KTC The Duel Ep. 1-2: The Premiere
KeithNewbern
The cast arrives at the villa in Queenstown, New Zealand. Everyone hops out of the helicopter and stands in front of Keith. Keith introduces them to season one of The Challenge. Keith: "Here you will be divided by random selection and must face eachother in duels throughout the season, two groups of 10, the top 2 in each group will run my final. Throughout the season we will have prizes for you to win in the challenges and in the duels. This season, one person on each group will win and depending on what episode it is, your group's winner will either get safety and the ability to start the safety chain or they will win a prize. But trust me you wanna make that final, because there's 400k on the line, 50k for 2nd place and 150k for first. That sound like money worth competing for?" Posterboy: "That money is gonna be mine, they might as well all give up while they can." AngieKStan: "I want that money bad, but I also want that champion title, so I'm here to win." Back at the house, some drama breaks out as MessyJ and Sobriquet get into a huge fight over a bedroom when Sobriquet tried to shut out MessyJ. MessyJ: "Sobriquet is callous and a complete jerk." Sobriquet: "I'm just looking after number one, MessyJ is as his name implies: a mess." At the same time, an alliance forms between the members of another bedroom as AngieKStan, Josh, Kemi, PosterBoy and Rainolds form an alliance. PosterBoy: "We're gonna run this game, the rest of the cast isn't gonna know what hit them." JessieJedi and KittyCupcake bond over cooking together. JessieJedi: "I feel like she and I really could work together in this game, plus the fact she's nice to talk to helps a lot." When they get to the challenge, they learn about the groups: Group 1: Pink Group @AngieKStan @DakotaMagic @Fiona @JessieJedi @Kemi @KitKat2921 @KittyCupcake123 @Luna @Sobriquet @Yoon Group 2: Blue Group @Coke @Connor @Idolize @Josh @MessyJ @PosterBoy @Rainolds @Space @TheBreeze The cast compete in their first challenge called: Reaching Out In two rounds separated by groups, competitors are locked into harnesses which are all connected to a center connector. On go, competitors will all attempt to reach their own marked zone where a key will be buried. The first person in each group to unlock their harness will win. Pink Group is competing for a prize, blue group is competing for safety. In the challenge, Pink Group takes off as Luna, Dakota and Kemi battle, Kemi falls behind, Luna and Dakota take advantage, trying to get to the end. DakotaFan: "I want this prize, I don't even care what it is, this is mine to win." Luna, seeing that Dakota is getting ahead of her tells KitKat and KittyCupcake to drag Dakota, which they do, allowing Luna to just barely unlock the harness first. KittyCupcake: "Ganging up on DakotaFan didn't feel right, but better to be in good graces with the strongest women here." On the Blue Group however it's a blowout as Coke just dominates the challenge. Coke: "I've shown all the blue team I'm not to be messed with." Luna wins two round trip tickets for an airline while Coke wins safety and starts the safety chain Safety chain picks in order: @Coke @DakotaMagic @Idolize @Yoon @PosterBoy @AngieKStan @Rainolds @Kemi @Josh @KittyCupcake123 @TheBreeze @KitKat2921 @Connor @JessieJedi @Space @Fiona @Luna and @Sobriquet are not picked and join the others, leaving Fiona to pick between Sankey and MessyJ. Despite MessyJ already being a mess on day 1... Fiona picks @MessyJ @Sankey will duel tonight and chooses to duel... @PosterBoy Sankey: "PosterBoy has an ego to him that I'd like to crush." Back at the house: KittyCupcake and Sobriquet get into a huge fight as Sobriquet calls Kitty a coward for helping Luna drag Dakota. Dakota pretends to cry to some of the pink group, gaining her a lot of sympathy. DakotaFan: "Am I upset? Yes. Would I cry about it? No. But I need the pink group to think I'm the victim so I'm not a target." Fiona, KittyCupcake, JessieJedi, Idolize and Rainolds form another alliance called the Five Alive alliance. THE DUEL Sankey and PosterBoy arrive at the Duel. PosterBoy: "Sankey and I came from the same real-world season, so the fact he's calling me out when other people let him out to dry is stupid." Sankey: "PosterBoy and I have a long history I know, but I'm not playing second fiddle to him for another season." Ascender Both competitors start on the ground with both hands on the rope. They must make their way up the ropes, swing across the monkey bars, and release the basket holding his or her puzzle pieces. The pieces will free fall. The competitors must make their way back across the monkey bars, hit the rope, come back down, retrieve the puzzle pieces, and put the puzzles together. The first person to put the puzzle together wins the duel, and the loser is eliminated. Off rip, Sankey goes hard, running through the obstacles as fast as possible, PosterBoy falls behind a lot. Sankey gets to the puzzle and is stumped, allowing PosterBoy to catch up and get to the puzzle but Sankey finishes the puzzle first. # Air Horn @Sankey wins the duel and a Seiko watch. @PosterBoy this ends your time on The Duel, we'd love to see you again. PosterBoy final words: "I'm a little hurt, definitely gonna need to get the knife removed from my back after this season." After the duel, many of the cast members are mad at Sankey for cutting one of their own castmates but Idolize respects it and goes to congratulate Sankey. Idolize: "These people don't understand." Part 2 of the premiere: Back at the house Sobriquet continues picking fights with KittyCupcake and KitKat. Sobriquet: "I'm not afraid to get in these people's faces, they're cowardly." The women pretty much all agree they don't want Sobriquet to stay. At the Challenge: Ring Toss In two rounds separated by groups, competitors will start at their color-designated pole. On go, competitors run into a muddy in-ground pool of water in order to retrieve the rings of other competitors and return them to the starting pole of the same color. When all ten rings of a competitor have been returned to their starting pole, that person is eliminated from the competition. The last person remaining in each group wins. Blue Group results: @Coke - First out, targeted due to being the biggest threat Coke: "What a load of bull." @Sankey - Second out, targeted due to being the pariah of the blue group. Sankey: "Whatever, it's clear I'm gonna be the hated person on this group." @TheBreeze - third out, targeted due to being the only person without any cast members from their Road Rules season @Space - fourth out, same reason as TheBreeze @MessyJ - Fifth out, targeted for being messy and dramatic. @Connor - Sixth out, decided to throw it to let someone else become a target. @Josh - Seventh out, got targeted by the top 2. @Idolize - Eighth out, just lost in the footrace @Rainolds - wins the challenge with 1 ring remaining Pink Group results: @Sobriquet - First out, targeted by the pink group for being negative. Sobriquet: "Lame move, just target the person who speaks their mind, that makes sense." @Luna - Second out, targeted for her move in the first challenge and for winning the first challenge. Luna: "Expected but they better not target me if they know what's good for them." @AngieKStan - third out, got targeted by KitKat and KittyCupcake for basically no reason @JessieJedi - Fourth out, targeted for siding with KitKat and KittyCupcake in the argument of them targeting Dakota. @Yoon - Fifth out - targeted by KitKat and KittyCupcake @DakotaMagic - Sixth out - targeted by KitKat and KittyCupcake @KitKat - Seventh out - got targeted by the rest of the group and only survived this long by working with KittyCupcake @Kemi - Eighth out - targeted by KittyCupcake after KitKat went out @Fiona - Ninth out - Lost to KittyCupcake in a footrace @KittyCupcake wins with 1 ring remaining @Rainolds win a Scratch Live DJ Kit @KittyCupcake wins safety and starts the safety chain Safety chain order: @KittyCupcake @Rainolds @AngieKStan @Josh @Kemi @TheBreeze @Yoon @Space @JessieJedi @Idolize @Fiona @Coke @DakotaMagic @Connor @Luna @MessyJ Sankey isn't selected and joins the others Sankey: "Shocker." MessyJ needs to pick between Sobriquet and KitKat and when the pink group makes it clear they don't want Sobriquet in, MessyJ gives them what they want and saves @KitKat2921 @Sobriquet will duel and chooses to duel @KitKat2921 Sobriquet: "KitKat deserves to go home for their moves, simple as that." KitKat: "Sobriquet picking me was a dumb move, I'm one of the strongest here." Back at the House: Fiona and Space bond strongly Fiona: "I could definitely work with Space this season, I feel like we have similar mindsets." Sobriquet makes an alliance with Yoon last minute to try to gain an ally in case Sobriquet wins the duel Yoon: "Honestly working with Sobriquet just isn't a good offer right now when Sobriquet is such a social pariah." AngieKStan yells at KitKat and KittyCupcake for targeting her when she didn't even have a problem with them. AngieKStan: "In this game, they're dead to me." # THE DUEL Push Me Both competitors start on opposite sides of a pole. In the center of the pole is a flag attached to a carabiner. The competitors must push the pole towards the center and unclip the flag from the ground. Whoever is able to do this first wins the duel. If a player rips the flag off the ground without unclipping it, he or she will be disqualified. The Duel begins with KitKat in the lead, but Sobriquet pushes back, holding their ground for as long as possible. Sobriquet overpowers KitKat, only for KitKat to slam their shoulder into the bar, causing Sobriquet to lose balance and nearly lose the duel, but Sobriquet hangs on. KitKat keeps pushing into Sobriquet and finally gets to the flag and unclips it. # AIR HORN @KitKat2921 wins the duel and a prize of 500 dollars @Sobriquet loses the duel and is eliminated, we'd love to see you back, you never gave up and I really respect that. Sobriquet: "If they think this is the last they'll see of me, they're wrong." People still in the game: Group 1: Pink Group @AngieKStan @DakotaMagic @Fiona @JessieJedi @Kemi @KitKat2921 @KittyCupcake123 @Luna @Yoon Group 2: Blue Group @Coke @Connor @Idolize @Sankey @Josh @MessyJ @Rainolds @Space @TheBreeze 20th: @PosterBoy - Eliminated by @Sankey in Ascender 19th: @Sobriquet - Eliminated by @KitKat2921 in Push Me