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[Warning: The following post contains spoilers for<\/b> The Challenge<\/a><\/i><\/b> Season 41 Episode 15, \u201cThe Best Birthday Present.\u201d]<\/b><\/p>\n The cast of vets for this season of The Challenge<\/i> has been a mixture of true champs, relative newcomers who\u2019ve been around long enough to technically qualify as vets, and those long-timers who\u2019ve always made it this<\/i> close to winning a season and never quite succeeded. Aneesa Ferreira<\/a> fits firmly in the latter category (alongside Leroy Garrett<\/a> and Nany Gonzalez<\/a>), and after this week\u2019s episode, she\u2019ll stay there, too.<\/p>\n Wednesday\u2019s (November 5) segment saw Aneesa and partner Jake Cornish struggle in the daily challenge, \u201cDirty Drifter,\u201d after she dutifully ripped a series of chains off of a van that was then tugged behind a mack truck, but Jake didn\u2019t follow the rules of the driving portion of the challenge. Womp, womp. Luckily for both, they didn\u2019t come in last \u2014 instead, that honor went to Theo Campbell<\/a> and Adrienne Naylor after the former refused to heed T.J.\u2019s warning to stop trying to help his partner with her part in pulling chains and got disqualified as a result. But when Olivia Kaiser<\/a> and Will Gagnon emerged victorious, it was a bittersweet result because it meant Aneesa and Jake would almost certainly be the house vote to face elimination, since now both of their ally pairs would not be part of the jury vote.<\/p>\n Though Aneesa was close friends with members of the vet alliance \u2014 chiefly, Nany \u2014 she hadn\u2019t been working with them all season, so they weren\u2019t about to throw a vote at one of their own allies out of nowhere just to save her. (Would it have been smart for them to target a bigger threat in the finals, though? Probably.)<\/p>\n Aneesa seemed deeply upset by Nany\u2019s denial of her request \u2014 \u201cI don\u2019t know if our friendship is worth fixing,\u201d she even said \u2014 but she also knew she\u2019d shown more loyalty to Olivia than anyone else this season. After the house vote went as planned, with a nearly unanimous vote for Aneesa and Jake to hit the proving grounds, no one was upset except for, oddly, Aviv Melmed<\/a>, who was suddenly beside herself (and drew some raised eyebrows from her allies like Michaela Bradshaw<\/a> and Sydney Segal, who deemed her a \u201cshapeshifter\u201d as a result of her waterworks display).<\/p>\n In the arena, \u201cLoose Ends,\u201d Aneesa and Jake faced Theo and Adrienne in a race to unwind giant spools of heavy electrical cables and plug them all in. Both Aneesa and Adrienne had just been yanking heavy chains earlier in the daily challenge, so this was an especially tall task for both of them, but they persevered. Despite some communication issues between Theo and Adrienne, though, they emerged victorious from the arena for the fourth time.<\/p>\n Jake, who was actually celebrating his birthday the same day, did bring Aneesa to tears with his pre-arena praise of her \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s more a case of grit and determination, and she\u2019s a workhorse. She\u2019s strong. She\u2019s a tank. She\u2019s solid. She really can dig deep,\u201d he said of his partner \u2014 but receiving kind pump phrases wasn\u2019t what she came for. Aneesa hoped to break the streak of getting so far in the season only to get sent home before the finale, but this was not her season\u2026 again.<\/p>\n There\u2019s always next time, though. Last time we spoke to Aneesa about Season 40<\/a>, she told TV Insider that losing so close to the end was motivation to come back, and she\u2019s been training like a machine<\/a> this year, so count on the Elimineesa to come back again for sure. Will 19th time be a charm?<\/p>\n The Challenge<\/i><\/b>, Wednesdays, 8\/7c, MTV<\/b><\/p>\n