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18 04 2008

Biggest Loser Australia 3×66: Eliminee Super Challenge

Posted by: Mythor in Recap, The Biggest Loser

Tonight on The Biggest Loser, the super duper mega eliminated contestants challenge of awesomeness begins!

It’s Cosi, Nicola and Michelle versus Michael, Sheridan and Shannan.
Oh and Commando Steve will be partnering Bryce and Michelle, but nobody wants them to win, right? RIGHT?

Would you like to read what happens during the starting bits of the challenge but probably not the end which will be on Sunday? Well then, read on!

Everyone starts the day nervous and excited, ready for the Super Challenge.

The Final Four… Aren’t going to go watch. Boo!
They’re in the gym training and Alison says they’ve got to keep training hard. “It’s our House!” Kirsten says.
They’ve done the hard yards and now two people could come back in and knock them out.

Speculation turns to who might get through. Alison thinks Commando/Bryce/Michelle is the best chance, though thinks the Michelle/Cosi/Nicola might also be a chance.
Sam’s hoping it’s not Michael and Sheridan because they’d be good chances of pushing him below the Line.
Garry says he hopes whoever comes back in enjoys their stay because it won’t be very long!

Off at the Super Challenge and Ajay’s there in a sort of moss green dress. It’s alright, I suppose.

They’re on the beach, lots of sand dunes.
Whichever two contestants win the Challenge, they’re back in the game. Lose and you go home.
And for the first time ever, Shannan, Michelle and The Commando will be participating.
Michelle and Commando both say they’re there to get their team back into the finals!

Ajay lays out the challenge. First bit is a huge drop down a sand dune.
Bryce thinks to himself that they did it on Day One and he’s fitter and stronger now.

They’re racing to release a flag. They’ll need 11 bales of hay, stacked together, to reach the flag release.
To get the bales, they’ll have to burrow under a steel bar, climb over a wall, then under another steel bar. Then they get to the pile of hay. Each bale weighs 15kg.

Cosi says The Commando having Michelle on his team will slow them down and on Shannan’s team, Sheridan will slow them down. Cosi, Nicola and Michelle are relatively strong.

There’s still one more piece to the challenge, though.
To ensure each trio is working together, the members of each team will be tied together.
Sheridan’s a little freaked out at that. Guess her and Michael don’t go in for that sort of thing?

They all tie off and get their gloves on to protect their hands on the bales.
Bryce says the Commando is a freak. He’s heard stories about him jumping out of airplanes, through bus windows (?) and leaping buildings with a single bound. Bryce is very confident The Commando can get them through.

Everyone has their game face on as Ajay raises the starting pistol.
Sheridan says the descent down the sand dune was terrifying, it was like falling.

Black Team’s strategy for digging under the first steel bar is to have two on each side, one in the middle, trying to dig it all in one go.
Michelle’s team is a little behind, but they squeeze tiny Michelle under to help dig from the other side. The Commando’s team beat them though, as he’s already under there and getting his team to the next wall!
Cosi’s not going to lose it to a guy who’s paid by the decibel and wears sunglasses 24/7 and two other clowns from the dull Black Team!

The Commando, Bryce and Michelle get over the wall and to the second steel bar first.
Shannan’s team gets there second, but Michael falls “arse over tit”, he says. Tying them together makes things difficult!

Sheridan manages to wiggle under the next bar face up. Her boobs get squashed quite badly, but she makes it!
Then Michelle tries to go under face first and gets her teeny tiny body nearly stuck, but she wriggles and jiggles and gets through.

The Commando’s team is all tangled up at the hay bales, but eventually sort themselves out just before Cosi’s team gets there.
Shannan’s confident his team can make up some ground.

The Commando’s team has taken five bales first up - the boys are carrying two a piece and and Michelle is carrying one. Both the other teams take 6.
Shannan’s team get their bales down to the bottom and decide to head back up to the top as the other team’s are doing. Apparently they don’t have to shove the bales under the steel bar, which is disappointing. They’re allowed to lob them over the top.

The Commando’s team has to grab 6 the next time to make sure they kept up with the other team’s. Michelle’s having a lot of trouble, almost dropping one of them but she recovers.
Cosi says the heat was getting to be a problem but what was unexpected was how much the hay rubbing on his legs would end up hurting. It’s breaking through the skin. Combined with the heat, the flies and the sand and they’re doing it pretty tough.

The Commando’s team get back to the wall first and start lobbing bales over the top.
That brings the competitive spirit out in Michelle who doesn’t want to lose!

Michelle the fatty says she was starting to feel a little shaky at this point but The Commando says there’s no time for niceties, fall down if you want, just keep going!

Shannan’s team is in third, but Sheridan says they’re working well together as a team and feeling strong.
Sheridan and Shannan wiggle underneath on their back but Michael ignores them and tries to go underneath bellydown. And gets stuck!
Some more wriggling sets him free, but that’s slowed them down a little bit.

Commando’s team get over the wall ahead of Cosi’s team, but he’s not too worried at that point because he knows Michelle will struggle with the hill.
Michael says being tied together made it tough, especially on Shannan who is a lot fitter than himself and Sheridan.

Commando is urging his team along. They’re lugging the bales up a short way, putting them down, lifting them again, slowly crawling up the hill.
The Commando is trying an interesting strategy. They get the bales halfway up and leave them there, heading back down the hill to get the rest.

Nicola’s breathing heavily and panting away, and she says Michelle is the same and sweating, which was good to see!

Shannan says he had no doubt Michael and Sheridan were giving him 100%, but it made him realise how far off the pace they were compared to those who have only just left the House.
At one point Shannan says to Sheridan to leave her bale behind and just follow him and Michael up the hill so they can lug.

Cosi’s team gets their first load to the top of the hill.
Michelle’s whimpering and whining and carrying on, Cosi says. Fair characterisation. The Commando’s not having much of it either, telling her to come on and keep going.
Eventually The Commando is carrying all her bales too. Cosi says he was like a draught horse pulling a team with a lame horse in it.

It’s very close, Bryce says, but The Commando’s worrying about how to lay out the hay bales, which is very typical of him.

Meanwhile Shannan and his team continue to soldier on. Sheridan isn’t carrying any bales, just Shannan and Michael.
Shannan knows the odds are stacked against them, but he’s not giving up.

Interestingly Michelle is struggling the most in the Cosi, Nicola and Michelle team. But they’re all soldiering on.
At one point Cosi looks down the hill and sees one solitary bale, which he thinks has probably cost someone the race. Whose is it?

And Sunday night the challenge concludes, of course.
And nobody is happy to see whoever comes back into the game.

And at the weigh in… “I just made a rather large accusation and it’s probably going to cost me!” - Kirsten
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    I thought I saw bryce's head sticking through the door when it opened, but I have no idea it was so quick it could've been anyone
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    God I hope not. *g*
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    The editors are generally pretty good with picking up that stuff. Coulda been Sam's head (they've got the same sort of hair/head shape), but I really hope it's not Bryce. I think we can agree that the lone bale on the hill is the one Sheridan dropped? Unless I'm missing something or it's another one of those BL crafty edits.
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    I thought I saw 2 bales, sheriden's one and the new one which made me think Michelle (black) piked on carrying 2 up the hill. Which is why when I saw bryce's head (or thought I saw bryce's head I was surprised to see him
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    How would Sam be both inside and outside the House at the same time though? *g*
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    It was sams head (have a look one the official website at the episode 67 preview). That video shows cosi and bryce both pulling the flag, wonder who did it first?
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    I had another look and I couldn't see whatever you saw Pup.
    The legs of whoever returns didn't look fat enough to be Michelle's though, so there's that?
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    tah I didn't think to go look there :)
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    I think that was the black team who made it into the house. Look at the walk of the winning team into the house and the length of pants of a girl. That short length has only one girl. Pictures included:

    The entry:
    http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/2438/6806583...

    Look who has the shortest length among the girls:
    http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3821/1493672...
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    I thought I saw a certain color bent around the suitcases in the preview ... but of course it might as well be the suitcases of the contestants saying "Good bye". I kinda hope not though. ;)


    C.
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    I'm surprised there isn't more of an outcry, especially from women, about the unfairness of the challenges.
    First of all, in order to get to this point, each of the contestants had to hold a weighted bar on their shoulders. But both the men and women had to have the same 10kg added each time! Men and women don't have the same strength. Imagine if during the next Olympics, men and women had to compete directly against each other in weightlifting and track and field. Do you think there's be any complaints? I can see the headlines now. "NOT FAIR" in big block letters, on newspaper headlines all over the world.
    So how do we fix this? It's been done once before on the Aussie BL. Use a handicapper! These guys are paid to even out the competition and make it fair. On this challenge, the women should have had smaller hay bales to carry, maybe 10kg each instead of 15kg each. And on the weight holding challenge, they would have only 5kg added each time instead of 10kg. Note that of the six players eliminated previously, five were women and one was the guy with the heel spur. Tough for a woman to win this if she has a lower chance of getting through the challenges.
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    Or it could just be that Michelle likes red ribbons. No way to know, heh.
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    You don't suppose the fact that five women and only one man were eliminated, yet there was 3 men and 3 women remaining, tells you anything about the fairness of the challenge?
    In total there was 8 women (Carrianne, Nicole, Nicola, Debbie, Rachel, Monica, Michelle and Sheridan) versus 4 men (Cosi, Bryce, Michael and Sean).

    The only reason more men weren't knocked out is because the women were stupid. ;-)
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    Sadly I'm coming to the same conclusion.
    Fortunately Michelle will likely end up back under the Line in short order and can get punted yet again. Then hopefully Garry and Bryce. Then I'll be a happy little recapper. :)
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    I'm the first to say "it isn't fair" and am very senstive to gender issues.

    But, yeah, I have to totatally agree with Mythor on this one. If there had been a bit more tactical play and team coordination, the ladies could have easily eliminated all the men. All that was required was constant targetting of a single player until they dropped. But Cosi seemed to be the only contestant with his thinking cap on and did a great job manipulating/convincing those around him to target a certain player.
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    Well, that's true. I like Cosi personally, but every other player should have put 10kg on him until he collapsed, while every other player would stand there with an empty bar, waiting. Cosi can hold up under 90kg? Well, let's see if he can hold 120kg, or 150kg, etc. Then when he collapses, you move on to Bryce, etc.
    You are correct when you say that the women could do a better job of eliminating the men. But the point is, if it were an even competition they wouldn't have to think that way. I'll give you an example.
    I imagine that you are familiar with the American BL show. Well, this year there was an episode where the trainers, Bob and Jillian, had a challenge heads-up against each other. They each had to run up an escalator which was moving downwards, and whoever stayed on the longest won. Of course Bob won, because he's a male and had a greater heart-lung capacity. Because he won, he got to choose his own team for the remainder of the competition. Now, do you think he chose 1)all women, 2)a mixture of men and women, or 3)all men? That's right, he chose an entirely male team. Why, you ask? Because men are better at challenges and better at losing weight. If women had an equal opportunity to win, he'd have picked some women for his team. Q.E.D.
    The women aren't showing a lot of brains so far in this competition. Hopefully, next year they'll get wise and play the game a little better. We just had a girl winner in our BL, and the UK had a girl winner, so it's possible. But the odds are stacked heavily against the women.
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    Cosi is just a pain in the arse and thinks he knows everything about everybody! He should be the running commenator on the show 9as they always seem to go for his opinion). He is also a big manipulator, he managed to get Michael to add weight on Shawn's bar in the challange. God I hope and pray that he does not get back in. I rewatched the show this avo and I really think it is Bryce who pulls the flag up first. The video on the BL site shows two different hands pulling the rope, one hand has only a watch on & the other hand has a glove on. The one without the glove is Sheridan (see video, she is the only one without gloves at the end) and the other one is Bryce as if you pause just after the gloved hand puls the rope, you see the Commando and Michelle below and Bryce seems to have his hand in the air in victory. Michelle the trainer was the one to climb up on the bales to pull the rope for the Red Team and she also had gloves on in the end.

    When you look at the bale left behind, its on the closest lane to the picture, and you can see there are two lanes beside it. If that is any indication, then it was Cosi, Nicola & Michelle Bridges in that lane? God I hope so.
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    We haven't had the most recent US season air here yet. It'll probably air late in the year in preparation for the new Australian season. Sounds intriguing though!
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    Cosi is the most interesting/controversial to talk with. When Garry came back with his "secret rock", what did Allison say? "He's got something to hide!" Very good Allison >_>

    Cosi gets people on his side by talking smooth, you can't deny it. But what he says is almost always right on the button. He's an incredibly intelligent and forthrite person who tells it as he sees it, so he gets up people's noses. Honesty is the worst policy if you wanna be liked.

    I'm thinking Bryce and Michelle win the challenge (which is a huge shame. Bryce is an athlete and I don't mind him, but Michelle...dear God no), which disappoints me. Cosi and Nicola are the fittest team but it seems as if it's not to be. I'm confident Sean or Cosi will pick up the $50,000.

    Also, the last hay bale. I thought it was in the centre. I don't think it was Cosi and Nicola's bale, because Cosi comments on looking back and seeing it. You'd think if it was one of his teams he would of run back to get it instead of saying bad luck to whoever dropped it.
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    Except that they can't just run back to get it if it's halfway down the dune because they're all tied together, heh.
    It looked to be in the middle to me, too. We'll see!
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    Yeah, maybe, that was entirely Bob's own choice and maybe, it wasn't. Perhaps for that season the people who pay their wages decided it would be cool to have a ladies vs men competition. Who's to say that if Jillian did win that the outcome would have been any different.....