Does it bother anyone else that the audience can provide assistance during eliminations? I don’t know when it started but I recently watched USA and just found it super lame. I’m now watching Ride or Dies for the first time and the rest of the house is helping the competitors in the elimination out again. It just makes it super unfair and turns the elim into even more of a popularity contest than it already is. I wish there was a rule against getting help from the sidelines.
Yeah, it’s annoying, which is why I wish they’d limit the puzzle elims. It’s one thing to get tips on strategy, but watching competitors be given the solution to a puzzle is very boring to watch. It’d be cool if they brought back the elim Dee/Wes did vs Zach/Zahida where the puzzle wasn’t visible to the audience. I’m sure they could come up with similar elim designs that would limit audience impact.
I understand its a part of the game, but I have never been a fan of it. As you noted, giving strategy tips is one thing, move here, push there, etc. But doing the actual puzzle for them seems so cheap.
I just finished a free agents rewatch and even though CT lost, I really appreciated that no one else could help them with the three puzzles.
Exactly! It’s not as exciting when the audience tells them how to do it. On Spies,Lies the audience helped Ashley win an elimination by repeating the color order of her tire stack. Who knows if she’d have still won without that advantage