“The Challenge” will not be airing a brand new episode this week however the drama has carried over.
In the course of the Sept. 4 episode of “Battle of the Eras,” Derrick Kosinski and Horacio Gutiérrez Jr. confronted off within the sand in an elimination that led to main confusion for all events. Host TJ Lavin introduced that Derrick beat Horacio within the competitors, which included a battle to put 40 pegs right into a wall amid an endurance problem.
After the episode aired, Horacio claimed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he positioned all his pegs into the wall appropriately whereas Derrick had not. He additionally alleged that manufacturing helped Derrick, selecting up pegs that fell out of the wall and placing them again. Footage did present that Derrick had an empty gap on his wall, as two pegs have been shoved into one. Plus, Horacio mentioned that his ball bought caught whereas on the platform, inflicting him to fall behind.
Selection confirms that, after every week of backwards and forwards and claims made by many solid members, producers held a Zoom name with Derrick and Horacio on Tuesday, Sept. 10, the place they confirmed them uncooked footage of the foundations being informed to the gamers and the complete competitors.
“I feel the pinnacle producers of Bunim/Murray Productions and the individuals at MTV decided to do one thing they’ve by no means performed in 40 seasons — due to the entire unfavorable suggestions — and that’s present me and Horacio the footage, the foundations of how this factor went down,” Derrick mentioned on Wednesday’s episode of the “Challenge Mania” podcast, which he hosts with Scott Yager.
Horacio joined the podcast, saying that producer mentioned, “That is most likely the primary and final time we’re ever gonna do that to anyone. We’re gonna present you guys the uncooked footage together with the foundations.” The footage revealed round 5 minutes of guidelines being informed to the rivals, together with one which clarified the peg falling error.
“The ultimate rule was as soon as a peg is positioned, it counts. All of us missed it,” Horacio mentioned, admitting that he clearly improper. Derrick added, “They did say additionally, ‘In the event that they fall off the wall — they’ll fall off the wall — allow them to fall.’… That was my large takeaway.”
Which means that manufacturing members selecting up pegs that Derrick had already positioned within the wall and placing them again in wasn’t truly serving to him. Actually, it didn’t matter in any respect; as soon as they have been positioned in, they counted.
In the course of the Zoom name, they have been additionally proven the uncooked footage of the elimination, which lasted about 5 minutes. There have been 9 completely different digicam angles — 4 on Derrick, 4 on Horacio and one on TJ. “Each digicam angle attainable was proven,” he added. “It was utterly unedited.”
The ultimate consequence was that Derrick received by 13 seconds. “For them, selecting up my very own pegs took about 4 seconds,” Horacio mentioned. “The ball getting stopped — they mentioned they stopped my time after I got here to an entire cease… it was about seven to eight seconds, if I’m not mistaken, resulting in Derrick beating me by a second or lower than a second. That was their closing conclusion. It was one of many tightest eliminations they’d apparently witnessed.”
“The Problem 40: Battle of the Eras” airs on Wednesdays on MTV at 8 p.m. ET.
