Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters (also known as Shakedown Street) is a challenge in . It premiered in and reappeared in and .
==Rules==
The contestants are divided into equal teams. One at a time, they race through an obstacle course. They crawl under a low cage (or walk across a series of balance beams), clamber up a steep slope and slide down into a mud pit. They then search for a bag of balls buried in a designated mud pit. Upon retrieving the bag of balls, the contestant crawls under a wooden bar by digging through a pit of rice. Upon reaching the mat, the next teammate may begin the course. Once all teammates have reached the end, the balls must be thrown into a narrow tube about as high as a basketball hoop. The first team to sink all their balls into the tube wins the challenge.
In each tribe had to race to dig up a bag buried in the sand, which contained two keys. They had then to crawl through the mud and use one of the keys to open a gate. The next step was to shake a basket to release sandbags. Once a tribe had collected all their sandbags, two tribe members had to attempt to toss those sandbags onto wobbly targets.
==History==
=== United States ===
This challenge debuted in as a Reward Challenge. Jonathan Penner pioneered the strategy of finding all the ball-bags in the mudpit and placing them in a corner, allowing the contestants that followed to simply grab a bag of balls on their way through. The strategy gave his team a strong lead, and Penner, Carter Williams, Denise Stapley, and Malcolm Freberg won the challenge, winning a trip to a local Filipino village where they delivered school supplies and various toys, and enjoyed a feast.
The challenge reappeared in , again as a Reward Challenge. Malcolm Freberg utilized Penner's successful strategy from the previous season to find all ball-bags in one go. However, the opposing team adopted the strategy partway through the challenge, and Reynold Toepfer found all the bags first. This gave Reynold, John Cochran, Dawn Meehan, Erik Reichenbach, and Phillip Sheppard a lead, and they won the challenge, winning a trip to a resort for lunch.
In , Coyopa had trouble digging for their keys, and Hunahpu held onto their early lead to land ten sandbags on the platform before Coyopa even threw one, sending Coyopa back to Tribal Council.
=== South Africa ===
In , the challenge was used as the Reward Challenge immediately following the tribe expansion. Werner Joubert helped to place first in the challenge and win a new beach and shelter, while Marthunis Oosthuizen followed closely behind to give the new Mindanao tribe a second-place finish.
==Winners==
<tabber> United States=
Episode	Challenge Type 	Winners
 	Team Reward 	
 	Team Reward 	
 	Tribal Immunity	
|-|South Africa=
Episode 	Challenge Type	Winner
Episode 4	Tribal Reward 	
Episode 4	Tribal Reward 	
</tabber>
==Gallery==
<tabber>United States=
muddy waters philippines.jpg|The course in .
muddy waters philippines final stage.jpg|The red teams in the final stage of the challenge (Philippines).
muddy waters caramoan.png|The course in .
muddy waters dawn.png|Dawn competes (Caramoan).
muddy waters andrea.jpg|Andrea races through the mud (Caramoan).
0005-s29_press_images_ep5_0005.jpg|The challenge in .
Survivor.S29E05.HDTV.x264-W4F_295.jpg|Hunahpu crawling through the mud (San Jaun del Sur).
Survivor.S29E05.HDTV.x264-W4F_311.jpg|Coyopa trying to get their sandbags (San Juan del Sur).
|-|South Africa=
SA6EP4.jpg|Luzon and Visayas competing in .
</tabber>
==Trivia==
*Malcolm Freberg is the only contestant to compete in this challenge twice. He won on his first time and lost on his second.
*All three times this challenge was used:
**The eventual Sole Survivor was on the winning team.
**All winning teams contained the highest placing female players.
* Both names used for this challenge are in some way musical references.
** Muddy Waters is a reference to the American blues singer of the .
** Shakedown Street is a reference to the and of the same name.
==References==
Category:Challenges
Category:Recurring Challenges
Category:Philippines Challenges
Category:Caramoan Challenges
Category:Survivor (U.S.)
Category:Survivor: Philippines
Category:Survivor: Caramoan
Category:Survivor: San Juan del Sur
Category:San Juan del Sur Challenges