The Challenge Recap: A Double Elimination Brings a Red Skull Scuffle

News24xx.com - As The Challenge‘s finale rapidly approaches, the remaining contestants can smell the million dollars like blood in the water. So in this week’s episode, it’s the perfect time for TJ to make everybody sweat with another double elimination!

It’s crunch time on Total Madness, and those without a red skull are starting to trip. (Josh, Kyle and Bayleigh are the only ones who haven’t punched their tickets to the final yet.) With the ultimate challenge looming, Josh, Bananas and Kyle are worried about running it with Aneesa. “I think her best days are behind her and I do not want to be paired with her in a final,” says Kyle. “I’ll take a terrible human being as long as she can run.” Nelson calls it “disrespectful” in a confessional. They want to compete with someone who has experience, and Aneesa has it, he says.

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Aneesa tells us she’s been on 12 Challenges, and she’s come up short every time. She’s even made it to the day before a final several times. “Hopefully this season will be different for me,” she says. “Don’t underestimate me because I haven’t won yet. I will push through.”

At 1 in the morning, the sirens in the bunker start flaring. Time to suit up for TJ and head off to an overnight challenge, where players must lift heavy objects and put them in their enemies’ barrels. At the end, the top male and female to lift up their barrels the longest will win and form the Tribunal. Since it’s a double elimination, one male and one female will be going home.

Per the rules, Kyle, Nelson and Aneesa don’t make it back to their bins in time for Round 2, so they’re eliminated. Fessy and Cory promise Josh that he’ll “be in,” but then Fessy promises Corey the same. The communication is so bad here: Fessy says he promised Josh he’ll toss him into elimination, not the Tribunal, which irritates Josh. Jenny and Fessy win the challenge, and though Jenny owes Corey a solid, she ultimately chooses Josh to complete the Tribunal. (Cue the clips where Corey helped Jenny a trillion times.) The man’s got a point! That was a pretty shady move by the Brit.

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