After more than half of “The Challenge: USA” contestants quit during the season finale, cast members began complaining about inconsistencies in the rules.
Tyson Apostol, who dominated all season, eventually ended up falling after being unable to finish a Sudoku puzzle. in meeting with Entertainment Weeklysaid that while Sarah Lassina was able to get out of the first puzzle, the production didn’t let him out.
“I don’t know if she ever came out of Sudoku, there was no one to see her doing it and they didn’t show her doing it on camera,” he said. Lasina, along with Danny McRae, went on to win the season – and they were the only ones to actually finish a Sudoku race and climb the mountain.
He also claimed that one of the producers on the set told him that the rules were in his head, but they weren’t written anywhere. His all-season ally, Angela Romance, was disqualified midway through the final race after she chose to drop out of the competition because she knew she wouldn’t win, assuming she could finish last at that stop.
“She left her motives known to everyone. It wasn’t like she crept out and left the challenge, she was like, ‘I’m going to bed because I won’t even be able to beat anyone at this,'” he said, adding that letting her know it was going to be Ineligible.
However, McCray and Lasina pointed out Podcast “Reality Rundown” That there are rules written on the board, which states that you must complete the challenge to move on to the next round.
Danny McCray on The Challenge: USA
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“If people are like, ‘Okay, she’s just going to take in the end,’ OK, she says, ‘I quit. I will conserve my energy. It’s like you’re not even trying and you have to make some kind of attempt. Kyla [Platt] She was going to have the last thing she ate, but she had to eat everything. “If she just pulled out and took last place, they would have considered it a resignation,” Lasina said. “It’s not fair to take a break just because you think it’s unfair.”
As for the other “inconsistencies,” both Lasina and McRae said they saw some “shaky” rules – but none that gave an advantage to one player over the other.
“I felt like we all had the same rules, we were all able to make the same mistakes. I don’t think any of us have a competitive advantage, and that’s the most important thing to me,” McCray said. ? ” yes. But in terms of determining who won and who lost, I think they did their best to be as fair as possible.”
Lasina, who worked with Apostol for part of the season before their alliance was upended, added, “Who are the people complaining about that? Winners? It can’t be his fault he lost, so let’s blame him for something else. If you don’t win, you don’t win, that is.” You don’t see the winners complain about it because it was fair. That’s fair. Throughout the season, he’s done nothing but chirping about how awesome he was. Now all of a sudden, the production is miserable.”
As for the winnings, everyone is on the same page. The group was told all season that they were fighting for $500,000. In the end, it ended up being half of that.
“We all assumed the prize was going to be one winner, $500,000, because the ‘Champion Champion’ is moving on to another part of the tournament – singles. We made it to the top and I’m like, OK Sarah and I are splitting $500,000, which means we get 250k And then we hear that if everyone crossed the finish line, all their money would have come out of the $500,000, and then Sarah and I split the rest of it. So it was very strange,” said McCray. “We came from Survivor where You get a million dollars. Xavier [Prather] It came from “Big Brother” where she gets 750 thousand dollars. “Amazing Race” million dollars. I’m like, “We’ve done all this by the amount?”
Tyson Apostol for “The Challenge: USA”
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In an Apostol interview, he said that he would not have done the show if he had known the real prize money at first. “They kept assuring us that the winner was $500,000. We all don’t know. And then I asked them afterwards, I was like, ‘It was kind of a dirty move to mislead us this way,’ and they say, ‘Yeah, we thought a lot of you wouldn’t come for $250.'” I was like, ‘I’m definitely not going to be here.’
In a few months’ time, Lasina and McRae will be competing in a special world championship titled “The Challenge” at Paramount+ – but they’re looking to break first.
“You know what’s funny right away when TJ [Lavin] He goes, “You guys have your ticket to the World Championships,” Danny and I looked at each other, like, Can we redeem these tickets? When asked if the duo would play other seasons in the future, Lasina said, “We’ve been through hell.
McCray noted that Major would likely be “too tall” on filming for him because he had a two-year-old daughter at home. When the shoot for Season 38 was said to last 10 weeks, Lasina replied, “I haven’t even taken that long on maternity leave!”
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