Keith: "Last time on KTC: The Duel. The cast was still dealing with the events of the premiere, with pink group divided as KitKat was now the social pariah of the group, even after winning a duel. MessyJ and KitKat formed an unlikely alliance. At the challenge, Dakota and Space out speeded the competition, gaining safety and a prize. The picks came down to Sankey and MessyJ but MessyJ was the one headed into the duel and due to a prior fight over food, MessyJ called out Connor. At the I Can Duel, Connor underestimated MessyJ, with MessyJ winning the duel. Then on the pink group's Duel day, Josh won for the blue team while Dakota won safety, leading us to MessyJ getting last pick between KitKat and JessieJedi, he chose KitKat, only for JessieJedi to call out KitKat, leading to KitKat once again facing The Duel. At The Duel, JessieJedi got KitKat to overbid and overestimate their abilities, leading to KitKat getting eliminated." The cast arrives back at the house. MessyJ continues to fight with people as he criticizes the pink group for outcasting KitKat over a game move. This only continues to make MessyJ the pariah of the blue group. MessyJ: "I know that it's win or go in at this point, I'm not afraid." At the Daily Challenge: Push Over Competing in heats of randomly paired competitors of the same group, competitors must push one another off a small platform attached to a boat, like a plank, with their hands tied. Each match-up is determined by everybody drawing tokens and competitors of the same group with the same color token go head-to-head. After three rounds, the winner of each final round wins. Pink Group is competing for golf clubs and a private golfing club membership while Blue group is competing for safety. Pink Group: Luna and JessieJedi draw to go against eachother - Luna wins AngieKStan and DakotaMagic draw to go against eachother - AngieKStan wins Kemi and KittyCupcake draw to go against eachother - Kemi wins Kemi: "I can't believe I knocked KittyCupcake off, I thought for sure I'd lose, I need to stop underestimating myself." Fiona and Yoon draw to go against eachother - Yoon wins Round 2: AngieKStan vs Luna - Luna wins Kemi vs Yoon - Kemi wins Final Round: Kemi vs Luna - Luna wins Kemi is annoyed to lose after doing so well. Blue Group: Rainolds vs TheBreeze - TheBreeze barely knocks Rainolds off TheBreeze: "Hopefully knocking off one of the biggest guys gives people less of a reason to call me out." Sankey vs Josh - Sankey pushes Josh off in one push Yoon: "I saw Josh's tiny body get flung like a ragdoll off in one push, I would be embarrassed personally. Idolize vs Space - Space knocks Idolize off Coke vs MessyJ - MessyJ puts up a fight, but Coke dominantly wins the round, pushing Messy off. MessyJ: "Of course I get the best opponent, why couldn't I get Josh or something instead of Coke, whose name is sounding like what they did before this challenge more than anything." Round 2: TheBreeze vs Sankey - TheBreeze barely pushes Sankey off Sankey: "Probably gonna be down in the bottom of the totem pole again." Coke vs Space - Coke pushes Space off with minimal effort. Final Round: TheBreeze vs Coke - Coke demolishes TheBreeze, winning this challenge. Luna wins a full set of Callaway golf clubs and a free private lesson. Coke wins safety and must initiate the selection process! Safety Chain: @Coke @DakotaMagic @Space @Luna @Josh @Kemi @Rainolds @KittyCupcake123 @Idolize With the alliance (excluding AngieK) selected, the outsiders now get to be picked from @Fiona @Sankey @Yoon @AngieKStan and @JessieJedi are not selected and join the others AngieKStan: "The fact my alliance didn't even pick me is telling." Bottom 2: TheBreeze and MessyJ Yoon picks... @TheBreeze Meaning @MessyJ, you are headed back into the Duel. MessyJ: "Go big or go home, I select Space." The cast is shocked that MessyJ is going after someone who just won the daily, except Kemi who respects it. Kemi: "This cast is way too friendly, it's a game and we all want the money at the end of the day." Back at the house, Fiona, JessieJedi, MessyJ and Sankey form an alliance purely to keep themselves out of the last spot of going into The Duel. Space leaves the Five Alive alliance, leaving Four Alive in Coke, Dakota, Josh and Luna. Sankey and TheBreeze get into an argument when Sankey says TheBreeze should earn his stripes. Sankey: "It's true, MessyJ and I have both gone in but they just spare TheBreeze for some reason." Kemi has a meltdown over people not playing the game, calling out the cast for being fake friendly and that they just isolate people on the outside, Kemi's alliance is confused and wonders why Kemi is saying this. At The Duel: I Can Both competitors counter bid on how many items they they think they can lift. If the last player to bid on a number successfully lifts that number of items for five seconds, he or she win. If that player fails, he or she is eliminated. The bids go up, 10, 20, 30 and MessyJ bids that he could lift 40 watermelons, which is insanely high and MessyJ pays for that mistake as... 1... 2... # DROP MessyJ can't even lift it for 3 seconds since it's nearly 600lbs. @Space wins the duel and a Seiko watch. @MessyJ loses the duel and is eliminated, we'd love to see you back. Kemi and Space have a small fight after the elimination. Episode 6: We go to the daily challenge since not much drama happens before Flying Leap Competing two from the same group at a time, competitors will leap back and forth between two platforms raised twenty feet above water, collecting a flag every time they leap, for three minutes or until they fall into the water. The competitor in each group to collect the most flags wins. We go to results... Blue Group: In 3rd place with 18 flags is Coke In 2nd place with 27 flags is Space In 1st place with 32 flags is our prize winner: @Josh Josh: "Phew, after losing that last challenge like that, I really wanted this pick me up win." Pink Group: In 3rd place with 17 flags is Yoon The gap between 2nd and first was one flag. In 2nd place with 23 flags is... ... ... Fiona And in 1st place with 24 flags is @KittyCupcake123 Josh wins two round trip tickets anywhere Frontier Airlines flies. KittyCupcake123 wins safety and must initiate the selection process! Safety Chain: @KittyCupcake @Rainolds @Idolize @JessieJedi @Sankey @DakotaMagic @Coke @Luna @Josh @AngieKStan @TheBreeze @Space is not selected and joins the others. Bottom 2 are Kemi and Yoon. TheBreeze: "I have chosen to save: @Yoon." @Kemi will Duel and chooses to call out: Kemi: "I select Luna, go big or go home." The house is shocked that Kemi wouldn't select a weaker opponent. Back at the house, AngieKStan is frustrated to be near the bottom of the totem pole socially once again. AngieKStan: "I'm trying to keep my cool but I shouldn't be down here with the rejects." The Duel: Pole Wrestle Both competitors start on their knees. They try as hard as they can to wrestle the pole out of the other’s hands. Whoever lets go first loses the duel and is eliminated. The other wins. We begin, Kemi and Luna both battle, minutes go by with them trading blows and struggling, consistently having to be reset over and over, 4 minutes pass as both of them give it all they have. Idolize: "It's a wild fight, they're kicking and pushing and fighting for every single thing they have in this game, both of them want this, you can tell." 4 minutes and 21 seconds in, Kemi loses grip with one hand but barely keeps it going as Luna basically slams Kemi into the ground. And finally 4 minutes and 31 seconds in, Kemi loses grip of the pole as Luna snatches it away and tosses it to the ground. @Luna wins the duel and an Xbox Series X @Kemi loses the duel and is eliminated, we'd love to see you back. Coming up next episode, without a good pariah to choose from, TheBreeze and Sankey argue over who should go in. While on the pink group, after someone who has been on the outs all game finally loses the daily challenge, the group pounces on the chance to send them in and a main character is dragged into the duel with them... Find out all this and more on Episodes 7/8 of The Duel.

Keith: "Previously on KTC: The Duel... KitKat, KittyCupcake and Luna ganged up against Dakota, this led a lot of the pink group to side against KitKat in particular. At the first challenge, despite having a ton of allies and Sankey, their real world castmate going in, Sankey shocked the cast by calling out PosterBoy, and in the Ascender duel, PosterBoy posted a losing record as Sankey won The Duel. At the second challenge, many people were outcasted by their groups, Sankey and MessyJ in particular for the blue group while on the pink group KitKat and KittyCupcake battled for any kind of control in the game, eventually leading to Sobriquet going in and calling out KitKat, but in the Push Me elimination, KitKat came out on top." The cast get to the house, immediately Sankey tries to work with some of the pink group, but most of them turn him down until he approaches Yoon, who just lost Sobriquet last episode. Sankey and Yoon agree to pick eachother in the event either of them is chosen. Sankey: "I'm on the outs, I need to really work my social game if I'm gonna pull something together." While Sankey does this, MessyJ starts picking fights again when Connor eats the food he was making. Connor and MessyJ are pulled apart as MessyJ tries to throw hands with Connor. MessyJ: "It wasn't the food, it was the disrespect to take my food that I made for myself when I left it out for maybe 2 minutes." The cast goes to the challenge where KitKat picks the order. First up are Sankey and KittyCupcake who go quite fast and finish with a sub one minute time. KittyCupcake: "I want to win something and keep myself in a strong spot." Rainolds and AngieKStan go next, with Rainolds tripping and falling, DQ'ing them. AngieKStan: "This is so incredibly frustrating." TheBreeze and Yoon nearly finish until Yoon accidentally touches the bridge. Space and Dakota zoom through it as fast as possible, both wanting the win. Josh falls off the bridge when Josh and Kemi go. Connor and Jessie go and do finish. Fiona slips and touches the bridge, DQ'ing MessyJ and Fiona MessyJ: "Fiona really needs to step it up, I'm the one in danger this round." MessyJ argues with Fiona, only for Fiona to call him out publicly before storming off. Idolize and Luna get it done cleanly but slowly. Coke and KitKat finish slow and steady. Keith: "Our top 3 are Idolize and Luna, Space and Dakota and Sankey and KittyCupcake. In 3rd place... Luna and Idolize with 58 seconds. In 2nd place... Sankey and KittyCupcake with 54 seconds and in first place with 48 seconds, Space and Dakota congratulations." Space: "I'm glad to get a win to my name and something on the board." Dakota: "Staying in power, nobody can take this from me now." Dakota wins an IN72 InFocus projector. Space wins safety and must initiate the selection process! Safety Chain order: @Space @Fiona @Idolize @KittyCupcake123 @Rainolds @AngieKStan @Josh @Kemi @TheBreeze @DakotaMagic @Connor @JessieJedi @Coke @Yoon @KitKat2921 and @Luna are not selected and join the others Yoon: "I have to keep my word to one of you, I select... @Sankey" @MessyJ is not selected and will enter the duel MessyJ: "I'm calling out someone who can't compete to save their life, come on down @Connor" The house is shocked that someone is already targeting Connor of all people. Connor: "Over the damn food? What is this guy's problem?" At the house, KitKat2921 and Idolize bond a lot. Coke, Connor, Dakota, Josh, Luna, Space and Yoon form an alliance, which Yoon feels bad about considering that once again, Sankey isn't included. Coke: "We've got the numbers; we have the strength (obviously) this is ours to lose." The Duel begins and it is called: I Can Both competitors counter bid on how many items they they think they can lift. If the last player to bid on a number successfully lifts that number of items for five seconds, he or she wins. If that player fails, he or she is eliminated. Both players bid: MessyJ bids 4! Connor bids 6! MessyJ bids 10! Connor bids 14! MessyJ bids 17! Connor bids 19! MessyJ bids 21! Connor bids 23! MessyJ bids 26! Connor bids 28! MessyJ bids 30! Connor calls him to lift 30 watermelons. MessyJ begins lifting 1... 2... 3... 4... ... ... 5! MessyJ successfully lifts the 30 watermelons for 5 seconds. @MessyJ wins the duel and an Xbox Series X. @Connor, unfortunately this ends your time on The Duel Episode 4: KitKat2921 and MessyJ bond over being outsiders. KitKat2921: "MessyJ and I aren't afraid to be rude and nasty because we both know these people aren't gonna take us out." The cast goes to the Challenge, called: Roller Derby Competing in heats, competitors race around a roller derby rink in roller skates. The first person to complete ten laps, or be the last person standing, in each heat will advance to a final round. On straightaways, competitors can knock one another over - if a player falls over the outer railing, falls into the inside of the track for three seconds, or clings onto the railing, they are disqualified. The winner of each final round wins. Blue Group Heat 1: Idolize, MessyJ, Josh and Rainolds MessyJ is DQ'd for touching the rails Josh wins and advances to the final round Heat 2: TheBreeze, Sankey, Coke and Space TheBreeze gets DQ'd for going out of bounds Sankey wins and advances to the final round TheBreeze: "I was moving and uhhh, I guess I just kept moving a little too far out of the rink." TheBreeze was still going out of bounds, and nobody came to help him as he was calling for help until after the round ended. Pink Group Heat 1: Dakota, Fiona and JessieJedi Fiona goes out of bounds like TheBreeze Dakota wins and advances to the final round Dakota: "Everyone here should be scared of what I can do." Heat 2: KitKat2921, KittyCupcake and Yoon KitKat: "I need this win bad, I can't let myself lose." Everyone looks focused and ready to go and they take off where... KitKat2921 is disqualified due to grabbing rails. KittyCupcake123 is disqualified due to being off the track for 3 seconds. So within 7 seconds Yoon wins by default. Yoon: "That was... something alright." Heat 3: Kemi, Luna and AngieKStan Kemi goes out of bounds AngieKStan wins and advances to the final round. Blue group final heat: Both men get ready to go and... Sankey is disqualified due to grabbing rails within 3 seconds. @Josh wins! Pink Group final heat: Yoon is off the track for 3 seconds and gets disqualified but it's actually close between Dakota and AngieKStan but... # AIR HORN Dakota wins! Josh wins a 2006 BMW K1200R motorcycle. Dakota wins safety and gets to start the selection process! Safety Chain: @DakotaMagic @Coke @Yoon @Josh @AngieKStan @Rainolds @Kemi @TheBreeze @KittyCupcake123 @Idolize @Fiona @Space @Luna @MessyJ @Sankey is not selected and joins the others. MessyJ has to pick between JessieJedi and KitKat2921, and quite obviously MessyJ: "I select @KitKat2921" JessieJedi will be headed into the Duel JessieJedi: "I call out KitKat2921." Once again despite KitKat barely getting saved, KitKat will be headed into The Duel Rainolds and Space bond strongly. The Big Alliance of Coke, Dakota, Josh, Luna, Space and Yoon are not getting along as Yoon leaves the alliance. The Duel: I Can Both competitors counter bid on how many items they they think they can lift. If the last player to bid on a number successfully lifts that number of items for five seconds, he or she wins. If that player fails, he or she is eliminated. KitKat2921 bids 1! JessieJedi bids 3! KitKat2921 bids 8! JessieJedi bids 11! KitKat2921 bids 12! JessieJedi bids 20! KitKat2921 bids 25! JessieJedi bids 27! KitKat2921 bids 32! JessieJedi calls KitKat to do 32 watermelons. KitKat begins to carry the watermelons 1... 2... 3... ... # DROP KitKat2921 fails to lift the watermelons for five seconds. @JessieJedi wins the duel and a Seiko watch. @KitKat2921 loses the duel and is eliminated, I'd love to see you play again. Players Still in: Pink Group: @AngieKStan @DakotaMagic @Fiona @JessieJedi @Kemi @KittyCupcake123 @Luna @Yoon Blue Group: @Coke @Idolize @Josh @MessyJ @Rainolds @Sankey @Space @TheBreeze Eliminated: 20th: @PosterBoy eliminated by @Sankey in Ascender 19th: @Sobriquet eliminated by @KitKat2921 in Push Me 18th: @Connor eliminated by @MessyJ in I Can 17th: @KitKat2921 eliminated by @JessieJedi in I Can

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