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[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for<\/b> The Challenge<\/a><\/i><\/b> Season 41 Episode 5.]<\/b><\/p>\n Another GOAT of the show headed home on The Challenge<\/i>\u2018s latest episode \u2014 though not for the reason you might think.<\/p>\n Wednesday\u2019s (August 27) new episode of Vets and New Threats<\/i> picked up right where the last one left off, with the remaining competitors dealing with the aftermath of Johnny Bananas<\/a>\u2018 elimination. His showmance partner Dee Valladares<\/a> staged an impromptu memorial on his now-empty bed, fit with an actual banana and a \u201cno feet\u201d sign as a wink to his apparent kink.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Olivia Kaiser<\/a> mused that his exit would have the unintended consequence of uniting the rookies against the veterans, and she seemed to be right based on the hush-hush bunkroom gathering Aneesa Ferreira<\/a> accidentally (or maybe intentionally) crashed.<\/p>\n After that, Cara Maria Sorbello<\/a> revealed that she needed to leave after receiving bad news about her mother\u2019s health and saved her biggest goodbye for fellow Bostonian Chris \u201cC.T.\u201d Tamburello, who offered to leave right alongside her.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is harder than The Challenge<\/i> itself,\u201d she said of what she faced at home. \u201cThis is my escape. This is where I can just go on autopilot and focus on one thing and escape my home reality.\u201d Of her exit, CT said in a confessional, \u201cCara is like a sister to me\u2026 I tell her to keep her head up, and she\u2019s a tough chick, but I\u2019m going to miss her.\u201d<\/p>\n Cara\u2019s exit meant Leo Dionicio had no partner, but instead of forcing him to become the next \u201changnail\u201d of the game, host T.J. Lavin<\/a> announced that an alternate was coming into the game \u2014 it was not just any old player, but two-time The Challenge: All Stars<\/a><\/i> winner Jonna Mannion<\/a>. Game on.<\/p>\n The daily challenge was sponsored by (and themed in accordance with) the upcoming football horror film Him<\/a><\/i>. Called \u201cDirtballer,\u201d the grueling challenge required the pairs to work together to dig up giant wooden posts, carry them across a 500-meter field, then set them back into the ground to create a goalpost before kicking a field goal on it to win. Winning the challenge were Michaela Bradshaw<\/a> and Jake Cornish. Coming in dead last were Dee and Derek Chavez<\/a>.<\/p>\n Michaela, despite giving Olivia a spirited speech about her decision to protect someone who wasn\u2019t being targeted, decided to throw their save to Jake\u2019s pal Leo from potential elimination. Then, the house vote became a tie between Yeremi Hykel (whose partner Ashley Mitchell<\/a> was loudly concerned about becoming a hangnail) and Ben Davis. T.J. resolved the tie with a coin toss, which sent Ben into the arena.<\/p>\n The elimination challenge was, like the daily, Him<\/i>-coded as \u201cHim<\/i> Collide,\u201d a variation of the classic Hall Brawl featuring a football. Without much resistance, Derek ran all over Ben and easily won, leaving his partner Olivia as the next hangnail.<\/p>\n Then came the selection, wherein the new partnerships were decided: Michael and Yeremi, Jake and Janna, Adrienne Naylor and Derek, Turabi \u201cTurbo\u201d \u00c7amk\u0131ran and Tay Wilcoxson, Aviv Melmed<\/a> and Cedric Hodges, Will Gagnon and Ashley, Ayoleka \u201cLeka\u201d Sodade and CT, Gabe Wai and Aneesa, America Chavez and Derrick Kosinski<\/a>, Leroy Garrett<\/a> and Izzy Fairthorne<\/a>, Sydney Segal and Leo, Nany Gonzales and Theo Campbell<\/a>, and Justin Hinsley and Dee.<\/p>\n All in all, there wasn\u2019t too much drama in this particular episode, but the look-ahead tells us that things are about to sour up between CT and Turbo \u2014 meaning, the fear that vet-on-vet crimes would begin in the wake of Bananas\u2019 departure might just come true after all.<\/p>\n The Challenge<\/i><\/b>, Wednesdays, 8\/7c, MTV<\/b><\/p>\n