CT and Darrell Have No Problem Catching Crabs - 
by J-Unit
It saddens me to say that the final episodes of Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Inferno II are nearly upon us. This week marks the final of the eliminations for the guys, which leaves us only two or three episodes left. We call these challenges "competitions," and in some respect, they are. Both teams have accumulated almost the same amount of money into their prize banks, but it is the Bad Asses who have dominated the Infernos, winning all of them except for one. Now that we are winding down, teams are starting to think less about what their teams do as a group, and more about how they can preserve their particular place in the final competition, the only one that will determine who walks home with yet another Bunim/Murray check.
Landon and Dan were nominated to be in the Inferno last week, but they still have a chance to save themselves with an Inferno win. Knowing that, it was interesting to see how they and the people around them handled the situation. I think Landon is an idiot, but he isn't trying to screw over any of his teammates. He tells Darrell straight-up that if he wins, Darrell is probably going. It was sort of a "no hard feelings, this is not personal" type of gesture, but Darrell took it as though Landon was trying to get him to throw the competition so he would be safe. I am not sure why Darrell thought that, but after saying himself at the last men's Inferno that he was the weakest competitor and should be the one to go, you would think that he wouldn't act so surprised when Landon told him the truth. Then again, it is Darrell, and he's probably been hit in the head a few too many times during his boxing days, which must have skewed his logic. How else can you explain the reason he hooked up with Leah on the last Inferno?
At Bad Ass camp, it was a different story. CT, fresh from shaving out the center section of his uni-brow, began to wonder if Dan was going to send him into the Inferno if he won the life shield. When Dan responded with "Your Mother," you knew that it was going to be a pretty good 12-16 hours in store ahead of us. Although I didn't agree with Dan when he decided it was time to pick on Jodi, I will say that he is great at pushing buttons, and he knew the one thing that would piss CT off more than anything else is uncertainty, especially about the Inferno. It seemed to have worked, because CT became progressively more upset, first accusing Dan of not liking him, and then accusing him of lying when Dan said that he didn't have a problem with him. When Dan still wouldn't answer, CT decided that it didn't matter anyway, because he knew what Dan was going to do. I guess maybe he thought he could outsmart Dan into confessing his true intentions and then use it on him later. So, it was of no surprise when we learned that Dan wasn't outsmarted at all.
The name of this week's game was "Crab Grab" and it was pretty straightforward. Each team had to take ten crabs, one by one, from a box near the shore to a smaller box farther inland. The team that had all of their crabs back first would be the winner. No problem, right? Well, I did leave out the part where each team member would be buried in a pit of sand while sitting on their hands. Therefore, it was going to take some people a lot more time to get out of the sand than others. To speed things up a bit, once team members were out of their sand pits, they could help other team members who are having trouble extracting themselves.
Immediately, that little fact put a lot of strategy into the game. The lifeshield winners would be those people from each team who completed their ten crabs the quickest, instantly making it an issue of "save yourself" or "help your team." Landon knew this, but it appears that the Good Guys decided it was easier to just have everybody help each other, because you wouldn't know what happens.
Amazingly, the Bad Asses also had a good grasp on the purpose of this competition. It was an individual challenge, but your team was ultimately judged on the performance of one individual. It was imperative that everybody got out as soon as possible, especially since they had more members to dig out and twice as many girls to free up. Immediately, CT wanted to know if Dan was down with the plan. It wasn't because CT cared about how the rest of his team did; he just wanted to know what Dan's strategy was for fear the gay man would nominate him.
Once again, Dan played coy, and deliberately held back from answering if he would help others or not. This had the desired effect of making CT fly off the handle. Dan calmly said that CT was simply trying to pick a fight and that the only reason he made such an issue was because CT was scared of the Inferno. When CT once again failed to get the reaction out of Dan he was hoping for, he once again pouted and said that he had the competition "locked down since day one" so nobody better tell him that he doesn't know what's going on. If only CT put as much effort into formulating arguments as he does perfecting his pristine stubble look, he might have a chance in a game of words.
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