Home of the Brave is the season finale of The Challenge: USA 1.
Description[]
The remaining players fight to secure spots in the fast-approaching Final. Who will survive the brutal conditions and TJ's twists and turns to earn the Challenge USA crown and $500,000?
Challenge[]
Location: Argentina
Challenge: Getting Tired
Players will start by swimming across a 500 meter long lake, until they run and find an abandoned town. The complex they run to is filled with tires and tokens. Tokens are worth one point, with tires being worth various amounts of points. The higher the point value of the tire, the more difficult it is to get. After retrieving one item, players will run one kilometer back to their station to put their tires back to get points. The man and woman with the most points will win the challenge, while the woman with the least amount of points will be sent to elimination. In the case of a tie between points, both players of that gender will win, as there is no tiebreaker.
Results:
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Elimination[]
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Arena: Pole Wrestle
Originally played in The Duel, players will start in the center of the Arena both holding on to a pole. On TJ's signal players will try to push, pull, or drag the pole away from their opponents. The player to wrestle the pole out of their opponent's hand twice wins.
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Final Challenge[]
Location: Patagonia, Argentina
This Final Challenge will be played in stages where The Algorithm will randomly pair people together. Players will compete to win their stage to get the most points. First to finish each stage gets 5 points, second gets 4 points, and so on. Due to Ben being medically disqualified before the start of the final, one woman will randomly be selected to run each stage alone. If one partner quits in a stage, then the other partner is disqualified as well.
Day 1[]
Checkpoint 1:
Players will swim 500 meters into freezing cold water to get to the shore. Once on the shoreline, they need to solve a puzzle.
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Checkpoint 2:
Players start on a run. Then they will have to eat a plate full of onion and garlic with a drink of lemon juice. Then they will run along a path while solving a series of equations along barrels that they will run past along the way. First to get to the end and get the correct number will get five points, and so on.
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Checkpoint 3:
Players will memorize a series of numbers and run to collect a decoder wheel. Once they run the full distance, they will use the decoder wheel to decode a message. Players to get their message first will get five points, and so on.
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Checkpoint 4:
Players will move all of their dirt from a pile into their designated area. One player may rest in the tent while the other works on their dirt pile. This will go on throughout the night. The first players to move all their dirt will get five points, and so on.
Results:
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Day 2[]
Checkpoint 5:
This checkpoint is worth double points. The remaining players will run to the top of the mountain as a solo player. The run to the top has some stops players must complete before continuing. The first stop is a hexagon puzzle where players will fill in a hexagon with other shapes so that everything fits. The second stop is a sudoku puzzle that needs to be completed before continuing. After that, it's just a run to the top of the mountain. The first man and woman to touch the flag at the top of the mountain will win ten points, and so on.
Results:
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Final Results:
With all the other players having quit or been disqualified, points are no longer needed. The only two people to finish are declared as the winners.
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Notes[]
- ↑ During Checkpoint 1 of the Final Challenge, Enzo quit during the initial swim, which also disqualified Desi.
- ↑ During Checkpoint 4 of the Final Challenge, Angela was disqualified due to not attempting the checkpoint in an attempt to conserve her energy.
- ↑ During Checkpoint 5 of the Final Challenge, Tyson, Domenick and Justine all quit together during the sudoku portion, and Cayla also later quit at the sudoku portion after catching up to them.
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- This episode references the last words of the song "Star-Spangled Banner”.
| The Challenge: USA 1 Episodes |
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"The United States of Challenge" • "Oh Say Can You See Tiffany" • "Declarations of Independence" • "Liberty and Justice for All" • "In Tyson We Trust" • "A Civil War" • "State of the Unions" • "Independence Day" • "Nevertheless She Persisted" • "Pledges of Allegiance" • "Home of the Brave" |