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Endurance Tehachapi by Pierre Kelly, GSNN

Air time: 12:30p ET/11:30a CT on NBC
Host: JD Roth

Endurance is at it again with another thrill-packed episode. Last week, we witnessed RED win a puzzle piece thanks to a girl named Erica. She, along with Franke on the RED team chose YELLOW & GREEN as their super team, while PURPLE, ORANGE & BLUE become the other super team. Which 2 super teams will march onto victory?

Shea starts out by saying he is very nervous about this mission, but Chris reminds them that this mission would be the hardest. Over at the
Guys' cabin, they're telling who should be the leader, while Julie claims that if her team doesn't win, she's going to temple, and she won't be if she faces this next challenge.

TODAY'S CHALLENGE: BRIDGING THE GAP
All head to J.D. for this mission, and J.D. mentions that RED, YELLOW & GREEN are the strongest and PURPLE, ORANGE & BLUE are the weakest. Hmmm, we'll see. For this game, Teammates must set down a plank, walk over from one point to another, then do the same. Once they head for a spot where the flag is, they must grab it and do the same headed to shore. The first team to make it there will decide which 2 teams are up for temple. If any of your teammates fall into the water, you must restart on the current point where you were. And with that...Game on! The 2 teams are off to a great start, going neck-and-neck at it. However, a roadblock was thrown when the strong team is having trouble hanging up on a plank, but the weak ones are having a stronger advantage, but the strong team wanted to give up a little by jumping in the water, sending the weak ones in cruise control. The strong ones finally get the flag, but it was too late as the weak ones won the challenge.

Franke caused all this by putting one plank down on another, and that incident couldn't advance.But Shea says it feels great for winning this mission. Outside the cabins, the players predict that GREEN & YELLOW want to go to temple, but Johnathan wanted RED & something else. One girl wanted to make a decision between GREEN & YELLOW, and the RED team on the other hand has a plan not to lose in temple.

J.D. marches to the cabins where we witness this scenario: 6 players are standing on one cabin and the other 6 are sitting on the steps of another cabin. 2 teams who are sitting are headed to temple and J.D. asks Johnathan for a decision. Johnathan decided it was...RED & YELLOW. So RED & YELLOW prepare themselves for the Temple of Fate. Johnathan said that the strong super team screwed everything up for the mission, and over at the Girls' cabin, the 2 teammates start packing. Callie says there was nothing else electric to work with during her time on Endurance, and Erika says if RED wins temple, they got a couple of more games to work with. Chris says his motto is to win, never to lose, and Callie says she'll come back from temple & have one of her friends gone. Both teams head up to the temple to see who's gone. You know how it's is. It's the FIRE-WATER-WOOD thing and if you get 2 wins, you stay alive on Endurance. Let's go....

ROUND 1
RED=WOOD YELLOW=WATER
Result: WOOD floats on WATER
Advantage: RED 1-0

ROUND 2
RED=WATER YELLOW=WOOD
Result: WOOD floats on WATER
Advantage: Tie Score

FINAL ROUND
RED=WOOD YELLOW=WATER
Result: WOOD floats on WATER
Winner: RED over YELLOW 2-1

RED is hot and YELLOW is not meaning RED is the one to stay alive on Endurance. YELLOW team has the trust piece and wants to give it to anyone to boost any team's score. So with that, we end another episode of Endurance. Next Week, we'll relive the 2nd episode where they became teams of Endurance, but we'll be back in a few weeks with a new
episode. Hope to see you soon.

Mega Match by Gordon Pepper, GSNN

Air time: Saturdays Noon ET/11am CT on Telefutura
Hosts: Samir Bazi, Chiquinquirá Delgado & Daniel Somaro

We are back to the new season of Mega Match episodes, as we start with one of their newer games. In this one, all you have to do is transfer chicken feed from one side to the other. The catch? You have to do it with another person - while traversing inside a human hamster wheel. The green team fills the colander up to 4, but the Yellow team fills up their colinder to 5, so they draw first blood.

We next get a Mega Match find. Behind 6 of the 12 spaces on the board are Mega Match logos. The other 6 spaces have an 'X'. The team that uncovers the last Logo wins the competition. Yellow team, which won the colored die roll-off start. They find a logo under 4. Next guess is #9 and...a Logo. They only need one more logo. Is it under #1? NO! An X is there and it's over to Greem who selects #3, and who gets a Logo. 6 is next, and we get...another Logo, tying the score at 2. Can they break the tie with 11? No they can't, because an X is there. Back to Yellow, who picks 11 - and gets a Logo! They need one more for the match, and they select #7. Behind it is...The last logo and they have won the event.

It's time to Joust for the next event. Do you remember American Gladiators? We have the kids version, complete with rollong log instead of podiums and a 3 minute time limit. After the time, we see that the Green Team smoked the Yellow team, as they get back into the match.

We interrupt this competition to bring you a regaetton show.

Next up - the water bucket competition. Teams have to carry buckets of water over a bridge and plop them on cylindrs on the other side. Under the bridge is the other team, who tries to knock the water carrier off. After 3 minutes from each side, we see that the Green Team narrowly wins it, and ties the match up at 2 events apiece.

It will come down to the Trivia Contest. It comes to the last question, and the Yellow Team...jumps in too early. Oops. The Green team wins the round, the Match and has a very nice 6:20 to run the House in.

Miguel gets to the bonus round and moves quickly in the book room, but takes his sweet time in the potion room, and that hurts him. The door in the thread room really kills him, because it takes him a full 40 seconds to find the key. He gets that one, and dresses up the model, but his time ends in the next room, where he has to balance 10 bowling pins on a surface. He gets appliances, a tv, a range/stover and a refrigerator, but that's it.

Hour #2 sees us start with the same hamster wheel relay that was used in the first hour. Though the numbers are different (14 vs. 7), the Color results are the same - Yellow wins the first round.

Well, you can't have this show without some ragaetton. Let's have some now. Ahhhh.

Anyone for MXC? Taking the stunt from that show, you have to take some feed from one side of the stage to the other by jumping across cylinders that rotate. After each team gets 3 minutes, we see that the Green team got up to 11, while the Yellow team got to 15, so they win the second game as well.

It's back to the Watercarrier stunt. Gee, we're not doing much in terms of differentiation between the shows this week. The Yellow team gets it a shade under 3, while the Green team gets it to around the 3.5 mark. Green gets on the board.

With both teams tied at 3 minutes, the trivia event will once again decide the winner, which today is the Yellow Team! However, they only have 5:20 to get through the house, and it doesn't help that he takes over a minute in the first room. It takes him over a minute for the second room and William needs to go faster. He does so in the thread room, leaving him 80 seconds for the Model Room. He gets past there, but doesn't get to the Bowling Pin Room as time runs out. He also gets appliances, a tv, a range/stover and a refrigerator. We'll tune in next time to see if anyone can get any further.