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Yeah, I thought he would have asked everyone whether they agreed right there on the spot to let Q be voted out, and then he would have been gone.

Naming the challenge "Domino, Motherfucker!" is hilarious. The jokes about Syrus cracked me up. Ryan says he's been hitting the gym from time off in the old age home. Brandon said Syrus picked a bad time to lose all that weight. 😂 As toxic as Ayanna is, she's been driving nearly all of the drama thus far and it has been kinda entertaining. She always does the most. She can't handle a when someone confronts her about something she actually said, but when she lies about someone else (Janelle and Jasmine) it's all good. Yes. I think she's overrated.

Great! Four episodes in and nothing happens…

Air date: April 17, 2024 on Paramount+

I'm curious at what the end looks like. Once they get down to the final players, how is the winner determined? Do they face the banker in Deal or No Deal? I can't imagine that being how the winner is determined. If that's not it, then what is?

They've never had million dollar prizes for All Stars. It's always been $500K. Jay, and Nicole, and Tony. Cara is younger than Leroy. With the exception of Jay, all of them have made more recent appearances than Averey.

BMP = Bunim/Murray Productions, the production company behind The Challenge.

Ayanna is MADE for reality tv. She's annoying and nuts but also hilarious in her nuttiness. I couldn't help but notice that they follow the same pattern with her. They show her being encouraging toward people and then she turns. Remember on season 2 when she was thrown into her first elimination and everyone was cheering her on and crying at how encouraging she was to her opponent. Ayanna was telling this woman she was powerful, and she's not a quitter and so on. Kendal had her best ugly crying face. Fast forward and we got "Jodie, I ate yo greek salad." This season Ayanna starts off giving Kam all of her praises about how she's "looking at a champion." Then, fast forward she's like "I know it's a little manufactured" and "it's a part of my crazy."

This is the "skull concept" done correctly IMO. It seems like they finally got the execution right this time. They limited the amount of stars to 6. They gave them all out in the beginning. The elimination winner gets to steal a star from anyone that has a star without having to face that person in elimination. Therefore, everyone doesn't get to skate by once they have a star by avoiding elimination. On the flagship, one scenario we never got to see is if two people without skulls go into elimination and all of the skulls are already taken, how does the elimination winner get a skull? My guess had always been that the elimination winner gets to steal one. We finally see that play out with these stars. The elimination winner gets to steal a star from anyone that has a star.

...and why is she suddenly riding so hard for Jasmine? The last time we left off with those two, they are at each other's throats. Jasmine was not with Ayanna's bullshit.

I forgot how Tech used to tell Ayanna to talk less and to let him do more of the talking in season 2. 😂 And she talks in metaphors and cliches. I can imagine her throwing out every cliche she can think of 45 minutes straight. Granted, this is edited but she said Leroy cut her off, and from what is shown it didn't appear that Leroy cut her off. He seemingly waited until she stopped talking. Also, what really cracked me up was Ayanna saying "in the interest of time, we're not having this conversation right now" or something like that... and she just wasted an hour of their time just to say she's voting for Jasmine.

I don't think there was a scenario that could have played out in which Averey's star wasn't taken. If there was an elimination played, anyone that won it out of Janelle, Jasmine or Tina, Averey's star was being taken. I don't think any woman is ready to pull the trigger on taking Cara's and Rachel's stars.

I laughed too. I don't even think that applied when he last played the game. I was like "that don't mean a damn thing." The fact that they showed Tyrie saying that, that was the biggest clue he was going in.

I agree with that. Who would take Rachel's star? She's been out of the game all this time and it's like she's still the untouchable popular girl. I assume people aren't gonna let Cara and Rachel keep their stars, and only trade the third one around.

1) Ayanna looks like she has lost a lot of weight since her last All Stars season. Those Greek Salads are working for her. 2) The winners are pretty powerless as they don’t choose who goes into elimination. That’s interesting. 3) The elimination winner gets to steal a star from someone that has a star. This is how I imagined the Skulls would work on the flagship show if two people without skulls were to go into elimination. They would get to steal one from someone who has one. That’s a much more interesting concept to me than someone with a Star having to go into elimination to defend their Star.