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On the last episode of The Challenge: Total Madness, Jenna Compono earned her red skull in an edge-of-your-seat challenge against Tori Deal. After his fiancee’s elimination, Jordan Wiseley vowed revenge for Tori’s ouster. But it’s a guys’ elimination week and there are two men going home because this episode is a double-elimination.
To find out what happens and who gets eliminated this week, follow along with our live recap but be warned of spoilers. Do not keep reading if you don’t want to be spoiled.
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8:00 — When we last left the intrepid Challenge participants, Jenna Compono chose to stay in the game even though her boyfriend, Zach Nichols, was haranguing her to quit and come home so he could yell at her about some nonexistent cheating.
So she put herself in the elimination and beat Tori Deal by the skin of her teeth. Tori’s fiance, Jordan Wiseley, is now on the warpath.
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8:05 — Jordan vows to get a red skull as soon as possible because he has no reason to be there without Tori, so he needs to know he can participate in the final. Wes Bergmann, meanwhile, says Jordan has to go, so perhaps this is the week of a Jordan-Wes showdown in the arena?
Meanwhile, Stephen Bear and Kailah Casillas are just openly making out all over the place. She is also ready to get Nelson Thomas’ butt into the elimination battle after he was such a jerk to her.
8:10 — Challenge time. This week, the challenge is called “Decontamination” and they’ll compete as individuals. The challenge involves racing through foam where they have to look through a window to get a sequence of flashing lights. They then must place their colored discs in the order. There will be three rounds. The fastest man and woman win and are the first two Tribunal members.
But after explaining how the challenge works, host T.J. Lavin reveals that it’s a double elimination week, which means there are two red skulls and two eliminees. Juicy!
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8:15 — Round 1 is Josh Martinez, Mattie Breaux, Chris “Swaggy C” Williams, Kaycee Clark, Jenny West, Cory Wharton, and Wes. Mattie, Cory, and Swaggy work together to divide up the sequence, but it doesn’t matter — Wes still wins this round. Mattie comes in second.
Round 2 is Dee Nguyen, Rogan O’Connor, Faysal “Fessy” Shafaat, Melissa Reeves, Bayleigh Dayton, Jenna, and Nelson, whose strategy is to wait in the foam until people have a lot of colors stacked up and then just have to do the final five colors. But Fessy gets his stack first and wins that round for the guys. Then Dee wins for the women.
8:25 — Round 3 is Nany Gonzalez, Kyle Christie, Aneesa Ferreira, Tula “Big T” Fazakerley, Bear, Bananas, Jordan, and Kailah. Aneesa, Bear, Kailah, and Nany are working to get Kailah into the Tribunal so that she can protect Bear.
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Bananas wins for the guys this round because he kind of found a way to cheat. At the end of the flashing lights, he could see a reflection of the lights, so he could get the sequence without going through the foam. Sneaky. It’s no surprise that he wins. Big T wins for the girls.
8:30 — Between Big T and Mattie, Mattie ended up with the fastest time. Between Wes and Bananas, the fastest guy ended up being Wes. Wow! He won without having to kind of cheat like Bananas did. Wes and Mattie choose Bananas to bring into the Tribunal because Wes wants to stay true to his secret alliance.
8:35 — The way this works is that the house will vote two guys into elimination, then the Tribunal will interrogate four guys and pick two of them to join the first two in the arena. Nelson immediately starts campaigning to the women not to vote him in. Yeah, good luck with that.
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8:40 — At the house vote, everyone votes for Fessy, Bear, and Nelson, with Fessy and Nelson getting the most votes. But in the course of voting Nelson in, it comes out that Nelson told a bunch of people “If you don’t say my name, I won’t say your name.” Jordan is a bit rankled to hear this because he thought Nelson only told him that.
8:45 — At the bar that night, Nelson confronts Kyle for “throwing him under the bus.” Um, Nelson? You got caught telling everyone the same thing, so why don’t you just grow up and admit you got got by Kyle and Jordan. It nearly turns into a full-blown fight.
8:50 — Back at the bunker, Big T is a bit inebriated and in her drunken ranting about people being slobs, she cuts her foot on a chair and is bleeding all over the place. Medical is called in and Big T starts freaking out. She ends up getting three stitches at the hospital, but she comes back with a bandaged foot and some crutches.
8:55 — The Tribunal chooses to interrogate Kyle, Jordan, Cory, and Bear. Wes is pretty brutal with Kyle, saying they’re tired of carrying him because he contributes nothing. Jordan basically asks them to put him into elimination. Cory asks for them to trust him, but he knows he’s kind of a lone wolf in the game.
9:05 — The challenge is pole wrestling and the Tribunal chooses to put Jordan in, which they sort of feel bad about because his hand is hurt. But they don’t feel that bad. So Jordan and Fessy are facing off in the first elimination.
9:10 — The second person voted in by the Tribunal is Bear. Kailah gasps like someone just shot him. For crying out loud, lady. Pull it together.
When the challenge starts, the two pairs are holding onto a pole. The first person to wrestle it out of his opponent’s hands two out of three times wins. Fessy vs. Jordan is first.
9:15 — Fessy is so much larger than Jordan that it seems like Jordan is going to get smoked, especially because of his injured hand. It starts off brutal right out of the gate and Fessy gets the pole very quickly.
Jordan fights hard in the second go-round and gets a little beat up and they have to reset because they went outside the circle. However, Jordan’s shoulder took a bad hit and he can barely hold on to the pole in the second round. Jordan is eliminated. He goes to see medical and might have to go to the hospital.
But the bigger news during all of this is that Josh gets hip to Swaggy and Bayleigh’s secret alliance with Wes and he is livid. He’s totally gunning for Swaggy now.
9:25 — In the Bear vs. Nelson matchup, the two players are more evenly matched. It actually takes quite a while for Nelson to wrest the pole away from Bear in round one, but in round two, Nelson makes quick work of Bear and that’s that. Bear is eliminated.
Next week: Josh and Swaggy C get into it, while the challenge involves a water-filled tunnel and there are possible sirens in the background. Seems safe!
The Challenge: Total Madness airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.
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