seems tailor made for Berna due to her background (not the first time that's happened). I can't really stand Berna, but I bet she's an absolute freak in the sack.

The all girl final thing is something that the guys should have seen coming from a mile away, but it looks like they didn't.

I don't know who I even like anymore. I guess Emmanuel, Nurys, Colleen, and James are the only ones that I wouldn't really mind winning. And not really even James that much.

Interesting strategy from Nurys to go scorched earth on Jay and claim she wasn't working against him when she was directly working against him and his alliance.

James is so fricking stupid. He's upset and his "back has been against the wall the whole time"? What? Moriah has protected him all season because he refuses to play any social game whatsoever. I like James, but like Horacio he needs to step his social game up if he wants to win. He's a little bit too much of a "I talk shite about how good I am" dude for my taste, but I think he would be more entertaining if he weren't stuck up Moriah's arse all season (though it's hard to blame him, as we saw in that thong lsat night...holy shite).

I really hope Olivia goes home, mainly because I'm just tired of seeing her and hearing her talk. She's such an idiot and plays a very stupid game. I liked her on her previous season with Horacio, but she's unbearable this season.

I would kill this elimination. I'm good at the slide puzzle shite, and the switch one is literally just reading what position the switches need to be in. How is that a puzzle? And the last "puzzle" is a trivia based on this season, which should be fairly easy to remember.

I do love that Olivia can't even finish the first puzzle.

Nurys is beasting these eliminations. She's sent four people home in like two days, and three of them were actually strong competitors.

Now that James is gone I just hope they bring in John Banana in the reunion to talk about shite.

I wish they could set eliminations up somehow to where like you have to send somebody home yourself if you want them out of the game. And there somehow was a choice of elimination and the person who's trying to be sent home (maybe the one voted in?) gets to pick which one to do. I'm just trying to think outside of the box because the eliminations have been sort of shite this entire season after the first few weeks. I don't like the champions coming in and I don't like the three-way ones either. I want head to head shite, with some physical shite thrown in and not just a puzzle race. Just thinking of how they can make it more interesting because this season has been relatively boring and almost scripted because of how the alliance numbers were set.

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Jay saw nurys come back and decided she was a big threat so he just hid behind believing what Colleen and berna told him as fact so he could toss her in. He’d be more likable if he embraced being a manipulator instead of always trying to pretend he’s playing a straight up game

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I think I sort of agree with that. It's the two-faced shite that bugs me a lot about him. And Michelle is the same way. They both talked all season about protecting their people and their alliance, but in actuality they've thrown some of them to the wolves and then put on a happy face to cover their asses.

The problem is people like Berna and Colleen are too stupid to realize that and have continued to vote lock-step with the big alliance even though they are at the bottom of it and were fricked over by the alliance previously. The game could've flipped big time had they been smart and not done that.

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And there somehow was a choice of elimination and the person who's trying to be sent home (maybe the one voted in?) gets to pick which one to do

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Absolutely.

Since they switched it up to this bullshite piggy back voting system, the person not picked should have been able to pick who was going into the elimination with them.

The winner of that particular daily would have immunity, but everyone else would be fair game.

Now that would have been interesting to watch. Seeing the alliances trying to figure out the voting beforehand. Jay would have needed more paper to work out all the scenarios and he wouldn’t have been so quick to go all out after Horacio and Kyland with the threat that they would pick him to join them.

Olivia blaming Aneesa. Girl is cra cra