The Challenge War Of The Worlds Episode 12 Recap and Power Rankings
This episode opens with Georgia calling Nany into elimination. The elimination is called Chair’d Remains, and has the competitors select someone to tape up their opponent to a chair. After TJ rings the horn, whoever breaks out of the chair and rings the bell first wins. Georgia selects Turbo to tie up Nany, while Nany selects Wes to tie up Georgia.
The tying portion starts, and Georgia is shouting at Wes as he is tying her up. Wes seems to tie her up in multiple areas, while Turbo focuses on Nany’s wrists. Turbo is going pretty hardcore and seems to be bothering her. TJ blows the horn, and it comes to Georgia and Nany. Georgia gets out in about four seconds and is able to ring the bell, eliminating Nany. Pretty awful elimination, to be honest, to put the fate of a competitor in the hands of someone else (especially because I wouldn’t doubt Nany would have picked Turbo if given the opportunity) was very unfair on the parts of the producers.
Back at the house, Kyle is concerned because Mattie and Wes both have alliances with Cara Maria. He says that if Mattie continues working with Cara Maria, he can’t continue to work with her, and she says she can manage to have loyalties to both.
We get to the mission for the episode, which is entitled Day of Wreckoning. TJ says there will be temporary pairs for today, with guys being able to draft the girls in random order. The pairs are as follows: Hunter-Mattie, Theo-Cara Maria, Paulie-Georgia, Kyle-Dee, Turbo-Ninja, Wes-Da’Vonne. Wes ends up stuck with Da’Vonne, who is clearly not happy about the situation. The mission has the pairs retrieve thrash from a dump using a wheelbarrow and then deposit the thrash back in their dumpster which is at the starting point. The teams with the three heaviest dumpsters win.
Very entertaining mission, everyone seemed to be pushing it to their absolute limit. The tribunal ends up as Paulie/Georgia, Turbo/Ninja, and Wes/Da’Vonne. Turbo and Ninja had a heated confrontation where Ninja yelled at Turbo for spending too much time trying to get the heaviest garbage possible instead of continually moving forward. Dee got involved too, and things got so heated Turbo actually seemed to tear up and pushed Ninja away after being announced as part of the Tribunal. Kyle also dropped the wheelbarrow on his foot and spilled a barrel full of paint all over himself, so he was an absolute mess.
Back at the house, Paulie is talking up throwing himself into elimination against Kyle. Cara is not supportive of it, but elsewhere in the house drama breaks out as Hunter is threatening to leave. Wes tries to talk him down and Georgia does as well, but Hunter seems unfazed. He does actually pack his stuff, but I was always skeptical he’s actually going to leave.
We get to the Tribunal ceremony, where Hunter is the first to come in. He resolves himself to stay, to the surprise of nobody. Theo is next and says he can take out either of Kyle or Hunter. Kyle is next and he and Paulie continue their weird rivalry of passively threatening each other.
We head to the club, where Wes is trying to get Kyle and Mattie to make up. Kyle says he accepts her apology, but their games are going to be more separate from here on. It is apologies all around as Ninja is trying to apologize to Turbo, but he won’t even look at her. Ninja starts to cry while Cara tries to convince Turbo to accept her apology and Dee comforts Ninja.
We get to the Killing Floor, and it looks like it set up as a hall brawl. TJ asks Wes for his vote, and he asks if anyone else is willing to throw themselves in, and the episode ends before we get an answer.
Eliminated
Nany: Good season from Nany, she came back in better shape then she left Rivals III in. She might have been the person most hurt by the individual twist, and for her former partner to be the one to do her in had to make it hurt even more.
Power Rankings
12) Kyle: With an injury and an unfavorable Tribunal, it seems like Kyle’s time could be coming to a close.
11) Theo: I’d bet either Kyle calls out him or he calls out Kyle. He has the advantage due to Kyle’s injury, but if it comes down to the two Brits it could go either way.
10) Da’Vonne: She has been fantastic this season, I just worry that she won’t be able to keep pulling rabbits out of a hat politically and she seems short on allies. Also, props to her for giving it her all in the mission she easily could have tanked the mission and wouldn’t have been blamed for it.
9) Dee: Has a solid set of allies so far but just hasn’t been the level of athlete the women above her have.
8) Georgia: Has been dominant athletically so far this season but pivoting away from Wes could cause her issues politically.
7) Hunter: It feels like this is setting up for him to slide by this episode and even if gets thrown in I don’t think you want Hunter staring you down from the other side of a Hall Brawl.
6) Ninja: Lasting as long as she did in the draft was strange and being in a confrontation with Turbo is not good, but she still performed, and I don’t think man girls want her in elimination.
5) Mattie: Being the first selection shows the impression she has made on the cast and the fact she seems pretty solid politically now means she should see smooth sailing from here.
4) Cara Maria: There really hasn’t been much talk of her going into elimination and she has by far the longest track record of any of the girls remaining.
3) Paulie: I suppose there is a chance of throwing himself into elimination against Kyle, but safety this episode is valuable enough to keep him at the top.
2) Turbo: If we started a final with everyone currently in the game involved, I would pick him to win.
1) Wes: He hasn’t had a big move politically like Da’Vonne convincing Georgia to break her alliance with Wes, but Wes has had an array of smaller moves that have set him up perfectly to skate from here on to the final.
Extra Notes
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