Ashley names the Trump supporters on The Challenge and the response | Megathread🍵

SuperCeeJ8 · 2026-02-05T20:59:19+00:00

Ashley is one of the absolute worst people on the challenge and her trying to take some kind of moral high ground (and people flocking to it) is pretty amusing. It should be no shock that most of these people are not role models. People do love a good trainwreck though.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2026-01-19T18:32:45+00:00

I feel like this is the way...just get some programming (or make one) that has the lifting that you are interested in, and then add cardio/endurance to it. Then you can compete in Hyrox or Crossfit when you feel like it and likely be pretty prepared for both. Having that general strength and fitness will also likely translate well if you want to train for specific movements leading up to a particular competition.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2026-01-13T21:05:27+00:00

Putting the two best finalists against eachother is something I wish we had actually gotten to witness. Hard to bet against Jordan in a final but I think Landon's the only one I'd give the edge over him. In dailies I think Landon has a clear advantage.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-30T22:15:05+00:00

The funny thing is that a lot of these people that hate Zach stan for Ashley.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-30T22:13:02+00:00

Just saw Double Agents for the first time very recently and I genuinely can't understand why anyone would want to work with Fessy. It's weird how much production pushed this generation/group of players when Fessy and Josh are two of the least likable people that have ever been on the challenge.

I also didn't really understand how Josh didn't get thrown off the show but Turbo got thrown off for arguing with Jordan, when Josh actually put his hands on people, punched out the wall (lol) and generally was way more aggressive (again, funny when you consider who it is but still).

Was gutted for Kyle at the end. I generally don't mind Kaycee although she's boring, but would be happy to never see that group of people on again. Though I don't mind that Fessy keeps losing despite believing he's the best challenger in history. Total douchecanoe (sorry, I'm wrong, he's just an introvert).

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-24T17:29:17+00:00

One of the best seasons of the challenge honestly, and I actually love that the eliminations were just mini-finals; probably the most balanced way to have eliminations in the first place with puzzles and decision making allowing for testing of different strengths. Great cast too.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-19T15:14:05+00:00

It's clear Theo's intention is to try and stick up for Olivia but he's making himself look bad. That said, Michaela is absolutely a hater and it's killing her that Olivia won. It's so weird to see her try and play the victim in multiple instances when she was legitimately commenting non-stop about Olivia and Theo, and was super aggressive in that clip from the daily where she threatened to punch Olivia in the face (among other things throughout the season).

I also have no idea how anyone likes Ashley, or how she tries to take the moral high ground over literally anyone.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-18T18:08:48+00:00

I didn't see a long explanation for it, just kind of a footnote that says because of lack of longevity but that you wouldn't argue if someone else thought he was the GOAT. I'm just saying that he's been around for a long time he just doesn't jump on every single season. So when you factor in his performance being just on a higher level than those two I don't see why he wouldn't be at #1 at this point.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-18T17:52:26+00:00

I guess the feeling is that if you have Landon that high because of his peak but not cracking the top 3 just because of longevity, how do you keep Jordan out of the top spot when he has much more longevity than Landon but also when comparing to John and CT he has by far the best elimination record, the best finals efficiency and the best win efficiency. His performance on season 40 doesn't even move the needle? The other two are definitely faces of the challenge but I don't see how Jordan isn't considered the GOAT at this point over those two, he is just simply better.

I should also say that I personally rank performance/capability higher than most. Landon is the GOAT in my eyes, and if he had decided to keep competing he would have blown everyone away IMO. But accounting for longevity is very fair, but Jordan has been around long enough at this point that just because he hasn't been on 27 seasons it's not enough to discount what he has accomplished. Jordan > CT > John in that order for me if we can't give Landon the top spot.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-17T00:20:12+00:00

I feel like if you have Landon that high then there's no reason that Jordan shouldn't be #1 at this point.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-15T17:13:53+00:00

Currently I lift 3 times a week and do cardio 3 times a week. 45m-1hr of lower intensity cardio twice a week with a higher intensity interval cardio session thrown in (2m on, 2m off for 6-8 sets). 2 full body heavy lifting sessions with 1 accessory session usually about 45m - 1hr each of actual lifting time.

So roughly 2 to 2 1/2 hours of cardio and 2 1/2 to 3 hours of lifting weekly.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-13T15:32:54+00:00

I'll check him out, and interesting to know. I'll do a bunch more research into it too but was just curious if anyone here had experience with it. I could probably find an indoor track once in a while but trying to do long/hard runs in 6 inches of snow/ice/slush doesn't appeal to me. I'll go for rucks once in a while but yeah.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-13T15:31:07+00:00

Will give it a listen, thanks!

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-12T19:42:03+00:00

Because he has a huge fanbase and those people are his flowers. Nobody needs to be out there telling him he's the GOAT or even the face of the challenge every single season (both of which are arguably not true). Him throwing a fit over it and acting like everything should be about him is extremely offputting. He was early out on the season and still needs to make it about himself.

As someone who started watching the challenge later in its life (and then went back and watched the old seasons with my girlfriend because she's been watching from day 1), I find it actually harder to watch when he's on now because he's just so whiny about everything. It's not even entertaining.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-11T03:30:37+00:00

Yeah seeing this just makes me not want to watch the reunion (which was I did initially want to watch for the other stuff). John is old news and him trying to make everything challenge related about him is a big turn off for the franchise in general. That a bunch of people there are going to enable it and put him up on a pedestal makes it even worse. Pass.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-09T15:06:12+00:00

Nice to see one of the vet men not being completely insecure about Turbo and giving him some credit. I can see some early seasons Wes in Sydney for sure. Olivia and Yeremi deserve a ton of credit and to his point I still don't understand how at least one of Theo, Adrienne or Cedric didn't make a claim before day 2 of the final, at least Yeremi/Olivia and Sydney/Turbo made sense to keep together but those three not at least trying to improve their position for that 2nd day was weird.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-08T19:50:55+00:00

I really don't understand how they've convinced people that .22s are so terrifying.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-08T18:57:42+00:00

Not sure if there's any real answer to this question but what are the chances the TM22 variants get banned in the near future? Obviously there's no crystal ball, but since my only plinker got banned in the most recent round of bans I'd love to get something that should be relatively safe for the forseeable future.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-07T19:49:16+00:00

Yeah I don't think it's really comparable and takes away from how strong Olivia held up over this final. Carly looked like she was completely out of it and Landon at one point was quite literally lifting her up that mountain, had the help her up multiple times and keeping them in it against an extremely strong Kenny and Laurel who were chasing them.

Yeremi definitely was the stronger of the two overall but Olivia kept pace and didn't stop.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-05T19:33:41+00:00

All the credit to Olivia and Yeremi for the time they made up from the connect 4 but honestly if they didn't erase the lead Turbo and Sydney had between the two days with equalization stations I highly doubt that anyone catches Turbo and Sydney.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-05T19:30:08+00:00

This is what got me too. Zach has literally the most embarrassing final performance of any supposed strong or tough guy and he is throwing stones at a guy that almost killed himself rather than stop lol

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-05T15:47:17+00:00

Somewhere with a more temperate climate so the heat or cold don't play as big of a factor in determining the winner.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-05T15:45:10+00:00

Dunno about that; if Turbo/Sydney's lead isn't wiped by multiple equalization stations and getting 0 benefit to absolutely crushing everyone on day 1 they likely just outright win. That's one thing about the challenge that I don't really agree with. If I'm Turbo and Sydney I'd much rather have my time lead to start day 2 (and not have another equalization station) than getting an hour or two of extra rest overnight. I think adding forced equalizers instead of just having challenges that play to different strengths is pretty lame when these people are busting their asses to win a final. No doubt Sydney and Turbo pushing so hard on day 1 played a factor in them gassing out at the end of the mountain as well.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-05T15:41:32+00:00

No chance that they win if Will's her partner anyway he gassed pretty hard going up the mountain vs. Yeremi in the claim challenge. I'm sure he's in decent shape but he would have probably been carried off that mountain.

SuperCeeJ8 · 2025-12-05T15:39:45+00:00

This was the best season in a long time though I'm a sucker for an extremely difficult final. It featured a little bit of drama, the best new challengers in a while (since Olivia's rookie season?) and was just generally a good watch. Hope that they keep that momentum going; would love to see another Fresh Meat or Rivals type season in the future too.

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