Chariots of Mire Physical Race / Mental

One thing I've found about Survivor: Fiji is that it has a lot of creative new challenges, and a lot of those new challenges never really appear again on the show. I'm not sure what the reasoning is for this, but right out of the gate, we get a pretty cool challenge that is, to put it simply, a Survivor: Fiji exclusive. Each tribe puts two of their members on a small chariot. The rest of the tribe is tied to the chariot, and they must race forward in order to pull the chariot as fast as they can. At several points, the tribes stop, and the two people in the chariot need to untie a bag of puzzle pieces hanging above them. Once the tribe gets to the end of the course, which Jeff explains is a quarter mile, they grab their tribe flag, and then race all the way back to the start. Once they get to the start, they use the pieces inside the bags to solve three small jigsaw puzzles, which reveal clues for solving the final puzzle. The final puzzle is straight from the "Wall to Wall" challenge in Survivor: Panama, where you have a slotted wheel, and you have to spin it a certain amount of times clockwise, then counterclockwise, then clockwise again, and if you do it correct, the slot facing you will have the correct bag. In this challenge, the correct bag contains a knife, which is used to chop a rope, and the first tribe to chop their rope wins the challenge. I really like this challenge, the chariot section in particular is great, especially as a first Immunity Challenge, because it demands that everyone, literally, pulls their weight. Some seasons have first Immunity Challenges that allow the weakest players to sort of go by unnoticed, but that is not a possibility in this challenge. The challenge is fairly back and forth between the two tribes; Moto takes the early lead, but about halfway into the challenge, they slow down, and Ravu pulls ahead, all the way until the puzzle. But at the puzzle, Moto is quicker to solve than Ravu, and Moto wins the challenge, securing themselves as the "Haves" for the season.

4/5

Supply Ships Physical Race / Mental

This is an interesting challenge; it takes a pretty generic idea we've seen before– paddling out in a canoe and collecting floating objects on the way back– and gives it a pretty cool twist that makes the whole thing feel pretty fresh. Throw in a fun puzzle at the end and I think this is a quality challenge. Each tribe has three floating crates they need to escort back to the beach, and the way they accomplish this is hooking each crate to a long rope which is bundled around part of the boat. When a tribe gets back to shore, they all have to work together, pulling on the rope, in order to drag each crate back to the beach. Once all of the crates are back to the beach, the tribes can open them up, gathering pieces for a "pole puzzle." This is kind of similar to the stepping stools we saw them build last season in the "United We Stand" challenge, but this pole is a bit more intricate to put together. After all, it is the finishing puzzle of the challenge. The tribes were pretty even throughout the challenge, with the slight edge going to Ravu. Ravu really could have won this challenge, but things got a bit chaotic for them when putting together the puzzle, allowing Motu to once again slip ahead and take the win.

3/5

U Pick, I Chews Miscellaneous Challenge

Food eating challenge, it's been a while! The last one was in Survivor: Palau, and while I enjoyed that one, I did point out that it felt like the weakest one because there was no variety in either participants or food selection. This season addresses both of those issues and we get another great food eating challenge! The format also changes a bit— unlike previous seasons in which this challenge occured in the Pre-Merge, in this season, we are using the Post-Merge format of each round being a timed trial. That's alright with me! We are eating Fijian delicacies, and the first round is giant clams. This really doesn't seem too bad. I mean, it doesn't look appetizing to me, but at the same time, it does look like something the tribes might just catch for themselves at camp using their fishing gear and eat without thinking much about it. The second round is octopus; octopus definitely has a particularly disturbing appearance, especially to someone who doesn't like seafood, but again, for a Survivor food eating challenge, it doesn't seem too awful. I mean, this is something that you could probably find at a store near your house without too much trouble, and I think that small degree of familiarity would make it easier to eat. The third round is peanut worms, and this is probably the worst out of the three. I mean, I don't know for sure, it's not like I'm sitting here trying these foods for myself— I take my write-ups seriously, but not that seriously— but they just look really slimy and tough to bite into. Plus, I think just psychologically, this is the most exotic-sounding food item so far, which sort of has the opposite effect of the octopus. During this round, there's some banter between the two tribes, because Mookie borrows from Jonny Fairplay's playbook and tries taunting Lisi by making gross sounds, which annoys Boo, who accuses Ravu of being bad sportsmanships. Ravu is undoubtedly the more civil tribe here, but I think Rocky actually raises a fair point (which is rare) and basically says that his tribe has lost two Immunity Challenges, and that maybe Ravu wouldn't have such a holier than thou attitude if they were in the same position. Round 4 is sea cucumber, and Earl loses the point for his tribe, saying that it just wouldn't go down because he was so dehydrated. Round 5 is fish eyes, definitely pretty gross. The best round though, is the final round: Anthony vs Papa Smurf— a proven combination for maximum entertainment. Anthony has to score a point, or else Papa Smurf would win for his tribe. Papa Smurf does like an evil little laugh, and then lunges forward, in some Papa Smurf-style taunt, which I'm sure Boo disapproved of. Anthony just kept staring at him, stone-cold, and you could tell that Anthony was feeling pretty confident in himself. However, Anthony could not have known that this round's delicacy, pig snout, was possibly Papa Smurf's favorite food. When Jeff reveals the pig snouts, it definitely looks like the worst item so far. He makes sure to note that you could still see some of the hairs, which is bad enough, but also, I mean come on, it's pig snout. The round begins, and Jeff quickly notes that Papa Smurf is eating the pig snout "like he's done it every day of his life— hammering that snout down!" Suffice it to say, Papa Smurf wins the round. Good game Moto!

4/5

Crab Pots Physical Race

This challenge has a similar concept to the Shipwrecked challenge from earlier seasons, but the way the challenge actually works is pretty different. Once again, we have a scenario where tribe members are trapped in cages which are scattered among various places on the course. The goal of the challenge is for one person to save the next person, and for that person to save the next person, and so on, until all of the tribe members are rescued. Once all but one of the tribe members are rescued, they together form a human pyramid, where the person on top uses a keyring to unlock the final cage which is hanging in the air, freeing the final member and winning that tribe the challenge. The first portion of the challenge, between the starting member and the first caged member, is a short swimming segment. The next few intervals involve running across floating lily pad platforms, which is an obstacle we've seen a fair bit of over the last few seasons. The last interval before the pyramid part involves paddling back to shore. Moto ends up winning this challenge, but because of this season's bottle twist, they have to give it up or else they have to trade camps with the Have-Nots for a few nights. (A pretty bad twist in a season of bad twists, but this is not about my opinions on Survivor: Fiji's twists, so I digress!) Overall, I really like this challenge for being something different, even if it's not the most memorable challenge at the end of the day.

3/5

Concentration Mental

This is the return of the generic memory match challenge from The Australian Outback and Vanuatu. It is once again a tribal version, like in Vanuatu, which is good, but it is also back to being an Immunity Challenge like in The Australian Outback, which is not so good, but it's not the end of the world. My feelings on this challenge, on paper, are the same— it's a fine game, and it's nice to have some variety in the types of challenges, but this challenge in particular just typically makes for disappointing television. However, there is one moment in this challenge, and you may already know where I am going with this, that is truly magnificent. In fact, I think that this moment alone actually raises this challenge's score an entire number higher than what I gave it in Vanuatu. Lisi's turn is up. She starts walking forward... and then she falls flat on her face. And she just lays there for a few seconds, and for a moment, you have to wonder, "did Lisi just die?" If this happened to Yau-Man, it probably wouldn't have been as funny, but if, prior to this challenge, you polled the audience, asking them "who on the Survivor: Fiji cast most deserves to fall face first on the ground?" I think Lisi would have gotten a lot of the votes. I mean, this is Survivor: Fiji, so she would have a lot of competition in that vote, but she would have definitely been a contender. The funniest part is that after she finally gets up, no one on her tribe says anything, and she just goes along like nothing ever happened. There is also a good bit of suspense in this challenge when Yau-Man struggles to remember where the other picture is that he flipped over, which had already been revealed. So overall, this challenge actually has some really good memorable moments this time around, and so I think it was pretty fun this season.

3/5

Crosswalk Physical Race

This is a great challenge, I do not understand how it has only really appeared twice. The members of each tribe are harnessed together in a large, six-point sliding hub, and they have to maneuver themselves through a field of bamboo. This requires a lot of communication and great teamwork to accomplish. The course is tricky enough to navigate on its own, but then, to complicate things even further, each tribe's path to the finish criss-crosses with the other tribe's path, leading to some serious traffic jams which are incredibly fun to watch play out. There is one traffic jam in particular, which takes place towards the end of the challenge, that is especially wild to see. The two tribes are completely tangled together, and you almost have to wonder how they will ever resolve this. Eventually, both tribes become free of each other at almost the exact same time, until they reach another intersection, and once again become completely tangled. At this point, the challenge becomes pretty physical, and there are a lot of grunts and yelps as people become stuck between the turning hubs. After the tribes work this entanglement out, the challenge ends up being extremely close until the finish, where Moto ultimately wins the challenge.

4/5

Blind Rage Physical Race / Mental / Skill

This is this season's blindfold challenge... Ah, good old Blind Leading the Blind. This challenge occurs so frequently, often taking different forms. Sometimes it feels like we are just going through the motions with this challenge and it ends up feeling pretty forgettable. Other times, the challenge is memorable because there are a lot of injuries like in All-Stars. Sometimes it's exciting, sometimes it's mediocre, but in my opinion, in this season, it is perfection. Yes, appearing in over 20 seasons and showing no signs of going away, this is my favorite rendition of this all-time Survivor classic. They nailed it here in Survivor: Fiji. As Jeff explains the rules of the challenge, you will immediately notice just how unique this version of the challenge appears to be. There are really only two formats this challenge ever seems to take— gathering puzzle pieces that are scattered around, or, you have the version where the entire tribe is together and they have to get water and corn from a large dispenser, something we haven't seen yet on Survivor but which we will soon enough. It's always one of those two formats, except for here (and Thailand I guess), where we get something completely different. Like in the puzzle piece format, players from each tribe are going out individually, but they are not seeking puzzle pieces. Instead, their goal is to use Fijian war clubs to smash through skulls which are hanging from above. I just can't get over how awesome this is. First, it is an entirely original and unique idea, which helps to make this challenge, that sometimes feels overused, feel entirely new again. Second, it brilliantly incorporates culture into a challenge which is almost always completely devoid of it. The only other season that really tries to mix culture into this challenge is Guatemala, with the whole archaeologist tent thing. But this is so much cooler than that, which brings me to my third point, which is that this idea of swinging around war clubs to smash open skulls is just epic. It has a unique element of excitement to it, which is, in part, due to the fact that the entire thing feels a little dangerous. I mean seriously, how on earth did production okay this?! Much like the boomerang challenge in The Australian Outback, I'm shocked that they were willing to risk this, but boy am I glad that they did. Just think about this: we have people walking around blindfolded, forcefully swinging deadly war clubs around, their only direction coming from a caller who is pretty far away. Each time a person comes back, they quickly hand the war club to the next person, getting dangerously close to the rest of the tribe with what is, again, a war club. That is just insane, and it's probably why we have never seen a blindfold challenge quite this ambitious again. Whenever someone smashes a skull, the skull explodes into a bunch of paint matching the tribe color, which is just an amazing touch. The skulls release bundles of letters, which at the end of the challenge, need to be used to unscramble a phrase. I just love this challenge's design so much. By the way, this challenge is incredibly funny. The blindfold challenges are often pretty silly, especially if you love that sort of cartoonish "people falling down," "people running into things" humor, but this rendition in particular actually had me laughing out loud for the majority of the challenge. There are so many hilarious moments, from people randomly tripping on the sides of the arena, to people swinging over and over again but failing every time to actually hit a skull. It's especially great when someone pulls back the war club very far, and then takes a huge dramatic swing, only for nothing to happen. But what really, really helps to make this challenge as funny as it is, is something that I think goes painfully unnoticed by many fans, and that is the music. This is one of those challenges that you can clearly tell had a completely original composition, made to perfectly match whatever was going on in the edited challenge. They actually mix a bit of Beethoven's 5th Symphony into this challenge's score, and it works perfectly. The music cues are absolutely phenomenal, and I am not exaggerating when I say that I think that half of this challenge's story is told by the music. And on top of this challenge's hysterical shenanigans, this is also the blindfolded challenge where we get the beautifully comic scene of Michelle, the caller, falling off her podium. I love Michelle, she is precious; she doesn't get hurt, so we can laugh at this. I mean seriously, everything about this challenge comes together perfectly. Perfection is the word I used, and I will stick to it— this is blindfold challenge perfection.

5/5

Warrior's Choice Skill

For this episode's Immunity Challenge, it is the return of the Choose Your Weapons challenge, originating in Borneo but most recently appearing in All-Stars. Survivor: All-Stars had the rule variation where the first two rounds were simply playing for advantages for the final round, but this season, the challenge is a lot more traditional, where each round is for points, and whichever tribe has the most points at the end of the game would win. Each round is worth more points than the previous. The three rounds use the same weapons as the All-Stars version, that is starting with blow darts, then spears, and ending with archery. Yau-Man continues to excel in these types of precision-based challenges. At one point, when Yau-Man pulls far back before launching a spear, Jeff commentates that Yau-Man is pulling the "Evel Knievel," which I found to be an interesting comparison. He nails the spear shot. Then, when Yau-Man is up for the archery section, he searches to find the "straightest possible arrow," and like the amazing Yau-Man he is, he nails that shot too. Once again, it is overall an enjoyable challenge.

By the way, and this isn't really related to the challenge, but I just have to comment on it– after Ravu gets back to camp, Lisi has a confessional where she has the audacity to call her tribe "losers." She says that she is "done with the losers," and then holds up an L sign. What are you talking about?!!! You are literally the person who just a day ago was talking about how you don't care about winning the challenges, and by the way, you didn't even do good in this challenge, you were just as awful! I'm SO BAFFLED.

3/5

River Rats Physical Race / Mental

This is actually the first Immunity Challenge of the Merge, but it is played in teams of two. Why is that? Well, it's because this is another awful twist this season where for the first challenge after the Merge, everyone randomly splits into team teams for this one challenge. (Yeah yeah, there I go again... I just can't help myself at this point!) I do not understand why they did this. It's another obviously bad idea. I just don't get it. Is it possible that they had an extra challenge because of Mellisa McNulty quitting before the season started? Maybe? This season does have a pretty late merge, and maybe they had always planned it that way, and they didn't have any extra individual challenges. But still... why didn't they just wait an extra episode before "merging?" I don't understaaand, but let's talk about the challenge, because it's pretty good. It's another rendition of R.A.M, appearing in Palau and Panama, but this time as a team challenge. In this version, the completed board with all of the symbols is at the beginning of the course, and the empty board is at the end of the course, which is kind of opposite of how the challenge usually goes. Instead of swimming like in Panama, each tribe uses a canoe to get to the other side of the course. Along the way, they have to stop at stations to unwind bags of symbols from spring-like hooks, which is going to become a fairly common obstacle on Survivor. Once at the end of the course, the symbols need to be assembled (each one is split into two pieces), and then placed into their correct positions on the final board. I still think the original Palau version has the most interesting design, but this was a good challenge nonetheless.

3/5

Chimney Sweep Endurance

If you had to pick one challenge to originate from Survivor: Fiji to call a "Survivor classic," it would no doubt have to be this one. For good reason too, this is a great, excruciating endurance challenge. It's painful just watching it. Each person stands barefoot between two walls, their feet on tiny little footholds. Every 30 minutes, they have to step down to even smaller footholds. After about an hour and a half, Yau-Man wins this challenge! Yau-Man is so good. Again, great challenge!

4/5

Torched Mental

This challenge is awesome– but there is a big problem. Let's start with why it is awesome. This is a giant recreation of the board game Battleship! There are many underwhelming ways they could have approached this, but what they actually came up with is pretty cool. There is only one grid, and each person places exactly one "ship" on the grid. The ship is made up out of three squares, and has to be connected either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Then, on each person's turn, a square is selected to be knocked out, and the goal is to eliminate every other competitor from the game, leaving only one's self. My favorite part of the challenge is how cool the challenge team went out of their way to make the process of attacking a square on the grid. It would have been very easy to just flip over a tile or something, but instead, the challenge team continues to prove that it is made up of some very smart people, and when a player calls for a square to be attacked, Jeff turns some dial which magically causes the square on the grid to catch on fire, burning the placards with the players' names who claimed that square. I like to think that they just had a lot of money leftover for this season's challenge budget and they poured all of it into making this, which easily could have been a $10 challenge to create, into something that likely cost them thousands of dollars. All for Survivor Battleship. Early on in the challenge, you have to wonder if Cassandra somehow misheard Jeff when he was explaining the rules, because on her turn, she blows up her own target, for no reason whatsoever. Anyway, the rest of the challenge plays out, and it is all very fun to watch, and we get down to the end of the game, where Stacy finds herself in a bit of an interesting position. It is clear, from how the Xs are arranged on the board, that both of her two competitors' last ships are in the same square. Stacy also has a ship in that square, but if that square were to be struck, she would still have one more piece of her ship intact, and so she makes a strategic decision, attacking her own ship, but in the process, taking out everyone else at the same time and winning the challenge. It's a neat moment! The editing is also very well done on this challenge. You can tell they spent a lot of time with the visual effects to make it as easy as possible for the audience to figure out what is going on. So yes, on its own, this is an incredible challenge; a total breath of fresh air, a break from the super physical challenges while still managing to be entertaining as a viewer. But again, there is a big problem. If you are very familiar with Survivor: Fiji, or you saw the red-colored background over which I am writing about this challenge, or you literally just read how I labeled this challenge– it is an Immunity Challenge. Whyyyy would they do this? They clearly learned from their repeated mistake about making coconut-chop challenges Immunity Challenges, so I have no idea how they made the same mistake with this one. Challenges that have such a strong emphasis on luck should never, ever be Immunity Challenges. There is a ton of luck involved with this challenge. Of course, there is also strategy; Stacy exercised great strategy there in the final round, but there is also a lot of luck, and that is not great. It's perfect for a light-hearted Reward Challenge, but as I have stressed so many times throughout this series, it is bad for Immunity Challenges. Even worse, it makes it very easy to target specific people, because once you hit somebody, Jeff tells you whose name you hit, and so if you want to take that person out, all you have to do is keep guessing squares around the target you hit, since just like in the game Battleship, the ship pieces are always connected. I won't give this challenge a bad score, because it is such a unique and enjoyable challenge, but I do think that its unfortunate placement ruined would actually could have been a perfect score.

3/5

Twisted Physical Race

This is another one of those challenges that plays out in two rounds, where most of the players get eliminated in Part 1, and the finishers move on to Part 2, the final round. Boo had an advantage in this challenge, so he got to immediately advance to Part 2, which is another thing we will see quite a bit of from here on out, as long as elimination-style challenges continue to be a thing on the show. Part 1 is very dull; all each person has to do is dig in the sand to find their climbing steps, and the first two people to do this join Boo for the final round. It is kind of funny though how certain players were trying to throw all of their sand onto each other's lanes to make it more difficult for them. The second round isn't that exciting either, but at least it's kind of unique. Each person has a tall pole, and they need to get to the top of it by using their two stepping stools, placing them around the pole to make it easier to climb to the top. This challenge isn't bad per se, but it's probably the least memorable one of the season.

2/5

Grapple Perch Skill / Physical Race

This is a fun, simple-but-effective elimination-style challenge. It's another one of those native Survivor: Fiji challenges that I am surprised has never returned, because it looks simple enough to set up, and really, it's pretty good! The goal in each round is to use a rope-and-ball to hook onto a hoop and pull it back, lowering a balance beam to be crossed. The first four to complete this move on to the second round, and the first two to complete that round move on to the final round. The final round has an extra step– once you get to the edge of the balance beam, you have to use a grappling hook to retrieve a buoy. Once you are able to pull the buoy out from the water, it causes a second buoy to surface, winning you the challenge. In the first round, Cassandra accidently throws her entire rope-and-ball into the water, which is kind of funny, and Boo ends up beating Yau-Man in the last round, winning the challenge.

3/5

Fiji Braille Maze Physical Race

It's time for an awesome giant maze challenge! But this isn't just any maze challenge, this is the "Braille Maze" challenge, which originally appeared in Survivor: The Amazon. With this, both of the two challenges that originated in Survivor: The Amazon to which I originally gave a score of 5/5 to have returned for the first time in Survivor: Fiji! I guess it makes sense that two great challenge seasons share some of the same great challenges! So yes, this is the maze that you have to complete blindfolded, navigating through the maze only by feeling placards, which help guide you where to go next. Along the way, you have to collect keys. This maze is pretty unique from almost every other Survivor maze, because instead of having one large maze with the different paths leading to different keys, this is more like five smaller mazes all placed together, creating a huge rectangular shape. Each smaller maze contains one key, and in between each maze is a balance beam which has to be crossed. I can't think of another Survivor challenge that involves crossing a balance beam while blindfolded, so this is pretty cool. Overall, the decor on this challenge is extremely good. It's no Guatemala maze, but it is still incredibly impressive to look at. I love how each smaller maze is painted a different color. This is difficult to tell in the picture, but there is water underneath each balance beam, and they actually took the extra time to dye the color of the water in each section to match the color of the maze. I've said it time and time again, these added little touches go such a long way in making challenges reach perfection levels. The more linear design they decided to use for this maze also gave the challenge team a unique opportunity to incorporate difficulty progression into the maze. The red section is the easiest, and the final purple section is the hardest, which is just another example of smaller details really elevating the challenge for me. Fantastic penultimate challenge!

5/5

Hanging By A Thread Endurance

For this season's final challenge, we are continuing the tradition of ending with endurance, a rule which has only been broken once, in The Australian Outback! We are actually nearing the end of this tradition though, something which makes a lot of people disgruntled, but something which makes me quite happy. This is another Fiji-only challenge that deserves so much more than being just a Fiji-only challenge. This should be in the normal rotation, like at least once every five seasons. The rules are that everyone lies on their back on an elevated plank, holding on to a handle. The plank is at a slope, and every 5 minutes, Jeff turns his crank of doom, increasing the slope, making it more difficult to hold on. The angle begins at 35°, and increases in intervals of 5°. To make the challenge even harder, a small but steady stream of water is constantly dripping down the plank, coming out of a barrel that seems to have enough water that the players would never be able to outlast it. The water makes the plank slippery, but I imagine it is also just really uncomfortable to have it dripping down the back of your head like the way that it does. The last person still holding on is the winner! This is a truly brilliant challenge design; I often talk about simple but effective challenges– well, this is more like an impressively-complex but effective challenge. I had a similar level of appreciation for the "Hold Your Own" challenge in Survivor: Panama. I just love these types of endurance challenges that are just functionally, really cool. The crank system that Jeff uses to adjust the angle is particularly impressive, and it makes you wonder how much time they had to spend testing this challenge to make sure everything worked as it was supposed to. If the challenge design alone wasn't awesome enough, there is also a crazy storyline going on here involving the players. As briefly touched on earlier, this is the season with the truck deal between Yau-Man and Dreamz. The deal was that Yau-Man would give up his truck reward to Dreamz, under the very specific condition that if the final 4 came, and both Dreamz and Yau-Man were still in the game, that Dreamz had to try his hardest to win the Immunity Challenge and give the necklace to Yau-Man. In most seasons, this deal would mean nothing. It is so specific, like what are the odds that this scenario would actually happen? Yet here we are, in the Final Immunity Challenge, and Earl has just dropped, leaving only Yau-Man and Dreamz left in the challenge. Has Yau-Man just won this season? He is ostensibly guaranteed a spot in the Final 3, where he would be a strong contender for the million dollars. Yau-Man does end up slipping off the plank here, making Dreamz the final challenge winner of the season. Now Dreamz has a huge dilemma, and we officially have an incredibly strong finale episode for Survivor: Fiji. It's a great challenge with great results, but much like in the Battleship challenge earlier this season, there is just one big problem– I love the challenge, I hate where it's used. I complained about the most unfair Final Immunity Challenge ever in Survivor: Panama, so it's only fair that I complain about the second most unfair Final Immunity Challenge, right here in Survivor: Fiji. I talked about this a lot in my Panama entry, but for me, it is very important that the Final Immunity Challenge is something that I can realistically see anyone winning. Dexterity is the best way to do this, but if you want endurance, at least make it something that doesn't favor a specific body type too strongly. Simply put, this challenge has way too much emphasis on upper body strength. I mean seriously– Cassandra's path to victory at this challenge would have been like five times more difficult than Dreamz'. This is why I don't like endurance challenges as Final Immunity Challenges. Like I said when talking about Panama, they are just too easy to get wrong. Anywhere else in the season, and we potentially have a perfect score on our hands, but in my opinion, its usage as a Final Immunity Challenge is too big of a problem. That's not to say this is a 1/5 like Panama's Final Immunity Challenge, because it's far from it. Panama's last challenge was both boring and unfair; this challenge is just unfair. The concept itself is still spectacular though, and I would be blatantly lying if I said I still didn't get a lot of enjoyment out of watching this one. In the end, it is still a great challenge, it just could have been even better if used at a different point in the season.

3/5