re: The challenge: Spies, lies, allies

Shitty way for Kelz to go out. His partner was completely useless. Hopefully he can come back another season and get Fessy one on one in something physical.

I wouldn’t be picking Tori after winning an elimination. She’s just going to get stolen again and you end up with a shitty partner. I think Amber would be the way to go.

I'm legit mad you have a beast in Kelz I'm hyped thinking it be a head banger and it's a freaking puzzle. What a waste I wanted to see something epic and I got a freaking puzzle. Just imagine if the Johnny CT backpack was a puzzle instead we would have missed the most epic moment in challenge history.

They have to go back to the gold skulls because to many vets are punks that let freaking Josh lead them.

Cory's partner has a laugh that almost knocked me on the floor.

This is a cool challenge, but seems like one of the easiest ones they’ve ever done.

Nany talking about Nelson and Berna getting close and Ashley flipping out. Foreshadowing?

Damn, another partner randomly gone. I dig me some Amber B though.

Josh to Amber: “Luckily you’re walking into the game working with me. I’ve never been more focused…” Okay, Josh. You giant puss.

Emy needs to calm the frick down. Good Lord.

Devin talking about Ashley going nuts at the bar. Foreshadowing?

Good for Kelz seeing right through Fessy’s bullshite. If Fessy and Josh are gunning for Kelz, then that may be who I’m pulling for.

How stupid is Nelson. Knowing Ashley is gonna go ballistic. Bertha? Hahaa. Here comes all the Ashley meltdown. A little earlier than normal too.

Man, this deliberation is great. Kelz is calling our Josh for straight up lying. It won’t matter I don’t think, but it’s fun to see. I love that he was like “just say you’re shook and want to vote for me.” But people aren’t gonna rock the boat and they’ll vote for Kelz. And then Kelz still takes it in stride and gives props for it being a smart move. I love this dude but have a feeling he’s going home.

I feel like I like Ed too. So either one that comes back
I’m good with it. I guess it depends on Emy for Ed though.

I don’t think I like the whole “you can choose any guy and any girl” thing. I liked it at first but it basically renders alliances meaningless (which is why they did it I assume), at least for teams. It’s not a fight anymore about “I don’t want to throw her in because he’s her partner too.” You just throw in whomever you want to. And then letting the winners steal anybody they want to kinda sucks too IMO. There’s just no consistency to the game whatsoever.

Damn. Sucks for Kelz. But when you’re a beast that’s a big target. At least he got to call Josh out for being a giant puss.

I like Ed though. Never heard of him but he seems like good TV.

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Agreed 100%.

Allowing them to pick any girl and any guy regardless of teams just doesn't work very well with a partnered game.

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I think it changes the game strategy in a neatly for a season device anyway. it can only affect up to 6 people at max each week. Will be a growing impact as players get eliminated through the season its a larger % of players impacted. alliances between teams matters less and individual alliances matter much more as the agency can essentially snipe individual players.

if you win challenges/eliminations you get to protect/craft your own team. Some balance from valuable players getting traded too frequently may not form a great team. it mostly just might hurt partners of those who are stolen by the challenge winner as they just get shuffled to form a team of untraded.

debate/vote to eliminate people differently. You can potentially steal a strong player for the final, selectively eliminate a teammate. keep a bum or two around to weigh down the threats. maybe times where its smart to inflitrate a team for an average partner if it leaves your target with even worse team match.

It really sucks we didn’t get to see Kelz do a physical elimination. Ed is sneaky good. I feel like people will like him and he’s clearly smart and athletic.

CT again is just outsmarting everyone by not opening his mouth at all it’s just interesting he doesn’t get the bananas treatment really

ETA also lmaooo at this girl stealing Devin. It’s a good pick just funny that devin of all people is the one they are taking

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1. They gotta start doing daily challenges where you can get more of a feel for who’s winning throughout. Show us a number tally at the bottom of the screen or something to see how many bags they’re getting. I hate not knowing until the end. Races and things where people get knocked out are so much better as you get a feel for how things are shaking out.

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They showed the bag total for several teams as they were crossing the finish line, including Kacey & Emanuel getting 28... so when TJ said 30 for Fessy and Esther it was all over. I don't know why they didn't show the total for everyone.

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Only other comment is that totally sucks with Kelz. That dude was becoming my absolute favorite for how he was handling himself in this episode. Totally calls out Fessy for being a scared bitch and coming to him for a deal. Then, when Josh straight-up lies and makes an entire story up, he absolutely evicerates him. “If I was doing deals, you wouldn’t be the one to know boyo”. Boyo is such a fvcking great way to insult a grown man, god the Brits are excellent at the English language. “Just admit your shook on me” lol, perfect.

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Yeah, he owned that deliberation, too bad it was already set in place to vote him in.

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2. They GOTTA rethink this whole partner elimination thing. If they keep it like it currently is, we’re never gonna get any of the true great physical one-on-one eliminations. Last night’s elimination sucked, and I agreed with people who said the guys were basically rendered totally useless and at the fate of their partners. I reeeeeally hope they mix in some eliminations that split up the guys and girls into one-on-one battles.

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I think it would be better overall if they just did guys vs guys and girls vs girls.

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At this point, I hope Josh gets Covid and has to leave and they bring Kelz back.

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Fixed it for you.