heart.
I guess we got us a good chance to win. Good as any, anyways. If I win, I’ll buy my uncle Rayford one of them big old flat-screen TVs they got now so he can watch his soap operas. Might get a new airboat for the swamp tour business, too.
Oh—that Peregrine sure is a pretty lady. Is it okay for me to say that?
Week 3: How the Cards Fall
Week Three Recap: Washing Out
Last week it was fire, this week it was water that stumped our American Hero teams. In the Treasure Hunt challenge, the four teams had to make their way through an obstacle course to retrieve the prize from a safe submerged in an artificial lake.
Already some teams felt the pinch of lost teammates. Wild Fox pointed out that this week, Jonathan Hive’s bugs would have been useful navigating the concrete maze. The other three teams had fliers who easily solved the maze. Through the rest of the obstacle course, teamwork was the word as contestants had to make sure all their teammates made it through barbed wire and over walls. Today, the American Hero competition looked a lot like boot camp.
So which aces made the grade, and which washed out?
All the teams handled the obstacle course without much trouble. Team Clubs hit a bit of a snag when they tried to figure out how to get the massive Holy Roller over the ten-foot-high walls. Holy Roller himself got rid of the problem by simply rolling through them! Just goes to show that creativity counts for just as much as raw power.
All the teams encountered a surprise at the end of the obstacle course. If the players thought this week’s challenge seemed a little too easy, they stopped thinking that soon enough. In this treasure hunt, the prize—a locked safe—was at the bottom of a lake.
Some aces should have been at home in the water, but while Diver and Toad Man were able to pull the safe to the surface, Team Clubs couldn’t find a way to open it. Even Holy Roller’s mass couldn’t dent the thing, and the team failed to retrieve the treasure.
The Diamonds found themselves at loss as well, unable to even reach the safe, despite the Amazing Bubbles’ creative attempt to get rid of the water entirely. She was still blasting away water when the team ran out of time and were forced to give up.
On the other hand, the Spades found the treasure when eleven-year-old Dragon Huntress, the youngest contestant, pulled a stuffed Shamu from her bag. Nothing like a real killer whale to help you out of a jam. “It was kind of lucky,” Dragon Huntress said after the challenge. “We just went to SeaWorld a couple weeks ago, and my mom got me Shamu.”
But it was Earth Witch of Team Hearts who shocked everyone when she solved the problem of how to retrieve the safe by bringing the whole bottom of the lake to the surface. The ace who digs holes finally came into her own and showed how much more she can do with her power. Even Digger Downs couldn’t find fault with the team’s performance.
In this competition, skill beats luck, and the judges chose their winner accordingly. So, in a spectacular recovery from last week, Team Hearts won the challenge and immunity, and promise great things for future challenges.
The other three teams retreated in defeat and discarded more teammates: this week, Spasm, Blrr, and Simoon got the boot.
Keep on the lookout for this week’s confessions:
Confessional: Megan McKnee aka Tiffani
How’s my hair? I swear, whatever was in that water during the water challenge has screwed up my lovely tresses. I can’t do a thing with them. I could barely get them ready for the Discard vote.
Are we rolling? Oh, dangit, I’m a mess.
Well, this week’s challenge sucked. Hard.
And I was soaked to the bone with nothin’ to show for it. Did I mention that the water in that challenge was nasty?
What was I sayin’? Oh, yeah, the challenge. You know, I thought we had it locked up when we got through the maze so quickly. And Jetman was a real help then, even though his gadgets are so lame most of the time. Him being able to fly was a big bonus.
But I should have known better. I mean, my family and I watch all the reality shows. They never make anything that easy. You know, they’ve got to have aces and jokers on staff to test these puzzles. I mean,