A Banana Split is the ninth episode of The Challenge: Battle for a New Champion.
Description[]
Cracks in the alliances begin to show as one contender works to flip the house vote, and multiple romantic scandals come to a head as one of the players is confronted about being unfaithful.
Challenge[]
Location: Pula, Croatia
Challenge: Doom Sticks
Played in randomly assigned pairs of one man and one woman and one team of three, the challenge consists of three events. For the first two events the last-place team is eliminated, while the winners of the event must eliminate two teams of their choice. For the final event, the team to complete it first wins.
- Event 1 (Speed Sticks): Teams begin with five sticks and must transfer them one at a time to a rack across a field. When depositing a stick teams can bring another team's stick back to the start to slow them down.
- Event 2 (Power Sticks): Teams must pull a sled back and forth across a field, adding a heavy stick to the sled each time they reach an end. They will continue until they have collected five sticks and cross the starting line.
- Event 3 (Pick Up Sticks): Teams must use a pole to hook and move seven puzzle pieces one at a time to the end of a field. They must then use them to solve a puzzle.
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Results:
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Nomination[]
House vote:
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Elimination[]
The Draw:
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Arena: Going Under
Players must collect puzzle pieces submerged in a water tank and arrange them to match the answer key. The answer key can only be seen by pulling a rope to lower the board to the tank. The first player to complete their puzzle wins.
Results:
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$366,000 |
Videos[]
| Battle for a New Champion Episodes |
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"Teamwork Makes the Perfect Work" • "Two Lungs, One Heart, Can't Lose" • "It's a Matter of Semantics" • "I'm Coming Out" • "Countdown to Chaos" • "The Big Mistake" • "So Flip Floppy" • "Struggling to Hold It Together" • "A Banana Split" • "Feeling Used" • "My Own Worst Frenemy" • "A Legend Returns" • "El Saboteur" • "Don't Let TJ Decide" • "Welcome to Conquest" • "Family Knows Best" • "Feel the Bern" • "The Beginning of the End" • "Only One Gets the Crown" |