Nelson is an idiot for trying to throw Kailah under the bus during the nomination ceremony. It severs a potential alliance between them and creates an enemy for Nelson. However, I don’t 100% blame Nelson for getting mad at Kailah. Kailah’s top 3 allies (Nany, Jenna, Kaycee), all burned votes on Nelson for elimination. If you are Nelson, and you know that Kailah is far and away the most political/strategic player out of that group of 4, you probably assume Kailah told them to vote you in.

Kailah is an underrated strategic player that Nelson needs, and I think Nelson is a loyal player that Kailah could use to her advantage. Them fighting helps nobody.

5 Ashley and Bananas bickering

God, these two are in love with each other or something.

When these two people fight, both are losing. Bananas reeks of bitterness and jealousy over the fact that in recent years, Ashley fast-tracked her way into toppling Bananas achievements. Final Reckoning allowed Ashley to eclipse Johnny Bananas in all-time money winnings and completely stole Johnny’s thunder from stealing Sarah’s 137.5k by taking Hunter’s half million. Not to mention, she plays an eerily similar game to him. It sucks watching someone play your game and get gifted what you worked your entire life towards.

Except when Ashley argues with Bananas, she devolves into this person who says he can’t make friends, who he is too old and needs to retire, and that nobody likes him. Ashley needs to realize that Bananas won his first 3 championships solely because he made friends with the right people. Not to mention, she’s only five years younger than him. She is closer to Johnny in age than she is to Tori. Johnny and Ashley need to get married or something; I’d watch that reality show.

4 Wes and Bananas are having fun

Watching Wes and Bananas work together is like in the movie Step Brothers when Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly become best friends. They are frolicking together, playing pranks, doing karate for fun, trying to see if Bananas will invest in Wes’s new start-up. It’s a whole lot of fun between two former enemies.

Cory, Nelson, and Fessy approaching Wes to ask if he’ll throw his influence of power towards voting in Bananas and Wes replying, “I know where you’re going, and I think it’s hilarious” was an all-time Wes quote. Wes was having an internal battle with himself. Everyone else is coming to him for once to ask if he’ll throw in Bananas, and now he has to resist. It was like watching a porn addict reject advances from Lisa Ann.

If Bananas gets voted into elimination, what happens next? I’m not sure CT or Rogan throw themselves in, so we’d have to believe either Nelson or Bear would get throw in to face Bananas. Possibly Jay as well.

3 Dee and Rogan and ___ is the Triangle of Toxicity we never asked

I’m calling it the Triangle of Toxicity because there is no love involved between any of the individuals. Dee still has feelings for Rogan, and Rogan likes to have power/use Dee. Last week, Rogan purposefully went for Jenn as a penile game move, and Dee got ridiculously jealous. Dee went for Jay to make Rogan jealous, and Rogan got upset that she wouldn’t have ubiquitous loyalty to him.

Any fan support for Dee and Rogan as individuals and as a pair is only going downhill from here. They are hitting a level of exposure where Challenge Fans have seen too much. One of the weird things about this show is that at a certain point, fans need less of you. And at the same time, if it weren’t for Dee and Rogan, I’m not sure I’d be able to write these recaps. They’re killers, and they involve other people in their drama. Dee and Rogan made the wallpaper that is Jennifer Lee relevant. Jay got set up for both a rivals and an exes season.

If Rogan had thrown himself into elimination this week and lost, then I feel as though we would have all won. Dee would no longer get tied to Rogan in any storyline, Jay gets the win, and Rogan can start fresh next season.

2 Jay is a Legend