The Challenge
The Challenge : USAis hot up up , as the players vie for the grand award of $ 500,000 . With almost half of the roll excrete , the competition is fuck off fiercer . Host TJ Lavin ’s algorithm twist , which was expose after the first challenge , made it unimaginable for team member to roll in the hay who they will be geminate up with for the next day-after-day challenge .
This week , Big Brotheralum Derek Xiao was teamed up withLove Island USAstar , Shannon St. Clair . The casual challenge had the challenger go up up a heavy rig , memorize number , stick out into the piddle , and then solve an equality . regrettably , Shannon pulled a hamstring during her run , and this leave her at a disadvantage .
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Despite trying to clear off her accidental injury as nothing major , the daily challenge achiever , Desi Williams and David Alexander , found Shannon to be a imperfect inter-group communication , and found it leisurely to decide to discombobulate her and Derek into the elimination . The two competitor had to face off against Enzo Palumbo and Justine Ndiba , and although it was a close race , Derek and Desi ’s scheme did n’t stack up .
Screen ranting : This was a complicated challenge . I had problem retain up as TJ was explicate the rules . How are you capable to remember all the steps ?
Derek : There were four coloration , and it was like red , blue , yellow , unripe , lease ’s say . So RBYG . So then me and Shannon were just using RBYG and memorizing a telephone number . So if it was one red , it would be 1000 , and then if it was a park , it would be a 1001 . The integral time we were just trying to learn one number . At the end , the final number was like , 2,432 , so it was 2 cerise , 4 green , 3 red , whatever . I felt like that was a skillful idea , but it ended up being kind of intemperately because we misremember . It was good in possibility , it was awry in practice .
Both of you were not in strong-arm shows beforeThe Challenge . How did you prepare for it going in ?
Derek : Minimally .
Shannon : I was supposed to be an alternate . I was n’t suppose to be on The Challenge , so I did n’t prepare , I did n’t look out the show . I kind of felt like I was very vulnerable in my position , getting thrown in and not practicing , because I have a very much a winner ’s mindset . Like , I do n’t lose . So I just felt so unprepared that I did n’t do my prep . I did n’t watchSurvivor . I did n’t even know the other shows , so I did not train at all for The Challenge . If I bed I was going on , I would have done everything polar . I would have prepare and have done everything otherwise .
Derek : You know it ’s inauspicious because I knew I was go to go on the show and I still did n’t educate . So , I bid I had Shannon ’s excuse , but I tried to train for about the month leading up to the show . I ’m in regularly pretty becoming shape , but I was like I get ta up it to the next level , so I contacted the best personal trainer I know , Kyland Young . I was like , " Yo , can you whip me into physique ? " He had already been training for The Challenge , so I just hopped into his physical exertion . But he trains different . So we would prevail this two - mile mound together and the very first time that I did it , I say , " Yo , Kyland I do n’t opine I could do this , " and he talked me into it . I started walking to the hill , and he put on another 45 pound vest and does the Alfred Hawthorne with me . And then , we get to the top of the hill , and he gives me a 20 - fingerbreadth number to remember . I have 30 seconds to recall the number , and we would run back down to the bottom of the hill , and he quizzes me on what the number was . Every digit that I bewilder wrong , I had to do like a burpee or whatever . This guy is insane . It is in his time to come to win The Challenge .
How did you sense when Desi and David were moot and Desi said you guys were an“easy throw in ? ”
Shannon : I experience like from my perspective on it , I was injured . I also did n’t have an bond with Desi and neither did Derek so talk for myself , I did n’t speak to Desi so much . We had a in force personal relationship after the show , and we were really gracious to each other inside the chemical compound , but we never talked biz together , which was our first mistake . And then me having an injury I knew that the people were n’t going to want to get to a terminal with me if I was injured . So I did see it coming . I did know that there were other pairs that could have die in .
Derek : I intend straight up , Desi might be able to bench more than me , so I ’m not even scandalize by that . Physically for sure , I was not there with the other guys . My entire pitch , I was like , I had n’t acquire any challenge , so I was saying things like , “ My friends will mess up you up if you throw me in . You see the multitude back there ? I receive Kyland , I commence Angela . They ’ll mess you up ! You do n’t require this smoke . ” She was like , “ Are you proceed to give me smoke ? ” I was like , “ Not me but like … hold me back , guard me back . ”
When they did say your name in the arena , were you blindside , or did you know you had a quarry on your spine ?
Shannon : I did n’t palpate like we were blindsided because David and Desi actually pulled us aside privately right before and told us that they were not blindsiding us , and they were live about it in a decent way to let us screw right before we perish in so our obedience to Desi and David . No hard look there whatsoever . I felt like that was the first fourth dimension anyone ’s done that .
Derek : For sure , I think it was emphatically a suffer - up move to do . I palpate like the aim shifted so much that day and throw to let the cat out of the bag to Desi outside the game . We were always Desi ’s number one pick . For her , it was always going to be us and I kind of had the sense that was the font , so I was hear to huckster David the full day . I did n’t blab to Desi until like , 6 promethium that mean solar day and excreting was at like , 7 . So I was pitching David the entire time , and I was really hoping he would swing Desi , but it ’s ruffianly because you and your better half have to get to a unified decision . From their perspective , I insure it . I saw the reasoning why and it definitely made common sense .
What did you recall of TJ ’s twist in the elimination with the Spelling Bee ? Derek , you seemed delirious about that .
Derek : I was honestly right smart too excited . My interior nerd get along out . I get word spelling bee and I was like , " Let ’s go ! " I believe the intact elimination was lead to be spelling . I was so excited . I was like , I ’m not even going to have to lean , I have to stand here and spell run-in , and then we would go home . But watching it back , I was like , I look so lame mightily now cheering that hard for a spelling bee .
Shannon : I mean , it was nerve wracking . For example , Justine begin " cynical " and I get " goggles . " I ’ve been getting a little heating plant on Twitter . I did n’t pick the Book , but for me , I would n’t put the two in a class at all . I think my girl Justine got robbed on that word , but they ended up winning so …
That was one of the secretive elimination . Even TJ lost his voice yell for you guy cable . Where do you cogitate your stacking strategy rifle improper ?
Derek : Pretty understandably , we all saw where it went wrong . 100 % those tire were like the Leaning Tower of Pisa . My original thought was to overcompensate for a height disadvantage because we could n’t reach some of the top of the tires , so I was thinking because I ’m a little taller I was going to pile up and then Shannon could stack around so you do n’t have to rustle the tires as high , you do n’t have to use more brawniness groups . I thought that was going to be a unspoiled plan . But these tires ended up being deflate so as soon as you stack a tyre on , it did n’t have any inflexibility , and they would just devolve off and that terminate up being what lost us the challenge - not pile them decent with a strong groundwork .
Shannon : Just for reference , I am 5’1 and Derek is 6 ft and even in the origin of the excreting the poles were around 10 ft or so and Derek had to step on his tippy - toe to get them off so that was another issue that we ran into . A little behind the scenes that was n’t record was Derek had to make a stepladder for me with two tires so that I could climb up up and get them off . I sense like the tiptop disadvantage was really frustrating for me .
Shannon , on a scale of one to ten , how bad was your hamstring ?
Shannon : Also a small behind the shot , it was a ten for sure , because I hurt it the first fourth dimension in the daily and what was n’t show up was we actually got the equation a couple of numbers off . I had to go run and skip and do it all over again with the pulled hamstring . So I was go up up the ladder with one leg out . I was screaming , it was really bad . It looked like I only conk out once and then amaze to perch all day . We had to go back and do it again , which meant it tore even more the second meter around . I croak to medic , I numbed it with a benumb spray in the ambulance decently before the elimination , I was taking medication , Panthera tigris balm , wrapping it , you name it . It was really , really high-risk . It actually was n’t the first trauma . I tore it prior doing cheerleading . I was on a travel team , so it was like PTSD for me . But I ca n’t hitch around the chemical compound . I ca n’t repose in seam all day . I ca n’t show that I ’m really hurting because we already had a braggy target on our back , so I was running . My leg was benumb as I started to run which helped a little bit . In the sand , it was really , really uncollectible . It pain a month after I left the Challenge . It was the regretful pain in the neck ever . It was so frustrating .
