\u201cJT, you slimy. I woulda gave you some money if you was that desperate.\u201d Mia, #952 and the OG who won an island last season, has choice words for her duplicitous captain as she and four other players depart Beast Games. And while the X\u2019d deliver their final arguments, Beast Games rolls tape on JT\u2019s now hypocritical-sounding earlier comments about team solidarity. Was he out for personal gain this entire time? Historically, there are players who reached for the bag when it was there for the taking. But to MrBeast\u2019s questions about motive, JT doesn\u2019t sound convincing. He says he hates being the villain but can live with it, two sides of a sentence that cancel each other out. He\u2019ll just have to count that cash in his head while enduring the evil eye from others who remain. And Mia addresses the competitors and the viewers with a beautifully-worded kiss-off. \u201cLadies and gentlemen, you\u2019ve learned a very important lesson. Greed is idolatry. Peace!\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cRaise the wall!\u201d In a corner of the City lies a colonnade of cannon. Find matching cannonballs on a property-wide scavenger hunt, and you\u2019ll be on your way to competing for this season\u2019s island, which is worth $1.8 million. (Cut to footage of Jimmy \u201cMrBeast\u201d Donaldson showing us around the placid parameceum-shaped escape like he\u2019s trying out for a real estate reality show.) With each cannon blast another traveling player is set, and soon we\u2019ve notched the ten who will go. The rest will watch from Beast City. Rather than dreams about having fun on an island in the sun, they might rue the day they squandered a chance to meet Jeff Probst<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n THE CULT OF JEFF<\/p>\n It really is the actual Survivor Island, and the really real host of the ultimate reality competition is waiting for them on the beach. Probst calls Survivor and Beast Games similar \u201csocial experiments,\u201d and makes a kinda redundant statement about how the latter uses money to incentivize the getting of money. But it\u2019s immediately apparent how starstruck everybody is, including Donaldson. The Probstian hosting powers are legend, and let\u2019s be honest, MrBeast\u2019s aren\u2019t. As the challenge phase begins, and Probst fires up his Survivor persona with such naturalism, such ease, he even quietly scolds the Beast honcho for all his hyperactive yelling. Everyone is envious of Jeff\u2019s preternatural host chill.<\/p>\n With the players split into two teams of five, they\u2019re fitted with trademark Survivor \u201cbuff\u201d headwraps and presented with two heats. A relay course \u2013 tight-fitting net crawl, ball toss, table track; puzzle at the end \u2013 and \u201cOne of the most iconic challenges of Survivor,\u201d the pole-holding Get A Grip. And it\u2019s interesting how both favor neither the Strong nor the Smart, but instead demand personal fortitude, that most intangible and all-important reality show thing. \u201cJeff\u2019s gonna get in your face and tell you how much you suck \u2013 just ignore him,\u201d Sue (#91) tells her teammates. She knows: \u201cSuenami\u201d finished third in Survivor 47<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n With Nate already fallen in Get A Grip, Ian slipping, and JC holding on for dear life, Team Smart\u2019s Ethan (#21) takes MrBeast\u2019s bribe of 50 grand, which is trundled onto the beach in a wheelbarrow. \u201cIt\u2019s guaranteed money, that\u2019s really all I wanted,\u201d he says, highlighting an aspect of what JT encountered as a captain during Bribe. The final two will stand at tribal council, held in front of the same shipwrecked galleon from Survivor 49<\/a>, where the other eight Beast-ers will vote on who gets the deed to their own private island.<\/p>\n ALL TRIBE, NO BRIBE<\/p>\n It\u2019s remarkably straightforward. With stakes still popping for everyone back in Beast City proper, where Beast\u2019s five-million-dollar prize is still on the line, JC and Ian deliver speeches to the group about why they deserve to win this Survivor-infused game segment. Would you give JC an island after he grabbed $650,000 for himself last season? Nobody seems willing, and Jeff even gets in a dig. \u201cIt\u2019s fitting when something else is on the line, now you\u2019re sharing about being inconsiderate of others in Season 1.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s Ian, the bearded former Ninja Warrior, who wins out. His speech is all about how his family could really use a win, how validating his emotions as a man carried him forward. And he invests the integrity JT from Captain Bribe could never. \u201cIf you need me to self-eliminate,\u201d he tells the tribal council made up of Beast players, \u201crun through a wall, I\u2019m there for you.\u201d Ian wins the Season 2 island giveaway with an eight-vote sweep.<\/p>\n But as MrBeast signs the deed of ownership over to Ian, he also presents a final twist. As runner-up of the (\u201cfirst\u2026annual?\u201d) Survivor\u2013Beast crossover, JC is presented with a gold coin. If he makes it to the top 6 of the competition, he can flip the coin to potentially double the Beast Games grand prize to ten million bucks. MrBeast asks the OG what\u2019s on his mind as Ian celebrates and all the competitors prepare for their return to Beast City. One word: \u201cLeverage.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n 20 players remain.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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