Will Casey And Steve’s Lifeshield Hack Change The Challenge Game?

Strangely, a mission that noticed The Challenge: All Stars players tumbling off of a 25-story building just rocketed underdogs Casey and Steve to the best of the game. And right now that the competition’s unlikeliest victors have fully flipped the script on the Arena-nominations process, is Season 2 changed for good?


Players prepared for the worst on the latest episode of the competition spinoff series as host TJ Lavin introduced each season’s most sadistic game: trivia. In this case, it was called “Bright Skies,” and if players answered a question incorrectly, they’d be yanked backwards off of a skyscraper’s roof and dropped 10 stories.


Yet Steve and Casey, both previous Arena nominees, finally took control of their fates, and each earned their first individual wins…ever.


“One of my objectives coming here was to win a challenge,” Casey mentioned through tears. “Not only is this becoming a super-real possibility, although I can win on something that I’m notoriously super afraid of.”


And being in the victor’s chair came unexpectedly of course for Casey. Speedily, she and Steve realized that if they nominated Lifeshield holders Jodi and Cohutta into The Arena as segment of their four picks, they could essentially goad the residence into voting for replacement picks Ayanna and Derrick. Their logic? Nobody would vote for Tyler and Kendal, their two other candidates, once Jodi and Cohutta saved themselves.


Although it rapidly occurred to Steve that Katie — his best friend in the game who’d already been sentenced to the Arena for placing last in the day’s mission — had a mountain to climb against Ayanna, who’d rapidly proved she was an elimination-round heavy hitter.


“We just made a damn good move on the guys’ side,” Casey mentioned. “I can’t be super concerned with what’s going on in Steve’s head about Katie.”


Steve, although, had to face the music rapidly, as Katie hammered him for failing to look out for her, his 2001 Road Rules: The Quest castmate.


“I’m not sure why Steve’s acting like he’s doing me a favor by putting me against one of the strongest ladies in the house,” Katie mentioned. “I’m baffled why he would do me dirty like that as soon as I’m the only person here who would look out for him.”


And things went from bad to worse for Katie and Derrick in “Weight, There’s More,” which challenged players to move 1,000 pounds from one ramp to another before solving a puzzle. Ayanna and Brad handily took out their respective opponents, proving Casey’s and Steve’s master plan was worth the danger.


“Steve and I immediately hug each other, such a relief,” Casey mentioned. “We took so several risks, and all of these paid off.”


Still, the move came at a price, as Steve wondered whether his friend of 20 years would forgive him.


“I’m a moron, and I wasn’t fighting for her,” Steve mentioned. “This is a close friend, and I don’t know how to repair it.”


Challenge Godfather Mark was the only player who used the Lifeshield on Season 1 of All Stars to protect — funnily enough — Katie from The Arena. Consequently, the home nominated Arissa to compete in the “Wall Ball” elimination round in Katie’s place, compelling Arissa to quit soon following the fieriest Challenge tell-off ever.


“The way y’all pulled this sh*t was some flagrant, snake-ass sh*t,” Arissa famously spat, allocating a pair of middle fingers. “So f*ck you, I’m done!”


Think Casey and Steve’s Lifeshield hack will change the game? Share your thoughts, then hang tight for the next All Stars episode dropping on Thursdays only on Paramount+!