This week's parade of silliness began with Brad and Eric talking about how crazy the Duel is. I mean, it could blow your mind! You never know what the event is; so how do you strategize over who to pick? "I don't know how I would ever pick," Brad said, which clearly meant that he would in fact be picking later this episode. However, Eric then told us that he's not sure who he'd pick to go into the Duel either, but it definitely wouldn't be Brad. Okay, scratch that last comment I made about Brad. Eric is DEFINITELY going into the Duel and dragging Brad with him. POTENTIAL JUDAS!

Meanwhile, sitting on the ever romantic Bench of Stupidity were Diem and CT, flirting the night away and whispering sweet nothings (emphasis on "nothings") into each other's ears. CT explained that he's been trying to kiss Diem for so wicked lawng, but the only problem was that she had a three week moratorium on smooching. Alas, this meant all CT could do was shower her with compliments like "You're fine." And when she didn't believe him, he insisted, "You are!" But of course, in his Boston-ese, it sounded like "You AHHHH!!!!"

Back at the compound, Evan and Wes announced that they wanted to take out CT from the competition, and their best bet, they figured, would be if Eric were to take him into the Duel -- assuming that Eric was going into the Duel, which he may not have been. As you can see, Wes and Evan's plan wasn't exactly "foolproof", or as I like to call it, "Them-proof."

Later, the clue for the next day's challenge arrive, and Jodi read it out loud: "At tomorrow's challenge, you're really going to have to step it up!" What could it be? Well, one guy off camera suggested, "Maybe we'll all be riding escalators, dude." Yes. I'm sure that's exactly what it is. Everyone knows competitive escalatoring is one of the most intense X-Treme sports out there.

We then saw flashes of locals playing soccer and whatnot, and I got to wondering: why the hell had there not been any soccer-centric competition yet? I mean, they're in Brazil, home of Pélé. Can we even try to be as smart as The Amazing Race and derive games from the local geography? Apparently not. This week's challenge had to do with stacking crates. Actually, this was a pretty fun event. Basically, each guy would team up with a girl and then stack crates to create an ascending staircase so they could reach a flag hanging from the ceiling. Fastest team to grab the flag would win both an NHL package for the girl (and you know Kina's the type that walks around Jersey in a Devil's jersey) and immunity from the Duel for the guy.

Well, all the men paired up with the women, and as the first three teams prepared for the event, CT began flirting, surprisingly humorously, with Diem -- telling her not to fart in his face and whatnot. He told he us he was so confident he wasn't going into the Duel that he'd rather flirt than strategize. Hey, if you don't want to compete, how about you cut your hair instead? That beast must be tamed.