Nany Renewed: Is The Winless Challenge Favorite Finally Headed Toward Victory?

If "close however no cigar" had a human Challenge equivalent, it can look like Nany. The Real World: Las Vegas export regularly plays solid games, only to watch them unravel at the 99-yard line.


However things seemed to shift on the latest Double Agents episode, and right now that Nany’s officially claimed her Gold Skull, is it her luck finally changing, and may Season 36 be hers for the taking?


Immediately after Devin and Josh were both eliminated as segment of a shocking Challenge Security Breach, players started to feel especially famished for the win…that is, up until they were introduced to the next mission, “Survive the Night.” As segment of the game, players — equipped with very little intelligence — were chained with each other, trapped in cages and told they required to escape.


How, exactly? By consuming food ram testicles, munching on fermented shark and solving several math equations before breaking out of their cells with small saws.


Naturally!


Long story short: Most of the game’s players weren’t so down for the buffet…that is, except Kaycee and Leroy, who chewed by means of the mission like it was cotton candy and racked up their third win as partners.


It was a disappointment to Gabby, Nany and Big T, each of whom had nevertheless to earn a Gold Skull. Although with her two biggest allies in positions of power, Nany was convinced she’d finally get a shot to win an elimination round, her first since Rivals III.


“Season right after season, it’s the same song and dance: I go house right before the final,” Nany mentioned. “For me, this is everything.”


Thankfully for Nany and Gabby, things went exactly as planned: Gabby and Cory earned the house’s Crater vote, while Leroy and Kaycee nominated Nany and Kyle. And in “Ring of Spies,” Gabby and Nany learned they’d have to be as swift as they were strong to snatch the win.


In the best-of-three game, Nany and Gabby had to race to a suspended ring in the middle of the Crater, grab it and return it to an assigned house base, plowing through their opponent en route if required. And for Gabby, a personalized trainer, the game seemed a sure thing, as she carried Nany and ring all of the way to her post to earn her first point.


“There’s this moment where we lock eyes with each other,” Gabby mentioned. “I need to stop playing nice.”


Although something shifted immediately after Gabby’s first point: Nany got tough also. Generally one to get frazzled by an early speedbump, Nany, as a substitute, used the misstep as fuel, gritted her teeth and fought.


“In past eliminations, the moment I feel like I’m losing, I become mentally defeated,” Nany mentioned. “This time, I resist to let that happen.”


And immediately after one of the primary elimination rounds of the season, and two come-from-behind points, Nany won, earning the final women’s Gold Skull.


“Words can’t even describe how I feel right now,” she mentioned as she broke down in tears.


Right now, Nany, who proceeded to steal Fessy as a partner from Aneesa as piece of her prize package, is in a solid spot. So can she keep riding the wave and win The Challenge? Or is it also soon to call, and is there still a chance she could stumble before it’s all over? Share your thoughts, and be sure to check out the next Double Agents episode Wednesday!