In an unusual twist for Bravo's reality series Battle of the Network Reality Stars, we meet with the three remaining teams left from last week's series of competitions at an elimination round before going ahead with the rest of the episode. The contestants are told that all three teams are going to be forced into eliminating two team members (one male and one female). However, instead of going home, the six team outcasts return as the new Light Blue Team (if you remember, the original Light Blue Team was eliminated last week), now renamed Team Underdog. Team Underdog now consists of Adam Mesh and Rachel Love Fraser, who were outted from Team Coral; Nikki McKibbin and Brian Worth, the two rejected from Team Chip; and Bradford Cohen and Mirna Hindoyan, who were previously ousted from Team Miz.
With the addition of Team Underdog, the four teams of six reality stars each, will compete in three new challenges: they will get in the swimming pool again to face off in a game of water polo. Then they compete to see which team can ride a mechanical bull the longest. The final round is a multi-legged race against the clock.
Though all three of the competitions wound up being pretty close calls, Team Underdog made an exceptional comeback in beating Team Coral throughout the events while Team Miz and Team Chip continued to sit pretty in the top two ranks. Team Underdog's motivation likely stems from leftover anger or frustration with their former team members and a strong desire to win. Although Team Coral proved to be at least moderately decent at the bull riding event, they fell a little short during water polo. It may well have been Coral's team captain's fear of water and her subsequent injury before the multi-legged race, causing her to be unable to participate that held the back.
When it came down to the wire in the final competition, the multi-legged race, Team Coral was only a few yards behind Team Underdog when they crossed the finish line. This left the six remaining members of Team Coral's future in jeopardy. This is a very disappointing turn for this series, considering the members on Team Coral were arguably some of the most entertaining TV personalities on the show. How Battle of the Network Reality Stars will manage to remain entertaining without Coral Smith, Melissa Howard, Evan Marriott, Gervase Peterson, Tina "Fabulous" Panas and Will Wikle still remains to be seen, but we'll have to wait until next week when yet another team will be eliminated.
ed: JH
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The battle of the network reality stars suck without the red team. They were ripped off. There should have never been an underdog team. The challenges on the battle of the network stars is stupid anyway. The 32 reality stars chosen are not the greatest reality stars. The red team had all the real reality stars.Coral and Melissa are my all time favorites. It sucks to see them get taken from the show. Without the read team, I will discontinue watching the show.