Following their week at home and Daniel’s 1 pound gain, the black team fell below the yellow line in The Biggest Loser Season 8 Episode 6, and they chose to vote out Dina.
Amanda says that the vote came down to her and her three good friends: Daniel, Shay, and Abby.
This week, each person will be going head to head against someone from the opposite team. If they beat that person, they get a point. The team with the most points wins. Welcome to face off week. Whoever wins the pop challenge gets to choose who goes against whom.
The task is to bob under the bar and touch their disc, then go back and touch the other side. First one to 500 wins. Only one person can compete at a time. They can switch at any time, but each person is only allowed one turn. Tracey and Abby start off first, both in their first challenge. Abby starts off with a slight lead before dropping out at 20. Tracey will be doing 100 no matter what. She and Shay tag out at the same time with black team ahead by 4. Allen and Danny are up next, and Allen manages to gain the lead for the blue team. Allen’s up by 15 by the time Amanda tags in for black. Allen tags out at 250, having improved his team’s standing from down 4 to up 16. Liz stumbles and gives up half that lead before tagging in Rudy after about 50. Amanda tags out, having brought the lead down to 2. Rudy tags out at 391, up by 2. That leaves Daniel and Rebecca to finish out the game. Daniel takes the lead 417-416. About 20 later, Rebecca’s back in the lead. In the end, the blue team wins by 5.
That gives the blue team (which not surprisingly includes Tracey) control.
Rebecca (16.9% lost) vs. Amanda (12.8% lost)
Tracey (15.1% lost) vs. Abby (17.4% lost)
Allen (16.9% lost) vs. Danny (17.0% lost)
Rudy (19.7% lost) vs. Shay (13.7% lost)
Liz (14.6% lost) vs. Daniel (11.2% lost)
If the season’s numbers hold, the blue team will win. The three black team members who have the lowest percentages of weight loss but voted out Dina have the opportunity to prove their worth. Granted, considering Daniel gained a pound last week, he should put up a huge number this week.
Bob tosses his team in the pool to do a workout there. Yeah, it ain’t gonna be fun. Sink or swim.
Jillian, meanwhile, is in the gym with her team. Amanda’s on the treadmill. Sorta. She can’t do this. She can’t. She can’t. She can’t. Time to walk out of the gym.
The contestants arrive on a baseball field, where they are greeted with pictures of themselves from when they first came to the ranch. Derek Jeter is really proud to be part of this challenge. Via satellite. On the field are 2535 balls, one for every hit he’s had in his first 13 seasons. They will grab as many as they can and throw them at their opponents’ pictures. When they’re hit by 316 balls (his batting average), they’re out. Reward is a meal cooked by Curtis Stone, plus a 2 pound advantage at the weigh-in. Abby is sitting out, so Tracey will join her. Allen is immediately targeted by every member of the black team. Blue team is splitting their balls between Amanda and Daniel. Allen is obviously the first one eliminated. Next target will be Rebecca. Amanda is the first person eliminated for the black team. Rebecca is the next one out, bringing blue team down to 2. Daniel is the next one out, putting them at 2 each. By this point, though, the black team is up by about 100 baseballs. Rudy is the next one eliminated. It’s pretty well hopeless for Liz. Black team wins the challenge by a massive margin, their first challenge win.
Abby’s managed to find people she loves again, a tough thing to do since she lost everything not so long ago. She’s also proving to herself that she can lose weight, having the second highest percentage of weight loss so far this season despite being on the sidelines for medical reasons throughout much of it.
Now we go back to Amanda. Hopefully the whining has passed. Jillian tells her she didn’t walk out on her. She walked out on herself. Jillian’s lesson to her is that she has to redefine her fear of failure.
Bob brings in a step about 3 feet high for Allen to jump on. Don’t think. Just do. He manages to land the jump.
Shay’s lesson for the day is that it’s not her fault.
The black team has decided to give both of the two pounds from their advantage to Amanda. She requested that advantage out of fear she will not do well. She had a lot of emotional days this week. Yeah, I noticed.
Amanda: 214 pounds (-4, -2, 2.75%)
Rebecca: 223 pounds (-9, 3.88%)
Blue team leads 1-0
Abby: 201 pounds (-3, 1.47%)
Tracey: 197 pounds (-5, 2.48%)
Blue team leads 2-0
Danny: 345 pounds (-12, 3.36%)
Allen: 262 pounds (-8, 2.96%)
Blue team leads 2-1
Daniel: 272 pounds (-5, 1.81%)
Liz: 221 pounds (-7, 3.07%)
Blue team wins the weigh-in
Daniel’s performance receives immediate responses of “What?” from both Bob and Jillian, who knows something’s not quite right.
Shay: 402 pounds (-9, 2.19%)
Rudy: 341 pounds (-14, 3.94%)
With that weight loss, Rudy has lost over 100 pounds the fastest in Biggest Loser history. That new record of 7 weeks tops the old record, set by Dane last season in 8 weeks. Dane is there to watch his record get broken, as he’s preparing for a triathlon with 12 former contestants.
As the Biggest Loser from his team, Danny is safe, which is the worst news for the black team, since they can’t make the (stupid) decision of getting rid of him. Abby says she’s learned what she went there to learn, and she offers to sacrifice herself.
Votes
Abby: Amanda
Shay: Abby
Amanda: Abby
Danny: Daniel
Daniel: Abby
Well, that was not a smart decision for the team either. However, they felt it necessary to honor her wishes. Abby is down from her starting weight of 247 pounds to 167 pounds today. She hopes to turn her story into a positive message for others.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser 8 Episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.