Another rousing episode of The Challenge: Rivals 3! Picking up from last week, there are quite a few potential romances happening. Cheyenne and Cory continue their flirting, Tony has eyes for Ashley, and Devin is hoping to hook up with Camila. Back at the house, Camila and Devin start making out, and, assumably, have sex. Ashley sleeps with Tony as well. They CLAIM nothing happened, but the video definitely shows something different! It's crazy though because Ashley has hooked up with Jamie, and I personally thought that maybe just maybe she could have something nice with him. Jamie finds out later, of course, and wants Ashley to just leave him alone from here on out.

The next day, T.J. announces the latest challenge, "Laps of Judgement." It's basically a big game of "Would You Rather?" There are five stations and two tasks at each. Each team can choose whatever task they want to do. After completing each task, you get a token. Everyone has to scale walls to place their token on a hook at the top of a hill, and then race down to complete another task. The last team to finish, of course, will be heading straight to The Jungle. The first team to complete the challenge in full will be safe from elimination, and get to choose two teams to face off against the losing team in The Jungle.

The first task is eating, giving the teams the choice to Eat Brains or Eat Balls. The teams have to eat either cow brains or cow balls. It's not much of a choice...either way it's disgusting! It's an absolute TERRIBLE way to start the challenge. Of course, people struggle to get it down, but the teams push through. Then, they have to scale this wall in the heat, which makes things 10 times more difficult. The next station, Reel It In or Rock It Out, the teams have the choice to lasso a rope around a hook on a barrel and pull the barrel back across the line, or land five rocks on top of the barrel. Kelly Anne and Jamie choose the rope, and end up losing a huge lead in the game. It clearly wasn't the smartest decision for the few teams who chose to lasso, but they all eventually complete it.

The third station, Be Sleepy or Be Tired, gives the team the chance to choose between carrying a queen size mattress or five tires up the wall. At the start, Jenna and Vince were actually in the lead, but, as it turns out, were actually carrying Nicole and Dario's mattress, so T.J. makes them start that task all over! At the fourth station, Build a Bridge or Build a House, which is a puzzle, Sarah and Bananas take the lead here, since Sarah is amazing at puzzles! Meanwhile, Nate loses his and Christina's token, so now they're in last place!

The last station, Eat a Birthday Cake or Be in Your Birthday Suit,  requires the teams to either eat an entire birthday cake or to head to the finish line BUTT NAKED! Of course, all of the teams decide to take it all off and get this challenge over and done with! Bananas and Sarah win the challenge for the day while Nate and Christina lose because of the stupid mistake of losing their token, and are head ingto The Jungle. Christina thinks that somebody moved their token, and is so upset, but oh well. She and Nate were going in there eventually simply because they're rookies, so no loss there.

That night, Sarah and Bananas have a winner's dinner, and compliment each other on their win. They actually talk through the issue of Sarah's "betrayal" towards Johnny. She apologizes that she put a price on their friendship like that, while Johnny can finally admit that she did it to give herself the best shot at winning. It's nice to see them on the road to reconciliation, I must say. The two decide to talk Nelson and Amanda as well as Devin and Cheyenne, and both of these rookie teams strike deals with Bananas and Sarah just to save their own butts. Devin even decides to squash his alliance with Wes just so he wouldn't have to go to The Jungle! This game is crazy.

Meanwhile, at random, Thomas starts talking crap about Vince (apparently, they had beef at the last challenge). After Thomas calls him a b**ch one too many times, Vince goes after him and slams him down on the table. Bananas talks to his cousin, and tells him to be smarter because Thomas is just trying to get inside Vince's head. Bananas then calls Thomas out for playing like a punk.

At nominations, T.J. calls Vince out, and says that if he gets violent again, he's out of there and Jenna will be headed out right with him. T.J. also announces that another team actually did toss Christina and Nate's token, and that team will be headed to The Jungle instead of them! It turns out that that team is Tony and Camila! Camila accidentally picked up Christina and Nate's token thinking that Tony dropped theirs, and, when she found out he didn't, just tossed it. After that shocker, Bananas and Sarah vote in Wes and Nany, as well as Simone and Thomas.

Camila is over it, and starts crying and yelling. Tony, Nany and Devin all try to calm her down, since there's nothing that they can do at this point. I understand her anger, though. At the end of the day, Nate and Christina dropped their stupid token in the first place, and who knows if they would've found it? Camila was just looking out for team, but that's my two cents. Later, Thomas gets a call from his girlfriend, who states that she had to go to the emergency room!

At The Jungle, T.J. brings in the teams to compete. Thomas and Simone make the choice to leave because Tom's girlfriend is in the hospital with severe medical problems. However, T.J. states that there will still be a Jungle, if either Wes and Nany pull the black skull out of the bag. Luckily, neither of them do. Everyone is safe and friends Camila and Nany didn't have to compete against each other! At the house, Wes and the rest of the house toasts to Thomas and his girlfriend, with the hopes that she'll get better soon. Definitely sucks to leave the house, but the love of your life is way important than some game!

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9:39:00 PM

Picking up from last week on "Out on a Limb," Camila falls HARD and begs for help. She just had the wind knocked out her, but turns out she's okay. Some of the other teams did well, but a lot of the other teams just couldn't sick their landing past the first or second platform. The team that went the furthest the fastest was Cory and Ashley, who win for the day! Dario and Nicole, Jessica and Johnny, and KellyAnne and Jamie end up being the three bottom teams. T.J. announces that the team that did the worst was Jessica and Johnny, so they'll be heading in The Jungle...yet again. Cory and Ashley will then pick two other teams to face off against them.


Back at the house, Jessica is emotional and doesn't want Johnny to think that she's a bad competitor. Cory plans to talk to Johnny to see who he wants to go against, but also plans to throw in Amanda and Nelson, and wants to use this leverage to possibly knock off a stronger team. Ashley and Cory have their power team dinner, where Ashley brings up possibly throwing in Thomas, who is Cory's friend. However, Cory really wants to keep Simone around because she makes her partnership with Thomas weak, so they're no threat to anyone. Cory decides to talk to Nany and Wes, and Wes, being the political one that he is, strikes a deal for an alliance to keep his team safe. Cory and Ashley then bring in Nate and Christina, with Cory stating that they plan to throw them in.

Later, Camila tells Ashley about Simone's previous conversation to Jamie, where Simone said that Ashley couldn't be trusted, and Ashley GOES OFF! It ends up being a huge argument with Ashley and Simone throwing digs at each other. Ashley threatens to throw Simone in The Jungle, but Simone knows that Cory and Thomas are tight, and Cory probably wouldn't go for that. With all the arguing, Simone is ready to fight, and Thomas has to calm her down and remind her what they're there for.

The next day. Cory talks to Simone, stating that it seems like she was trying to stir things up with that talk with Jamie. Though Ashley wants to throw Simone in, Cory wants to keep her around, simply because she's not that great of a competitor anyway and brings her own self down with the drama she creates. Ashley is adamant, going with her emotions instead of seeing the bigger picture. At nominations, Cory and Ashley vote in Nelson and Amanda and, surprisingly, Simone and Thomas! That's absolutely crazy! Just goes to show that, at The Challenge, you can't really trust anybody outside of maybe your partner.

In The Jungle, T.J. announces that there is yet ANOTHER set of replacements coming into the game! Turns out that T.J. is bringing BACK Devin and Cheyenne which will be a little shake up in the game. When Cheyenne was eliminated, she and Cory had a little fling starting up, so Cory is definitely happy to see her! Of course, before the elimination, Amanda and Nelson along with Simone and Thomas have to draw skulls to see who will be facing Johnny and Jessica. Again, with this game of chance, whichever team pulls the black skull is going in. Thomas and Simone both manage to pull out white skulls, and Simone is coming back at Ashley with a vengeance!!!

Amanda and Nelson are then left to face off against Jessica and Johnny for this week's elimination, "Weight For Me," which combines strength and puzzles! The guys have to hoist the girls up a wall in order for them to memorize a puzzle at the top, and then recreate it at the bottom. Jessica gets frazzled very easily and struggles to remember, while Amanda just takes the puzzle one row at a time, having Nelson hoist her back up whenever she needs it.  Nelson had the strength in his arms to be able to hoist Amanda easily multiple times as well, so Amanda is able to finish the puzzle first, sending Jessica and Johnny home. I have to give it to these rookies, though. They earned their win, and survived their first taste of an elimination round, though I still don't like Amanda and her mouth.

Back at the house, both Simone and Amanda laugh at Ashley because both of the teams that they voted in, made it back. That plan definitely backfired, and now two teams are gunning for Cory and Ashley!

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8:15:00 PM

Last night's episode of The Challenge: Rivals 3  had way too much going on! Picking up from last week, Simone reveals is in serious pain literally from her raw butthole from grinding on that bar of soap at the last challenge! She decides to go to the doctor, and Thomas encourages her, though he knows her butt better not be the reason he goes home! Meanwhile, Wes talks to Nicole about Nate, who she's a little smitten with. Wes decides to get involved, telling Nate to go ask Nicole out. Nate talks to her and they decide to have a little date! So high school, but still kind of cute. Later, Simone comes home and her butthole is fine. She has a bunch of medications to take but she'll be all right, so she and Thomas get to stay. Can you imagine if you went home over your butt?! Embarrassing.




That night, as T.J. promised, there really is a house party for the cast, and MTV went all out! They have a bartender, DJ, lights and an official dance floor! That's where Nate and Nicole have their little date, and they talk and flirt. Meanwhile, the guys believe that the night will not pass without any drama from the girls, and even take bets on who will be involved! Bananas think it's going to be either Camila, Nany, or Nicole...and it turns out it's all three of them!

In the very next scene, Nicole tells Nany that Camila told people that Nicole and Nany aren't to be trusted. And the drama begins! Apparently, Nany and Camila had a pact to stick by each other's sides, so this information turns things left REAL quick! Nany goes on Camila about it, which leads to Camila confronting Nicole. Of course, the guys follow and watch around the corner! It's a huge argument, as Camila denies the allegations and yells at Nicole. Nany gets back involved since Nicole is her cousin, and it's all just a huge mess when everyone is supposed to be partying.  Nicole doesn't really like Camila from last season of The Challenge anyway, and it turns out that all of this was all hear say! Kelly Anne gets involved, explaining that Camila said to newbies not to trust everyone in the house, but never mentioned Nany or Nicole's names. Tony tries to calm Camila down, but she is angry, which is understandable, and even considers going home.

After the drama calms down, the house continues to party and even swing at a pinata, which is funny to watch since everyone is drunk! However, more issues arise when the AYTO kids start talking. A lot of them believe that Nate and Christina has an alliance with the Real World, referring to when Vince and Jenna saved them from going into The Jungle. Though Christina tries to explain to everyone, nobody gets it. Briana is especially upset, deciding that Nate and Christina aren't her true friends and that she wants to go home. Little do ANY of them know that the only reason they were saved is because they are a weaker team! Brandon tries to get Briana back on track, even though he's homesick himself and misses his girlfriend. They decide to take the night to think about whether or not they will stay.

Later that night, even more drama! What is going on?! Amanda and Tony argue over which is better, Real World or AYTO (which we all know the answer to) But it's 3:45 IN THE MORNING at this point! All of y'all need to take your butts to BED. Of course, Amanda's a hothead, so she goes off, especially after Tony calls her out of her name. Camila calls her out too, saying that Amanda brings this stuff on herself by the way she acts. Which is true. Amanda came in way too strong on the very first night, and I'm ready for her to go home. So Amanda gets up like she's about to fight Camila, and I yell at my screen, "Molly, you in danger girl!" For someone who claims to be a fan of these challenges, this girl really does not know that Camila will seriously hurt her! As people try to drag them apart, Amanda gets a push in, and almost gets her ass beat. Later, though, she gets emotional as Ashley tells her that she's doing too much, and it's just going to hurt her in the long run. Now we're a 4:35 in the morning, and Tony tries to cuddle with Jessica, However, after the way he spoke to Amanda, Jessica is not feeling him and kicks him out. And FINALLY everyone goes to bed. Literally, this was about 60% of the episode...way too much for one night! 

The next day, Brandon's girlfriend calls him in the morning all emotional about him being gone, which makes him sad. Dario tells him that time apart is key, though, and that this challenge is a once- in a lifetime. He decides that he wants to go home, though he and Briana decided to take time to really think it through. At the challenge later, T.J. says that he's been hearing that somebody wants to quit, and asks Brandon straight up what's going on. Brandon still thinks it's time to leave, and T.J. tells him that he's robbing Briana of this opportunity simply because he's a baby and a quitter. It's stupid and selfish, but Brandon quits, and Briana has to go with him. Brandon, don't come back again.
Just don't. Waste of time and space in the house.

Back to the challenge! The teams play "Out on a Limb," where there's a giant structure suspended 30 feet in the air. Each team has to make it from one side to the other using swinging bars to get to landing platforms throughout the structure. The team with the slowest time will go straight to The Jungle, while the team with the fastest time will be safe and choose two other teams to go to The Jungle.

It's a really difficult challenge because you have to swing yourself to get momentum and make it from one landing platform to the next. You don't want to swing too much either, because you risk missing the platform completely and getting jerked back. Surprisingly, Ashley and Cory get pretty far, but on the last platform they lose momentum, and decide to drop since they can't make it to the last platform. Ashley falls in and hurts her arm some kind of way, too! We see other teams go, but no one really does all that great. Plus that fall from the structure is CRAZY! The episode ends on a cliffhanger, as Camila falls to the water on her heat, but can't move!

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8:56:00 PM

A few more twists and turns on last night's episode of The Challenge: Rivals 3! Picking up from last week, the house goes out to party. Ashley, who is a drunk mess, admits to other cast members that she is feeling left out in the house, and is in her feelings. A little later, she thinks that she saw Jamie made out with Nicole, which pisses her off and she runs to the bathroom to cry. She vents to Camila and even her partner Cory goes in there to comfort her. At that point, Nicole walks in just to use the bathroom, with no idea what's going on. Both Jamie and Nicole deny kissing each other, and it's clear that Ashley is just being paranoid. I don't see her making it that far mentally in this game.


Back at the house, Ashley talks to Jamie, admitting that she feels alone in this game. They talk things out, with Jamie admitting that he cares about her. Of course, they end up in bed together at the end of the night. The next day, Simone talks trash about Ashley to Jessica while she's in the next room. Ashley calls Simone and Jessica out for talking and laughing about her, but Simone tells her honestly that maybe she shouldn't do things that people would talk about. Later, Simone tells Jamie to be careful, thinking that he likes Ashley more than she likes him, and that Ashley is just playing him to get further in the game. Interesting theory.

At the next challenge, T.J. brings out a new team to replace Leroy and Averey! He introduces Amanda and Nelson from Are You The One. Again, I don't watch the show, so I have no idea who they are, but welcome. For the challenge, the teams face off in "Dirty Laundry," which is definitely the dirtiest game that I can remember on The Challenge (though there is another one coming with them all butt naked, so there's that too)! There are four bars with giant rolls of soap on them, and, in three heats of four, each team has to literally hump the soap to break it down and reveal numbers underneath. They then have to find the four clean jerseys with those numbers, and hang them up in order. The team to hang up their jerseys in the right order the fastest will win. The teams that finish last will head to the Jungle.

Before the game starts, T.J. announces another twist! This season, instead of the winner of the previous challenge, whoever wins in The Jungle gets to make the order for the next challenge! This could definitely be a way to get revenge on other people if they sent you in. So since Jessica and Johnny won in The Jungle, they create the order,  choosing to send in the Are You The One teams in first. It's really awkward to watch honestly, because people are really going for it trying to break down this soap, humping and bouncing and all. And it's even more awkward because the teams are RIVALS, so most of them don't even like each other to be remotely that close. Plus it's wet and soapy, and keeps getting in everybody's eyes!

Though there were clear winners and losers, T.J. has a few tricks up his sleeve. He announces that he's sending Amanda and Nelson to Huatulco for the night, and they get to bring two teams with them. Since no one knows if this is a good or bad thing, no one wants any part. After some quiet convincing, Amanda and Nelson pick Bananas and Sarah, and, randomly, Thomas and Simone. T.J. also states that he's canceling the elimination and there will be a house party instead! Hmm...

That night, Amanda, Nelson and the teams they chose actually get to relax, heading to a nice dinner. While the rest of the house speculates where they are, or if they're in a secret elimination, these guys are eating and drinking, having a good ole time! At the table, they all go into their stories of how they become rivals, which, of course, gets Bananas all riled up about Sarah's "ultimate betrayal." I need him to build a bridge and get the hell over it. THIS WAS ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO.

After the dinner, Simone, who's drunk, gets all emotional talking to Wes back at the house. Wes has a girlfriend, but Simone thinks he's attractive and believes that he had a thing for her (he's complimented her a few times). However, Wes never said that he was attracted to her, so she's gets all in her feelings. I find it funny, because Simone was the main one talking down about Ashley acting crazy over a guy, and then she does the same. Meanwhile, hothead newcomer Amanda gets into it with Johnny, after he asks her what season of AYTO she was on. Knowing that he doesn't really care, she randomly goes off on him. Tony gets into it trying to defend Johnny, and then Camila steps in trying to defend Tony, who's her partner. All the while, Amanda, who's probably drunk from dinner, is just digging a hole for herself and Nelson. She sees it as defending herself and holding her ground, but she isn't making herself looks good at all. You have to play nice in this game in order to build up alliances, ESPECIALLY as a newcomer. Not sure she's going to last.

I'm interested to see what's next around the corner with this show. Seems like there's going to be a lot of intense moments and twists that nobody's expecting!

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7:39:00 PM

The Challenge: Rivals III is starting off strong, and last night, sadly, two teams went home! Picking up from last week, Vince is on his high horse from winning the first challenge with Jenna. Now they have to pick someone to face Johnny and Jessica in the elimination. Meanwhile, Leroy asks to see the doctor because his back pain is so bad, and he ends up having to go to the hospital. Averey is really worried about him, but Leroy believes he will be fine.


Meanwhile, we see that Johnny and Jessica are really a mess of a team, and it stems from their bad blood during their season of The Real World: Portland. He pulls Jessica to the side, and Jessica talks about how he trashes her all the time instead of encouraging her. Of course, Johnny wants to win, but team morale matters. It's important for them to work together if they want this check! Later, Leroy comes back from the hospital, having received a shot for his back. He has to wait to see if it works and if he will be able to compete or not.

That night, Vince and Jenna get a nice winner's dinner, and talk to teams that could be going into elimination, focusing on the Are You The One kids, since no one really knows them. The two decide to keep Nate and Christina, seeing them as a "lay-up team," who will be easy to beat. It's revealsed that Johnny has already stated that he wants to go against Brandon and Briana, so Vince and Jenna make the easy choice to send them in since they're rookies anyway. Brandon and Briana are pissed, but they're rookies and from AYTO. They're dispensable, and so they will be picked off one team at a time more than likely.

That night, Tony shoots his shot with Jessica, who's in a terrible relationship with her boyfriend. However, she shoots him down. Tony later gets in her bed naked and drunk, and, after a bunch of flirting and laughing, she lets him simply sleep next to her. The next day, Jessica calls her boyfriend, goes off on how badly he treats her, and it's implied that they may have broken up. Hopefully, she didn't do that thinking that she was going to move on with Tony!

At nominations later, T.J. reveals that Leroy is physically unable to do competitions and sends him home. Because Averey is his partner, she has to leave too. They're a strong team, so it sucks to see them leave, especially so soon. Even though they left, there will still be an elimination tonight. Vince and Jenna announce that Brandon and Briana will be competing against Johnny and Jessica to see who goes home. However, T.J. reveals another twist, telling Vince and Jenna that they have to choose another team on the spot! At this point, no one knows what the hell is going on, but this is going to happen at EVERY nomination.  The safe bet is to pick another Are You The One team and they pick Devin and Cheyenne.

Later, Briana starts to wonder why Nate and Christina weren't thrown in, since Nate should have a target from not skydiving last week. She assumed that they were being fake and had an alliance, so she shut both of them out. Because they're all best friends outside of the show, Nate eventually breaks down and cries about it. Dumb to watch, but she eventually apologizes and they make up.

That night, at The Jungle, where all of the eliminations will happen, T.J. announces that only one of the teams chosen by Vince and Jenna will have to face Johnny and Jessica. I know that this was only an attempt by MTV to stir up more drama as the game goes on, but it's definitely going to work! To see which team will go in, each player has to pick a skull out of a canister. There are three white skulls and one black one. Whichever team pulls the black skull has to go against Johnny and Jessica. It's like a lowkey game of Russian Roulette! Briana and Brandon both pull white skulls, sending Devin and Cheyenne to elimination!

The two teams play "Back It Up," where the goal is for each team to shimmy up together between two walls, trying to get three pots to the top without falling or dropping a pot. Seeing Devin and Cheyenne get up to the top first really lights a fire under Jessica, who refuses to go home first. Cheyenne's legs give out, and she and Devin are literally come to a standstill for a second on their second pot. Johnny and Jessica put in work, and manage to take a decent lead, eventually send Devin and Cheyenne home! This is Jessica's first win in an elimination after so many losses in The Challenge, so she's super hype! That night, the house even toasts to her! She and Johnny have a way to go in terms of their communication and work as a team, but it looks like they're on the right track!

Check out all new episodes of Rivals III on Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. only on MTV! 

6:14:00 PM

It’s time for another season of MTV’s The Challenge, and I’m too excited! This season, which takes place in Huatulco, Mexico is teaming up new rivals, which means a lot of fights and drama, in addition to these teams trying to work together to win these challenges and make it to the end!

At the beginning of the 90 minute premiere, the cast files into their house, amazed by the great place MTV decked out for them. I realized though that there are way too many people from Are You The One on here this season! This show began for Real World and Road Rules cast members, so I personally would rather see it stick to that, but that’s just me. I guess with a lot of the veteran cast members getting older, on top of getting married and having babies, MTV had to bring on new people. They probably want more drama too.

As the house celebrates their first night, they get a text from host T.J. Lavin: "Welcome to the Challenge. Wanna know what's up? You'll learn everything you need to know going down. Tomorrow, you'll be skydiving into the most exciting season yet!" Crazy start to the season!

As the night goes on, the Are You The One kids decide to team up and work together, which is smart since there’s quite a few of them. However, there's some kind of tension between Christina and Brandon. I don't watch the show, so I honestly don't really care, but apparently he cheated on her and now he has a new girlfriend who refuses to let them be friends. Just from the way he speaks, Brandon already seems like a douchebag and I hope he gets sent home early.

The next morning, the house goes to skydive! Some people are excited, while others are hella nervous, which is understandable. At this point, the cast has no idea what this is even for, or what the challenge even is! Though it’s scary, the view on the way down is incredibly beautiful. One of the AYTO guys, Nate, refused to jump though, which doesn’t impress T.J., who’s all about people completing these challenges and not being punks! As they all begin to land on the beach, they see the theme, Rivals III! T.J. tells them that this Rivals challenge is different because it will pair everyone up with a person of the opposite sex, which throws everyone for a loop!

The teams are as follows: Camila and Tony, Johnny and Jessica, Vince and Jenna, KellyAnne and Jamie, Devin and Cheyenne, Nicole and Dario, Wes and Nany, Simone and Thomas, Cory and Ashley, Brandon and Brianna, Christina and Nate, Averey and Leroy, and, of course, Bananas and Sarah. They’ve all fought in some way, with some people having deeper issues than others, so this will be interesting! T.J. also announces the cash prizes for those who make it to the end: $25,000 for third place, $50,000 for second, and $275,000 for first, which is the highest payout in Challenge history!

Back at the house that night, drama and hookups already start. Tony opens up about every girl in the house who said they would have sex with him, and Simone supposedly was at the top of the list! She finds out what he says, and GOES OFF! I get it, but it was some drunk guy talk, and, knowing that a lot of these guys are dumb like that, she went a little overboard. In the midst of the drama, Ashley and Jamie flirt and make out before heading off on their own! They hook up in the bathroom, which becomes a full on peep show, since they chose a bathroom with windows!

At the first official challenge the next day, the cast plays "Give Me Some Slack." Everyone competes on a platform 400 feet above water. The girls are on one side of the platform, with the guys on the other side holding their partner by a rope as the ladies attempt to retrieve five skulls hanging over the side. Whoever gets the most win, and whoever gets the least will head straight to elimination.

It’s a challenge that really requires communication and trust, which some of these people suck at, but some actually do well with. One of the most annoying parts of this challenge was when Johnny Bananas let Sarah fall on purpose as she was on her way to potentially winning. He’s still bitter that Sarah sent him to elimination in Battle of the Exes 2, where he was eventually sent home. He saw it as betrayal, but Sarah and I see it as a power move that Bananas would’ve probably made himself had he been in that position. Plus this is from going on two years ago…be better, not bitter dude!

Surprisingly, Jenna and Vince get all five skulls, winning the first challenge, while Johnny and Jessica get last with only two skulls in their basket and will be going into elimination. Since Vince and Jenna won, they get to choose who will be going into the elimination round against them!

From the teaser for this season, it definitely looks like it will be another great season. Be sure to check out all new episodes of Rivals III on Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. only on MTV!

What did you think of the season premiere?

1:37:00 PM

Winners were crowned last night on the finale of The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines! Picking up from last week, the teams prep for the second part of the Final! In stage two, Job Detail, TJ tells them that they have an important job for them all, which requires a specific dress code!  The teams have to dress up in suits, and have to carry very important briefcases. TJ informs them that they have to take the train to their next location, but first, they have to eat a traditional German meal, with blood soup, bratwurst, blood tongue, etc! For every plate that goes unfinished by each team member, a five-minute penalty will be added to their time at the very end.
Though the meal is sickening to everyone, Jamie and Cara Maria finish in decent time. Jenna, of course, gets tripped up here, because she's such a picky eater! After time expires on this stage, Cory and Mitch end up with a 10 minute penalty, and Jenna and Brianna get a 30 minute penalty. The teams then ride over to the train station, which is super creepy and looks abandoned. They see that in the third stage, Train Delay. there is no real train coming at all! For the rest of the night, each player must stand in their designated spots and hold their briefcases. If one member wants a nap, you have to give up give your briefcase to your partner and lay on the bench, which is old and rickety. For every minute a briefcase touches the ground, there is a time penalty. It's absolutely cold and miserable!

At 7:00 AM, TJ comes in to get the teams, apologizing that the "train was cancelled." At that moment though, an actual transit worker comes over and kicks everybody out! It's revealed that no one got a time penalty for this stage, and the limo drives the teams over to the next stage. In Stage 4, Row Hard, TJ announces that the teams have to row 10 miles up the Spree River in canoes! Cara Maria and Jamie book it down this river, while Brianna and Jenna really struggle.   The two of them even get stuck in a tree for a minute! Looks like that lead from the beginning of the final is pretty much shot.Cara and Jamie finish this stage first, Cory and Mitch second, and Brianna and Jenna eventually brings up the rear in third.

For the fifth and final stage, Coded Entrance, the teams are brought to Berlin's historic Olympic Stadium. They have to solve a puzzle to get into the stadium, with all of the pieces of the puzzle in their briefcases. After they solve the puzzle, they then have to run eight laps around the track, and their times will be stopped. The times from all of the stages will then be added together to determine the winners!

With this puzzle, every row, diagonal, horizontal, and vertical, needs to come to the same number when added up. It's like a little more complicated version of Sudoku! Everyone is exhausted and struggle to think While the other teams struggle to finish, Cory and Mitch figure out their puzzle first, and this is where they can catch up! Cory and Mitch end up finishing their laps before the other teams even get down there! Cara Maria and Jamie eventually finish, and Jenna and Brianna's time ends up just expiring. Each team finishes their laps, but it all comes down to the total time over all five stages! Literally, it's anyone's game right now.

At the end of the episode, TJ reveals the winners! Third place goes to Jenna and Brianna, who take home $25,000. Though they didn't win, it's a redeeming moment for Jenna because she didn't quit this time! Cory and Mitch take home second, winning $75,000, meaning that first place grand prize of $250,000 goes to Cara Maria and Jamie! Though I wasn't rooting for her at first, I do believe that Cara is deserving of the win. She put in work this season, and many before, and has never won before, so it was good to see her take home the money.

This was a GREAT season of The Challenge! I've been watching for a long time, and this is definitely one of my favorite seasons! I hope that MTV brings the Bloodlines format back in the future! The next season of The Challenge begins in May, and it's Rivals 3! Only this time, the Rivals will be boy/girl teams, which is definitely going to be A LOT of drama! I'll definitely be recapping! 

8:12:00 AM

The Final for The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines has  Picking up from last week, three teams plan to battle it out for the Final in Berlin: Cara Maria and Jamie, Cory and Mitch, and Jenna and Brianna! They all head out to party and celebrate before heading out for the toughest challenge of the season. That night, TJ texts the teams a clue: "It's that time of the season. Congratulations to you all! My boy Franz is going to swing by before the race." Who in the world is Franz?!

Franz comes into their room the next day, and it turns out he is a tailor! He gets their measurements, which confuses everyone. (At this point, pictures have come out with the teams in suits for part of the challenge, though we still don't know exactly what's going on!). The teams then go downstairs to get in a limo to the final, which is so weird! Cara Maria makes a true statement that the nicer MTV treats them, the harder and crazier this final will be.  As the teams are brought into the woods, TJ appears to start the Final, which is the first final challenge to take place in a major city! He tells them that there are five extremely diverse stages. Each team will be timed, and whoever has the fastest time at the end will win. The winning team gets to split $250,000! Second place gets $75K, and third $25K, which is still pretty decent. Of course, TJ lets them all know they have to finish in order to get paid, throwing a glance over at Jenna, who quit during the Final last season!


For Stage 1, the teams are at an old CIA complex in Berlin. This stage has four checkpoints for them all to complete. The major catch is that, before each checkpoint, everyone has to run a lap around the complex with a heavy bag (120 pounds for the guys, 60 pounds for the girls). After the teams finish each checkpoint, they get a token. The checkpoints themselves aren't terrible. It's the lap around the complex that kills everyone.They have to walk all along this trail in the woods, and it's terrible. Though they were in the lead at first, Cory and Mitch fall behind when one of the straps on Mitch's weighted bag comes off. They're a strong team, but will they be able to make up lost time?

At the first checkpoint, Barrel Roll, the teams have to roll six barrels up a hill and stack them up. Pretty simple checkpoint, which Cara Maria and Jamie finish. However, another horrible lap with this weighted backpacks take a toll on Jamie. Brianna and Jenna, who only have 60 pounds, manage to pass them, getting the lead!  On the second checkpoint, Flip Flop, the teams have to climb up a flight of stairs into a creepy building. Each person has to catapult a beer stein into a barrel some feet away. Every time you miss, you have to chug a beer, which are nonalcoholic thankfully. The teams won't be drunk, but they will be disgustingly full!  Jenna and Brianna make it happen in decent time, leaving Cara and Jamie behind. Jamie finally makes his shot, but Cara is getting frustrated because she keeps missing and has to chug all of these beers now. She cries and complains, but finally makes her shot as well. Cory and Mitch manage to catch up here, but are still very far behind everyone else, unfortunately.

The third checkpoint, Block Head, is a puzzle! The objective is to arrange these three-dimensional blocks flush against the board with no spaces showing. Jenna and Brianna are still in first place, and knock this checkpoint before the other teams even get there! I really can't believe that they're in the lead and are doing so well! The other teams are still putting in work, doing the best they can, but have a lot of time to make up. During the fourth checkpoint, Don't Get Tired, each team has to stand on two tires to travel across the room. If your feet touch the ground, you have to start all over. It's a very slow and steady checkpoint, and Jenna and Brianna have to start over once, Cara Maria and Jamie manage to get to the checkpoint, and see Jenna and Brianna, but the girls are still pretty far ahead of them. Jenna and Brianna keep working well together, and finish the first stage first! Eventually Cara and Jamie, as well as Cory and Mitch manage to finish, though no one knows at this point what their times are. Unfortunately, the laps around the complex really had an impact. However, this is the Final, so it's supposed to be tough.

This entire episode only went through ONE stage. There are FOUR more, and there's no clue what's going to be next! Because this is a timed event too, this is still anyone's game! The teams are headed to a new location within the city, and I'm excited to see what they have to do next week!

The season finale of The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines nairs ext Wednesday at 10 p.m. only on MTV! 

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7:31:00 AM

The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines is winding down! Picking up from last week, four teams head to Berlin for one last challenge before the final: Cara Maria and Jamie, Aneesa and Rianna, Cory and Mitch, and Jenna and Brianna. They are all so excited to pack and head get to the city to get this money! At this point, though, Aneesa is annoyed with Rianna, and wants her to have more heart to get through this competition. Rianna is irritated too, feeling like Aneesa has not taken the time to spend time with her and grow closer. I understand both sides. At the end of the day, in Aneesa's viewpoint, this is a competition and you have to put forth the effort. However, if morale is low because you're not talking to or you don't have a good relationship, that harms the team.

That day, the house says goodbye to Turkey and hello to Berlin! The architecture is absolutely beautiful, and the hotel they're staying at is pretty cool too. Everyone has has a toast to celebrate them all making it this far. The next day, they even go out to see the sights, and it's cool to see even watching from home. Berlin is definitely on my travel bucket list! While they're out, Rianna and Aneesa get into a tiny argument, and Rianna expresses that she's over trying to be Aneesa's friend. Rianna vents later to Cory and Mitch, and they advise both Rianna and Aneesa to speak to each other. Turns out that, even though they're cousins, they didn't really know each other before this apparently, and never hung out. (We find out later in the aftershow that they really just met shortly before the show started taping). So, with that in mind, it's clear now why they didn't have the tight-knit relationship that other bloodlines did. Rianna doesn't appreciate the fact that Aneesa doesn't trust her, after she dropped everything to be here for her. However, it's hard to trust someone fully you're still learning about. Aneesa wants her to check back into the competition mentally, which is understandable.

The next day, the teams go to compete in their last challenge before the Final! TJ announces that the teams will play "Truck Crossing" at a former Soviet Union airfield. The goal is for each team to go from one 18 wheeler to another...having to hop over five cars in between that are going 40 mph the entire time! The team with the fast time will win, and head straight to the Final! The losing team will go straight into The Pit.

The challenge looks fun and scary at the same time! Cory and Mitch choose the order, and pick Cara Maria and Jamie to go first. They manage to make a decent time, as all of it comes down to keeping up momentum and not getting nervous. However, they tell a story about how scary and hard it was to try to intimidate the other teams, but Aneesa sees right through it. During her and Aneesa's heat, Rianna is scared as hell, and it shows. However, Aneesa pushes Rianna the whole time, and they do well, as do Jenna and Brianna. Mitch and Cory go SUPER fast and finish in record time! At the end, T.J. announces that Rianna and Aneesa are the losing team, and will be going into The Pit. Mitch and Cory win again, and snag a spot in the Final! They also have to choose one team to go against Aneesa and Rianna, and TJ tells them to make a decision right on the spot. They make a smart move and choose Cara Maria and Jamie, which sucks for Cara. That also means that Brianna and Jenna are guaranteed their spot in the Final!

That night, the cast goes to party in Berlin, but it's hard for Cara to have fun. She even tells Mitch that she doesn't want to talk to him and Cory. I understand Cara Maria being mad, especially with the competition coming to an end. However, at the end of the day, it's a game, and each player and team has to play smart. Aneesa is over Cara completely, from the girl's attitude to her accent. In fact, Aneesa ends up going off on her on the ride back to the hotel. They both throw low blows at each other, but I think they're both frustrated for a few reasons. One, at this point, they have all been around each other for weeks on end, and that's enough to make anyone crazy. Two, they are both upset and frustrated about The Pit.

The next night, TJ announces the final elimination round in The Pit, which is an all girls round. Aneesa and Cara will play "Mine Not Yours." The game is simple: you have to wrestle a bar out of your opponent's hand, and the best two out of three win. This is a game that Aneesa has played before, so she has a good idea of what to do. However, it's a dirty game! Both girls play dirty by throwing elbows and what not, and it's really all about who wants it more! Surprisingly, Cara Maria is able to win two rounds, and sends Aneesa and Rianna home. Aneesa and Cara end up apologizing to each other for their fight, and Aneesa makes up with Rianna as well. It's obviously emotional because both teams wanted it so bad, probably more than the other two teams if you ask me. It hurts even more too to lose right before the Final.

At the end of the episode, TJ warns the remaining teams to get rest because this final is SERIOUS!
At the hotel, everyone pops champagne to celebrate. I really wonder though how this final is going to be. Every year, TJ says that this will be the toughest Final, so I wonder what the folks at MTV have up their sleeves this go around!

Check out the teams competing in the Final on The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines next Wednesday at 10 p.m. only on MTV! 

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10:59:00 AM

The Challenge of the Bloodlines was definitely eventful last night! Picking up from last week's episode, five team remain and it's a family reunion! As TJ announced last week, everyone is now back with their bloodlines. As everyone relaxes for the night, TJ sends a text saying, "Tomorrow's challenge will show which one of you will weigh your teammate down!" It definitely sounds like this will be a challenge testing endurance, and now that everyone is with their individual bloodlines, who knows what will happen!

The next day, TJ announces that this challenge will be no joke. In fact, this is going to show who will be able to make it through the Final! In the challenge "Weight for Me," the teams will race up a mountain, complete various checkpoints along the way. The major catch is one person will have to carry a heavy bag (40 lbs for the girls, 70 lbs for the guys), and the other person will have to complete the checkpoint. They will switch tasks after every checkpoint. The team to complete all of the checkpoints first will win, and the last team to finish will be automatically going to The Pit. With the game THIS close to the end, every team needs to dig deep to guarantee their spot in the Final!

The checkpoints are relatively simple. The first is crawling under a net military-style, and the second pulling a chain into a circle that you stand in. The third is go over and under a few beams, and then using a rope to swing up onto a huge balance beam and walking across. The fourth is climbing monkey bars, and the fifth is solving a puzzle. However, when you add a strenuous walk up a mountain with a heavy bag on your back, these simple tasks can be a little agonizing afterwards!

Having to carry 70 pounds, the guys quickly get tired, and, surprisingly, Aneesa and Rianna pass everyone! Cory and Mitch especially struggle, since Cory only has one ACL and he seems to be overexerting himself. Like I said, with this hard walk, the simplest tasks are difficult. Vince struggles at the balance beam, which allows Jenna and Brianna as well as Jamie and Cara Maria to get ahead of Johnny and Vince. Rianna and Aneesa manage to keep their lead for a while, but Rianna really struggles with her job of getting across the monkey bars. Just about everyone passes them because her upper body strength is seriously lacking.

Though Cory and Mitch are in last place for the majority of the challenge, everyone manages to catch up at the very last checkpoint: solving a puzzle. It all comes down to this stupid puzzle that no one can seem to figure out! Though most of the teams struggle with this puzzle, after all of their issues, Cory and Mitch manage to win, solving the puzzle in less than a minute! Cara Maria and Jamie unfortunately get last and have to go to The Pit, which sucks because they're a good team. As the winning team, Cory and Mitch get to choose any other team to go against Cara Maria and Jamie. Even though Johnny tries to campaign to stay out of The Pit, Cory and Mitch play smart and throw Johnny and Vince in. It's definitely going to be a show with Cara Maria and Johnny going against each other!

In The Pit, the teams play "Through Thick and Thin," There are two walls and two puzzles. The objective is to take a sledgehammer through the wall, and solve the puzzle behind it. Both teams easily make holes through the wall for each person to climb through. However, this kaleidoscope puzzle is what trips everyone up! It's even more confusing than the puzzle was at the challenge! At one point, Johnny and Vince think they have it, but it ends up being wrong. In a very surprising upset, Cara Maria and Jamie are able to pull through and send Johnny and Vince home! On one hand, I'm upset because I love to see Bananas win, but Cara has never won a Challenge, so I kind of want her to see her make a final and get a win. This is major for her and Jamie, and definitely brings good morale going into the

It's down to four teams: Cara Maria and Jamie, Cory and Mitch, Aneesa and Rianna, and Jenna and Brianna! TJ congratulates them, and reveals that they are headed to Berlin, Germany, for one more challenge before the Final! Can't wait to see how this plays out!

Check out all new episodes of The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. only on MTV! 

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11:23:00 AM

The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines is always throwing us all for a loop! Picking up from last week, the house has another fun night out. In a confessional, Johnny admits he doesn't want to go against Abram because the guy is crazy. Abram himself still wants to get rid of John still, though impressed by his tactics.

The next day, the cast has their next challenge, "Air Pockets!" There's is a giant boat way out to sea, with a flag 150 feet away from the boat. Each player has to swim to the flag...underwater!  There are six air pockets (small cases where the players can get air really quick), and each one only has enough room for two people. Each person will have to catch their breath to get to the next air pocket, having to keep moving forward to keep making room for other team members. If you come back up for air, you're disqualified. The team who gets the most people across to the flag the fastest will win. And, since this is a guy's elimination day, each team will have to vote in a guy from the losing team for elimination! With the game being so close to the end, you definitely don't want to have to go in now!

These air pockets are probably a good seven feet or so underwater. I don't swim all that well, so this is a scary looking challenge to me!  The Red Team fails one by one. In fact, John and Abram are the only ones to even make it to the first air pocket! The two work together, surprisingly, and make to the end in a decent time. The Blue Team manages to get quite a few players to the first air pocket, but Jenna, Mitch, and Vince both freak out, and end up swimming back to the surface. It comes down to Jamie and Mike who manage to make it to the end.

Since only two players made it from each team, it all comes down to time! Once again, the Red Team wins, so each team has to pick a guy from the Blue Team to go into the Pit. TJ announces though that this is the last challenge as the Red Team and Blue Team. From now on, each player will go back to being a team with his or her bloodline. It's great for some...not so great for others!  At deliberation, there are four guys to pick from: Vince, Mitch, Mike, and Jamie. After no other guy steps up, Vince makes the point that Mike has been volunteering all this time, so basically why stop now? Mike stupidly does! However, others really wants Vince in so that Vince could lose and Johnny goes home. Johnny goes around politicking per usual, telling different people to vote for Jamie so that there is a possibility of Cara going home. It makes perfect sense, since Cara's the strongest girl. However, will Johnny's arguments work?

At voting, Mike votes himself in again, which, again, is STUPID, especially this late in the game. Then again, Mike and Abram seem like the type to do these challenges because they have to prove something to everyone. I'd be there for the money, and I'll be damned if I'm not doing almost anything I need to do to make it to the end, including staying as far away from elimination as possible!  After his great politicking, Johnny gets the majority of the Red Team to vote for Jamie. Abram goes off on everyone with this rant about how everyone is letting this game turn them into bad people and blah blah blah. Okay Pastor Abe. It's a game...people manipulate to win. Calm down. It's interesting though that, by the end of the night, a couple will be torn apart. Either Abram or Cara will go home since their bloodlines are competing!

In The Pit, TJ gives the cast yet another surprise, bringing out vets CT and Zach! Instead of facing each other, Jamie and Mike will compete against Zach and CT in "Hand It Over!" There is a giant wall with three different poles at different levels. It's a basic game of tug-of-war, with each guy trying to pull the pole through a hole to get it on their side.  In the event of a tie, whoever manages to hold on to the poles the longest, between Jamie and Mike, will win. Either way, these guys are screwed. Do you see CT and Zach?!!

This challenge sucks for Mike and Jamie, not only because CT and Zach are super strong, but also because these guys have NO gloves. It means that there really needs to be a strong use of legs on the wall. Jamie doesn't use his legs, relying more on his arms, and he quickly dies out. Mike manages to do a much better job of holding on than Jamie against Zach,  though both guys get crushed. With these guys, it ends up just being about who can hold on for dear life the longest, so it comes down to time. In the end, Jamie manages to pull it out, sending Abram and Mike home! It's great for Johnny of course, since he sent home probably his toughest competition. Cara's a little glad too because now she can focus on just winning instead of worrying about Abram. There's really only one team standing in her way: Vince and Bananas!

Check out all new episodes of The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. only on MTV! 

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10:58:00 AM

The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines has been going by so quickly...we're already on the eighth episode! Picking up from last week, Bananas confronts KellyAnne about the Red Team planning to throw the next challenge, so that she and her bloodline Anthony aren't nominated for The Pit. In fact, they want to throw in Cara Maria to go up against Brianna or Rianna. KellyAnne doesn't know what she wants to do, on the fence about playing the game dirty, even though Johnny tells her to stop thinking with her emotions. Anthony manages to convince her to do things their way in order to make it to the final. Everyone plays a little dirty on these challenges...it's just the way of the game. However, Jamie peeps KellyAnne and Anthony's alliance with Johnny, and wants to work to send them home.

At the next challenge, T.J. pays tribute to Challenge vets Ryan Knight and Diem Brown, who both passed away last year. He brings out another Challenge vet, CT, who Diem dated for a long while, and Diem's little sister Faith, which is definitely an emotional moment. T.J. lets the cast know that their challenge is over a mud pit, just like Diem's own challenge in The Duel, "Ring Toss," where Diem first took off her wig vulnerably as she was recovering from her first bout of ovarian cancer. It was a beautiful moment to watch again, because she was so open and strong.

C.J. and Faith come back to simply do a demonstration of the day's challenge in honor of Diem. In
"Too Clingy," the teams will have race up a ladder, go across a cargo net and then climb back across underneath the cargo net to come back to the finish line. If you fall, you are disqualified. The team to get the most players across in the fastest amount of will win. Both Faith and CJ fall, but it's fun to watch them try. It proves to be a struggle for a lot of people, since it requires a lot of strengh and the cargo net gives a lot when you put your weight on it. The Blue Team ends up gettting four out of seven people across. During the Red Team's heat, Johnny and Anthony plan to throw it, and hope that at least one girl falls as well. Johnny even pretends to help Rianna across, but she eventually falls. Johnny tries to make his disqualification as convincing as possible, but NO ONE is buying it. Anthony pretends like he's having a hard time too, but no one is convinced by him either, and even yell at him as he seems to reconsider his decision. He dramatically drops, and both sides are so mad at him. KellyAnne, of course, comes to the defense of her cousin, and goes at it with Jamie a little bit as well.

The challenge came down to time, since the teams got the same number of people across. After all of that, the Red Team STILL wins! Now KellyAnne and Anthony are in serious danger of being voted into The Pit! At deliberation, after a close vote, the Blue Team votes in Jenna. The Red Team still votes for KellyAnne, with Johnny even voting for her trying to go along to get along. Of course, KellyAnne calls out Johnny about that vote later, and now Anthony sees that he was just being used as a pawn. This is nothing new from Bananas. I respect him as a competitor, because he plays the game well, both physically and mentally. His tactics aren't always right, but he has managed to do very well.

That night, the house parties, and CT and Faith come out to hang out with them. Faith shares memories of her big sister, and even Johnny gets a little choked up. As the house parties into the night, Vince comes up to CT drunk and gets in his space for no reason. Before CT can act out, he decides to just walk out with Faith. CT has grown up!

On elimination day, Jenna plans to win and come back with a vengeance. No more Miss Nice Girl! Meanwhile, KellyAnne is nervous, but Anthony tells her to just give it her all. At the Pit, Jenna and KellyAnne compete in "Spun Out." The elimination round consists of performing two simple tasks. The catch is they will be spun for a bit right before they have to do them! Starting at the top of a platform, each girl will sit in a swing and be spun all the way down to the ground. In the first heat, they will be spun and then have to stand on one leg on a pole for ten seconds. They will then have to be spun again, and put logs in one vertical column. The girl who finishes in the fastest time will win!

This spinning is very quick and very long!  I don't know why, but KellyAnne's swing always stops before Jenna's, putting Jenna a bit behind, especially in the first heat However, in the second round, Jenna stacks her blocks quicker. KellyAnne's blocks fall over, which puts her behind. Though the game was close, T.J. announces that the winner is Jenna, sending KellyAnne and Anthony home! I have to admit, Jenna has held her own this time around, seeing as though this is her third time being thrown in The Pit! She must have been training beforehand or something! This loss sucks for Johnny, since he lost yet another part of his alliance, and now has a bigger target on his back!

Next week, CT is back...and he's bringing yet another vet: Zach! What is going on?!

Check out all new episodes of The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET only on MTV! 

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7:15:00 PM

The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines was too psychotic last night! Picking up from last week's back to back episode 5 and episode 6, there are eight teams left in the house. Johnny talks with Vince about breaking up the rookie alliance by revealing the truth about Cara Maria's flirtation with Thomas to Abram! That will absolutely shake things up in the house! It's a diabolical plan, because EVERYONE knows that Abram is straight up crazy and unstable! Vince eventually tells Abram that Cara and Thomas have been spending time together, going beyond flirting, but Abram wants to get the facts first. He doesn't trust Johnny and Vince since they haven't really talked this entire time. However, that seed is planted in Abram's head, and he's the type to let that news sit until he goes off!



Later that night, Abram confronts Cara, but, surprisingly decides to just let it go, while Cara plots revenge on Johnny. She later goes to Abram, and tells him that she's given Thomas massages and egg sandwiches, but that's all. Abram is still offended, and tells her that she's going to vote Thomas in the elimination as if that will prove her loyalty to Abram or something. Cara just wants to smooth things out with him, but he just seems really controlling and possessive.

The next day, Abram confronts Thomas on the bus before the challenge. The twins state, contrary to Cara's belief, that they have made no promises to Cara and Jamie to protect them. Abram shows Cara how Thomas and Stephen truly don't care what happens with them, and is now gunning to get Thomas out of the house. Though everyone is a little on alert because of how insane Abram is, Johnny still gets a kick out of watching everything!

At the Challenge, T.J. announces that the teams will be playing "Hand Me Down." The objective is to use ropes to travel from one beam to the other, while suspended 650 feet in the air! Whichever team gets the most team members across wins. Aneesa quits without even stepping on because of the heights, getting the Blue Team off to a bad start. However, they stay neck and neck with the Red Team for a little bit. It's a really difficult challenge for some, since it involves upper body strength, and a breeze for others. The Red Team ends up winning yet again! It's a difficult challenge, though because it doesn't really matter if you win or not. If your bloodline goes home, you go home, so it's really about being able to form alliances outside of the challenge. No one's truly safe. This day is a guy's elimination, so both teams have to vote someone from the Blue Team to compete in The Pit. IT.J. gives the cast until the next morning to make their decisions.

Mike makes it easy on everyone, volunteering himself again for the Blue Team. This time, they listen and agree to let him go in. Still stupid to me, but he wants to prove himself. Abram wants the Red Team to vote for Stephen to get rid of Thomas. When Thomas calls out Abram for calling them up on the bus, and then decides to vote in Jamie, Cara easily decides to vote for Stephen. At elimination, it's decided that Mike and Stephen will go into The Pit. The Red Team votes for Stephen overall. Johnny, of course, is THRILLED.

That night, the teams walk into The Pit to see two kind of living rooms set up with a sledgehammer, crowbar, and other tools in front, as if the guys will be destroying the rooms! T.J. announces that Stephen and Mike will be playing "Home Wrecker." How ironic. Using the tools provided, they have to smash everything down to fit into a small hole to clear out the room! Mike is KILLING IT, using the tools and even ripping apart stuff. Stephen struggles badly because he's just not as strong. Mike easily wins, sending Thomas and Stephen home, exciting Abram! When they get back to the house, however, Cara vents to Jamie about wanting to break up with Abram's crazy behind! In fact, she had planned to leave him when she got back. She hates that he's here, and doesn't want to be distracted by his antics. I understand her logic, but she chose to stay with him! Instead of being honest, she's playing these games that she's too old for. If you can't do it anymore, then you need to leave!

Check out all new episodes of The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET only on MTV! 

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9:06:00 PM