{"id":112211,"date":"2026-01-06T02:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112211\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T02:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:42:11","slug":"el-pasoan-selected-to-compete-on-beast-games-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112211\/","title":{"rendered":"El Pasoan selected to compete on \u2018Beast Games\u2019 competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 An El Pasoan will participate in the second season of the popular \u201cBeast Games,\u201d a reality competition series on Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">El Paso\u2019s Cindy Balandran was chosen to be a competitor in the second season of the series hosted by YouTuber Mr. Beast. The second season is set to premiere on Amazon Prime on Wednesday, Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Balandran made the announcement on her social media.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/86ca6a1a2158b5ae418101fd5fcf1920.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two hundred contestants \u2014 divided into \u201cStrong\u201d and \u201cSmart\u201d teams \u2014 will compete in what is called a \u201cmentally demanding, skill-based challenge\u201d for a chance to win $5 million with a reported $10 million in additional prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Balandran was one of 50 women chosen to be on the Strong team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 An El Pasoan will participate in the second season of the popular \u201cBeast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[41626,31774,49725,49726,138,140,139,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-112211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-amazon-prime","9":"tag-amazon-prime-video","10":"tag-beast-games","11":"tag-cindy-balandran","12":"tag-el-paso","13":"tag-el-paso-headlines","14":"tag-el-paso-news","15":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}