Keep It Up

Keep It Up is a recurring endurance challenge. Originally appearing as a tribal challenge in , it has been adapted into an individual challenge and later into a duel.
==Rules==
The castaways must balance two poles using the tops of their hands against an overhead board. If a castaway drops either of the poles at any point, they are out of the challenge. The last person standing will win.
==History==
===United States===
The challenge was first introduced in as the last tribal Immunity Challenge. In this challenge the castaways had to balance two poles using the tops of their hands against an overhead board. The last tribe to have a member still standing won. Matty Whitmore won the challenge for Fang, outlasting the last standing Kota member, Bob Crowley.
The challenge was re-used three seasons later in as the final six Immunity Challenge. Parvati Shallow outlasted Jerri Manthey and Rupert Boneham to win her second individual Immunity Challenge.
In , the challenge became the first post-merge duel. Jim Rice dropped out of the challenge first, followed later by Keith Tollefson, meaning Ozzy Lusth won the challenge.
===France===
===New Zealand===
==Winners==
<tabber>United States=
Episode	Challenge Type 	Winners
 	Tribal Immunity 	
 	Individual Immunity	
 	Duel 	
|-|France=
Episode 	Challenge Type 	Winners	Winners
Episode 3	Individual Reward	 	
|-|New Zealand=
Episode 	Challenge Type	Winners	Winners
Episode 17	Duel 	 	
</tabber>
==Gallery==
<tabber>United States=
Keep It Up HvV.png|The final six strive for immunity ().
jerri keep it up.jpg|Jerri at the challenge in Heroes vs. Villains.
SouthPacificKeepItUp.jpg|The challenge in .
Running14.jpg|Keith competes in the duel (South Pacific).
|-|France=
KLS28 Ep3 Keep It Up.jpg|The challenge in .
</tabber>
==Trivia==
* Every time this challenge was used, it was run under different circumstances: as a tribal challenge, and individual challenge, and as a duel.
* Of the seven contestants to win this challenge, five have appeared in multiple seasons, including all three women to do so.
* Both castaways who won the challenge individually were competing on their third season of , having previously appeared in and .
* Despite appearing in two seasons featuring returning players, no castaway has participated in this challenge twice.
*In , the editors did not accurately show the elimination order of the challenge. In the aired version of the challenge, Rupert Boneham appeared to have outlasted Jerri Manthey, the reverse of the actual circumstances.
==References==
Category:Challenges
Category:Recurring Challenges
Category:Gabon Challenges
Category:Heroes vs. Villains Challenges
Category:South Pacific Challenges
Category:Survivor (U.S.)
Category:Survivor: Gabon
Category:Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains
Category:Survivor: South Pacific
Category:Koh-Lanta: Le Totem Maudit
Category:Survivor NZ: Nicaragua
Category:Nicaragua Challenges (New Zealand)