Physical, Mental, Chance… Your Choice
Episode 6 of Beast Games picks up with Mia winning the suitcase challenge and taking home the deed for a $1.8 million dollar island. With the drama on this island done, everybody heads back to the city. We’re down to 52 people and unfortunately, those numbers are about to be halved.
Of course, with less people now, we get a lot more personalities come to the foreground. Not everybody is liked here, and that could play a part given the next challenges in store for us.
There are three doors just outside the gates. These represent different games – mental, physical and chance. The contestants’ fate is ultimately in their own hands but they need to pick wisely… and somehow they’re all pretty evenly split?
Mental Challenge
The mental challenge begins with everybody taking an intelligence test. The people who score the highest are put on one side, with the lowest scored on the other side in a line. After 15 minutes, this IQ test ends, with the person with the lowest score out of everybody just outright eliminated.
With the players decided, everybody goes head to head in a game of trivia. The thing is, those who score the highest can choose to go head to head with those with the lowest score, and they can even pick the Category for the questions too.
The infamous brothers from the Cube are gone, and they both get eliminated in a rather satisfying manner. There are also a couple of friends that end up having to spell Counsellor (or Counselor for Americans I guess, good thing they weren’t British, eh!) to close things out with.
Chance Challenge
So what of the Chance game? Well, we’ve got a wheel with the number of people being eliminated. The trouble is, if it lands on 16, then every single person will be eliminated and gone. And funnily enough, it ends up on 12. Meaning, 12 people are being dropped and only 4 are staying.
The way this is decided is through a resurgence of those platforms we saw in episode 1. This time, they’re going to drop randomly until 12 people are gone. Miraculously, Mia manages to stay too!
Physical Challenge
The Physical Challenge is where things really start to heat up. We start out with push-ups, and the two who do the most end up as captains. Some people fail are a single push-up, which is pretty funny, but the two chosen are eventually whittled down to Grayson and Michael.
These two pick their players, and with an odd number, the last person who isn’t picked is eliminated outright. There are three challenges, ones testing speed, stamina and strength. After picking the teams at least, the teams are tasked with pulling monster trucks to the finish line 500 meters away. However, there’s a Speed Bump toward the end that’s designed to slow them down.
Despite taking a massive lead, the Pink Team have the best technique and they manage to win.
After the monster truck challenge, next up is a Flag Challenge. One person from each team have to charge up a track and grab Flags, of which there are five in total, each further distances away. The Orange Team absolutely smash it, and they move onto the third challenge.
So now we have the game of stamina. Each team picks one person to dead-hang on a bar for as long as possible against another individual from the other team. Whoever makes it, the other team will go.
Bizarrely, the Orange team don’t pick the person who actually has experience rock climbing, and instead go for a guy who has been watching Survivor and practicing this very task. Well, after a minute we see that he’s squirming! However, we don’t see how it ends as we cut on another agonizing cliffhanger.
The Episode Review
So Beast Games drops another tantalizing cliffhanger here, as it seems like the Orange Team are about to go home. Honestly though, why would you pick somebody like that when you have an experienced rock climber on the team? You can quite clearly see that the Pink Team have a composed guy at the helm and resting all your hopes on an untrained individual like that seems like complete madness.
However, it’s nice to see the brothers knocked out in the mental challenge, which feels like karma, and the mental challenge overall is pretty good. On that same note though, it’s also quite flawed because IQ means nothing next to General Knowledge or intelligence.
Quite why anyone would pick Chance here is bizarre and it does seem a bit too convenient that all the teams are quite split between all three doors as well. I’m not saying it’s planned but similarly, it’s a bit surprising too.
However, everything here is left wide open for next week’s follow-up, which promises to be quite the dramatic affair, especially as we start to drop down to the final 10!
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