TJ: Previously on The Challenge USA...
We've written down these names.
...the vets successfully caused chaos amongst the rookies.
Take it to the grave.
DUSTY: You literally come down here saying
you want to work with the vets
and to throw all the balls on Survivor.
TJ: In the challenge, Tiffany proved she could stick in the game.
Tiffany staying strong!
But it was Team Blue, again, who held on the longest.
Blue team, you are the only safe team from elimination.
After just winning an elimination,
Cassidy wasted no time targeting Challenge vet Wes.
I called Wes out. He's already painted a target on my back.
And the Hopper delivered an epic matchup...
Dusty, you're in.
...with Amazing Race's Dusty
versus Wes.
(shouting, clamoring)
37 seconds separated you two.
Wes, you win tonight.
- (all exclaiming) - Oh, my God.
Wes prevailed, proving why he's a veteran,
sending Challenge superfan Dusty home,
eliminating the last Amazing Race competitor...
I'm taking Chris's spot.
...and joined a stacked Blue team.
(chanting "Blue")
And now things are heating up in the house...
Yeah!
...as the vets take over Team Blue.
Can the Survivor players escape the elimination?
Doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
And what will happen when the game changes?
Now?
- Oh, my God! - (shouting, clamoring)
(laughs)
♪ ♪
Hey, Wes!
Our fearless leader.
It is no shock my old nemesis Wes
makes the move to come to Blue.
If a team is going to target you
and throw you into elimination, best way to neutralize
that is by joining them.
- (all chanting "Blue") - (shushing)
- Speech! Speech! - WES: Chill-- chill out.
All I want is to just play a fair game with y'all.
And I don't think
that there's been much of a shake for that.
It's just disappointing because
I've given a lot to this game and I want
to play hard and I want you to give me
a chance because I feel like a lot of you haven't.
Thanks for listening.
Yeah, good job, Bergy!
Wes, he was moping around like somebody
died and now he's telling people
he just wants it to be a fair game.
And I'm like, I know people aren't about to buy this shit.
I think that Wes's speech is actually very endearing.
Maybe some people had some misjudgments of him, so I hope
he goes and fights his heart out like he did tonight.
I'm listening, Wes, but I don't think anyone else is.
Tonight's elimination was so crazy.
Like, I had no idea who was gonna win that.
Now that Wes is on the Blue team,
there are a lot of Challenge veterans
on that team and they have a lot of experience.
I almost want to throw myself
into elimination to defect to Blue.
It would make them mad.
CASSIDY: Well, I guess
this is a ceasefire, huh?
It's a ceasefire.
All right, come here. I am happy to have you
and your experience on the Blue team.
Wes...
I don't trust his intentions.
I don't think that if he had a chance,
he wouldn't take another strike at me.
- That's what I'm here for. - All right, cool.
- Just to shut up and look good. - Good job tonight out there.
Wes has been trying to target Survivor
for a while now.
He targeted me and Chris.
And Survivor is still fully intact.
- Green is good, dude. - BOTH: Green is solid.
- Green is strong. - Green is solid.
And you're fucking... You're a great competitor, so...
Team Green, here we are, guys.
When it comes to Tyler and Monte,
I definitely called out two people
that could be an ally for me in the future.
- And take all you bitches out. - How?
Your days are numbered.
But it's actually kind of a good thing. It helps me
build some relationships with some of the people
who have been coming for me in this game.
I'm coming for you.
- Leave me alone. - (both laughing, clamoring)
Yeah, yeah.
MICHAELA: Gonna move down to the dungeon now?
WES: Why would I?
You and your comments can have so much more space down there.
Michaela, what did I do to deserve
the way that you treat me? That's what I'm asking.
And I'm asking nicely, like, I'm serious.
I don't treat you bad at all.
What have I done to you?
I don't know why you're pretending to be sad.
Whatever works.
WES: I'm not pretending to be sad.
I cannot put my finger on what is up with Michaela.
Now, granted, I did just anonymously cast
a vote her direction, but she doesn't know that.
Michaela has it all.
She's smart, she's strong, but
she's so anti-Challenger,
which makes Michaela a huge threat.
I just have never understood
- where you're coming from. - Well, good to know.
Wes jumped ship.
At this point in the game, I don't trust anyone.
I'm not going to make the mistake that I've made
in every other game, which is assuming that a friend today
is a friend tomorrow.
Well, congratulations on your win.
Thank you.
- I'm great. I'm great. Yeah. - You are?
I wouldn't be here if I wasn't in a great place.
- Yeah? - You know?
I feel like I finally hit the point...
You were... Uh, you and Kyle, right?
- You guys broke up recently. - We did.
Being in a show-mance on Big Brother,
that was extremely difficult for my game.
So we're not doing that again.
But Tyler, I'm really enjoying getting to know him.
Thankful to have that in that environment.
He was a great person for the time being,
but he's not my person.
- Yeah, I understand. - How about you?
Shoot.
It was kind of the same thing.
My ex is Angela. She competed on the first season
of The Challenge: USA. I met her on Big Brother.
You and I just mold together nicely.
- Like a puzzle piece. - Mm-hmm.
And you smell like a baby and it's nice.
Puts me right to sleep.
We were engaged.
We were together for four years, then drifted apart.
But it's all good.
It's all good. It happens. That's life.
I feel like I'm back to myself,
but, like, an elevated version. You know what I mean?
- Like, I feel great. - I'm excited for you.
- Yeah. - That's amazing.
(jump rope slapping floor)
MICHAELA: There were so many people that were excited
to see me on my first season of The Challenge.
And who were just extremely disappointed
that I went out first.
Michaela couldn't get it done tonight.
Take care.
MICHAELA: I was one of those people,
and my godfather was actually one of those people.
My godfather meant a lot to me.
He actually passed away,
so I want to make him proud.
I'm happy with the athleticism that I've shown,
happy with the intelligence that I've shown.
And as I get closer and closer to the final,
I just need to keep going.
♪ ♪
Green team is down to only five players.
We are very strong, but we absolutely need this win
because when someone from Green goes into
an elimination, they either go home or they defect.
So trying to avoid that once again.
TJ: All right, everyone. Welcome to your next challenge
on this season of The Challenge: USA.
(cheering, applause)
Today's challenge
is called Wreck and Roll.
To begin, two of you are going to start inside a giant
sphere, and when I say go,
you will use that sphere as a wrecking ball
to smash all of those columns that are your color.
On top of each column are two tires with letters in the tires.
When you crash into the pillar, the two tires will fall down.
The rest of your team is gonna gather those
and bring them over to your puzzle where there are already
some tires placed in their correct spots.
Once the puzzle is complete,
it will spell out ten words,
five horizontal and five vertical.
First team to get this done will win today's challenge
and be the only team safe from elimination.
You will also be selecting two players to send into
into the Arena to put at risk of elimination.
- Got it? - Got it.
All right. Good luck, everyone. Get it done.
(cheering, clamoring)
Right where I belong inside of this red ball.
Me and Chanelle, we're gonna knock those tires down
as fast as we can. We got these three.
They're gonna be running back
and forth from the puzzle, collecting the tires.
Hopefully we could get the job done today.
Lock and load.
I would say I'm pretty good at puzzles.
- I'm a good speller. - I got a lot of words in me.
Scrabble champion, but I just play
with my nieces and nephews, so...
Good luck in there.
The worst case scenario for us is if Blue wins
because we've already seen that folks
on Red and Blue are protecting each other, so
I'd rather have 100% safety than a 50/50 shot of going in.
- Mm-hmm. - So looking for Green to pull it out today.
All right, everyone ready?
- (airhorn blows) - Go!
- Roll, roll, roll1 - Whoa!
CORY: Yep. Yep. My man.
Here it is, here it is.
MONTE: Just keep walking. Just keep walking.
It is actually very difficult to navigate where this ball
is going because we don't want to go too fast
and just stumble into everybody else's pillar
or even run over someone in the process.
(indistinct shouting)
- Yep. Go, go, go, go. - Shit.
At this exact moment, I'm feeling like I made
the right decision to defect to Team Blue.
We're good.
We have the power to win this,
but if I lose, I'm probably gonna be
target number one, and so
there's a lot of pressure right now.
Go, go, go, watch out.
JOSH: Today's challenge, we have to drop
these towers as fast as we can
and the other rest of the squad is gonna be
running tires to assemble this word puzzle.
Survivor has all of their numbers still in the game,
and while I am working with some of them, like Cassidy
and Michelle, right now they are the biggest threat.
Tiffany!
I'm trying to do my best and give it my 110%,
but I am struggling and I'm frustrated.
Here it is. Here it is.
Next one. Just keep walking, just keep walking.
Just keep walking.
Good, good, good, this way.
Come on.
CASSIDY: With the Blue team strategy, we are all trying
to carry two tires ourselves up the hill,
but there are boards on both sides
so you can't exactly carry the tire super easily.
MONTE: Yes, good job, good job.
Alyssa S. and myself, the biggest thing that
we're gonna focus on is making sure that we're
on the same page with our steps.
With me being the size that I am
and her being as tiny as she is,
she does not want to feel all 235 pounds of me on top of her.
Go.
Let's go. Back.
It's definitely interesting coming onto a new team.
I mean, I haven't worked with Green at all this entire game.
But what we decided to do is create an assembly line,
rolling the tires to one main location
and then working together to get them up the hill.
Be careful. We're right there.
Right here on the bottom. We got to move it.
Right here, right here, right here.
All right. Hey, hey, Green, Green.
This way. It'll be open.
- Go. Go. - I got it. Go.
CORY: Blue is in first place. It's no surprise.
They have the most people in this game.
I'm worried we're falling a little behind.
We got some tires that are way over there.
We got to keep fighting. Let's get this done.
You guys haven't put any pieces up yet, right?
Okay, put it on.
These are all the ones that are here?
Yeah. No, don't put it on. Put on the ground, Cassidy.
I'm pretty good at word puzzles, man.
I got a dictionary up here. But this is a unique one, right?
You have to line up five different words
and they all have to fit.
So this puzzle's looking a little daunting.
Gravy? Is there a Y?
Grade.
Josh. Josh, Josh, behind you. Here they come.
- (grunts) - Get it, get it.
Yeah.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
I'm going to get this last one.
Wes was definitely the fearless leader of the Green team.
But we don't need him
because we got Chris on the team now.
And sometimes it's good to have your enemies closer rather than
far away, and it looks like the Red team is struggling.
So the only goal right now is really
to get the Blue team to lose.
Here's your "E." Here's your "E."
We have a lot of E's. Do we have an "I"?
It takes Red a little bit longer to get all the tires up.
But I am the brains of the operation.
Right away, I start to see things kind of slide into place.
- But I don't know what that could be. - CORY: No. I don't know
what that's gonna be.
DESI: Oh, yeah, it is.
- No. - MICHAELA: I'm pretty good
at puzzles. I don't let everyone know that.
I've seen that Blue protects Red,
Red protects Blue. I'm just hoping
we can have some cohesion
and win this, 'cause our team is gonna be
in nominations if we don't.
TJ: It's anybody's game.
BANANAS: In some mixture
of energy and brain power,
the Blue team just all forms,
like, one mind.
The Blue team is more stacked
than it's ever been.
"R." "A."
TIFFANY: "D." "D" right there. And then...
- Is it "adopt"? - MICHELE: "E" is here. "E" is here.
(overlapping chatter)
CASSIDY: I like that idea.
- Yeah. - Right there.
What's that?
- E-N... Check! - Check!
- (air horn blows) - (cheering)
- (whooping) - Fuck yeah!
- (whooping)
TORI: Winning today's challenge
feels amazing.
Better than any other win.
Because I see Bananas, Wes, Faysal and myself.
That means we have the numbers right now
to do whatever we want in this game.
(whooping)
(monotone): Blue wins again. Yay.
Uh-huh-huh. Rah.
I'm so excited.
Go, Blue.
Assholes.
TJ: Well,
congratulations, Blue team.
- Well done. - (whoops)
You are now the only team safe from elimination.
So, great job. Now I need you to go back
to the house and select one man and one woman
to send into the Arena
to put at risk of elimination.
The rest of you, head back to the house.
And when you get that signal,
you will go vote in secret
and select one player who you want to see
go into the Arena against our nominee.
All right. Good luck.
♪ ♪
TORI: Good job, 'Nana Man.
Yes.
JOSH: I want to put a plan
in motion to target
two strong Survivor females.
I just need to make sure that I am safe
and that my name is not in the Hopper.
This is the reality-- all the Big Brothers
gonna want to knock out a Survivor girl.
Me, Tyler, Monte,
Alyssa and Tiffany-- five solid votes,
making it a girls' day.
And I can pin two girls against each other.
And it's gonna be Chanelle versus Michaela.
You have to do Tyler,
'cause it protects all of us. It saves him,
it saves me and we knock out a girl.
FAYSAL: Essentially, I am playing the middle
between Big Brother and the Challenge vets.
And if that means I got to say Tyler's name,
you know, it sucks it's got to be a Big Brother guy, but...
that's just the way it is.
JOSH: If you guys put in a Survivor girl,
if you do Tyler, he's not gonna go home,
because we have control of the votes.
It kind of seems like I might be a pawn in this situation,
but if we can keep the focus
on getting a stronger girl out of this game,
that's great news.
All y'all have to vote together
to get on a Survivor person.
JOSH: We have to be on the same page.
TIFFANY: I don't
necessarily want to go against Survivor,
because I'm working with Chanelle, Michaela and Desi.
But we do need to go big.
But my go-big could be different than your go-big.
♪ ♪
TIFFANY: For the last few days,
I wake up wondering why I am here.
The challenges are overly enduring for me.
I don't feel that I'm an asset to my team.
I'm not great at anything in this game.
The game is so tough.
Not just the challenges, but there's a mental aspect
and a social aspect.
And I'm not gonna lie--
it sucks to feel like
the weakest person on your team.
Maybe they'll-they'll find a challenge
and I'll be good at it.
- (sniffles) - Oh, Tiffany.
♪ ♪
(kissing)
- Thank you. - You're welcome. - (sniffles)
TIFFANY: I don't like crying.
I suppress a lot of my emotions,
because I've had to be strong all my life.
I lost my father when I was 14 years old.
And when people ask me, like, is it hard having to be so strong,
I don't know any other way to be.
Because my son and I are all we have.
Like, it's just him and me.
There's no one else
for me to be like, "Hey, can you pick these pieces up for me?"
So I don't even think about being strong. I just do it.
CHANELLE: Tiffany, you have
already surpassed
the small box that you set up for yourself.
So if you just expand that box just a little bit,
you'll surpass that again.
ALYSSA S.: You were America's favorite player for a reason.
Like, I was so excited to meet you.
- CHANELLE: Aw. - Thank you. - (sniffles)
TIFFANY: Sometimes we do hit a wall,
but I always want
my son to look at me as someone
who has never given up.
So I have
to push through and I have to keep going.
This game is all here.
You just have to believe in yourself that you deserve
to be here. 'Cause if you don't believe
that you deserve to be here, then everyone else
is gonna be looking around, like, "Well, I don't know then."
♪ ♪
BANANAS: Great team win today.
- (laughter) - Nice.
Wes, welcome to the club.
It feels good. Thank you, guys, for welcoming me.
So what do y'all think? Who are we voting for?
Easy for me. There's, uh, one name out there
that's not just said my name in the past
but has rallied votes against me. So, my vote's for Michaela.
Michaela is
one of the main ringleaders
of the Survivor alliance,
and she's not somebody
that is pushing in the same direction
as the Challenge vets.
As much as I would like to work
with all of the Survivor players
on the other team, you guys are
such a closely knit organization
and there's absolutely no getting into it.
My vote is gonna go for Michaela.
That's pretty quick.
BANANAS: We're just throwing it back.
Michaela.
I don't feel comfortable saying Michaela's name.
- Okay. - I'd rather go for someone like Tiffany.
- BANANAS: Shocker. - CASSIDY: Obviously,
I don't feel comfortable saying a Survivor name.
Not that I want to put Tiffany out there.
That's just the only name I feel comfortable...
saying.
I, too, don't feel comfortable saying Michaela.
I would feel more comfortable with Alyssa.
FAYSAL: It doesn't make sense
for me to say a Big Brother name.
So I'm gonna side with the Challenge vets,
and I'm gonna go Michaela.
DESI: (sighs) I mean, obviously,
I am working with Michaela. She is
probably my closest ally in this game
outside of Chanelle. So I'm not thrilled to hear
the name Michaela, but I'm also not shocked,
because she is Survivor strong.
- All right, guys. - I'm not trying to target all Survivor.
Chris worked with us,
and it just does not feel right. I have a really close
relationship with Josh.
So that kind of leaves me with...
Monte or Tyler.
Between the two of them, I would feel
more comfortable saying Tyler's name.
So my vote's for Tyler.
BANANAS: Get out of my mind, Tori,
because I was just literally thinking the exact same thing.
- CASSIDY: Whoa. Shocker. (chuckles) - TORI: Wow.
- BANANAS: So weird, right? - SEBASTIAN: Yeah.
- (Tori laughs) - BANANAS: Wow.
It's like we discussed something.
(laughs)
BANANAS: My vote's
gonna be for Tyler as well.
I would say Monte.
- Just to make things spicy. - CASSIDY: Yeah.
I vote for Chris.
WES: Do I care
or owe anything to Monte and Tyler? No.
But I can hide behind Chris' name.
He just sent me in.
I vote for Tyler.
- Tyler. - Tyler.
All right, so Tyler it is.
♪ ♪
Aw.
Sorry, brother.
If I can do my best to keep driving that narrative
of making this a strong girls elimination,
I might be able to save myself and, uh, do my pawn duties.
But if I have to go into the Arena tonight,
it could be a beneficial thing,
because I can go to the Blue team,
because the Blue team is so strong.
- MONTE: All right. - Well, it happens.
- MONTE: Yeah. - Fuck.
MONTE: Eh.
- Mm. God. - It happens.
I don't want Tyler to see an elimination.
I will do everything in my power to keep him safe.
But I am a little nervous, 'cause the Hopper,
you never freakin' know, so let's just cross our fingers
and hope that it's a girls' day and that girl isn't me.
MICHAELA: Me and you?
- Oh, no. I'm so deathly afraid. - Isn't that beautiful?
- It's the Hopper. - (laughter)
- Isn't that beautiful? - I couldn't imagine
that they were going to do this.
I am not surprised when I see my name.
The vets in this game rely on being able
to influence other people, to trick other people,
to get people to do what they want them to do.
Josh, I'm sure you're behind this one.
- Why do you think I'm behind it? - Because you've been throwing me
- under the bus every vote. - I didn't make that move, so it's not fair
for you to be like, "Well, Josh, you're behind all this shit."
People wanted to target a strong girl, the reality is,
- you are a strong girl. - Yeah, that doesn't make any sense, though.
Why would men want to target a strong girl?
- I don't know. I don't know... - Doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Josh, don't come at me with your foolishness.
Like, play your game how you play it,
but keep my name out of your mouth, respectfully.
You got what you wanted, because the whole house
is protecting you.
But at the end of the day, it doesn't impact me
because I'm not gonna go into elimination against a guy.
I'm going against a girl. If I go.
JOSH: For me, there's nothing personal against Michaela,
but the reality is, she's Survivor strong,
and I'm not part of those numbers.
So for my own personal game,
Michaela leaving is really good for me.
MICHAELA: I mean, I'm not pressed. I'll go to Blue.
- (laughs) - B-Best of luck to you, you know?
That's how that'll go, so...
My ticket has been called.
♪ ♪
Mm-hmm?
CHANELLE: Wow.
I'm not surprised that they're protecting Josh.
I'm more surprised that everyone is protecting Michele.
Michele swears she doesn't have any other alliances
going on.
I work very closely with Michele,
but as long as she's in this house,
I'm c-collateral damage, I'm expendable.
- (knocks on door) - DESI: Hey.
DESI: Not great.
MICHELE: Did it-- our names come up in there?
It's like a Blue-on-Green war.
MICHELE: That's crazy.
I'm playing all sides right now.
If you're not questioning someone's loyalty,
then you're probably not playing a very good game.
And I can't protect my Survivor people forever,
so I'm gonna play for myself.
It's just, at this point, we're, like, so decimated.
DESI: It's like, being on the wall isn't even the scariest part.
It-it's navigating the Hopper.
- It's like... - CHANELLE: Yeah.
♪ ♪
(indistinct chatter)
Whoa.
TYLER: Being able to get out of the house is huge,
because being able to actually get to know these people
and talk to them not in a game format
is honestly my favorite part about this game.
BANANAS: Here's the deal.
- We're safe. - Yeah.
So what we need to do is we need to make something happen
that has not happened yet.
There's not a lot of entertainment
in the Challenge house.
The one thing that's lacking
is a little romance.
Tyler and Alyssa,
this is the longest courting phase
I have ever seen.
I've been a Cupid for a long time.
I'm responsible for more love
in the Challenge house than anyone
in the history of lovemaking.
- ALYSSA S.: Hey, guys. - Oh, wow!
How are we doing on this fine evening?
BANANAS: We have control
of the way the house votes are gonna go.
- Yeah. Okay. - Let's just get down to it.
- WES: Tyler's hot. - He is.
And Tyler has told me that he thinks you're really hot.
- He does? - Very much so.
BANANAS: You want to keep this guy around
- for a little bit... - ALYSSA S.: I do, yeah.
One way to save him, and that is by,
- just, dirty macking. - (laughs)
All the votes are going to him, and he's probably going home.
- I don't want that. - Exactly.
ALYSSA S.: Our drunk uncles
Bananas and Wes
come up with this plan.
"We're gonna tell Tyler
"that it's gonna be a guys' day
"unless he smooches you
right now at the bar."
And I'm like,
"Oh, damn it. I guess so."
Okay, so we scare him, and then we smooch him.
- BANANAS: Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Like, Tyler's such a sweetie, so got to let them
think they're really playing their cards on this one.
- Tyler! - This one just worked out for me.
We will do everything in our power to make it a girl day,
as long as you make it a girl night.
If you kiss her at this bar.
- BANANAS: In public. - TYLER: How does she feel about this?
- Oh, dude. - She's 100%...
She literally was like, "I will make the first move."
- No... - Yes, she was-- she's making the v-- yeah.
WES: I actually have zero power
towards being able to come through
on my end of the bargain.
But I really consider this to be charity.
TYLER: What are we doing?
- If we don't give them something? - Save me.
- How do we save me? - We have to save you.
- TYLER: Can we save me? - We have to.
- We absolutely have to. - Oh.
(Bananas laughs)
- I feel safe. I feel safe. - Yeah.
TIFFANY: I know Alyssa
has a thing for Tyler, and it's mutual.
Like, girl, you better snatch him up.
Because somebody will, and it should be you.
- BANANAS: Encore! - (shouts, cheers)
Encore!
- Nope. Probably shouldn't. - Mm.
ALYSSA S.: We're both on the same page as, like,
we came here to win $250,000, we came here for ourselves
and we had both been in previous showmances.
But you can't deny the connection
that Tyler and I have.
And he is so cute.
FAYSAL: Oh, my God, Alyssa!
Being in this environment, it is like
a pressure cooker of emotion.
So I guess we'll see what happens.
Tyler, Tyler, Tyler. (chuckles)
(alarm blaring)
(exhales) Oh, man.
MICHELE: God, there's so few options.
At the end of the day, I don't want
to take a shot at my fellow Survivors.
I'm obviously aligned with all of Survivor,
and I'm also aligned with all the Challenge vets.
I can't really play with everybody.
(air hisses)
MONTE: I want it to be a girls' day.
My choices are between Chanelle and Michele right now.
I think, based off who's gonna protect me furthest,
I'm going to have to save Michele and vote
for Chanelle this week.
BB has to protect each other.
I'm going to stay BB strong.
I'm going to vote with my Big Brother family,
even though I'm not fully confident
in my relationship with Josh in this game.
There's no reason to make another enemy, so...
I'm gonna have to go Tiffany.
TYLER: I don't say a lot in this game for a reason.
My duty this week is to chill
and make it a girls' elimination.
I got to save myself in this situation,
and that's what the rest of the house wants.
So, anybody but me, please.
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I'm definitely nervous going into the elimination.
I just hope that I don't have any balls in the Hopper.
Fingers crossed.
TJ: Welcome to your next elimination
on this season of The Challenge: USA.
Now the Blue team, absolute savages.
You had to come back to the house and nominate
one man and one woman to send into the Arena,
and you chose Tyler and Michaela.
- Come on out. - (cheering, applause)
- Ooh, basketball. - (laughter)
That's it. Are you a basketball player?
No, but I can try. (chuckles)
Okay. I like trying.
JOSH: It's nothing personal
against Michaela; I think that everybody was locked in
on targeting a strong Survivor girl.
So the best-case scenario
for TJ to pull out of the Hopper is Chanelle,
in order to knock out a Survivor number.
TJ: Well,
as you know, you are both
only at risk at the moment.
So, the rest of you had to come back to the house
and, in secret, vote by placing a ball
with a name on it into the Hopper.
Let's see how you voted.
Tiffany,
right out of the gate
with two votes.
TIFFANY: I see one ball.
Okay, I expect one-- two balls?
What in the h...
Thanks, guys.
I don't want my name on the board.
I don't want my name for it.
Why you have to put my name?
Monte.
One vote.
ALYSSA S.: Monte has one vote,
and I am just thinking to myself,
I do not want to see Monte in there against Tyler.
They are both people
that I really care about and are strong allies
to me in this game, so I'm getting a little nervous.
TJ: Alyssa S...
...one vote.
Josh...
- ...one vote. - JOSH: I look over at Chanelle
and she's not making any eye contact.
So, instantly I know that she was the one that voted for me.
TJ: Cory...
...one vote.
And Chanelle...
...four votes.
MICHELE: I am so relieved,
because my name is not in that Hopper,
which means I'm not going against Michaela today.
TJ: Just remember,
all you need is one ball to go home.
TYLER: I may just be a pawn in this thing,
but as we've seen, when Alyssa L.
went home, all it takes is one ball
to be thrown into an elimination.
Anything can happen here, and my life in this game
might be riding on the Hopper.
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All you need is one ball,
as we've seen in the past, to go home.
And just because you get pulled out of there doesn't mean
you're going home. It just means you're playing.
Let's see what the Hopper says.
All right.
Michaela?
You're playing tonight.
Tyler, you're off the hook.
(scattered applause)
ALYSSA S.: Tyler's still here,
so that's something to celebrate.
I was so scared, I had my fingers crossed,
my toes crossed, everything crossed
that it wasn't going to be Tyler tonight.
Thank you, Hopper gods.
You really just delivered on this one.
Anyhoo, who are we playing, TJ?
Michaela, you are playing...
...Tiffany.
Oh, my God.
Aw.
Come on, friends.
Wow.
I love you.
JOSH: Honestly,
this is not what I wanted.
We wanted to give Michaela a strong female
down in the sand, and I was hoping it would be Chanelle.
We might be losing our girl Tiffany tonight,
and it's just a big hit for the Big Brother squad.
TIFFANY: Y'all always want to make it a girls' day.
So, keep staying up there, keep continuing
to come back and kiss everybody else's ass
because y'all scared to come down here and play.
Keep kicking the women out.
It's not the women that are whupping y'all ass.
It's the men y'all scared to go against.
So I hope you happy tonight.
JOSH: Tiff, I don't appreciate that, man.
I've had nothing but your back in this game.
Okay, I didn't single you out,
but you always want to take things personal, Josh.
Anytime anybody says "Josh" and we're not holding you
- on a pedestal... - No, you just called out a whole group of people.
- I called everybody's ass out. - The one person that was...
I'm the one who's out here in the sand!
Don't talk to me right now.
You got so much energy?
Get your ass down here and play.
Thanks for showing your true colors.
I don't have an issue with you, Josh.
Got it.
Don't make it an issue.
Best of luck, girl.
Right, Tiff, this is not Big Brother.
You are not gone yet.
You still have a fighting chance.
Get your mind right, you could still win this
and come back in the game.
It's not over yet, Tiff.
TJ: All right, tonight,
you are playing Top Heavy.
As you can see, there are two giant vertical beams
right here in the middle of the Arena.
To begin, you're each gonna be strapped
to the very top of that.
Then when I say go,
you're gonna shift your weight back and forth
until you get enough momentum to reach your rack of balls.
You're gonna grab a ball,
come back and score it in the basket.
First one to score ten baskets
will win tonight's elimination round
and stay in the game.
Loser goes home empty-handed, and that is it.
Good luck to both of you.
TIFFANY: I feel confident. I'm going to give it my best.
I'm going to try my all.
Michaela's somebody I've been working with
in this game, so I don't really want to go against Michaela,
but my motivation to win is to go back
into this game, walk into that house,
and kick every single one of those scared-ass men out.
(thunder crashes)
TJ: Look at that. Rain's even calming down.
MICHAELA: Clearly, there's no Survivor alliance.
It's not about friendships, it's about $250,000.
- TJ: First one to ten wins. - MONTE: Let's go, ladies.
- TJ: Ready? Go! - (air horn blows)
(grunting)
- (whoops) - (grunts) Oh!
TJ: First one to ten wins!
BANANAS: That's it! That's it, that's it!
TJ: Here we go!
(cheering)
- (grunting) - (shouts)
TJ: Yeah, Tiffany! Yeah, Tiffany!
Shit.
There you go, Tiff. Good reach.
(panting)
Oh!
MICHAELA: This elimination
actually takes a bit of skill.
Like, swinging all the way back and forth and, like,
putting a lot of pressure on the arm
that's holding the pole is not comfortable.
But at the end of the day, it's just me against me,
and I can just lock in, be focused and get it done.
FAYSAL: There it is, Michaela!
- (bell chimes) - TJ: All right, that's Michaela.
- Got one point. - MONTE: Okay, Michaela.
TJ: Michaela's got two points.
(cheering, applause)
MONTE: Yeah, Tiff. I like it. I like it.
- FAYSAL: Good job, Michaela. - MICHELE: Good job, girl.
(bell chimes)
- Nice job, Michaela! - (cheering)
(bell chimes)
All right, now, she got four points!
CHANELLE: Tiffany, I know that she's
really scared up there.
She's struggling to get the ball
and then to get it all the way up to the other side.
Almost, Tiff, almost, Tiff.
Michaela is probably gonna run away
with this elimination.
TJ: (chuckles) There she goes.
BANANAS: Time that release.
I have no damn aim.
The first person to ten wins,
and I need to get my ball in the basket.
- (Tiffany groaning) - BANANAS: No, you got to swing it.
- TIFFANY (laughs): No. - Pull sideways.
- (bell chimes) - JOSH: Ah, nice.
I don't lean like that.
TORI: Tiffany up there,
like, you know,
she's so cute and she's so funny
and she's trying so hard, but come on.
You want her to get one or two balls.
Tiffany, you better hurry up!
Get closer. You got to get closer, Tiff.
(buzzer sounds)
TJ: Way to go back. You got it.
- MICHAELA: Ah! - Nice.
- (buzzer sounds) - Goddamn it!
That's what you want to do, though.
(bell chimes)
Seven points for Michaela.
(cheering)
You're doing great, Tiff.
(bell chimes)
Eight points for Michaela.
(cheering, applause)
(Tiffany grunts)
(bell chiming)
- (cheering) - TJ: Oh! Tiffany got one!
Yeah, Tiffany!
- Well done. - (panting)
I feel like an elementary school player up against LeBron James.
I say, "I scored one on you, bitch."
- TJ: Let's go. - (bell chimes)
CHANELLE: All right, Michaela.
(grunts)
(bell chimes)
- Nice. - (air horn blows)
Good job, Michaela.
TJ: Good job, Michaela.
Well done, Tiffany. I'm proud of you, Tiffany.
- Good job. - Thank you, TJ.
TIFFANY: I didn't come here to lose.
I came here to win.
This obviously wasn't the elimination for me.
TJ: I would like to say it was a great elimination tonight,
but Michaela, you absolutely killed it.
MICHAELA: I am feeling
very happy today.
My elimination record is officially one and one,
and, uh, I'm still in the game.
TJ: Tiffany, at least you tried.
- I cannot be mad at that. - Thank you.
Hopefully, we'll see you in the future. Take care.
- Good job, Tiff. - (cheering, applause)
Hell of a season!
- I'm proud of you. - I love you.
Proud of you.
TIFFANY: I leave this game
with no regrets.
TJ: Michaela.
Michaela, Michaela. Who knew?
I can do a lot without a partner.
Yeah, that, I thought, was awesome.
As you know, it's time to execute
the power of defection.
Blue team, you were safe from elimination
since you won the challenge.
But you're not safe from the power of defection.
I want to defect to the Blue team,
and I'm gonna take Tori
and put her in danger.
Michaela, how you doing?
- I got decisions to make, so... - Well...
not really.
(all exclaiming)
Yes! Fuck yeah!
Fuck yeah!
TJ: Michaela,
go ahead and rejoin your team.
(shouting)
Oh, my God!
- Welcome home, Michaela. - (cheering, applause)
Come on home.
FAYSAL: Game time now, baby!
(whooping)
All right.
Throughout the season, you've all been fighting
to make your teams stronger
and make your alliances stronger
and make the other teams weaker.
Now...
...there are no more teams.
(all oohing)
Thank God.
TJ: So, from here on out...
...it's every man and woman for themselves.
(whooping)
I am over the moon about this. It opens up my game, finally.
I'm gonna leverage all the relationships that I've built.
I'm really excited.
The next challenge
is gonna be an individual challenge.
I'll see you there.
(whooping)
CASSIDY: I am angry.
I'm rocking it out with one of the best teams.
Now I'm on my own to live and die by my own decisions
and strengths and weaknesses.
Now that it's an individual game,
anybody who doesn't feel confident
in their athletic abilities
should probably be squirming.
This game is about to get rough,
and I'm prepared for it, but I think
there's a few people here that aren't.
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- TJ: Go! - (air horn blows)
Next on The Challenge: USA...
Everybody's gonna scramble around every single day and try
and figure out who's going to vote for who.
TJ: It is now an individual game...
I can't handle the chaos
...and everyone is out for themselves.
- (shouting) - WES: I can't.
CASSIDY: The individual portion of Survivor
was where I shined.
- I would put our money on us. - DESI: Mm-hmm.
So, to keep ourselves safe would be good.
TJ: And a plan is in place to rip some people apart.
I stab people in the chest, not in the back.
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