The Challenge War Of The Worlds 2 Episode 10 Recap And Power Rankings

Robert McIntyre
Nov 4 · 10 min read

The episode opens right where the last one left off, with Turbo fighting off security. He seems to calm down to an extent as security and Paulie and Theo watch on. Turbo is clearly still furious and is ushered into a car by production.

Turbo surrounded by production.

The cast heads to the mission where TJ informs everybody that Turbo has been removed from the season. More info on that below, but disappointing after his massive success last season. TJ introduces the next mission as Incoming, a variant on a musical chairs/football hybrid mission played often. Each team will have four players in each heat, with there being one male heat and one female heat. Each round will have progressively fewer balls in it, with players eliminated if they do not acquire a ball. The first team to not have any players left loses, the first team to two points wins.

The men at the start of the mission.

The men are first, and Paulie is forced to sit out by random draw so the teams are even. This mission is as physical as it has gotten this season, and this set-up is always an entertaining watch. Leroy is the first US male across, and Zach soon follows. Theo has the last ball and is one on one with Jordan. Jordan misses the tackle, and Jordan is eliminated The second round goes, and Josh spends half the time tackling Leroy. CT and Josh are out, leaving Zach and Leroy left. Theo is one on one pinning Zach and seems content to just pin him and leave Jogan one on one with Leroy. Leroy puts up an impressive performance, but Jogan is able to handle him and win one heat for Team UK.

Dee attempting to tackle Cara.

The female heat is next, and Smashley and Nany have to sit so teams are even. Cara is first across along with Jenny. The last two are Ninja and Georgia, with Ninja reaching for the end before the ball is knocked out and recovered by Georgia. The next round, Kam takes Jenny one-on-one and is able to pin her, and she and Jenny are knocked out prior to the next round. Kayleigh is able to sprint away from coverage each round and get back easily. Cara, Dee, and Kayleigh end up being the last three remainings. Cara gets to the ball first and Dee and Kayleigh pile on top of her. Eventually, the ball squirts out and Kayleigh picks it up, getting the win for Team UK.

Jordan and Leroy walking from the mission.

TJ then gets to addressing the teams after the mission. TJ asks Team UK for their speaker, which is a disaster per usual. Somehow, Theo, Jenny, and Georgia are under the impression they will be the Tribunal, which is absolutely ridiculous. TJ asks for a vote, and Kayleigh ends up winning (shocker); who takes in Jenny and Joss with her. The house, mostly covered in mud from the mission, heads back to the house.

The teams returning from the mission.

Back at the house, Jordan and Zach ask Tori who she would like to go against in elimination. She says Ninja, considering she was knocked out first this mission. Leroy pulls over Nany to talk to her, and Nany tells Leroy he has to vote for Ninja. Leroy says he can’t do that but still seems to want to work with her. He says he won’t say her name, but she asks him how he is helping her. He asks her how she is helping him, to which she agrees she isn’t.

Leroy talking to Nany.

We head to the nomination table, and Jordan starts talking. There’s a bit of the quiet before the storm, and Zach starts by saying he thinks Ninja is the weakest. Leroy says it can be hard to determine who is the weakest in a team game but figuring out who is a team player is actually pretty clear. Leroy is looked at as the leader of the team and starts off the voting by saying, Tori. Tori and Jordan are obviously incensed by this, and Tori has a confessional that I thought was honestly out of bounds saying Leroy wouldn’t be in the game if it wasn’t for her and using some pretty insensitive language. I love Tori, but it felt like that one crossed the line. Nany says she thought they were attempting to make their team stronger, which incenses Leroy again. Leroy gets really upset, and actually stands up and starts getting pretty heated. I honestly completely understand where Leroy is coming from here. Nany literally says she wanted to make the team stronger, and the clear way to do that (which would also placate his alliance) would be for Leroy to vote for Nany. Leroy probably saves Nany from elimination here, and she still is pestering him about it.

Team US at the nomination table.

The votes from here go pretty much as one would expect, with the PLANCK (Paulie Leroy Ashley Ninja Cara Kam) alliance voting for Tori and the opposing alliance voting for Ninja. It comes down to Paulie, who votes for Tori after some trepidation. Tori tells the Tribunal that she is going to switch if she wins, and she says she wants to go against Smashley. After Tori leaves, Kayleigh says she wants Tori out of the game, and they should put someone into beat her.

Josh trying not to cry after Leroy said all he spends all his time crying.

We start moving back to the house, and Team US is still fighting. Jordan, Josh, and Zach are all barking at Leroy, with Josh at one point calling Leroy the weakest guy. I don’t know what Josh has done to put himself over Leroy, but Leroy mostly just brushes it off. Jordan asks Leroy why he isn’t ready to prepare his team for a final, and Leroy responds by asking when the last time Nany ran with them in the morning. Nany starts screaming at Leroy, and Leroy says he’s not trying to chastise Nany but prove a point that Jordan says the other girls don’t run when that’s just because they don’t see them. Zach is saying they just wanted to put in a weak girl, and the reality is the only girl I think you could argue is weak on their team is Nany. Leroy tells Zach he died on a final just like Leroy did, so what makes him think he is so superior to everybody. Leroy this point goes full Michael Scott in Stress Relief and tells Jordan if he gets into a physical elimination with Leroy he’d be done for and that all Josh does is cry and gossip; and the only options if they don’t like the direction the team is taking is quit, turncoat, or ride to the end.

Kam listening to Kayleigh.

After Leroy’s roast session, we head to a bedroom where Georgia is talking to Zach. Georgia says they need to take out a strong girl on Team US, namely Cara, Ninja, or Smashley (I thought Ninja was the weakest?). Elsewhere, Kam and Cara say they need to get Georgia to go in. They bring in Kayleigh and lay out the situation and show how they need to get rid of Georgia or else if Tori comes over, she is at risk of losing the numbers if anything weird happens.

Joss talking to Kayleigh.

The next morning, Team UK has a meeting and Jenny says they should get rid of Smashley. The team seems to agree, with even Kayleigh contributing. Afterward, however, Kayleigh pulls Joss aside and tells him they need to vote in Georgia. Joss is conflicted morally here, but it is the clear best game move here to put Georgia in with Jenny off the board.

Theo, Georgia, and Jenny yelling at Joss.

We head to the elimination, where this is a massive rock structure in the middle behind TJ. Team US sends down Tori, and TJ asks the Tribunal who they are voting for. Jenny is first, and she gives a long-winded speech before voting in Smashley. Kayleigh is next, and she votes for Georgia, sending Theo and Georgia into an uproar. They immediately start badgering Joss, and TJ again has to call off Georgia and Theo from screaming at him. Joss ends up voting for Georgia, sending her into elimination.

Georgia prepping for the elimination.

TJ introduces the elimination as Blockbuster. Each player is on opposite sides of the structure and has to push the blocks to their opponent’s side. Whoever has more blocks pushed in wins, best two rounds out of three wins overall. The first round begins, and Tori seems to focus on conquering one side of the blocks, while Georgia is moving back and forth. The first round goes to Tori 7–6.

Tori pushing the blocks.

The next round begins, and Tori seems to try to move back and forth quick enough so Georgia can’t keep up. Georgia is playing with a more reactive strategy and seems a tad behind. Eventually, TJ blows the horn again, and Tori wins 7–6 eliminating Georgia. Georgia takes this opportunity to scream at Joss and Kayleigh before being dismissed by TJ. TJ then gives Tori her decision to rejoin Team US or join Team UK. Tori asks the team if they lose again if she will end up in elimination again, to which crickets respond. I probably would have said yes and put in Nany just to get a bullet cushion, but nobody says anything, and Tori goes to Team UK, becoming the first Turncoat and ending the episode.

Eliminated

Georgia: I love Georgia, but she might be the worst politician I’ve ever seen. The one thing that often differentiates success in new players I show quickly they realize politics is a part of the game. She clearly still needs to adapt to that to triumph in the future. Also, Georgia at three separate points in the episode says no Team UK girls is going home, Tori will beat anybody in elimination, and the last person she would want to go against is Tori. The producers really hit us over the head with this one.

Power Rankings

18) Nany: She’s only better than Kayleigh and hard to see how she doesn’t end up in elimination regardless of the result.

17) Josh: It feels like he could go in even if the US wins, although the US could cut him a break if Jordan is causing enough of a stir.

16) Theo: He’s been outstanding so far, but the only jobber left is Josh and maybe Leroy, everyone else is a titan.

15) Jenny: Still has a significant chance to hang on for a few eliminations but has seemingly zero sense of the game going on around her.

14) Kayleigh: Hardest player to rank as she is clearly the worst female left but is also one of the best politicians and clearly has a hold on her alliance. If there’s a purge (which is highly likely considering there has been one the past 4 seasons), she’s odds-on to be gone.

13) Jordan: He’s probably the best overall competitor remaining but is still in an adversarial enough position to push him down.

12) Tori Deal: Even Paulie said Tori was the best female, making me think there is something going on with Tori we just aren’t seeing. I also think Jenny probably gets targeted next over her.

11) Zach: He’s not as unhinged as Jordan and not as bad as Josh, making him the safest of the three.

10) Joss: I moved him a tad lower because if somehow things flip around on the US, he’s probably the guy they target.

9) Rogan: He really has put up a pretty impeccable political game here and should be clean to the final, as long as the UK doesn’t get their alliance flipped over.

8) Dee: Hard to see how she ever sees elimination at this point.

7) CT: Perhaps things get thinned down and he becomes a live option, but for now he looks pretty good.

6) Ninja: She seems to be the consensus worst female player on Team US, which is bizarre to me, but regardless she is still in the power alliance for the time being.

5) Smashley: She’s come up for elimination a few times, and if somehow the opposing alliance was to get power on the UK she seems like the likely target.

4) Cara Maria: Her name has been kind of dragged through the mud, but no reason to think she is in any trouble.

3) Paulie: Slight drop as the clear male target of the opposing alliance, but still is in a very good position here.

2) Kam: Her name has really never come up as a target at all, and she really has seemed like the puppet master behind a lot of the game so far.

1) Leroy: I was originally going to place Leroy somewhere between 4–6 and prepare this spiel about how I really wanted to put him at number one but couldn’t. Then I realized he is one of two guys in a majority alliance that has the numbers on the opposing team as well, seems to have a clear grasp on the game, and is also the lesser target of the two men in his alliance. Outstanding season so far from him, and he has proven me wrong in many respects.

Extra Notes

· Make sure to vote in our Top Male Competitors poll. Voting functions the same way as the Top Female Competitors poll.

· Turbo discussed the details of his DQ with the Turkish media. Not what you might expect, but certainly an intriguing development.

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