Issues received off to a jaw-dropping begin on The Problem: Vets and New Threats‘ premiere, with a surprising elimination that nobody within the solid noticed coming.
The episode started with the 16 pairs of opponents partaking within the first Season 41 problem, referred to as “Mud Ball Insanity.” In it, the teammates had been strapped collectively and challenged to enter a mud pit and retrieve balls that’d been dropped from a helicopter, with numerous level denominations indicated by coloration.
With a U.Okay. alliance rapidly forming — Olivia Kaiser led her boyfriend Theo Campbell and different Brits in that crew, it appeared — the American veterans had been determined to eke out a win. Certainly, new flirtmance companions Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio and Dee Valladares managed to stroll away victorious. This gave Bananas much more energy in the home than he already had simply by status; he might select one different staff to guard from elimination consideration.
Inserting final within the problem had been Rogan O’Connor, the Warfare of the Worlds 2 champion himself, and his associate Adrienne Naylor, who sliced her foot open throughout the problem and was given stitches and orders to not stroll on her wound for 5 days. Being thrown into the elimination meant sure defeat for her, however fortunately, host T.J. Lavin flipped a coin that determined it was a males’s elimination.
After that, Rogan started campaigning for his mates to ship in Justin Hinsley, who was a lot slighter in dimension than him and never a part of the U.Okay. alliance. The vets wished to focus on one other U.Okay. rank, although, in Jake Cornish (though he was Cara Maria Sorbello‘s associate), in order that they schemed with Johnny to attempt to make that occur. Leroy Garrett talked Bananas into saving Theo in order that it might take one other U.Okay. ally’s vote off the desk within the jury choice, however that backfired when T.J. introduced that the saved staff would nonetheless be capable to vote for who to ship in. With that, the U.Okay.-ers had the numbers to ship in Justin over Jake.
In the long run, although, the vets nonetheless received their approach. Within the enviornment elimination, referred to as “Inertia,” Rogan and Justin had been challenged to maneuver a human-sized hamster wheel system throughout a set of bumpy tracks each methods, with the primary to take action rising victorious. Rogan’s power was solely a part of the equation, which gave Justin a combating probability. Although they each received utterly worn out within the effort, Justin managed to get sufficient, ahem, inertia to maneuver his wheel backwards and forwards throughout the tracks earlier than Rogan made it previous the second bump. With that, one of many muscliest members of the home — and a U.Okay. alliance member at that — was despatched house packing first.
What this implies for Adrienne stays to be seen. T.J. mentioned she was a “hangnail” and must make mates in the home to get again into the sport. He additionally teased that there’d be some adjustments to the groups on the best way, too. Dun dun dun….
For now, the ability staff is undoubtedly Johnny and Dee — though she appears much less comfortable about being on prime (and thus an automated goal) than him.
The Problem, Wednesdays, 8/7c, MTV